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  • The Holiday in His Eye

    Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Hitchcock

    The Murderous Gaze

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt—and most controversial—film.First published in 1982, William Rothman's Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

    Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in Emerson’s writings, that gave classical Hollywood movies of the New Deal era their extraordinary combination of popularity and artistic seriousness. A ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Tuitions and Intuitions

    Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of film-philosophy. From his landmark book Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, now in its second edition, to the essays collected here in Tuitions and Intuitions, Rothman has been guided by two intuitions: first, that his kind of film ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1

    Series Book 1 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish; 'To Serve A Prince' by B.W. Clough; 'Red Nails' by Robert E. Howard; 'Your Name Is Eve' by ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Sonnet 130 (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

    15 min

    In a world where beauty is often idealized and unattainable, William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 presents a refreshingly honest and relatable perspective. This unabridged edition delves into the complexities of love, desire, and the search for true beauty. Prepare to embark on a literary journey that challenges societal norms and explores the raw emotions of the human heart. Sonnet 130 (Unabridged) ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Looking with Robert Gardner

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner's achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925–2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre's conventions-conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cavell on Film

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    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

  • Playing the Odds

    Las Vegas and the Modern West

    This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read. - Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Documentary Film

    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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