Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLandon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 217
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and stud…
1 year, 8 months ago
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 254
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a …
1 year, 8 months ago
Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 389
Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidd…
1 year, 8 months ago
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 84
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Episode 83
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent …
1 year, 8 months ago
Emotional Rescue
Episode 27
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 489
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Professo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 199
In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it ha…
1 year, 8 months ago
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 190
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented eff…
1 year, 8 months ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
1 year, 8 months ago