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Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form
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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£28,00
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£79,00
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Color Mania The Material of Color in Photography and Film
ISBN: PB: 9783037786079, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2019
120 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 82 colour and black&white illus.
Since the earliest days of cinema, film has been a colourful medium and art form. More than 230 film colour processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. In this regard, both media institutiona...
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£25,00
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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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£24,00
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£68,00
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Film, Music, Memory
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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£32,00
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£90,00
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Art of Film Projection A Beginner's Guide
ISBN: HB: 9780935398311, DAP, George Eastman Museum, November 2019
344 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 111 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide" is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. Part manual and...
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£27,00
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Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project
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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£34,00
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Biographic: Marilyn Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453704, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2019
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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£9,99
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Biographic: Audrey Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453711, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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£9,99
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Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness
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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£16,00
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Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief
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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£18,00
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