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    Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction

    by Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart ...
    In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.Among the most prolific and exacting readers of his generation, Stewart is renowned for his virtuosic interventions across a number of humanistic fields, including prose narrative, screen studies, and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human speech, opera, the expression of skepticism, and ordinary language philosophy?Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind provides a first-of-its-kind intervention by leading philosophers and scholars of music ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor

    by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally.David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and resonant as Stewart's own writing.Critical luminaries from the fields of literary and film studies assess the methods and scope of Garrett Stewart's career-long work across the fields of literary ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • A Critical Companion to David Lynch

    by Andrew M. Winters, Brandelyn Andres, Adam Daniel, Matthew Grinder, Julie M. Hamilton, James Jarrett, Peter Lang, David LaRocca, Rupert Loydell, Kingsley Marshall0, Donald McCarthy1, Osman Nemli2, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns3, Kristina Sekrst4, Zachary Sheldon5, Matthew Sorrento6, David Sweeney7, Kwasu David Tembo8, Zachary Vereb9, Reba Wissner0 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch’s films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Metacinema

    The Form and Content of Filmic Reference and Reflexivity

    Edited by David LaRocca ...
    When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art—either by reference to itself or to other works—we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in Metacinema, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists join to enthusiastically debate the meanings ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Cinema of Rithy Panh

    Everything Has a Soul

    by Leslie Barnes, Joseph Mai, Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier, Jennifer Cazenave, Lindsay French, Rachel Harrison, John Kleinen, David LaRocca, Boreth Ly0, Raya Morag1, Soko Phay2, Donald Reid3, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca4, Jack A. Yeager5, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials6, Khatharya Um7 ...
    Series series Global Film Directors
    Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia’s most celebrated living director.The fourteen ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Geschlecht Complex

    Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology

    Edited by Dr. Oscar Jansson, Dr. David LaRocca ...
    The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the translational, transdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational structures of the contemporary humanities: What happens when texts, objects, practices, and concepts are transferred or displaced from one language, tradition, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Inheriting Stanley Cavell

    Memories, Dreams, Reflections

    Edited by Dr. David LaRocca ...
    Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis

    by Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna, Michael Charlton, Christian Jimenez, Paul Johnson, Siobhan Lyons, Kingsley Marshall, Sue Matheson, Francis Mickus0, Carl Sobocinski1, Eric Sterling2, Anneke Murley-Evenden3, David K. Chan4, Christopher H. Ketcham5, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns6, Nicole R. Pramik7, Ludovic A. Sourdot8, David LaRocca9, Kwasu David Tembo0 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick

    by Joshua Sikora, Matthew Aughtry, Vernon W. Cisney, Adam Daniel, David J. Gilbert, Reno Lauro, Anthony Parisi, Kip Redick, Joshua Russell, Dean Yamada0, Timothy E.G. Bartel1, Naaman Wood2, David LaRocca3 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    From the dust of the Montana plains to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Terrence Malick’s films have enchanted audiences with transcendent images of nature, humanity, and grace for nearly fifty years. The contributors in this volume explore the profound implications of Malick’s stories, images, processes, and convictions as they offer comprehensive studies of the ten completed films of Terrence ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Werner Herzog

    by Stefanie Baumann, Daniele Dottorini, Anthony Eagan, Antony Fredriksson, Marc Furstenau, Will Lehman, Kyle Novak, Simon Thornton, Tyler Tritten, Patrícia Castello Branco, Ian Alexander Moore, David LaRocca, Mihai Ometita ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse philosophical approaches to his films and to the thinking behind their creation. The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner,collects fourteen ... Read more

    $105.99 USD