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00:48:27

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah...

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2026/10/04

Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today.The volume covers most of the francosphere: Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, South America and Polynesia. As well as discussing a range of environmental issues, from soil erosion to nuclear testing, it also considers ways in which

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01:30:55

The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century

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2026/10/02

It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and the New York Times has published its list of the best 100 television shows of the 21st Century. We react to this list, ponder what is underrated, overrated, and completely snubbed, and question the value of grand lists in an age of micro-cultures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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01:09:14

Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese...

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2026/09/25

How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an environment in which it integrated other arts and media while being refashioned in a variety of arts and media.Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies (Brill, 2025)explores a wide range of cultural experimentation, collectively termed “playing with plays:” the theatricality embedded in commentary, the poetic and visual

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58:22

Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the...

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2026/09/09

In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society.In this interview,Morteza Hajizadeh interviewsLeonhard Emmerling about his bookThe Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus(Seagull Books, 2026)Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their icon. From holy fool to punk rebel, the idiot—a figure that traces its roots back to the Greekidiotes, a person who was

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Erin A. Craig, "Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew...

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2026/09/01

Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera(DelacortePress, 2026) is areimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, spotlighting Christine Daaé as she rises to fame while torn between love, ambition, and the haunting secrets of the opera house from #1 New York Times bestselling author Erin A. Craig. This gorgeous hardcover edition of Our Strange Duet features stunning sprayed edges, custom character endpapers, a foil-stamped case, and a ribbon! She

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59:46

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community...

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2026/08/31

The first large number of Chinese immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1840s, and Chinese opera troupes were not far behind. InInside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth Century California and Beyond(U Illinois Press, 2025), Nancy Yunhwa Rao writes the story of the flourishing and resiliency of Chinese opera in America. Chinese opera troupes brought with them an important cultural reminder of China that helped immigrants to build community and maintain connections

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60:27

John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural...

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2026/08/31

It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined with Los Angeles that the term “Hollywood” is used interchangeably with “American film” worldwide. From the early 20th-century migration of film pioneers from the East Coast to the emergence of local subcultures and global genres, John Trafton traces how the city has been imagined by insiders and outsiders alike inLos Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of

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58:47

Musical Pripetshik: Lyrics and Melodies of...

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2026/08/25

Most of the Yiddish songs we know today were created in the first half of the 20th century and distributed through commercial channels such as sheet music, concerts, radio broadcasts, records and CDs, theater stages, and more recently through songbooks produced in educational settings around the world. Our discussion focuses on lesser-known songs – Eastern Yiddish musical folklore, which emerged over a period of approximately four hundred years preceding the formation of the “popular” repertoire

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68:31

Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in)...

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2026/08/25

Thisis Dr. Swati Joshi's inaugural episode on theNew Books Network. In this episode, she interviews Dr. Lucy Jeffery about her monograph,Transdisciplinary Beckett: Visual Arts, Music, and the Creative Process(ibidem Press,2021). She is also co-editor and author ofReplaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production, published by CEU Press and AUP in 2026. She is co-founder of the Replaying Communism project, which received funding from the AHRC SWW-DTP (2023) and the Visegrad

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53:36

Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography:...

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2026/08/22

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time(Routledge, 2024) examines the field ofarchi-choreographicexperiments: unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers. Forty case studies spanning four decades give evidence of the range of motivations for embarking on these creative endeavors and diverse conceptual underpinnings, generative methods, objects of inquiry, and outcomes.Architecture and

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19:10

Mulholland Drive at 25: Film Quarterly

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2026/08/21

In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor ofFilm Quarterlydiscusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001Mulholland Driveon its 25th anniversary with dossier editor Eileen G’Sell.Film Quarterly(FQ) is published four times a year by the University of California Press. For more information about the journal, including subscription and submission information, please visitFQ’s website. If you are interested in supporting the work of UC Press and its Journals Program, please consider making

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Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal"...

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2026/08/20

Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers ofjatra,Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were played by men—and Chapal Rani was perhaps the most prominent performer of women on the stage.He’s also the subject of a new book from Sandip Roy, titledChapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal.Roy, who joins us the show today, tells the story of Chapal Rani’s life, from stardom to obscurity and later rediscovery; how Chapal Rani would transform himself

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70:15

Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al.,...

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2026/08/14

The centerpiece ofMelodrama as Provocateur(Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her highly influential work reframed some of cinema’s most neglected or denigrated genres from a feminist perspective, including documentary, pornography, horror, and melodrama.Melodrama is the focus of what would become Williams’s final project. In the last few years of her life, she was working on a

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Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in...

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2026/08/10

Today’s guest, Caro Pirri, is the author ofColonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement(Oxford University Press, 2025). This book explores how early modern colonial travel writing informed the London theater’s spatial and placemaking conventions. It suggests that what the stage found most compelling about narratives of colonial settlement was their failure to claim interpretive control over unfamiliar places and people. The book goes on to link colonial

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Christopher Campo-Bowen, "Visions of the Village:...

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2026/08/10

The Bartered Bride, a comic opera by Bedrich Smetana, premiered in Prague on March 30, 1866. Its pastoral love story and setting in a rural Czech village eventually became an enduring symbol of Czech nationalism. InVisions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera(Oxford University Press, 2025), Christopher Campo-Bowen examines how a particular image of the rural village in a set of Czech operas written between 1866 and 1904 became a powerful signifier for Czech ethnoracial and

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Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show...

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2026/08/09

InThe Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette(Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published onThe Patty Duke Show(1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the all-American Patty as well as her staid British counterpart Cathy, who comes to live with Patty's family in Brooklyn. Far from being a frivolous show, the show's use

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Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever:...

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2026/07/26

Theearly twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using cultural heritage lawmaking as a window through which to view the de-centered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian State, Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State (Oxford University Press,

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Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and...

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2026/07/24

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Harvard University Press, 2026)offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794–1185), uncovering how performances on the margins—boisterous dengaku music and dance, daring sangaku acrobatics, and the infectious lyrics of imayō songs—challenged and fascinated the aristocracy. Ashton Lazarus reveals how these unruly arts were documented by the

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Anja Foerschner, "Female Art and Agency in...

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2026/07/19

InFemale Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001(Bloomsbury, 2024), Anja Foerschner offers a compelling exploration of the women artists, curators, scholars, and activists who shaped the cultural landscape of Yugoslavia and its successor states. Drawing on both original research and existing scholarship, she traces the emergence of the New Art Practice of the late 1960s and 1970s, highlighting the pivotal role of Belgrade’s Student Cultural Centre, where women were instrumental in forging a

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Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

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2026/07/10

This panel discussion will explore the remarkable influence of Latin American music and dance on the culture of Yiddish speaking communities in the United States. Ronald Robboy will discuss Latin American musical influences upon Yiddish theater composers, including Sholom Secunda, Abraham Ellstein, and Alexander Olshanetsky; Sonia Gollance will discuss the popularity of dances like the Tango and Mambo in the Borscht Belt, as exemplified by movies like Dirty Dancing and Mamboniks; and Josh Kun will

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