18 must-read nonfiction books like Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey

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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

By: Laura Mulvey

3.99

Format: 15 pages, None

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Cover of Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish, Stefano Velotti

1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more

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  • theory
  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"

-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

Cover of This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke, Catherine Porter

3. This Sex Which Is Not One

By: Luce Irigaray , Carolyn Burke , Catherine Porter

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of t… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

4. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. In a Grove

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

"In a Grove" (Sou noZhong , Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, first appearing… read more

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6. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

By: Jonathan D. Culler

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is L… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • academic

7. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

By: Jacques Lacan

4.25

Format: None pages,

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici

9. Wages Against Housework

By: Silvia Federici

2.00

Format: 375 pages,

They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Eve… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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11. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

12. On Self-Respect

By: Joan Didion

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Essay

"Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was republish… read more

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13. A Defence of Poetry

By: Philip Sidney , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the r… read more

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14. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

By: Richard Howard , Tzvetan Todorov , Robert Scholes

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, movi… read more

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15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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16. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

By: Adrienne Rich

3.75

Format: 166 pages,

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17. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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18. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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19. Manifesto Cyborg

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more

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20. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

By: Gary Gutting

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, ov… read more

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21. Salomé

By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more

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22. The Laugh of the Medusa

By: Hélène Cixous

4.09

Format: None pages,

Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more

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23. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie   Lewis

24. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

By: Laura Mulvey

3.99

Format: 15 pages, None

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  • art
  • psychoanalysis
  • film
  • theory
  • feminism
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • college
  • nonfiction
  • essays

26. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory

By: Judith Butler

4.10

Format: None pages, None

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

27. Mourning and Melancholia

By: Sigmund Freud

4.09

Format: None pages, None

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  • theory
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
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28. Introduction to Documentary

By: Bill Nichols

3.76

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Introduction to Documentary provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issu… read more

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  • theory
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
Cover of The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

29. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture by Vivian Sobchack

30. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

By: Vivian Sobchack

4.08

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense … read more

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  • film
  • theory
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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31. Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

By: Carolina Hein

4.18

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literatur… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • film

14 best-selling philosophy books like Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey

Transform Your Habits

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

This Sex Which Is Not One

Luce Irigaray , Carolyn Burke , Catherine Porter

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

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21 best-selling classics books like The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

Transform Your Habits

The Garden of Forking Paths

George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Africa's Tarnished Name

Chinua Achebe

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

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