Film and Media

How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall

An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses

Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall

How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be

Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall

A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it

Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall

A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet

Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall

An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century

Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall

A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs

Media and Management Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, Melissa Gregg and Marc Steinberg 2021 Spring

An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor

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

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

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

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

Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data

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

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

University of Minnesota Press