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Back to SearchIsaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 80
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or …
1 year, 8 months ago
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 216
There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises (Rutgers UP, 2023) interrogates the representation …
1 year, 8 months ago
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Episode 235
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin, i…
1 year, 8 months ago
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Episode 64
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster su…
1 year, 8 months ago
Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 242
Dr. Shweta Kishore and Dr Kunal Ray’s Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2024) is a unique collec…
1 year, 8 months ago
Transnational Communicative Care
Episode 32
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor…
1 year, 8 months ago
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 134
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 370
Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy (Routledge, 2024) examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big da…
1 year, 8 months ago
Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 197
Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign …
1 year, 9 months ago
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 215
Listener note: This interview contains discussions of suicide.
Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave MacM…
1 year, 9 months ago