Media Studies Book Sale: Open Access
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Books on sale, special selection: Open access titles.
40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNSCMS23. Code expires June 15, 2023.
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DESIGN // PHILOSOPHY // ANIMATION // VIDEOGAMES
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BACK TO ALL MEDIA STUDIES BOOKS ON SALE
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Chinese Film Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age Jason McGrath 2022 Fall
- A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema
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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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Italian Political Cinema Figures of the Long ’68 Mauro Resmini 2022 Fall
- An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition
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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
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The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring
- A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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Out of Breath Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art Caterina Albano 2022 Fall
- Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2022 Spring
- An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
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Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring
- A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring
- A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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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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Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
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Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall
- Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring
- An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
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Documents of Doubt The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack 2020 Spring
- A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art
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Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring
- A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
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Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring
- Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment
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Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall
- Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
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Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
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News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring
- A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel
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Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring
- Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience
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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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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
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Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring
- All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
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Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
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How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall
- Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
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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?
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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
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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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
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The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall
- Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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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
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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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
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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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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
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Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
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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
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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
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Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring
- Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
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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
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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
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How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall
- A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
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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?
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The Geek’s Chihuahua Living with Apple Ian Bogost 2015 Spring
- The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices
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Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring
- Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
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Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring
- Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
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The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
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Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Davide Panagia 2016 Fall
- Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics
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The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
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The Celebrity Persona Pandemic P. David Marshall 2016 Fall
- Making sense of public identities, online and offline
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Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Mark Jarzombek 2016 Fall
- Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology