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7-Figure Music School

Daniel Patterson & Nate Shaw

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7-Figure Music School is a podcast for music school owners who want to create fantastic margins, hire energetic teachers, and leverage their team's time and talent to create a sustainable business. Join hosts Daniel Patterson, Founder & CEO of Grow Your Music Studio, and Nate Shaw, Co-founder & CEO of Brooklyn Music Factory, as you create YOUR 7-figure music school.
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Established in 1991, Impact Factory is dedicated to help all type of organisations, including FTSE 100 companies, to be more effective, collaborative and creative by empowering their teams and professionals. Our unique human-centred methodology, Professional Personal Development, is designed to support growth in individuals and across organisations, expanding capabilities and fine tuning strengths and interpersonal skills.
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Social Jack™ Influence Factory

The Influence Factory Podcast

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Dean DeLisle sits down with influencer guests to discuss their story, how they became an influencer, and tips on how you can become an influencer. Sponsored by Planable Theme Music Produced by Sonixphere Video Production by Social Jack™ Productions Social Media Engagement by Social Jack™ Influencer Team Voice-Over by Laila Wenrich Brought to you by Social Jack™ About Dean DeLisle... For the past 30 years, I’ve been passionate about helping our clients build "Community" for the purpose of ret ...
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Growing a business, no matter the size, is challenging! Each Tuesday, join Jeff Pickett as he interviews guests who are successful in their pursuits. If you're a business owner, entrepreneur or start up who seeks motivation, perspective and great advice, this is the podcast you've been looking for.
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How can people enjoy life? How can parents become better parents? How can you help someone else you love enjoy their life? These questions are the foundational questions to exploring how we can be better connected to one another and to God our Father Himself. Disconnection is caused by some form of worry, anxiety or fear. Perfect love casts out all fear. The Fathers Heart Talk Show explores the role that fathers play in helping people overcome their fears and consequently being able to conne ...
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Moving Music

Moving Music

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Moving Music interviews musicians, and those in the music industry, about the film or album that most influenced them. Listeners peek into the intimate and emotional conversations resulting from the inspiration of these art forms. Our aim with this effort is to affect and influence the way people think and feel through artistic collaboration.
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Flex Your Hustle

Commission Factory

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Is it just us or.....is marketing getting a little dull? We are a bit over hearing the same old voices selling us the same old spin about how they’re going to drive awareness, build reach… but not doing anything for client business. Where creativity used to dominate, it just feels… well… kinda predictable. Ads have lost their jazz, data drives creative and media plans… Google, Facebook, Amazon, Linkedin - rinse and repeat. It’s time for marketing to get a hustle on .....and that is where the ...
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Women, Weight Loss, and Semaglutide is a groundbreaking podcast hosted by Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP, a distinguished healthcare professional with a passion for empowering women through knowledge and understanding of their own health. This enlightening series dives deep into the revolutionary world of semaglutides, a new frontier in the journey toward effective weight management and overall wellness. Each episode is meticulously designed to demystify the science behind semaglutides, exploring ...
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Resilient Love Podcast

Resilient Love Podcast

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Navigating marriage, millennial life, and ambitious careers requires boundless love and unwavering faith. Join Quinton and Breonna Baker as they share their journey, offering insights on love, life, and achieving your God-given potential. Tune in for practical advice, inspiring stories, and more of God’s guidance. Share, support, and subscribe!
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Tune in to the B2B BRAND180 Podcast with Linda Fanaras, CEO/Strategist! Linda Fanaras is the founder of Millennium Agency, a B2B brand development and marketing strategy firm, that specializes in helping companies build a powerful brand, identify unique messaging that sets them apart in the market, and uncovers the white space in the market to lock in an effective marketing strategy. A brand expert and marketing strategist, she interviews top industry thought leaders and through this, you wi ...
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Published in 1900, Sister Carrie follows its protagonist, Carrie, as she resolutely makes her way through the bustling city of Chicago in the hope of achieving her ultimate goal of a securing a better and more glamorous life for herself. Effectively illustrating his reputation as one of America’s greatest naturalists, Dreiser deviates from the established norms and moral values present in the Victorian era, and instead focuses his attention on accurately portraying the basic instincts that i ...
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Combining entertaining stories, practical information, and relevant take-aways helping to improve your communication skills so you can feel motivated in all areas of life. Dr. Jim Van Allan is a speaker & trainer for schools and companies across the nation. He has over a decade worth of experience helping individuals and organizations with communication, leadership, and personal development skills. He is also a Professor of Communication Studies and teaches classes on communication, public s ...
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WELCOME TO THE REMOTE EDITION PODCAST This podcast is all about sharing stories from remote workers who have a successful career whilst travelling the world. If you’re sick of your 9-5, fed up of your commute and want the freedom to travel, this podcast is FOR YOU! There many opportunities for you to live life on your terms AND earn a living. Freelancing, starting a business, becoming a digital nomad, getting a remote job all whilst travelling the world - these are all possible for you. Thro ...
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The dumbest genre in entertainment, or the one that tells us the most about ourselves? Since its conception, reality TV has divided its viewers. Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV is a 10-part audio documentary written and presented by journalists Pandora Sykes and Sirin Kale. They've been fans of reality TV since they first watched Big Brother as pre-teens and they've spent a fair amount of time defending reality TV when people are snobby about it, or dismiss its importance in our wid ...
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Minds Of Metal

Daria Babintceva & Lazarus Michaelides

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Welcome to Minds Of Metal - we are Daria and Laz! Laz is a professional bass player and, having been brought up on Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, has been a Metalhead for most of his life! Daria is a professional singer and vocal coach who has fallen in love with the genre after a 6 year marriage with Laz incessantly playing Heavy Metal daily! Together, this husband and wife team will talk all things Heavy Metal - bringing to you an array of Metal topics covering a variety of bands, sub-genres a ...
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In this episode of The Influence Factor, Alessandro Bogliari, CEO and Co-Founder of The Influencer Marketing Factory, chats with Victoria Hutchins, a content creator focused on yoga, mindfulness, and poetry. Victoria shares her journey to building a successful online presence, emphasizing authenticity and vulnerability. She discusses her mission to…
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Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Dr. Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by the…
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Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Dr. Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by the…
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Do you need to be a wolf to protect the sheep? That’s the question at the heart of Training Day (2001), in which Ethan Hawke plays the lead and Denzel Washington plays himself–at least for the first hour. What happens in the film once the sun goes down gets Mike and Dan arguing as they haven’t in a while: does the movie become yet another one where…
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Twenty-five years ago, The West Wing premiered to great acclaim. This book is a behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of the series, as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack. The authors help us step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew, including…
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How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of the commercialization of documentary film. Although the commercial ascension of documentary films might seem meteoric, it is the culmination of decades-long efforts that have developed and fortified t…
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How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of the commercialization of documentary film. Although the commercial ascension of documentary films might seem meteoric, it is the culmination of decades-long efforts that have developed and fortified t…
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Throughout the year this year, we have been answering the questions that you have submitted! This is from one of the last live Q&A episodes that we did, and in that episode we discussed the following topics: Pricing for music lessons + programs (tactical advice) Teaching multiple students at different levels & questions about RCM Mitigating parent …
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Twenty-five years ago, The West Wing premiered to great acclaim. This book is a behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of the series, as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack. The authors help us step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew, including…
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In this episode of the B2B Brand180 podcast, Linda interviews Chuck Aikens, Founder of Tymoo and content marketing expert, to discuss effective use of AI in B2B content strategies. Chuck shares insights on the essential foundational work required before leveraging AI, including understanding target audiences and answering critical strategic questio…
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A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage. Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists—these and other “band people" are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, w…
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In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gregory Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pu…
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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinised due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism…
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This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Twelve, 2024), hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. …
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Welcome to "The Father's Heart Talk Show", hosted by Papa Tom We promise you that you will hear different ideas and true definitions of words you thought you knew the meaning of but were mistaken. Take a fresh perspective of life from a father’s perspective of what is true from a Biblical perspective. After all, if you know the truth it will set yo…
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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …
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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …
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In this episode, we talk about branding, logos, working with designers, creating programs in your school, the power of naming your products…. And much more. This is a unique episode and one that will get you thinking about your school’s strategy in a different way. - - - - - Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group less…
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From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, Lou Reed released nearly 50 original albums. In Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground (Trouser Press Books, 2024), Jim Higgins delves into each one, with descriptions, details, analysis and appraisals that will ampl…
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Collateral was made in 2004, ten years after Speed—and while both films have the same story of a good guy trying to stop a killer in real time, Collateral feels decades away from the innocence of Speed. Much of that has to do with the villain, who espouses a set of assumptions about the world that we se all around us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Shark…
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Welcome to "The Father's Heart Talk Show", hosted by Papa Tom We promise you that you will hear different ideas and true definitions of words you thought you knew the meaning of but were mistaken. Take a fresh perspective of life from a father’s perspective of what is true from a Biblical perspective. After all, if you know the truth it will set yo…
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From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (U California Press, 2024) challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these forma…
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From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (U California Press, 2024) challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these forma…
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1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive-compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of thirteen--just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club…
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F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive history of the FTA, an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of active-duty troops over nine months in 1971. From its conception, the civilian-led show was directed towards making visi…
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For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of mascu…
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As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media (Indiana University Press, 2024) explores the “trap of hypervisibility” faced by Muslims in popular media and the burden of representation that follow…
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Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy (NY…
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As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media (Indiana University Press, 2024) explores the “trap of hypervisibility” faced by Muslims in popular media and the burden of representation that follow…
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Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy (NY…
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the album of the same name by a few short weeks. While the album is considered a defining musical achievement, the movie met a mixed reception at the time, and later critics have been both troubled by it…
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Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary …
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Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary …
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the album of the same name by a few short weeks. While the album is considered a defining musical achievement, the movie met a mixed reception at the time, and later critics have been both troubled by it…
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Last week, we aired the first part of a 2-part interview with Peira Moinester, the co-founder of Brooklyn Music Factory. She shared quite a bit about BMF’s overall hiring strategy. In today’s episode, Peira reveals the specific details of BMF’s hiring strategy. - - - - - Check out our free trainings and resources on school marketing, group lessons,…
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Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial–often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction…
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In his new book, We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America (Oxford UP, 2020), Kevin Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a comprehensive look into the music, zines, films, bands, and punk Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics. He shows how widespread the punk movement was in creating a…
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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” So begins The Graduate (1967), which everyone loves but which many of us loved for one reason when we were younger and one when we became a little more seasoned. “Plastics” is a great joke when you’re 20; how does it sound decades later? The movie hasn’t changed, but we hav…
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Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…
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Welcome to "The Father's Heart Talk Show", hosted by Papa Tom We promise you that you will hear different ideas and true definitions of words you thought you knew the meaning of but were mistaken. Take a fresh perspective of life from a father’s perspective of what is true from a Biblical perspective. After all, if you know the truth it will set yo…
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American: O…
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In March of this year, I took part of the Grow team to Brooklyn New York to do some in person planning for the podcast. I spent a considerable amount of time at Brooklyn Music Factory’s gorgeous studio space. While there, I had a “stop and chat” with Peira (BMF’s co-owner). In the course of that conversation, she made some interesting comments abou…
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In this episode of the B2B Brand180 podcast, Linda speaks with Naomi Soman from Storylogick Consulting about enhancing email marketing strategies to drive growth. Naomi, who has a wealth of experience in hyper-growth startups, shares insights on dispelling email marketing myths, personalizing emails for different stages of the funnel, and accuratel…
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Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China (Columbia UP, 2023). The volume enriches our understanding of media’s role in China’s revolutionary history by turning to documentar…
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"A woman in trouble" In her monograph Inland Empire (Fireflies Press, 2021), film critic Melissa Anderson explores meaning (or the impossibility thereof) in the David Lynch film of the same title. We talk everything from Laura Dern (a LOT of Laura Dern), to the Hollywood nightmare of trying to "make it in the movies," to the contradictions of film …
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"A woman in trouble" In her monograph Inland Empire (Fireflies Press, 2021), film critic Melissa Anderson explores meaning (or the impossibility thereof) in the David Lynch film of the same title. We talk everything from Laura Dern (a LOT of Laura Dern), to the Hollywood nightmare of trying to "make it in the movies," to the contradictions of film …
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A great movie that is very difficult movie to recommend because of its subject matter, Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus (2002), the story of TV-star Bob Crane, is another of Schrader’s portraits of a man whose self-destruction we watch with admiration for the writing and unease at what we’re seeing. It’s a combination of The Lost Weekend, Reefer Madness,…
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Soul is one of those concepts that is often evoked, but rarely satisfactorily defined. In The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s (Duke University Press 2020), Emily J. Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black cultur…
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Kristin J. Jacobson In her new book, The American Adrenaline Narrative (University of Georgia Press), Kristin Jacobson considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives…
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