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About Pete Kunze
I am an assistant professor of communication at Tulane University. My interests include film and media history, media industry studies, and intemediality and adaptation. Rutgers University Press published my first book, Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance, in September 2023.
NBN Episodes hosted by Pete:
February 17, 2026
The Film Auteur
An accessible introduction to the concept of the auteur (author) in film theory. In The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision (Routledge, 2026) Robert Kolker…
January 26, 2026
Imagining the Method
Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imag…
January 18, 2026
Broadway Bodies
Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able…
December 29, 2025
Sesame Street
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show becam…
December 23, 2025
Animating the Victorians
Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature. Animating the Victorians: Disn…
December 16, 2025
Caught in the Crosshairs
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream aud…
December 16, 2025
Sass
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing…
December 14, 2025
Appropriated Tales
In Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode (Wayne State UP, 2025), scholar Michelle Anya Anjirbag examines Disney's method of fairy-ta…
December 14, 2025
Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick
The media and creative industries thrive on passion, but that passion often comes at a cost. Behind the glamour of journalism, filmmaking, games, musi…
November 28, 2025
Fan Phenomena: Disney
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media inclu…
September 10, 2025
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai (Rutgers UP, 2025) is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of…
September 6, 2025
Hollywood's Others
We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a nu…
September 3, 2025
Creating the Viewer
Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem (U Texas Press, 2024) is a study of the largely hidden world of primary media ma…
August 30, 2025
Kartemquin Films
Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy (U California Press, 2024) traces how filmmaker-philosophers brought the dream of makin…
August 22, 2025
Media Travels
Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press, 2025) fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, re…
May 12, 2025
Cloud Policy
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, d…
May 11, 2025
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape
How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones? By interrogating this question, Davi…
May 10, 2025
Double Crossover
As they compete in leagues around the world, elite women’s basketball players continually adjust to new cultures, rules, and contracts. Courtney M.…
May 2, 2025
After Mass Media
With significant evolutions in digital technologies and media distribution in the past two decades, the business of storytelling through screens has s…
April 19, 2025
Fandom for Us, by Us
Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) breaks…
April 13, 2025
Where the Wild Things Were
The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings …
March 25, 2025
The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story
Over sixty years after its opening night, West Side Story is perhaps the most famous and beloved of twentieth-century musicals and stands as a colossu…
March 4, 2025
Hollywood Unions
Hollywood Unions (Rutgers UP, 2024) is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and tele…
January 15, 2025
Finding God in All the Black Places
In Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2024), Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black sp…