Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchErin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Episode 1498
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexua…
1 year, 11 months ago
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 214
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wa…
1 year, 11 months ago
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 122
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good convers…
1 year, 11 months ago
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 141
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. …
1 year, 11 months ago
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 219
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to h…
1 year, 11 months ago
Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
Episode 25
In the beginning, a small unlicensed game development company was hit with divine inspiration: They could make a lot of money (and escape the wrath o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 24
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest grow…
1 year, 11 months ago
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 23
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histo…
1 year, 11 months ago
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 256
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Episode 244
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whethe…
1 year, 11 months ago