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The Footlights
ISBN: 9781635901986
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: August 15, 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.
Arabian Nights of 1934
ISBN: 9781949597271
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld.
Death Lines
Walking London's Horror History
ISBN: 9781913689384
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 9, 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.
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
ISBN: 9781635901887
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Creative Hustling
Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi
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, revised and expanded edition
Halsted Plays Himself
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 muttering...
Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition
Harry Smith
American Magus
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
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 Footlights
ISBN: 9781635901986
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781907222269
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Arabian Nights of 1934
ISBN: 9781949597271
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
Death Lines
Walking London's Horror History
ISBN: 9781913689384
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
ISBN: 9781635901887
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
Creative Hustling
Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi
ISBN: 9780262544832
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2023
Halsted Plays Himself, revised and expanded edition
Halsted Plays Himself
ISBN: 9781635901764
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: December 6, 2022
Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition
Harry Smith
American Magus
ISBN: 9781635901641
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 29, 2022
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
ISBN: 9780262544528
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 27, 2022