Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 337
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed?
Rosemary Pennington's new book P…
1 year, 9 months ago
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 206
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Br…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 13
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an …
1 year, 9 months ago
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 30
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
Episode 11
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global C…
1 year, 9 months ago
Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
Episode 63
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 98
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, R…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Book Unbound
Episode 12
What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their …
1 year, 9 months ago
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 369
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what…
1 year, 9 months ago
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 202
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The nex…
1 year, 9 months ago