The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde

An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. &nbsp; Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media history and theory. His 1986 essay "The Cinema of Attractions" is among the most cited essays on film ever published. Gunning's writings articulate a distinctive and powerful model for thinking about cinema's history and likely future, addressing the full range of moving-image media, from film to still photography to digital media. His discussions draw on stage melodrama and magic lantern shows, as well as criminology, world's fairs, and Spiritualism, surveying the medium as a cultural phenomenon informed by the industrial and information ages, psychiatry, urban experience, discourses on art and aesthetics, and more. &nbsp; This collection brings together twenty-six essays that showcase the depth and range of Gunning's scholarship, including four that have never before been published. Together, they solidify Gunning's place as a scholar who has transformed the way generations of scholars, archivists, critics, and artists think about cinema. &nbsp;

Arts & Photography

Gunning, Tom

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph

Performing Arts

University of Illinois Press

Winner of the Theatre Library Association Award, 1991.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

The Films of Fritz Lang: Modernity, Crime and Desire

British Film Inst

This study examines the early work of Fritz Lang, proposing readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. It emphasizes Lang's reflection on modernity, and hones in on the problem of identity and subjectivity in a progressively more automated, impersonal world.

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

British Film Institute

How to Be Our Best Self in Times of Chronic Stress

Self-Help

Breen, Stewart

Stress Management

Veritas

Nature's Way: A Guide to Green Therapy

Into the Deep: Senior Cycle Religious Education

Veritas Publications

Details the numerous religious festivals that take place throughout the year and how they can be celebrated in the home. From Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday, pancakes to lamb, Celtic Bed Blessings to Prayers for Harvest, Tom Gunning lays out in an accessible and interactive fashion the ways in which we can take the spiritual into the personal. Also included are prayers, rituals and blessings for such occasions as the birth of a child or the passing of a loved one.

The Little Book of Christian Rituals in the Home

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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