Books

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  The Emancipated Spectator

  by Jacques Rancière

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

  19 posts

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  The BBC

  by Tom Mills

  What is the future of the BBC?

  5 posts

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  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

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  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

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  The Intervals of Cinema

  by Jacques Rancière

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

  14 posts

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  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

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  The View from the Train

  by Patrick Keiller

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

  18 posts

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  Desire Unlimited

  by Paul Julian Smith
  New and fully updated edition

  3 posts

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  St. Paul

  by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

  10 posts

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  Film After Film

  by J. Hoberman
  "Perceptive, lively, and packed with verbal fireworks.” – The Independent

  9 posts

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  In Broad Daylight

  by Gabriele Pedulla
  The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.

  7 posts

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  A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma

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

  6 posts

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  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

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  Filming Pancho

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

  by Paul Virilio

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

  4 posts

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  Red Velvet Seat

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

  4 posts

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  Dreams of a Nation

  Edited by Hamid Dabashi
  A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema.

  3 posts

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  Hollywood Flatlands

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

  8 posts

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  Screening the City

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