Film and Media

The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring

Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism

The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring

A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image

The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring

The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information

Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring

Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data

Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall

More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake

Cosmic Trip Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970 Christian A. Peterson 2021 Fall

A trip through Minneapolis rock concert history framed through psychedelic poster art

Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2021 Spring

The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound

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

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

The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring

Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies

Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall

Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting

Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring

How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences

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

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

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

University of Minnesota Press