Film and Media
- The Cinema and Its Shadow Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 2013 Spring
- How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema
- Resolutions 3 Global Networks of Video Erika Suderburg and Ming-Yuen S. C, Editors 2012 Fall
- Examines the ever-morphing state of video’s deployment in art, culture, and society
- From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall
- Explores the question of technological change in cinema
- Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall
- Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture
- Creating the Witness Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Leshu Torchin 2012 Fall
- How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime
- Mechademia 7 Lines of Sight Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2012 Fall
- Tracing the impact of anime and manga’s radical break with Cartesian perspective
- Ferocious Reality Documentary according to Werner Herzog Eric Ames 2012 Fall
- A look at the illustrious director’s paradoxical relationship with documentary
- Love in Vain A Vision of Robert Johnson Alan Greenberg 2012 Fall
- The classic, deeply researched study and mythological telling of the life, legend, and enduring mystery of Robert Johnson
- Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music The Limits of La Onda Deborah R. Vargas 2012 Spring
- Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music
- Brutal Vision The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema Karl Schoonover 2012 Spring
- How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action
- Anime’s Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan Marc Steinberg 2012 Spring
- Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
- White Gypsies Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiró 2012 Spring
- Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain’s relationship to modernity
- Sergio Leone Something to Do with Death Christopher Frayling 2012 Spring
- The landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable directors—now back in print
- Through Amateur Eyes Film and Photography in Nazi Germany Frances Guerin 2011 Fall
- A history of rare archival amateur photographs and films from Nazi Germany
- Noise Channels Glitch and Error in Digital Culture Peter Krapp 2011 Fall
- Brings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture