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Popular Culture
Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.
April 12, 2024
The US Graphic Novel
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics.…
April 10, 2024
Openness of Comics
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques…
April 9, 2024
Perfect Copies
Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copie…
April 8, 2024
Drawing from the Archives
Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past, Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic…
April 7, 2024
Deeping It
Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023) by Adèle Oliver shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught rel…
April 6, 2024
Cold War Country
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history revea…
April 6, 2024
The Jews of Summer
In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic …
April 5, 2024
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic (Grove Atlantic, 2024) tells the story of the e…
April 3, 2024
High Bias
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade the…
April 2, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we discuss Netflix’s new screen adaptation of Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy. We disc…
March 31, 2024
Lifestyle Revolution
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washin…
March 26, 2024
Shopping All the Way to the Woods
Rachel S. Gross's Shopping All the Ways to the Woods (Yale University Press, 2024) tells the fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the Amer…
March 21, 2024
On the Job
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of Americ…
March 21, 2024
Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper
In Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper (Routledge,2024), Stephen Lee Naish explores how as a director Dennis Hopper used music and sound to …
March 16, 2024
The Secret History of Bigfoot
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koo…
March 15, 2024
Run and Jump
How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players.Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their …
March 14, 2024
The Clash's Sandinista!
Following the success of their instantly iconic double LP, London Calling, The Clash set out to do something "triply outrageous." Named after the Nica…
March 12, 2024
Swimming Pool
This instalment of the Object Lessons series focuses on the Swimming Pool (Bloomsbury, 2024). The book explores the pool as a place where humans seek…
March 12, 2024
Bootlegging the Airwaves
Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content vi…
March 11, 2024
Tell It to the World
Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even …