University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Female as Subject
Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 70
The Female as Subject reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early twentieth century. Eleven essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examine...
Digital Tools in Urban Schools
Mediating a Remix of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
"Today there is massive interest in how digital tools and popular culture are transforming learning out of school and lots of dismay at how digitally lost our schools are. Jabari Mahiri works his usual magic and here shows us how to cross this divide in a solidly grounded and beautifully written...
Parodies of Ownership
Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."
---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
"Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish...
A Page of Madness
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 64
Kinugasa Teinosuke’s 1926 film, A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji), is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an independently produced, experimental, avant-garde work from Japan whose brilliant use...
Play Redux
The Form of Computer Games
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through this, the book makes service to several academic communities by pointing out their points of contact....
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...
Myst and Riven
The World of the D'ni
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Myst and Riven is well-written, interesting, on-topic, insightful, and a real pleasure to read.”
—Edward Castronova, Indiana University
Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst and Riven:...
The Media Welfare State
Nordic Media in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new...
by Ryan Ridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Poetry / Fiction / Art / Aphorisms. American Homes incorporates poetry, prose, and various schematic devices, including dozens of illustrations by the artist Jacob Heustis, to create a cracked narrative of the domestic spaces we inhabit.
Manifesto for the Humanities
Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform.
Grounding...
Tactics of the Human
Experimental Technics in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Tactics of the Human returns to American fiction published during the 1990s, formative years for digital cultures, to reconsider these narratives’ comparative literary print methods of critically engaging with digital technologies and their now ubiquitous computation-based modes of circulation,...
Hacking the Academy
New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online:
“Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can...
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:...