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  • Harun Farocki

    Forms of Intelligence

    by Nora M. Alter ...
    Harun Farocki was one of the world’s most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and video, and art installations, which have been exhibited globally. After his early politically engaged films in Super 8 and 16 mm, Farocki spent ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Chris Marker

    by Nora M. Alter ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with filmBest known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetée, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s. His distinctive style and use of still images place him among the postwar era's most influential European filmmakers. His fearless political cinema, meanwhile, provided a bold ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction

    by Nora M. Alter ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre’s origins in early silent cinema and follows its transformation with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction

    by Nora M. Alter ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre’s origins in early silent cinema and follows its transformation with ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Projecting History

    German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

    by Nora M. Alter ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Between 1967 and 2000, film production in Germany underwent a number of significant transformations, including the birth and death of New German Cinema as well as the emergence of a new transnational cinematic practice. In Projecting History, Nora M. Alter explores the relationship between German cinematic practice and the student protests in both East and West Germany against the backdrop of the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

    by Stan Douglas, Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Sven Lutticken, Jesse Proudfoot ...
    This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.The book, which features essays by Alexander Alberro, Serge Guilbaut, and others, addresses various issues raised by Douglas' work, including the ... Read more

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  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edited by Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Archiveology

    Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

    by Catherine Russell ...
    Series series a Camera Obscura Book
    In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell examines a range of films alongside ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Visions of Avant-Garde Film

    Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism

    by Kamila Kuc ...
    Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cinema

    by Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Read more

    $23.00 USD