University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Fighting for the Future of Food
Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
When scientists working in the agricultural biotechnology industry first altered the genetic material of one organism by introducing genes from an entirely different organism, the reaction was generally enthusiastic. To many, these genetically modified organisms (GMOs) promised to solve the challenges...
Mechademia 7
Lines of Sight
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Lines of Sight—the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga—explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art—from scroll paintings to superflat—challenge, undermine, or disregard the concept of...
Zombie Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated...
by E. R. Eddison
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
E. R. Eddison’s classic saga novel now in paperback—includes for the first time Eddison’s remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note Styrbiorn the Strong tells the grand tale of Styrbiorn Olafsson, heir to the Swedish throne and known both for his impressive size and strength...
Simultaneous Worlds
Global Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang’s pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea,...
Bodies in Suspense
Time and Affect in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the “time machine” of suspense,...
Ferocious Reality
Documentary according to Werner Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999,...
Monster Theory
Reading Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In...
Speculative Blackness
The Future of Race in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness...
Aberrations in Black
Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of...
Digital Art and Meaning
Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to...
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In...
Marta Oulie
A Novel of Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
“I have been unfaithful to my husband.” Marta Oulie’s opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for depicting modern women “sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness,” as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature...
by Budd Schulberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s—a golden figure in a golden age—who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for...