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Film Studies

Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp The Future Fields Commission

Battle Erica F., Balson Erika

ISBN: PB: 9780300238716, Yale University Press, October 2018
80 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 50 colour illus.

Presenting an ambitious new project by Rachel Rose (b. 1986) commissioned jointly by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, this book offers a rare behind-the-scenes perspective on one of the most striking...

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Film Studies

Jennifer Steinkamp Blind Eye

Saltzman Lisa, Ewing James

ISBN: PB: 9780300237054, Yale University Press, October 2018
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.

Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today's most innovative artists. Featurin...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

Elcott Noam M.

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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Film Studies

Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

Morris Errol

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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Psychology

Film Studies

Daredevil Psychology The Devil You Know

Langley Travis

ISBN: PB: 9781454930112, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2018
272 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, colour illus.

An in-depth analysis of the psychology behind the popular character Daredevil. In the early 1960s, Stan Lee and company revitalized the comic book market by imbuing new characters and their stories with human, emotional depth lacking in other superh...

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Film Studies

Classics The Greatest Films of the 20th Century

Whiticker Alan J.

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781760790196, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2018
400 pp., 20.2x20.2 cm, 600 illus.

One of the most comprehensive and lavish books on the history of motion pictures,The Classics explores the history of many of Hollywood's greatest films in the 20th century. Showcasing over 600 photographs of much-loved films,actors and directors, th...

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Film Studies

Hitler and Film The Fuhrer's Hidden Passion

Niven Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780300200362, Yale University Press, March 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. Here, Bill Niven offers a powerful argument for reconsidering Hitl...

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Biography & Memoires

Film Studies

Steven Spielberg A Life in Films

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...

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Film Studies

Media Studies

Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...

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Film Studies

Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

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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