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  • Ansichten und Absichten [German-language edition]
    Ansichten und Absichten [German-language edition]

    Ansichten und absichten [german-language edition]

    Drehli Robnik, Alexander Horwath, Alexander Horwath

    This volume collects some of Drehli Robnik's most significant scholarly essays, contributions to pop music magazines and film journals, and samples from his work as a philosophical "edutainer."

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  • Olivier assayas

    Kent Jones

    Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has ch...

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  • Maria Lassnig
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    Maria lassnig

    Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, Peter Pakesch, Hans Werner Poschauko

    Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This publication provides the first comprehensive index of Lassnig’s film works, offering insight into the filmmaker’s world of ideas through a wide selection...

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  • Die strahlkraft der stadt [german-language edition]

    Siegfried Mattl, Drehli Robnik

    ?Films, in their generic, stylistic, and rhetorical variety, are modes of experience that provide a sense for the unexpected dynamics of urban life and historical reality. This understanding of cinema, as loving as it is theoretical, inspired the writings on film which form a central part of the ...

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  • Ruth Beckermann [German-language Edition]
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    Ruth beckermann [german-language edition]

    Alexander Horwath, Michael Omasta

    With her documentaries and essay films since the late 1970s, Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann has created an exciting and widely recognized body of personal/political cinema. Her work reflects on the relations between history and contemporaneity, on her life as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria...

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  • Josef von sternberg

    Alexander Horwath, Michael Omasta

    In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brought to life his youthful memories of the turn of the 20th century through the story a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of Imperial Vienna. Critic Dwight Macdonald called it “the most ...

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  • Scratches and Glitches
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    Scratches and glitches

    Jurij Meden

    Scratches and Glitches is a collection of essays that attempt to make sense of the changes-in-progress in the domain of preserving and exhibiting film in the early the twenty-first century in the wider context of cultural history, focusing on the responsibility of film archives and museums as gua...

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  • Gustav deutsch

    Wilbrig Brainin-Donnenberg, Michael Loebenstein

    Since the 1990s, "found footage film" has flourished internationally. Among the filmmakers that gained prominence in this context of "applied media archaeology" is Gustav Deutsch, an outstanding case. His work—including the series Film Is or Welt Spiegel Kino—has been shown widely at film festiva...

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  • Starting Places
    Starting Places

    Starting places

    Bernard Eisenschitz, Robert Kramer, Roberto Turigliatto, Volker Pantenburg and more

    For the first time in English the interviews between French film critic and historian Bernard Eisenschitz and filmmaker Robert Kramer. Includes three of Kramer’s essays from the 1980s and 1990s and an updated bibliography and filmography.

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  • The Real Eighties [German-language Edition]
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    The real eighties [german-language edition]

    Lukas Foerster, Nikolaus Perneczky

    A transformative decade that witnessed the U.S. film industry's restructuring under the pressures of neoliberal globalization, the 1980s swept away the last remnants of Old and New Hollywood alike while preparing the ground for today's High Concept wasteland – thus goes an all too familiar tale o...

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  • Ruth Beckermann
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    Ruth beckermann

    Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein

    Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. This is the first English-language publication on Beckermann’s oeuvre, including an original essay by Nick Pinkerton, an in-depth conve...

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  • Jean-marie straub and danièle huillet

    Ted Fendt

    From their first film in 1963, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous, and uncompromising filmmakers. From Machorka-Muff (1963) through These Encounters of Theirs (2006), and in the subsequent solo work of Jean-Marie Straub, they...

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  • Was ist film

    Stefan Grissemann, Alexander Horwath, Regina Schlagnitweit

    Peter Kubelka's program cycle "What is Film" is a key element in the work of the Austrian Film Museum. It was inaugurated in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema and now consists of 63 programmes of outstanding works. Kubelka's selection of "essential cinema" defines film as an indepen...

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  • Film Curatorship
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    Film curatorship

    Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath, Michael Loebenstein

    Film Curatorship is an experiment: a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations, and exchanges among four professionals representing three generations of film archivists and curators. It calls for an open philosophical and ethical debate on fundamental questions the profession must co...

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  • A post-may adolescence

    Olivier Assayas, Adrian Martin, Rachel Zerner

    Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes...

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  • Film unframed

    Peter Tscherkassky

    The unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive introductory essay by the editor provides a detailed overview of avant-garde film production in Austria...

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  • Screen dynamics

    Gertrud Koch, Volker Pantenburg, Simon Rothöhler

    From moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and private sphere has increased significantly during the last two decades. While this is often taken to indicate the "death of cinema," this volume attempts to reconsider the limits and specifics of fi...

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  • The cinema hypothesis

    Alain Bergala, Madeline Whittle, Alejandro Bachmann

    This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools and other educational contexts. Based on the author's own experiences of writing about and teaching film as well as serving as an adviser to then-Minist...

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  • Be sand, not oil

    Paul Cronin

    Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film historians and curators. An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, in 1947 he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work "that cannot be seen elsewhere," and in 1963 was ...

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  • Guy Debord: Das filmische Gesamtwerk [German-language Edition]
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    Guy debord: das filmische gesamtwerk [german-language edition]

    Werner Rappl, Werner Rappl, Wolfgang Kukulies, Alexander Horwath and more

    In his films Guy Debord (1931–1994) worked according to the following principle: do nothing you should, do everything you should not. Created between 1952 and 1978, all the films reflect this rule and confirm what he referred to as his “detestable ambition.”Gathered in a single volume for the fir...

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  • John cook

    Michael Omastam, Olaf Möller

    Canadian-born filmmaker and photographer John Cook (1935-2001) was one the key figures in the "Austrian New Wave" of the 1970s. A maverick, Cook almost single-handedly introduced a type of freewheeling auteur cinema reminiscent of both Italian neorealism and the works of the French nouvelle vague...

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  • Robert beavers

    Rebekah Rutkoff

    In a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007)...

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  • Dziga vertov

    Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm

    For the Russian filmmaker and film theorist Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), cinema was both a bold aesthetic experiment and a document of contemporary life. This English/German bilingual catalogue includes films, photographs, posters, letters and a large number of previously unpublished sketches, drawi...

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  • Werner Schroeter
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    Werner schroeter

    Roy Grundmann, Jayati Ghosh

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