Marshall Poe

New Books in Film

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Marshall Poe

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Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015) 26.06.2016 48:43

Do we live in a real world or a ‘reel world,’ in which life begins to feel like a film? In this wonderful ethnography of the Tamil film industry, Anand Pandian explores topics as grand, rich and timeless as those explored in film itself love, desire, rhythm, wonder as a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooks...

Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016) 28.05.2016 34:44

Cass Sunstein‘s son, Declan, got dad hooked on Star Wars. And dad, a Harvard Law professor, ended up writing a book about it. “If you’d told me a year ago that I’d write a book about Star Wars,” Sunstein recently told the Boston Globe,“I’d say it’s more likely that I’d... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksn...

Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015) 30.04.2016 1:05:12

Anthropologist Birgit Meyer‘s most recent book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), explores the dynamic process of popular video filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination that interweaves technological, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects. Stepping into the void left... Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016) 19.04.2016 1:11:13

Considered by many to be the greatest American film ever made, Citizen Kane was the product of Orson Welles, who made a movie that is still groundbreaking today. In his new book Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), Harlan Lebo presents a wonderful overview of the film... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium...

Jason Mittell, “Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television” (NYU Press 2015) 18.04.2016 1:06:20

We are said to be in a golden age of TV. The best stories today are told on television screens in serialized forms. The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos are a few of the shows that have elevated the cache of television, introducing riskier forms of storytelling in a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newboo...

Kimberly Fain, “Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies” (Praeger, 2015) 03.04.2016 1:05:54

While black men have been portrayed in film for over a hundred years, they have often been stereotyped or portrayed very badly. In her book Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies (Praeger, 2015), Kimberly Fain reviews the changing aspect of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a...

Alan Sepinwall, “The Revolution Was Televised” (Touchstone, 2015) 24.02.2016 31:04

What do Tony Soprano and Archie Bunker have in common? Alan Sepinwall, longtime TV writer and critic, knows that the 1970s comedic bigot and 2000s Jersey mob boss are not as different as we may think. Both broke new ground in TV and made viewers sit up and take notice,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksn...

George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015) 22.01.2016 55:41

George Cotkin is an emeritus professor of history at California Polytechnic State University. In his book Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility (Oxford University Press, 2015) he has given us cultural criticism through a set of provocative portraits of creative Americans at mid-twentieth century who defied... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Suppo...

Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015) 08.12.2015 30:41

In Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015), Ranen Omer-Sherman, a professor at the University of Louisville, looks at literary and cinematic representations of the kibbutz, what he calls the world’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Complementing historical works on the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015) 27.10.2015 1:00:22

Did you notice that after 9/11, the depiction of torture on prime-time television went up nearly seven hundred percent? Hilary Neroni did. She had just finished a book on the changing relationship between female characters and violence in narrative cinema, and was attuned to function of violence in film and... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becom...

Liam Burke, “The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre” (UP of Mississippi, 2015) 26.09.2015 1:11:35

When Marvel’s X-Men took the movie theaters by storm in the summer of 2000, the studios were both surprised and unprepared for the popularity of a comic book film. Over the last fifteen years, filmmakers have developed new ways to use modern movie techniques to adapt comic book characters into... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium...

Elizabeth Haas, Terry Chrstensen, and Peter J. Haas, “Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films” (Routledge, 2015) 09.09.2015 1:03:50

Politics has been a part of many films, since the beginning of the industry over 100 years ago. These include movies with political subjects, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, to films with political underpinnings, such as The Hurt Locker. In Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films (Routledge, 2015)... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our...

Laura Isabel Serna, “Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age” (Duke UP, 2014) 17.08.2015 1:16:24

During the early decades of the 20thcentury the nation of Mexico entered the modern era through a series of social, political, and economic transformations spurred by the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. At the same time, American film companies increasingly sought opportunities to expand their market share by exporting films to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sup...

Michael Ray FitzGerald, “Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the ‘Good Indian'” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013) 24.07.2015 54:45

In his new book Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the ‘Good Indian’ (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), Michael Ray FitzGerald reviews how television represented Native Americans, including in both positive and negative stereotypes. He talks about these portrayals from early television shows to more recent characterizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Caseen Gaines, “We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy” (Plume, 2015) 28.06.2015 1:12:15

On the thirtiethanniversary of the film, Caseen Gaines has written We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy (Plume, 2015). The book is an engaging history of the Back to the Future series, from its earliest development through the ups and downs in the making... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! htt...

Suzanne Broderick, “Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) 24.06.2015 59:39

In hew new book Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), Suzanne Broderick shares how she discussed a number of World War II films with veterans and others who experienced the conflict first hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Donald Dewey, “Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) 20.06.2015 1:02:37

In his new book Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014),Don Dewey discusses Lee J. Cobb’s career, both from his importance as a character actor and follower of the Method acting school. He also reviews Cobb’s importance to the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)hearings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by be...

Dave Itzkoff, “Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies” (Times Books, 2014) 10.06.2015 1:04:14

Clearly prophetic, “Network” was a controversial film that was reviled by television studios and networks, yet became one of the best films of its time. Dave Itzkoff, culture reporter for The New York Times, has written a great overview of writer Paddy Chayefsky’s fight to hold on to his vision,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premiu...

Paul Seydor, “The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Northwestern UP, 2015) 02.06.2015 1:08:46

Sam Peckinpah’s career as a writer and director was also filled with controversies, but his reputation has not diminished, more than thirty years after his last film. Paul Seydor began in academics before becoming a highly regarded film editor who knew Peckinpah and has written extensively about him. His new... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by beco...

Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) 26.04.2015 1:09:25

Movies and television shows often include scenes of eating, either as a side activity of the actors or as an integralpart of a scene. University of Nevada, Reno Professor Tom Hertweck compiled 14 essays in his collection, Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a...

Hugo Frey, “Nationalism and the Cinema in France” (Berghahn Books, 2014) 24.04.2015 1:00:55

Hugo Frey‘s new book, Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995 (Berghahn Books, 2014) distinguishes between a national cinema (films made in France) and a nationalist cinema motivated by the specific agenda to promote une certaine idee de la France. Working with ideas about “political... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Su...

Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015) 17.04.2015 53:47

While there are many well known cult television shows still revered by fans, MST3K continues to have an incredibly large following with a thriving following 25 years after its final episode. Chris Morgan‘s book The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (McFarland, 2015) looks at the films used by the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becom...

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, “Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life” (UNC Press, 2014) 10.04.2015 1:09:01

We are all aware how important professional movie makers are to modern campaigns. Many trace this importance to John F. Kennedy’s presidential victory in 1960. Yet, as Kathryn Cramer Brownell shows in her new book Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), Tinseltownwas a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Suppo...

Joan Kramer and David Heeley, “In the Company of Legends” (Beaufort Books, 2015) 03.04.2015 1:08:03

There are a variety of great documentaries about famous films and film artists. Two of the most successful producers of these movies are Joan Kramer and David Heeley. Their book In the Company of Legends (Beaufort Books, 2015) is a great memoir of their careers presenting the lives of such... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium memb...

Raluca Lucia Cimpean, “The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) 28.03.2015 1:05:04

Even long after his death, President John F. Kennedy continues to be a popular figure. In addition to documentaries, his influence appears in television and film. In her book The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), Raluca Lucia Cimpean examined nine docudramas that either included JFK as... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show...