Thinking C21 is the blog for the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This blog serves as a space where the university and public spheres converge, where intellectual examinations of the contemporary and the past taking place within the academy enrich our understanding of the present moment as it extends beyond the academy. Contributors bring their research and knowledge of specific histories, theories, methodologies, and disciplines to bear on current events and questions of broad concern.
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New C21 Book
Our most recent book, Ends of Cinema, is available now from University of Minnesota Press!
Inspired by our 2018 conference of the same name, Ends of Cinema brings together scholars at the forefront of film and media studies to interrogate multiple potential “ends” of cinema: its goals and spaces, its relationship to postcinema, its racial dynamics and environmental implications, and its theoretical and historical conclusions. Moving beyond the predictable question of digital versus analog, the scholars gathered here rely on critical theory and historical research to consider cinema alongside its media companions: television, the gallery space, digital media, and theatrical environments. Ends of Cinema underscores the shared project of film and media studies to open up what seems closed off, and to continually reinvent approaches that seem unresponsive.
Ends of Cinema features essays by Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown), James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto), Francesco Casetti (Yale), Mary Ann Doane (Berkeley), André Gaudreault (University of Montréal), Michael Boyce Gillespie (City College of New York), Mark Paul Meyer (EYE Filmmuseum), Jennifer Lynn Peterson (Woodbury University-Los Angeles), and Amy Villarejo (Cornell).
