Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghanavolume 17
ISBN: 9780520287686 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination and tracks the interlacing of the medium's technological, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects. Stepping into the void left by the defunct state film industry, video movies negotiate the imaginaries deployed by state cinema on the one hand and Christianity on the other....
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismog...
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160,97 zł |
New Silent Cinema
ISBN: 9780415735254 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the success of Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and... With the success of Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in rece... |
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764,59 zł |
Outside the Box
ISBN: 9781908097125 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A monograph devoted to Paul Holmes's video work Outside the Box, featuring jazz musician Haftor Medboe and his band. Contains an essay on the work by Louise S. Milne, photographs by Alkistis Terzi, and the artist in conversation with Rory MacLean."
A monograph devoted to Paul Holmes's video work Outside the Box, featuring jazz musician Haftor Medboe and his band. Contains an essay on the work by ...
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96,26 zł |
The Photoplay
ISBN: 9781514206737 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This arts classic by Hugo Munsterberg is considered by some to be the first major work of film theory.
This arts classic by Hugo Munsterberg is considered by some to be the first major work of film theory.
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31,45 zł |
Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing
ISBN: 9781138952102 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. "Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition" offers rare insight and advice straight from two A-list television directors whose credits include NCIS, "NCIS New Orleans, Nashville," "Criminal Minds" and many more. Here, in one volume, learn everything you need to know to become an excellent director, not merely a good one. Covering everything through prep, shoot, and post, the authors offer practical instruction on how to... Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and inn... |
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790,07 zł |
That Movie Book: Awesome, Weird and Wonderful Flicks for Every Weekend of Your Year
ISBN: 9780733327896 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,12 zł |
Lukas Moodysson's Show Me Love
ISBN: 9780295997308 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his English-language film Mammoth (2009) as well as his heartbreaking indictment of sex-trafficking in Sweden, Lilya 4-Ever (2002), debuted as a writer and director while still in his twenties with Show Me Love (1998). The film received four Guldbaggar--the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards--including best film, best director, best screenplay, and best actresses. A coming-of-age and coming out film about two young women in a... Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his Englis... |
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453,65 zł |
Twentieth Century Fox
ISBN: 9781138921269 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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188,55 zł |
Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
ISBN: 9780415749824 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal... This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, disg... |
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When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film
ISBN: 9780231176576 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayer...
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187,79 zł |
Film Fables
ISBN: 9781474270809 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. His analysis moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema. The book also includes...
In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an ...
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112,09 zł |
Script Partners: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV
ISBN: 9781138904583 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. "Script Partners, Second Edition" brings together the experience, knowledge, and winning techniques of Hollywood s most productive partnerships including Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild" ), Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack ("Dallas Buyers Club), "and Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen ("Friends"). Established and aspiring screenwriters will learn how to pick the right partner and the right project, co-create character and story structure, co-draft and revise a script, collaborate in film... Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. "Script Partners, Second Edition" brings together the exper... |
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713,61 zł |
European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia
ISBN: 9781138654167 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cultural memory and investigates the ways in which cinematic postmemory is problematic. Many of the films present an idealized past that glosses over the reality of these civil wars, at times producing a nostalgic discourse of loss and longing. Other films engage with the past in a melancholic... This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of fil... |
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203,84 zł |
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
ISBN: 9780813564968 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor's performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The...
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments ...
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683,03 zł |
Éric Rohmer: A Biography
ISBN: 9780231175586 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy, he cared deeply about politics, religion, culture, and fostering a public...
The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in...
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258,20 zł |
Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy
ISBN: 9781784993481 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. Until now no general introduction to this very influential filmmaker, thinker and writer was available in English. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein, describes and comments on his most famous films and little-known documentaries, both silent and sound works, and defines the key terms and concepts of his philosophy of cinema. Wall-Romana argues that Epstein is among the most transformational thinkers of modernity in that he brought...
This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. Until no...
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Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film
ISBN: 9780190274108 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience. This form of cinema acts as a nexus through which currents from the other arts can interpenetrate. By examining the strategies of these projects in relation to one another and to the larger historical forces that shape them--tracing the shifts and permutations of their forms and aspirations--Projections of Memory remaps film history around...
Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments...
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621,99 zł |
Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film
ISBN: 9780190274115 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience. This form of cinema acts as a nexus through which currents from the other arts can interpenetrate. By examining the strategies of these projects in relation to one another and to the larger historical forces that shape them--tracing the shifts and permutations of their forms and aspirations--Projections of Memory remaps film history around...
Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments...
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160,78 zł |
The Art of Castle in the Sky
ISBN: 9781421582726 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive examination of the art and animation of Studio Ghibli's masterpiece of fantasy and flight, Castle in the Sky The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli art books, which includes interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky was the first feature film produced by the legendary Studio Ghibli. Sheeta, a girl who has the power to defy gravity, is on the run from pirates when she meets the young inventor Pazu. Together they explore the secrets...
The definitive examination of the art and animation of Studio Ghibli's masterpiece of fantasy and flight, Castle in the Sky The latest in the per...
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144,50 zł |
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson
ISBN: 9781419720475 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third volume in the New York Times bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series showcases the best artwork from "Bad Dads," an annual exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. Curated by Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, "Bad Dads" has continued to grow and progress as a dynamic group exhibition since its inaugural show in 2011, and has featured work from more than 400 artists from around the world. Those artworks range from paintings to sculptures to limited-edition screen prints and vary greatly in style, making for a diverse and lively show each year....
The third volume in the New York Times bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series showcases the best artwork from "Bad Dads," an annual exhi...
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149,58 zł |