New Review of Film and Television Studies Podcast

Timothy Shary interviews Alessandra Seggi about her book Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which examines approaches to this topic in a range of Hollywood and independent films. The thoughtful conversation discusses key recent examples, such as Archie’s Final Project (David Lee Miller, 2009), as well as more canonical films, such as...

Geneveive Newman interviews Ben Rubin, Horror Collections Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh's Archives and Special Collections about all things horror archives!

Daniel Smith-Rowsey interviews Timothy Shary about the second edition of his book  Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth  (Wallflower Press, 2023), which examines American cinema’s representation of teenagers. The thoughtful and expansive conversation covers a wide group of American teen films, ranging from  Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) to  CODA  (Sian Heder, 2021). The lengthy ti...

Max Bledstein interviews Adam Lowenstein about his new book   Horror Film and Otherness   (Columbia University Press, 2022), which examines the treatment of social difference in horror. Through detailed and thoughtful close reading of films by directors including Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Stephanie Rothman, Jennifer Kent, Marina de Van, and Jordan Peele, Lowe...

Matt Boyd Smith  interviews  Julie Grossman  and  Will Scheibel  about their new edited volume  Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster   (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which explores the titular Showtime series (2014-16) and its spinoff,  Penny Dreadful: City of Angels  (2020). The rich and wide-ranging discussion touches on issues related to adaptation, gender, and t...

Maggie Hennefeld interviews Diana W. Anselmo about her new book,  A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood   (University of California Press, 2023), which gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female...

From the  Why Theory  podcast: "On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the bottle episode form of television in the context of Ryan’s recent article, 'The Limitation of the Bottle Episode: Hegel and  Community .' After establishing the historical and economic conditions that led to the initial development of the bottle episode, Ryan and Todd articulate how the form mobilizes temporal...

This episode features Drs. Maria Flood and Victor Evans in conversation about Barry Jenkins' landmark film Moonlight (2016). Read more about Dr. Flood's book and order here: https://www.routledge.com/Moonlight-Screening-Black-Queer-Youth/Flood/p/book/9780367151393

Read Carl Sweeney's review of Stacey Abbot's book: https://nrftsjournal.org/kathryn-bigelow-a-visionary-director/  Read our 2021 special issue KATHRYN BIGELOW: A VISIONARY DIRECTOR edited by Frances Pheasant-Kelly, including Sweeney's article on Bigelow and auteur theory: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/19/3