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The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory

Edited by Kyle Stevens ...

Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "a movie" or "the cinematic" are. Indeed, we might say that the category of film now only exists in theory. Whereas film-theoretical discussion at the turn of the 21st century was preoccupied, understandably, by digital technology's permeation of virtually all aspects of the film ... Read more

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Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "a movie" or "the cinematic" are. Indeed, we might say that the category of film now only exists in theory. Whereas film-theoretical discussion at the turn of the 21st century was preoccupied, understandably, by digital technology's permeation of virtually all aspects of the film
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Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

by Steven Rybin, Brenda Austin-Smith, Karen Hollinger, Rick Warner, David Greven, Celestino Deleyto, Jennifer O'Meara, Danielle E. Williams, Daniel Varndell, Kyle Stevens0, Matt Connolly1, Cynthia Baron2 ...

Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

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Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as
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Mike Nichols

Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism

by Kyle Stevens ...

With iconic movies like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols was the most prominent American director during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism argues that he overhauled the style of psychological realism, and, in doing so, continues to shape the legacies of Hollywood cinema. It ... Read more

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With iconic movies like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols was the most prominent American director during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism argues that he overhauled the style of psychological realism, and, in doing so, continues to shape the legacies of Hollywood cinema. It
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Nightsounds

by Steven Kyle ...

Sounds in the night ... real, or imagined? Displaced energy, ghosts, metaphysical spirits ... science, or fiction? Nick Cameron and Tommy Boyd have been investigating bizarre cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion, and their search for the truth will lead them into a world that will challenge their personal definitions and conceptions of reality. What happens when the expended energy that has ... Read more

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Sounds in the night ... real, or imagined? Displaced energy, ghosts, metaphysical spirits ... science, or fiction? Nick Cameron and Tommy Boyd have been investigating bizarre cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion, and their search for the truth will lead them into a world that will challenge their personal definitions and conceptions of reality. What happens when the expended energy that has
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Poetics of Cinema

by David Bordwell ...

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

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Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning
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Breathless

by Brigid Kemmerer ...

"The series that YA fans have been waiting for." --Nocturne ReadsToo many secrets. Not enough time.Nick Merrick is supposed to be the level-headed one. The peacemaker. Since it's just him and his three hotheaded brothers against the world, that's a survival tactic.But now he's got problems even his brothers can't help him survive.His so-called girlfriend, Quinn, is going quick as mercury from ... Read more

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"The series that YA fans have been waiting for." --Nocturne ReadsToo many secrets. Not enough time.Nick Merrick is supposed to be the level-headed one. The peacemaker. Since it's just him and his three hotheaded brothers against the world, that's a survival tactic.But now he's got problems even his brothers can't help him survive.His so-called girlfriend, Quinn, is going quick as mercury from
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Secret

by Brigid Kemmerer ...

Series Book 4 - Elemental
“Multiple secrets come to a boil” for a Merrick brother in a pressure cooker of a paranormal from the New York Times bestselling author of Spirit (Kirkus Reviews).Nowhere is safe. Not even home . . .Nick Merrick is stretched to the breaking point.Keep his grades sky-high or he’ll never escape his hometown. Keep his brother’s business going or the Merricks will be out on the street. Keep the secret ... Read more

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“Multiple secrets come to a boil” for a Merrick brother in a pressure cooker of a paranormal from the New York Times bestselling author of Spirit (Kirkus Reviews).Nowhere is safe. Not even home . . .Nick Merrick is stretched to the breaking point.Keep his grades sky-high or he’ll never escape his hometown. Keep his brother’s business going or the Merricks will be out on the street. Keep the secret
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Vampire

by Richie Tankersley Cusick ...

A young girl attracts the attention of a killer who’s thirsty for bloodDarcy never expected to spend a summer vacation living with her long-lost uncle Jake. Although he’s only six years older than her, they have never met. By the end of the summer, she’ll know him better than she ever wanted.Jake and his friends share a dark sense of humor. He lives in the Dungeon, a wax museum filled with gory ... Read more

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A young girl attracts the attention of a killer who’s thirsty for bloodDarcy never expected to spend a summer vacation living with her long-lost uncle Jake. Although he’s only six years older than her, they have never met. By the end of the summer, she’ll know him better than she ever wanted.Jake and his friends share a dark sense of humor. He lives in the Dungeon, a wax museum filled with gory
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The Essay Film

From Montaigne, After Marker

by Timothy Corrigan ...

Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Read more

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Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to
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Cherringham - Death on a Moonlit Night

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by Matthew Costello, Neil Richards ...

Series Book 26 - Cherringham: Mystery Shorts
When the boss of the big local DIY outlet is murdered on a moonlit night, all the evidence points to the store's junior manager. And when police retrieve the murder weapon from the Thames, the manager goes on the run. But Jack and Sarah are not at all sure of his guilt. Can they uncover the real killer before it's too late for the runaway suspect?Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, ... Read more

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When the boss of the big local DIY outlet is murdered on a moonlit night, all the evidence points to the store's junior manager. And when police retrieve the murder weapon from the Thames, the manager goes on the run. But Jack and Sarah are not at all sure of his guilt. Can they uncover the real killer before it's too late for the runaway suspect?Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham,
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The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder

A Tor.Com Original

by Elizabeth Bear ...

Series series A Tor.Com Original
In art as in life, you've got to change in order to live. Even when your audience—and maybe your friends—thinks it would be great if you stayed the same forever. In some cases, literally forever.The author of over seventeen SF and fantasy novels published over the last half-decade, Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005, and the Hugo Award and the Sturgeon Award ... Read more

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In art as in life, you've got to change in order to live. Even when your audience—and maybe your friends—thinks it would be great if you stayed the same forever. In some cases, literally forever.The author of over seventeen SF and fantasy novels published over the last half-decade, Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005, and the Hugo Award and the Sturgeon Award
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Theorizing Visual Studies

Writing Through the Discipline

Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen ...

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

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This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this
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