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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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Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...
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£28,00
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Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...
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£45,00
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Ingrid Bergman: A Life in Pictures, 1915-1982 Stockholm, Berlin, Hollywood, Rome, New York, Paris, London
ISBN: HB: 9783829606608, Schirmer-Mosel, September 2013
528 pp., 31x24 cm, 385 colour and duotone plates
Ingrid Bergman is arguably the greatest film actress of the 20th century. In conjunction with her upcoming 100th birthday, which will be celebrated on 29 August 2015, her four children—Pia Lindstrِm, Isabella, Ingrid and Roberto Rossellini—have given...
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£98,00
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Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema
ISBN: HB: 9780226034959, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 68 halftones
In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture – a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very...
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£39,00
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Sarah The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
ISBN: PB: 9780300192599, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 94 black&white illus.
Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career – redefining the very nature of her art – to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the am...
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£10,99
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Spectacles of Blood A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films
ISBN: HB: 9789381017159, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 22.8x14 cm
This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major issues. Taking an interdisciplinary and comparative...
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£22,50
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Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.
Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...
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£28,00
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Visions of a New Land Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300194692, Yale University Press, January 2013
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territ...
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£19,00
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Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780226304267, ISBN: HB: 9780226304250, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones
Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radica...
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£22,50
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£69,00
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