Film and Media

Split Screen Korea Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Steven Chung 2014 Spring

How the career of Korea’s most important postwar film director reveals surprising continuities between South and North Korea

Self-Projection The Director’s Image in Art Cinema Linda Haverty Rugg 2014 Spring

An innovative argument for narrative art films as autobiographical acts

The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson Robert Hofler 2014 Spring

The revealing—and often shocking—biography of legendary Hollywood agent Henry Willson

Mechanization Takes Command A Contribution to Anonymous History Sigfried Giedion 2013 Fall

One of the twentieth century’s best-known architectural theorists examines the impact of mechanization on daily life

Mechademia 8 Tezuka’s Manga Life Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2013 Fall

Provides new perspectives on the renowned anime and manga creator, Tezuka Osamu, and examines his legacy

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

Fritz Lang The Nature of the Beast Patrick McGilligan 2013 Fall

The definitive life of the dark genius who gave us M and Metropolis—a New York Times Notable Book

Off the Network Disrupting the Digital World Ulises Ali Mejias 2013 Spring

Critiques how the Internet, social media, and the digital network change users’ understanding of the world

The Heretical Archive Digital Memory at the End of Film Domietta Torlasco 2013 Spring

Explores how contemporary digital artworks are changing our memories of film and our understanding of the cinematic and psychoanalytic archives

The Cinema and Its Shadow Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 2013 Spring

How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema

George Cukor A Double Life Patrick McGilligan 2013 Spring

The definitive biography of master director George Cukor—a New York Times Notable Book

Resolutions 3 Global Networks of Video Ming-Yuen S. C and Erika Suderburg, Editors 2012 Fall

Examines the ever-morphing state of video’s deployment in art, culture, and society

From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall

Explores the question of technological change in cinema

Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall

Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture

Creating the Witness Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Leshu Torchin 2012 Fall

How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime

University of Minnesota Press