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Cinemachines An Essay on Media and Method
ISBN: PB: 9780226656731, ISBN: HB: 9780226656564, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 1 line drawing
The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk". Alien ships leave Earth by dissolving at the conclusion of "Arrival".  An illusory death spiral in "Vertigo" transitions abrup...
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Groucho Marx The Comedy of Existence
ISBN: PB: 9780300244540, ISBN: HB: 9780300174458, Yale University Press, April 2019
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirite...
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£10,99
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Jennifer Steinkamp Blind Eye
ISBN: PB: 9780300237054, Yale University Press, October 2018
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.
Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today's most innovative artists. Featurin...
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£18,99
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Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings
If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Montage Life, Politics, Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780857424983, Seagull Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant terrible of Indian cinema when he broke on the scene in t...
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Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy A Memoir
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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£26,50
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House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
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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£84,50
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Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.
Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...
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Framing the Nation Languages of Modernity in India
ISBN: HB: 9781906497309, Seagull Books, May 2011
172 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
As recent films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring anew a fascination...
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Typhus
ISBN: HB: 9781906497422, Seagull Books, August 2010
212 pp., 20.1x23 cm
Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's "Typhus" centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nig...
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