Film and Media
- Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Akira Mizuta Lippit 2005 Fall
- Explores the “avisual” and its effect on the visual world
- Andy Kaufman Wrestling with the American Dream Florian Keller 2005 Fall
- An original reading of the controversial and combative performer as exploding the myth of the American dream
- Electronic Monuments Gregory L. Ulmer 2005 Fall
- An eclectic and surprising study documenting the diversification of witnessing
- Radio’s Intimate Public Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy Jason Loviglio 2005 Fall
- Uncovers radio’s role in the development of an imagined national community
- Revolution Televised Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power Christine Acham 2005 Fall
- Establishes the influence of the Black Power movement on black television of the 1960s and 1970s
- Citizen Spy Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture Michael Kackman 2005 Fall
- A revealing examination of American espionage television programs
- Small Nation, Global Cinema The New Danish Cinema Mette Hjort 2005 Fall
- Investigates the relationship between globalization and the New Danish Cinema
- Shadows, Specters, Shards Making History in Avant-Garde Film Jeffrey Skoller 2005 Spring
- Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film
- Re-takes Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages John Mowitt 2005 Spring
- A sustained theoretical reevaluation of “film languages,” both visual and verbal
- Sound Ideas Music, Machines, and Experience Aden Evens 2005 Spring
- A highly original approach to the philosophy of musical experience
- Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies Volume II. War Machines Tom Cohen 2004 Fall
- An interpretation of Hitchcock’s films as deeply subversive works that realize cinema’s potential to transform society
- Lara Croft Cyber Heroine Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky 2005 Spring
- Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything? The ambiguity of being Lara
- The Souls of Cyberfolk Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Thomas Foster 2005 Spring
- Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality
- A Culture of Light Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany Frances Guerin 2005 Spring
- A groundbreaking exploration of German expressionist cinema and technology
- A Line of Sight American Avant-Garde Film since 1965 Paul Arthur 2004 Fall
- A major reconsideration of avant-garde film in America