Twelve original paintings on display in Paris become the unique narrators of the strange and funny romance of art historian Joel, who owns one of the twelve artworks, and Alyx, an artist who is painting a pastiche of the dozen famous works

The Triumph of Love and Other Paintings

Westlake, Michael

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

Imaginary Women

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Film theory: An introduction (Images of culture)

This popular title had been reprinted nine times since its first publication and is an accessible account of film theory, aimed at both the cinema-goer and the student. 'Film needs theory' said Alan Parker, 'like it needs a scratch on the negative'. This book shows that statement to be invalid, in a series of chapters simply titled Politics, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Authorship, Narrative Realism and The Avant-garde.

Film Theory: An Introduction (Images of Culture)

Humor & Entertainment

Lapsley, Robert

Movies

Manchester University Press

Fiction. A fine hardcover copy. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket; spine fading with a bit of soiling on front. NOT ex-library. 194pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0856357014. ISBN/EAN: 9780856357015. Inventory No: 001840.

British & Irish

Carcanet Press

The Utopian consists of two intertwined storylines unfolding in two radically different settings. First, the story of Mesmer, who in 2411 sets out on his Journey, a rite of passage which is to last a year and a day, in a gloriously pansexual, matriarchal, and feminist utopia, told in the third person by a gentle and guileless narrator. The second storyline is set in Britain in 1979 and concerns Dr. Reed, a patriarchal and self-obsessed psychoanalyst, and his analysand, a young man called Mesmer Partridge, told in the first person by Reed in the voice of a spoilt, sarcastic, hostile curmudgeon. The two narratives entertain a complex, twisting relationship to one another, moving in all kinds of configuration, in which they intermittently appear to parallel, oppose, double, and subvert one another. Michael Westlake’s novel, first published in 1989, is thematically rich, weaving theories of politics, psychoanalysis, and feminism together in stylish and dazzlingly imaginative prose. Contains a new introduction from Toril Moi and an afterword from Andrew Collier.  “Mesmerizing in its brilliance and suggestion, The Utopian is a text we do not really know how to read. It confirms that Westlake is the most interesting novelist writing in England today.” Antony Easthope, Textual Practice

The Utopian

Literary

VerbivoraciousPress

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