In an American Film Institute poll in 2001, Psycho was voted the greatest thriller of all time. It has scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. Alfred Hitchcock was prompted to make Psycho after seeing Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (1954), which took the thriller genre to a new level of shock-value. Not to be outdone, ...
Raymond Durgnat here examines literally hundreds of films in an effort to isolate universals of the language of films and to loft their poetics to an articulate level.
The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit "WR - Mysteries of the Organism" (1971), is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Reich is a "intellectual maverick" and "sexual pioneer", and theorist of "Orgone energy" and "world revolution". Loosely ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkeley: University of California
Date Published: 1968
Description: Used-Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. We individually inspect and grade each book. Our books are professionally packaged and processed quickly. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Carl Schunemann Verlag Bremen
Date Published: 1965
Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 206 Pages, B/W Photographs, Original White Paper Band in Very Good Cond., Light Edge Wear to the DJ. read more
Description: b&w film stills. Very Good. 8vo. 90pp (12) Rare publication, being an overview of the first decade of Nouvelle Vague/New Wave cinema, giving an A-Z of directors and their films, referencing Varda, Godard, Chabrol, Resnais, Truffaut, Astruc, Kast, Malle, Melville, and many more; includes a few film stills to rear of text, and also includes select bibliography; Very Good and clean throughout, covers very lightly rubbed. read more
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Ian (Editor) With Contributions By Charles Barr, Robin Wood, Paul Mayersberg, V.F. Perkins, Philip French, Raymond Durgnat,...
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Description: London 1963 Motion Publications. A Motion Monograph. Sq.8vo., 90pp. plus monochrome photo illustrations, original printed wraps. VG plus. A scarce and desirable item by a celebrated British film critic. read more
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