Podcast Episodes

Silver Donald Cameron, “The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea” (Red Deer Press, 2014)

The acclaimed Canadian author Silver Donald Cameron writes that the idea for his newly reissued book, The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics wher…

11 years, 10 months ago

Robert E. Gutsche Jr., “A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City” (McFarland, 2014)

The city of Iowa City’s website promotes its “small-town hospitality” and its focus on “culture.” But a closer look at Iowa City, home to 70,000 and …

11 years, 11 months ago

Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)

Last weekend was the NFL Draft, the annual event when teams select college players who have shown the talent to advance to the professional ranks. St…

12 years ago

Erika G. King, “Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan” (Ashgate, 2014)

Erika G. King learned a lot during research for her book, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan (Ashgate, 2014), but …

12 years, 3 months ago

Matthew Cecil, “Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image” (University Press of Kansas, 2013).

Matthew Cecil brought many questions into his latest historical work, Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the B…

12 years, 3 months ago

Joseph Uscinski, “The People’s News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism” (NYU Press, 2014)

“When we criticize the news, who are we really criticizing?”

This is the final question asked by Professor Joseph Uscinski in his book, The People’s …

12 years, 3 months ago

Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

Everybody knows the author of The Jungle was Upton Sinclair (or, if they’re a little confused, they might say Sinclair Lewis). As Lauren Coodley show…

12 years, 4 months ago

Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell, “How to Watch Television” (NYU Press, 2013)

What if there was an instruction manual for television? Not just for the casual consumer, but for college students interested in learning about the c…

12 years, 6 months ago

Jonathan D. Wells, “Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

It’s getting harder and harder to trailblaze in the field of American Studies. More and more, writers have to follow paths created by others, imposin…

12 years, 7 months ago

Thomas E. Patterson, “Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism” (Vintage, 2013)

Is truth in journalism the same as balance? Is fairness really fair to news consumers, or is fairness merely a code word used by journalists looking …

12 years, 7 months ago