New Books in Popular Culture
Latest Episodes
Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
An interview with Erika Engelhaupt
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
An interview with Richard Moss
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
An Interview with Andrew deWaard
Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
An interview with Margarette Lincoln
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
An interview with Landon Palmer
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Its the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we revisit Alan Turing's seminal1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he asks "Can machin
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Its the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we revisit Alan Turing's seminal1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he asks "Can machin
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
An interview with Ashawnta Jackson
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
An interview with Peter C. Kunze
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
An interview with Anne Higonnet