What is Cinema?: Volume I
By: Jean Renoir , André Bazin , Hugh Gray
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The philosophy and unique insights of the late French film critic are revealed in these essays.
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. The Great Movies
By: Roger Ebert , None
4.25
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays… read more
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3. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
4. Film Art: An Introduction
By: David Bordwell , Kristin Thompson
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Unknown Binding
Film Artis often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell… read more
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5. Notes on the Cinematographer
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more
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6. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
7. The Great Movies II
By: Roger Ebert
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II… read more
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8. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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9. What is Cinema?: Volume I
By: Jean Renoir , André Bazin , Hugh Gray
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The philosophy and unique insights of the late French film critic are revealed in these essays. read more
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10. Scorsese
By: Roger Ebert , Martin Scorsese
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received--for 1967's I C… read more
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11. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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12. 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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13. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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14. Ivanov
By: Anton Chekhov , None , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more
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15. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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16. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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17. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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18. Sculpting in Time
By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair
4.51
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import… read more
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"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
19. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
By: Paul Schrader
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the scr… read more
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20. In the Blink of an Eye
By: Francis Ford Coppola , Walter Murch
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
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21. Hitchcock
By: Alfred Hitchcock , François Truffaut
4.29
Format: 144 pages,
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's int… read more
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