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Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy A Memoir

Schroeter Werner, Lenssen Claudia

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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Awake in the Dark The Best of Roger Ebert (Second Edition)

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226460864, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from...

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Performing Arts

Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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Women Studies

Film Studies

From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)

Haskell Molly

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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Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Haynes Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226387956, ISBN: HB: 9780226387819, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 tables

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, p...

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Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Medvedkin Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226296272, ISBN: HB: 9780226296135, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for hi...

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Place for Us "West Side Story"‌ and New York

Foulkes Julia L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226301808, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 halftones

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, "West Side Story" is nothing less than an American touchstone – an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of pos...

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Great Movies IV

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...

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House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience

Srinivas Lakshmi

ISBN: PB: 9780226361567, ISBN: HB: 9780226361420, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 table

India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted...

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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun A Cannes Notebook

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226314433, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 43 line drawings

A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert – with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb – achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to...

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