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Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form
ISBN: PB: 9780226672007, ISBN: HB: 9780226671956, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates, 30 halftones
With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin,...
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£28,00
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Film, Music, Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,
Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...
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£32,00
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From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)
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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£20,50
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Framing the Nation Languages of Modernity in India
ISBN: HB: 9781906497309, Seagull Books, May 2011
172 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
As recent films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring anew a fascination...
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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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£12,99
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Film, Video, and New Media at the Art Institute of Chicago, with the Howard and Donna Stone Gift
ISBN: PB: 9780300146905, Yale University Press, June 2009
112 pp., 26x24.2 cm, 70 colour illus.
During the past four decades, the accessibility of videotape, along with that of 8- and 16-millimetre film, has revolutionized artistic production, and moving-image technologies ranging from the filmic to the digital have attained mainstream status....
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From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century
ISBN: PB: 9781905422968, ISBN: HB: 9781905422951, Seagull Books, March 2009
554 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
Brahmins named Iftikar, Buddhist rites in Hindu Shiva temples, Indian maidens dressed like Arabian harem girls – right from the birth of cinema, international movies have been wildly inventive in their fantastical imagining of India. In fact, images...
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£30,00
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£82,50
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