U Of M Digt Cult Books imprint: 44 books
Web Writing
Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course between polarized attitudes that often dominate the conversation. The authors argue for the wise integration of web tools into what the liberal arts does best:...
Science Fiction in Argentina
Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the...
Silent Hill
The Terror Engine
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title...
Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism
Teaching Writing in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"At long last, a discussion of plagiarism that doesn't stop at 'Don't do it or else,' but does full justice to the intellectual interest of the topic!"
---Gerald Graff, author of Clueless in Academe and 2008 President, Modern Language Association
This collection is a timely intervention...
by Matthew Derby
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick. A 150-year-old woman on the run from the government is tracked down by the company who extended her life. A military contractor carrying his robot son in a gym bag struggles...
DOOM
SCARYDARKFAST
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In December 1993, gaming changed forever. id Software's seminal shooter DOOM was released, and it shook the foundations of the medium. Daniel Pinchbeck brings together the complete story of DOOM for the first time.
This book takes a look at the early days of first-person gaming and the video...
My Life as a Night Elf Priest
An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"Ever since the creators of the animated television show South Park turned their lovingly sardonic gaze on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for an entire episode, WoW's status as an icon of digital culture has been secure. My Life as a Night Elf Priest digs deep beneath...
Big Digital Humanities
Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about...
Is William Martinez Not Our Brother?
Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Praise for the Prison Creative Arts Project:
"I cannot overstate how profoundly my experience with the Prison Creative Arts Project has shaped my life. It began my engagement with prison issues, developed both my passion and my understanding of them, and I continue to draw on both as I...
This Gaming Life
Travels in Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
"In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game.
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
So begins this story of personal redemption through the unlikely medium of electronic games. Quake*, World of...
by Amy Koritz, George J Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced."
---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University
"This...
Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover."
—Guobin...
Proofs of Genius
Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author’s “selected works” or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate...
by Andrew Herscher
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination...