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House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
ISBN: PB: 9780226361567, ISBN: HB: 9780226361420, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 table
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted...
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£30,00
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Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780385365246, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
720 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.
"Star Trek" boldly travelled through space and into the heart of the human condition. This anthology collects 45 classic episodes that aired in the series' first three seasons. Adapted by James Blish and J. A. Lawrence from scripts by Robert Bloch, H...
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£40,00
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Game of Thrones Psychology The Mind is Dark and Full of Terrors
ISBN: PB: 9781454918400, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, colour illus.
This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and compelling characters in the popular HBO TV series Game of Thrones, based upon author George RR Martin's bestselling work, A Song of Ice...
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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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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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Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...
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£42,00
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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9783037345504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
160 pp., 18.4x11.9 cm
Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...
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Bas Jan Ader Death Is Elsewhere
ISBN: PB: 9780226269856, ISBN: HB: 9780226038537, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 44 halftones
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled "In Search of the Miraculous". The damaged boat was...
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Closed Circuits Screening Narrative Surveillance
ISBN: PB: 9780226201498, ISBN: HB: 9780226201214, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power – and potential for abuse. In "Closed Circuits", Garrett Stewart...
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£80,00
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Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226174594, ISBN: HB: 9780226174457, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones
One of the most important avant-garde movements in postwar Paris was Lettrism, which built an interest in the relations between writing and image in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge between...
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