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Special Topics in Media

Garret Castleberry

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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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Darwin did not expect to have "his" theory applied to pixelated creatures...this is payback for taking the limelight over Wallace. On Adapt or Die, Austin (a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) explores topics in popular culture that can be dissected with evolutionary theories and ideas. We will ask questions like "Does Pokémon evolution work like actual evolution?" or "How would evolution inform what lives and what dies after nuclear fallout". Combining peer-reviewed science, ...
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Thinking Out Loud Radio Show

Thinking Out Loud Radio Show

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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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Serious Banter

The Collective

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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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This humorous pop culture podcast covers the latest retro show business news and industry stories with Bill & Scott, two long-time friends who grew up in the 80s. Laugh with Bill and Scott as they dissect the guts out of some of our favorite pop culture. Rated PG-13 for some adult humor. https://www.didyouhearaboutthis.show
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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

Andrew Clarkston, Danny Goodwin, Enzo Priesnitz, Body Tape Intl.

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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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Pop Couture: Undressing Popular Culture!

Mike Ruocco, Erin Jade Igel, Joe Schrum

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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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Stanford Legal

Stanford Law School

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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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"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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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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Real Old Reels

Robin and Lisa

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Classic Movie Fans! Join our community to talk about our favorite noir, screwball comedies, science fiction, and others directed by notable masters, such as Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, John Ford, and Fred M. Wilcox. We'll span genres, actors, and directors. If you love movie trivia, would like to learn more about some classic films, or want to introduce them to friends and family, we're the podcast for you.
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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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Needle Drops

Nick Bambach & Jordan Raycine

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For anyone who was fully invested in a beautiful display of cinema playing out before them…popcorn in hand, emotions racing, everything about this moment is perfect…and then…the needle drops. This is for you. Nick and Jordan share two passions: movies and music. Together they set out to give an in-depth look into the how, the why, and the eventual moment your favorite songs made it into your favorite scenes on screen. Some familiar that gave you that nostalgic feeling and maybe some new disc ...
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Do Justice Podcast

Shining Waters Regional Council / United Church of Canada

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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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Indoor Voices

Kathleen Collins

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Conversations with scholars, creators and practitioners from around the CUNYverse (City University of New York). Produced by Kathleen Collins, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Do The Kids Know?

Do The Kids Know?

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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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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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Geek A&E

Ellen Waddell, Alec Lambert

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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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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.…
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From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 2024) explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theate…
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Send us a text Today we play a game. Can you figure out the celebrity behind these true names? Following the game, we go to the news, which has stories about Tim Curry, Disney, Beastie Boys, Jason Voorhees, and more. "Did You Heard About This?" breaks down show business topics and news stories. You have found your tribe. Parental Guidance suggested…
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Send us a text Welcome to our 91st episode. In addition to the usual Hollywood news coverage, we riff on some scandals we all grew up with. But do we remember them? Let us know some we missed. "Did You Heard About This?" breaks down show business topics and news stories. You have found your tribe. Parental Guidance suggested ;) Please subscribe, li…
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During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar narrative of Hollywood stardom receives a long-overdue shakeup in Emily Carman’s new book. Far from passive victims of coercive seven-year contracts, a number of classic Hollywood’s best-known actresses…
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Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Dr. Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behaviour of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and paramilitaries during Colombia’s long and bloody civil war. Analysing the varieties of violence in th…
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We are excited to be back with a brand new episode of the podcast, where we are discussing the candidacy of Vice-President Kamala Harris. This entire episode is dedicate to the prospect of her becoming the 47th President of the United States. As she stated in her both her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, and reiterated it du…
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Caree A. Banton's book More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge UP, 2019) chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means…
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From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. In Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books (Cambridge University Press Elements in Publishing and Book Culture series, 2024), Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane examin…
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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.…
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Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions. Presenting the latest findings and decades of interdiscipli…
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Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at once enduring and adaptable? Sheri Chinen Biesen's Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual …
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How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, and, most notably, human lenses. It explores diverse themes such as authorship, creative responsibility, the tension between games as a product and games as a form of cultural expression, and the myth …
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Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at once enduring and adaptable? Sheri Chinen Biesen's Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual …
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In a world where resource scarcity leads to ravaging globals wars, societal remnants scavenge post-apocalyptic wastelands in search of fuels to sustain what little remains of civilization. Somewhere between projected future failures and unreliable mythic narrators emerges the chainmetal capper to Mel Gipson's star-making role of "Mad" Max Rockatans…
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Today I talked to Will Grant about his book Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman (Bloomsbury, 2021). or more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today. The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the 'Pink…
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A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda (Routledge, 2023) engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating loc…
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Send us a text Technology is a bitch. We had an episode all set to drop on Monday at 6am after recording it on Thursday, but then Bill messed up—big time. The whole show was lost. But in true team spirit, Scott and Bill regrouped and did a live recording, complete with video, from our homes on Sunday night. If you want to see our "radio-ready" face…
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n this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek with a deep dive into the book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (Vernon Press, 2023). Co-editors Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis join the discussion to explore how Star Trek has shaped sci…
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n this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek with a deep dive into the book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (Vernon Press, 2023). Co-editors Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis join the discussion to explore how Star Trek has shaped sci…
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The government involvement in Hollywood marches on so in today’s episode we examine two films that were released this year,... The post ClandesTime 273 – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare vs My Spy: The Eternal City first appeared on Spy Culture.Di Tom Secker
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Note: This audio upload is a selection of clips taken from the full-length Patreon interview with Dr. Aaron French. To hear the full interview, please visit my Patreon page; you could consider joining to have access to more content like this, or have the option for a one-time purchase of the full episode (visit the 'shop' link for more information …
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Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously unexamined archives and rare films, it investigates key questions around film production, partition and the provenance of the nation in South Asia: How did partition transform the dynamic and transcultura…
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Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son back to Morocco to study. The family hailed from Spain before the Exile in 1492 only to maintain much of the Spanish language and character. These migrations create a unique diaspora for the Jews of nort…
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Send us a text It's Friday the 13th, and have we got a cautionary tale for you! The 1976 film *Freaky Friday* is a hilarious family comedy where a mother and daughter magically swap bodies, leading to a wild and fun adventure! Starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, this lighthearted film is packed with laughs, quirky situations, and heartwarming…
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From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 2024) explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theate…
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From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 2024) explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theate…
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As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Nate Persily forecasts complications along with it. Persily, a Stanford law professor and a leading expert in election law and administration, says the coming election cycle could pose unprecedented challenges for voters and election officials alike. “We are at a stage right now where there's a lot of a…
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In this inaugural "Future Shock Sound Bite", host Garret Castleberry briefly overviews key academic scholarship selected to accompany the educational approach to studying future shock science fiction film. Future Shock sound bites will function as complementary additions to the episodic Special Topics film analysis episodes. These supplemental mini…
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we offer a political science / popular culture studies view of Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. We situate Swift’s endorsement within the wider moment of popular culture, and consider her long journey from a self-imposed moratorium on political speech to her curren…
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In a world where rapid overpopulation leads to accelerated resource scarcity, near-future police detective Thorn (an icy Charlton Heston) investigates a murder that involves an upper-class power player, an escort with limited social mobility, and an increasing sense of sociopolitical conspiracy. Featuring an unnerving supporting role (and final scr…
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In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020), Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB—as sites of undesirable surveillance due to the historical, pol…
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Episode Description: Welcome to this brand new episode of Adapt or Die! The evolutionary biology of pop culture hosted by Austin Ashbaugh. The current cultural phenomenon we are discussing this season is Pokémon and todays episode is focused on the grass type. Our evolutionary connection to the normal type is coevolution. In the Safari Zone, I get …
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It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics (and critics), leaving the field with a limited understanding of this highly popular subgenre. The Metamodern Slasher Film (Edinburgh UP, 2024) correc…
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It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics (and critics), leaving the field with a limited understanding of this highly popular subgenre. The Metamodern Slasher Film (Edinburgh UP, 2024) correc…
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Dr. Mark Christian, Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and author of Booker T. Washington: A Life in American History and Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic, talks with Dr. William Seraile, professor emeritus of African American history at Lehman College.Di Indoor Voices
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Send us a text On this episode, Scott and Bill discuss the world of retro conventions, sharing our mixed feelings about the upcoming retrocon (in Oaks, Pennsylvania) and celebrity meet-and-greets. We have a blast playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Can you do better than Scott? We discuss some hilariously bad 80s B-movies that we've been binging …
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If L. A. Confidential (1997) were two degrees campier, it would seem like Dick Tracy–but Curtis Hanson made sure to capture the spirit of James Ellroy’s novel while making its labyrinth plot understandable to viewers. Join us for a conversation about how the film examines the need for heroes yet seems to only offer them in a way to which the movies…
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Full Title: Are We Living in A Simulation? Testing Tom Campbell's Consciousness-Based Simulation Theory This hour-long audio clip is a collection of excerpts from a three-hour long conversation with guest Eliott Edge that can be found on my Patreon page. A new option of a one-time purchase is now available as well, if you'd like to listen to the wh…
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Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the concept of the musical itself? TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age (Oxford UP, 2024) takes readers inside the world of TikTok Broadway, where fans create, expand, and canonize mu…
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It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoret…
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In the first book in the Modern Music Masters series, Tom Boniface-Webb examines the Manchester band Modern Music Masters-Oasis (MMM, 2020). Founded in 1994 and playing together until their spectacular and abrupt breakup in 2009, during their time together Oasis made an imprint on British music that will last for generations, impacting fans through…
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Send us a text We did it! Happy Anniversary and thank you to all our listeners for getting us here. We've truly enjoyed talking about our favorite films! Please share and comment for us! Take a journey with Captain Sinbad to far-off islands with one-eyed monsters, two-headed birds, shrunken princesses, and a captured genie. In The 7th Voyage of Sin…
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An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac (Pegasus Books, 2024) evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story. Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning …
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In a world where film podcasts stagnate along the information super highway, two hosts stand between humankind's filmic past and the futurist projections anticipated by the fading star of a dying mass medium. Special Topics in Media presents "Future Shock Science Fiction", a time loop season set in the past, produced in the present, projecting towa…
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If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone—billions of people worldwide now play video games. However, you may still find yourself reluctant to tell others this fact about yourself. After all, we are routinely warned that video games have the potential to cause addiction and violence. And when we aren’t being warned of their…
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In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker. Richardson's queer reading of the text provides new understandings of Batman and The Joker and the transformations of the …
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist’s designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Get…
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In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker. Richardson's queer reading of the text provides new understandings of Batman and The Joker and the transformations of the …
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