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Women Studies

Film Studies

From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780226412894, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 57 halftones

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's "From Reverence to Rape" remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to f...

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Film Studies

Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Haynes Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226387956, ISBN: HB: 9780226387819, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 tables

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, p...

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Film Studies

Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Medvedkin Alexander

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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Film Studies

Place for Us "West Side Story"‌ and New York

Foulkes Julia L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226301808, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 halftones

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, "West Side Story" is nothing less than an American touchstone – an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of pos...

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Film Studies

Great Movies IV

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...

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Film Studies

World Redrawn Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood

Beloff Zoe

ISBN: HB: 9780977869688, DAP, Christine Burgin, September 2016
152 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus., 62 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "A World Redrawn" is an exploration by the artist Zoe Beloff of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht's experiences in Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s, what their time in Hollywood meant to them then and what it might mean t...

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House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience

Srinivas Lakshmi

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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Film Studies

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Blish James, Lawrence J. A.

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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Psychology

Film Studies

Game of Thrones Psychology The Mind is Dark and Full of Terrors

Langley Travis

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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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living Under Total Surveillance

Poitras Laura, Sanders Jay, Boumediene Lakhdar, Crawford Kate, Doctorow Cory, Eggers Dave, Magid Jill, Paglen Trevor, Snowden Edward, Steyerl Hito

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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