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Media Studies

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Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Disorienting Politics

Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

By Fan Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, American Studies

Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Stephanie Dinkins

On Love & Data

By Srimoyee Mitra
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, American Studies, Class Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

Art’s power to challenge inequities and build inclusive dialogues

In Concert

Performing Musical Persona

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Media Studies

Examining how performers engage and delight their audience through persona, appearance, and spectacle

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platform and cultures

By Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, American Studies

Indispensable guide to the social media platform that shaped a generation’s politics and culture

Record Cultures

The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry

By Kyle Barnett
Subjects: Music, American Studies, Media Studies

Tracing the cultural, technological, and economic shifts that shaped the transformation of the recording industry

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

The Imprint of Another Life

Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

By Margaret Homans
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Philosophy

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

By Sheila C. Moeschen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Disability Studies, American Studies

Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

The Wire

Race, Class, and Genre

Edited by Liam Kennedy & Stephen Shapiro
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Urban Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Wide-ranging perspectives on "the best dramatic series ever created"

Music Is My Life

Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz

By Daniel Stein
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions

The President Electric

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

By Timothy Raphael
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

Michael Moore

Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon

Edited by Matthew Bernstein
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator

Envisioning Asia

On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism

By Jeanette Roan
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, History, American History

Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

Acting Jewish

Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen

By Henry Carl Bial
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Jewish Studies, American Studies

Examines how notions of Jewishness have been conveyed in a range of television, stage, and film productions since the end of World War II

American Prophet

The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams

By Peter Richardson
Subjects: Biography, American Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, History, American History

American Prophet is the long-overdue biography on the brilliant life and career of a great American thinker and writer—Carey McWilliams

The American Poet at the Movies

A Critical History

By Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, American Studies

A timely and engaging exploration of cinema's influence on verse--a treat for poetry lovers and film buffs alike

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