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  • The Look of the 1960s

    Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics

    by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of the iconic comics, graphic novels, and illustrations of the 1960s and 1970s. The Look of the 1960s explores the sources of inspiration that influenced the world of comics, beginning with the well-known ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rebuilding Story Worlds

    The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters

    by Jan Baetens ...
    Series series Critical Graphics
    A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Novelization

    From Film to Novel

    by Jan Baetens ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding of narrative theory more broadly. A typical example of popular literature, novelization has remained ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Graphic Novel

    An Introduction

    by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey ...
    This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel

    Edited by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, Fabrice Leroy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples, this volume reviews the historical development of various subgenres within the graphic novel tradition and examines how graphic novelists have created multiple and different accounts of the American ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Film Photonovel

    A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

    by Jan Baetens ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

    Edited by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, Stephen E. Tabachnick ...
    The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cellular Automata

    16th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2024, Florence, Italy, September 9–11, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Franco Bagnoli, Jan Baetens, Stefania Bandini, Tommaso Matteuzzi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Cellular Automata, ACRI 2024, held in Florence, Italy, in September 9–11, 2024.The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: theory, mathematical and physical models; ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Correspondance

    The Birth of Belgian Surrealism

    by Jan Baetens, Michael Kasper ...
    Series Book 27 - Belgian Francophone Library
    Correspondance is the name of a Belgian Surrealist magazine published in 1924–1925 by Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, and Marcel Lecomte. It is considered as seminal as Breton’s «Surrealist Manifesto» (1924). The texts were tart, obscure responses to the arcane literary debates of the time, in particular those underway in André Breton’s circle in Paris. Twenty-two issues of Correspondance were ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

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    Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    by James Monaco ...
    Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD