Books

Cinema 1: The Movement-Image Cinema 1 The Movement-Image Gilles Deleuze 1986 Fall
A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
Cinema 2: The Time-Image Cinema 2 The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze 1989 Fall
Brings to completion Deleuze’s work on the implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 2, Deleuze explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film. Among the filmmakers discussed are Rossellini, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, and many others.
Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory Cinema Approaching Reality Locating Chinese Film Theory Victor Fan 2015 Spring
Examines ways in which Chinese and Euro-American film theorists conceptualize reality and cinema
Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema Cinema Babel Translating Global Cinema Abé Mark Nornes 2007 Fall
Uncovering the vital role of interpreters, dubbers, and subtitlers in the global traffic of film
Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring
A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse
Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy Lorenzo Fabbri 2023 Fall
A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Akira Mizuta Lippit 2016 Spring
Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity
Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács Cinema’s Alchemist The Films of Péter Forgács Bill Nichols and Michael Renov, Editors 2011 Fall
Multiple views of the famed Hungarian filmmaker and installation artist who turns home movies into history
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film Cinematic Identity Anatomy of a Problem Film Cindy Patton 2007 Fall
Social identity at the intersection of Method acting and Hollywood’s “problem films”
Cinematic Uses of the Past Cinematic Uses of the Past Marcia Landy 1996 Fall
Explores the connection between film and popular history.
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring
How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Circuits of Culture Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Jeff D. Himpele 2007 Fall
A surprising study of how images of Andean Indianness have been popularized in Bolivian media
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
Citadel in the Wilderness: The Story of Fort Snelling and the Northwest Frontier Citadel in the Wilderness The Story of Fort Snelling and the Northwest Frontier Evan Jones 2001 Spring
The lively history of this frontier fort.
Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Citizen, Invert, Queer Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Deborah Cohler 2010 Spring
How the Great War changed British understandings of lesbianism
Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture Citizen Spy Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture Michael Kackman 2005 Fall
A revealing examination of American espionage television programs
Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life Citizen Swain Tales from a Minnesota Life Tom H. Swain 2021 Fall
An entertaining personal history of the state, told by one of its leading citizens
Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall
An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution