Film and Media

Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring

How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?

Critical Mass Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave Steven Ungar 2018 Fall

Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues

The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall

Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan

There But for Fortune The Life of Phil Ochs Michael Schumacher 2018 Spring

The life and influence of singer Phil Ochs

Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2018 Spring

A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs

The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring

A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation

Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring

A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media

Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring

How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code

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

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

University of Minnesota Press