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Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Jun 9, 2026
45m 38s
Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)
Jun 6, 2026
48m 55s
Mackenzi Lee, "Masters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos" (Mattel, 2026)
Jun 1, 2026
43m 08s
Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 29, 2026
1h 12m 19s
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
May 25, 2026
50m 45s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/9/26 | ![]() Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025) | How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance theory, scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bombay film songs in The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology (Wayne State UP, 2025). Mapping the production, circulation, and reception of the voices of singing stars—notably Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle—Jhingan situates the singing voice as a cinematic object with limitless possibilities of distribution and dispersal. She employs the perspectives of a diverse range of listeners across a vast media landscape to illustrate how the affective charge of the female playback voice, combined with developments in audio technology, has led to a gradual expansion of opportunities for women in film, popular music, and media and audio production. With nuanced exploration of the way the human voice becomes intertwined with devices such as the microphone, radio, cassettes, and digital technologies, Jhingan argues for the sonic excess of the female voice beyond the narrative and visual. The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema is an authoritative addition to the field of sound studies with implications for gender studies, performance studies, and cinema studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film | 45m 38s | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | ![]() Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026) | In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known film to portray African American affection, it was lost for over a century until its rediscovery inspired contemporary audiences with a powerful and enduring depiction of Black love. More than a missing piece in an untold history of Black cinematic performance, Something Good—and the magnetism of Suttle and Brown—attests to the power of Black performance on stage and screen from the nineteenth century to today. In Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History (University of California Press, 2026), Allyson Nadia Field tells the story of Something Good and recovers the forgotten yet fascinating lives of its performers and their world. Drawing a vivid picture from sparse historical records, Acts of Love examines popular culture's negotiation of blackness to reconsider the intersections of minstrelsy, vaudeville, and cinema in ragtime America. This book not only presents the story of Something Good, its performers, and the drama of its rediscovery; it shows how the rediscovery of this short early film changes our understanding of American film history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film | 48m 55s | ||||||
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Mackenzi Lee, "Masters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos" (Mattel, 2026)✨ | young adult literatureMasters of the Universe+4 | Mackenzi Lee | MattelMasters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos | EternosDarksmoke+1 | Masters of the UniverseTeela+6 | — | 43m 08s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)✨ | Black horror cinemaglobal Blackness+3 | Robin R. Means ColemanNovotny Lawrence | Oxford UPThe Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film+1 | — | Black horrorhorror genre+3 | — | 1h 12m 19s | |
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)✨ | television historypolitics+3 | Oscar Winberg | UNC PressArchie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics+1 | — | Archie BunkerAll In The Family+5 | — | 50m 45s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Tony Lee Moral, "A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2026)✨ | Alfred Hitchcockfilm history+4 | Tony Lee Moral | University Press of KentuckyAcademy Award+10 | — | Hitchcockfilm director+7 | — | 35m 33s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026)✨ | archival documentaryfilm history+4 | Thomas Doherty | Columbia University PressHow Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America+5 | — | archival documentaryfilm history+5 | — | 38m 14s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)✨ | film remakestelevision reboots+4 | Angharad N. ValdiviaIsabel Molina-Guzmán | NYU PressDisney+8 | — | rebootsremakes+5 | — | 1h 32m 13s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Sumana Roy, "Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2024)✨ | plant philosophyBengal literature+3 | Sumana Roy | Oxford UPPlant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal | — | Bengalplant thinkers+6 | — | 40m 26s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser✨ | Werner Herzogfilm analysis+4 | — | New Books NetworkPages and Frames+3 | Nuremberg | Kaspar HauserWerner Herzog+7 | — | 29m 41s | |
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| 5/18/26 | ![]() Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)✨ | plasticityneuroplasticity+4 | — | Edinburgh UP | — | Catherine Malabouplasticity+7 | — | 1h 29m 46s | |
| 5/16/26 | ![]() Ayşehan Jülide Etem, "Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations" (Columbia UP, 2026)✨ | film diplomacyTurkey-US relations+3 | Ayşehan Jülide Etem | University of VirginiaColumbia UP | TurkeyUnited States | film diplomacyTurkey+5 | — | 57m 35s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Wake Up Dead Man (Fr Scott Bailey): The Priest who Helped Hollywood Make a Murder Mystery Movie about the Church | When Hollywood director Rian Johnson started making Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out mystery (a movie you can watch on Netflix), he needed some help. His uncle and aunt in Denver connected him with their pastor in Denver, Father Scott Bailey, who became an advisor to the project. He talks about the process and the big questions of this movie with me. (And I admit: I hated the beginning and stopped watching a few minutes in. After reading about Fr Scott online and finding several Catholic sources who praised the movie, I gave it another look. I’m glad I did, because I think it’s not only entertaining but also important … and beautiful.) Article in First Things by Father Scott about the movie and his role in it, “Wake Up Dead Man Captures the Beauty of Priestly Ministry,” January 5, 2026. Article in Denver Catholic about Fr Scott and the movie, “A Denver Priest, a Hollywood Director and a Bowl of Fettuccine: Father Scott Bailey Advises on Catholic Life for New ‘Knives Out’ Film” by Jay Sorgi, November 22, 2025. Screenplay of Wake Up Dead Man by Rian Johnson, the director and writer, available on his website. Fr Scott Bailey at the Archdiocese of Denver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film | 53m 47s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Es-pranza Humphrey, "Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen" (Poster House Museum, 2026) | Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful stereotypes used to portray Black characters. Shows began touting “All Colored Revues” to indicate that a cast was made up of actual Black performers rather than white people in blackface, and that these spectacles aimed to build stories around the perception of Black experiences. Although these performances were sometimes flawed, and even overly prejudiced, they represented a significant form of Black American cultural development and expression. Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded, and many of the movies that featured all Black casts are now considered “lost films,” films for which no copy is known to survive, advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and 1940s. These posters, and the historic innovations of playwrights, composers, directors, producers, and the Black performers behind them, are the subjects of the exhibition, Act Black: Posters From Black American Stage and Screen, curated by our guest for this episode, Assistant Curator of Collections at New York City’s Poster House museum, Es-pranza Humphrey. Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen is on view at Poster House through September 6, 2026. Exhibition resources are also available via the Bloomberg Connects app until September 6, and at the Poster House online exhibition archive thereafter. Es-pranza’s recommended reading list is available at the Additions to the Archive Substack. Subscribe, like, follow, and rate Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer on Instagram, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film | 54m 49s | ||||||
| 5/10/26 | ![]() Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025) | The 1960s in Japan have long been understood as a period of radical political engagement. But as political movements from Old Left Communism to New Left revolts appeared to fail in their efforts to revolutionize Japanese society, artists and intellectuals came to reject the ideals of postwar politics. Instead, they advocated withdrawing from political participation and making self-transformation the grounds for social change.This provocative book uncovers a paradox at the heart of the 1960s: how political disillusionment became the basis for a new form of politics—a politics of the self. Examining aesthetic criticism, popular literature, avant-garde art, cinema, and political theory, Patrick Noonan argues that cultural producers in 1960s Japan cultivated what he calls an “ethos of disaffection” toward revolutionary politics and postwar society. Departing from approaches that define politics as contestation, Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan (Columbia UP, 2025) foregrounds cultivation, or the production of ways of feeling and relating to the world in efforts to redefine the political. It presents an unorthodox account of the 1960s: withdrawal from political activity developed not as the decade ended but as it was unfolding. Noonan reveals how Japanese artists and intellectuals in this period confronted a crucial question that continues to vex efforts at radical change today: transform institutions or alter how people relate to themselves and others? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film | 43m 10s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Ana I. Oancea, "Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France" (U Toronto Press, 2025)✨ | inventor novelfin-de-siècle France+5 | Ana Oancea | University of DelawareU Toronto Press+1 | — | inventorFrench literature+5 | — | 1h 03m 49s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Frontier Films for America250: On the Western Genre and Beyond with Matthew J. Franck✨ | Western genreAmerican frontier films+4 | Matthew J. Franck | Public DiscoursePrinceton University+4 | — | frontier filmswestern genre+4 | — | — | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination✨ | anti-colonial imaginationpolitics and culture+3 | Jeremy Harding | London Review of BooksOpen Society Foundations | — | anti-colonialAfrica+7 | — | 49m 55s | |
| 5/2/26 | ![]() Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, "In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)✨ | ethnographyimperialism+4 | Richard Ivan JobsSteven Van Wolputte | McGill-Queen’s UPIn the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism | ChiapasLacandón | LacandónBernard de Colmont+7 | — | 48m 51s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, and Identity✨ | Taiwanese cinemafilm and history+5 | Prof. Robert Chen | University of TartuTaiwanese cinema+1 | TaiwanEstonia | Taiwancinema+7 | — | — | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Chinatown✨ | film analysisnoir cinema+3 | — | New Books NetworkChinatown+1 | — | Chinatownnoir+5 | — | 28m 45s | |
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Jes Battis, "It's Only Forever: Labyrinth" (ECW Press, 2026)✨ | film analysisqueerness in media+4 | Jes Battis | ECW PressIt's Only Forever: Labyrinth+1 | U.S. | LabyrinthJim Henson+7 | — | 46m 08s | |
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Michael Lee Nirenberg, "Cinematic Immunity" (Feral House, 2026)✨ | New York City film industrybehind-the-scenes stories+3 | Michael Lee Nirenberg | Cinematic ImmunityOn the Waterfront+14 | — | Cinematic ImmunityNew York film+5 | — | 1h 01m 17s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Laura Horak, "Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)✨ | trans cinematrans identities+3 | Laura Horak | University of California Press | — | trans creativityfilm+3 | — | 36m 06s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Daisuke Miyao, "Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy" (Duke UP, 2026)✨ | Japanese cinemaYasujirō Ozu+3 | Daisuke Miyao | Duke University PressUniversity of California, San Diego | — | Ozuindeterminacy+5 | — | 1h 15m 08s | |
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