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  • From Méliès to New Media

    Spectral Projections

    by Wendy Haslem ...
    From Méliès to New Media contributes to a dynamic stream of film history that is just beginning to understand that new media forms are not only indebted to but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. Adopting a media archaeology, this book will present a comparative examination of cinema including early film experiments with light and contemporary music videos, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Jane Campion

    by Elsa Colombani, Eurydice Da Silva, Anna Baccanti, Laura Benoit, Katherine Cottle, Wendy Haslem, Sue Matheson, Gilles Menegaldo, Michael Modarelli0, Ian Murphy1, Helen Richardson2, Blythe Worthy3, Hervé Mayer4 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Jane Campion. This edited volume seeks a modern approach by blurring the frontiers between film and television, film theater releases, and platforms, and treats the entirety of Campion's her body of work as a meaningful whole. The chapters explore recurring themes and connections across Campion’s oeuvre, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Superhero Bodies

    Identity, Materiality, Transformation

    Edited by Wendy Haslem, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Sarah Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
    Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel. How does the body of the hero offer new ways to imagine ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Kissing Architecture

    by Sylvia Lavin ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    An exploration of the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art from the author of Form Follows Libido.In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art—particularly multimedia installations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    by Kit White ...
    Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    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

    $88.99 USD

  • The Power of Movies

    How Screen and Mind Interact

    by Colin McGinn ...
    How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful, invigorating, and remarkably accessible book about a phenomenon seemingly beyond reach of our ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Essay Film

    From Montaigne, After Marker

    by Timothy Corrigan ...
    Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • This Means This, This Means That Second Edition

    A User's Guide to Semiotics

    by Sean Hall ...
    Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory.This new edition features an expanded ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Construction of Drawings and Movies

    Models for Architectural Design and Analysis

    by Thomas Forget ...
    The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks you to consider drawings and movies to be analytical tools that give you the capacity to engage all phases of the design process, from parti to ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Death 24x a Second

    by Laura Mulvey ...
    In Death 24x a Second, Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers’ relationship to film image and cinema’s narrative structure has also been fundamentally altered. These technologies give viewers the means to control both image and story, so ... Read more

    $20.99 USD