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Episode 47
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 8, “Charm Offensive” and episode 9, “La Chico…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Dagmar 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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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 …
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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.…
6 months 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…
6 months 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…
6 months 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 …
6 months ago