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The Cinematographer's Voice
(December 2021)
Insights into the World of Visual Storytelling
Lindsay Coleman - Editor
Roberto Schaefer - Editor
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The Holiday in His Eye
(November 2021)
Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy
William Rothman - Author
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Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell’s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell’s philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosop...(Read More) |
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Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
(September 2021)
Brendan Hennessey - Author
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Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.
Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation continues today, challenging artistic form and practice by pressuring the boundaries that traditionally separate film from its sister a...(Read More) |
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Seeing Symphonically
(August 2021)
Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York
Erica Stein - Author
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Curtains of Light
(July 2021)
Theatrical Space in Film
George Toles - Author
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Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre.
George Toles’s Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a film narrative and theatre spaces that confront it across...(Read More) |
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Perpetual Movement
(July 2021)
Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Neil Badmington - Author
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Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.
The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination...(Read More) |
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Race and the Suburbs in American Film
(July 2021)
Merrill Schleier - Editor
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Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.
This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relations...(Read More) |
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Was It Yesterday?
(June 2021)
Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television
Matthew Leggatt - Editor
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Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.
Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yesterday? explores the impact of nostalgia in twenty-first century American film and television. Cultural nostalgia, in both real and imagined forms, is dominant today, but what does the concentration on bringing back the past mea...(Read More) |
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Mind Reeling
(December 2020)
Psychopathology on Film
Homer B. Pettey - Editor
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Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.
Mind Reeling investigates how cinema displays and mirrors psychological disorders, such as bipolar disorder, amnesia, psychotic delusions, obsessive compulsive behavior, trauma, paranoia, and borderline personalities. It explores a range of genres, including biopics, comedies, film noirs, contemp...(Read More) |
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