ASAP: Art and Media
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89700. Code expires November 15, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
- Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall
- An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
- The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
- Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall
- A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
- The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
- The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring
- A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
- Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring
- For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
- Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
- On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
- Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring
- Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
- The Tears of Things Melancholy and Physical Objects Peter Schwenger 2005 Fall
- Reveals the object as the self’s ultimate other
- 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 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.