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Chris Marker: A Grin Without a CatThis important study -- published in conjunction with the Whitechapel's acclaimed exhibition -- is the first comprehensive survey of filmmaker Chris Marker's influential oeuvre, surveying the entirety of his prolific careerIllustrated throughout, the book charts Marker's unique commentaries on societies at times of upheaval,...
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The Eisenstein ReaderPresents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein," address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage." This reader provides an accessible introduction to Eisenstein's work.Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:...
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Folktales Aloud: Practical Advice for Playful StorytellingA good folktale triggers the imagination, connecting children to a wider world as well as increasing their vocabulary and comprehension skills. In this delightful and easy-to-use book, teacher and storyteller Del Negro gives librarians, teachers, and parents the keys to storytelling success. Including two...
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Leo's Gift2019 Best Book Awards, Winner: Children's Picture Book (Hardcover Fiction) 2019 International Book Awards, Winner: Children's Picture Book (Hardcover) 2018 Moonbeam Award, GOLD: Best Illustrator 2018 Illumination Book Award 2018 Independent Press Award, Book Cover Design: Children 2018 Independent Press Award, Children's Religion 2018...
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JazzThere's a crazy syncopation /and it's tearing through the nation / and it's bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It's Jazz One of TIME's 100 Best Children's Books of All Time Fifteen poems, infused with the rhythm and wordplay of jazz music,...
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Lovecidal: Walking with the DisappearedIn this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state...
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Private Domain: An AutobiographyTaylor explores aspects of himself that have affected his work. He delves into the creation of Aureole and From Sea to Shining Sea, from their initial inception to the ways in which specific dancers influenced the choreography, including such notables as Pina Bausch, Laura...
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D-Passage: The Digital WayD-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Taking as grounding forces her feature film Night Passage and installation L'Autre marche (The Other Walk), both co-created with Jean-Paul Bourdier, she discusses the impact of new technology...
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Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. AntagonismsRed, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III asks whether such films accurately represent the structure of U.S. racial antagonisms. That structure, he argues,...
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The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the SensesMemories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense...
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Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community CreativityDance innovator shares wisdom and scoresAnna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step-by-step processes for bringing people together to create dances...
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Rebel: The Life and Legend of James DeanBased on meticulous research and new interviews with dozens of family members, friends, lovers, directors, and costars, Rebel offers a revelatory look at actor and film icon James Dean (1931-1955). From the dusty roads of rural Indiana to Manhattan's gay culture, from Broadway to...
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Vincente Minelli: The Art of EntertainmentWidely known for innovative films like Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli also directed classic film comedies like Father of the Bride and Designing Woman, and melodramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful and...
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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic PhilosophyThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical...
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The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of CinemaWelles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and sensibilities, is there a common genius that unites them and elevates their work into the realm...
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My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial EvesRunner-up for the 2015 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the...
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Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of SensationSaw, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label "torture porn." Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply...
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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget CinemaThe emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely...
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'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist EraThe concept of "un-Americanism," so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today's political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms...
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Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden EraJames Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long...
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