Virtual Exhibit Hub: Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2022

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press's virtual presence at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Pull up a chair, browse our books on sale, and read a letter from our editor (or schedule an appointment!). All books below are 40% off using code MN89020. Code expires November 1, 2022.

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Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring: A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring: A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring: A new ethics for the global practice of curating
Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring: A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring: A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall: A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall: For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall: A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring: A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring: A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2019 Spring: Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new age
Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring: From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring: Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring: Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring: A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring: On the social consequences of machines
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring: On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall: An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall: A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall: The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall: Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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
What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring: A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring: How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring: An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring: For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring: A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work
A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring: How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall: A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring: Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall: A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema
Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall: Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall: A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall: Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall: The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”
Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall: A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall: The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring: A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring: How can cinema make us live time?
Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring: A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring: Film studies meets philosophy as never before
Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring: A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film
Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring: Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall: An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall: On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue Sohail Daulatzai 2016 Fall: A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world
Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall: The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring: The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring: Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
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
Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring: Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui 2016 Spring: How and why digital objects are best theorized through relations
Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring: How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring: Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life
Our Own Image A Story of a Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclay 2015 Fall: An insightful look at the introduction of Fourth Cinema into the mainstream
How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall: A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall: How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall: Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker 2015 Fall: “A philosophy exists between the axiom and the sigh. Pessimism is the wavering, the hovering.”
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 Geek’s Chihuahua Living with Apple Ian Bogost 2015 Spring: The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices
A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring: A sweeping new ecological take on technology
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
Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring: Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
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