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Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226597751, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 145 halftones
Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...
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Beyond the Stars, Part 1 The Boy from Riga
ISBN: PB: 9780857424884, Seagull Books, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones, 1 map
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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On Disney
ISBN: PB: 9780857424914, Seagull Books, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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On the Detective Story
ISBN: PB: 9780857424907, Seagull Books, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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Short-Fiction Scenario
ISBN: PB: 9780857424891, Seagull Books, November 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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Herzog by Ebert
ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...
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Awake in the Dark The Best of Roger Ebert (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226460864, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from...
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Great Movies IV
ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...
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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun A Cannes Notebook
ISBN: PB: 9780226314433, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 43 line drawings
A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert – with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb – achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to...
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Great Movies III
ISBN: PB: 9780226182094, ISBN: HB: 9780226182087, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm
Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces,...
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