Film and Media

How to Do Things With Videogames Ian Bogost 2011 Fall

A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation

Nicholas Ray An American Journey Bernard Eisenschitz 2011 Fall

The definitive biography of American filmmaker Nicholas Ray

Digital Art and Meaning Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 2011 Spring

How to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice

The Right to Play Oneself Looking Back on Documentary Film Thomas Waugh 2011 Spring

Discussions of “committed” documentary by a “committed” historian of film

Out of the Vinyl Deeps Ellen Willis on Rock Music Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2011 Spring

Rediscover the astute and passionate music writings of the pioneering rock critic for the New Yorker

Vilém Flusser An Introduction Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin and Gustavo Bernardo 2011 Spring

The first introduction to a key thinker in twentieth-century media philosophy and cultural theory

Human Error Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 2011 Spring

Argues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity

Recording Reality, Desiring the Real Elizabeth Cowie 2011 Spring

Addressing the paradox of documentary

Into the Universe of Technical Images Vilém Flusser 2011 Spring

An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies

Out of Time Desire in Atemporal Cinema Todd McGowan 2011 Spring

A new temporal aesthetic in films such as Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2046, and The Hangover

Does Writing Have a Future? Vilém Flusser 2011 Spring

A prescient exploration of the fate of the book in the digital age

Neither God nor Master Robert Bresson and Radical Politics Brian Price 2011 Spring

A major rethinking of Robert Bresson, establishing him as a radical, political artist

The Quay Brothers Into a Metaphysical Playroom Suzanne Buchan 2010 Fall

The complex, special power of the Quay Brothers’ puppet animation poetics

Smiling in Slow Motion Derek Jarman 2011 Spring

Part diary, part observation, part memoir—writings from Derek Jarman’s final years

Jubilee Six Film Scripts Derek Jarman 2011 Spring

A collection of brilliant, largely unrealized, intensely personal film scripts by Derek Jarman

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