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Film Studies

Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema

Ian Christie

ISBN: PB: 9780226105635, ISBN: HB: 9780226105628, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 1 table

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers. But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cru...

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Reinventing Hollywood How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226639550, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
592 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 halftones

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different ch...

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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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Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies

Roussel Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226486949, ISBN: HB: 9780226486802, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering p...

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America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

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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