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  • Swedish Children’s Cinema

    History, Ideology and Aesthetics

    Edited by Malena Janson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Swedish children’s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of the 1990s through the early 2000s, and the multiple, exceedingly popular, Astrid Lindgren adaptations across the decades. Devoted to exploring this cinematographic legacy, this book offers close ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • Beyond Pippi Longstocking

    Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Astrid Surmatz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    by Andrew Butler ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Imagine you learn that your lover has had you erased from their memory and, in a moment of despair, you have your lover erased from your memory too. Imagine that as you lose your recollections of the bad times together, you realise that you don't want to forget them after all.That's the premise for Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-winning script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An instant cult ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Radical Gestures

    Feminism and Performance Art in North America

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

    by Darren Wershler ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Queer Cinema in Europe

    Edited by Robin Griffiths ...
    This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representation and desire within a uniquely diverse and divergent European context. And raise many provocative ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Archiveology

    Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

    by Catherine Russell ...
    Series series a Camera Obscura Book
    In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell examines a range of films alongside ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Place of Artists' Cinema

    Space, Site, and Screen

    by Maeve Connolly ...
    In The Place of Artists’ Cinema, Maeve Connolly identifies a recurrent concern with site, space and cinema architecture in film and video works by artists, extending from the late 1960s to the present day. Focusing on developments over the past decade, Connolly provides in-depth readings of selected recent works by twenty-four different artists, ranging from multi-screen projections to site ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Swedish Film

    An Introduction and a Reader

    Edited by Mariah Larsson, Anders Marklund ...
    A compilation of carefully selected articles written by international film scholars, this record provides an in-depth look into the history of Swedish film. This scholarly account covers various phenomena, including the early screenings at the turn of the century, Swedish censorship, the golden age of silent films, 1930s' comedies and melodramas, documentaries, pornography, and experimental films. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Danish Directors

    Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema

    Edited by Ib Bondebjerg, Mette Hjort ...
    Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies, which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike.Each interview is preceded by a ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Hype

    Bestsellers and Literary Culture

    Edited by Jon Helgason, Sara Kärrholm, Ann Steiner ...
    In the world of books and literature, “hype” is associated with bestsellerism - the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity. Quite often though, a hyped bestseller is met with a skeptic criticism of poor language, a badly constructed ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being There

    New Perspectives on Phenomenology and the Analysis of Culture

    Edited by Jonas Frykman, Nils Gilje ...
    In this anthology a group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. A detailed overview of how perspectives like being and life-world can be applied to studies of everyday life as well as a historical background of phenomenology are presented, showing how culture can be understood more from how it happens than what it is. ... Read more

    $34.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus