Film and Media

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

Sexography Sex Work in Documentary Nicholas de Villiers 2017 Spring

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

Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring

Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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

The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall

The founder of science fiction and his other inventions

Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits Jim Walsh 2016 Fall

Thirty years of pop, funk, rock and roll, up close and personal, from veteran Twin Cities journalist Jim Walsh

The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall

An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age

Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall

On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema

University of Minnesota Press