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  • The Mystery of Twin Peaks

    Signs – Worlds – References

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The range of contributions covers diverse topics: genre mixing, transactuality, complex narrative structures, dream and dreamlike qualities, gender and identity concepts, extreme fan culture, visual aesthetics, acoustic dimensions, postmodern referential ... Read more

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  • Sonic Flux

    Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

    by Christoph Cox ...
    From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Maya Deren

    Incomplete Control

    by Sarah Keller ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Film Paintings of David Lynch

    Challenging Film Theory

    One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of his films’ relationship to other art forms. The Film ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Narrative and Narration

    Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling

    Series series Short Cuts
    From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains how narrative and narration work using straightforward language.Narrative and Narration distills the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Twin Peaks and Philosophy

    That's Damn Fine Philosophy!

    Series Book 119 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Twin Peaks has such hardcore fans that it returned to television for a third season after an unprecedented 25 years, with the original creators and many of the same cast members.Twin Peaks: The Return-- aired in 2017 to rave reviews, and speculation about further seasons. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Approaching Twin Peaks

    Critical Essays on the Original Series

    Edited by Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace ...
    Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV history. Its complex plots and sensational visuals both inspired and alienated audiences. After 25 years, the cult classic is being revived.This collection of new essays explores its filmic influences, its genre-bending innovations and its use of horror and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history anddevelopment of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks.Divided into five key parts, this volume covers:Concepts and topics – from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Dancefilm

    Choreography and the Moving Image

    Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film era, through the historic avant-garde, musicals and music videos to contemporary experimental short dancefilms. In so doing it also examines some of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Multi-media

    Video – Installation – Performance

    by Nick Kaye ...
    Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the world’s foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental practices shaped in exchanges between music, installation, theatre, performance art, conceptual art, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD