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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader

Jonathan Rosenbaum

A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Looking back at his more than 50 years of writing…

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Itty Bitty Drum

Jonathan Rosenbaum

A straight forward story uses Rhythm, Rhyme, Repetition and Alliteration to engage the audience on a little journey. This is perfect for young readers at bedtime as well in the…

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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Explore the idea of - and the need for - a film canon. Though the idea may be unfashionable, particularly within the academy, this book argues that a canon of…

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Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Collection of previously published essays and interviews, from 1972-2009.

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Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Collection of previously published essays and interviews, from 1972-2009.

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Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic’s ideal role is to mediate and facilitate our public discussion of cinema. Portraits and…

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Dead Man

Jonathan Rosenbaum

When it was released, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Here, the author argues that the film is both a quantum leap and a logical step in the director’s…

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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Movies are better than ever, claims Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, but the industry does not allow people to see the good ones. He explains how movies are…

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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Movies are better than ever, claims Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, but the industry does not allow people to see the good ones. He explains how movies are…

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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. This book gathers together over fifty examples of Rosenbaum’s criticism over the…

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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia

Jonathan Rosenbaum

For film critic Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, only more interesting or less interesting films. This book gathers together over fifty examples of Rosenbaum’s criticism from the…

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Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism

Jonathan Rosenbaum

This is a collection of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s work. Written over a span of 21 years, these essays cover a broad range of films - from Hollywood blockbusters to…

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Moving Places: A Life at the Movies

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Offers an account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies. Part autobiography, part film analysis, and part social history, this title leads us through a series of…

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Movies as Politics

Jonathan Rosenbaum

This collection of reviews and essays focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. It explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as…

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Discovering Orson Welles

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Collects a film critic’s writings on Orson Welles - some thirty-five years of them - and makes a case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist…

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Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Those who follow and share such work, as contributors from around the world demonstrate in this book, are forming new kinds of critical communities that enable significant exchanges between cultures…

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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

Jonathon Rosenbaum

A cogent and provocative argument about the art of film, Essential Cinema is a fiercely independent reference book of must-see movies for film lovers everywhere.

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Abbas Kiarostami: Expanded Second Edition

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa,Jonathan Rosenbaum

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema’s rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste…

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This Is Orson Welles

Orson Welles,Peter Bogdanovich,Jonathon Rosenbaum

Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such gre

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The Adorable Beastling

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The Ugly Duckling but in reverse. Beastlings are fierce and scare for food, and this young group of Beastlings have an oddball that just can’t scare. She was too cute…

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Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran

‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four…

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Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran

‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four…

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The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy

These essays about the medieval hero on film are grouped into five sections: an exploration of historic authenticity; heroic children and the lessons they convey to young viewers; medieval female…

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MATLAB for Behavioral Scientists

David A. Rosenbaum (University of California, Riverside, USA),Jonathan Vaughan (Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA),Brad Wyble (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Walks behavioral scientists through the computer programming process, using terms that are relevant to their concerns and appreciating their special programming needs.

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MATLAB for Behavioral Scientists

David A. Rosenbaum (University of California, Riverside, USA),Jonathan Vaughan (Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA),Brad Wyble (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Walks behavioral scientists through the computer programming process, using terms that are relevant to their concerns and appreciating their special programming needs.

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