Film and Media

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

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

Utopian Television Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema Michael Cramer 2017 Spring

The first book on three great filmmakers’ efforts to transform television

Gold Experience Following Prince in the ’90s Jim Walsh 2017 Spring

Rare interviews, live reviews, little known stories, and close encounters: Prince in a time of crazy brilliant music and life

Mixed Realism Videogames and the Violence of Fiction Timothy J. Welsh 2016 Fall

What can be learned from reading videogames and novels through the same lens?

Good Morning Blues The Autobiography of Count Basie Count Basie 2016 Fall

The riveting autobiography of Count Basie

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