New Books in Popular Culture
Latest Episodes
Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
An interview with Debbie Felton
Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
An interview with Ewa Stańczyk
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
An interview with Joseph Blankholm
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
An interview with Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
An interview with Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Paul Roquet is an MIT associate professor in media studies and Japan studies; his earlier work includes Ambient Media. It was his recent mind-bending The Immersive Enclosure that prompted John and Elizabeth to invite him to discuss the history of "head-mo
The Two Russias
On White Nights (1985), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and The Russia House (1990)
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
An interview with Bob Brier
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
An interview with Usha Iyer
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
An interview with Samhita Sunya