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Chris Marker: Early Film Writings by Chris Marker 9781517913199
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetee (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker... -
Le Depays by Chris Marker 9798986446349
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.16This is the first English language edition of Chris Marker's 1982 photo-essay, Le Depays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Marker's own translation astride some of his most... -
La Jetee: cine-roman by Chris Marker
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299663Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252073168
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker by Susan Howe 9780811220392
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting... -
Eternal Current Events: Early Writings by Chris Marker 9781965874004
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965874004Author Chris MarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story... -
Concordance by Susan Howe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32"Only artworks are capable of transmitting chthonic echo-signals," Susan Howe has said. In Concordance, she has created a fresh body of work transmitting vital signals from a variety of archives... -
Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary by Sarah Cooper 9781904713128
Booksplease Price: £95.79In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms,... -
La Jetee by Chris Darke 9781844576425
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted... -
The Butcher Boy by Colin McCabe
Booksplease Price: £12.72"The Butcher Boy" is perhaps the finest film to have come out of Ireland. Although it marks a clear break with the more banal canons of realism, it is nonetheless the most realistic of Irish films... -
Paul Cezanne by Jon Kear
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.51Few 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... -
Laconia: 1,200 Tweets On Film by Masha Tupitsyn 9781846946080
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.06If the sound bite is the new order, then how do we make every word count? In today's surplus world of communication overload and cultural clutter, writer and cultural critic Masha Tupitsyn turns to... -
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 by Nora M. Alter
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.36Nora 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... -
Unsun by Andrew Zawacki 9781552454008
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.83Poetry that aspires 'to conjugate in a future imperfect,' but a future nonetheless. In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and... -
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,...