Kaja Silverman, Harun Farocki: Speaking about Godard (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, film, film criticism, film theory
“Combining the insights of a feminist film theorist with those of an avant-garde filmmaker, these eight dialogues-each representing a different period of Godard’s film production, beginning with My Life to Live (1962) and ending with New Wave (1990), get at the very heart of his formal and theoretical innovations, teasing out, with probity and grace, the ways in which image and text inform one another throughout Godard’s oeuvre. Indeed, the dialogic format here serves as the perfect means of capturing the rhythm of Godard’s ongoing conversation with his own medium, in addition to shedding light on how a critic and a director of films respectively interpret his work.”
With a Foreword by Constance Penley
Publisher New York University Press, 1998
ISBN 0814780660, 9780814780664
260 pages
EPUB (added on 2019-12-16)
See also Farocki’s filmography and bibliography on Monoskop.
Comments (2)Georges Perec: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (1974–) [FR, DE, EN, ES, GR, CR, RU]
Filed under book | Tags: · literature, oulipo, space, writing
Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this selection of Perec’s non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
Publisher Galilée, Paris, 1974
125 pages
English edition
Edited with an Introduction and Translated by John Sturrock
Publisher Penguin, 1998
ISBN 0140189866, 9780140189865
96 pages
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WorldCat (EN)
Espèces d’espaces (French, DJVU, 1974/1985, updated on 2019-10-11)
Träume von Räumen (German, trans. Eugen Helmlé, 1994, 14 MB, Scribd, updated on 2019-10-11)
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (English, trans. John Sturrock, 1998)
Especies de espacios (Spanish, trans. Jesús Camarero, 1999/2001)
Χορείες χώρων (Greek, trans. Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης, 2000)
Vrste prostora (Croatian, trans. Petra Matić, 2005, 43 MB, Scribd)
Prosto prostranstva: Dnevnik polzovatelya (Russian, trans. Valeriy Kislov, 2012, updated on 2019-10-11)
Frederick G. Kilgour: The Evolution of the Book (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · book, codex, e-book, history of technology, hypertext, library, networks, paper, print, publishing, technology, writing
A concise book by the professor in library and information science who, in the late 1960s, helped to establish the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a worldwide consortium of library databases.
Writing from the perspective of history of technology, Kilgour investigates the book’s three discrete forms–the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex–before turning to the electronic book.
Publisher Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
ISBN 0195118596, 9780195118599
180 pages
Review (Robert J. Brugger, Technology and Culture, 2001)
Review (Bruce Whiteman, Huntington Library Quarterly, 1998)
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