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Interviews with Scholars of Popular Culture about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
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Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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A museum director and a few obsessed college professors discuss all things film, TV, music, comics, and popular culture.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
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The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
Kyle Risi & Adam Cox
A weekly variety podcast serving up captivating stories from the dark corners of true crime, incredible historical events, and the lives of truly extraordinary people. Each episode Kyle and Adam give you just enough infomation to wow your friends and even random strangers in any social situation.
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The State and Popular Culture
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Hello and welcome to my podcast. My podcast will be about kpop and anime to music and anything popular culture.
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Illuminating the obscure
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Podcast by Eye Opening Experience
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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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Not So Popular Culture is a podcast that will talk about all of your favorite things games movies tv music and web series
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A Review of Pop Culture Through the Lens of The Gospel
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Pop Couture: Undressing Popular Culture!
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Pop Couture: Undressing Popular Culture!
Mike Ruocco, Erin Jade Igel, Joe Schrum
Hosted by Michael Ruocco (He/Him), Erin Jade Igel (They/She), and Joe Schrum (He/Him), Pop Couture explores the wide world of entertainment and analyzes the media we love through the lenses of industry experience and fervent fanaticism! Join us as we talk about weird movies, stacks of comic books, awkward video games, trainwreckords, and everything in-between! Due to the mature content and language, this show is not recommended for younger listeners.
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Professional photographer & amateur filmmaker Rob Moses finds interesting artists to interview. Art, artists & photography are a loose focus. * New episodes posted every Tuesday.
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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
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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.
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A podcast that brings movies, TV and pop culture into perspective.
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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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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.
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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.
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"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.
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Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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A podcast where fine ladies, rational minds, and the best kind of company gather to discuss all sorts of ideas and issues.
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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 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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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!
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Law touches most aspects of life. Here to help make sense of it is the Stanford Legal podcast, where we look at the cases, questions, conflicts, and legal stories that affect us all every day. Stanford Legal launched in 2017 as a radio show on Sirius XM. We’re now a standalone podcast and we’re back after taking some time away, so don’t forget to subscribe or follow this feed. That way you’ll have access to new episodes as soon as they’re available. We know that the law can be complicated. I ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.
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Geek enthusiast power couple discusses comics, culture, and creative media of all kinds.
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Part social commentary, part spiritual reflection, part biblical study, and part prayers for an aching world, the Do Justice Podcast examines the intersection of faith and the secular through a faith-based, social justice lens. http://www.shiningwatersregionalcouncil.ca Formerly the Living Presence Podcast.
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Welcome to Channel Hoppers, we're two avid UK television watchers and each week we'll be discussing the best of UK Television, from soaps, to reality shows, to documentaries and dramas.
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LIT Podcast: Where Law, Innovation & Technology Meet the Culture
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LIT Podcast: Where Law, Innovation & Technology Meet the Culture
LITBraintrust
Intellectual property experts Tonya M. Evans (Co-Founder, Legal Write Publications, LLC & Associcate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law) and Shontavia J. Johnson (Founder, LVRG LLC & AVP of Academic Partnerships & Innovation, Clemson University) engage in lively and culturally competent conversations and share their so very LIT perspectives about all things law, innovation, and technology. #LITPodcast #LITBraintrust #SoVeryLIT @LITBraintrust
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Welcome to Geek A&E, an emergency department filled with movies and TV shows that have been viscously punched in the face by mass critical opinion. Pushing the medical analogy too far our intrepid hosts Alec Lambert and Ellen Waddell. Neither are medical trained, but they have both consumed an unhealthy amount of alternative pop culture.
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Join social commentators Ray & Jay as they tackle the hottest topics in American culture each week with the intent to entertain while also dropping a bit of knowledge. Buckle up for your newest podcast obsession!
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"Trying Hard to be Appropriate" is a comedy podcast hosted by three lifelong friends, Ryan, Shilo, and Brock. In each episode, the boys engage in casual, unscripted conversations with each other, guests, and answering fan submitted questions. The show is known for its laid-back and hilarious banter, as well as the candid and personal insights shared by the hosts and their guests. Topics covered on the podcast range from the latest pop culture trends to personal experiences and advice from it ...
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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.
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Interviews with authors of MIT Press books.
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New Books in Popular Culture
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Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing. The new English style, defined in the 1920s and followed by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1930s, ensured that ballroom dancing…
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The MIT Press Podcast
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Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
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An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted t…
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The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
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JT Leroy’s Story: Crafting Fiction from Fiction
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On this week’s episode of the Compendium, we dive into the wild world of JT Leroy, a name that took the literary scene by storm before turning it on its head. Join us as we pick apart how Laura Albert and Savannah Knoop spun the identity of a made-up boy-genius author, fooling the glitterati and bookworms alike. It’s a story packed with scandal and…
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In the Cold Open # 51, Kynde Kiefel and Robert Sickels wax poetic about the many reasons they both adore Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. Our intro and outro this week are Spectrum’s “How You Satisfy Me” and Dan Deacon’s “The Crystal Cat” from the Priscilla (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The Cold Open Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spo…
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New Books in Popular Culture
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Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. …
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New Books in Popular Culture
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H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)
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Dark tourism is the practice of visiting sites associated with death and disaster. Participation is increasing, yet much of the machinations behind dark tourism remain shrouded in mystery, and intentionally so. In his latest book, I am the Dark Tourist, Messenger of Remembrance (Headpress, 2023), H.E. Sawyer explores the seductive premise that dark…
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The Cold Open Podcast
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The Cold Open #50-The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Edition
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In the Cold Open # 50, Kynde Kiefel and Robert Sickels dissect the four Wes Anderson short film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s short stories now playing on Netflix: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Rat Catcher, Poison, and The Swan. The Cold Open Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, so please subscribe!…
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The MIT Press Podcast
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Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, "Diversity Dividend" (MIT Press, 2023)
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From entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits. Every leader endeavors to invest in and manage their key asset--talent--to be as high-performing as possible. Like a winning stock, successful diversity, equity…
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Transcript (PDF) available here. Fancy a game of Canadian real estate vs. literal European castles, anyone? The housing situation is bad and dare we say that the rental situation is worse. This episode (recorded September 2023), Prakash and Kristen discuss their past rental woes and offer some suggestions for renters with the hope that the situatio…
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Special Topics in Media
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Film Listology: #98 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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With the holiday season in full swing, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry step away from the dinner table long enough to partake in an alternative pastime, cultivating our Film Listology season on Special Topics in Media. In this episode, the dialogic duo revisit the recently invoked "Dad Movie Hall of Fame" to inaugurate what many consider…
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Continuing our review series, on this month’s subscribercast we look at the sixth and penultimate season of The Shield. We... The post Subscribercast #82 – The Shield Season 6 first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)By Tom Secker
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Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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In The Pirate's Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Reaktion, 2023), Dr. Rebecca Simon presents a rollicking account of pirates’ codes, the strict rules essential for survival at sea. Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship…
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The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
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Gunther’s Millions: The Story Behind the World's Richest Dog
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In this episode of the Compendium, dive deep into the enigmatic tale of Gunther’s Millions, the legacy behind the world’s most affluent canine. From an unexpected dog inheritance to the mysterious German Countess and her association with the savvy businessman Maurizio Mian, we unravel the story piece by piece. We will uncover how a German Shepherd …
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Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the deposition of swords in watery places and votive statuettes in temples, for example, may feel irrelevant to the modern day. However, Dr. Ceri Houlbrook shows in ‘Ritual Litt…
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The MIT Press Podcast
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Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of our Society: …
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Thinking Out Loud Radio Show
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"People Over Politics" feat. U.S. Senate Candidate Hill Harper
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In this Thanksgiving Weekend Edition of the podcast, we are sharing with you the much anticipated interview with Actor, Author, Humanitarian, Entrepreneur & U.S. Senate Candidate Hill Harper. In this interview he shares not only what inspired him to leave his successful acting career to jump into the dirty world of politics, but what his vision is …
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Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante's Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City. Voidopolis is a digital performance about loss and memory presented as an augmented reality (…
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Stanford Legal
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From Sumptuary Laws to Senate Suits: Dress Codes in History and Today
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From the recent Senate dress code controversy to landmark legal cases, explore the nuanced intersection of the law and fashion, gender identity, and cultural expression. Join Pam Karlan and Rich Ford to delve into the intricate world of dress codes and the law, examining their historical roots and contemporary implications.The discussion begins wit…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's greatest literary success, his thirteenth novel in a series exploring the extended Rougon-Macquart family. The relative here is Etienne Lantier, already known to Zola’s readers as one of the blighted branch of the family tree and his story is set in Northern France. It opens with Etienne trudging towards…
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Earlier this month, Toho Studios released “Godzilla Minus One”—the 37th film in the now almost seven-decade-old franchise. Godzilla has gone through many phases over the past 70 years: symbol of Japan’s nuclear fears, cuddly defender of humanity, Japanese cultural icon and, now, the centerpiece of another Hollywood cinematic universe. But it was 19…
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#54 Those Who Go Before Us with Jonathan and Linda Mitchell
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This episode was one like no other. We set out to interview Jonathan Mitchell and his wife Linda, who after 60 years of studying Greek, realized something was off with our translations. Not that the translations were wrong per se, but they weren’t giving us the big picture. However, that’s not where this conversation went. We believe in the freedom…
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In this 27th episode of the Trying Hard to Be Appropriate podcast, Ryan, Brock and Shilo look at all things Thanksgiving. Turkey Day ranks high for them in terms of holidays, thanks to its glutenous traditions. Turkey, ham, hell, even tri-tip...put it on their plates and they're going to eat it up before going comatose. First, they each present a h…
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The Execution of the Romanovs: From Russia's Throne to an Unthinkable Fate
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In this episode of the Compendium, I tell Adam about the tragic Execution of the Romanovs, unveiling this dark chapter in Russian history. Who were the Romanovs, and what kind of ruler was Tsar Nicholas II? We also touch on how the wandering “Mad Monk” Rasputin managed to infiltrate and influence the highest seat in imperial Russia. We examine what…
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New Books in Popular Culture
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Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Greil Marcus is perhaps the world’s foremost interpreter of Bob Dylan. This podcast focuses on Marcus’ latest Dylan book, Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Yale University Press, 2022). Marcus begins his book with a 2001 quote from Dylan: “I can see myself in others.” In this sense, Marcus writes, “the engine of his songs is empathy…
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"In All Things" feat. CHH & Spoken Word Artist Ty Scott King
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"In All Things" is not just the theme of this week's show, but it also the title of Award-Winning CHH & Spoken Word Artist Ty Scott King's full-length spoken word album that recently received Grammy consideration. This interview was recorded just a few days prior to the reveal of next year's Grammy Nominations. And, although her album did not recei…
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The MIT Press Podcast
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Gabriella Giannachi, "Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday" (MIT Press, 2016)
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In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently,…
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Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
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Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dys…
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Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
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Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dys…
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Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
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Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful album The River should have been the hit-packed Born in the U.S.A. But instead, in 1982, he came out with an album consisting of a series of dark songs he had recorded by himself, for himself. But more than forty years later, N…
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'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
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It’s the UConn PopCast, and in this episode we tackle ‘For All Mankind,’ Apple TV’s alternate history about a space race that never ended. We first react to episode one of season four, which portrays a well-established human base on Mars. What does this first episode portend for the rest of the season, and the overall trajectory of the show? We the…
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Trying Hard to Be Appropriate
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Episode 26: Pick Up Lines, Conspiracy Theories and Strange Phobias
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On this 26th episode of the Trying Hard to Be Appropriate podcast the guys are really on one. Seems like rough waters got them fired up and full of piss and vinegar. Ryan, Shilo and Brock had a great time catching up with old friend's at their little remembrance gathering for Ryan Rush and seem to have found a little pep in their step. First, they …
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As our Film Listology season drops into the nineties, Scott and Garret examine The Great Dictator from 1940. Falling in familiarity to many, The Great Dictator wisely uses comedy (and tragedy) to spotlight and critique rising fascism in early twentieth century Europe. Charlie Chaplin writes, produces, and directs this satirical story of mistaken id…
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Dolly Parton: The Legend Behind the Rhinestones
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On today's episode of The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things, while Adam takes a break this week, we take a look into the life of the ledgend; Dolly Parton with our guest for this week Lizzie Evans. Today I tell Lizzi about a pioneering spirit and an undeniable icon in the realm of country music. From her early days in Ten…
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Stanford Legal
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Stanford Legal Podcast Trailer: Law Matters, we're here to help make sense of it
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After a hiatus, Stanford Legal returns to your podcast feed. Start with our first episode back, where hosts Pam Karlan and Rich Ford sit down with criminal law expert David Sklansky to unpack the numerous indictments against Donald Trump. But that's not all: our upcoming episodes will explore a range of pressing legal topics from AI to the Supreme …
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The CIA’s Museum is a monument to lies, murder and secret power. Not officially, of course, they use much prettier... The post ClandesTime 258 – The CIA Museum first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)By Tom Secker
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The CIA’s Museum is a monument to lies, murder and secret power. Not officially, of course, they use much prettier... The post ClandesTime 258 – The CIA Museum first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)By Tom Secker
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Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popular image of the international student in the American imagination, an image of affluence, access, and privilege. In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim argues that universitie…
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New Books in Popular Culture
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Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearly all the decade’s notable Black sitcoms were made by a single company, Tandem Productions. Founded by two white men, the successful team behind All in the Family, writer Norman Lear and director Bud Y…
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Thinking Out Loud Radio Show
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"Behind the Camera" With Christian Filmmaker Michael Kleos Chin
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We are back with a brand new edition of the podcast, and we are sharing with you a very interesting and insightful interview we had with Christian Filmmaker Michael doesn’t make “cheesy church films," he makes authentic films that not only the church relates to, but also the secular world could relate to while receiving the universal message of Lov…
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Stanford Legal
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Expert Insights on Trump Indictments from David Sklansky
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The many indictments against Donald Trump, former president and current Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential contest, have left many scratching their heads. Is the Florida documents case more important than the Georgia election interference one? Is it all just political theatre, or is this serious? Here to help make sense of it is forme…
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Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
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Silk—a luxury fabric, a valuable trade good, and a scientific marvel. This material, created by the bombyx mori silkworm, has captivated artisans for centuries—and it captivated science presenter and writer Aarathi Prasad, who was studying the scientific potential of silk for new treatments. That started Aarathi on a journey to explore the world of…
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Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
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An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted t…
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Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
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Randy Laist, professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport, has a new edited volume focusing specifically on popular culture and the 1980s. The essays in The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now (McFarland, 2023) approach this theme from a number of disciplinary perspectives, global po…
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A Deep Dive into Olivia Rodrigo's "Guts"
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Olivia Rodrigo's new album "Guts" offers a compelling perspective on early adult uncertainty, societal expectations of young women, and the craft of songwriting. We take a deep dive into the art and persona of this chart-bestriding performer. The UConn PopCast is proud to be sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. Learn abo…
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Reality TV shapes and reflects how we see ourselves, and what we regard as normal. Professor Danielle J. Lindemann watched thousands of hours of reality tv to decode its influence on society. She joins us to discuss her book True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us (FSG, 2022). Danielle J. Lindemann is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lehigh…
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Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
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Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradic…
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In this 25th episode of the Trying Hard to Be Appropriate podcast, Ryan, Shilo and Brock are wading through the unavoidable waves of hangover caused by losing a dear friend while simultaneously navigating life's usual cute little curve balls and obstacles. Always find a way to laugh and smile. If you stop doing that you are truly dead inside. Brock…
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Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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In this episode, I talk to Vicki Howard and Sarah Elvins, both contributors to Volume 6 of the anthology A Cultural History of Shopping. Jon Stobart is the series editor, and Vicki Howard is the editor of Volume 6: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age. The chapters of this volume include: Practices and Processes, by Sarah Elvins, Spaces…
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This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
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The Bond movies have influenced portrayals of masculinity and femininity for decades, but the Daniel Craig-era saw a revolution in depictions of sex, gender, and inclusivity. The UConn PopCast discusses with Professor Susan Burgess, author of LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2023) The…
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The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things
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The Loch Ness Monster Hoax: How a Man Named Marmaduke Fooled the World
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In this episode of the Compendium, we delve deep into the murky waters of the Loch Ness Monster legend. As one of the most famous cryptids in history, the tale of Nessie has captivated many. But what if the entire story had a different twist? We explore how Marmaduke Weatherall played a pivotal role in one of the most sensational hoaxes associated …
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