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Montage Life, Politics, Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780857424983, Seagull Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant terrible of Indian cinema when he broke on the scene in t...
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£20,00
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Beyond the Stars, Part 1 The Boy from Riga
ISBN: PB: 9780857424884, Seagull Books, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones, 1 map
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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£16,99
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Hidden Hitchcock
ISBN: PB: 9780226514345, ISBN: HB: 9780226374673, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 54 halftones
No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars.  In "Hidden Hitchcock", D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unse...
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£22,00
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On Disney
ISBN: PB: 9780857424914, Seagull Books, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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£16,99
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On the Detective Story
ISBN: PB: 9780857424907, Seagull Books, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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Short-Fiction Scenario
ISBN: PB: 9780857424891, Seagull Books, November 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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Herzog by Ebert
ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...
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Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies
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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£67,50
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Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even
ISBN: PB: 9783035800081, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
96 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
"Breaking Bad" is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably clo...
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Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy A Memoir
ISBN: HB: 9780226019116, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
368 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 41 halftones
Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and...
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