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  • Beyond the Essay Film

    Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology

    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long durée' of the 20th century and into the 21st. By raising the issue of 'beyond the essay film', this collection seeks not only to acknowledge the influential predecessors of this ... Read more

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  • The Intellect Handbook of Documentary

    The Handbook of Documentary is an important go-to resource for practitioners, scholars and students in this burgeoning field. It tackles key topics and debates – from the role of documentary in post-truth culture to the rise of streaming giants (and the implications for national documentary cultures) and the shifting (increasingly hybrid) practices of documentary activism and the ... Read more

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  • Screen Culture in the Global South

    Cinema at the End of the World

    This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical contexts.Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images. This ... Read more

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  • Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film

    Edited by Deane Williams ...
    This volume will be a ‘time capsule’ of the first 10 years of Studies in Documentary Film (2007–2016), tracing not only the development of the journal but also of documentary studies in the same period. Issues such as the rise of digital documentary forms and authorship, documentary activism, and the Chinese Independent documentary, as well as diverse political issues, will be raised in the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Australian Post-war Documentary Film

    An Arc of Mirrors

    The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical documentaries. On one level, the book is a selective history of Australian documentary film in the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Grierson Effect

    Tracing Documentary's International Movement

    Edited by Zoë Druick, Deane Williams ...
    Series series Cultural Histories of Cinema
    This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading scholars from around the world, The Grierson Effect explores the impact of Grierson's ideas about documentary and educational film in a wide range of cultural and national contexts – from Russia and Scandinavia, to Latin America, South Africa and New ... Read more

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  • Australian Film Theory and Criticism

    Volume 3: Documents

    The third part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Volume 3: Documents concludes the project by gathering together the documents that were produced during the rise of film studies in Australian academia from 1975–85. Through these sources we see the development of the particularities of Australian film theory and criticism, its ... Read more

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  • Australian Film Theory and Criticism

    Volume 1: Critical Positions

    The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, personnel, and institutions across this formative period, Noel King, Constantine ... Read more

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  • The Cinema of Sean Penn

    In and Out of Place

    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Australian Film Theory and Criticism

    Volume 2: Interviews

    Edited by Deane Williams, Noel King ...
    A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. The second volume in the series, this book gathers interviews with national and international film theorists and critics to chart the ... Read more

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  • The Mechanism of Life

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Enigmatic Forces of Life

    In "The Mechanism of Life," Stéphane Leduc presents a pioneering exploration of biological processes through the lens of science and philosophy. Written in the early 20th century, Leduc's work combines meticulous scientific observation with a poetic prose style, crafting an intricate tapestry that interweaves biology, mechanics, and metaphysics. He examines the fundamental principles of life, ... Read more

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    Creating a Cinematic Grammar

    Series series Short Cuts
    Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This volume takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a ... Read more

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