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Film Studies

Art of Film Projection A Beginner's Guide

Cherchi Usai Paolo, Christiano Spencer, Surowiec Catherine A., Wagner Timothy J.

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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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Assassination Who Killed Indira G?

Ali Tariq

ISBN: PB: 9780857426383, ISBN: HB: 9781905422852, Seagull Books, March 2019
152 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who...

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Contemporary Art

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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Film Studies

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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Film Studies

Awake in the Dark The Best of Roger Ebert (Second Edition)

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226460864, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from...

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Film Studies

Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Medvedkin Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226296272, ISBN: HB: 9780226296135, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for hi...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living Under Total Surveillance

Poitras Laura, Sanders Jay, Boumediene Lakhdar, Crawford Kate, Doctorow Cory, Eggers Dave, Magid Jill, Paglen Trevor, Snowden Edward, Steyerl Hito

ISBN: PB: 9780300217650, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

The filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, "war on terror", drone program, Guantanamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former...

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Literary Criticism

Film Studies

Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema

Chandler James

ISBN: HB: 9780226034959, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 68 halftones

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture – a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very...

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Film Studies

Adventure of the Real Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema

Henley Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226327150, ISBN: HB: 9780226327143, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
536 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 2 tables, 161 halftones

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an i...

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Film Studies

Alice Guy Blache Cinema Pioneer

Simon Joan, Gaines Jane, McMahan Alison, Musser Charles, Tomadjoglou Kim, Williams Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300152500, Yale University Press, November 2009
168 pp., 16.3x23.4 cm, 8 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, Guy Blache created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her...

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