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Film Studies

Reinventing Hollywood How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226639550, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
592 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 halftones

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different ch...

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America

Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Feeney Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...

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Film Studies

Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

Elcott Noam M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597751, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 145 halftones

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...

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Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

Morris Errol

ISBN: HB: 9780226922683, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 49 colour plates, 39 halftones

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the cre...

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Media Studies

Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art

Stewart Garrett

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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Film Studies

Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226495682, ISBN: HB: 9780226495545, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America". James Naremore...

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Hidden Hitchcock

Miller D. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514345, ISBN: HB: 9780226374673, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 54 halftones

No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In "Hidden Hitchcock", D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unse...

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Herzog by Ebert

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...

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Film Studies

Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies

Roussel Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226486949, ISBN: HB: 9780226486802, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering p...

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Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even

Koch Gertrud

ISBN: PB: 9783035800081, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
96 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

"Breaking Bad" is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably clo...

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