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Aesthetics of film / Jacques Aumont ... [et al.] ; translated and revised by Richard Neupert Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
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Art and the moving image : A critical reader / Tanya Leighton London: Tate Publishing in association with Afterall, 2008.
Call No: 771 ARTAuthor: Leighton, Tanya Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Tate Publishing in association with AfterallPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 496 p. Ilustrations (some color) ; 25cmSubject: ACCONCI, VITO ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; CONRAD, TONY ; DANEY, SERGE ; DEBORD, GUY ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; DUCHAMP, MARCEL ; EXPANDED CINEMA ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; EXPORT, VALIE ; FAROCKI, HARUN ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HUYGHE, PIERRE ; KUBELKA, PETER ; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL ; MEKAS, JONAS ; ONO, YOKO ; PAIK, NAM JUNE ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; STRUCTURAL FILMS ; STRUCTURALISM ; VIDEO ART ; VIOLA, BILL ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: "The mutual fascination between art and cinema has had a great influence on contemporary culture. For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between the two has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. This book traces the story from early spatial experiments with film and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected images in museums and galleries. Why has there been a turn to the cinematic in contemporary art? What happens to the moving image when it shifts from the black box to the white cube, when cinema is exhibited? How does this challenge the traditional mediums of film, painting and sculpture? 'Art and the Moving Image' gathers together key texts including new, translated and previously unavailable essays by eminent writers and theorists including Giorgio Agamben, Beatriz Colomina, Serge Daney, Rosalind Krauss, Maurizio Lazzaratto and Peter Wollen. It offers an essential introduction to the complex field of art and the projected image for both students and general readers." -- Publisher's website.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781854376251Donation: Adrian MilesContents: Preface / Charles Esche -- Introduction / Tanya Leighton -- Colour plates -- Part I. Histories and revisions -- Fluxfilms in three false starts / Bruce Jenkins -- 'Culture: Intercom' and expanded cinema: a proposal and manifesto / Stan VanDerBeek -- Enclosed by images: the Eameses' multimedia architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- 'My mind split open': Andy Warhol's exploding plastic inevitable / Branden W. Joseph -- The Museum of attractions: marcel Broodthaers and the 'Section Cine´ma' / Eric de Bruyn -- Paul Sharits and the active spectator / Federico Windhausen -- Bare lives / Pamela M. Lee -- Leisure 73 / Sabeth Buchmann -- The two avant-gardes / Peter Wollen -- Modes of film practice in the avant-garde / Jonathan Walley -- Part II. The agonistic relationship between video and television -- Hardware: the videosphere / Gene Youngblood -- Video: the aesthetics of narcissism / Rosalind Krauss -- Tale of the tape: 'Radical Software' / David Joselit -- Dependent participation: Bruce Nauman's environments / Janet Kraynak -- After the cull / Elizabeth Bennett Hupp -- Live on tape: video, liveness and the immediate / William Kaizen -- The art of the possible: notes about some installations by Harun Farocki / Christa Blu¨mlinger -- Video, flows and real time / Maurizo Lazzarato -- Five years later / Bill Horrigan -- Part III. From cinema to post-cinema -- Deleuze's time, or how the cinematic changes our idea of art / John Rajchman -- Difference and repetition: on Guy Debord's films / Giorgio Agamben -- From movies to moving / Serge Daney -- The time of re-departure: after cinema, the cinema of the subject / Jean-Chrisotphe Royoux -- Dissolution of the frame: immersion and participation in video installations / Ursula Frohne -- Video projection: the space between screens / Liz Kotz -- Siting cinema / Andrew V. Uroskie -- Moving images moving images / John Kelsey -- Of an other cinema / Raymond Bellour -- The gap between film and installation art / Alexander Alberro -- White cube, black box and grey areas: venues and values / Gregor Stemmrich -- Art and cinema: some critical reflections / Mark Nash -- 'You Never Know the Whole Story': Ute Friederike Ju¨rss and the aesthetics of the heterochronic image / Thomas Y. Levin.
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The avant-garde finds Andy Hardy / Robert B. Ray Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
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Barthes / Jonathan Culler Great Britain: Fontana, 1983.
Call No: 81BAR CULAuthor: Culler, Jonathan, 1944- Place: Great BritainPublisher: FontanaPubDate: 1983PhysDes: 128p ; 18cmSubject: BARTHES, ROLAND Notes: Includes bibliographyISBN: 0006359744LON: abn83075024; 2685113
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The Cinema book / edited by Pam Cook London: BFI, 1985.
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The face on film / Noa Steimatsky New York: Oxford Univesity Press, 2017.
Call No: 747.7 STEAuthor: Steimatsky, Noa Edition: 2017Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford Univesity PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 280 p. : illustrated ; 26 cmSubject: FACE IN FILMS ; AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966) ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; JOURNAL D'UN CURE DE CAMPAGNE (FR, Robert Bresson, 1951) ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; PROCES DE JEANNE D'ARC (FR, Robert Bresson, 1962) ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; SEDGWICK, EDIE ; WARHOL, ANDY ; OUTER AND INNER SPACE (US, Andy Warhol, 1965) ; WRONG MAN, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1957) ; FUNNY FACE (US, Stanley Donen, 1957) Notes: The human face was said to have been rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it was often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has this modern, technological, mass-circulating medium revealed the face in ways that are also distinct from any other? How has it altered our perception of this quintessential incarnation of the person? The archaic powers of masks and icons, the fashioning of the individual in the humanist portrait, the modernist anxieties of fragmentation and de-figuration—these are among the cultural precedents informing our experience in the movie theatre. Yet the moving, time-based image also offers radical new confrontations with the face: Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, Donen's Funny Face, Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Bresson's Au hazard, Balthazar, Antonioni's Screen Test, Warhol's filmic portraits of celebrity and anonymity. Such intense encounters, examined in this book, manifest a desire for transparency and plenitude, but—especially in post-classical cinema—also betray a profound ambiguity that haunts the human countenance, confronting interiority as opacity, treading the gap between image and language. The spectacular impact of the cinematic face is uncannily intertwined with a reticence, an ineffability; but is it not for this very reason that—like faces in the world—it still enthralls us? -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780199863167Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface: Face Moving Image -- A Dispositif -- An Ur-Image -- The Face Against the Image -- Itineraries Chapter One: We Had Faces, Then -- Expressivity in the 1920s -- Joan of Arc, Inevitably -- The Face and its Voices -- Glamour/Anti-Glamour Chapter Two: Roland Barthes Looks at the Stars -- Towards “Visages et Figures,” and circa 1953 Excursus on the Face in Language -- Into the Movie Theater -- Ultra-Face Excursus on the Mask -- From Cult to Charm: Funny Face Chapter Three: Face-to-Face (with The Wrong Man) -- What Godard Saw -- What the Clerk Saw Excursus on Anthropometrics -- Not a Mirror, Not a Lamp Chapter Four: Pass/Fail: Screen Test, Apparatus, Subject -- The Antonioni Screen Test Excursus on the Portrait -- Outer and Inner Space, and the Pathos of Time -- Fail Better Chapter Five: In Reticence (Bresson) -- The Epidermal and the Written -- The Image Against the Face -- Not an Open Book, but a Door Ajar -- Postface: The Two-Shot: Inherent
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Fantasy and the cinema / edited by James Donald London: BFI Pub., 1989.
Call No: 735 FANAuthor: Donald, James Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1989PhysDes: 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS ; FETISHISM IN FILMS ; GERMANY. 1895-1930 ; SLASHER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; SVANKMAJER, JAN ; CONDIT, CECELIA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DURAS, MARGUERITE ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BENEATH THE SKIN (US, Cecelia Condit, 1981) ; CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913) ; TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and indexesISBN: 0851702287; 0851702295 (pbk.)LON: 6190057
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Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Call No: 226 NIEAuthor: Nieland, Justus Edition: 2020Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: 424 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: ART DIRECTION ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; COMMUNICATIONS ; DEREN, MAYA ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL ; VAN DER BEEK, STAN ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Happiness by Design offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers. Justus Nieland traces how Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781517902056Contents: Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Happy Furniture: On the Media Environments of the Eames Chair -- 2. The Scale Is the World: Designer Pedagogy and Expanded Cinema -- 3. Management Cinema: Film, Communication, and Postwar World-Making in Aspen -- 4. Memories of Overdevelopment: The Vision Conferences and the Fate of Environmental Design -- 5. Designer Film Theory: Techniques of Happiness -- 6. Designer Film Theory, II: Media Pedagogy and Modernist Information Aesthetics -- Coda: The Norton Chair, Circa 1970: Trilling or Eames? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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An introduction to theories of popular culture / Dominic Strinati London New York: Routledge, 1995.
Call No: 403 STRAuthor: Strinati, Dominic Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1995PhysDes: xviii, 301 p. ; 23 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; AUDIENCES ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. Summary: Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as Adorno, Barthes, Althusser and Hebdige have grappled with the many forms of popular culture, from Jazz to the Americanization of British popular culture, from Hollywood cinema to popular television series, from teen magazines to the spy novel. Each chapter includes a guide to key texts for further reading and there is also a comprehensive bibliographyNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and indexISBN: 0415124697; 0415124700 (pbk.)LON: 11258122
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The language of new media / Lev Manovich Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press, c2001.
Call No: 775 MANAuthor: Manovich, Lev Source: USPlace: Cambridge, Mass. LondonPublisher: MIT PressPubDate: c2001PhysDes: xxxix, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: LeonardoSubject: DIGITAL BROADCASTING ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; MEDIA ; INTERACTIVE CINEMA ; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA ; INTERNET AND TV ; COMPUTER GRAPHICS ; COMPUTER GAMES ; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; ANIMATION ; VIRTUAL REALITY ; LOOP FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0262133741 : No priceLON: 21628309
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Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / Jonathan Rosenbaum Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Call No: 67(081) PLAAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; TATI, JACQUES ; WELLES, ORSON ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; ALLEN, WOODY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; FARBER, MANNY ; TARR, BELA ; RIVETTE, JACQUES ; GERTRUD (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964) ; OHAYO (JA, Ozu Yasujiro, 1959) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; OTHELLO (MR, Orson Welles, 1951) ; MELO (FR, Alain Resnais, 1986) ; HARDLY WORKING (US, Jerry Lewis, 1980) ; AMOR DE PERDICAO (PO, Manoel de Oliveira, 1979) ; BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988) ; WHITE DOG (US, Samuel Fuller, 1982) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; SPEAKING DIRECTLY: SOME AMERICAN NOTES (US, Jon Jost, 1974) ; RAMEAU'S NEPHEW BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (CN, Michael Snow, 1974) ; MOSES UND ARON (GW/FR/IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1975) ; DEEP COVER (US, Bill Duke, 1992) ; PANAMA DECEPTION, THE (US, Barbara Trent, 1992) ; SAGA OF ANATAHAN, THE (JA, Josef von Sternberg, 1953) ; BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991) ; ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) ; KING LEAR (US/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and indexISBN: 0520086325 (alk. paper); 0520086333 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 93042954; 10612641ID2: 291
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The Polity reader in cultural theory Cambridge [England]: Polity Press, 1994.
Call No: 62(04) POLPlace: Cambridge [England]Publisher: Polity PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; STAR SYSTEM ; COMMERCIALS, TV ; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA ; SOAP OPERAS ; MONROE, MARILYN ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; Baudrillard, Jean ; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE ; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.)LON: bnb74561207; 10481206
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The subject of documentary / Michael Renov Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Call No: 761 RENAuthor: Renov, Michael Place: Minneapolis, MNPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Series: Visible evididence: volume 16Subject: DOCUMENTARIES ; CINEMA VERITE ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BRECHT, BERTHOLD ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FREUD, SIGMUND ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; IVENS, JORIS ; LACAN, JACQUES ; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL ; MEKAS, JONAS ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; WEXLER, HASKELL ; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969) ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) Summary: "Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page." -- Publisher's website.Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences.
Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780816634415Donation: Adrian MilesContents: Part 1: Social subjectivity -- 1: Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- 2. The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- 3. Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- 4. Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Part 2: The subject in theory -- 5. Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- 6. The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- 7. Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- 8. Documentary disavowals and the digital -- 9. Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- 10. The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- Part three: modes of subjectivity -- 11. New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- 12. The electronic essay -- 13. Video confessions -- 14. Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self. -- 15. The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).
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Teletheory : grammatology in the age of video / Gregory Ulmer New York: Routledge, 1989.
Call No: 409.1 ULMAuthor: Ulmer, Gregory L. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1989PhysDes: 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: TELEVISION ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; DERRIDA, JACQUES Summary: "Teletheory is the application of grammatology to television in the context of schooling, not as a way to interpret or criticize television, or rather, video, but to learn from it a new pedagogy. This application or consultation assumes first that the theories of Derrida and the other French poststructuralists (supported by certain art practices) offer the best hope for understanding an era in which the technology of culture is shifting from print to video; and second that this understanding includes not only a pedagogy, but a program for popularization capable of reuniting the advanced research in the humanities disciplines with the conduct of everyday life. Teletheory (the book) offers a rationale and guidelines for a specific genre--mystory--designed to do the work of schooling and popularization in a way that takes into account the new discursive and conceptual ecology interrelating orality, literacy, and videocy."--Preface.Notes: Includes index. -- Bibliography: pages 244-251ISBN: 0415901200Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Academic Discoures in the Age of Television, The Apparatus of Literacy -- Sampling -- Part One: Theory -- Chapter One: Experiment -- 1 Historiography -- 2 Freud: The New Instauration -- 3 After Method -- 4 The Life Story -- Chapter Two: Conduction -- 1 The Voice of the Code -- 2 The Joke -- 3 VITA-TV/AI -- 4 Text -- Chapter Three: Mystory -- 1 Mystoriography -- 2 Allegory as Post-Meaning -- 3 Theory Diegesis -- Part Two: Models and Relays -- Introduction: Figures of Thought -- Fragments -- Documents -- Chapter Four: Memory I: Place/Roots -- 1 Mnemonic Autoportrait -- 2 Rhizomes and Mushrooms -- 3 Pre/Signature -- 4 Otobiography -- Chapter Five: Memory II: Tour/Routes -- 1 A Nomadic Relay -- 2 Monu/Mentality -- 3 Catastropical Tourists -- 4 Breaking Rout/ines -- Part Three: Practice -- Introduction -- Chapter Six: "Derrida at the Little Bighorn": A Fragment -- 1 Vita Minor -- 2 TV/AI -- Works Cited -- Index
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Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Call No: 62 CASAuthor: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cmSubject: THEORY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; PERCEPTION ; SPECTATORSHIP ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; LACAN, JACQUES ; HORKHEIMER, MAX ; MITRY, JEAN ; MORAN, EDGAR ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and indexISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.)LON: 14328673
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