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Chris Marker: Early Film Writings by Chris Marker 9781517913199
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Formative 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... -
Staring Back by Chris Marker
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €27.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262083652Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Chris Marker: Immemory 9781878972446
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.33The legendary French filmmaker's labyrinthine memoir, first published by Exact Change in 2002 as a CD-ROM, now reconfigured into book form after a laborious process initiated by the artist before his... -
Le Depays by Chris Marker 9798986446349
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.33This 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... -
Chris Marker Sarah Cooper 9780719083648
Booksplease Price: €28.01Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He... -
La Jetee: cine-roman by Chris Marker
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299663Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252030734
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €88.56The 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... -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252073168
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74The 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.04Part 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: €23.74Booksplease Price: €16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965874004Author Chris MarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inpatient PressPublisher... -
The Story We Used to Tell - Photographs by Chris Marker with a Story by Shirley Jackson 9780997359688
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €51.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997359688Format HardbackPage Count 108Imprint The Gould CollectionPublisher The Gould Collection -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34In 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... -
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema by Laure Astourian 9780253069597
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final... -
André Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore André Bazin 9780520399426
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €80.13Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema by John Wall Barger 9780807181577
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.96A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it," contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a... -
The Art of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital by Tamara Trodd
Booksplease Price: €66.34The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photography,... -
Concordance by Susan Howe
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.41"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... -
Experimental Film and Anthropology Arnd Schneider 9780857854438
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.51Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for... -
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University) 9781138107847
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €57.98The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere... -
Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice James Leo Cahill 9780367675691
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms,... -
Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film Ivan Cerecina 9781517919443
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71A bold new understanding of montage and French cinematic historyAmid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make... -
Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film Ivan Cerecina 9781517919436
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52A bold new understanding of montage and French cinematic historyAmid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make... -
Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present Abigail Susik 9781350475915
Booksplease Price: €131.41From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences... -
Experimental Nations: Or, the Invention of the Maghreb by Reda Bensmaia 9780691089379
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or... -
Anouck Durand - Eternal Friendship by Eliot Weinberger 9781938221149
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.22This exquisitely composed photo-novel by French artist-writer Anouck Durand (born 1975)-collaged from photographic archives, personal letters and propaganda magazines-tells a true story that begins... -
Death and the Aesthetic Sublime: The Enigma of Time in La Jetée Jung Kwon 9781666933505
Booksplease Price: €89.46Employing the modern aesthetics of Burke and Kant, as well as Lyotard's postmodern interpretation, this book delineates the elements of sublime experience through exploring the enigmatic cinematic... -
An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking by Hamid Naficy 9780691043913
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.85In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their... -
Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary by Sarah Cooper 9781904713128
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €104.34In "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,... -
Marxism and Film Activism: Screening Alternative Worlds Ewa Mazierska 9781782386421
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €101.70In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it." This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change... -
Marxism and Film Activism: Screening Alternative Worlds Ewa Mazierska 9781785337628
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it." This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change... -
La Jetee by Chris Darke 9781844576425
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.10Chris 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... -
Rhythms: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture by Elizabeth Lindley 9783039113491
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €44.26As they oscillate and flow between action and aesthetics, habit and creativity, rhythms are vital to our understanding of how subjectivities are constructed upon the shifting borderlines between life... -
Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema by Nadine Boljkovac 9781474404747
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.18How does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, Boljkovac uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can... -
Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture by Paul Coates 9780521107914
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.12Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art, with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the... -
Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas by Kevin L. Stoehr 9780786413201
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film discuss the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular. The essays explore such topics as the... -
The Soul of Film Theory by S. Cooper 9780230365131
Booksplease Price: €55.62In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory... -
Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave by Steven Ungar 9780816689217
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issuesCritical Mass is the first sustained study to trace the origins of social documentary filmmaking in... -
Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art by Miriam Jordan-Haladyn 9781433124457
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €65.91Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415669
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €80.13Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a... -
The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker by Timothy Corrigan 9780199781706
RRP: €54.13Booksplease Price: €33.42Even 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,...