BFI PUBLISHING (BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE)

(P/B) THE FILMS OF FRITZ LANG
In this remarkable new study the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. Gunning examines the films not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lange's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinem...
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(P/B) LUCHINO VISCONTI

UNDERSTANDING REALISM (P/B)
In a world, in which camcorders and CCTV are witness to our every move and Big Brother and The Blair Witch Project are phenomenally popular and widely imitated, the divide between reality and fiction has become increasingly blurred. Understanding Realism aims to explain and make accessible a concept central to the understanding of film and television studies. It is the second in a series of short orientation texts geared to the formal study of the moving image. Using a selection of the critical approaches, Understanding Realism examines th...
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(P/B) DAVID LYNCH

(P/B) A HISTORY OF ARTISTS' FILM AND VIDEO IN BRITAIN
In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in 2004, 1996, 1999 and 1997 respectively) for work made on video. This fin-de-sicle explosion of activity represents the culmination of a long history of work by less well-known artists and experimental film-makers. Ever since the invention of film in the 1890s, artists have been attracted to the possibilities of working with moving images, whether ...
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FILM ART PHENOMENA (P/B)
(. . .) Hamlyn's major new study treats artist's film conceptually in order to explore key categories that connect different works and film-makers: from framing to digital media, installation to interactivity, point of view to sound. (. . . ) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) THE FRENCH CINEMA BOOK
The French Cinema Book is an accessible and innovative survey of key topics in French cinema from the 1890s to the 21st century. The French Cinema Book proposes new insights into familiar areas and sets out a fresh agenda for the study and appreciation of French cinema: 'Who are the men and women who have made French cinema happen?' 'What is the business culture in which French cinema has evolved?' 'How has technological change effected artistic and commercial innovation?' 'What have been the most popular and the most experimental forms?' ...
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(P/B) SEX, CLASS AND REALISM
Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discussions of films justly regarded as important, alongside those unjustly ignored. The extensive filmography which accompanies Sex, Class and Realism will also prove to be an invaluable reference source in the teaching of British cinema history. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI

IDENTIFYING HOLLYWOOD'S AUDIENCES (P/B)

(P/B) CINEMA OF FLAMES

(P/B) CLAIMING THE REAL (0851704646)

(P/B) 100 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMS
American independent films have too many observers provided the only experimental and distinctive voices in recent US cinema. (. . .) Jason Wood's guide defines and outlines a personal but representative selection of a hundred recommended American independent films. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) THE BRITISH CINEMA BOOK (085170851X)

(P/B) KUBRICK'S CINEMA ODYSSEY
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel, is one of the most ambitious films ever made, an epic of space exploration that takes in the whole history of humanity (. . .). In this multilayered study, acclaimed critic and theorist Michel Chion offers some keys to understanding 2001. Setting the film first in its historical and cultural contexts (the Space Race, the Cold War, 1960s psychedelia), Chion goes on to locate it within Kubrick's career. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) EARLY CINEMA - SPACE FRAME NARRATIVE (0851702457)

(P/B) LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD - L' ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD

JEAN - PIERRE MELVILLE (P/B)
(...) This book is a critical study of Melville’s films, the first in the English language. A film-maker with an exceptional degree of control over his work (he owned his own studio), Melville is a clear case of an auteur who created a unique film universe. The sub-title of this book, "An American in Paris", is an ironic comment on Melville’s well-known Americanophilia and the deployment of the Hollywood gangster iconography in his movies. While I refute the cliche that Melville "copied" American cinema, my project is to place his films wi...
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(P/B) THE SPECTRE OF SOUND
This book is a major new study - dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using that most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music looking not only at traditional orchestral film music, but also examining film music’s colonisation of television; he discusses pop music in relation to film and the historical dimensions to the ability to possess audiences that have so many important cultural and aesthetic effects. "The Spectre of Sound" ch...
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THE GERMAN CINEMA BOOK (P/B)
The German Cinema Book brings together film specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. This comprehensive text re-evaluates traditional areas of interest in German Cinema (such as Weimar cinema, Nazi propaganda, New German Cinema) and complements this with a fresh look at hitherto neglected aspects, including Early Cinema, the cinema of the GDR, popular genre traditions, questions of national cinema and identity, and German film's transnational co...
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