Film and Media

Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools Small Tech The Culture of Digital Tools Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder and Ollie Oviedo, Editors 2007 Fall
Experts examine the ways digital tools affect social and cultural experience
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura 2007 Fall
The implications of how we see and exhibit race and ethnicity online
Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema Cinema Babel Translating Global Cinema Abé Mark Nornes 2007 Fall
Uncovering the vital role of interpreters, dubbers, and subtitlers in the global traffic of film
Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Circuits of Culture Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Jeff D. Himpele 2007 Fall
A surprising study of how images of Andean Indianness have been popularized in Bolivian media
Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film Cinematic Identity Anatomy of a Problem Film Cindy Patton 2007 Fall
Social identity at the intersection of Method acting and Hollywood’s “problem films”
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi, Editors 2007 Fall
Connecting Japan’s vibrant science fiction tradition to the global phenomenon of anime
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks The Exploit A Theory of Networks Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker 2007 Fall
From P2P protocols to al-Qaeda, a new approach to network culture
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow Database Aesthetics Art in the Age of Information Overflow Victoria Vesna, Editor 2007 Spring
Discovering the role of data in creating a new way of experiencing—and making—art.
Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome Stupendous, Miserable City Pasolini’s Rome John David Rhodes 2007 Spring
An Italian film radical shown in rich context for the first time
Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City Bombay Cinema An Archive of the City Ranjani Mazumdar 2007 Spring
The urban experience in India through the lens of popular Bombay cinema
Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Forest of Pressure Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Abé Mark Nornes 2006 Fall
An original examination of the postwar Japanese documentary
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Time Frames Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Scott Nygren 2006 Fall
A bold new approach to Japanese film history set within a global context
Film Hieroglyphs Film Hieroglyphs Tom Conley 2006 Fall
An innovative examination of the way we watch films—with a new introduction
Cartographic Cinema Cartographic Cinema Tom Conley 2006 Fall
Brings the theory of mapmaking to bear on the study of cinema
Residual Media Residual Media Charles R. Acland, Editor 2006 Fall
Explores what happens when new media become old news