Visual Culture Collection

Books on visual culture on sale.

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Welcome to our hub featuring scholarship on art, visual culture, and media studies, where you can browse teachable podcast offerings and books on sale.

Books featured in this collection are 40% off when you order using promo code MN91010.
Offer expires April 1, 2024.

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BROWSE COLLECTION:

Movies under the Influence Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece 2024 Spring: A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances
Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring: Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
Stardust Cinematic Archives at the End of the World Hannah Goodwin 2024 Spring: An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos
The Harlequin Eaters From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France Janet Beizer 2024 Spring: How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history
Anime's Knowledge Cultures Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 2024 Spring: Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures
Producing Sovereignty The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada Karrmen Crey 2024 Spring: Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present
Horror in Architecture The Reanimated Edition Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 2023 Fall: A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall: Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
The Shape of Utopia The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Irene Cheng 2023 Fall: How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society
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
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
Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall: Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
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
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
Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring: How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring: A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring: A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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
Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring: An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
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
Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring: An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring: A new ethics for the global practice of curating
Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall: The first critical study of writing without language
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
Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring: A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
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
Unapologetic Beauty Joanna Frueh 2019 Spring: A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
Pictures of Longing Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration Sigrid Lien 2018 Fall: Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall: How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring: A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
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
The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring: Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
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
The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 2017 Fall: An impassioned argument for the cinematic long take as a compelling source of wonder and a unifying force of contemporary art
Foucault on Painting Catherine M. Soussloff 2017 Fall: A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge
Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall: A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years
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?
Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring: An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
Utopian Television Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema Michael Cramer 2017 Spring: The first book on three great filmmakers’ efforts to transform television
The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Namiko Kunimoto 2017 Spring: The first major English-language study of Japan’s most important postwar artists
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall: On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Art Labor, Sex Politics Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance Siona Wilson 2015 Spring: Sex and labor politics in feminist-engaged, avant-garde artistic practices in 1970s London