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Film Studies

Great Movies III

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226182094, ISBN: HB: 9780226182087, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces,...

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Film Studies

When Movies Mattered Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226429410, ISBN: HB: 9780226429403, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the "New York Times", then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love mo...

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Film Studies

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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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Film Culture in Transition

Rosenbaum Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226726656, ISBN: HB: 9780226726649, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subje...

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Film Studies

Bowery to Broadway The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema

Shannon Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781589662001, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, March 2010
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Before Johnny Depp and "Public Enemies", there was "The Public Enemy". James Cagney's 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster, Tommy Powers, set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden age of Irish American cinema....

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Adventure of the Real Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema

Henley Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226327150, ISBN: HB: 9780226327143, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
536 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 2 tables, 161 halftones

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an i...

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