University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Coproducing Asia
Locating Japanese–Chinese Regional Film and Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction, all the while introducing...
The Child to Come
Life after the Human Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children’s Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet’s uncertain future return us—again and again—to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled...
The Anime Machine
A Media Theory of Animation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation,...
by Christopher Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton’s...
From Orphan to Adoptee
U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in...
The Way Things Go
An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and...
The Financial Imaginary
Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the emergence of new technologies pose a similar challenge...
Capital Fictions
The Literature of Latin America's Export Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee...
Under Bright Lights
Gay Manila and the Global Scene
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Gay-friendly dance clubs, upmarket bars, and party circuits—such commercial venues evoke the image of a gay globe, but what happens when they are bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay? Vividly describing this world of contradictions through the prism of twenty-first-century...
Impossible Heights
Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights,...
Art Labor, Sex Politics
Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship...
Singular Images, Failed Copies
William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a...
The White Possessive
Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its...
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than...