Film and Media

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2020 Fall

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom

Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste

Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall

How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall

Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable

Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring

How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib

Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring

Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day

Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring

How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution

Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring

An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order

Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring

A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world

Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring

A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience

Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall

A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games

Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall

A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field

Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall

A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history

Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall

A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization

The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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