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Great Movies III
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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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.
In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...
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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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When Movies Mattered Reviews from a Transformative Decade
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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Minding Movies Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking
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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I Found it at the Movies Reflections of a Cinephile
ISBN: PB: 9781847771292, Carcanet, March 2011
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For nearly half a century Philip French's writing on cinema has been essential reading for filmgoers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. His vast knowledge of the medium is matched by his love for it....
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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Film Culture in Transition
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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£20,00
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La Rencontre Du Cinema Francais Analyse, Genre, Histoire
ISBN: PB: 9780300158717, Yale University Press, August 2010
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 26 black&white illus.
"A la rencontre du cinema francais: analyse, genre, histoire" is intended to serve as the core textbook in a wide variety of upper-level undergraduate and graduate French cinema courses. In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to f...
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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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Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf
ISBN: PB: 9780857425942, Seagull Books, May 2010
188 pp., 20.8x14.5 cm
Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972, Makhmalbaf for...
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