Film & Performing Arts

The Great Movies IV

Roger Ebert

“Ebert’s take-no-prisoners essays packed with insider insights will send movie lovers back to the sofa for a second look at old favorites like Cool Hand Luke and My Fair Lady while introducing more offbeat picks like Sansho the Bailiff and Pixote.”—Parade

“Ebert offers informed critical appraisals, as well as background on the movies’ making and significance, that make these pieces rewarding for film buffs and ideal introductions for first-time viewers.”—Booklist

2016 288 p. 6 x 9 247 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40398-4 $27.50

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Herzog by Ebert

Roger Ebert

Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert’s writings about the legendary director, featuring all of his reviews of individual films as well as longer essays he wrote for his Great Movies series. Herzog himself contributes a foreword in which he discusses his relationship with Ebert.

“This excellent collection will lead readers to revisit, or experience for the first time, Herzog’s unique imagery, which was likely Ebert’s wish.”—Library Journal

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 248 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50042-3 $25.00

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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun

A Cannes Notebook

Roger Ebert

“Sharp, wry, and—for this Cannes veteran—right on the mark.” —New York Times

“A charming little book. . . . Frenzies and all, Ebert brings it seductively back.”—Los Angeles Times

“A lighthearted trip through the 1987 festival, filled with celebrity interviews, casual encounters, and general commentary about the film and film-reviewing industry. . . . Tucked amid all that lighthearted traipsing through a French film festival is also a fairly serious and deliberate study of brows high, low, and middle—and Ebert’s appreciation of all three.”—Belt Magazine More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Dave Kehr

“Extraordinary. . . . The 1980s were not the most salubrious decade in which to shine as a movie reviewer, . . . but as with all great reviewers—Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Manny Farber—Kehr’s reviews fly free from their ostensible subjects to become specimens of cultural criticism. Agree with his opinions or not, they’re always smart, lucid, well argued, and witty. This book is a pleasure to read.”—New York Times Book Review

2017 272 p. 6 x 9 250 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-49568-2 $22.50

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Reinventing Hollywood

How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

David Bordwell

“Reinventing Hollywood shows how risk-taking screenwriters and directors of the 1940s introduced storytelling strategies taken from modernist novels and avant-garde theater. . . . No dry encyclopedia of cinematic tropes, this is a delectable menu of narrative techniques that maximize the complexity and depth of a plot.”—Film Quarterly

2019 592 p. 6 x 9 157 halftones 251 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63955-0 $32.00

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Robert Altman

In the American Grain

Frank Caso

Known as an iconoclast and maverick, film director Robert Altman has consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. From refashioning film noir in The Long Goodbye, the western in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the psychological drama in Images, science fiction in Quintet, and the romantic comedy in A Perfect Couple, he has always tested the limits of what film can and should do. In this book, Frank Caso examines the development of Altman’s artistic method from his earliest days in industrial film to his work in television and feature films.

“A detailed study of the films of a talented American director.”—Choice

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 320 p. 6 x 8 75 halftones 252 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-522-6 $27.00

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TV by Design

Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television

Lynn Spigel

“Spigel demonstrates the deep connections between peoples’ lived experiences of art and how television challenges the binaries between artistic practices and the making of television.”—Choice

2009 402 p. 6 x 9 52 halftones 253 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76968-4 $27.50

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The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

Mark Cohen

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extraordinary success and acclaim across the board, from Harpo Marx to President Kennedy. Mark Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2013 320 p. 6 x 9 254 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-256-4 $29.95

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The New Adventures of Don Quixote

Tariq Ali

The New Adventures of Don Quixote, can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes’s masterwork. “Ali broadens our horizons, geographically, historically, intellectually, and politically. His mode of history-telling is lyrical and engaging, humane, and passionate.” —Nation

Distributed for Seagull Books

2015 200 p. 6 x 71/2 30 color plates 255 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-209-5 $30.00

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Bigger, Brighter, Louder

150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics

Chris Jones

“Bigger, Brighter, Louder gives us dozens of reviews—some perceptive, some notorious, and some bitingly funny. I warrant that you will find Mr. Jones’ Chicago-eyed view of theater sharp, amusing, and incisive.”—Playbill

2013 376 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 256 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05926-6 $27.50

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Staging History

1780–1840

Edited by Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, Jonathan Hicks, and Ellen Lockhart

“This illuminating collection of essays transports the reader to the spectacular world of the London theatre in the early nineteenth century and demonstrates how seemingly trivial entertainments engaged with the world-historical events unfolding around them. . . . Every essay reconstructs the dynamic relation between performance and historical consciousness.”—Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph