http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/index.jsp The University of Michigan Press podcast is a monthly show featuring interviews with UM Press authors. 2008, University of Michigan Press tdscripts.com Podcast Generator Thu, 13 Nov 2008 8:00:00 -0400 en-us The University of Michigan Press podcast is a monthly show featuring interviews with UM Press authors. Take a break with our authors University of Michigan Press No publishing, books, political science, history, american studies, general interest, film studies, performance, memoir, michigan and the great lakes No ump.webmaster@umich.edu ump.webmaster@umich.edu 1 In a career spanning over four decades, Hazel Scott became known not only for her accomplishments on stage and screen, but for her outspoken advocacy of civil rights. Her relentless crusade on behalf of African Americans, women, and artists made her the target of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy Era, eventually forcing her to join the black expatriate community in Paris. By age twenty-five, Hazel Scott was an international star but, before reaching thirty-five, she considered herself a failure and, plagued by insecurity and depression, twice tried to take her own life. Here, Karen Chilton traces the fascinating arc of this talented and audacious American artist. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/chilton.mp3 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 8:00:00 EST university of michigan, jazz, pianist, african american studies, american studies, music, HUAC, cafe society, adam clayton Powell, Jr., Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Lester Young Along with so many others who signed up to support the war effort, thirty-year-old Mildred Radawiec left a comfortable job at the University of Michigan Hospital to volunteer as a surgical nurse in the major battle theaters of the war. Throughout her story---and despite the horrors of the war---Radawiec recounts uplifting tales of heroism and courage, and intersperses the narrative with poignant letters from her family and fiance. This stirring personal account will fascinate anyone interested in World War II history and women's too-often-overlooked role in it. Mildred A. MacGregor is ex. Lieutenant Mildred A. Radawiec, Army Nurse Corp. She was part of the Third Auxiliary Surgical Group in World War II and was stationed in England, North Africa, France, and Germany. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/macgregor.mp3 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EST michigan and the great lakes, history, american history, world war II, war, nursing, university of michigan Are screen actors just playing themselves? Can film acting be considered "true" acting? Are there ways to describe the acting choices we see in films? These are some of the questions Cynthia Baron and Sharon Carnicke address in their new book, Reframing Screen Performance.The authors draw on new evidence to dispel some deep-rooted misconceptions about film acting. From there, they explore film performances using accessible terms developed by actors, directors, and a handful of scholars in theatre and film. They show that viewers' interpretations are shaped by everything on screen, including the gestures and expressions that work in concert with framing, editing, lighting, sound, and visual design. The book's many case studies, illustrated with some fifty frame captures, reveal that the expressive details of actors' bodies, faces, and voices are best understood as part of films' narrative and audiovisual design. Reframing Screen Performance discusses performances by Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke, Gena Rowlands, Forest Whitaker, and others. It considers acting in films by directors such as Baz Luhrmann, Sally Potter, Robert Altman, Akira Kurosawa, and Orson Welles. Looking at scenes in more than forty films from different time periods and national cinemas, the book challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/baron.mp3 Tue, 9 Sep 2008 6:00:00 EST film studies, performance, cinema, film, acting, film acting, actors, actresses, cinematic, silent films, Charlie Chaplin, Lee Strasberg Actor's Studio, contemporary cinema, theater theory, screen actor, craft, media, communication, cinema studies Herbert Gans is one of the most influential and prolific sociologists and social commentators of our time. He is the author of Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush. Part utopia, part realism, Imagining America is set mostly in the second and third decades of the century. It offers a set of progressive yet practical guidelines for restoring sanity and intelligence to nearly every aspect of life post-Bush. In Gans's imagined future, elected officials, policymakers, activists, and citizens have transformed America into a much more humane and effective democracy. The book features three Democratic presidents; the major new domestic, foreign, and social policies their administrations pursue; and the political battles they fight. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/gans.mp3 Fri, 8 Aug 2008 6:00:00 EST Gans, politics, sociologist, social commentary, Bush, democratics, democratic, activist, activism, utopia, democracy, progressive, president, post-Bush In the summer of 1968, in a sleepy northern Michigan resort town, a suburban-Detroit family was found shot dead in their cabin. Forty years later, the murders remain unsolved and the case has grown cold. The search for who killed the Robison family stretched from Michigan to Florida, Alabama, and Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Dozens of investigators took up the case. The murders even inspired a novel. Yet few have gotten as close to the story as Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart. Link's page-turning tale collects 40 years of evidence into a riveting true-crime story. She crafts her book around police and court documents as well as statements and interviews, and explores the impact of the case on the community of Good Hart. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/link.mp3 Wed, 9 Jul 2008 6:00:00 EST Michigan, true crime, journalism, murder, non-fiction, cold-case, investigation, Jimmy Hoffa, Robisons, Michigan and the Great Lakes, history Part personal history, part travel narrative, part philosophical reflection on the meaning of games, This Gaming Life describes Rossignol's encounters with gamers in three unique gaming cities: London, Seoul, and Reykjavik. From his days as a Quake genius in London's increasingly corporate gaming culture, to his encounters with Korea's high stakes, televised professional gaming milieu to his adventures in Iceland, the national home of his ultimate obsession, the idiosyncratic and beguiling Eve Online, Rossignol introduces us to a still-emerging and largely undocumented world of gaming lives. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/rossignol.mp3 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 6:00:00 EST games, eve online, video games, world of warcraft, quake, London, Seoul, Reykjavik, gaming, new games journalism, media, travel in cyberspace, gaming culture Renowned environmental writer Dave Dempsey is the author of Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps, a must-read book about water, one of the most---perhaps the most---precious natural resources. This is a book for anyone interested in saving the Great Lakes, a huge fresh-water system that contains about 25 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The book asks---and answers---important questions about the export and diversion of Great Lakes water. Not only does Great Lakes for Sale examine past and present water-diversion practices; it also shows readers what they can do to save this natural resource. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/dempsey.mp3 Tue, 6 May 2008 7:01:00 EST water, water conservation, great lakes, michigan, bottling, natural resources Author Michael Lewis-Beck talks about his book The American Voter Revisited, co-authored by William G. Jacoby, Helmut Norpoth, and Herbert F. Weisberg. The American Voter Revisited re-creates the outstanding 1960 classic The American Voter---which was based on the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956---following the same format, theory, and mode of analysis as the original. In this new volume, the authors test the ideas and methods of the original against presidential election surveys from 2000 and 2004. Surprisingly, the contemporary American voter is found to behave politically much like voters of the 1950s. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/lewisbeck.mp3 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 7:01:00 EST election, voting, presidential elections, presidential campaigns, political science, political psychology, voting behavior, voter behavior, George W. Bush, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, voting history, electorate, electoral behavior Authors Michael Musheno and Susan M. Ross talk about their book Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq, which uses soldiers' own voices to draw upon the life stories of members of an Army Reserve MP Company who were called to extraordinary service after September 11. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/musheno.mp3 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:25:28 GMT Iraq, army reserve, citizen soldiers Author Nancy Goldstein talks about her new book Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist. http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/goldstein.mp3 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:25:28 GMT black history, cartoonists, dolls, african american history My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-3a4c0285c9c62d11cc5a638a4e600394}