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Cabarets of Death

Cabarets of Death

Cabarets of Death

Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

by Mel Gordon

Edited by Joanna Ebenstein

ISBN: 9781907222269

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: May 30, 2023

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Dissonant Waves

Dissonant Waves

Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

by Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie

ISBN: 9781913380564

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: May 16, 2023

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

by Ian Penman

ISBN: 9781635901887

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: May 2, 2023

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Death Lines

Death Lines

Death Lines

Walking London's Horror History

by Lauren Jane Barnett

ISBN: 9781913689384

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: April 25, 2023

The first walking guide to London's role in the evolution of horror cinema, inspired by the city's dark histories and labyrinthine architectures.
Arabian Nights of 1934

Arabian Nights of 1934

Arabian Nights of 1934

by Geoffrey O'Brien

ISBN: 9781949597271

Publisher: Terra Nova Press

Pub Date: April 25, 2023

A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld.
Creative Hustling

Creative Hustling

Creative Hustling

Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi

by Robin Steedman

ISBN: 9780262544832

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 28, 2023

The first book-length study of Nairobi-based female filmmakers—and how their dogged pursuit of opportunities, innovation, and cultural support is defining an industry.
Halsted Plays Himself

Halsted Plays Himself, revised and expanded edition

Halsted Plays Himself

by William E. Jones

ISBN: 9781635901764

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: December 6, 2022

Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly...
Harry Smith

Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition

Harry Smith

American Magus

Edited by Paola Igliori

ISBN: 9781635901641

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 29, 2022

A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg

ISBN: 9780262544528

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 27, 2022

Intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction filmmaking by women, generously illustrated, with film stills and other images.
The Cinema House and the World

The Cinema House and the World

The Cinema House and the World

The Cahiers du Cinema Years, 1962–1981

by Serge Daney

Introduction by A. S. Hamrah

Translated by Christine Pichini

ISBN: 9781635901610

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: September 6, 2022

One of the greatest film critics of his generation on topics ranging from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.
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