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  • Contemporary Directors’ Cinema

    by Jacob Leigh ...
    Contemporary Directors' Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful achievements by their directors and collaborators.Each chapter gives some context for the director's work, but the central argument focuses on the style, form and themes of each film, while explicating aspects ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Cinema of Eric Rohmer

    Irony, Imagination, and the Social World

    by Jacob Leigh ...
    Since the death of the French film director Eric Rohmer in 2010, interest in his work has reignited. Known as the last of the established directors in the French New Wave, Rohmer took complete control over all his films, acting as his own producer throughout his career, and writing the scripts. He also made his mark by taking the lead in casting and location scouting - as French seaside resorts ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Blind Insight

    by Leigh Jacob ...
    How do you see the world when you are blind? How does the world see you? Blind Insight shares one woman’s experience growing up legally blind. In poetry and art, the author takes us on a journey through memory, introducing the main characters in her life and ones she’s crossed paths with time and again. Her portrayals are honest, showing us both the positive and negative for together they have ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Late Films of Claude Chabrol

    Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity

    by Jacob Leigh ...
    A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s, Claude Chabrol has received the least amount of critical and scholarly attention, although he was the more prolific and commercially successful of them all. Jacob Leigh fills this lacuna by focusing on the last nine feature films of Chabrol's career, exploring his imagery, camerawork, use of ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

    Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

    by David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C Darnell0, Samantha Frost1, Simone Fullagar2, Pirkko Markula3, Mary G. McDonald4, Jennifer Sterling5, Christopher McLeod6, Matthew G. Hawzen7, Richard Pringle8, Oliver Rick9, Jacob J. Bustad0, Samantha King1, Shannon Leigh Jette2, Katelyn Esmonde3, Carolyn Pluim4, Gavin Weedon5 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Year of the Cat: The Complete Collection

    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Annie Reed, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary A. Turzillo, Manly Wade Wellman, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Kari Kilgore, Stefon Mears, Geoffrey A. Landis, Lisa Silverthorne, Ed Gorman, Emile Zola, Henry Slesar, Jamie Ferguson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Brigid Collins, Pamela Sargent, Anthea Sharp, Bonnie Elizabeth, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Liz Pierce, Dory Crowe, Cordwainer Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Andre Alice Norton, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders, Kent Patterson ...
    Series series The Year of the Cat
    Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing’s notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Danger of Playing Hide and Seek

    The Problem of Playing a Childhood Game in Your Daily Walk with God

    by Terri Leigh Cox ...
    As children grow up learning how to play the game called hide and seek, we as adults tend to replicate this childhood game into our daily walk with God. We hide behind things that we think are protecting us, keeping us from further rejection and pain; the fear that we have dealt with for years seems to keep crippling us. What we dont understand is that the longer we continue to play this game of ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Cristi Puiu

    by Monica Filimon ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • What Kind of Creatures Are We?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three ... Read more

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  • Beautifully Broken

    by Kimberly Jones-Pothier ...
    This book will give you not only biblical truths of deliverance but also real life scenarios and practical applications that will forever change your future relationships. It is a love story about a broken girl and a holy God. Kimberly shows us that God really does restore. Beautifully Broken is where God does his best work. You will learn that your pain was not just about you but many who will be ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD