Interviews with Scholars of Popular Culture about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Marc and Ruth invite you to join us on our tour of a universe of entertianment in the Else-Realm Diner where we will be discussing movies, tv, computer games and any other popular culture that appears on the menu!
Special Topics in Media Studies is a lecture-based podcast that tackles media history one artifact at a time. Each season of the series we will investigate a different mass media theme, medium, or programming genre. While our focus is educational (it is an academic podcast after all), we tailor our conversations toward a broad audience of media enthusiasts.
Illuminating the obscure
Features the latest stories straight from Hollywood, pop-culture discussions, and reviews; new episodes release almost every week. Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/the-burrow-reviews/subscribe
Hang out with hosts Dan, Quinn and Alexandrea as they learn about wild animals and debate which beasts would win in a fight if pitted against each other.
An opinion is like the “p” in raspberry, it’ll always be there, but remains completely unnecessary! Two rambunctious Zendaya-enthusiasts, Julia and Miranda, discuss their thoughts on all things popular culture. From the top trends, to film reviews, archetype complaints and more, Julia and Miranda hate to love popular culture in the 21st century. During this uncertain time, join this celebrity-obsessed duo in their passionate, but pointless rants with new episodes every Wednesday. Email your ...
Is a weekly radio show discussing Politics, Popular Culture & Everything in Between. We have great topics, great guests, great discussion, & a great word in every episode.The Thinking Out Loud Radio Show; Giving Voice To Issues that Matter To You! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-s-nimmons/support
HOT GIRL'S THEORY is an open ended discussion podcast exploring the world from the theoretical perspective of two hot girl's. Hosted by Ash and Indi, sex positive, body positive, self proclaimed intersectional feminists in their 20's living in Australia. With backgrounds in gender/women's studies, sociology and journalism, and a whole lot of life experience in being bad bitches. Listen as these babes take you through a range of social, political, sexual and fundamental topics to challenge yo ...
All truth is from the Father, through the Son, and by the Spirit. Therefore, the pursuit of truth must be by the Spirit, through the Son, to the Father. In God's creation, all truth belongs to Him.
Hello and welcome to my podcast. My podcast will be about kpop and anime to music and anything popular culture.
The State and Popular Culture
A podcast to teach the kids (y’all) about race, media, and culture in KKKanada. (That's Canada with 3 Ks). Conversations between Prakash (@pra_kris) and Kristen. @dothekidsknow on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon. Email us: dothekidsknow@gmail.com
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Podcast by Eye Opening Experience
A podcast at the intersection of Business, Entrepreneurship, Tech & Popular Culture in Africa. We bring together people with views worth sharing & we banter. We take a lighthearted approach to somewhat serious matters of popular interest.
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'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages


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'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
Richard Abels
Talking about popular conceptions of the Middle Ages and their historical realities. Join Richard Abels to learn about Vikings, knights and chivalry, movies set in the Middle Ages, and much more about the medieval world.
Not So Popular Culture is a podcast that will talk about all of your favorite things games movies tv music and web series
Pastor Scott Klaudt joins his co-workers, friends and other special guests to talk about real life, personal beliefs and everything else that culture is freaking out about. If you want to laugh, think, be enlightened and confused at the same time, this is the podcast for you. Basically, if you want to know what’s going on, so do we.
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Breaking down popular TV shows from the 2000s to see how their themes have aged.
A museum director and a few obsessed college professors discuss all things film, TV, music, comics, and popular culture.
A Review of Pop Culture Through the Lens of The Gospel
NORTH IDAHO NOW is the official podcast of the Idaho Panhandle, providing the latest news from Kootenai, Bonner, Shoshone and Boundary counties.
Calgary based podcasters Lloyd and JD talk about everything from popular culture, to art, music, and photography.
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Experimental Medicine: Libertarian News, Politics, and Pop-Culture


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Experimental Medicine: Libertarian News, Politics, and Pop-Culture
Blake A. Oates
A libertarian commentary on news, politics, and pop-culture. www.ExpMed.net
We topple sacred cows in popular culture. Interviews and quizzes too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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NEON: The Real History Behind Popular Culture


NEON is a different way of sharing historical knowledge. NEON takes a pop culture phenomenon and turns it on its head by revealing lesser known facts, real-life events and history behind your favourite Netflix shows, movies or video games.From how the A-Team took inspiration from Vietnamese history and resistance leaders, to the Aryan purity and Harem breeding programs behind the Handmaid’s Tale. Even some of the most successful video games – Assassins Creed, God of War, and Fortnite – are s ...
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Gross Lonely Boys


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Gross Lonely Boys
Andrew Clarkston, Danny Goodwin, Enzo Priesnitz, Body Tape Intl.
Austin's Grossest Boys of Comedy (Andrew Clarkston, Danny Goodwin, & Enzo Priesnitz) slime off, post up, and culture jam the top pop.
Every Saturday, the Weekend podcast brings some of the best Guardian writing from the week, read by talented narrators. Listen to celebrity interviews, lifestyle features, and opinions from our most popular columnists including Marina Hyde and John Crace. Weekend is the perfect way to relax.
A podcast that brings movies, TV and pop culture into perspective.
Dealing with popular phrases - often heard in our culture - this series looks for their truthfulness and Biblical values. For more information about Pastor Alan Latta and Generations Church of Granbury go to www.generationspeople.org
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CMAGEETV - The most popular CULTURE podcast in history -


Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/cmageetv/subscribe HOSTED BY: Christopher Magee and the team behind The CMAGETV Podcast Show talk about the WORLD of POLITICS and CULTURE TOPICS — The most popular CULTURE podcast in history — and its social and political impact in America.
"Thoughts and Feels" is the podcast that brings academic scholarship to bear on popular culture and everyday experience. In each episode I sit down with a scholar to talk about what interests them in order to discover its connections to the world around us.
A podcast where fine ladies, rational minds, and the best kind of company gather to discuss all sorts of ideas and issues.
Join us from high atop the Diabolical Penthouse as we engage in immersive conversations around popular culture and the esoteric. Your 30 Minutes of Diabolical begins now...
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The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast!


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The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast!
The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast
Examining the Art of Pop Culture in Light of God's Self-Revelation. Hosted by Jared Moore and Jeff Wright.
The Managing Editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal, Julia Largent, interviews different authors published in the journal about their research, their hobbies, and how their article came about. See all published articles for free, here: https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/
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Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time - for iPod/iPhone


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Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time - for iPod/iPhone
The Open University
What does ‘2001: a Space Odyssey’ have to do with Odysseus? How does Brad Pitt's Achilles in 'Troy' match up to Homer's original hero? And is Arnold Schwarzenegger the new Heracles? This collection of video animations and audio discussions examines how the heroes of Greek mythology have been represented in popular culture, from ancient times to the modern day. Odysseus is the archetypal questing hero - a blank canvas on which every era has projected its own values. Heracles is the original s ...
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Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time - for iPad/Mac/PC


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Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time - for iPad/Mac/PC
The Open University
What does ‘2001: a Space Odyssey’ have to do with Odysseus? How does Brad Pitt's Achilles in 'Troy' match up to Homer's original hero? And is Arnold Schwarzenegger the new Heracles? This collection of video animations and audio discussions examines how the heroes of Greek mythology have been represented in popular culture, from ancient times to the modern day. Odysseus is the archetypal questing hero - a blank canvas on which every era has projected its own values. Heracles is the original s ...
Professional photographer & amateur filmmaker Rob Moses finds interesting artists to interview. Art, artists & photography are a loose focus. * New episodes posted every Tuesday.
From the Director of The Cover Media Network, Liam McGrath, comes his first attempt at a solo podcast. The podcast will bring you interviews with Rugby athletes, coaches, administrators and media members. Expect high-level analysis, a lot of opinionated rants and a lot of fun.
Every creator has traversed their own wicked and winding road through life. On the Zen Perry Project I interview artists to tease out knowledge, wisdom and warnings from their journeys to feast your eyes and ears upon.A show to put some gas in your tank to create the life you want. Artists, musicians, designers and more. Weekly, wherever you get your podcasts.
From movies to television to video games and events, Generating X looks at the signs of the times -- the times being from the late 70s to the mid 90s.
In-depth NFL analysis from a true fan's perspective
Clio has a PhD in English and uses it to interpret the songs of Taylor Swift.
Geek enthusiast power couple discusses comics, culture, and creative media of all kinds.
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New Books in Popular Culture


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Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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99.9% of aspiring rappers never make it in the music industry. So why do we only hear the stories of the ones who do? DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you've never heard of. Formed in Topeka, Kansas, in the mid-1990s, they developed a reputation for ferocious rhyming and frenetic live performances. In their heyday, DVS Mindz released a cri…
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All Truth Is God's Truth


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Matthew 25:31-46 - "Hell Glorifies God PART 2" of the Series "How Do Hell & Heaven Glorify God?"
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According to Matthew 25:31-46, Why does Hell glorify God?Hell glorifies God because it shows His. . .v.31-33 – 1. Sovereignty.Christ separates the righteous from the unrighteous.31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he wil…
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Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
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LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imaginations, and Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2023) is a tour de force that weaves together the various narratives about the transformation of a counter public, in this case, LBGT citizens, into rights bearing citizenship, and the transformation of mainstream political and cultural narratives, in…
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All Truth Is God's Truth


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Isaiah 66:15-24 - "Hell Glorifies God PART 1" of the Series "How Do Hell & Heaven Glorify God?"
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According to Isaiah 66:15-24, why does hell glorify God?Hell glorifies God because it is. . .v.15-17 – 1. Judgment.Hell is God’s judgment. “15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his swor…
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Animal Fight Club


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Pick 2 to defend you, the rest will try to kill you.
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You're in a arena with 9 sets of dangerous animals. You get to pick two to defend you, the rest will try to kill you. Which two will you pick to help you survive? Join hosts Dan, Quinn and Alexandrea alongside special guest Luke to determine the best answer for this viral animal question. The options to pick from are: 50 hawks 10 crocodiles 3 grizz…
Julia and Miranda curate the perfect ins & outs list for this year, and, well, for the rest of time, because they're geniuses. Get your popcorn, your headphones, and your pen, because you're gonna want to write down every do & don't. Enjoy! Ep. Recorded on Feb. 13, 2023. Support the showBy Julia Kay Peterkins & Miranda MacGillivray
In the season six premiere, Special Topics in Media host Garret Castleberry is joined by Kyle Hammonds in an effort to introduce readers to the best-selling comic book event series from Marvel Entertainment, Civil War (2006-2007). This seven-issue mini-series provided a competitive economic property in a decade where comic-publishing titans Marvel …
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New Books in Popular Culture


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Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
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By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921–2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising campaign in cinema history, which invited filmgoers to see Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (1943) and to "tussle with Russell." Throughout the 1940s, she was nicknamed the "motionless picture actress" and ha…
Harm is an important word. In life. In theory. Yet how does our research transform when 'harm' becomes the lens for research? Maive and Tara probe this concept.By Tara Brabazon
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Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
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This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons, and from Medieval Times to the Renaissa…
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Thinking Out Loud Radio Show


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Women of Influence Edition Feat. Director of Covenant House of MI - Meagan Dunn
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This week we continue our Women of Influence Series with an exciting and empowering interview with the Director of the Covenant House of Michigan, Megan Dunn. Meagan Dunn joined Covenant House Michigan (CHMI) in July 2022. She comes to CHMI from YWCA Kalamazoo where she was vice president of programs since 2020, managing a $10 million program budge…
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Culture, Conflict, and Cocktails


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SATC 1.3 Is There Consolation in Coupling
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Carrie from 'Sex and The City' considers the difference in mentality between single and taken people and who, if either, is unconsciously settling to avoid society's expectations of happiness. Why don't we throw out ugly dresses? CCC TV reviews. Did the show age, or did we?
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Weekend


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Weekend podcast: Marina Hyde on Boris’s last hurrah, the world’s favourite poem, and decoding midlife fashion
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With Partygate and the former PM back in the news, we ask if we’ve finally reached peak Boris (1m35s)? With one billion streams, what makes John Cooper Clarke’s I Wanna Be Yours possibly the world’s favourite poem (8m27s)? And Viv Groskop navigates the mixed messages of the women’s fiftysomethings clothing market (21m40s)…
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Into the Burrow


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Swarm's Bloody Exploration of Media & Toxic Fandom
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#AmazonPrime #VideoEssay #Review #Swarm Check out our latest essay! We are in the process of moving, but the regular show will resume next week. From co-creators and executive producers Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, Swarm, set between 2016-2018, follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), an obsessed fan of the world’s biggest pop star (Ni’Jah) who sets o…
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David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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In his book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press, 2020), David J. Halperin explores the phenomena of UFO's through a psychological lense. UFOs became part of our cultural landscape in 1947, and they've been with us ever since. Debunked innumerable times, they refuse to go away. Made the subject of great expectation…
In this episode Richard and Dr. Jennifer Paxton of The Catholic University of America search for a historical Robin Hood and explore the medieval and Tudor stories about the heroic outlaw and his band of merry men. This is the first of a two-part series. The follow on episode will be on Robin Hood in movies and television. Credits The podcast's int…
In this teaser episode, Special Topics in Media host Garret Castleberry introduces listeners to the new topic and recurring cohost joining the lecturecast for season six. In season six, two key shifts provide an opportunity to examine media from alternate angles. First, Special Topics season six shifts mass mediums away from film to focus on the li…
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The Zen Perry Project


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Ep. 56 - Duane Betts - Carrying on the Legacy of American Rock Royalty
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This week on Zen Perry Project, Zen sits down with Duane Betts for one of the prolific singer-songwriter-guitarist's most extensive interviews to date! An adept musician even at a young age, Duane cut his teeth as a teen regularly sitting-in with his father Dickey in The Allman Brothers Band. After moving to Southern California and leading rock out…
Short answer: yes, with an if. Long answer: no, with a but. In this subscribercast we look at two movies... The post Subscribercast #74 – Does Representation Matter? first appeared on Spy Culture.By Tom Secker
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The P in Raspberry


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Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Law Roach Walk Into a Bar...
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Julia and Miranda discuss Law Roach's heartbreaking retirement as a self-proclaimed image architect to the stars AND Tom Holland and Zendaya's wholesome, perfect, exciting, dog-walking relationship because ... well, just because. Ep. Recorded on Mar. 20, 2023. Support the showBy Julia Kay Peterkins & Miranda MacGillivray
Films about torture are often exploitative and sadistic, and even more so when they are state sponsored. In this episode... The post ClandesTime 243 – The Cinema of the Torture Program first appeared on Spy Culture.By Tom Secker
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Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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In Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children (University of Illinois Press, 2023), Poster Children bassist Rose Marshack details her life in the 80s and 90s as part of a heavily touring Indie Rock band. Using her Tour Reports from the 1990s, Marshack relates what life was like during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital tec…
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Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)
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Unsung: Not all Heroes Wear Kits (Pitch Publishing, 2022) by Alexis James introduces the sports stars you don't know, telling the stories you can't miss. It shines a rare spotlight behind the scenes of professional sport, with overlooked heroes such as F1 mechanics, athletics starters, football chaplains, rugby medics and cycling moto pilots reveal…
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Weekend


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Episode one of season two: Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph – Are we over the Oscars?
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We are delighted to bring you the first episode in our second series of Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph. Awards season reached its climax with the Oscars this week. Despite the Academy Awards being the biggest event in Hollywood, are viewers really that bothered? Chanté speaks to Michael Schulman, the author of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in …
The perspectives of pretty people are assessed as Carrie of 'Sex and The City' goes from a fashion show into the world of models, and I discuss how rejection could look without losing my temper. CCC TV reviews. Did the show age, or did we?By Tim
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Weekend


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Weekend Podcast: Paris Hilton, the mystery of the missing Oscars, and do we have depression all wrong?
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It-girl-turned-campaigner Paris Hilton speaks up about her stolen childhood, years of trauma, and taking down the ‘troubled teen industry’ (1m41s), Steve Rose investigates the mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards (30m35s), and the great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone? (43m14s)…
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero's origin story on Moses, his strength on …
In this episode, Jared provides his general thoughts on the final episode of The Last of Us and the series as a whole. Disney CEO Bob Iger makes some interesting comments about the future of Disney+; Ben Affleck will not be directing a future movie in the new era of the Safran/Gunn DCU; Quentin Tarantino’s tenth, and final, picture is reportedly ti…
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John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)
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The Philosophy of Tattoos (British Library, 2021) by Dr. John Miller presents an impressively broad yet personal account, exploring tattooing as a unique expression of individual, cultural and national identity. Dr. Miller explores tattooing as an innate human impulse throughout history, following its suppression and revival in cultures around the …
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Special Topics in Media

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Communicating Fears in Film: Roundtable Finale
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In this Season Seven Finale, Garret Castleberry hosts a leadership quorum comprised of students completing the Special Topics in Media Studies course emphasizing "Communicating Fears in Film". To facilitate a roundtable discussion on season seven, contributors were provided a set of course-related prompts to prepare for a hybridized media productio…
In 1957 Stevie Smith published a poetry collection called Not Waving But Drowning – and its title poem gave us a phrase which has entered the language. Its success has overshadowed her wider work as the author of more than half a dozen collections of poetry and three novels, mostly written while she worked as a secretary. Her poems, printed with he…
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Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)
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This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an ana…
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Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (MIT Press, 2023) by Dr. Mary Flanagan & Dr. Mikael Jakobsson is a striking analysis of popular board games' roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: fa…
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The Zen Perry Project


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Ep. 55 - High Reeper - Guitarist Shane Trimble on Touring, Desertfest and more
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During a captivating conversation with Shane Trimble, the mastermind behind High Reeper, I had the pleasure of delving into the band's inception and their serendipitous discovery of a music scene that flawlessly complemented their debut album. It was fascinating to learn how what initially began as a studio project quickly evolved into a magnetic l…
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The P in Raspberry


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The 95th Oscars (Belong to Michelle Yeoh)
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Julia and Miranda dive into the 2023 Academy Awards and you WON'T want to miss this (or any episode ever)! (BTW, Ruth Carter is the talented Wakanda Forever costume designer mentioned.) Ep. Recorded on Mar. 13, 2023. Support the showBy Julia Kay Peterkins & Miranda MacGillivray
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Tara Brabazon podcast


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Maive 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology
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Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis: an artefact and an exegesis. Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory? This week, we explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.…
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Else-Realm Diner


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How to Solve a Problem Like Wednesday Addams?
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Welcome to the Else-Realm Diner, where we serve up interesting conversation, warm memories and good banter from across the multiverse and beyond... On the menu today, we examine Charles Addams' creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky (all together ooky) Addams Family. The Addams are cherished for their unabashed embrace of the darker side of life and …
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The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
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Dive into the question of why audiences love Shakespeare’s plays and Game of Thrones so much, despite their depictions of prejudice and violence, and discuss the unique power of tragic art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-…
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Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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In The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (UP of Kansas, 2022), Drs. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren ask what lessons does Marvel – a “hulking, hegemonic media franchise” teach the public? What might we learn about ourselves and our understanding of the world from this “cinematic juggernaut?” Popular texts encourage audiences to imagine w…
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MAN TO MAN: A Fireside Chat For Men
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Tonight, we are having an important fireside chat exclusively for men. This has been a long overdue conversation and discussion that we need to have with the young men of this generation. In this week's edition we talk about the fallout behind NBA Star Point Guard Ja Morant poor decision to brandish a gun at a Denver Night Club and the consequences…
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Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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What role do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the reader will never watch or play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literature and game studies, Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play (Bloomsbury, 2023) provides the first in-depth investigation into the …
Introducing the women of 'Sex and the City' and their different perspectives on relationships, romance, promiscuity, guilt, career balancing, thinking like a man, and what a connection feels like. Modern dating needs more discussion. CCC TV reviews. Did the show age, or did we?
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Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
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Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for th…
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New Books in Popular Culture


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Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
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Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In the 1700…
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Weekend podcast: Zoe Williams on Boris’ honours list, what the film The Whale gets wrong, plus life lessons from hospice volunteering
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Zoe Williams reacts to the news that Boris Johnson plans to nominate his father for a knighthood (1m28s), what Oscar-nominated film The Whale says about how society truly views fat people (7m), and how volunteering in a hospice changed Anna Tims’ perspective on life – and death (20m27s)By The Guardian
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity…
In this episode, Jared and Wren make final predictions on [mostly] everything in Scream 6. A new Alien movie is about to begin filming this month from writer-director Fede Álvarez; The Last of Us has record viewership AGAIN; Daredevil: Born Again adds some familiar faces to the cast; Barry will premiere its final season on HBO in April. Plus, what …
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Special Topics in Media

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Communicating Fears in Film: Post-Season Reflexive Special
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Following this Season Seven focus on Communicating Fears in Film, cohosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry pause to reflect on the season, examine course themes, and assess past and future potentialities for Special Topics in Media. In an homage to academic form, the dialogic duo engage in a bit of scholarly form that includes reviewing season …