Film and Media

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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

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

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

The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring

A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity

Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall

Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting

The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring

Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies

Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring

How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences

Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall

Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema

The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall

A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk

Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall

Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema

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

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