Electronic, Holographic & Video Art

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and J...

Welcome to the jungle. The origin of one of cinema's most beloved and most fearsome monsters is explained in Kong: Skull Island. This official comp...

This vibrant box of postcards celebrates the art of the Disney Frozen series. Featuring gorgeous concept art and illustrations from Frozen (2013), ...

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the tangible phase of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at vi...

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismograph...

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the tangible phase of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at vi...

A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality performance. Working at th...

Behind the beloved animated films of Walt Disney Studios, which have moved and entertained millions of viewers, was an incredibly influential group...

In the 1990s, Shirin Neshats startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutiona...

Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and r...

Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this...

Yoshua Okon (Mexico 1970) is a Mexican artist. He is founder of the art spaces La Panadería, which ran from 1994 to 2002 and SOMA, both in the Mexi...

How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hau...

How film emerged in 19th-century Paris amid an array of social, political, artistic and technological innovationswith works by the Lumiere brothers...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...