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  • Seeking Brakhage

    by Fred Camper ...
    The most perceptive critical writing on one of the most important American artists of the late 20th century, the essays of Fred Camper on the work of the filmmaker Stan Brakhage has here finally been gathered into a single volume.For six decades Camper's intensely observant criticism was scattered over a multitude of hard-to-find periodicals, archived in program notes for retrospectives at museums ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    by Kit White ...
    Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical ... Read more

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  • Maps of the Imagination

    The Writer as Cartographer

    by Peter Turchi ...
    In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to ... Read more

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  • The Power of Movies

    How Screen and Mind Interact

    by Colin McGinn ...
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  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

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  • Writing a Novel

    Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way

    by Richard Skinner ...
    Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel.Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, characters, settings - with charm and rigour. But more than that, he argues that the journey towards a ... Read more

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  • Lessons in Perception

    The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist

    by Paul Taberham ...
    Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental ... Read more

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  • This Means This, This Means That Second Edition

    A User's Guide to Semiotics

    by Sean Hall ...
    Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory.This new edition features an expanded ... Read more

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  • Gestures

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture ... Read more

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  • The Novel of the Future

    by Anais Nin ...
    LONG BEFORE SHE BECAME FAMOUS for her Diary, Anaïs Nin fought a lonely battle to give America emotional, poetic fiction. During the 1940s and 1950s, her most productive period, she was either ignored by the American literary establishment or subjected to outright hostility. But she had a reputation for not caving in—when her high school teacher told her to buy common magazines to learn common ... Read more

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