| |
|
|
|
|
 |
Writ on Water
(April 2022)
The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
Charles Warren - Author
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
The Cinematographer's Voice
(December 2021)
Insights into the World of Visual Storytelling
Lindsay Coleman - Editor
Roberto Schaefer - Editor
|
A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.
The Cinematographer's Voice is a unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking and cinematography. The distillation of more than one-hundred interviews with cinematographers from around the world, and the product of a decade's worth of scholarship, the book is not only a collection of interviews...(Read More) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
The Holiday in His Eye
(October 2021)
Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy
William Rothman - Author
|
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) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
(September 2021)
Brendan Hennessey - Author
|
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) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Encountering the Impossible
(August 2021)
The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema
Alexander Sergeant - Author
|
The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.
Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actual...(Read More) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Seeing Symphonically
(August 2021)
Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York
Erica Stein - Author
|
Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.
Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seeing Symphonically shows how a group of independent experimental, documentary, and featu...(Read More) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Curtains of Light
(July 2021)
Theatrical Space in Film
George Toles - Author
|
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) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Perpetual Movement
(July 2021)
Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Neil Badmington - Author
|
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) |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
(July 2021)
Merrill Schleier - Editor
|
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) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
