Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lutz koepnick”
Skip side bar filters

  • Fitzcarraldo

    by Lutz Koepnick ...
    When it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo was widely criticized for its demanding use of human and natural resources as well as its director's uncompromising aesthetic vision. Critics and scholars saw little difference between the film's protagonist's obsession with hauling a ship over a mountain in the Amazon and Herzog's own mode of cinematic production and storytelling. And yet ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Michael Bay

    by Lutz Koepnick ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers. Lutz Koepnick engages the bigness of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • On Slowness

    Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

    by Lutz Koepnick ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary—a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity.As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Long Take

    Art Cinema and the Wondrous

    by Lutz Koepnick ...
    In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations. Grounding his inquiry in the long takes of international filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, Abbas Kiarostami, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Michael Haneke, Koepnick reveals how their films evoke ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Framing Attention

    Windows on Modern German Culture

    by Lutz Koepnick ...
    Series series Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
    In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window—in both a literal and a figurative sense—as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity.Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Poetry

    Continental Perspectives

    by Ranjan Ghosh, Lutz Koepnick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jean-Michel Rabaté, François Noudelmann, Daniel O'Hara, Raoul Moati, Claire Colebrook, Bruno Bosteels, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Dean of School of Humanities Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor of English Roland Vegso, Professor of Philosophy James Risser, Lecturer Thomas H. Ford, Ph.D. Daniel Rosenberg Nutters, Professor of Philosophy Galen Johnson, Professor of French & Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Professor Emeritus of Literature Leslie Hill, Head of French Department Ian James, Senior Lecturer in English Carol M. Bove, Justin Clemens ...
    Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Poetry

    Continental Perspectives

    by Ranjan Ghosh, Ranjan Ghosh, Lutz Koepnick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jean-Michel Rabaté, François Noudelmann, Daniel O'Hara, Raoul Moati, Claire Colebrook, Bruno Bosteels, Jean-Philippe Deranty0, Dean of School of Humanities Georges Van Den Abbeele1, Professor of English Roland Vegso2, Professor of Philosophy James Risser3, Lecturer Thomas H. Ford4, Ph.D. Daniel Rosenberg Nutters5, Professor of Philosophy Galen Johnson6, Professor of French & Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger7, Professor Emeritus of Literature Leslie Hill8, Head of French Department Ian James9, Senior Lecturer in English Carol M. Bove0, Justin Clemens1 ...
    Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Resonant Matter

    Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

    by Prof Lutz Koepnick ...
    Series series New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
    In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance-the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects-as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Berlin School Glossary

    An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema

    Edited by Roger F. Cook, Lutz P. Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, Brad Prager ...
    Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhäusler, Jessica Hausner and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Technology and Desire

    The Transgressive Art of Moving Images

    Edited by Rania Gaafar, Martin Schulz ...
    The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Total Work of Art

    From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

    by Matthew Wilson Smith ...
    The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of interest to students in such fields as film studies, music history, history of art, cultural studies, and modern European literatures. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD