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Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 1 Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 1 Gavin Keeney Knowledge, Spirit, Law is a de facto phenomenology of scholarship in the age of neoliberal capitalism. The eleven essays (plus Appendices) in Book 1: Radical Scholarship cover topics and circle theme… OL20928156W
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin Simon Ward As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in man… OL20928709W
Unpopular Culture Unpopular Culture Sascha Pöhlmann This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a th… OL20928711W
The Conscience of Cinema The Conscience of Cinema Thomas Waugh The Conscience of Cinema is not only a history of a rich and varied personal oeuvre by a prolific documentary maker who worked on every continent and through seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980… OL20930385W
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film Peter Verstraten If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office succ… OL20930402W
Spanish Spaces Spanish Spaces Ann Davies Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the… OL20930468W
Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 Francesco Casetti This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers,… OL20931369W
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics Ute Holl Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psyc… OL20931447W
Realist Cinema as World Cinema Realist Cinema as World Cinema Lúcia Nagib "Lúcia Nagib redefines realism not as a mere question of rhetoric or style, or a product of a certain age and place, but as a deep and steadfast commitment of filmmakers to an "ethics of the real" ba… OL23502291W
Stay Out of the Shower Stay Out of the Shower William Schoell It all started in 1960 at the Bates Motel. Over the last twenty-five years the shocker film industry has grown to monstrous proportions. Here now is an in-depth study of horror films since the releas… OL47639W
The Golden Turkey Awards The Golden Turkey Awards Harry Medved • The Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography • The Worst Performance by an Animal • The Biggest Ripoff in Hollywood History • The Worst Performance by an Actor as Jesus Christ • The Most Ridiculous… OL5114024W
Puppets and People Puppets and People S. S. Wilson This is a very special book about the special-effects technique used to create such lifelike film fantasy characters as the original King Kong and all the deep-space action in Star Wars. It is the fi… OL6818644W