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  • The Artist as Monster

    The Cinema of David Cronenberg

    by William Beard ...
    Series series Heritage
    PAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERSDavid Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today. His provocative work has stimulated debate and received major retrospectives in museums, galleries, and cinematheques around the world. William Beard's The Artist as Monster was the first book-length scholarly work in English on Cronenberg's films, analyzing all of his features from ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts

    75 years after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy: in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world. What lessons have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Into the Past

    The Cinema of Guy Maddin

    by William Beard ...
    Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around the world and is avidly discussed in the critical press. Into the Past provides a complete and systematic critical commentary on each of Maddin ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • An Absence of Honor: Activist Essays

    We Are Architects of Our Lives

    An Absence of HonorBy: Dr. Diana Beard-WilliamsAn Absence of Honor is a collection of essays exploring the different layers of intrigue, self-examination, and retribution an activist in any community may encounter. In her essays, author and experienced activist Dr. Diana Beard-Williams speaks both of the rewards living the life of an activist can bring, but also of the dangers any aspiring ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

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  • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Pauline Kael ...
    A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics“Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” Pauline Kael once observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” Between 1968 and 1991, as regular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Funny Weather

    Art in an Emergency

    by Olivia Laing ...
    “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Manny Farber ...
    A stunning showcase of film critic Manny Farber’s best writing on classic movies and film titans, from Martin Scorsese to Werner HerzogFarber was an early discoverer of many filmmakers later acclaimed as American masters: Val Lewton, Preston Sturges, Samuel Fuller, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann. A prodigiously gifted painter himself, he brought to his writing an artist's eye for what was on the screen ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How to Watch a Movie

    by David Thomson ...
    From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema. Now he offers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Film Studies

    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burning Down the House

    Essays on Fiction

    Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for more than a decade. Readers are rewarded with thoughtful analysis, humorous one-liners, and plenty of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966

    by Anaïs Nin ...
    Series Book 6 - The Diaries of Anaïs Nin
    The sixth volume of the diary of "one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century" ( The New York Times Book Review).Anaïs Nin continues "one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters" with this volume covering more than a decade of her midcentury life ( Los Angeles Times). She debates the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination; portrays ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

    The Art of Documentary Photography

    by Jonathan Day ...
    In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's understanding of itself. To mark the book’s fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan Day revisits this pivotal ... Read more

    $28.79 USD