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Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s. Jeremy Braddock explores their legacy.
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Six decades of indie documentary storytelling chronicled in "Kartemquin Films"

For decades, our own Patricia Aufderheide—who founded this organization’s precursor, the Center for Social Media—has chronicled, studied, and impacted the global community of documentary storytellers who seek to speak truth to power and uphold democracy. In her new book, Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy (University of California Press), she brings readers into the six-decade history and living story of the longest-running independent documentary production organization in the United States, Kartemquin Films.
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Why We Curate Feminist Film Archives: A Q&A with Feminist Media Histories Guest Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak

“What do we, as feminists, need right now—from cinema, from archives, from our communities? How can filmmaking, film festivals, and social movements of the past inspire or befuddle us today? And what is at stake in selecting and presenting archival works by women to create new forms of community?”
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Global Movie Magazine Networks

by Eric Hoyt (Editor), Kelley Conway (Editor)
Jan 2025
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Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture

by Andrew deWaard (Author)
Sep 2024
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Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

by Darshana Sreedhar Mini (Author)
Aug 2024
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How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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