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  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Welcome to Fear City

    Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination

    by Nathan Holmes ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    Mysteries of Atlantis – Myth or Reality?, The

    Exploring the Lost City, Ancient Legends, and Scientific Theories

    by Nathan Holmes ...
    Narrated by Nathan Holmes ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    For centuries, Atlantis has captured the imagination of explorers, historians, and conspiracy theorists alike. First described by Plato, this legendary lost civilization is said to have vanished beneath the waves in a single day and night. But did it ever really exist?This audiobook takes you on a journey through myth, history, and science, examining ancient texts, archaeological discoveries, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Better Living Through Criticism

    How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

    by A. O. Scott ...
    The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Horror Films of the 1970s

    by John Kenneth Muir ...
    The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade.Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its release in the United States, Section Two offers an entry for each film. Each entry includes several ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    by Cecilia Sjöholm ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Communist Horizon

    by Jodi Dean ...
    In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of theSoviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of internationalbanking has alerted exploited populations the world over to theunsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetualgrowth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodationwith capitalism.In the new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Badiou and His Interlocutors

    Lectures, Interviews and Responses

    by Alain Badiou ...
    This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Value of Popular Music

    An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

    by Alison Stone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music’s stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Lost Thread

    The Democracy of Modern Fiction

    by Mr Steven Corcoran, Jacques Rancière ...
    In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Adorno and Art

    Aesthetic Theory Contra Critical Theory

    by J. Hellings ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD