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The Emancipated Spectator

by Jacques Rancière

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking

20 posts
The BBC

by Tom Mills

What is the future of the BBC?

5 posts
Sexuality in the Field of Vision

by Jacqueline Rose

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory

13 posts
The People Are Not an Image

by Peter Snowdon

A major intervention in media studies theorises the politics and aesthetics of internet video

2 posts

The Intervals of Cinema

by Jacques Rancière

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy

15 posts
War Primer

by Bertolt Brecht

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II

9 posts
The View from the Train

by Patrick Keiller

Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape

18 posts
Desire Unlimited

by Paul Julian Smith
New and fully updated edition
3 posts

St. Paul

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Mingles an intellectual leftism with a Franciscan Catholicism." – New Statesman

10 posts
Film After Film

by J. Hoberman
"Perceptive, lively, and packed with verbal fireworks.” – The Independent
9 posts
In Broad Daylight

by Gabriele Pedulla
The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.
7 posts
A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma

by Emilie Bickerton
An unique account of cinema's most influential journal.
6 posts

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

Edited by Slavoj Žižek
Hitchcock gets onto the analyst’s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies.
5 posts
Filming Pancho

by Margarita de Orellana
An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
War and Cinema

by Paul Virilio

A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing”

4 posts
Red Velvet Seat

Edited by Antonia Lant
A comprehensive anthology of women’s film culture, from the origins of cinema to 1950
4 posts

Dreams of a Nation

Edited by Hamid Dabashi
A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema.
3 posts
Hollywood Flatlands

by Esther Leslie
Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.
8 posts
Screening the City

Edited by Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel
A diverse collection of essays considering film and the urban experience.
Paris Hollywood

by Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about film.

2 posts

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