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  • Filmic Sociology

    Theory and Practice

    by Joyce Sebag, Jean-Pierre Durand ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is an exploration of the intellectual resources offered by the hybridisation of sociology and cinema: practicing sociology, or other human sciences, through images and sound. In the age of the image, the book invites sociological research, not only through the discipline's approach, but also through the joint learning of techniques (shooting and sound recording, derushing, editing, etc.) ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Creating the New Worker

    Work, Consumption and Subordination

    by Jean-Pierre Durand ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that structures individuals in capitalism both socially and psychologically - is being undermined.Combining a Gramscian critique of contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe

    Edited by Paul Stewart, Jean-Pierre Durand, Maria-Magdalena Richea ...
    This book explores the key conceptual features of the development of the Sociology of Work (SoW) in Europe since 1945, using eleven country case studies.An original contribution to our understanding of the trajectory of the SoW, the chapters map the current state of the theoretical background of the sub-discipline's development to broader socio-political and economic changes, traced across a ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

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  • Comics and Narration

    by Thierry Groensteen ...
    Translated by Ann Miller ...
    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Cinema of Agnès Varda

    Resistance and Eclecticism

    by Delphine Benezet ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Agnès 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, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Film Theory

    An Introduction

    by Robert Stam ...
    This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Lumière Galaxy

    Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

    by Francesco Casetti ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite our imaginations.Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Comics and Narration

    by Thierry Groensteen ...
    Translated by Ann Miller ...
    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Beauty of a Social Problem

    Photography, Autonomy, Economy

    by Walter Benn Michaels ...
    Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.Although he discusses well-known figures ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Photography after Photography

    Gender, Genre, History

    by Abigail Solomon-Godeau ...
    Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid, Solomon-Godeau, a pioneering feminist and politically engaged critic, argues that the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD