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  • Projected Cities

    Cinema and Urban Space

    Serier serie Locations
    In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. Projected Cities looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By examining this imagery, ... Læs mere

    172,20 kr.

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  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    af William Irwin ...
    Serier serie The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Læs mere

    129,24 kr.

  • Cinema

    af Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Læs mere

    197,36 kr.

  • The Jewel-Hinged Jaw

    Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded.Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Essay Film

    From Montaigne, After Marker

    Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to ... Læs mere

    384,77 kr.

  • Conversations on Cinema

    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Læs mere

    128,22 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Starboard Wine

    More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

    A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present.In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a ... Læs mere

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  • Utopia's Debris

    Selected Essays

    af Gary Indiana ...
    Gary Indiana is one of America's leading cultural critics -- a public intellectual who has written key essays on every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous, and always brilliant observer of the best and worst America has to offer.His writings range from popular culture -- trash novels, ... Læs mere

    133,66 kr.

  • The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem

    af Peter Swirski ...
    The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by ... Læs mere

    221,42 kr.

  • Parabolas of Science Fiction

    Redigeret af Brian Atterby, Veronica Hollinger ...
    Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fictionAs a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike ... Læs mere

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  • Signatures of the Visible

    Serier serie Routledge Classics
    In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America‘s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Histori ... Læs mere

    236,67 kr.

  • Measure Yourself Against the Earth

    Essays

    af Mark Kingwell ...
    Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to ... Læs mere

    129,36 kr.