Media Studies Book Sale: Visual Culture

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: Visual culture.

40% OFF BOOKS

All books below are 40% off using code MNSCMS23. Code expires June 15, 2023.

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FILM // MEDIA THEORY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DIGITAL CULTURE // MUSIC AND SOUND STUDIES // VISUAL CULTURE

DESIGN // PHILOSOPHY // ANIMATION // VIDEOGAMES

COMMUNICATIONS // GRAPHIC ARTS // PHOTOGRAPHY

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Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring: Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
Nothing Permanent Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan 2023 Spring: A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring: An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring: A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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
A Theory of Assembly From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry 2022 Fall: A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era
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
Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall: Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring: Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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
Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring: Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring: An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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
Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring: The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring: Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring: How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring: A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring: Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
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
Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring: How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall: A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall: A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall: A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall: How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
Envisioning Evil “The Nazi Drawings” by Mauricio Lasansky Rachel McGarry 2021 Fall: The definitive study of this powerful series of drawings by the influential artist
Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring: The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall: Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring: The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring: How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall: On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
The Fourth Eye Māori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, Editors 2013 Fall: A comprehensive look at the complex relationship between Māori culture and the media
From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall: Explores the question of technological change in cinema
Brutal Vision The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema Karl Schoonover 2012 Spring: How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action
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
Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall: Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
Taking Place Location and the Moving Image John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel, Editors 2011 Fall: Explores how moving images both produce and are predicated on place
Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura 2007 Fall: The implications of how we see and exhibit race and ethnicity online
Gaming Essays on Algorithmic Culture Alexander R. Galloway 2006 Spring: A groundbreaking examination of the rise of video games.
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Akira Mizuta Lippit 2005 Fall: Explores the “avisual” and its effect on the visual world