Stephen Barber: 28 books
Abandoned Images
Film and Film's End
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned film palaces, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide such a concentration of original cinema houses would have been demolished long ago—but in a city whose identity is inseparable...
Berlin Bodies
Anatomizing the Streets of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The capital of Germany and home to 3.5 million people, Berlin has one the most fascinating histories in all of Europe. At end of the nineteenth century it rapidly developed into a major urban center, and today it is a site where the scars of history sit alongside ultra-modern urban developments. It...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In the final part of Stephen Barber's Tokyo Trilogy, the gorgeous media provocatrice Angeliko Slavsko returns to the tsunami-hit megalopolis to team up with her gang of Tokyo fuck-girls and instigate an all-out confrontation with the forces of neo-fascism and resurgent militarism, as they ass-fuck and...
Caligula: Divine Carnage: Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors
Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy....
Performance Projections
Film and the Body in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Film does far more than document performance—it actively recreates the time and space of performance and overhauls its rapport with the viewer’s eye and body. The first book to look in-depth at the intersection of film and performance in relation to issues and theories of space, Performance Projections...
CALIGULA: DIVINE CARNAGE
Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy....
TOKYO VERTIGO
Megacity Sex And Semiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In TOKYO VERTIGO, Stephen Barber explores the most mesmerising and precarious of all contemporary world cities: Tokyo: the megalopolis, in extremis. Barber probes the multiple ways in which Tokyo projects and hides itself, focusing upon its filmic, photographic and media cultures as well as its extraordinary...
Artaud: The Screaming Body
Film, Drawings, Recordings 1924-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) remains one of the most inspirational, provocative and challenging figures in world-wide contemporary culture. His trajectory extends from the Surrealist movement, to the Theatre of Cruelty, to the lunatic asylums of France, and finally back to Paris and the most astonishing...
Projected Cities
Cinema and Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. Projected Cities looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
All contemporary visual culture can be traced directly back to the work of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), whose prolific and inspirational experiments in moving-image photography, animation and projection shattered the boundaries of how images and human bodies are perceived. Muybridge’s work...
THE WALLS OF BERLIN
Architecture And Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Drawing on a vast range of material – from the first films of Berlin in the 1890s, to the city's impact on contemporary digital art – WALLS OF BERLIN examines how Berlin's walls form apertures that mediate their preoccupations and manias, damage and scars, non-erasable inscriptions...
Artaud: Blows and Bombs
The Biography Of Antonin Artaud
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) remains a massively inspirational figure, worldwide, in contemporary art, film, writing and digital media. In this definitive biography, author Stephen Barber tracks Artaud’s extraordinary and compelling life, from his volatile alliance with the Surrealist movement...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. Arguing that Genet's life was an extraordinary spectacle in which the themes of his most...
Guyotat: A Vital Aberration
Writings On Pierre Guyotat 1994-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Pierre Guyotat's work is a legendary presence within, and at the periphery of, experimental writing and art, from the 1960s to the contemporary moment. From his novels of the 1960s – "Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers" and "Eden, Eden, Eden" – to his recent books on his own corporeal history, notably...
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