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“jennifer friedlander”

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  • Real Deceptions

    The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism

    by Jennifer Friedlander ...
    Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort reality, the book argues that reality lies within the deceptions themselves. That is to say, realism's political potential emerges not by revealing deception but precisely by staging deceptions- ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Interstellar

    The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards

    by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan ...
    In Interstellar a group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.The screenplay of Interstellar is written by Christopher Nolan and his frequent collaborator, Jonathan Nolan.In addition to the screenplay, this screenplay book also contains over 200 pages of storyboards and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Better Living Through Criticism

    How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

    by A. O. Scott ...
    The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema

    The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited

    by Daniel Barnett ...
    Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Film Worlds

    A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

    by Daniel Yacavone ...
    Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves together multiple strands of thought and analysis to provide new understandings of filmic representation, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Philosophy's Artful Conversation

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    Theory—an embattled discourse for decades—faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Deathwatch

    American Film, Technology, and the End of Life

    by C. Scott Combs ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using voiceover or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Hollywood Aesthetic

    Pleasure in American Cinema

    by Todd Berliner ...
    Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Dreaming of Cinema

    Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Scenes of Projection

    Recasting the Enlightenment Subject

    by Jill H. Casid ...
    Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution: the projecting telescope, camera obscura, magic lantern, solar microscope, and prism. From the beginnings of what is retrospectively enshrined as the origins of the ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

    by Hermann Kappelhoff ...
    Translated by Daniel Hendrickson ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Philosophy of the Screenplay

    by Ted Nannicelli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the screenplay: What is a screenplay? Is the screenplay art—more specifically, literature? What kind of a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD