Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
Episode 22
Painstakingly researched and written by football-obsessed writer and experienced game journalist, historian, and documentarian Richard Moss – author …
1 year, 11 months ago
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
Episode 254
For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods,…
1 year, 11 months ago
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 139
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old…
2 years ago
Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 103
A colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends.
Victorian women ate arsenic to achie…
2 years ago
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 217
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and stud…
2 years ago
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Episode 18
It’s the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we …
2 years ago
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Episode 18
It’s the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we …
2 years ago
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 253
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul…
2 years ago
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 199
In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it ha…
2 years ago
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
Episode 277
In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his position as a magazine fact-checker to pursue a dream job: partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose re…
2 years ago