Media Culture + Theory

Further Resources

I have assembled here a list of additional resources and references that you may find useful while preparing papers and projects for the course.
Wherever possible I have provided a link to further information.
If you'd like to suggest another resource for the list, feel free to email me the link.

Books in the Stevens Library

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Films about Photography

• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
• Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
• Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki, 1988)
• War Photographer (Christian Frei, 2001)

Films about Film

• Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
• Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952)
• A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954)
• Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
• 8 and 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
• Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
• The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
• Day for Night (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
• Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
• The State of Things (Wim Wenders, 1982)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
• The Big Picture (Christopher Guest, 1989)
• Barton Fink (Joel + Ethan Coen, 1991)
• The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)
• Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
• Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
• Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
• Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1996)
• Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005)
• This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006)

Films about Television

• Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
• Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
• Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
• Videogram of a Revolution (Harun Farocki + Andrei Ujica, 1992)
• Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997)
• The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
• Control Room (Jehane Noujaim, 2004)
• Outfoxed (Robert Greenwald, 2004)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, 2005)

Films about Virtual Reality / Artificial Intelligence

• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
• eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
• The Matrix (Andy + Larry Wachowski, 1999)
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)

Online Photography Archives

• Photomuse, an interface to the collections of George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography
• The Metropolitan Museum permanent collection of photographs
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York permanent collection
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago permanent collection
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art photography collection (also look at their current + past exhibitions)
• Masters of Fine Art Photography gallery and forum
• Newseum gallery of Pulitzer-winning photographs with photographer commentary + bios
• Selections from Underexposed, a collection of banned and altered journalistic images
• Zone Zero, a source for digital photography

Relevant Exhibitions Online

• [ctrl]space : Rhetorics of Surveillance @ ZKM, Germany
• Database Imaginary @ Banff Centre, Canada
• The Interventionists @ MassMOCA, Berkshires
• Making Things Public @ ZKM, Germany

Classics of Cyberpunk

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968)
• Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984)
• Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson, 1992)
• Idoru (Wiliam Gibson, 1996)
• The Diamond Age (Neil Stephenson, 1996)
• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson, 2003)

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