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Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary War and the Animated Film
ISBN: HB: 9780226472683, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones
In 2008, "Waltz with Bashir" shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats – an animated film.  Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and...
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£27,00
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Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
ISBN: PB: 9780226495682, ISBN: HB: 9780226495545, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America". James Naremore...
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Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even
ISBN: PB: 9783035800081, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
96 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
"Breaking Bad" is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably clo...
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Soho Chronicles 10 Films by William Kentridge
ISBN: HB: 9780857421760, Seagull Books, February 2015
438 pp., 22x22 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fict...
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£112,50
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When Movies Mattered Reviews from a Transformative Decade
ISBN: PB: 9780226429410, ISBN: HB: 9780226429403, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm
If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the "New York Times", then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love mo...
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City Flicks Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781905422364, ISBN: HB: 9781905422357, Seagull Books, October 2006
240 pp., 23x15.6 cm
The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussions of urbanity...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Theater and Film A Comparative Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300103366, Yale University Press, November 2004
454 pp., 15.2x22.9 cm
This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development. Robert Knopf here assembles essays fr...
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