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  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    French Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Narrated by Alex Mortensen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until WWI, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice.This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most notable works, using the lens of the New Wave decade ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • André Bazin

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    André Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, remains the most influential archive of cinema criticism. He remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Concepts in Film Theory

    Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • French Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "ciné-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • French Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "ciné-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mists of Regret

    Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film

    by Dudley Andrew ...
    Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as Renoir, Carné, Gremillon, Duvivier, and Chenal routinely captured the prizes for best film at every festival and in every country, and their accomplishments led to general agreement that the French were the ... Read more

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  • Teaching Film

    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû(1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey

    A BBC Radio Collection

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    Three stunning full-cast dramatisation of Thomas Love Peacock’s classic storiesListen now to this collection of three of the finest stories from Thomas Love Peacock. A contemporary and close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love Peacock was born in 1785 and wrote satirical novels discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Packed with witty dialogue, intriguing ideas and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD