University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by T. M Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation...
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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Television, Japan, and Globalization is a collection of essays that describe vivid and compelling examples of Japanese media and analyze them with sophisticated theoretical methods. The book makes a stunning contribution to the literature of television studies, which has increasingly recognized its...
Pastplay
Teaching and Learning History with Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited—many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even improve...
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...
by Charles McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay....
by Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzki
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed...
Learning Legacies
Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners...
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities
Boundary Work in an Emerging Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining...
Seeing the Past with Computers
Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums, allowing historians to create immersive, multifaceted...