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Literary Criticism

Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Ball Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...

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Jewish Studies

Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds

Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.

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Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary War and the Animated Film

Kornhaber Donna

ISBN: HB: 9780226472683, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones

In 2008, "Waltz with Bashir" shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats – an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and...

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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema

Ian Christie

ISBN: PB: 9780226105635, ISBN: HB: 9780226105628, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 1 table

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers. But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cru...

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Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672007, ISBN: HB: 9780226671956, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates, 30 halftones

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin,...

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Cinemachines An Essay on Media and Method

Stewart Garrett

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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Performing Arts

Film, Music, Memory

Hoeckner Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...

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Philosophy

Film Studies

Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project

Vogman Elena

ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones

Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...

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Philosophy

Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones

On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

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Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief

Feeney Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226239699, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
436 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that...

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