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  • Das Star Wars Archiv 19771983  40th Anniversary

    3 in stock

    £22.50

  • Das Star Wars Archiv. 19992005. 40th Ed.

    Taschen GmbH Das Star Wars Archiv. 19992005. 40th Ed.

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £22.50

  • Transcript Verlag Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisHow are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fiction? Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton, and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel, and prison functions in the newly emerging genre of the care home novel. What role does this setting play for the narrative construction of old age, and what hopes and fears are revealed? Kriebernegg argues that the spatiality of aging needs to be included into discussions of late life agency and care in the face of vulnerability.

    2 in stock

    £37.50

  • Edition Patrick Frey Alien

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £76.50

  • 7 in stock

    £15.00

  • Slanted Publishers UG FFCGN Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 4

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    Book Synopsis

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    £999.99

  • Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures, Making Pictures

    £32.00

  • 2 in stock

    £30.40

  • Spector Books Sandra Schäfer: Moments of Rupture. Spaces,

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £18.00

  • Editions Notre Savoir Film haoussa dAfrique de lOuest

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    Book Synopsis

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    £999.99

  • Never Sleep with the Director: And 50 Other

    BIS Publishers B.V. Never Sleep with the Director: And 50 Other

    Book SynopsisRidiculous' is a relative term, what is nonsense for one can be an important guideline for another. It is not about laying down the law. For each of the 51 rules covered in each book, Van Gaalen refers to quotes by famous fellow creators, who either think there's something to the rule or have made a personal variation on it.

    £12.34

  • Los Angeles Before Hollywood

    Statens Ljud-och Bildarkiv Los Angeles Before Hollywood

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £22.50

  • Remember, Repeat, Inhabit: A Study of Antonin

    Bloomsbury India Remember, Repeat, Inhabit: A Study of Antonin

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisRemember, Repeat, Inhabit looks at three questions in relation to the idea of the viewer: What happens when one reads someone else''s reading of someone else?What happens when something repeats itself in Kieslowski''s work?Is there a possibility of an ontology of space?The book attempts to understand the idea of ''viewing'' from the inside, not simply as an ontological premise but definitely affected by it. Three differing contexts are looked at-a French madman''s notion of the ''self'', a Polish filmmaker''s notion of the ''everyday'' and an Indian performance artist''s notion of ''memory''. Through these on-the-surface contrasting artists and texts, a particular idea of a ''viewer'' emerges. This viewer is the key to an understanding of something almost elemental in the nature of the idea of ''viewing'' in the contemporary context of twenty-first-century Delhi.

    1 in stock

    £80.75

  • Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as

    Bloomsbury India Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £80.75

  • Avatar Fire and Ash The Visual Dictionary

    DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Avatar Fire and Ash The Visual Dictionary

    £22.50

  • Insight Editions Rob Zombies House of 1000 Corpses

    1 in stock

    1 in stock

    £31.99

  • Insight Editions Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities

    7 in stock

    7 in stock

    £36.00

  • Insight Editions Arcane Sculpted Journal Jinx

    £18.74

  • Insight Editions Arcane Sculpted Journal Vi

    £18.74

  • Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British

    Bloomsbury Publishing USA Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisClive Chijioke Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at University College London, UK.

    5 in stock

    £24.99

  • Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

    Bloomsbury Publishing USA Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisSaturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction?Australian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason.Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for the domineering Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and its true auteur, and for the entire record business. This book traces all the interdependent convolutions that fed into the film and its music not least the Australian roots that Stigwood and Gibb brothers shared, which gave them an Otherness and almost gormless, shape-shifting self-determination and it finds that sometimes great art can be made by a committee ... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the world.

    5 in stock

    £20.43

  • Star Wars The High Republic The Lightsaber

    Insight Editions Star Wars The High Republic The Lightsaber

    Book SynopsisDiscover more than 50 lightsabers from the golden age of the Jedi with this essential guide to the elegant weapons from Star Wars: The High Republic. A follow-up to the bestselling Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection, this exciting volume is an exploration of High Republic hilts, including designs that are illustrated in a photo-real manner for the first time. A must-have resource for fans, this reference book is a fine addition to any The High Republic collection. From Vernestra Rwoh’s unique lightwhip and Stellan Gios’ ornate crossguard lightsaber to Burryaga’s broadsword-like hilt, the signature weapon of the Star Wars galaxy has never looked so elegant as it does during the prosperous era of the High Republic.Star Wars: The High Republic: The Lightsaber Collection is an essential visual guide and exploration of the numerous lightsabers found within The High Republic saga, featuring hil

    £25.50

  • Insight Editions Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts The Wands of

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £24.00

  • House of the Dragon: Targaryen Fire & Blood

    £23.99

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  • £10.44

  • Harry Potter Sculpted Journal Gryffindor

    Insight Editions Harry Potter Sculpted Journal Gryffindor

    Book SynopsisThis collectible, hardcover journal has an eye-catching sculpted cover featuring intricate, Gryffindor-themed artwork inspired by the Harry Potter films.

    £19.19

  • £26.25

  • Weldon Owen, Incorporated Downton Abbey 3

    7 in stock

    7 in stock

    £25.49

  • The Mastermind

    Mubi Editions The Mastermind

    Book SynopsisKelly Reichardt is a writer and director whose feature films include River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), First Cow (2019) and Showing Up (2022). Lucy Sante is a writer whose books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name. Alec MacKaye is a writer and musician who has worked as an art installer at the Phillips Collection Museum of Art for twenty-seven years.

    £28.00

  • Possessed  Hypnotic Crimes Corporate Fiction and

    The University of Chicago Press Possessed Hypnotic Crimes Corporate Fiction and

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFocuses on the terrifying notion of murder committed against one's will in silent cinema and contemporaneous literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book helps readers understand anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities.Trade Review"Ambitious and wide-ranging, Possessed is a remarkably invigorating interdisciplinary exercise that will be read with profit by individuals in cinema and media studies, comparative literature, and the history of science. It reaches conclusions that are both precisely stated and inordinately suggestive." - Eric Rentschler, Harvard University"

    1 in stock

    £38.00

  • Minding Movies

    The University of Chicago Press Minding Movies

    Book SynopsisPresents a selection from over three hundred essays on genre movies, art films, animation, and the business of Hollywood that have graced Bordwell and Thompson's blog. This title includes essays-on topics ranging from Borat to blockbusters and back again-will delight current fans and gain new enthusiasts.Trade Review"Academic programs continue to churn out professors who continue to assign books by Bordwell and Thompson that open eyes, ears, and minds, and sometimes rock worlds." -New York Times "The husband-wife team of film critics and scholars teach at the University of Wisconsin, publish books, maintain an indispensable and routinely astonishing blog, and lecture regularly at film festivals around the world.... Between their books and their blog, Bordwell and Thompson publish more original, engrossing, often startling work in a year than most critics manage in a lifetime." -Independent Film Channel"

    £76.95

  • Minding Movies

    The University of Chicago Press Minding Movies

    Book SynopsisPresents a selection from over three hundred essays on genre movies, art films, animation, and the business of Hollywood that have graced Bordwell and Thompson's blog. This title offers ideas sure to set film lovers thinking - and keep them returning to the silver screen.Trade Review"Academic programs continue to churn out professors who continue to assign books by Bordwell and Thompson that open eyes, ears, and minds, and sometimes rock worlds." -New York Times "The husband-wife team of film critics and scholars teach at the University of Wisconsin, publish books, maintain an indispensable and routinely astonishing blog, and lecture regularly at film festivals around the world....Between their books and their blog, Bordwell and Thompson publish more original, engrossing, often startling work in a year than most critics manage in a lifetime." -Independent Film Channel"

    £24.00

  • Closed Circuits  Screening Narrative Surveillance

    The University of Chicago Press Closed Circuits Screening Narrative Surveillance

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisExplores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance.Trade Review"A remarkable book on the cinema of surveillance. It is as comfortable with settled masterpieces like M and Rear Window as it is with last week's blockbuster, and it knows the difference between them. Deeply informed by narrative theory, film theory, and media theory, the eye-opening arguments bear on issues of real moment in our time." (James Chandler, University of Chicago)"

    1 in stock

    £26.00

  • Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief

    The University of Chicago Press Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief

    Book SynopsisWas it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that history--the president's multiple screenings of Patton before and during the invasion of Cambodia, or Oliver Stone's Nixon--is well known. Yet much more is not. How many are aware, for example, that Nixon was an enthusiastic filmgoer who watched more than five hundred movies during his presidency? Nixon at the Movies takes a new and often revelatory approach to looking at Nixon's career--and Hollywood's. From the obvious (All the President's Men) to the less so (Elvis Presley movies and Nixon's relationship to '60s youth culture) to several onscreen alternate Nixons (Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity, Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell of Success, Gene Hackman in The Conversation), Feeney sees aspects of Nixon's character, and the nation's, reTrade Review"Feeney bases his study on the little-known fact that Nixon, all his life, was an avid moviegoer. Like the rest of us, he formed his idea of America from the silver screen. By the same token, a number of American films provide the best explanation of Nixon. Feeney's book, therefore, is a study not only of his protagonist but of America, as well. . . . Feeney's book is lucid, well-argued and full of fascinating details."-- (12/05/2004) "It's not surprising . . . that the 37th U.S. president most often figures in cinema not as a character but as a touchstone of an era of frustration and corruption in which the American Dream seemed to be grinding to a halt. . . . Thankfully, Feeney doesn't focus narrowly on Nixon in the movies, so he never gets bogged down explaining the symbolism obvious in some of these films. Instead, Feeney construes his subject far more broadly -- hence, Nixon at the movies. Feeney uses many films in which Nixon isn't referenced at all, from Double Indemnity to The Conversation, as lenses for interpreting the president and his times. And most originally, he ponders Nixon's infatuation with the silver screen, revealing the loner president to be a compulsive moviegoer who watched more than 500 pictures while in office."-- (12/28/2004) "Mark Feeney's Nixon at the Movies shows us how movie images, themes and myths reverberate with the biography of one of America's most enigmatic presidents. . . . It's a truly inspired idea: examining the connection between the devious, uptight Richard Milhous Nixon, the man who wore wingtips at the beach, and the glittery, greedy, glamorous movies."-- (12/19/2004) "Formidably intelligent analyses of some key episodes and themes from Richard Nixon's life. . . . 'Nixon at the Movies' is not a book to be judged by the coherence or originality of its argument but by the quality of its performance. . . . There are brilliant star turns here, as when Feeney likens Nixon to the director Frank Capra."-- (12/12/2004) "Feeney's book is not simply a chronicle of a president's incurable cinemania. It's an exploration of a rendezvous between a politician's personality and a medium of dreams and fantasies, playing themselves out larger than life in darkened auditoriums--and in theaters of the mind."--Robert Sklar "Boston Sunday Globe " "[An] ingeneous study of Nixon's mythomania. . . . Feeney's a perceptive analyst and a vividly aphoristic writer."-- (01/09/2005) "A gloriously offbeat examination of how movie images, themes, and myths reverberate with the biography of one of America's most enigmatic presidents."--San Jose Mercury News (01/16/2005) "Exploiting the most recent scholarship on US political culture and connecting this learning with perceptive readings of scores of popular films, Feeney captures both the spectacle and the pathos associated with Nixon's rise and fall. Alongside Gary Wills's Nixon Agonistes, this work merits a place as one of the two most insightful books yet written on a character who never ceases to fascinate."--Choice "Feeney persuasively shows that studying Nixon and the movies makes perfect sense. . . . Nixon at the Movies is a rewarding book for those interested in assessing the relationship between politics and the movies and, more specifically, for readers intrigued by the multifaceted connections between Richard Nixon and the Hollywood that he was both fascinated by and, at times, despised."--;/DIV>--Charles Maland "Cineaste " "Feeney is the former literary editor of the Boston Globe, and is not only thoroughly conversant with the cinema, but with American popular entertainment generally. He has also made himself familiar with every word written by and about Nixon, and the eleven closely packed chapters of Nixon at the Movies juxtaposes different stages of the man's fascinating career with a series of "alternate [sic] Nixons" as presented by various films and film stars, the majority of them from the period 1940-70. . . . Throughout this audacious book, one comparison or analogy brings up another in such a manner as to invite re-reading. What may be called Nixon's Hollywood years have been made memorable by the creative fantasies of Mark Feeney, right there with him at the movies.--William H. Prichard, Times Literary Supplement" -- (01/14/2005) "Mark Feeney, a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, takes up the 37th president's fondness for the silver screen in his very readable Nixon at the Movies, which is somewhat mysteriously subtitled A Book About Belief. Mr. Feeney's theme, however, is far wider than Nixon and the films he watched, as surprisingly interesting and entertaining as that subject turns out to be in Mr. Feeney's hands. . . . Rather, the author uses the movies and the president as the basis for a broader look at America and its history in Nixon's time, a very big subject indeed. Nixon at the Movies becomes a social and cultural history of the United States in the mid-20th century."-- (01/02/2005) "In Nixon at the Movies, Mark Feeney has given us a thought-provoking and truly original book--a work filled with incisive insights into a fascinating figure."--Robert A. Caro "Movies and Richard Milhous Nixon can each tell us a lot about America. In this sui generis study--combining film analysis, social history, psychological observation, and political biography--Mark Feeney reminds us that Nixon and the movies can also tell us a lot about each other. It will take further decades fully to understand the subliminal life of RMN. Here's a great beginning."--Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream series "Nixon at the Movies hits home from the start, when Mark Feeney draws out the Nixon in Fred MacMurray's Walter Neff in Double Indemnity--as for the rest of the book he will, along with countless other characters, draw the Neff out of Nixon. Feeney is as playful as he is determined, and this book is as infectious as David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film--and as like-minded people disagree over movies more than anything else, people will be arguing over Nixon at the Movies as much as, for more than half a century, the country at large has been arguing about Nixon." --Greil Marcus

    £21.00

  • A Place for Us

    The University of Chicago Press A Place for Us

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment a crowning jewel of postwar urban renewal. Foulkes interweaves the story of the creation of the musical and film with the remaking of the Upper West Side and the larger tale of New York's postwar aspirations. Making unprecedented use of Jerome Robbins's revelatory papers, she shows the crucial role played by the political commitments of Robbins and his fellow gay, Jewish collaborators, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents: their determination to evoke life in New York as it was actually lived helped give West Side Story its unshakable sense of place even as it put forward a vision of a new, vigorous, determinedly multicultural American city. Beautifully written and full of surprises for even the most dedicated West Side Story fan, A Place for Us is a powerful new exploration of an American classic.

    7 in stock

    £24.70

  • Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood

    The University of Chicago Press Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood

    Book SynopsisTakes a look at Hindi films and movie trends - the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot - to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living.Trade Review"This dazzling and wide-reaching book will be of interest to scholars not only in cinema studies, but more generally, those interested in postcoloniality, feminism and gender, and the nation-state in South Asia." (Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota)"

    £26.00

  • Rhapsodes  How 1940s Critics Changed American

    The University of Chicago Press Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American

    Book SynopsisPauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler scrutinized what was on the screen with an intensity not previously seen in popular reviewing. Although largely ignored by the arts media of the day, they honed the sort of serious discussion of films that would be made popular decades later by Kael, Sarris, Ebert and their contemporaries. With The Rhapsodes, renowned film scholar and critic David Bordwellan heir to both those legaciesrestores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the Rhapsodes for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their ve

    £76.00

  • The Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American

    The University of Chicago Press The Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American

    Book Synopsis

    £19.00

  • Representing Talent  Hollywood Agents and the

    The University of Chicago Press Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisAudiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering power, handling mediation, and doing the deal-making that keeps Hollywood spinning. In Representing Talent, Violaine Roussel explores the little-known but decisive work of agents, turning the spotlight on how they help produce popular culture. The book takes readers behind the scenes to observe the day-to-day activities of agents, revealing their influence on artistic careers and the prospects of Hollywood's forthcoming projects. Agents are crucial to understanding how creative and economic power are intertwined in Hollywood today. They play a key role in the process by which artistic worth and economic value are evaluated and attributed to people and projects. Roussel's fieldwork examines what having relationships really means for agents, a

    3 in stock

    £76.00

  • Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the

    The University of Chicago Press Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the

    Book SynopsisAudiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering power, handling mediation, and doing the deal-making that keeps Hollywood spinning. In Representing Talent, Violaine Roussel explores the little-known but decisive work of agents, turning the spotlight on how they help produce popular culture. The book takes readers behind the scenes to observe the day-to-day activities of agents, revealing their influence on artistic careers and the prospects of Hollywood's forthcoming projects. Agents are crucial to understanding how creative and economic power are intertwined in Hollywood today. They play a key role in the process by which artistic worth and economic value are evaluated and attributed to people and projects. Roussel's fieldwork examines what having relationships really means for agents, a

    £26.00

  • What Philosophy Wants from Images

    The University of Chicago Press What Philosophy Wants from Images

    Book SynopsisIn recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural experience through elliptical and discontinuous fragments of remembered images, even as the lived experience of film and photography recedes into the past, supplanted by the digital. Rodowick here explores work by artists such as Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Victor Burgin, Harun Farocki, and others artists who are creating forms that express a new historical consciousness of images. These forms acknowledge a complex relationship to the disappearing past even as they point toward new media that will challenge viewers' confidence in what the images they see are or are becoming. What philosophy wants from images, Rodowick shows, is to renew itself conceptually through deep engagement with new fo

    £26.00

  • Shoot  The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

    The University of Chicago Press Shoot The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

    Book SynopsisDocuments the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.Trade Review"One cannot deny that Pirandello's plays and novels reveal a surprising individuality - ironic, inventive, and sometimes fantastical.... He serves up old wine in new bottles, carrying the thoughts and emotions of men into striking and unusual situations, replenishing their force by shifting their orbit from the commonplace to the extraordinary." - New York Times (1927)"

    £18.00

  • Projecting the Shadow The Cyborg Hero in American

    The University of Chicago Press Projecting the Shadow The Cyborg Hero in American

    Book SynopsisThe cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film. Drawing from representative films such as Jaws, The Deer Hunter and The Manchurian Candidate the authors track the narrative's thread from the hunter to his technological nemesis.

    £28.00

  • The Cinematic Griot  The Ethnography of Jean

    The University of Chicago Press The Cinematic Griot The Ethnography of Jean

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite; and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who recites the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrates the inner connection between these two modes of representation. Stoller, who has done more fieldwork among the Songhay than anyone other than Rouch himself, here gives the first full account of Rouch the griot, whose own story scintillates with important implications for anthropology, ethnography, African studies, and film.

    1 in stock

    £57.95

  • The Perfect Fit Creative Work in the Global Shoe

    The University of Chicago Press The Perfect Fit Creative Work in the Global Shoe

    Book SynopsisThe most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who recites the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrat

    £28.00

  • Not Here Not Now Not That

    The University of Chicago Press Not Here Not Now Not That

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. This title discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns.Trade Review"Tepper has compiled a treasure trove of information on arts conflicts in America and subjected his data to intense scrutiny. At the same time he never loses sight of the big picture, and he engages the reader with numerous theories about cultural conflict. Furthermore, his original perspective on the way local communities deal with rapid change is straightforward and convincing." (David Halle, University of California, Los Angeles)"

    1 in stock

    £91.20

  • Not Here Not Now Not That

    The University of Chicago Press Not Here Not Now Not That

    Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. This title discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns.Trade Review"Tepper has compiled a treasure trove of information on arts conflicts in America and subjected his data to intense scrutiny. At the same time he never loses sight of the big picture, and he engages the reader with numerous theories about cultural conflict. Furthermore, his original perspective on the way local communities deal with rapid change is straightforward and convincing." (David Halle, University of California, Los Angeles)"

    £30.40

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