New Books in Film episodes

Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)Sep 8, 2026 · 44 minWith Lucas L. Johnson II
Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)Sep 7, 2026 · 1 hr 18 minWith Violaine Roussel
Stephen Lee Naish, "Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute" (Bloomsbury, 2026)Sep 3, 2026 · 43 minWith Stephen Lee Naish
Filmmaker Peter Santenello on Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call HomeSep 2, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minWith Peter Santenello
Dog Day AfternoonAug 31, 2026 · 26 min
John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood" (Bloomsbury, 2026)Aug 31, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minWith John Trafton
Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)Aug 30, 2026 · 33 minWith Corrado Neri
Brian Jay Jones, "George Lucas: A Life" (Little, Brown and Company, 2016)Aug 26, 2026 · 1 hr 15 minWith Brian Jay Jones
Mulholland Drive at 25: Film QuarterlyAug 21, 2026 · 19 minWith Eileen G'Sell
Vincent Haddad, "Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)Aug 18, 2026 · 53 minWith Vincent Haddad
TárAug 17, 2026 · 36 min
Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al., "Melodrama As Provocateur" (Duke UP, 2026)Aug 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minWith Laura Horak, Elisabeth R. Anker, Christine Gledhill
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)Aug 14, 2026 · 1 hrWith Ellery E. Foutch
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The War of the WorldsAug 3, 2026 · 30 min
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)Jul 30, 2026 · 49 minWith Kathleen W. Taylor-Coleman
David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab eds., "Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology" (Berghahn, 2025)Jul 27, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minWith Chihab El Khachab, David Zeitlyn
Anja Foerschner, "Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001" (Bloomsbury, 2024)Jul 19, 2026 · 46 minWith Anja Foerschner
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)Jul 15, 2026 · 34 min
Mike F. Alvarez, Warren J. Bareiss, and Jolane Flanigan eds., "Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe" (Bristol University Press, 2026)Jul 15, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minWith Warren J. Bareiss, Mike F. Alvarez, Jolane Flanigan
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minWith Soraya Murray
Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)Jul 7, 2026 · 46 minWith Krzysztof Rowiński
Jonathan L. Friedmann, "Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)Jul 4, 2026 · 1 hr 11 minWith Jonathan L. Friedman
Grizzly ManJun 22, 2026 · 26 min
Blue JasmineJun 15, 2026 · 23 min
Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)Jun 9, 2026 · 46 minWith Shikha Jhingan
Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)Jun 6, 2026 · 49 minWith Allison Nadia Field

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