Media Studies Fall 2020
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A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain
June 2020 168pp 9781503604636 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 212pp 49 color illus., 50 b&w illus. 9780861967452 £24.99 / $32.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
E.J. White
Eleanor Cowen
Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, "The internet is made of cats." Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is the first book to explore the history of how the cat became the internet's best friend.
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain is a journey of discovery into the world of Soviet era animation from Eastern Bloc countries. This excursion into Soviet era animation brings to light magnificent art, ruminations on the human condition, and celebrations of innocence and joy.
Channeling Moroccanness
Citizens of Scandal
Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico Vanessa Freije
Language and the Media of Sociality Becky L. Schulthies
October 2020 280pp 13 illus. 9781478010883 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478009825 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 240pp 9780823289721 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780823289714 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s, showing how Mexico City reporters began to denounce government corruption during this period in ways that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.
What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez.
Community-Centered Journalism
Critique of Journalistic Reason
Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust Andrea Wenzel
Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper Tom Vandeputte
August 2020 216pp 9780252085222 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780252043307 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2020 272pp 9780823290253 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780823290260 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy’s preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.
Models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Digital Lives in the Global City
Discorrelated Images Shane Denson
October 2020 328pp 98 illus. 9781478010913 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478009856 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contesting Infrastructures Edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis & Brett Story
Analyzing works ranging from the Transformers series and Blade Runner 2049 to videogames and multimedia installations, Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.
September 2020 288pp 70 b&w photos, 3 maps, 2 charts, 4 tables 9780774862387 £26.99 / $39.95 PB UBC PRESS
Investigates how urban land, governance, and economy are being remade by advancing communication technologies. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Ends of Cinema
Gaming Sexism
Edited by Richard Grusin & Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games Amanda C. Cote
21st Century Studies December 2020 248pp 24 b&w illus., 15 color plates 9781517910587 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517910570 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 280pp 9781479838523 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Even as women make up nearly half of all gamers, sexist assumptions about the what and how of women’s gaming are more actively enforced. Explores the video game industry to explain this contradiction, how it affects female gamers, and what it means in terms of power and gender equality. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Scholars interrogate multiple potential “ends” of cinema: its goals and spaces, its relationship to postcinema, its racial dynamics and environmental implications, and its theoretical and historical conclusions. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Gestures of Concern
Girl Head
Chris Ingraham
Feminism and Film Materiality Genevieve Yue
a Cultural Politics book August 2020 272pp 18 illus. 9781478009511 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008583 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.
October 2020 240pp 13 color & 18 b&w illus. 9780823289561 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780823289554 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive.
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Information Activism
InsUrgent Media from the Front
A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies Cait McKinney
A Media Activism Reader Edited by Chris Robé & Stephen Charbonneau
Sign, Storage, Transmission August 2020 312pp 23 illus. 9781478008286 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478007821 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 328pp 21 b&w illus. 9780253051394 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253051387 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.
InsUrgent Media from the Front takes a look at activist media practices in the 21st century and sheds light on what it means to enact change using different media of the past and present.
Kill the Overseer!
Manifest Destiny 2.0
The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro
Genre Trouble in Game Worlds Sara Humphreys Postwestern Horizons February 2021 186pp 15 illus. 9781496224217 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9780803268470 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Forerunners: Ideas First June 2020 100pp 9781517911003 £8.00 / $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Examining the social and cultural implications of noir and Western narratives in video games, Manifest Destiny 2.0 explores the performative literacy of gaming as a means by which Western and noir genres continue to influence twentyfirst-century attitudes and global culture.
Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable. Kill the Overseer! profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and “gamify” slave resistance. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Manufacturing Celebrity
Media Primitivism
Technological Art in Africa Delinda Collier
Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood Vanessa Díaz
The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas October 2020 312pp 79 illus., incl. 16 in color 9781478009696 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008835 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 328pp 66 color illus. 9781478009436 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008545 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Díaz traces the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary Hollywood and American celebrity culture.
Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural.
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Provocauteurs and Provocations
Really Fake
Alexandra Juhasz Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois & Nishant Shah
Screening Sex in 21st Century Media Maria San Filippo
In Search of Media February 2021 118pp 9781517911010 £13.99 / $18.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2021 352pp 25 b&w illus. 9780253052124 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253052117 £82.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Writing across their own shared truisms, actors, and touchstones, the authors propose creative tactics, theoretical overtures, and experimental escape routes built to a human scale as ways to regain our capacities to know and tell truths about ourselves. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Explores the provocative in films, television series, web series and videos, entertainment industry publicity materials, and social media discourses and explores its potential to create alternative, even radical ways of screening sex.
Savage Mind to Savage Machine
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Racial Science and TwentiethCentury Design Ginger Nolan
Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists Wazhmah Osman
January 2021 328pp 74 b&w illus. 9781517905866 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781517905859 £116.00 / $140.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Geopolitics of Information December 2020 208pp 9780252085451 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252043550 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Uncovers an enduring relationship between “the savage” and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and the industrial arts. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Reveals how the medium of television provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
The Evolution of the Chinese Internet
Moving Media, Tactical Publics Patricia Fumerton
Creative Visibility in the Digital Public Shaohua Guo
Material Texts September 2020 512pp 83 illus. 9780812252316 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
December 2020 344pp 9781503614437 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613775 £77.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space.
The Evolution of the Chinese Internet traces the emergence and maturation of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world, through four major technological platforms that have marked trends in internet use over the past two decades.
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The Future of Tech Is Female
The Globally Familiar
Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
How to Achieve Gender Diversity Douglas M. Branson
October 2020 272pp 17 illus. 9781478011200 £21.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478010159 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 336pp 2 b/w illus. 9781479806041 £19.99 / $25.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
How the young men of Delhi’s hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.
The Future of Tech is Female considers the paradoxes involved in women’s ascent to leadership roles, suggesting industry-wide solutions to combat gender inequality. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Play in the System
The Huawei Model
The Rise of China’s Technology Giant Yun Wen
The Art of Parasitical Resistance Anna Watkins Fisher
The Geopolitics of Information November 2020 248pp 9780252085338 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780252043437 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
October 2020 320pp 53 illus., incl. 19 in color 9781478009702 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008842 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2019, the United States’ trade war with China expanded to blacklist Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Yun Wen uses the Huawei story to understand China’s evolving digital economy and the global rise of the nation’s corporate power. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.
Undoing Networks
Youth Power in Precarious Times
Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst & Lea Zierott
Reimagining Civic Participation Melissa Brough
In Search of Media February 2021 126pp 9781517906696 £13.99 / $18.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 216pp 14 illus. 9781478008071 £20.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478007708 £83.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: “digital detox” is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellín, Colombia, create networks of change that have the possibility to transform and democratize cities around the world.
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Recent highlights
Comics and Stuff
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
Henry Jenkins
April 2020 352pp 104 full color illus. 9781479800933 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781479852741 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Popular Black History in Postwar America E. James West
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
January 2020 208pp 9780252084980 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252043116 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual history after World War II. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Expanded Cinema
Racialized Media
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Gene Youngblood Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity Edited by Matthew W. Hughey & Emma González-Lesser
Meaning Systems March 2020 464pp 60 color illus. and 284 b/w illus. 9780823287413 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9780823287420 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 400pp 9781479814558 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479811076 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Racialized Media provides a much-needed look at Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media the role of race and ethnicity in all phases of studies book that helped establish media art as a media production, distribution, and reception. cultural category. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Art of Communication in a Polarized World
The Future of Change
How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions Raymond H. Brescia
Kyle Conway
April 2020 240pp 9781501748110 £23.99 / $28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 160pp 23 b&w figs., 12 colour figs. 9781771992930 £16.99 / $26.95 PB UBC PRESS
Ray Brescia identifies a series of “social innovation moments” in American history. Through these moments—during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies—he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change.
In this compelling new book, Kyle Conway confronts the communication challenges of our modern world by navigating the space between opposing perspectives. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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