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  • Neil Young and Philosophy

    by Michael Forest, Lee Hester, Mike Jostedt, Erin McKenna, Matthew W. Mitchell, Simon Riches, Jared Sizer, Andrew James Watson, Douglas R. Anderson, Bruce Umbaugh ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades. Neil Young’s music has touched on a broad range of cultural, political and personal issues, all of which have enormous ongoing relevance for our own times. In order to accommodate Young ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of David Cronenberg

    Edited by Simon Riches ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Initially regarded as a cult figure with a strong following amongst sci-fi and horror film fans, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg emerged as a major and commercially viable film director with mainstream hits such as A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007). With his unique ability to present imagery that is both disturbing and provocative, Cronenberg creates striking films, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Free Will

    by Sam Harris ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, “brilliant and witty” (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion.A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The View from the Bridge

    Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

    by Nicholas Meyer ...
    "Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."-trekmovie.comWhen Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick

    Edited by Jerold J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technology. Within this great variety of subject matter, Kubrick examines different sides of reality and unifies ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses

    Roger Corman

    by Chris Nashawaty ...
    "Delightful . . . an engrossing oral history . . . As an enthusiastic ode to colorful, seat-of-your-pants filmmaking, this one's hard to beat." — Booklist (starred review)"Fantastic—a treasure." —Stephen KingC rab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Corman—one of the most prolific and successful independent ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Epic

    The Life and Films of David Lean

    by Gene D. Phillips ...
    Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908–1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic storytelling and panoramic visions of history, but he started out as a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Truth or Dare

    Art and Documentary

    Edited by Gail Pearce, Cahal McLaughlin ...
    The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form—but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Quentin Tarantino

    Interviews, Revised and Updated

    Edited by Gerald Peary ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is common. Coyote coursing, hunting with ... Read more

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  • Cristi Puiu

    by Monica Filimon ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Cinema of Ang Lee

    The Other Side of the Screen

    by Whitney Crothers Dilley ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom whether inside or outside of Hollywood, and two Academy Awards for Best Director. He has won astounding critical acclaim for Crouching Tiger, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Beyond Auteurism

    New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s

    by Rosanna Maule ...
    Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs. In considering this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD