Film and Media

Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring

Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet

Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives

The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring

Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it

Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring

An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé

Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring

A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses

Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring

On the social consequences of machines

Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring

A media theory of markets

Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring

On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms

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

Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall

A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight

Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall

An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema

The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall

A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema

Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall

An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it

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

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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