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Performance by Colin MacCabe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.29Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the... -
James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction by Colin MacCabe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.97James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short... -
Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy by Colin Maccabe 9780571211050
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $28.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211050Author Colin MaccabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word by Colin MacCabe 9780333531525
Booksplease Price: $116.82This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word reprints a classic critical text on Joyce and adds a wealth of new material which places the text in its political... -
Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature by Colin MacCabe
Booksplease Price: $51.14Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the... -
James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word by Colin MacCabe 9780333531532
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.82This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word reprints a classic critical text on Joyce and adds a wealth of new material which places the text in its political... -
Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary by Colin MacCabe
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.91Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from black to terror, the most... -
The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language by Colin MacCabe 9780333235607
Booksplease Price: $116.82'The essays are exemplary in their stylistic clarity. One can only compliment MacCabe along with the contributors, for the readability and conceptual variability of this collection. 'E... -
The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture by Colin MacCabe 9780851706788
Booksplease Price: $57.20In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity by Colin MacCabe 9780195374674
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $33.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity by Colin MacCabe 9780195374667
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $77.05Adaptation 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... -
Godard's Contempt: Essays From The London Consortium Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 9781444339314
RRP: $26.77Booksplease Price: $25.72Combining work from established film critics and the very freshest of voices, this collection brings to bear a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds on one of the most intriguing films... -
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This... -
Why Are The Arabs Not Free?: The Politics of Writing Moustapha Safouan (Leading Lacanian psychoanalyst) 9781405161718
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $17.05Moustapha Safouan, in this courageous and honest book, confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic... -
Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays by Piers Gray 9780333792827
Booksplease Price: $116.82Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp fiction, use the full resources of literary and... -
Film Theory: The Basics by Kevin McDonald 9780367774400
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $119.16Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of... -
Film Theory: The Basics by Kevin McDonald
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of... -
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan 9780415255462
RRP: $126.41Booksplease Price: $111.78Ecrits is Lacan's most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. This is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand... -
Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema by J. Murphet 9781403913081
Booksplease Price: $60.29This is the first major collection of essays specifically to address the impact of visual technologies on the production of literature in the twentieth-century. Literature and Visual Technologies... -
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.37Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his... -
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.76Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche,... -
Post War Cinema & Modernity by John Orr 9780814762035
Booksplease Price: $124.88Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Post-War Cinema and Modernity John Orr 9780814762028
Booksplease Price: $42.51Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Ideologies of Theory by Fredric Jameson 9781844672776
Booksplease Price: $58.41Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's long career as a critic. They chart a body of work... -
White Screens/Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side by James Snead
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen... -
The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson
Booksplease Price: $38.53The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work... -
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit by Fredric Jameson
Booksplease Price: $18.63In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology... -
Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson
Booksplease Price: $23.47The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth... -
Bento's Sketchbook John Berger 9781804298237
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After... -
Film and the End of Empire by Lee Grieveson 9781844574230
Booksplease Price: $50.48In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism, to moments... -
Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics by Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté 9781350203006
Booksplease Price: $41.10Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness... -
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling 9780814748336
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers... -
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $74.64Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers... -
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson 9781804292402
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.51A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naive reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best... -
Third World Girl: Selected Poems Jean Binta Breeze 9781852249106
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she was called a 'one-woman festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and... -
The Sky is Falling!: The Unexpected Politics of Hollywood's Superheroes and Zombies Peter Biskind 9780241373873
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.58'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Zizek'Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me... -
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx by Eagleton Derrida
Booksplease Price: $27.84With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided... -
Empire and Film by Lee Grieveson 9781844574216
Booksplease Price: $55.53'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and... -
Saussure by John E. Joseph 9780199695652
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $57.48"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system,...