Film and Media

Cinema Approaching Reality Locating Chinese Film Theory Victor Fan 2015 Spring

Examines ways in which Chinese and Euro-American film theorists conceptualize reality and cinema

Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring

Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters

The Poitier Effect Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation Sharon Willis 2015 Spring

Sidney Poitier as an icon of the civil rights era, signifying racial reconciliation without threat to the white status quo

World Projects Global Information before World War I Markus Krajewski 2014 Fall

Before Google and globalization, big-thinking Germans brought the world closer together

Gaming at the Edge Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 2014 Fall

A major new analysis of the representation of marginalized groups in video games

“Night and Fog” A Film in History Sylvie Lindeperg 2014 Fall

A microhistory of arguably the most important documentary ever made

Mechademia 9 Origins Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2014 Fall

Explores and challenges the origins of manga, anime, and Japanese popular culture

Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall

How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America

Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring

Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics

The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring

Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

Chasing the Light The Cloud Cult Story Mark Allister 2014 Fall

The inspired and inspiring story of one of indie rock’s most loved and spiritual bands

Celebrity and Power Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall 2014 Fall

A foundational media studies text—now with a new introduction

Gestures Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring

An analysis of gestures great and small, from a renowned media theorist—available in English for the first time

Reading Writing Interfaces From the Digital to the Bookbound 2014 Spring

Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production

Coproducing Asia Locating Japanese–Chinese Regional Film and Media Stephanie DeBoer 2014 Spring

Reframes our understanding of regional coproduction and East Asian film and media

University of Minnesota Press