Film and Media
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring
- A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
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Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall
- How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
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Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall
- Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
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Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
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Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
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Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring
- How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
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Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring
- An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
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Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
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Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
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Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
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Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
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Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall
- A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
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Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization