Forgotten Popular Culture 2022
A curated sale on books of interest to attendees of the inaugural Forgotten Popular Culture conference and others interested in Asian cinema and media studies.
The University of Minnesota Press features a rich list of publications in Asian cinema and popular culture. Our program emphasizes animation studies, film theory and philosophy, and experimental and electronic media. Minnesota is a leading force in rigorous, groundbreaking work, often informed by social and critical theory and generally defined by interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to scholarship.
Enter code MN89230 at checkout for 40% off your purchase through July 15, 2022.
Visit our larger sale on cinema and media studies titles here.
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The New Real Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji Jonathan E. Abel 2022 Fall
- Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together
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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang Nicholas de Villiers 2022 Fall
- A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan’s greatest auteurs
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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
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Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring
- An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
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Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
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The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2021 Spring
- A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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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
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Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
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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
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Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring
- For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
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Fiery Cinema The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 Weihong Bao 2015 Spring
- Examines media spectatorship and affect through the unique case of modern China
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Coproducing Asia Locating Japanese–Chinese Regional Film and Media Stephanie DeBoer 2014 Spring
- Reframes our understanding of regional coproduction and East Asian film and media
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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
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The Anime Machine A Media Theory of Animation Thomas Lamarre 2009 Fall
- Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our relationship to technology
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Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura 2007 Fall
- The implications of how we see and exhibit race and ethnicity online