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  • From Plato to Lumière

    Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

    Translated by Timothy Barnard ...
    With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are ... Read more

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  • The End of Cinema?

    A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape.The authors begin ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Early Cinema

    A COMPANION TO EARLY CINEMA“This collection of essays by early cinema scholars from Europe and North America offers manifold perspectives on early cinema fiction which perfectly reflect the state of international research.”– Martin Loiperdinger, Universitaet Trier“A fabulous selection of first-rate articles!”– Rick Altman, University of Iowa“One of the most challenging books in recent film st... ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Pillow Talk

    Real People. Real Stories. Real Awkward.

    Smashing stigma with story, this Awfully Hilarious Book brings together writers who share their sexual experiences with humour and candour. From first encounters to long-term relationships, authors of all ages, cultures, orientations and identities tackle subjects ranging from asexuality to masturbation to polyamory. Disappointing and humiliating encounters are interlaced with instances of joy and ... Read more

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  • Stages of Reality

    Theatricality in Cinema

    A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television.Stages of Reality connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close ... Read more

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  • Cinema

    by Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Read more

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  • On Writing with Photography

    From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back to the early years of photography. Writers have been integrating photographs into their work for as long as photographs have existed, producing ... Read more

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    Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that.Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a partner. As she says, "The simplest version of this story ... Read more

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  • The Essay Film

    Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

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    With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical ... Read more

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

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  • Alice in Genderland

    A Crossdresser Comes of AgeTM

    ***Alice in Genderland***is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a caring doctor at the office and a loving husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a brave ... Read more

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