Film and Media

The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring

An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it

Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring

For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches

Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring

A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work

Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall

A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities

Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities

Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall

A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema

The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 2017 Fall

An impassioned argument for the cinematic long take as a compelling source of wonder and a unifying force of contemporary art

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall

A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities

Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall

The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”

Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall

The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists

Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2017 Fall

The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound

Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall

A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity

Fats Waller Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese 2017 Fall

The exuberant life and times of a jazz giant with an unmatched zest for life and music

Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring

Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy

Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring

A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames

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