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  • Avant-Garde Film

    Forms, Themes and Passions

    by Michael O'Pray ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema and the French New Wave ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Struggle for Form

    Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989

    Edited by Kamila Kuc, Michael O'Pray ...
    This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka and Stefan Themerson; the Polish Futurists' (Jalu Kurek, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein at the Movies

    Cinematic Investigations

    by Steven Burns, Andrew Lugg, William Lyons, Michael O'Pray, William C. Wees, Daniel Steuer ...
    Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • The History of Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as new technologies and viewing platforms become available, and remains an integral cultural and aesthetic entertainment experience for people the world over. Cinema developed against the backdrop of the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • David Cronenberg

    Author or Filmmaker?

    by Mark Browning ...
    For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing

    by Christopher Innes, Maria Shevtsova ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Essay Film

    From Montaigne, After Marker

    by Timothy Corrigan ...
    Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Conversations on Cinema

    by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Paolo Jedlowski, Werner Herzog, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julio Bressane, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Georges Didi-Huberman ...
    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Michael Haneke

    Europe Utopia

    Edited by Ben McCann, David Sorfa ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism of The Seventh ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd

    by Michael Y. Bennett ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, Bennett provides an in-depth overview of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Death 24x a Second

    by Laura Mulvey ...
    In Death 24x a Second, Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers’ relationship to film image and cinema’s narrative structure has also been fundamentally altered. These technologies give viewers the means to control both image and story, so ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD