The Cinema of Agns Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism, Paperback - Delphine Benezet

Agn s Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, fil...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almod var. It shows how Almod var's films draw...

Reducere. Albert Pyun is a writer/director best known for THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, Jean-Claude Van Damme's CYBORG and Cannon's infamous CAPTAIN AMERICA......

Reducere. In this first study in English of a master of Polish cinema, Annette Insdorf explores Has's thirteen feature films with the same deep insight of he...

Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Stephen KeaneNumber of pages: 144Collection: ShortcutsPublication date: 2006Dimensions: 201 x 149 x 10Cover t...

Reducere. Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad. This is the fir...

An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history. Yet there is littl...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Sean RedmondIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 20, Number of pages: 256Collection: Directors' CutsPublicat...

Reducere. Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismis...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become o...

Reducere. The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonanc...

DescriptionThe films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator's lived bod...

Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who...

DescriptionThe Cinema of Ken Loach examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film direct...

Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker ...

Reducere. Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply 'about' Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his w...

Reducere. The SOURCE channeled by Varda Hasselmann during extensive trance sessions gives comforting and enlightning answers to the questions of life. The SO...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-century Britain

Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as th...

The compelling story of how a group of young Syrian rebels found hope in the midst of war - hope that came from booksPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor...

Reducere. "Simply put, Harry Mathias has done it again. "The Death & Rebirth of Cinema" solidifies Mathias's standing as THE great translator of film-to-digi...

A moving autobiographical novel about the narrator's mercurial mother, from a large Bohemian family, in the wake of her suicide. Sold 450, 000 copi...

Publisher: RANDAuthor(s): Danielle M. VardaIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 325 x 229 x 11Cover ...

Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power - Philippe SandsThe hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's ...

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the Unit...

One of PopSugar's Best Books of June!Two sisters join the Paris Resistance in this page-turning new novel inspired by the real-life bravery of Cath...

An original, challenging approach to analysing anti-semitism by a leading female rabbiPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Delphine HorvilleurTr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agn s Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Moshe (Rice University) VardiIllustration(s): 13 illus.; 13 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 544Collec...

The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today bestselling author ...

The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today bestselling author ...

Reducere. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. --Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui...

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Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of...

Reducere. Sa spui multumesc. Sa primesti recunostinta celuilalt. Pare foarte simplu. „Insa, uneori, este foarte complicat”, ne asigura scriitoarea Delphine d...

Reducere. Indian cinema completed a century in 2013. The centenary was marked by special events celebrating cinema over the last century. Books were written ...

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Reducere. An updated edition of a seminal work on the history of land ownership in the Southwest In New Mexico--once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico--P...

This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark DiceThe Resistance Manifesto by Mark Dice contains 450 pages of extensively researched and documented information draw...

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...

A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum singer-songwrit...

The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.

The first book-length study in any language of the "Berlin School, " the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s.

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Explores the many links between the centuries-old graphic tradition of Japanese painting and scroll making and the more recent discipline of the ci...