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Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image / Temps, narration & image fixe by Mireille Ribière 9789042013667
Booksplease Price: £82.31This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds by Timothy Murray
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image by Bruno Lessard
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £42.09The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact... -
Thinking Images: The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema by David Montero 9783034307307
Booksplease Price: £53.11The essay film - 'a form that thinks' - serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the spectator. Using... -
Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image by Shai Biderman 9780231176453
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.83The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of... -
The Pragmatism in the History of Art by Molly Nesbit
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £19.61Molly Nesbit shows how American pragmatism has informed art theory from Meyer Schapiro to T.J. Clark and Linda Nochlin First published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit's The... -
Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image by Shai Biderman
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £69.74The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of... -
America: Films from Elsewhere Shanay Jhaveri 9788190472081
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.53"A generously illustrated, wide-ranging selection of essays on American films helmed by non-American filmmakers." -Film Comment The cities, landscapes and people of America have been the subject... -
Paul Cezanne by Jon Kear
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.14Few artists have exerted such an influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne. Picasso, Braque and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his painting, and many historians regard him as the father of... -
Cinema Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968 by Paul Douglas Grant
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18This history covers the filmmaking tradition often referred to as cinema militant, which emerged in France during the events of May 1968 and flourished for a decade. While some films produced were... -
The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia by Elizabeth Astrid Papazian 9780231176941
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.68With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world,... -
Cinema: Concept & Practice Edward Dmytryk 9781138584273
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In this unique study of the process of filmmaking, director Edward Dmytryk blends abstract film theory and the practical realities of feature film production to provide an artful and elegant analysis... -
World Film Locations: Tokyo by Chris MaGee 9781841504834
Booksplease Price: £24.59World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world's most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films... -
Haunting the Left Bank: Mortality and Intersubjectivity in Varda, Resnais and Marker by Kierran Horner 9781800796676
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.73"A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker." (Steven... -
Pictures of the Mind: Surrealist Photography and Film by Ramona Fotiade 9783039111299
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £54.50Pictures of the Mind is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discourse on prominent post-war trends in... -
Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today,... -
Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter 9780231172660
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.44The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today,... -
Say What Happened: A Story of Documentaries by Nick Fraser
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really change the world? Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks by Rick Warner
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks by Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.85Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
Cinema Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968 by Paul Douglas Grant 9780231176668
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.38This history covers the filmmaking tradition often referred to as cinema militant, which emerged in France during the events of May 1968 and flourished for a decade. While some films produced were... -
Brief Encounters: Documentary Visits to an Imagined Israel by Ohad Landesman 9798855806649
Booksplease Price: £94.51Explores how non-Israeli filmmakers have used the essayistic travelogue to capture Israel's complex and contested landscape.Brief Encounters offers the first extended exploration of a distinct and... -
New Documentary by Stella Bruzzi
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.89Praise for New Documentary:'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight and... -
The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film by Domietta Torlasco 9780816681105
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.08Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology by Janet Harbord 9781628922417
Booksplease Price: £31.86In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In... -
Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond by Barry Langford 9780748619030
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History by Robert A. Rosenstone 9780674940987
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.57Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on... -
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960 by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture 9781802075366
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links... -
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960 by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture 9781800348400
Booksplease Price: £119.01This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links... -
The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources by Nadia Bozak 9780813551395
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.12Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today's "green" movies are ecologically unsustainable production,... -
The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker by Timothy Corrigan 9780199781690
Booksplease Price: £82.82Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films,... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity by Colin MacCabe 9780195374667
Booksplease Price: £59.73Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia by Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world,... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215497
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £97.31Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence by Nora M. Alter 9780231215503
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Simon Starling by Janet Harbord
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.24When Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space to Edward Steichen in 1926, New York customs officials refused to accept that it was a work of art, instead levying the... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel... -
Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses by Howard Hampton
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged...