California Press: 1495 books
by Rebecca J. DeRoo
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different...
by Daniel Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
With Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema, Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the most notoriously difficult works in contemporary cinema. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences,...
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies...
by Merry White
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely...
Capturing Sound
How Technology Has Changed Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact...
Braided Waters
Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to...
On Holiday
A History of Vacationing
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed)...
Moral Fire
Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions...
by Laura Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery.
Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change...
The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It’s also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It’s also the only international landmark without...
Masters of Light
Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey and a new preface by the authors,...
Transcendental Style in Film
Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork,...
by Peter Boag
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying...
Go Nation
Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last...