Film art : an introduction. 2026 Release

Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. Included Glossary and Index.

Aesthetics : A reader in philosophy of the arts. Fourth Edition

93 Categories of Art -- 94 The Role of Theory in Aesthetics -- 95 Art and Natural Selection -- 96 Feminism in Context -- Contributors

Film art : an introduction. Tenth Edition

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their un…

Aesthetics and Its Discontents

Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppress…

Sympathy of things : Ruskin and the ecology of design. Second Edition

'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin,…

Film art : an introduction. Eleventh Edition

"Studying the arts isn't only about learning facts and concepts either, although both are important. In addition, studying the arts broadens our tastes. In eleven editions of Film Art, we've made reference to many well-known films but also to many that you've probably never heard of. This is part of our plan. We want to show that the world of cinema teems with a great many unexpected pleasures,…

The filmmaker's eye : learning (and breaking) the rules of cinematic composit…

This book provides an insightful exploration of visual storytelling by dissecting key principles of cinematic composition—such as framing, movement, and editing—and showing how mastering and purposefully bending these rules enhances the art of filmmaking. Bibliography : page 221-224. Index : page 229-243

Film art : an introduction. Thirteenth International Student Edition

Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. Included Glossary and Index.

The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible. Bloomsbury Rev…

In this influential sequence of linked interviews, Ranciere explores the interplay of art and politics.

Art in motion : animation aesthetics

This text presents an examination of the aesthetics of animation. It provides an overview of the relationship between animation studes and media studies, then focuses on issues concerning flat and dimensional, and limited and full animation. It then looks at specific topics such as gender issues and adaption.

Aesthetic theory

Adorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime.

Aesthetic theory

Adorno's magnum opus, in which he summarises his life's thinking on concepts of beauty, the ugly and the sublime.

Dissensus : on politics and aesthetics

A brand new collection of Jacques Ranciere's writings on art and politics.

Natural architecture now : new projects from outside the boundaries of design

Our 2007 hit Natural Architecture introduced artists and architects who transform the act of building into a fascinating new art form. Built from humble elements—branches, twigs, straw, bamboo—and fulfilling a wide variety of intentions—sometimes structural, sometimes sculptural, sometimes sacred—their fantastical creations resonate with an innate natural beauty. Natural Architecture No…

The Bauhaus : 1919-1933 : reform and avant-garde

Despite being shut down by the Nazis after just fourteen years in existence, the Bauhaus art school stands as one of the defining movements of modern history. This book introduces the school's commitment to creative expression, cutting-edge ideas, and the combination of fine art and technology in a utopian future.

SPECLAB digital aesthetics and projects in speculative computing

Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers o…

Works of game : on the aesthetics of games and art

An exploration of the relationship between games and art that examines the ways that both gamemakers and artists create game-based artworks. Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games, Duchamp's obsession with Chess, and Fluxus event scores and boxes—to name just a few examples. Over the…

Signs and meaning in the cinema

First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of film as an art form and as a sign system. The book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film…

The politics and poetics of cinematic realism

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema si…

How to read towns & cities : a crash course in urban architecture

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ISBN/ISSN

9781474219266

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256 p. ; 17 cm.

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711.409 Gla h