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  • Queer Imaginings

    On Writing and Cinematic Friendship

    by David A. Gerstner ...
    Series series Queer Screens
    Discovering the queer auteur and their seductive cinematic delights and possibilities.How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical deceits and ambiguities? In eighteen eloquent chapters, David ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christophe Honoré

    A Critical Introduction

    by David A. Gerstner, Julien Nahmias ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Studies Honoré as an auteur who intervenes in French filmmaking practices and culture with a queer "caméra-stylo."French filmmaker Christophe Honoré challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside of Europe has left him largely unknown to U.S. audiences. In Christophe Honoré: A ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manly Arts

    Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema

    by David A Gerstner ...
    In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism. Gerstner describes how cinema came to be considered the art form of the New World and how its experimental qualities ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Authorship and Film

    Edited by David A. Gerstner, Janet Staiger ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range from the auteur theory and Casablanca to Oscar Micheaux, from the American avant-garde to community video, all illuminating how "authorship" is a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Media Authorship

    Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

    Edited by David A. Gerstner ...
    The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Int ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Scandal of Susan Sontag

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Pink-Slipped

    What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

    by Jane M Gaines ...
    Series series Women’s Media History Now!
    Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Philosophy of Documentary Film

    by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay, Noël Carroll, Stanley Cavell, Gregory Currie, William Day, Keith Dromm, K. L. Evans, Michael Fried, Elan Gamaker0, Dan Geva1, Tom Gunning2, Werner Herzog3, Selmin Kara4, Scott MacDonald5, Bill Nichols6, Claudia Pederson7, V. F. Perkins8, Vivian Sobchack9, Lars von Trier0, Thomas Vinterberg1, Charles Warren2, Bernadette Wegenstein3, Linda Williams4, Mieke Bal5, Karen D. Hoffman6, Jennifer L. McMahon7, Patricia R. Zimmermann8, Erika9, David LaRocca1, :Prof. Carl Plantinga3, William Rothman4 ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Film Theory

    An Introduction

    by Robert Stam ...
    This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD