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  • LONDON'S ARTS LABS AND THE 60S AVANT-GARDE
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    LONDON'S ARTS LABS AND THE 60S AVANT-GARDE
    DAVID CURTIS
    This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and mus...

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  • SILVER SCREEN TO DIGITAL
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    SILVER SCREEN TO DIGITAL
    CARLO MONTANARO
    A history of transformations in moviemaking technology, from pigments to pixels, celluloid to CGI. An era has ended. After one hundred and twenty-five years, a change has taken place in cinemas. The thousands of figures formed by silver and colored pigments can no longer be viewed through transparent film—instead, everything has become digital, compressed, virtual and built int...

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  • DISCUSSING DISNEY
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    DISCUSSING DISNEY
    These scholarly essays examine Disney's cultural impact from various perspectives—including film studies, history, musicology, gender and more. The academic field of Disney Studies has evolved greatly over the years, as the twelve essays collected in this volume demonstrate. With a diversity of perspectives and concerns, the contributors examine the cultural significance and im...

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  • THE CALL OF THE HEART
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    THE CALL OF THE HEART
    A study of an important but neglected director that "fills many gaps and updates our knowledge of a major filmmaker of the silent period and beyond" ( Positif). The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master, but John M. Stahl has been stuck in it for far too long. His strong association with melod...

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  • SCALED FOR SUCCESS
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    SCALED FOR SUCCESS
    "This wonderful book asks us to consider the mermaid . . . across regions, nations, diasporas, and contemporary socio-cultural configurations." —Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the med...

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  • BEASTS OF THE FOREST
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    BEASTS OF THE FOREST
    An interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monsters through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspect...

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  • STAN BRAKHAGE
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    STAN BRAKHAGE
    Essays on the work of this iconic experimental filmmaker from a variety of scholars. Stan Brakhage's body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, though, diverse and original reflections have developed, distancing his figure little by little from critical categori...

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  • STAN BRAKHAGE THE REALM BUSTER
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    STAN BRAKHAGE THE REALM BUSTER
    Stan Brakhage's body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, though, diverse and original reflections have developed, distancing his figure little by little from critical categories. This collection of newly commissioned essays, plus some important reprinted work,...

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  • THE KINETOSCOPE
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    THE KINETOSCOPE
    RICHARD BROWN / BARRY ANTHONY
    The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema. The position of the kinetoscope in film history is central and undisputed; indicative of its importance is the detailed attention American scholars have given to examining its history. However, the Kinetoscope's development in Britain has not been well documented and mu...

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  • NORDISK FILMS KOMPAGNI 1906–1924
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    NORDISK FILMS KOMPAGNI 1906–1924
    ISAK THORSEN
    This comprehensive study of the Danish film company demonstrates how it became one of the most important innovators of the silent era. Established in 1906, Nordisk Films Kompagni's rise and fall is one of the most dramatic stories of the early film industry. Based on archival research, primarily in the company's surviving business archives, this volume describes and analyzes ho...

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  • THE MOUSE AND THE MYTH
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    THE MOUSE AND THE MYTH
    DORENE KOEHLER
    Upholds "a Disney vacation as a religious experience . . . [offers] insightful arguments relating to the nature of play as well as Nietzschean philosophy" ( Reading Religion).   Rituals mark significant moments in our lives—perhaps none more significant than moments of lightheartedness, joy, and play. Rituals of play are among the most sacred of any of the rites in which humani...

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  • MAKING A SPLASH
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    MAKING A SPLASH
    PHILIP HAYWARD
    The representation of aquatic people in contemporary film and television—from their on-screen sexuality to the mockumentaries they've inspired. Mermaids have been a feature of western cinema since its inception and the number of films, television series, and videos representing them has expanded exponentially since the 1980s. Making a Splash analyses texts produced within a var...

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  • THE KOMEDI BIOSCOOP
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    THE KOMEDI BIOSCOOP
    DAFNA RUPPIN
    This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society. The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitut...

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  • ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS
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    ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS
    DAVID E. JAMES
    A collection of papers discussing Los Angeles's role in avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking. Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the U...

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  • THE MATTER OF VISION
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    THE MATTER OF VISION
    PETER WYETH
    A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema's visual nature. Cinematic analysis has often supported the notion that cinema can be understood by drawing parallels with language. Peter Wyeth contends that this analytical framework often fails to consider the fundamental fact of cinema's visual nature. In The Matter of Vision, Wyeth ...

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  • PERFORMING NEW MEDIA, 1890–1915
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    PERFORMING NEW MEDIA, 1890–1915
    KAVEH ASKARI
    Essays examining the effects of media innovations in cinema at the turn of the twentieth century affected performances on screen, as well as beside it. In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse an...

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  • HANDSOME HEROES & VILE VILLAINS
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    HANDSOME HEROES & VILE VILLAINS
    AMY M. DAVIS
    From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio's animated features.   One of PopSugar's Best Books for Women (2013)   From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the persp...

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  • EARLY CINEMA TODAY
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    EARLY CINEMA TODAY
    MARTIN LOIPERDINGER
    A collection of essays exploring current issues in early film archiving, curation, and research. Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumière brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern-day motion picture devices. These early movies were often shown in town ...

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  • JOHN COATES
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    JOHN COATES
    MARIE BEARDMORE
    An abundantly illustrated biography of the British animation producer behind Yellow Submarine, The Snowman, and other classics. John Coates is best known as the producer of The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, and Famous Fred—and as the man behind the Beatles film Yellow Submarine. In his long, eventful career, he earned a BAFTA and a CableA...

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  • THE MAN WHO MADE MOVIES
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    THE MAN WHO MADE MOVIES
    PAUL SPEHR
    The story of W.K.L. Dickson—assistant to Edison, inventor, and key figure in early cinematography: "Valuable and comprehensive." — Communication Booknotes Quarterly W.K.L. Dickson was Thomas Edison's assistant in charge of the experimentation that led to the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph—the first commercially successful moving image machines. In 1891–1892, he established what we...

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  • NETWORKS OF ENTERTAINMENT
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    NETWORKS OF ENTERTAINMENT
    Essays by prominent scholars examining film distribution in the early years of cinema. This collection of essays explores the complex issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. From regional distribution networks to international marketing strategies, from the analysis of distribution catalogs to case studies on individual distributors, these essays...

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  • ART IN MOTION: ANIMATION AESTHETICS
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    ART IN MOTION: ANIMATION AESTHETICS
    MAUREEN FURNISS
    Art in Motion, Revised Edition is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and limited animation, and new technologies. A series of studies on abstract animati...

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  • GOOD GIRLS & WICKED WITCHES
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    GOOD GIRLS & WICKED WITCHES
    AMY M. DAVIS
    An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney's animated features.   In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and ...

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  • ANIMATED 'WORLDS'
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    ANIMATED 'WORLDS'
    What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cogni...

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  • OFF THE PLANET
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    OFF THE PLANET
    REBECCA LEYDON / SHUHEI HOSOKAWA / NABEEL ZUBERI / NEIL LERNER / REBECCA COYLE / PAUL THÉBERGE / MICHAEL H
    Essays on the use of music and sound in films from Godzilla to Star Wars and beyond.   In recent years, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important, if often neglected, aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and science fiction cinema.   Follow...

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  • WIDENING THE HORIZON
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    WIDENING THE HORIZON
    A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth study of exoticism in Post-War popular music. The opening chapters analyze the work of Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac—the musicians who developed (and exemplified) t...

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  • COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA, GLOBALIZATION, AND EMPIRE
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    COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA, GLOBALIZATION, AND EMPIRE
    OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT
    An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests. In Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire, an international team of experts analyzes and critiques the political economy of media communications worldwide. Their analysis takes particular account of the sometimes confli...

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  • EARLY CINEMA AND THE
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    EARLY CINEMA AND THE "NATIONAL"
    RICHARD ABEL / GIORGIO BERTELLINI / ROB KING
    Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visu...

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  • FILM 1900
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    FILM 1900
    ANNEMONE LIGENSA AND KLAUS KREIMEIER
    Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century. The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a s...

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  • SCREEN CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL QUESTION, 1880–1914
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    SCREEN CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL QUESTION, 1880–1914
    LUDWIG VOGL-BIENEK AND RICHARD CRANGLE
    Essays exploring how reformers and charities used the “magic lantern” to raise public awareness of poverty. Public performances using the magic or optical lantern became a prominent part of the social fabric of the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources, Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914 investigates how the magic lantern and cinem...

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