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Frederick Wiseman has made films that together form a monumental chronicle of late twentieth-century institutional and cultural life. This title provides a comprehensive overview of Wiseman's work (including projects for theatre and opera), featuring original essays by a variety of writers, critics, filmmakers and actors, and by Wiseman himself.

(Hardback)

"An illustrated, abridged translation of Dutch anatomist and museologist Frederk Ruysch's Thesaurus Anatomicus"--

(Hardback)

"First book to examine influential 1970s-1980s Berlin, a time of radical experimentation uniting art, urban politics, and everyday life that yielded enduring transformations in civic life"--

(Hardback)

Suitable for graphic and fashion designers, marketing professionals, collectors and students, this book cannot be a mere catalogue but is instead intended as a tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms which have succeeded in reinventing themselves in contact with designers and the unceasing challenges they face.

(Hardback)

Despite the grandeur in which Louis XIV and his descendants Louis XV and Louis XVI lived in the magnificent Chteau de Versailles, extravagance rarely suggests elegance these days. Befitting spaces less assumedly scaled than the vast palace, alluring, of-the-moment interiors exude a more discreet cachet. Clean, not stuffy, reflects our culture and the times.

(Hardback)

Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private.

(Paperback)

Presents the paintings of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, along with details of her life: growing up near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; an accident at 18 that left her crippled; her turbulent marriage to Diego Rivera; and her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture.

(Paperback)

From the writer/director of The Lost Prince, these are two major screenplays for the BBC from 2006 that richly showcase all the hallmarks of 'our best and most poetic TV dramatist' (Daily Telegraph).

(Hardback)

A round-up of the most haunting, spine-chilling, and even family-friendly cinematic spook-fests of all time, Turner Classic Movies: Halloween Favorites will satisfy fright-film lovers each October or any time of year.

(Paperback)

Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.

(Paperback)

'Clear, simple text, in which an understanding of slash fiction is as important to the text as an encyclopedic knowledge of a hundred years of written SF, and what movies mean.' - Neil Gaiman

(Paperback)

"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--

(Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)

Made at the height of the Cold War and Hollywood's anticommunist purges, director Fred Zinnemann, writer Daniel Taradash and producer Buddy Adler defied military and industry pressure to censor the material.

Exploring the film's full production history and drawing upon archival documents and rare interviews with cast and crew, J.

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(Hardback)

"In this book, digital anthropologist Payal Arora proposes ways in which we can envision new design systems and thinking to include the world. Drawing from fieldwork on young people's digital usage in Brazil, India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, Arora reveals how their understandings of algorithmic systems shape their creativity, trust, identity, and political action"--

(Paperback)

The first comprehensive publication on Polish literature to explore the theme of emigration among composers from the 20th and 21st centuries.

(Hardback)

Upon its 80th anniversary, the behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult favorite Double Indemnity-and its crucial impact on the genre-is told for the first time in this history by acclaimed noir authorities Alain Silver and James Ursini.

(Paperback)

An essential collection of groundbreaking film writing from the legendary Evergreen Review and its cutting-edge coverage of the underground, experimental, pornographic and political mid-century film scene.

(Hardback)

How has its rapidly changing social landscape shaped its art And how does art effect social and cultural change within Russia This title explores these questions by presenting a balanced selection of work by eighty Russian artists working from the 1970s onwards.

(Paperback, Main)

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's 'unauthorised sequel' to his debut hit sex, lies and videotape is an exhilarating romantic comedy set in Los Angeles and featuring a stellar cast.Coleman Hough's screenplay follows an assortment of love-obsessed characters over 24 hours.

(, 4th edition)

This intro to lighting text focuses on how interior lighting designs can address the healthy building movement, human-centric quality lighting design, and international green guidelines and standards for energy efficiency

(Paperback, Main)

This book is the culmination of more than 40 years devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes Schoenberg developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'.

(Paperback)

Comprehensive guide and resource for student and professional furniture designers.

(Paperback)