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  • Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World

    Filiations Past and Future

    by Réda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Yves Citton, Giuseppina Mecchia, Christian C. Wood, Richard J. Golsan, Vincent Debaene, Pamela A. Pears, Rajeshwari S. Vallury ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Roland Barthes' Cinema

    by Philip Watts ...
    The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    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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  • Reading bande dessinee

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    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

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  • Cinema

    by Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Read more

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  • Conversations on Cinema

    by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Paolo Jedlowski, Werner Herzog, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julio Bressane, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Georges Didi-Huberman ...
    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Read more

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  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

    Intersecting Lives

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    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a ... Read more

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  • Unclaimed Experience

    Trauma, Narrative, and History

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    The pathbreaking work that founded the field of trauma studies.In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century—both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it—we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, ... Read more

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  • Film Theory

    An Introduction

    by Robert Stam ...
    This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, ... Read more

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  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
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    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

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  • Concentrationary Cinema

    Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, ... Read more

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  • Comics and Narration

    by Thierry Groensteen ...
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    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the ... Read more

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