Core Faculty Publications
The graduate program in Visual and Cultural Studies (VCS) is an active research community. Below are some of the books published by VCS current and former faculty.
Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea
, 2024
Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work
, 2023
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
, 2023
Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art
, 2023
Provenance and Early Cinema
, 2021
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema (eds. J. Bernardi and S. Ogawa)
, 2021
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
, 2021
Andrea Büttner: Libri Vargatorum: Der Bettler Orden
, 2020
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic, the End of the Image
, 2019
Black Sexual Economies: Race & Sex in a Culture of Capital
, 2019
Out of Sync & Out of Work: History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture
, 2018
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives
, 2018
Ecologies, Agents, Terrains
, 2018
Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
, 2018
Intercultural Communication in Your Life
, 2018
Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection
, 2017
Time: A Vocabulary of the Present
, 2016
Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
, 2016
The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation
, 2015
Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
, 2014
Documentary’s Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship
, 2013
Vision and Communism
, 2011
The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976
, 2010
The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
, 2009
Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
, 2008
Identity and the Failure of America from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror
, 2008
Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones
, 2007
Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
, 2002
Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
, 2001
Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values
, 2000
High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films
, 1997
Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia
, 1995
Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands
, 1995
Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World
, 1988
Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body
, 1987