| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  A Crime Against Art
A film by Hila Peleg. With Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Maria Lind. Inspired by André Breton's mock trials of the 1920s and 30s, A Crime Against Art is a film based on a staged trial at the 2007 ARCO Art Fair in Madrid. Set as a television >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829372
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
DVD video, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / DVD (NTSC).
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 In stock
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|  Agnčs Varda: Director's Inspiration
Edited with introduction by Matt Severson. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Text by Sasha Archibald, Jane Birkin, Sandrine Bonnaire, Manohla Dargis, Peter Debruge, Mathieu Demy, Julia Fabry, JR, Lynne Littman, Didier Rouget, Martin Scorsese, Rosalie Varda, Viva, Chloé Zhao. Interview by Manouchka Kelly Labouba. French filmmaker Agnčs Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades. Although closely associated with the French New Wave, Varda established her groundbreaking visual style in her 1955 >>more
DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636810607
US $39.95 CAN $57.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 228 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/28/2023 In stock
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|  Alfred Hitchcock
Text by Gianni Canova, Antonio Costa, Piera Detassis, Stefano Locati, Giorgio Gosetti, Elena Gipponi, Leonardo Capano, Emanuele Bigi. “If you make a bomb go off, the audience has a shock that lasts 10 seconds,” said Alfred Hitchcock. “But if you simply tell them there’s a bomb, the suspense is dragged out and the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857240930
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock
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|  British photographers Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have created a highly original art project based on the brilliant artifice of the spectacular sets from the latest James Bond movie, Spectre. Shooting entirely at Pinewood Studios in >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741989
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12.5 x 9.75 in. / 64 pgs / 44 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Andrew Dosunmu: Monograph
Edited by Beatrice Dupire. Conversation with Arthur Jafa. The first retrospective volume on the photography of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer and music video director Andrew Dosunmu, Monograph looks back at 20 years of previously unpublished and sumptuously colorful portraiture and more, >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862088046
US $59.95 CAN $85.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 196 pgs / 192 color.
Pub Date: 10/17/2023 In stock
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|  Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work
Edited by Andrey Tarkovsky Jr., Hans-Joachim Schlegel, Lothar Schirmer. Text by Andrey Tarkovsky. Contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sven Nykvist, Erland Josephson, Ingmar Bergman, Chingiz Aitmatov, Aleksandr Sokurov. Between 1962 and 1986, Andrey Tarkovsky (1932–86) directed seven feature-length films, all acclaimed as masterpieces of cinema: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia and Sacrifice. Evading censorship and mounting pressure by Soviet authorities, >>more
Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN 9783829608114
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls
Edited with text by Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce. Foreword by Rajendra Roy. Essay by Gus Van Sant. Contributions by Patrick Moore, Signe Warner Watson. Andy Warhol’s 1966 movie The Chelsea Girls is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the Chelsea Hotel with Factory Superstars like Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, Gerard >>more
D.A.P./The Andy Warhol Museum
ISBN 9781942884187
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 328 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano
Essay by Casio Abe. Foreword by Daisuke Miyao. Introduction by Lawrence Chua. Afterword by William Gardner. Called “the world's most original action auteur” by the Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he is known both for his inventive films and for his legendarily caustic alter ego, comedian >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030405
US $22.50 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs / 41 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 In stock
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|  American author Ben Lerner and German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem "The >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052542
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Clth, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 346 pgs / 102 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  Berwick Street Film Collective: Nightcleaners & ´36 to ´77
Edited with text by Dan Kidner, Alex Sainsbury. Text by Ben Cook, Kodwo Eshun, Mary Kelly, Marc Karlin, Sheila Rowbotham, Sukhdev Sandhu, James Scott, Humphry Trevelyan. Nightcleaners (1975), by the Berwick Street Film Collective, has long been recognized as a landmark of British experimental cinema. Alongside its companion film ’36 to ’77 (1978), it pioneered a form as radical as the >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983811
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 12 x 8.5 in. / 216 pgs / 11 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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|  Brakhage's Childhood
By Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. Introduction by P. Adams Sitney. Afterword by Tony Pipolo. Brakhage's Childhood recounts the story of visionary American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's (1933-2003) life up to age 12. In 1983 Stan and Jane Brakhage began a series of interviews wherein Stan described his life and Jane >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123839
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 350 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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|  Bruce Baillie: Somewhere from Here to Heaven
Edited by Azkuna Zentroa. Text by Bruce Baillie, Garbińe Ortega, Erika Balson, Steve Anker. Interviews by Steve Anker, Scott McDonald. This is the first book on the West Coast avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Baillie (1931–2020), famed for the films Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964), Castro Street (1966) and All My Life (1966) and for his >>more
La Fábrica
ISBN 9788418934452
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Pbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 112 pgs / 26 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/11/2023 In stock
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|  Camera Obtrusa: The Action Documentaries of Hara Kazuo
Translated by Pat Noonan, Takuo Yasuda. Essay by Abé Mark Nornes. An authentic visionary of cinema, Japanese filmmaker Hara Kazuo has spent the past four decades pioneering a stark documentary style that challenged the mores of postwar Japanese society. His works feature dramatic narratives and characters--radicals, >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030443
US $22.95 CAN $32.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 400 pgs / 67 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 In stock
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|  Cao Guimarăes
Edited by Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel. Text by Consuelo Lins. The latest book from Brazilian film and video artist Cao Guimarăes (born 1965) celebrates the stories, people, folklore, views and landscapes of his native land, exploring larger themes of religion, connection to the landscape, magic, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084162
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Chantal Akerman
Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel. Text by Jaap Guldemond. One of the foremost avant-garde filmmakers of the 1970s, Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) moved toward the visual arts as a secondary career with the 1995 screening of her film D’est. Originally a documentary shot on 16mm >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462085503
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2020 Out of stock
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|  Charlie Chaplin: The Keystone Album
Edited with text by Carole Sandrin, Sam Stourdzé. Text by Glenn Mitchell. Charlie Chaplin: The Keystone Album brings together 794 images—technically photograms, printed directly from film frames—from 29 of Charlie Chaplin's first 36 short films made with the Keystone Film Company in 1914. The strips trace the >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365110679
US $180.00 CAN $245.00 TRADE
Slip, Hbk, 15.25 x 11.75 in. / 112 pgs / 794 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 In stock
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|  Christoph Faulhaber: A Golden Age
Edited with text by Sabine Maria Schmidt, Julia Draganovic, Christoph Faulhaber. Text by Inke Arns, Holger Kube Ventura, Víctor Palacios Armendáriz, Reinhard Spieler, Oliver Zybok, et al. The first comprehensive monograph for German photographer, filmmaker and performance artist Christoph Faulhaber (born 1972) chronicles his film and performance works—including previously undocumented early performances, such as the land-art performance Schwarzspecht (1995)—and includes pictures and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775745123
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 327 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Clemens von Wedemeyer: Affected Places
Edited by Hubertus Gaßner, Petra Roettig. Text by Sabeth Buchmann, Zoltán Kékesi, Matteo Pasquinelli. “For some time now the cinema auditorium has given me sleepless nights,” writes film-maker Clemens von Wedemeyer. “What would it be like if the walls in a multiplex cinema were to vanish and you were >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051026
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Pbk, 12.25 x 8.75 in. / 200 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 01/09/2016 In stock
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|  Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (born 1922) was the barometer of the New York art scene in the 1960s and ‘70s. His interviews with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050807
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 400 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/19/2018 Out of stock
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|  Deanna Bowen
Text by Crystal Mowry, Kimberly Phillips. This black-on-black volume brings together over 20 years of multimedia work by Montreal-based artist Deanna Bowen (born 1969), whose commitment to the excavation and recontextualization of colonial legacies—particularly those that implicate her family history and >>more
Steidl/Scotiabank Photography Award
ISBN 9783969990735
US $65.00 CAN $91.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 234 pgs / 225 color / 165 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 In stock
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|  Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni: The Unmanned
Edited with text by Anne Stenne. Text by Fabien Giraud, Anna Longo, Mihnea Mircan, Patricia Reed, et al. This volume gathers all documentation related to The Unmanned, a large-scale film-based project presenting a history of human subjectivity in its imbrication with technology. Started in 2013, the series is made up of three parts: >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867495603
US $60.00 CAN $84.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 9.25 in. / 370 pgs / 416 color / 82 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/04/2023 Out of stock
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|  Francesco Bertocco: Historia
Text by Rodolfo Andaur, Francesco Bertocco, Alessandro Castiglioni, Cecilia Vicuńa, et al. In this publication, Italian filmmaker and artist Francesco Bertocco (born 1983) investigates the history of Chilean medicine through video works and a photographic series. This work emphasizes the passage from ancestral knowledge to science, from >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867494941
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.5 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / 188 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/05/2022 In stock
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|  Frank Films
Edited by Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Stefan Grisseman. On the heels of Steidl's DVD releases of Robert Frank's films, and as a part of their impressive ongoing project to make all of Frank's output available, Frank Films redresses the imbalance of critical attention >>more
Steidl/The Robert Frank Project
ISBN 9783865218155
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 In stock
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|  Frederick Wiseman
Edited by Joshua Siegel, Marie-Christine de Navacelle. Text by Andrew Delbanco, David Denby, Pierre Legendre, Errol Morris, Jay Neugeboren, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Geoffrey O'Brien, Christopher Ricks, Catherine Samie, Joshua Siegel, William T. Vollmann, Frederick Wiseman. For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707919
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Pbk, 9 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 65 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/15/2010 In stock
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|  Gabriel Figueroa: Under the Mexican Sky
Text by Claudia Monterde. The films of Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997) constitute an essential node in the network of exchanges and appropriations that formed Mexico’s cultural identity in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Featuring color images >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788415832492
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Pbk, 10.75 x 7.5 in. / 208 pgs / 183 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  Get Out
By Jordan Peele. Text by Tananarive Due. A New York Times 2019 holiday gift guide pick
Jordan Peele’s powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753286
US $19.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 224 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  Gus Van Sant: Icons
Text by Stéphane Bouquet, Benjamin Thorel, Bertrand Schefer, Stefano Boni. Interview by Matthieu Orléans. Gus Van Sant: Icons offers insight into the world of filmmaker Gus Van Sant, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. This comprehensive monograph surveys the full range >>more
Actes Sud/Cinémathčque Française
ISBN 9782330060763
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Hbk, 8 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2016 In stock
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|  This facsimile edition of Giger’s sketchbook contains 155 drawings, from wormlike ghosts to soul-sucking monsters, as well as correspondence between Giger and director Brian Gibson. >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236208
US $95.00 CAN $133.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 155 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock
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|  Hayao Miyazaki
By Jessica Niebel. Foreword by Toshio Suzuki. Text by Pete Docter, Daniel Kothenschulte. A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick
For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences of all ages. His animation, often featuring children navigating unfamiliar and challenging worlds, offer timeless >>more
DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781942884811
US $55.00 CAN $74.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 288 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock
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|  Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee Lithuania. They >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051460
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 37 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  This second installment of Jonas Mekas' (1922–2019) autobiography describes the incredible accomplishments of the great filmmaker’s life from the late 1960s on.
In 1970 Mekas cofounded the Anthology Film Archives with Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052900
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 800 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock
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|  In Pursuit of Treasure Island
Behind each children's book, behind each bestseller, a sacred text is hidden. Stevenson's novel has been scrutinized, read and re-read a thousand times. It has been used as a model for a map that leads >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563413
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 In stock
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|  The sixth DVD in JRP|Ringier's Archives series brings together two films by Belgian filmmaker Jef Cornelis (born 1941) on curator Rudi Fuchs' inaugural show at the Castello di Rivoli in 1985 and the groundbreaking 1987 >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645291
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
DVD, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 24 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties
Edited by Anne König. Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono — Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050333
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 450 pgs / 88 color / 130 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2015 In stock
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|  To Petrarca is a book and CD set consisting of a sound diary and an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas’ personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563444
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Out of stock
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|  Laurie Anderson: Nothing in My Pockets
Laurie Anderson's Nothing in My Pockets is a two-part sound diary, originally broadcast on French radio, kept between July 4 and October 4, 2003. This volume contains the radio piece on two CDs, as well >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563437
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 In stock
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|  Filmmaker and video artist Danielle Arbid (born 1970) and painter and installation artist Ayman Baalbaki (born 1975) are representing Lebanon at the 59th Venice Biennale. Their works are in conversation with each other and reflect >>more
SKIRA PARIS
ISBN 9782370741929
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 12/24/2024 In stock
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|  Lee Chang-dong
Edited by Daniele Riviere. Text by Jean-Philippe Cazier, Véronique Bergen. Interview by Antoine Coppola. This is the first full monograph on the widely acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong (born 1954), whose 2018 film Burning was the first Korean production shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. >>more
DIS VOIR
ISBN 9782914563925
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color / 37 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock
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| Lotte Reiniger: Born With Enchanting Hands
Edited by Evamarie Blattner, Karlheinz Wiegmann. Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) is a much loved figure in the early history of animated film. At an early age Reiniger discovered the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, and made her first silhouettes for a school >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803033529
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Hbk, 8.25 x 8.75 in. / 112 pgs / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Out of stock
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| Lotte Reiniger: Filmstills
Edited by Evamarie Blattner, Bernd Desinger, Matthias Knop, Wiebke Ratzeburg. Text by Christel Strobel, et al. This monograph compiles stills from four films by pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981)—The Adventure of Prince Achmed (1926: the first feature-length animation), The Ornament of a Heart in Love (1919), Cinderella (1922) and Doctor >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803033772
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.25 x 8.75 in. / 108 pgs / 81 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Out of stock
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|  On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures
Essay by J. Hoberman. Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and influential underground movies ever released >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9781887123525
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Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 In stock
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|  Sergio Leone's film Once Upon a Time in the Westset out to be the ultimate Western—a celebration of the power of classic Hollywood cinema, a meditation on the making of America and a lament for >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526334
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 80 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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|  Best known as the director of Teorema, Mamma Roma and Salo, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most productive and exhilarating talents in 20th-century art. As well as being a filmmaker, Pasolini was >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052368
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 1 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 Out of stock
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|  Paul Sharits: Catalogue Raisonné 1962–1992
Edited by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Paul Chan, Tony Conrad, Birgit Hein, Bruce Jenkins, Branden W. Joseph, Helen Marten, Jonas Mekas, Melissa Ragona, Paul Sharits. American avant-garde filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943–93)—a protagonist of the "structural film" movement, alongside Michael Snow, Tony Conrad and others—was internationally acclaimed for his installations of endless film loops, multiple projections and experimental soundtracks. This volume >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863356811
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 11.5 in. / 616 pgs / 807 duotone / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Out of stock
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|  Pedro Almodóvar: Installation/Instalación
Edited with text by Jenny He, J. Raúl Guzmán. Foreword by Tilda Swinton. Interview by Rachel Handler. Afterword by Agustín Almodóvar. Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most daring and influential writer-directors of our time. He directed his first feature in 1980, during La Movida Madrileńa (the Madrid Scene), a countercultural and democratic movement in Spain, >>more
DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636810195
US $75.00 CAN $102.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 226 color.
Pub Date: 06/20/2023 In stock
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|  Peter Greenaway: Goltzius
Peter Greenaway's Goltzius is the second installment in his Dutch Masters series. Its story runs thus: sometime during the winter of 1590, the Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius holds an interview with Margrave of Alsace, in >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563505
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Pbk, 8.25 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 In stock
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|  Peter Greenaway: Joseph
This book is the script for Joseph, the new film by Peter Greenaway (born 1942), an ironic portrayal of the figure of Joseph, father of Jesus. Here, God--”the other father”--becomes, in Greenaway’s words, “vulnerable to >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563895
US $29.50 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.25 x 7 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942) is releasing a new film in 2022, set in Lucca, Italy, and New York City. Lucca Mortis tells the story of an aging man living in Little Italy who >>more
DIS VOIR
ISBN 9782381620046
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 7 in. / 136 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  The significance of Robert Frank’s photography is unquestionable. His The Americans is arguably the most important American photography publication of the postwar period, and his work has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958290365
US $175.00 CAN $235.00 SDNR40
Boxed, Pbk, 4 vols, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 4 DVDS (PAL & NTSC).
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Robert Frank: Me and My Brother
By Robert Frank. Me and My Brother, Robert Frank's first feature-length film, premiered at the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Everything that had defined Frank's art up to that point is packed into this film--the view of America as >>more
Steidl The Masters
ISBN 9783865213631
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Paperback, 8.75 x 12 in. / 56 pgs / 100 tritone / with DVD.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  Rory Pilgrim: Tomorrow in Your Hands
Edited by Rory Pilgrim, Zsa-Zsa Eych, Matthew Appleton, Jule Hillgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek. Text by Jerry Brady, Human Poney, et al. This is the first published catalog on the multifaceted practice of British filmmaker and composer Rory Pilgrim (born 1988). Exploring connections between activism, spirituality, music, and community, this book presents a selection of Pilgrim’s work >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867495245
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 155 color / 42 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 In stock
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|  Spike Jonze: I'm Here
I’m Here is the latest film from director Spike Jonze (of Where the Wild Things Are fame), a half-hour narrative short that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010 and was released on >>more
Nieves
ISBN 9783905714777
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 48 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  Spike Lee: Director’s Inspiration
Edited by Dara Jaffe, Stacey Allan. Foreword by Bill Kramer. Text by Terence Blanchard, Kim Coleman, Cheryl Dunye, Giancarlo Esposito, Isaac Julien, Rosie Perez, Patrik-Ian Polk, Dee Rees, Roger Guenveur Smith, Martine Syms, Wynn Thomas. Interview by Shaka King. Afterword by Spike Lee. For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has made movies that demand our attention. His extensive filmography reflects an unflinching critique of race relations in the United States, from the Student Academy Award®–winning short Joe's Bed-Stuy >>more
DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636810133
US $39.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock
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|  Steve McQueen: Sunshine State
Edited with text by Vicente Todolí. Text by Paul Gilroy, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Solveig Nelson, Angela Vettese, Hamza Walker. Declared by Time "one of the most influential people in the world" in 2014, British filmmaker Steve McQueen (born 1969) first presented his work in galleries and museums in the early 1990s, with installations and >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630082
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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|  Terence Nance: Swarm
Edited by Maori Karmael Holmes and Kavita Rajanna. Foreword by Maori Karmael Holmes and Zoë Ryan. Text by Terence Nance, Taylor Renee Aldridge, John L. Jackson, Jr., Ra Malika Imhotep, Lynnée Denise, brontë velez, Maori Karmael Holmes with James Bartlett, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Darius Clark Monroe, Ja'Tovia Gary, Shawn Peters, Bradford Young. This is the first publication on the genre-defying practice of American filmmaker Terence Nance (born 1982). Tracing his work in film, video, television, sound and performance from 2012 to 2022, the volume pays tribute to >>more
BlackStar Projects/Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
ISBN 9780884541578
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Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 225 pgs / 98 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 Out of stock
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|  The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule
Edited and with text by Rajendra Roy, Anke Leweke. Text by Thomas Arslan, Valeska Grisebach, Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, Nina Hoss, Dennis Lim, Katja Nicodemus, Christian Petzold, Rainer Rother. Beginning around 15 years ago, a loose affiliation of scholars, writers and filmmakers living in Berlin began presenting films that offered a new, aesthetically driven form of political cinema. Abandoning the post-totalitarian context embraced by >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708749
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 In stock
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|  The Dodals
By Eva Strusková. Today, Czechoslovakia is famous for its unique tradition of animated film. Standing at the very beginning of this tradition is Karel Dodal (1900-1986), who, in collaboration with his wives Hermína Dodalová (née T?rlová) and, later, >>more
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and National Film Archive Prague
ISBN 9788073312718
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 376 pgs / 105 color / 319 b&w / DVD (PAL).
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 In stock
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|  The Brazilian German artist duo of Bárbara Wagner (born 1980) and Benjamin de Burca (born 1975), formed in 2011, counter the impulse to categorize culture in terms that are fixed—or deemed “folk” by organizations such >>more
Art Gallery of York University
ISBN 9780921972792
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Pbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock
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|  The Third Life of Agnčs Varda
Edited with text by Dominique Bluher, Julia Fabry. Text by Agnčs Varda. Interview by Philippe Piguet. Agnčs Varda (1928–2019) explored various mediums throughout her lifetime, moving from photography to film to multimedia installation. Despite Varda’s highly revered status globally, her third creative period is not widely known. The Third Life of >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959056113
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 116 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 In stock
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|  Tim Burton
Text by Tim Burton, Jenny He, Ron Magliozzi. Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades. With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Burton's work melds the exotic, the horrific and the comic, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707605
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 54 color.
Pub Date: 11/12/2009 In stock
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|  At once an artist's book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on Trinh’s 2015 feature film Forgetting Vietnam, which >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781737797968
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 05/16/2023 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  Alexander Kluge: He Has the Heartless Eyes of One Loved above All Else
By Alexander Kluge. In this notebook German author and film director Alexander Kluge (born 1932) outlines, in his much admired succinct style, the tale of a woman named Gesine who is unhappily in love with a man who >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728805
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Pbk, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 12 pgs / 2 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Not available
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|  Amos Gitai: News From Home
The film News From Home, the final piece of Amos Gitai's House trilogy, concludes a cycle that began with the eponymous House, in 1980. In the meantime, Gitai has made more than 40 features and >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600592
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 500 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  Artavazd Peleschian: Our Century
Essays by Paul Virilio, Constantin Wulff, and François Niney. Preface by Gerald Matt. The cinematic oeuvre of Artavazd Peleschian--11 films--is considered one of the most influential of Russian documentary cinema. Shifting between documentary and experiment, between poetry and quotidian life, the work of this reclusive Armenian filmmaker brings >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783936646603
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Clothbound, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 432 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Not available
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|  Buńuel: 100 Years
Edited by Enrique Camacho. Essays by Javier Perez Brazo, Manuel Rodriguez Blanco and Enrique Camacho. Disguises, jokes, masks, peculiar hands, hidden feet, and photogenic insects were to Luis Buńuel the emblems of artistic destiny. With these and other private jokes, he made 32 films, and created one of the most >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700156
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Paperback, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 344 pgs / 67 color / 375 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available
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|  Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
Edited by Terrie Sultan. Preface and Acknowledgments by Paul Ha, Jane Farver, Rina Carvajal, Terrie Sultan. Texts by Claudia Schmuckli, William Arning, Klaus Ottmann, Rina Carvajal, Terrie Sultan. Since 1968, Brussels-born, Paris-based Chantal Akerman has produced over 50 film and video works, in the genres of documentary and French New Wave-inspired fictional narrative. She is one of the foremost auteur-directors working today, yet >>more
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the Univeristy of Houston
ISBN 9780977802852
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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 05/01/2008 Not available
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|  D.W. Griffith
Essay by Iris Barry. D.W. Griffith, most famous for his controversial film Birth of a Nation, was one of the undisputed pioneers of the film industry. This illustrated monograph, first published in 1940, traces Griffith's rise from an obscure >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870706837
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 40 pgs / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Not available
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|  David Lamelas: Films 1969-1972/2004
Edited by Nicolas Trembley. This DVD brings together, for the first time, nine films produced between 1969 and 1972 by David Lamelas, a pioneer in Conceptual cinema and art. The Buenos Aires-born and Los Angeles-based artist introduced the notion >>more
JRP|Ringier/BDV Bureau des videos
ISBN 9783905701951
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
DVD video, PAL Multizone, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  David Lynch: The Marriage of Picture and Sound
Edited by Brigade Commerz, Robert Eikmeyer, Thomas Knoefel. In October 2010, David Lynch received the Kaiserring award, presented annually to visual artists by the city of Goslar, Germany. Following the awards ceremony, Lynch gave a press conference and took questions from a number >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869840550
US $24.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
CD-Audio, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Not available
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|  Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Artwork by David Shea, Johan Grimonprez. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Don DeLillo, Vr‚‚th ňhner, Slavoj Zizek. Buckle up for a bumpy ride down history lane! Welcome to the world's first unofficial chronicle of international skyjacking. Acclaimed as the most exceptional entry at Documenta 10, this pre-September 11 documentary film takes you >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775712675
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Hardcover, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 80 pgs / 50 color / DVD
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Not available
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|  Douglas Fairbanks
Essay by Alistair Cooke. This now classic portrait of Douglas Fairbanks--the swashbuckling original King of Hollywood--was first published in 1940. Long out of print and hard to find, Alistair Cooke's posthumous biography was the first serious consideration of the >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870706844
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 36 pgs / 2 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Not available
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|  Jeroen De Rijke & Willem De Rooij: Spaces And Films/Espaces Et Films 1998-2002
Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann. Essays by Diedrich Diederichsen and Georg Schüllhammer. Since 1994, the Dutch artists Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij have been collaborating on a comprehensive film oeuvre. This artist's book focuses on their last four 35mm films and film installations, made between >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789070149871
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 102 pgs / 4 color / 23 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available
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|  Jeroen Eisinga
Artwork by Jeroen Eisinga. Text by Jan Debbaut. >>more
nai010 publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
ISBN 9789070149789
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Paperback, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 18 color / 4 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/2000 Not available
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|  Jonas Mekas
Edited by Kasper König, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Barbara Engelbach, Julia Peyton-Jones. The definitive book on filmmaker, writer, founder of Anthology Film Archive and all-round cinema avatar Jonas Mekas, this compendium of materials is essential for all fans of independent American cinema. Since the early 1950s, when >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605627
US $59.95 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 256 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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|  Martin Scorsese
Edited by Kristina Jaspers, Nils Warnecke, Nicoletta Pacini, Tamara Sillo. Text by Alberto Barbera, Rainer Rother, Stefano Boni. This celebration of the prolific, 50-year career of Martin Scorsese offers a visual tour of the great director’s life in cinema through an extended interview and more than 300 reproductions, including film stills, posters, photographs >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836626748
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 168 pgs / 146 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2014 Not available
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|  Pasolini and Death: Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922-1975
Edited by Bernhard Schwenk and Michael Semff. Essays by Roberto Chiesi, Peter Kammer, Loris Lepri and Giuseppe Zigaina. One of the most outstanding, enigmatic characters of the European intelligentsia in the latter half of the twentieth century, Pier Paolo Pasolini holds an important place in Western cultural history, particularly the history of the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775716338
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / 30 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Not available
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|  Around 1980 in Rome, a small cooperative around film critics Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella produced a mysterious, elaborate and yet effortless-looking 600-page book of black-and-white photographs entitled Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e Luoghi (Theorema, >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783906803418
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.25 in. / 640 pgs / 1734 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2017 Not available
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|  Pier Paolo Pasolini: My Cinema
Foreword by Dante Ferretti. Text by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angelo Pennoni, Angelo Novi, Mario Tursi, Mario Dondero, Domenico Cattarinich, Deborah Beer, Bruno Bruni, Roberto Villa. This fantastic Pasolini compendium examines the great Italian director and author’s life through a detailed survey of his films. Opening with Accattone (1961) and closing with Salň (1975), followed by a section on unrealized works, >>more
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
ISBN 9788895862668
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 245 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 Not available
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|  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Edited by Laurence Kardish and Juliane Lorenz. Essays by Wim Wenders, Jeanne Moreau, Thomas Elsaesser, Georgia Brown, Wolfram Schütte, Harry Baer, Volker Schlčndorff and Hanna Schygulla. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. In this book of writings by and about Fassbinder, revealing statements by the artist himself are published in English for the first time. In addition, film historian Thomas Elsaesser and Georgia Brown, film critic for >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701092
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Hbk, 10.25 x 12.5 in. / 92 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available
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|  Robby Müller: Cinematography
Text by Linda van Deursen, Marietta Vries. Preface by Wim Wenders. Robby Müller (born 1940) is one of the most inspiring cinematographers of our time. His influence can be traced throughout his long-term collaborations with directors such as Wim Wenders (with whom he has worked since >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643419
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 248 pgs / 450 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Not available
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|  Stenberg Brothers
Essays by Christopher Mount and Peter Kenez. Foreword by Terence Riley. The Stenberg brothers, like their contemporaries Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, were artists of immensely varied interests and eclectic skills. They were sculptors, architects, and stage and costume designers, and were enamored of the film >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700514
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / Illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available
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|  The World of Tim Burton
Text by Tim Burton, Jenny He, Patrick Blümel. His films are cult classics: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland. Less well known, but no less relevant, is the artwork that Tim Burton creates outside of Hollywood. His drawings and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740296
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 Not available
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|  Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002
Essays by Peggy Phelan, Charles Atlas, Sally Banes, NoŚl Carroll, Sabine Folie and Carrie Lambert, Introduction by Sid Sachs. Radical Juxtapositions is the first book to present both artistic facets of Yvonne Rainer, dance innovator and award-winning filmmaker. One of the most respected artists of the twentieth century, Rainer broke new ground as part >>more
The University of the Arts
ISBN 9780962791659
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Paperback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 151 pgs / 25 color / 111 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available
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