Film and Media
- Awakening the Eye Robert Frank’s American Cinema George Kouvaros 2015 Fall
- A long overdue critical study of the work of a legendary American photographer and filmmaker
- A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- A sweeping new ecological take on technology
- Fiery Cinema The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 Weihong Bao 2015 Spring
- Examines media spectatorship and affect through the unique case of modern China
- Players and Their Pets Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy 2015 Spring
- An unprecedented look at the lifespan of an online game that went against the grain
- Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring
- Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
- Cinema Approaching Reality Locating Chinese Film Theory Victor Fan 2015 Spring
- Examines ways in which Chinese and Euro-American film theorists conceptualize reality and cinema
- Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring
- Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters
- The Poitier Effect Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation Sharon Willis 2015 Spring
- Sidney Poitier as an icon of the civil rights era, signifying racial reconciliation without threat to the white status quo
- World Projects Global Information before World War I Markus Krajewski 2014 Fall
- Before Google and globalization, big-thinking Germans brought the world closer together
- Gaming at the Edge Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 2014 Fall
- A major new analysis of the representation of marginalized groups in video games
- “Night and Fog” A Film in History Sylvie Lindeperg 2014 Fall
- A microhistory of arguably the most important documentary ever made
- Mechademia 9 Origins Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2014 Fall
- Explores and challenges the origins of manga, anime, and Japanese popular culture
- Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall
- How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
- Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring
- Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
- The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era