MEDIA STUDIES Spring 2020
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A Precarious Game
Action at a Distance
John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger & Christina Vagt
The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut
March 2020 222pp 9781501746536 £19.99/$23.95 PB 9781501746529 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Search of Media June 2020 95pp 9781517910099 £14.99/$18.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
An ethnographic examination of video game production. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as an economic matter based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider work and love as a question of democracy rooted in politics. Excludes ANZ
This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Are You Entertained?
Circulating the Code
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Simone C. Drake & Dwan K. Henderson
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China Ting Zhang
April 2020 256pp 8 tables, 7 b&w illus. 9780295747156 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747163 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
February 2020 336pp 19 illus. 9781478006787 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005179 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them.
In this collection of essays on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA’s dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century’s digital consumer economy.
Comics and Stuff
Digital Pirates
Henry Jenkins
Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil Alexander Sebastian Dent
April 2020 352pp 104 full color 9781479800933 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9781479852741 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 208pp 9781503612976 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611443 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. With over 100 hundred illustrations, explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP).
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Digitize and Punish
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson
Popular Black History in Postwar America E. James West
April 2020 232pp 25 b&w photos 9781517909239 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781517909222 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2020 208pp 9780252084980 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252043116 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color. Excludes Japan & ANZ
E. James West's fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship.
Expanded Cinema
Fashioning Postfeminism
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Gene Youngblood Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture Simidele Dosekun
Meaning Systems March 2020 464pp 60 color illus. and 284 b/w illus.. 9780823287413 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780823287420 £91.00/$110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dissident Feminisms June 2020 216pp 9780252085086 £20.99/$26.00 PB 9780252043215 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a studies book that helped establish media art as a fascinating performative culture. cultural category.
Fighting Fascist Spain
Front Pages, Front Lines
Worker Protest from the Printing Press Montse Feu
May 2020 280pp 9780252085116 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252043246 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The 1930s anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants in the US created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in Spain. Feu Merges the story of the publication with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism
Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage Edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch & Brooke Kroeger
History of Communication March 2020 256pp 9780252084973 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780252043109 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement.
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Gamer Trouble
Graphic News
Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture Amanda Phillips
How Sensational Images Transformed NineteenthCentury Journalism Amanda Frisken
April 2020 256pp 49 Halftones 9781479834921 £23.99/$29.00 PB 9781479870103 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
History of Communication March 2020 328pp 9780252084836 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252042980 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events changed the public’s consumption of the news.
Hacked Transmissions
Histories of Dirt
Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos Stephanie Newell
March 2020 280pp 5 b&w photos 9781517903268 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517903251 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2020 272pp 14 illus. 9781478006435 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005391 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marking a vital contribution to debates in a range of fields, Hacked Transmissions is a pioneering exploration of how social movements change across cycles of struggle and alongside technology. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, and public health policies.
How to Do Things with Sensors
How to Watch Television, Second Edition
Jennifer Gabrys
Forerunners: Ideas First August 2019 106pp 9781517908317 £8.00/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Edited by Ethan Thompson & Jason Mittell
March 2020 432pp 71 hts 9781479898817 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479890637 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made senseable and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Forty essays from today’s leading scholars on television culture. Each essay focuses on a single television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Killer Apps
Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism
War, Media, Machine Jeremy Packer & Joshua Reeves
Mary Lou Nemanic
February 2020 296pp 49 illus. 9781478006572 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005872 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 191pp 9781439916773 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781439916766 £62.00/$74.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a critical account of the history and future of automation in warfare by highlighting the threats posed by the latest advances in media technology and artificial intelligence.
Provides case studies of five city newspapers to show how these publications are adapting to the transition from print-only to multiplatform content delivery—and how newsroom practices are evolving to address this change. Excludes Asia Pacific
Mixed Messages
Negative Exposures
Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia Kathryn E. Graber
Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China Margaret Hillenbrand
August 2020 276pp 18 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501750519 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501750502 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sinotheory March 2020 312pp 66 illus. 9781478008002 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006190 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Excludes ANZ
Margaret Hillenbrand explores how artistic appropriations of historical images effectively articulate the openly unsayable and counter the public secrecy that erases traumatic episodes from China’s past.
News Parade
Open World Empire
The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games Christopher B. Patterson
May 2020 280pp 21 b&w photos 9781517903688 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517903671 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Postmillennial Pop April 2020 344pp 27 Halftones 9781479895908 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479802043 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Clark focuses on the sound newsreel of the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that it represents a crucial moment in the development of a spectacular society where media representations of reality became more fully integrated into commodity culture. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Perpetual Motion
Racialized Media
Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity Edited by Matthew W. Hughey & Emma González-Lesser
Electronic Mediations March 2020 288pp 44 b&w photos 9781517900533 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517900526 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2020 400pp 9781479814558 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479811076 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
From original research on dance today to political economies of digital media to the philosophy of dance, Harmony Bench argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation and community. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Racialized Media provides a much-needed look at the role of race and ethnicity in all phases of media production, distribution, and reception. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Radical Care
Seeing by Electricity
Edited by Hi’ilei Hobart & Tamara Kneese
The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 Doron Galili
February 2020 170pp 7 illus. 9781478008781 £11.99/$15.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sign, Storage, Transmission March 2020 256pp 32 illus. 9781478008224 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007722 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Care has re-entered the zeitgeist. In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
Doron Galili traces television’s early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.
Spoiler Alert
Technocrats of the Imagination
A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe
Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde John Beck & Ryan Bishop
Forerunners: Ideas First October 2019 100pp 9781517908034 £8.00/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Cultural Politics April 2020 240pp 5 illus. 9781478006602 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478005957 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Excludes Japan & ANZ
John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s.
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Technologies of Speculation
The Art of Communication in a Polarized World
The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society Sun-ha Hong
Kyle Conway
March 2020 160pp 23 b&w figures, 12 colour figures 9781771992930 £16.99/$26.95 PB ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 288pp 9781479883066 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479860234 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the theory of cultural translation and its dimensions of power, meaning, and invention, Conway deepens our understanding of what it means to communicate and opens the door to new approaches to politics and ethics.
Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Content of Our Caricature
The Future of Change
How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions Raymond H. Brescia
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging Rebecca Wanzo
April 2020 240pp 9781501748110 £23.99/$28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Postmillennial Pop April 2020 256pp 69 hts / 6 page color
Identifies a series of "social innovation moments" in American history. Using the past as prologue, The Future of Change provides effective lessons in the use of communications technology so that we can have the best communicative tools at our disposal— both now and in the future. Excludes ANZ
insert 9781479889587 £23.99/$29.00 PB 9781479840083 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Queer Games Avant-Garde
Things Worth Keeping
The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold
How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games Bonnie Ruberg
June 2020 256pp 10 b&w photos 9780816677245 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9780816677238 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2020 280pp 48 illus. 9781478006589 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005919 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, and explores how these attachments might be marshaled to create less wasteful practices and balance our consumerist and ecological impulses. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Ruberg presents interviews with queer video developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games.
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Underglobalization
A Biography Jean Burgess & Nancy K. Baym
Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy Joshua Neves
April 2020 144pp 3 hts 9781479811069 £15.99/$18.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Builds a rich narrative of how Twitter has evolved as a technology, a company, and a culture, from its origins as a personal messaging service to its transformation into one of the most globally influential social media platforms, where history and culture is not only recorded but written in real time Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
March 2020 268pp 87 illus. 9781478008057 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007630 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on a wide range of media technologies and practices in Beijing, Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitimacy propel dominant models of economic development and political life in contemporary China.
Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon
Postwestern Horizons August 2020 462pp 9781496221780 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496221162 £60.00/$70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid genre that blends Western themes with other genres such as science fiction and fantasy.
Wild Blue Media
Thinking through Seawater Melody Jue
Elements February 2020 240pp 29 illus., incl. 8 in color 9781478006978 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478006121 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.
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