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Stanley Kubrick American Filmmaker
ISBN: HB: 9780300224405, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self?taught filmmaker and self?proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside...
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David Lynch Someone is in my House
ISBN: HB: 9783791384702, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
304 pp., 30x24.3 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker, directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in h...
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Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
ISBN: HB: 9780226922683, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 49 colour plates, 39 halftones
In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the cre...
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Hidden Hitchcock
ISBN: PB: 9780226514345, ISBN: HB: 9780226374673, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 54 halftones
No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars.  In "Hidden Hitchcock", D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unse...
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Alexander Medvedkin Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226296272, ISBN: HB: 9780226296135, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for hi...
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£79,00
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Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf
ISBN: PB: 9780857425942, Seagull Books, May 2010
188 pp., 20.8x14.5 cm
Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972, Makhmalbaf for...
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From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century
ISBN: PB: 9781905422968, ISBN: HB: 9781905422951, Seagull Books, March 2009
554 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
Brahmins named Iftikar, Buddhist rites in Hindu Shiva temples, Indian maidens dressed like Arabian harem girls – right from the birth of cinema, international movies have been wildly inventive in their fantastical imagining of India. In fact, images...
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