Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 71
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we trave…
4 months, 1 week ago
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Episode 180
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath …
4 months, 1 week ago
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
Episode 163
In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a different…
4 months, 1 week ago
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 202
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European sho…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 168
Previous guest Jacob Bricca (Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice) is a professional film editor and director, specializing in documentaries.…
4 months, 1 week ago
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 32
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipate…
4 months, 1 week ago
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 245
What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent sci…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 243
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) is an interdisciplinary examination of the stubborn attachment of …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 156
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it …
4 months, 2 weeks ago