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  • Blur

    by Dr Martine Beugnet ...
    Translated by Lindsay Turner ...
    Series series Cutaways
    In cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error — a mistake of focus or a technological failure — or a background effect of shallow focus intended to offset a defined image. As Martine Beugnet argues, however, blur is an essential feature of the cinema, possessing its own properties and affordances, and capable of powerful effects ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Claire Denis

    by Martine Beugnet ...
    Series series French Film Directors Series
    Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)).Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Proust at the Movies

    by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Indefinite Visions

    Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

    Edited by Martine Beugnet ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

    $31.99 USD

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  • Philippe Grandrieux

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    by Associate Professor Greg Hainge ...
    Series series Ex:Centrics
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  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    by Kit White ...
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  • Reading bande dessinee

    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

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    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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