New Books in Popular Culture

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  • Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
    Nov 7, 2024 – 35:52
  • David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
    Nov 6, 2024 – 01:09:09
  • Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
    Nov 2, 2024 – 32:51
  • Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
    Nov 1, 2024 – 37:28
  • Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
    Nov 1, 2024 – 55:58
  • Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
    Nov 1, 2024 – 59:56
  • Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
    Oct 27, 2024 – 01:21:47
  • Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
    Oct 26, 2024 – 28:55
  • Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
    Oct 26, 2024 – 01:04:37
  • Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
    Oct 23, 2024 – 29:03
  • Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
    Oct 23, 2024 – 29:03
  • Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    Oct 19, 2024 – 01:10:55
  • Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
    Oct 19, 2024 – 01:08:52
  • Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
    Oct 18, 2024 – 01:01:45
  • Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
    Oct 18, 2024 – 47:04
  • Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
    Oct 17, 2024 – 29:44
  • Maurice Suckling, "Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games" (Routledge, 2024)
    Oct 12, 2024 – 35:18
  • Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
    Oct 11, 2024 – 01:09:40
  • Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
    Oct 10, 2024 – 01:05:55
  • Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
    Oct 9, 2024 – 01:05:41
  • John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
    Oct 8, 2024 – 01:00:01
  • Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
    Oct 8, 2024 – 01:06:53
  • Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Oct 4, 2024 – 01:15:19
  • Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
    Oct 3, 2024 – 01:08:10
  • Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
    Sep 29, 2024 – 01:10:02
  • Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
    Sep 28, 2024 – 45:06
  • Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
    Sep 26, 2024 – 17:07
  • Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
    Sep 24, 2024 – 39:41
  • Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Sep 20, 2024 – 01:02:34
  • David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
    Sep 20, 2024 – 59:20
  • Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
    Sep 18, 2024 – 01:06:25
  • Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
    Sep 18, 2024 – 32:51
  • Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
    Sep 16, 2024 – 01:00:42
  • Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
    Sep 13, 2024 – 01:00:44
  • The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
    Sep 12, 2024 – 24:11
  • Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
    Sep 10, 2024 – 01:04:28
  • Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 01:02:06
  • Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
    Sep 7, 2024 – 01:12:06
  • Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
    Sep 7, 2024 – 01:02:05
  • Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
    Sep 6, 2024 – 54:22
  • Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
    Sep 3, 2024 – 54:44
  • Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
    Sep 3, 2024 – 24:39
  • John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    Sep 2, 2024 – 46:53
  • James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)
    Sep 1, 2024 – 58:07
  • Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
    Aug 31, 2024 – 48:29
  • Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Aug 31, 2024 – 36:28
  • Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
    Aug 28, 2024 – 57:21
  • Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
    Aug 26, 2024 – 55:45
  • Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?
    Aug 19, 2024 – 57:47
  • Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
    Aug 18, 2024 – 58:55
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