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Popular Culture
Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.
November 3, 2026
Super Mario Galaxy
When Mario’s adventures escalated from Bros. to Land to World, the only direction left for an ambitious plumber was up into the stars. In Super Mario …
November 3, 2026
Orson Welles
Orson Welles is a foundational work of Welles criticism. First published by Joseph McBride in the British Film Institute's Cinema One series in 1972 w…
November 3, 2026
Alive in the Sound
From the inside flap:In Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Duke UP, 2025), Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black musi…
November 3, 2026
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker: : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America (SUNY Press, 2025) is the first biography dedicated to the l…
November 2, 2026
Bigger Than Life
If Dog Day Afternoon is Network Jr., then Nicholas Ray’s 1956 Bigger Than Life is The Shining’s little brother. Ed Avery (James Mason), like Jack Torr…
November 1, 2026
Make China Great Again
Rongbin Han is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he studies Chinese politics and the internet. Han’s latest boo…
October 31, 2026
Hollywood Renegade
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey and…
October 29, 2026
Healthy Users
We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-…
October 27, 2026
BAM!
John Madden retired abruptly from coaching in 1979, five months after receiver Darryl Stingley suffered a paralyzing injury against his Raiders. The t…
October 27, 2026
Once Upon a Time in South Central La
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film, Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the…
October 27, 2026
Poetry in General
What is the place of poetry in the modern world? In Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public (Columbia UP, 2025), Keegan Cook Finberg, an …
October 24, 2026
Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw
Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan’s Cinema of Revolution (Awai Books, 2026) is the first-ever English-language book on Adachi Masao. Bas…
October 24, 2026
Traveling the Yellow Brick Road
In Traveling the Yellow Brick Road: What We Learn from The Wizard of Oz and Wicked (McFarland, 2026) Steven Keslowitz explores how The Wizard of Oz an…
October 21, 2026
Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?
When Neil Selkirk first saw one of Arbus’s photographs as a young man at someone’s house in London, it almost sent him screaming into the street. Unse…
October 19, 2026
Christmas Carols
The English Christmas carol has been sung in court and cloister, tavern and field since medieval times. But with the first Festival of Nine Lessons an…
October 18, 2026
Action Bodies
Exploring how digital visual effects have changed the representations of the body and identity in action films. When Harrison Ford appeared digitally …
October 17, 2026
Monstrous Bitch
For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an engag…
October 17, 2026
Night Hawk
On July 5, 1828, more than a century before Superman arrived on Earth, a superhero took flight in Philadelphia’s night sky. Buried on page three of a …
October 16, 2026
How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play
First released in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons revolutionized game design and interactive media by allowing players to create and perform their own fi…
October 15, 2026
Satirical Tibet
The podcast episode with with Timothy Thurston covers his book Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo U Washington Press, 2025). …