Publications

Brigitte Peucker

Publisher: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Brigitte Peucker

Publisher: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Francesco Casetti

Publisher: Princton University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Francesco Casetti advances a provocative hypothesis: instead of being prostheses that expand or extend our perceptions, modern screen-based media are in fact apparatuses that shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. Rather than bringing us closer to external reality, dominant forms of visual media function as barriers or enclosures that defend against the apparent threats and dangers that seem increasingly to surround us.
Dudley Andrew

Publisher: University if Calafornia
Publication Year: 2022
By Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew (Editor), Deborah Glassman (Translator),
Katie Trumpener

Publisher: Yale Unversity Press
Publication Year: 2020
A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film
John Durham Peters

Publisher:
Publication Year: 2020
Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google.
John Durham Peters

In Search of Media Series

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2020
Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. 
Brigitte Peucker

Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema’s openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great deal about cinema itself.
John MacKay

Volume 1: 1896-1921

Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Year: 2018
Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film practice. Creator of Man with a Movie Camera (1929), perhaps the most celebrated non-fiction film ever made, Vertov is equally renowned as the most militant opponent of the canons of mainstream filmmaking in the history of cinema.
Francesco Casetti

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Year: 2017
This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers, members of parliament, and more, the pieces collected here from that period show how Italians developed a common language to describe and discuss this invention that quickly exceeded all expectations and transcended existing categories of thought...