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  • Speaking Pictures

    Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature

    by Alistair Fox ...
    A new way to understand the human longing for stories, informed by both neuroscience and psychoanalytic theory.In this book, Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds.Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • François Truffaut

    The Lost Secret

    by Anne Gillain ...
    Translated by Alistair Fox ...
    "Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain's work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker." — BooklistFor François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost ... Read more

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  • Truffaut on Cinema

    Edited by Anne Gillain ...
    "The writings reveal a Truffaut who was as incisive and direct in assessing his own work as he was in assessing the work of other directors." — ChoiceBetween 1959 and 1984, French film director François Truffaut was interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers critical insight into the genesis of Truffaut's films as he shares the sources of his inspiration, the choice of his themes, ... Read more

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  • Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

    by Alistair Fox ...
    This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore the subjective experience of a central male protagonist, announcing the emergence of a genre that has progressively proliferated in contemporary cinema. Case studies by such notable auteurs as Vittorio De Sica, Satyajit Ray, Vincente Minnelli, Pier ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema

    Edited by Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Hilary Radner, Raphaëlle Moine ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Contemporary French CinemaA Companion to Contemporary French Cinema presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day. Featuring contributions from an international cast of established and emerging scholars of French cinema, these innovative essays highlight the diversity of French films and filmmaking ... Read more

    $186.00 USD

  • New Zealand Cinema

    Interpreting the Past

    Edited by Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant, Hilary Radner ...
    New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen, this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors, including ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand

    Genre, Gender and Adaptation in a National Cinema

    by Alistair Fox ...
    Series series Traditions in World Cinema

    $27.29 USD

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    Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    by James Monaco ...
    Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through ... Read more

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  • A Companion to François Truffaut

    Edited by Dudley Andrew, Anne Gillain ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    A Companion to François Truffaut“An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found.”Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique“This exciting collection breaks through the widely held critical view that Truffaut abandoned the iconoclasm of his early work for an academicism he had ... Read more

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  • Pragmatics of Human Communication

    A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes

    by Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson ...
    The properties and function of human communication.Called “one of the best books ever about human communication,” and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-based approaches to psychotherapy. The authors present the simple but radical idea ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cinema

    by Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Read more

    $23.00 USD