David La Rocca has edited three books on film and media—The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, The Philosophy of War Films, and The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth—and is the author or editor of a half-dozen more volumes. He has taught philosophy and cinema, and held visiting positions at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, and Vanderbilt.
21 Ebooks by Garrett Stewart
David LaRocca: The Philosophy of War Films
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Holl …
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€21.99
Garrett Stewart: The Deed of Reading
Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literatu …
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€20.99
Garrett Stewart: The One, Other, and Only Dickens
In The One, Other, and Only Dickens , Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens’s novels but that go regularly unnoticed in …
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€19.99
David LaRocca: Philosophy of War Films
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Holl …
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€157.13
Garrett Stewart: Deed of Reading
Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literatu …
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€193.03
Garrett Stewart: One, Other, and Only Dickens
In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens’s novels but that go regularly unnoticed in …
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€193.03
Garrett Stewart: Closed Circuits
The recent uproar over NSA dataveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been part of our lives for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power-and potential for abuse.In Closed C …
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€41.08
Garrett Stewart: Bookwork
"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space-those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for t …
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€111.80
Garrett Stewart: Framed Time
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as G …
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€179.17
Garrett Stewart: Novel Violence
Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of writt …
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€68.95
Garrett Stewart: The Ways of the Word
In The Ways of the Word , Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the …
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Garrett Stewart: Ways of the Word
In The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the b …
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€193.03
Garrett Stewart: Streisand
A blend of film reading with vocal analysis in appreciation of Barbra Streisand s unmatched contribution to lyric drama on screen.At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand’s genius finds its ful …
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€46.31
Lucy Fischer & Patrice Petro: Teaching Film
Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departme …
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€49.97
Garrett Stewart: Reading Voices
‘At last, a scrupulous and sustained–‘earsighted’–study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise. . . . Stewart immers …
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€49.99
Garrett Stewart: Transmedium
If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you’re unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumpt …
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€40.99
Garrett Stewart: Cinemachines
The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Alien ships leave Earth by dissolving at the conclusion of Arrival. An illuso …
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€41.08
