Texts to buy: You are only required to
buy one book for this course.
Manovich, Lev
The Language of New Media
Boston: MIT Press, 2002
ISBN: 0-26-263255-1
Other course texts: We will also be
viewing films, games, and reading handouts and texts on the web.
OASIS handouts
- Barthes, Roland. "The Photographic Message."
Image/Music/Text. Trans Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1978.
- de Certeau, Michel. "Making Do: Uses and Tactics." The
Practice of Everyday Life. Trans Steven Rendall. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984.
- - - -. "Walking in the City." The Practice of Everyday
Life. Trans Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1984.
- McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message." Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
- Monmonier, Mark. "Blunders That Mislead." How to Lie with
Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
- Ray, Robert. "The Mystery of Edward Hopper." How a Film Theory
Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Sontag, Susan. "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly."
On Photography. New York: Picador, 1973.
Web texts
Films & Television
- Blade Runner (1982)
- La Jeteé (1962)
- Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
- Memento (2000)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Yes Men (2004)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
Video games
