New Books in Performing Arts

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Francis O'neill

Margherita Costa

Allegorical Drama

Irish Music

Drag

Shakespeare

Baroque Italy

Chicago

Baroque Period

Ska

Italian Studies

Eugenio Refini

Venice

Pedagogical Practices

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Female-Driven Films

Decolonization

Rupaul's Drag Race

Race and Gender In the Western Music History Survey

Western Music History

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Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)

Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London (Profile, 2026) by Dr. Jacqueline Riding.

Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard str... more

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Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

In Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal (U Texas Press, 2025), Dr. Mark Gallagher presents an examination of male screen sex appeal and the ways that race, ethnicity, and national origin combine with performance tools and film an... more

30 Jan 2026 • 1 hr 10 min

163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)

As Oscar Season rolls around, Recall This Book looks back to John's 2019 discussion with Columbia University professor Sharon Marcus about The Drama of Celebrity, her tour-de-force account of how stars are born, publicized, and in time devoutly scrap... more

29 Jan 2026 • 32 min

Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance (U Texas Press, 2024) investi... more

26 Jan 2026 • 56 min

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Justin Owen Rawlins

Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies at the University of Tulsa

University of Tulsa

Episode: Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dr. Kellen Hoxworth

Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Buffalo, focusing on intersections of theatre with imperial and colonial histories.

University of Buffalo, State University of New York

Episode: Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Christopher Lynch

Author of Formulating Foster, Stephen C. Foster, and the Creation of a National Musical Myth

Oxford University Press

Episode: Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Leah Lowthorp

Cultural anthropologist and folklorist.

University of Oregon

Episode: Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

Caitlin Vincent

An opera librettist and cultural labor scholar

Episode: Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

Stuart Klawans

Author and film scholar

Columbia University Press

Episode: Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Lesley Nicole Braun

Research associate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel and principal investigator on a Swiss National Foundation grant.

University of Basel

Episode: Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Jason Isralowitz

Author of Nothing to Fear, Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men

Fayetteville Mafia Press

Episode: Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)

Kelsey Klotz

Lecturer of Music and the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence for the College of Arts and Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Episode: Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)

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Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Q: How do we think about the sort of interaction between the individual Cosmosexual and the systemic barriers existing at the same time?

Gallagher explains that there are exceptions to the rules of racial barriers in stardom, and some actors like Idris Elba face typecasting that limits their roles based on their racial background, while others operate with more fluidity in their identities.

Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Q: What are some current Cosmosexuals that you focus on in your book?

He focuses on living actors due to the vast amount of material available, highlighting players like Idris Elba and Simu Liu who navigate their racial identities alongside their careers in Hollywood.

Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Q: How far back can we see Cosmosexuals?

Gallagher traces the origins of cosmosexuality to the early 20th century, highlighting early film stars and the constructions of physical beauty over the years, noting that it's a phenomenon tied to media evolution and cultural representation.

Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Q: Can you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

Mark Gallagher introduces himself as a semi-retired academic with a focus on gender and identity in popular culture, stemming from his experiences while living in the UK. He discusses how these experiences informed his interest in studying masculinity and sex appeal in film and television.

Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

Q: How does the Kutiyattam case complicate Unesco's assumptions about modernity and tradition?

Lowthorp argues that UNESCO's narrative often depicts these art forms as endangered and unable to adapt, perpetuating colonial paradigms.

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