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Literary Criticism

Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Ball Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...

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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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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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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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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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Media Studies

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Bronfen Elisabeth

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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Jewish Studies

Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

Brook Vincent, Grinberg Marat

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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Minding Movies Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking

Bordwell David, Thompson Kristin

ISBN: PB: 9780226066998, ISBN: HB: 9780226066981, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
312 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field – "Film Ar...

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La Rencontre Du Cinema Francais Analyse, Genre, Histoire

Berg Robert J.

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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