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Steven Spielberg A Life in Films
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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Dreamlands Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016
ISBN: HB: 9780300221879, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and arti...
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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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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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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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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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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.
In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...
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La Rencontre Du Cinema Francais Analyse, Genre, Histoire
ISBN: PB: 9780300158717, Yale University Press, August 2010
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 26 black&white illus.
"A la rencontre du cinema francais: analyse, genre, histoire" is intended to serve as the core textbook in a wide variety of upper-level undergraduate and graduate French cinema courses. In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to f...
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Frankly, My Dear "Gone With the Wind" Revisited
ISBN: PB: 9780300164374, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 black&white illus.
How and why has the saga of Scarlett O'Hara kept such a tenacious hold on the American imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel and David Selznick's spect...
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Alice Guy Blache Cinema Pioneer
ISBN: HB: 9780300152500, Yale University Press, November 2009
168 pp., 16.3x23.4 cm, 8 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, Guy Blache created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her...
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