Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “justin remes”
Skip side bar filters

  • Found Footage Films

    A Work of Experimental Scholarship

    by Dr. Justin Remes ...
    Series series New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
    Found Footage Films examines the rich aesthetic history of cinematic remixes, from pioneering films by Joseph Cornell and Bruce Conner to contemporary mashups and memes.We live in the era of the remix. Visual artists rework images from popular culture, music producers sample and loop elements from classic songs, and content creators transform images from films and television shows into viral memes ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • Absence in Cinema

    The Art of Showing Nothing

    by Justin Remes ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves Klein’s invisible paintings, from the “silent” music of John Cage to Samuel Beckett’s minimalist theater. Yet little attention has been given to the important role of absence in cinema. In the first book to focus on cinematic absence, Justin Remes demonstrates how ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Absence in Cinema

    The Art of Showing Nothing

    by Justin Remes ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves Klein’s invisible paintings, from the “silent” music of John Cage to Samuel Beckett’s minimalist theater. Yet little attention has been given to the important role of absence in cinema. In the first book to focus on cinematic absence, Justin Remes demonstrates how ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Motion(less) Pictures

    The Cinema of Stasis

    by Justin Remes ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for Face (1965), Michael Snow's So Is This (1982), and Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), he shows how ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • How To Read a Film

    Movies, Media, and Beyond

    by James Monaco ...
    Monaco's book was an instant classic when it first came out, and with new sections in its anniversary edition, is more essential than ever. A landmark in media studies, it is unique in its sophisticated understanding of both the art and technology of film. Molly Haskell, criticWhen it was first published in 1977, HOW TO READ A FILM established itself as a genuine classic in film studies and has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Film Appreciation Book

    The Film Course You Always Wanted to Take

    by Jim Piper ...
    This is a book for cinephiles, pure and simple. Author and filmmaker, Jim Piper, shares his vast knowledge of film and analyzes the most striking components of the best movies ever made. From directing to cinematography, from editing and music to symbolism and plot development, The Film Appreciation Book covers hundreds of the greatest works in cinema, combining history, technical knowledge, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Get the Picture?

    The Movie Lover's Guide to Watching Films

    by Jim Piper ...
    Classic favorites, current pop films, hidden gems--they’re all part of this new edition of the popular guide to watching and enjoying movies. In his witty and engaging text, author Jim Piper explains key concepts of film and uses fascinating side-by-side comparisons to explore relationships between movies as disparate as The Great Train Robbery and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, High Noon and Blood ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Way Hollywood Tells It

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Neo-Noir

    by Mark T. Conard ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    A collection of essays exploring the philosophical elements present in Neo-Noir films.Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life and on the place ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Movies That Mattered

    More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

    by Dave Kehr ...
    This new collection of essays and reviews from "one of the most gifted film critics in America" offers rare insight into the cinema of the 1970s and 80s (Roger Ebert).Following the first collection of Dave Kehr's criticism, When Movies Mattered, this volume features fifty more reviews and essays drawn from the archives of both the Chicago Reader and Chicago magazine from 1974 to 1986. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terpsichore in Sneakers

    Post-Modern Dance

    by Sally Banes ...
    A dance critic's essays on post-modern dance.Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Bane's Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Film You've Never Seen

    35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love

    by Robert K. Elder ...
    Revealing a festival of guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems in this guide. The list includes unsung noir films The Chase and Murder by Contract, famous flops Can't Stop the Music and Joe Versus the Volcano, art films L'ange and WR: Mysteries of the Organism, theatrical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus