Film and Media

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

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

Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring

How can cinema make us live time?

Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring

A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture

Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring

Film studies meets philosophy as never before

Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring

A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film

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