Visual Culture

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Mal Ahern
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Eric Ames
Professor
Yomi Braester
Professor, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

Latest News

Graduate Student-Organized: Crisis Alarm: Conversations Across Asian Cinema and Media (March 20, 2026)
New Faculty Publications on Robots, Media Infrastructure, and "Alligator Alcatraz" (December 19, 2025)
From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Symposium on the Pearson Collection (October 18, 2024)

Related Research

Diana Flores Ruíz, “Swamp Slop and Fake Moats: On the AI Mediation of Alligator Alcatraz” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 32, no 2, December 1, 2025
Ruíz, Diana Flores. "Split Rein or Whip? On the Production of Infrastructural Integrity at the US-Mexico Border." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (2025): 162-168. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a973995.
Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, eds, In Focus: Images and (Infra)structures, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025), 156-201.
Diana Flores Ruíz; Review: Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez. Film Quarterly 1 June 2024; 77 (4): 103–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2024.77.4.103
Diana Flores Ruíz; Rematerialization: Anticolonial Collective Memory through Latinx Digital Art. Feminist Media Histories 1 October 2024; 10 (4): 10–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.4.10
Ruíz, Diana Flores. "Reference Rot: Digital Decay, White Supremacy, and Endangering Data." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 190-196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a927695.
Choi, Sarah. "Can We Just Work It Out? Spike Jonze's Short Choreographic Storytelling in Arcade Fire's 'Afterlife' (2013)." Short Film Studies 14, no. 1 (2024): 43-50, https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00109_1.
Ruíz, Diana Flores. “Object Lessons: Humanitarian and Vigilante Imaging of Migrants’ Belongings along the U.S.–Mexico Border.” Critical Ethnic Studies 8, no. 2 (2023). https://www.jstor.org/stable/48849571.
Choi, Sarah. "Cross-Generational Storytelling: A Conversation with Sasha Su-Ling Welland and Sabrina Craig." Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 9, Number 4, pps. 135–150.
Mal Ahern, "Climate Control, Modernism, and Mass Production," Discourse 45.1-2 (Fall 2023), 3-32.