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The Bodies Beneath

The Bodies Beneath

The Bodies Beneath

by William Fowler and Vic Pratt

ISBN: 9781907222726

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2019

From occult rites in soft porn discos to Sooty the TV puppet's amphetamine problem, a feast of curiosities from British film and TV.
The Other North

The Other North

The Other North

by Jesse Jones

ISBN: 9783956793356

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

Jesse Jones's 2013 film The Other North represents the culmination of her research in South Korea and the Demilitarized Zone. It features Korean actors reenacting The Steel Shutter,...
Helke Bayrle

Helke Bayrle

Helke Bayrle

Portikus Under Construction, 1992–2016

Edited by Fabian Schöneich

ISBN: 9783956793059

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2017

In 1992, Helke Bayrle began videotaping the installation of each exhibition at the Portikus exhibition space. These videos form a remarkable and intimate archive of the storied Frankfurt contemporary...
Memory and Movies

Memory and Movies

Memory and Movies

What Films Can Teach Us about Memory

by John Seamon

ISBN: 9780262029711

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 7, 2015

How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works.
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters

On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters

The Writings of Hollis Frampton

by Hollis Frampton

Edited by Bruce Jenkins

Introduction by Bruce Jenkins

ISBN: 9780262527606

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 30, 2015

The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.
The Tiger’s Mind

The Tiger's Mind

The Tiger's Mind

by Beatrice Gibson

ISBN: 9783943365504

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: September 6, 2013

In 2010, a production process was instigated by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, with the intention of using British composer Cornelius Cardew's musical score The Tiger's...
Video

Video

Video

The Reflexive Medium

by Yvonne Spielmann

ISBN: 9780262515177

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2010

An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.
Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film

by Shilo T. McClean

ISBN: 9780262633697

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 26, 2008

How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.
The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier’s life in twenty-four chapters

The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier's life in twenty-four chapters

The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier's life in twenty-four chapters

by Keren Cytter

Translated by Hillel Roman

ISBN: 9781933128412

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 4, 2008

The seven most exciting hours… is an adventure novel based on a true story told in a televised interview by the notorious Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. It describes seven hours in the...
Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

by Alan A. Stone

Foreword by Joshua Cohen

ISBN: 9780262195676

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 17, 2007

Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
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