Film and Media

Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits Jim Walsh 2016 Fall
Thirty years of pop, funk, rock and roll, up close and personal, from veteran Twin Cities journalist Jim Walsh
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age 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 Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating 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 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
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Murray Talks Music Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 2016 Spring
Rare and previously unpublished work from an influential critic, cultural theorist, and champion of jazz
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift 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
Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business An EVE Online Reader Marcus Carter, Kelly Bergstrom and Darryl Woodford, Editors 2016 Spring
The first sustained analysis of the hugely successful and complex MMOG, EVE Online
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction 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 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 Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring
How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
Computing as Writing Computing as Writing Daniel Punday 2015 Fall
If we consider e-book authors to be writers, should we think of e-book programmers as writers, too?
Dead Matter: The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Dead Matter The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Margaret Schwartz 2015 Fall
A corpse is much more than a dead body
Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity Illegal Literature Toward a Disruptive Creativity David S. Roh 2015 Fall
“Illegal” publications have real value for society and culture
Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era Berlin Replayed Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era Brigitta B. Wagner 2016 Spring
How film has helped Berlin reinvent itself by creating nostalgia for its better pasts