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  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, exhilarating, thrilling, insightful and very funny.Combining a scene-by-scene analysis of Dr. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and dazzling display of visual effects, the breathtaking scope of its story, which reaches across millions of years, and the thought-provoking depth of its meditation on evolution, technology and humanity's ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • A Clockwork Orange

    by Peter Kramer ...
    Series series Controversies
    Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Krämer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The New Hollywood

    From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence … Sex … Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the biggest hits of the period (including The Graduate [1967], The Exorcist [1973] and Jaws [1975]). He relates the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • American Graffiti

    George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The General

    by Peter Krämer ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and stylistic characteristics of the film that made it difficult for critics to appreciate at the time, but led to its celebration by later generations. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan

    by Will Brooker, Warren Buckland, Dr. Gregory Frame, Lara Herring, Stella Hockenhull, Stuart Joy, Miriam Kent, Peter Krämer, Isabelle Labrouillère, Ben Lamb0, Todd McGowan1, Gilles Menegaldo2, Kimberly A. Owczarski3, Bernadette Pace4, Claire Parkinson5, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg

    by Jen Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Noel Brown, Andrew M. Gordon, James Kendrick, Peter Krämer, Gabrielle Kristjanson, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Leonie Rutherford, Ingrid E. Castro ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters,Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T, the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun, the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List, the mecha child in A.I., the kidnapped boy ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Listening to Prozac

    The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self

    by Peter D. Kramer ...
    The New York Times bestselling examination of the revolutionary antidepressant, with a new introduction and afterword reflecting on Prozac’s legacy and the latest medical research“Peter Kramer is an analyst of exceptional sensitivity and insight. To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” —Joyce Carol OatesWhen antidepressants like Prozac first became ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Girl in the Triangle, The

    by Joyana Peters ...
    Narrated by Dara Kramer ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - An Industrial Historical Fiction Series

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    There are 740 Days left until the fire that changes industrial history forever.It's 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York.But when an uprising of 20,000 women vows to take down a greedy factory owner, can Ruth possibly stay away? Who will ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Should You Leave?

    by Peter D. Kramer ...
    In his phenomenal bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer explored the makeup of the modern self. Now, in his superbly written new book, he focuses his intelligent, compassionate eye on the complexities of partnerships and why intimacy is so difficult for us. With the art of a novelist and the skill of a brilliant psychiatrist, Kramer addresses advice seekers struggling with such complex ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Against Depression

    by Peter D. Kramer ...
    "Deeply felt... [Kramer's] book is a polemic against a society that accepts depression as a fact of life." —O, The Oprah MagazineA profound look at depression by the author of The New York Times Bestseller, Listening to ProzacIn his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook