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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New podcast on the New Books Network: Thomas Schatz on Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah. newbooksnetwork.com/power-surge

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Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah with Thomas Schatz (U California Press, 2026) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New podcast on the New Books Network: Ehsan Dehghan (@essideh.com) on The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces. newbooksnetwork.com/the-discursi...

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Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now available on the New Books Network podcast: Violaine Roussel discussing her new book, Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming. newbooksnetwork.com/data-driven-...

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Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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more tacos, please @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to announce that "The Freedom to Televise: Regulating North American TV in the 20th Century,"a special issue of Television and New Media co-edited by myself and Jennifer Porst is out in the world! journals.sagepub.com/toc/TVN/curr...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just like Hollywood, we successfully launched something new, so we're making a sequel! Very excited for #HollywoodConference2027. Let us know if you have questions!

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now available on the New Books Network: Hector Amaya on The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification. newbooksnetwork.com/the-economy-...

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Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

With all love and sincere happiness for the Knicks, this was my NBA Finals this weekend.

Joanna Page holds up her trophy after winning Taskmaster. Her competitors excitedly surround her.

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Now available on the New Books Network: Robin Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence on their recent edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film. newbooksnetwork.com/the-oxford-h...

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Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Now available on the New Books Network: Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia discussing their recent edited collection, Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes. newbooksnetwork.com/rebooting-in...

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Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán,

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Now available on the New Books Network: Aymar Jèan Escoffery discussing his recent monograph, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/reparative-m...

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Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Literature/Film Association is meeting in North Carolina at Elon University this October. While the focus is traditionally on adaptation, all film and media studies work is welcome. It's the perfect small conference for folks who bring textual analysis into their work. litfilm.org/conference/

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Now available on the New Books Network: Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon on their recent edited collection, Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis (New York University Press, 2026). newbooksnetwork.com/reading-media

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Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon, "Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis" (NYU Press, 2026) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

.@rutgersupress.bsky.social is doing a spring sale with lots of books under $10 -- and free shipping! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/spring-sale?...

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Spring Sale

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Now available: Sarah Murray on the New Books in Media podcast, discussing her new book, Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI. newbooksnetwork.com/powered-by-s...

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Sarah Murray, "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" (NYU Press, 2026) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Barbara Hall shout-out at the Oscars! Very cool -- and well-deserved!!

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Happy Sunday to the guy who showed up at the Congressional hearing over the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal dressed as Mr. Monopoly.

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Some dummies say being an English major is a useless major, but I just corrected my wife's pronunciation of "Adrienne Rich," so... joke's on them.

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Much love to the bee girl. 🐝👩❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVP...

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Blind Melon - No Rain

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The best moment in the new Netflix doc on Hollywood in '75 is when a young film critic very sincerely says it was the one time that film really showed us ourselves -- and then it cuts to a scene from The Bad News Bears where one kid kicks another kid in the crotch. Genius editing. 10/10, no notes.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Boston University's Creative Writing Program is searching for a senior fiction writer to fill a chaired position, the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. See the job listing here:

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

New podcast interview with @markdeuze.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his excellent new book, Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick. Well worth a read! newbooksnetwork.com/well-being-a...

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Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Really enjoyed talking with @anjirbaguette.bsky.social about Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. A must-read (and -listen) for scholars of Disney, animation, and adaptation! newbooksnetwork.com/appropriated...

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Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Hey academic humans, if you have a new book in film and media studies and want to do a podcast interview for the New Books Network about it, DM me. Or if you want someone in your discipline to interview you, fill out this form: newbooksnetwork.com/authors

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Pitch a Book - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

There is a certain humbling comfort that comes with rereading an essay I first studied 19 years ago as a first-semester M.A. student and still -- two PhDs later -- having no idea what the !@#$ the author is talking about.

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Our keynotes for the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference this February here in New Orleans: Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles) Racquel Gates (Columbia University) Zaire Lanier (writer and narrative designer) Kristen Warner (Cornell University)

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Reminder: One week left to apply to the 2026 Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference!

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Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We've added another keynote to Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture: Dr. Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles), author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation. CFP below!

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

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Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Golden Girls turned 40 this past Sunday, so I wrote about its creator, Susan Harris, and her feminist contribution to US television comedy for Time's Made by History website. time.com/7316328/susa...

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The Woman Behind 'The Golden Girls'

The politics, sensibilities, and humor of the show's pathbreaking creator help explain its enduring appeal.

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Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Check out this fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the editors of the new essay collection THE GOLDEN GIRLS:

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System. You can check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...

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Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I interviewed Justin Wyatt about his new book, Creating the Viewer, on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It's a great book, especially for those interested in media industry studies and audience studies. newbooksnetwork.com/creating-the...

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Justin Wyatt, "Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem" (U Texas Press, 2024) - New Books Network

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection! We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media

Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through...

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Really enjoyed discussing Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy with Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social for the New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/kartemquin-f...

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Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024) - New Books Network

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Has your toddler demonstrated a growing interest in prosody or postcritique? Have we got the doll for you...

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We're coming back! CFP below.

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on his new collection, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media. Check it out. And check out the book -- it's open access! -- in the first comment below. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez ed., "Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media" (Amherst College Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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