Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 430
In White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation (Routledge, 2022), Kathryn Mathers interrogates the white s…
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Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Episode 185
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
Episode 18
This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Sherry Lee, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of the non-profit, independent media organization The …
2 years, 3 months ago
Thomas DeGloma, "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 333
In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart o…
2 years, 4 months ago
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 119
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 463
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Ayelet Brinn offers a fascinating glimpse into the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 142
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Amer…
2 years, 4 months ago
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Episode 1401
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerfu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 230
Despite its extraordinary diversity, life in the People’s Republic of China is all too often viewed mainly through the lens of politics, with dynamic…
2 years, 4 months ago
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Episode 143
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese li…
2 years, 4 months ago