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After Cinema
After Cinema
Text by Heinz Peter Schwerfel.

German filmmaker Heinz Peter Schwerfel (born 1954) spotlights 60 artists from more than 20 countries working in moving images to short-circuit the universal language of mass media and, in so doing, innovate the genre itself.

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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775757843
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2024 Awaiting stock


Bollywood Superstars
Bollywood Superstars
Edited with text by Julien Rousseau, Hélène Kessous. Forewords by Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Hervé Barbaret, Sandra Lagumina, Manuel Rabaté, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Souraya Noujaim. Text by Amandine D’Azevedo, Swarnavel Eswaran, Eva Markovits, Jeanne Rethacker, Némésis Srour, Selvaraj Velayutham, Ophélie Wiel.

In India, the power of an icon or a holy person is often conveyed by way of sight: one must "behold" the entity in question. This particular import of sight has undoubtedly contributed to cinema’s >>more

Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035524
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 65 color / 7 duotone / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/21/2023 In stock


Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema
Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema
Edited with text by Jessica Niebel, Sophia Serrano. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Introduction by Jessica Niebel. Text by Barbara Flueckiger, Alexandra James Salichs, Ranjani Mazumdar, Sarah Street, Kirsten Moana Thompson, Joshua Yumibe. Interviews by Sophia Serrano.

The art of producing color in movies is a fascinating process with a long history. Many people don’t realize that, as early as the 1890s, much of silent cinema was in color. They also may >>more

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636811307
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 317 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2024 In stock


Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema
Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema
Edited with introduction by Doris Berger. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Text by Nicholas Barlow, Craig Barron, DeForrest Brown Jr., Maya S. Cade, Millie De Chirico, Ashley Clark, Shari Frilot, David A. Kirby, Norman M. Klein, Carlen Lavigne, Akira Mizuta Lippit, K.J. Relth-Miller, Emily Rauber Rodriguez, Patrick B. Sharp. Interview by Nicholas Barlow, Doris Berger.

Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, first appeared in the early 1980s and uniquely captured the anxieties of the decade. Featuring near-future scenarios set in worlds that resemble our own, cyberpunk stories juxtapose technological advances >>more

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636811314
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Flexi, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 229 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2024 In stock


German Film
German Film
Edited by Rolf Aurich, Karin Herbst-Meßlinger, Kristina Jaspers, Peter Mänz, Rainer Rother.

This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of German film based on the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. This impressive archive houses several hundred thousand photographs, 25,000 posters, 26,500 films and approximately 20,000 costumes >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775757850
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 960 pgs / 2700 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2024 Awaiting stock


Picturing Austrian Cinema: 99 Films/100 Comments
Picturing Austrian Cinema: 99 Films/100 Comments
Edited by Katharina Müller, Claus Philipp. Text by Ann Cotten, Michael Hagner, Gertrud Koch, Elfriede Jelinek, Clemens J. Setz, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, et al.

This compendium adopts a playful, inquisitive approach to Austria’s cinematic history, asking what it might mean to stop cinematic time: 100 individual frames from 100 works by 100 Austrian filmmakers since 1945, each described by >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055666
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Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 250 pgs / 70 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 In stock


Slander!
Slander!
By Jeremy Sharma.

An experimental novel intertwining 1950s Malayan film scripts and film narratives, a fictionalized autobiographic diary, film theory and more, Slander! brings voice to the culture of Southeast Asia’s Hollywood counterpart.

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Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083404134
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/07/2025 Awaiting stock


                                                                                                              

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

America: Films from Elsewhere
America: Films from Elsewhere
Edited with introduction by Shanay Jhaveri. Text by Adam Nayman, Adrian Martin, Benjamin Mercer, Clare Davies, Corina Copp, Ed Halter, Elena Gorfinkel, Erika Balsom, Federico Windhausen, Hilton Als, James Quandt, Jim Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Julian Ross, Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes, Nicole Brenez, Nora M. Alter, Rachel Dwyer, Vic Brooks.

The cities, landscapes and people of America have been the subject of many a film, but when seen through an outsider’s perspective, new and often significant aspects of its culture are revealed. America: Films from >>more

The Shoestring Publisher
ISBN 9788190472081
US $35.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 9.25 in. / 616 pgs / 300 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock


An Auteurist History of Film
An Auteurist History of Film
By Charles Silver. Beginning in 2009, The Museum of Modern Art offered a weekly series of film screenings titled An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew Sarris’ seminal work The American Cinema, which developed on the idea >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870709777
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 In stock


Angénieux and Cinema
Angénieux and Cinema
Edited with text by Edith Bertrand. Text by Eric Perrin, Nadine Besse, Alain Renaud, Jon Fauer, Pascal Martin, Priska Morrissey, Marc Salomon.

This book looks at the history of the Angénieux zoom lens, long fabled in Hollywood, responsible for NASA's documentation of the first moon landing in 1969 and, more recently, heavily deployed in Game of Thrones. >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836638598
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock


Ars Electronica 2017
Ars Electronica 2017
Edited by Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker.

It has consistently focused on processes and trends at the interface between art, technology and society. This artistic-scientific research is presented at the annual festival in Linz, Austria, documented in this volume with 2017's entries. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743358
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 320 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/23/2018 Out of stock


Between the Images
Between the Images
By Raymond Bellour. Edited by Lionel Bovier. First published in French in 1990, Between-the-Images unites 20 illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by Raymond Bellour (born 1939), one of the world's most prominent film theorists. Bellour writes in his foreword to >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641446
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 In stock


Cinema in the Expanded Field
Cinema in the Expanded Field
Edited by François Bovier, Adeena Mey. Text by Xavier García Bardón, François Bovier, Érik Bullot, et al. Part of the Documents series, this volume explores the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists’ cinema, video installations and advertising films, focusing on the domains of performance and of the "expanded arts." Together with >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644331
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 184 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock


City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907
City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907
Edited with text by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, Vanessa R. Schwartz. Text by Brian R. Jacobson.

City of Cinema traces film’s evolution from an obscure entertainment to the most powerful art form of the 20th century. Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, >>more

DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781636810218
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 174 color.
Pub Date: 04/05/2022 In stock


Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin
Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin
By Jonas Mekas. Edited by Chuck Smith, Charity Coleman, Christian Hiller, Anne König, Sebastian Mekas, Sarai Meyron, Marc Siegel. Text by John Cavanaugh, Richard Foreman, Christian Hiller, Jonas Mekas, Ara Osterweil, Barbara Rubin, Marc Siegel, Chuck Smith, Amy Taubin.

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1945–80) quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth, featuring painted and >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052023
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 200 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/27/2018 In stock


Film Noir Portraits
Film Noir Portraits
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Text by Paul Duncan.

With its singular focus on the very best portrait photography of the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood film noir era, every page of this coffee-table volume is rich in brooding atmosphere. The portraits gathered here, of >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526815
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Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 240 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/22/2022 In stock


French New Wave
French New Wave
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Christopher Frayling. Design by Graham Marsh. Text by Alison Elangasinghe.

The French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the most important movements in the history of film. Its fresh energy and vision changed the cinematic landscape, and its style has had >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9780957261044
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Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/03/2019 In stock


Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens
Edited by Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles. Introduction by Albert Maysles. Illustrations by Rebekah Maysles, Dan Murphy.

One of the strangest and subtlest films ever made, the Maysles Brothers' 1975 documentary Grey Gardens today boasts as devoted a following as Harold and Maude. Shot at Grey Gardens, the dilapidated East Hamptons mansion >>more

Free News Projects
ISBN 9780977652365
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color / 25 b&w / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Out of stock


H.R. Giger: Alien Tagebuecher / Diaries
H.R. Giger: Alien Tagebuecher / Diaries

HR Giger worked in the Shepperton Studios near London from February to November 1978, creating the figures and sets for the film Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. The film became an international success, earning >>more

Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783905929454
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Hbk, 5.25 x 9.25 in. / 660 pgs / 59 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2013 In stock


Image Stream
Image Stream
Essays by George Baker, Gregg Bordowitz, Aruna D'Souza, Bill Horrigan, Bruce Jenkins, Helen Molesworth and Hamza Walker. Introduction by Sherri Geldin. Image Stream brings together eight gallery-based film and video works, each of which explore the limits of this new medium, returning to narrative and changing conventional modes of viewing. Curator Helen Molesworth in this her >>more

Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390343
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 100 pgs / 28 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Out of stock


Italy in Hollywood
Italy in Hollywood
Edited by Stefania Ricci.

Loosely following the years Salvatore Ferragamo (1898–1960) spent in California, Italy in Hollywood shines light on a neglected period in the history of the film capital. This sleek volume brings together programs, photographs, film clips, >>more

Skira Paris
ISBN 9788857238876
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 480 pgs / 630 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Jörg Adolph and Gereon Wetzel: How to Make a Book with Carlos Saura & Steidl
Jörg Adolph and Gereon Wetzel: How to Make a Book with Carlos Saura & Steidl
Text by Alex Rühle.

This documentary film shows the story of creating Carlos Saura’s Vanished Spain, a book of Saura’s photographs of Andalusia and central Spain in the late 1950s, published by Steidl in 2016.

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Steidl
ISBN 9783958293533
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
DVD, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock


Letters as Films
Letters as Films
Edited with introduction by Garbiñe Ortega.

More than 50 postcards, manuscripts, typewritten letters and even emails are presented alongside stills, drawings and storyboards to create a stunning epistolary archive many years in the making. Curator and Punto de Vista International Documentary >>more

La Fábrica/Punto de vista
ISBN 9788417769765
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 Out of stock


Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
Edited with text by François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger. Text by Renate Buschmann, Marcy Goldberg, Ute Holl, Ian Wooldridge.

Minor Cinema is the first study of experimental cinema in Switzerland, addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, expanded cinema and performances and focusing on the role of the >>more

JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037645505
US $29.95 CAN $45.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 384 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2020 In stock


Narrativity: How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today
Narrativity: How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today
Edited by Daniele Riviere. Text by Renè Audet, Claude Romano, Laurence Dreyfus, Carl Therrien, Hugues Marchal. Traditional narrative structure hit a wall--or rather it hit the glass of a kaleidoscope--in the 1990s, when art began to function as a kind of editing table on which daily reality could be remixed and >>more

Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563307
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2007 In stock


Organized Networks: Media Theory, Collective Labour, New Institutions
Organized Networks: Media Theory, Collective Labour, New Institutions
By Ned Rossiter. The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized and horizontal all too easily overshadows their political dimensions. In Organized Networks, Ned Rossiter, the author of Politics of a Digital Present and Refashioning Pop Music in >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625269
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of stock


Poetics of Cinema 2
Poetics of Cinema 2
By Raul Ruiz. "Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about >>more

Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563253
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Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 In stock


Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s & 1980s
Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s & 1980s
Edited by Irene Schubiger. Text by Johannes Gfeller, Joanna Phillips, Irene Schubiger, Sabine Breitwieser. Surveying some 20 years of Swiss video art, this book includes works by Alexander Hahn, Klara Kuchta, Eric Lanz, Jean Otth, Pipilotti Rist, Alex Silber and Hannes Vogel, it reviews discussion surrounding the exhibiting of >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640548
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Pbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 184 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Out of stock


Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Edited with text by Doris Berger, Rhea L. Combs. Foreword by Whoopi Goldberg. Text by Donald Bogle, Cara Caddoo, Terri Simone Francis, Michael Boyce Gillespie, J. Raúl Guzmán, Shola Lynch, Ron Magliozzi, Ellen C. Scott, Jacqueline N. Stewart.

From the dawn of the medium onward, Black filmmakers have helped define American cinema. Black performers, producers and directors—Bert Williams, Oscar Micheaux, Herb Jeffries, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ruby Dee and William Greaves, to name >>more

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
ISBN 9781636810515
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 80 color / 182 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 In stock


Remote Memories
Remote Memories
Text by Monika Schnethamp, Zdeneh Felix, Julia Höner. Remote Memories explores the ways in which history is often transmitted not through direct observation but rather via media such as film and literature. Through the work of five artists--Steve Claydon, David Noonan, Bernd Ribbeck, >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783866783393
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Hbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 72 pgs / 32 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 Out of stock


Spots in Shots
Spots in Shots
By Mélanie van der Hoorn.

Spots in Shots explores a selection of little-known but fascinating short films made in Europe and the US between 1990 and 2017 that tell stories about architecture and urban development. Based on interviews with the >>more

Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462084568
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock


Starlight
Starlight
Edited by Michael Juul Holm. Essays by Madeleine Schlawitz, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer, Michael Juul Holm and Mette Marcus. Foreword by Poul Erik TØjner. Film stills seek to capture not only the frozen moment the shutter speed allows, but the whole mood and meaning of a movie's narrative. Successful ones often come to represent the essence of the movie >>more

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788791607318
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color and 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 In stock


Still Moving
Still Moving
Essay by Steven Higgins. Founded in 1935, The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media is home to one of the most important moving-image archives in the world. Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703263
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Hardcover, 9 x 10.25 in. / 376 pgs / 507 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Out of stock


The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film
The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film
By Christopher Frayling.

To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Apollo 11 moon landing and of the worldwide release of the science-fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Reel Art Press is reprinting its bestselling book The 2001 File.

A look behind-the-scenes >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9780957261020
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 450 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2015 Out of stock


The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide
The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide
Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, Spencer Christiano, Catherine A. Surowiec, Timothy J. Wagner. Foreword by Tacita Dean, Christopher Nolan.

A New York Times 2019 holiday gift guide pick

The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema >>more

George Eastman Museum
ISBN 9780935398311
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Hbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 344 pgs / 25 color / 111 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock


The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule
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


The Goldfinger Files
The Goldfinger Files
By Steffen Appel & Peter Wälty. Foreword by Franck Hamilton. Photos by Hans Gerber, Josef Ritler, Erich Kocian, et al.

Perhaps the classic James Bond film, Goldfinger (1964) undoubtedly marked the beginning of 1960s Bondmania. Incorporating much unpublished material, including photographs and the original typed screenplay, The Goldfinger Files is an illustrated history of the >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958297463
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Hbk, 10.5 x 13 in. / 192 pgs / 126 color / 179 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/06/2020 In stock


The Hidden God
The Hidden God
Edited by Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda. Essays by Carlos Fuentes, Charles Silver, Dave Kehr, Michael Wood, Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, Andrew Sarris, and Martin Scorsese. The subject of God has often been touched on in the movies. European directors like Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Luis Bunuel, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini and many others have >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703492
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2003 Out of stock


The Magnetic Era
The Magnetic Era
Edited by Jeroen Boomgaard and Bart Rutten. Essays by Rob Perr»e, Jorinde Seijdel, Sebastian Lopez, Anne van Driel, Heiner Holtappels, Hinke Kappert, Marga van Mechelen and Ruth Bellinkx. Video has commanded a place within the domain of the visual arts since 1965 and has now grown into one of the most widely used forms of art. After the successful introduction of the medium >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622992
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of stock


The Mutant Flesh
The Mutant Flesh
Text by Denis Baron. In recent years, new technologies have generated cultural and cognitive revolutions that have changed our relationships to our bodies and the world. In this volume, author, photographer and film critic Denis Baron reflects on the >>more

Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563420
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 36 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 In stock


Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years
Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years
By Christopher Frayling. Edited by Tony Nourmand.

This visual feast celebrates classic vampire cinema—mainstream and niche—through the many colorful ways in which the key films have been marketed and consumed.
F.W. Murnau's haunting film Nosferatu had its premiere in Berlin in March 1922. >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526884
US $49.95 CAN $64.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 272 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock


Violence’s Fabled Experiment
Violence’s Fabled Experiment
By Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers.

Here, Baxstrom and Meyers examine how violence and an unmarked, stubbornly persistent conception of "nature" weave into the fabric of the human in the recent work of three important filmmakers: Werner Herzog, Joshua Oppenheimer (particularly >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783941360570
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 4 x 6.5 in. / 148 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Weimar Cinema 1919-1933
Weimar Cinema 1919-1933
Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Ulrich Döge, Thomas Elsaesser, Laurence Kardish, Claudia Lenssen, Eric Rentschler, Werner Sudendorff. Published in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art's presentation of 75 feature-length films from the Weimar era, many only recently restored, Weimar Cinema reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential films made in Germany between >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707612
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 150 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/31/2010 In stock


atelierJAK: Faulty Reveries
atelierJAK: Faulty Reveries
Edited with text by Isabelle Lesmeister. Text by Annika Schoemann, Mathias Listl.

This monograph documents the making of German artist duo atelierJAK’s experimental film Soul Blindness. The film itself develops out of the duo’s exhibitions and artworks, thus incorporating sculpture, drawing, writing and digital art, and is >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735608055
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 80 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock



                               

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection:
Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection:
Edited by Anette Hüsch, Joachim Jäger, Gabriele Knapstein. Text by Christopher Eamon, Anette Hüsch, Gabriele Knapstein, Joachim Jäger. Wherever we go, we are surrounded by moving images. In art as in daily life, they have long since developed a life "beyond the cinema," scuttling the conventions of dark auditoriums for images projected onto >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718745
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 SDNR30
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 68 color/37 b&w
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Not available


Cinema Cinema
Edited by Jaap Guldemond. Contributions by Jean-Christophe Royoux. >>more

nai010 publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
ISBN 9789070149710
US $42.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 33 color / 66 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/1999 Not available


Exhibiting the Moving Image
Exhibiting the Moving Image
Edited by François Bovier, Adeena Mey. Text by Erika Balsom, François Bovier, Giuliana Bruno, Maeve Connolly, Greg de Cuir, Jr., Kate Mondloch, Julie Reiss, Maya Zoller. Since the 1990s, a "cinematographic turn" has taken place in contemporary art, paralleled by the emergence of a "cinema of exhibition." This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the "white cube" and the >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643884
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 Not available


Film as a Subversive Art
Film as a Subversive Art
By Amos Vogel. Foreword by Scott MacDonald. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, >>more

D.A.P./C.T. Editions
ISBN 9781933045276
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Not available


Filmstills: Emotions Made In Hollywood
A survey of the films stills, fan pictures, and advertising photographs that Hollywood used to promote the silver screen. A must for film students. Second printing. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783893224920
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Paperback
Pub Date: 03/02/1994 Not available


Jean Desmet's Dream Factory
Jean Desmet's Dream Factory
Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel, Jaap Guldemond, Mark-Paul Meyer. Text by Rommy Albers, Soeluh van den Berg, Ivo Blom, Peter Delpeut, Marc-Paul Meyer, David Robinson, Elif Rongen, Leanne van Schijndel. The early twentieth-century film industry grew with the help of passionate entrepreneurs like Jean Desmet (1875–1956), who went from being a carnival showman to one of the Netherlands' leading cinema operators, and finally became the >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081741
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 Not available


Positif 50 Years
Positif 50 Years
Edited by Lawrence Kardish. Essays by Bernard Chadère, Jacques Demeure, Michel Subiela, Paul-Louis Thirard, Roger Tailleur, Ado Kyrou, Bernard Pingaud, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Paul Tàràk, Robert Benayoun, Louis Seguin, Michel Pèrez, Frédéric Vitoux, Lorenzo Codelli, Alain Garsautl, Jacques Goimard, Michel Sineux, Michael Henry, Gérard Legrand, Isabelle Jordan, Jacques Segond and Petr Kral. Introduction by Michel Ciment. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary and the 500th issue of the French film journal Positif--voilá! What could satisfy the cinephile more than an anthology, in English, of the very best Positif articles from the last >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870706882
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Hbk, 4.5 x 7.75 in. / 480 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2003 Not available


Record Again!
Record Again!
Edited by Christoph Blase, Peter Weibel. Text by René Block, Walter Grasskamp, Wulf Herzogenrath. Record Again! is one outcome of the laudable “40yearsvideoart.de” conservation project, which has sought to combat the physical fragility and limited life span of outdated formats by tracing lost video works of the 1960s and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725224
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 536 pgs / 344 color / 296 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Not available


Review: Videos & Films Collection Pierre Huber
Review: Videos & Films Collection Pierre Huber
Edited by Yves Aupetitallot. The visionary Geneva gallerist Pierre Huber, whose broader collection was recently the subject of Private View 1980-2000 here offers a more closely defined--and more recent--cache, his video art. With works by Nam June Paik, Annika >>more

JRP|Ringier/Le Magasin-CNAC
ISBN 9782940271795
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Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 96 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


The Book of Imaginary Media: Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium
The Book of Imaginary Media: Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium
Edited by Eric Kluitenberg. Text by Eric Kluitenberg, Siegfried Zielinsky, Bruce Sterling, Erkki Huhtamo, Edwin Carels, Zoe Beloff, Timothy Druckery, John Akomfrah. Have you ever wondered if one day Windows 2028 might just know what you're thinking and type it? In this collection of essays, a selection of today's top media and sci-fi theorists weigh in. The >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625399
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 292 pgs / 50 b&w / with DVD.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


The Dark Galleries
The Dark Galleries
Introduction and text by Steven Jacobs, Lisa Colpaert. Imagine a museum in which the portrait of Carlotta Valdes, an important prop in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, hangs on a wall next to the painted portrait of the title character of Otto Preminger’s Laura, opposite >>more

ARAMER
ISBN 9789491775192
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Clth, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 Not available


The Dawn of Technicolor
The Dawn of Technicolor
Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, Catherine A. Surowiec. Preface by Paolo Cherchi Usai. Foreword by Bruce Barnes. Text by James Layton, David Pierce. Published to coincide with Technicolor's centennial in 2015, The Dawn of Technicolor recounts the beginnings of one of the most widely recognized names in the American film industry, reconstructing the company's early years from a >>more

George Eastman House
ISBN 9780935398281
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Hbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 448 pgs / 267 color / 161 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 Not available


The First Generation: Women And Video, 1970-75T
The First Generation: Women And Video, 1970-75T
Contributions by JoAnn Hanley, Ann-Sargent Wooster. This brief history analyzes women's use of video to expolore identity and other issues and surveys the work of 21 artists. >>more

Independent Curators International (ICI)
ISBN 9780916365400
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Paperback, 7 x 4 in. / 96 pgs / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1993 Not available


The Future Of Cinema: Immersive And Interactive
The Future Of Cinema: Immersive And Interactive
Essays by Jill Bennett, James Donald, Ursula Frohne, Anna Munster, and Peter Weibel. This new entry in the ZKM Digital Arts series marks a change in format to DVD. It deals with innovative narrative forms of interactive film, with contributions by artists Dennis del Favero, Agnes Hegedus, Ian >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775710879
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Boxed / DVD with 104 pg booklet
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Not available


Tribeca Talks
Tribeca Talks
Edited by Germano Celant. Introduction by James Sanders. The Tribeca Film Festival brings together film lovers from around New York City and around the world to watch and discuss the newest U.S. and international independent and studio films. In addition to the film >>more

Fondazione Prada
ISBN 9788887029307
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Paperback, 6 x 9.5 in. / 356 pgs / 100 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2004 Not available


Video Acts
Video Acts
Artwork by Dara Birnbaum, Peter Campus, Valie Export, Steve McQueen, Pippiloti Rist, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Vito Acconci, Darren Almond, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Jim Shaw, Bill Viola, William WPhotographs by Martha Rosler. Edited by Klaus Biesenbach, Alanna Heiss, Anthony Huberman. Text by Christopher Eamon, Barbara London, Glenn Lowry. Today, video is a familiar tool at the artist's disposal. But to those who experimented with the technology in the 1960s and 70s--when affordable equipment became commercially available--the capabilities inherent in the medium were unknown. >>more

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
ISBN 9780970442857
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Paperback, 10 x 13 in. / 200 pgs / 312 color
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Not available