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Behind Bars High Class Cocktails Inspired by Low Life Gangsters
ISBN: HB: 9783791386843, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 18.7x15 cm, 60 colour illus.
It's been a century since the prohibition sent Americans scurrying to speakeasies. And decades since the movie industry turned mobsters into celebrities. Now the two worlds collide in this highly original pocket-sized collection that creates signatur...
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£9,99
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Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form
ISBN: PB: 9780226672007, ISBN: HB: 9780226671956, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates, 30 halftones
With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin,...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness
ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones
On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...
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£16,00
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Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living Under Total Surveillance
ISBN: PB: 9780300217650, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
The filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, "war on terror", drone program, Guantanamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former...
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£30,00
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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.
In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...
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£25,00
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