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Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
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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Murder and the Movies
ISBN: HB: 9780300220018, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn't hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate sub...
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Miyazakiworld A Life in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300248593, Yale University Press, January 2020
344 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 20 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
A thirtieth?century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red?haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit – what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide f...
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Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
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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£56,50
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Montage Life, Politics, Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780857424983, Seagull Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant terrible of Indian cinema when he broke on the scene in t...
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£20,00
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Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones
Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...
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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9783037345504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
160 pp., 18.4x11.9 cm
Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...
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£15,00
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Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.
Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...
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£28,00
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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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