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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:
November 14, 2024
Life 24x a Second
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wal…
November 1, 2024
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…
October 27, 2024
Derivative Media
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old?…
October 26, 2024
Rock Star/Movie Star
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studi…
October 10, 2024
There She Goes Again
There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises (Rutgers UP, 2023) interrogates the representation o…
September 23, 2024
Independent Stardom
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar na…
September 8, 2024
TikTok Broadway
Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the c…
July 27, 2024
Hollywood Remaking
From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remak…
July 5, 2024
Becoming the Ex-Wife
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life ba…
May 19, 2024
Black Networked Resistance
Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (U California Press, 2024) explores the creative range of Black digital user…
May 15, 2024
Fixing the Musical
Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others?The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in …
May 3, 2024
Rushmore
Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the …
March 22, 2024
Resurrecting the Black Body
The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. …
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 …
March 3, 2024
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…
March 2, 2024
Comedy Book
In Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work (FSG, 2023), Jesse David Fox—the country’s most definitive voice in come…
February 27, 2024
Contemporary Disney Animation
Eve Benhamou's book Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood (Edinburgh UP, 2022) is the first in-depth study of Disney’s latest ani…
February 4, 2024
The Value Gap
Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic p…
December 2, 2023
Maverick Movies
Daniel Herbert's book Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film (U California Press, 2023) tells the improbable story o…
November 14, 2023
Scratchin' and Survivin'
The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearly…
July 17, 2023
Consent Culture and Teen Films
Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into s…
April 26, 2023
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…
March 7, 2023
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…