A critic and a screenwriter, Paul Schrader is also responsible for directing films such as "American Gigolo" and "Cat People". This book charts in his own words Schrader's journey from critic to screenwriter to director and includes a selection of his most influential critical essays.

保罗·施拉德：被全世界“电影小子”引用、称颂和膜拜的保罗·施拉德，是“新好莱坞”的主将，美国最受尊崇的编剧、导演之一，同时也是一位杰出的影评人。本书里，施拉德将亲自带你穿越他的光影生涯，从一个最贴近的角度了解他的艺术之思，其中还包含了他的一组影评精选，例如具有里程碑价值的《黑色电影笔记》。 凯文•杰克逊（Kevin Jackson），在电视与广播领域拥有多年制作人、编剧及主持人工作经验，他是《独立报》(Independent)艺术版块副主编，同时又是自由撰稿人、广播人和讲师。

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lef...(展开全部)

At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, and Gilles Deleuze.This collection of short, ...(展开全部)

Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Großraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege". Written between 1937 and 1945, these works art...(展开全部)

The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lef...(展开全部)

Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Großraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege". Written between 1937 and 1945, these works art...(展开全部)