In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. Cinematic Ghosts is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms...(展开全部)

The history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture. In Chinese Film, Jason McGrath tells this fascinating story by tracing the varied claims to cinematic realis...(展开全部)

The history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture. In Chinese Film, Jason McGrath tells this fascinating story by tracing the varied claims to cinematic realis...(展开全部)

Prolifically illustrated, this is the perfect introduction to the history of film for students and budding cinephiles alike.This extensive yet accessible book traces the evolution of cinema, from the great silver screen-classics through postwar movements from film noir to nouvelle vague, and up to the present day with the emerging commercial success of 3-D. Thoroughly illustrat...(展开全部)

菲利普·肯普（Philip Kemp），影评人、电影史学家，《视与听》、《完全电影》和《DVD评论》等杂志撰稿人。在莱切斯特大学和密德萨斯大学教授影视新闻学，著有《致命的天真：亚历山大·麦肯德里克电影作品》及介绍萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊的《阿普三部曲》的著作。 王扬 男，坐标麻州。信息安全专业出身，不务正业的工程师，电影爱好者。喜欢伍迪·艾伦、黑色电影和2000年前后流行的美国loser片。习惯用《七宗罪》、《提喻纽约》、《十二怒汉》、’93国配《费城故事》作背景音乐。翻译过一些罗杰·伊伯特的影评、美国独立游戏与地下漫画相关的文章。最大的梦想是和查理·考夫曼电影的女主角纠缠一生。

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require. In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone analyzed Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and modern painting as it relates to his a...(展开全部)

Ghosts, spirits, and specters have played important roles in narratives throughout history and across nations and cultures. A watershed moment for this area of study was the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx in 1993, marking the inauguration of a "spectral turn" in cultural criticism. Gathering together the most compelling texts of the past twenty years, the editors tra...(展开全部)

Ghosts, spirits, and specters have played important roles in narratives throughout history and across nations and cultures. A watershed moment for this area of study was the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx in 1993, marking the inauguration of a "spectral turn" in cultural criticism. Gathering together the most compelling texts of the past twenty years, the editors tra...(展开全部)

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"Postcards from the Cinema" is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short by Daney's death. Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profound meditation on the art and politics of film. Daney's passionate and lucid engagement with film, combined with ...(展开全部)