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The Battleship Potemkin
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 26.00The KINO Russian Cinema series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable, companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to the late 1990s. This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "Battleship Potemkin", the people who made it, and... more...
The Ghosts of Mississippi
Argo-Navis 2013; US$ 6.99Revised and reissued with a new epilogue, the award-winning classic Ghosts of Mississippi tells the inside story of one of the most rankling murder cases of the civil rights era. In this historical page-turner, National Book Award finalist Maryanne Vollers exposes a state?s struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order to bring a killer... more...
Troy
Wiley 2009; US$ 134.95This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives . The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the... more...
Analysing the Screenplay
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 45.95Most producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century. Analysing the Screenplay highlights the screenplay as an important form in itself, as opposed to merely being... more...
Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 95.00Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be not only developed but established. And, these questions, these approaches, need to be accessible to students, who are not yet educationally sophisticated enough to digest purely theoretical material. Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide signifies... more...
Inception and Philosophy
Open Court 2011; US$ 19.95You have to go deeper. Inception is more than just a nail-biting heist story, more than just one of the greatest movies of all time. The latest neuroscience and philosophy of mind tell us that shared dreams and the invasion of dreams may soon become reality. Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For takes you through the labyrinth, onto the... more...
Idees Vol Vrees
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00Kobus Galloway se Idees Vol Vrees-tekenprente het Suid-Afrika binne maande na hul eerste verskyning stormenderhand verower. Dié ongewone, spitsvondige en grappige Afrikaanse tekenprente gaan gewoonlik gepaard met dubbelsinnige eenreël-woordspelings en is enig in hul soort. Hierdie versameling bevat meer as 150 tekenprente, waaronder die gewildstes... more...
The Place of Breath in Cinema
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00Headline: An exploration of the figuring of absence in film.PitchHow can the cinema articulate the interstices between visibility and invisibility, and how are such notions of absence and the unseen implicated in the film experience? This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment... more...
Red Velvet
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 15.99"Its like being at a crossroads - a point of absolute, unequivocal change. It makes the blood rush." Olivier-award winning actor Adrian Lester plays Ira Alridge in the world premiere of Lolita Chakrabartis new play, Red Velvet , which launches Indhu Rubasinghams reign as the Tricycle Theatres new Artistic Director.... more...









