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。

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.

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)

In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), one of the ...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and p...(展开全部)

Labyrinths (1962) is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges. It includes Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Library of Babel, to name some of Borges' more famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and J...(展开全部)

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Visual and Other Pleasures (1989; 2009), and the BFI Film Classic onCitizen Kane (1992; 2012).

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)