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This book portrays the exquisite beauty that is found amid the ruins of a handful of tiny trading towns located along an ancient trade route in Rajasthan, India.

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In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family- including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and even a pair.

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Presents an ambitious young writer's hilarious journey inside the adult film industry. This book tells the story of Eric Spitznagel who moves to LA with dreams of becoming a highly respected screenwriter. When Hollywood fails to notice him, he settles for the next best thing: writing scripts for adult films.

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A photographic portrait of East Austin, Texas

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A fascinating and almost unknown history which helps us to understand a visible form that became invisible. The book provides a contribution to both history in general and to the history of art, to aesthetics, to the history and theory of architecture and, last but not least, to the history and theory of landscape

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From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Foods complexity of form and meaningand the fact that its often at handhave made it a much-photographed subject throughout the history of photography.

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Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, this book argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting.

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What happens when nothing happens

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True portraits of transgender women.

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In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.

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The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape.

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A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world

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Antonio T. Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area-based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to create a niche within DJ culture. He shows that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop, such involvement also upholds deracialized accounts of hip-hop and renders difference benign.

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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"Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know" makes the invisible art of editing visible by using nearly 600 colorful frames from popular, recent films. Written by an editor and the author of "Cut by Cut: How to Edit your Film or Video," it shows how editors can make or break a movie.

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At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching filmexamining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another.

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Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the countrys origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.

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