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JEAN-LUC GODARD: THE PASSION OF CINEMAVOLUME 1: TO 1968By Jeremy Mark RobinsonThere's no one else quite like Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most significant and inspiring filmmakers of recent times. Where the flood of movies globally now runs into many thousands, Godard's works stand out as original, acerbic, romantic, ironic, controversial, humorous and explorative. This book considers all of Godard's works in cinema, from his early short films and the important success and cultural impact of Breathless through the remarkable series of movies of the 1960s to the latest feature films. The book is split into two volumes: Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema/ La Passion deuCinema: Volume 1: To 1968Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema/ La Passion du Cinema: Volume 2: From 1968Volume 1 includes a biography of Godard; an exploration of aspects of his cinema; and chapters on movies such as Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Contempt, A Band Apart, Pierrot le Fou, Alphaville, One Plus One, Weekend, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, La Chinoise, A Married Woman and Masculine/ Feminine. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 2: "GODARD BIOGRAPHY"With À Bout du Souffle, Godard produced one of the first, great French New Wave movies, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and written by, among others, François Truffaut. À Bout du Souffle, with its cool Parisian milieu, its filmic and film noir allusions, handheld camera, direct sound, startling editing and self-conscious performances from Belmondo and Seberg, established Godard as one of the major voices of postwar cinema, a reputation which Godard built on in subsequent early films such as Le Petit Soldat (1960), Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Mépris (1963), Bande à Part (1964), and Une Femme Mariée (1964).In these films of the early to mid-1960s, Godard developed a radical, polemical series of films as film-essays which confronted issues such as late consumer capitalism, prostitution, labour, politics, ideology, gender, marriage, music, popular culture, Hollywood and not forgetting cinema itself.Fully illustrated. Bibliography, filmography, Godardisms and notes.

FRENCH ART: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE By W.C. BrownellA history of French art by W.C. Brownell, exploring artists such as Poussin, Claude, Chardin, Greuze, Ingres, Le Brun, Dubois, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Degas, Monet and Manet. Brownell also looks at sculptors such as Rodin and Dalou. This is a wide-ranging book of art in France, from the era of classical painting to the early 20th century, making it an excellent introduction to French art. Fully illustrated, with works from many French artists. With a full colour cover. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. 220pp. www.crmoon.com

THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS By Camille MauclairA history of French Impressionist artists, focussing on artists such as Degas, Monet, Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Morisot, Gauguin, Seurat and the Neo-Impressionist artists. An important art critic, Camille Mauclair considers theoretical issues such as colour, light, style, subject matter and form, and the precursors of the French Impressionists. This book is an excellent introduction to the French Impressionist artists by one of the finest critics of the period. Fully illustrated, with works from many French Impressionist artists. With a full colour cover. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. 160pp. www.crmoon.com

INGRESMasters of ArtA short introduction to the art and life of Jean August Dominique Ingres, the French 19th century master artist, best-known for his historical paintings, his portraits and his odalisques and nudes. This book, first published in 1906, explores Ingres' career and his art, and includes extracts from critics about Ingres. It is illustrated with many of his famous works. Fully illustrated. Includes notes on the works, and footnotes. 124 pages. www.crmoon.com

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE --- POEMS IN PROSE --- Poems translated by Arthur Symons --- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle; he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, Delacroix, and Gautier). Baudelaire's influence on subsequent poets and artists has been immense. This edition of Baudelaire's prose poems is a selection by British author Arthur Symons. The book includes two introductions to Baudelaire. --- With the French text of Baudelaire's poetry. Illustrated. 88 pages. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

CHARLES BAUDELAIRETHE POEMS AND THE PROSE POEMSIntroduced by James Huneker. Edited by Jeremy Mark RobinsonCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle; he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, Delacroix, and Gautier). Baudelaire's influence on subsequent poets and artists has been immense. This edition of Baudelaire's poems and prose poems is introduced by James Huneker. The book includes a second introduction to Baudelaire. With the French text of Baudelaire's poetry facing each poem. Illustrated. 284 pages. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIESBY ARTHUR SYMONSBritish author Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was an important poet, critic and translator. In this book, Symons explores the work and lives of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Donne, Bronte, Casanova, Poe, Rossetti, Hardy, Huysmans, Ibsen and others. Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé. This new edition of Figures of Several Centuries includes a note on Arthur Symons; and illustrations of the artists and writers in the book. Illustrated. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

DRAMATIS PERSONAEBY ARTHUR SYMONSBritish author Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was an important poet, critic and translator. In this book of essays, Symons explores the works and lives of Conrad, the Rossettis, Bronte, Leonardo, Shakespeare, Burton, Verhaeren, Maeterlick and others. Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé. This new edition of Figures of Several Centuries includes a note on Arthur Symons; and illustrations of the artists and writers in the book. Illustrated. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

ROSSETTIBy Lucien PissarroA study of the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Lucien Pissarro, first published in 1894. This book considers Rossetti and his circle, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Morris, Hunt, Ford, Burne-Jones, and Millais. Fully illustrated, with works from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and all of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. With a full colour cover. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. www.crmoon.com

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFEBy Théophile GautierWith poems translated by Guy ThorneCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle; he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, Delacroix, and Gautier). Baudelaire's influence on subsequent poets and artists has been immense. This book by Charles Baudelaire's friend Théophile Gautier is an important early study of the poet. Gautier offers a biography of the poet, and looks at his work. In the second part, Guy Thorne translates a selections of Baudelaire's poems, including from his two best-known collections - the Flowers of Evil and the Little Poems In Prose. A group of letters from Baudelaire are also included, and an essay on Baudelaire's influence. Illustrated. 204 pages. Paperback, with a full colour cover.With the French text of Baudelaire's poetry. www.crmoon.com

This is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow.

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VERONESEBy Francois CrastrePaolo Veronese (Palo Caliari, c. 1528-88) was one of the great Venetian painters. Veronese is known for his large-scale decorations of palaces and villas in and around Venice (which form one of the highlights of a visit to Venice today). Veronese was influenced by Dürer, Titian and Parmigianino. His famous works include St Catherine, The Marriage Feast At Cana, and The Triumph of Venice., plus many paintings of Madonnas and Crucifixions. Fully illustrated with works by Paolo Veronese and his contemporaries. Bibliography and notes. Painters Series. 100 pages. www.crmoon.com

WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: THE BEAST ---- By Jeremy Robinson ---- Walerian Borowczyk (known as 'Boro') is one of cinema's one-offs. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like Borowczyk. Borowczyk's films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyk's movies create their own space, with imagery, sounds and music of a really exceptional power. The appendices include a note on fairy tales, and on other versions of Beauty and the Beast (including the Jean Cocteau movie, and the 1991 Walt Disney musical movie). ---- Fully illustrated, with stills from The Beast, and Walerian Borowczyk's movies, plus influences, a bibliography, filmography, appendices, quotes from Borowczyk and notes. 168pp. www.crmoon.com

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERSTUDIES IN PESSIMISM: ESSAYS A collection of essays from one of the great philosophers of the modern era, Arthur Schopenhauer. The German thinker contemplates subjects such as psychology, immortality, vanity, suffering, education, women, and suicide.Arthur Schopenhauer is an entertaining author to read, easy to understand, with a sly, dry wit. No need for footnotes or explanations of tricky terms, Schopenhauer's prose style is refreshingly clear. Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 (on February 22nd) in Gdansk and died in 1860 in Frankfurt (on September 20th). Schopenhauer is known for his major work The World As Will and Idea, his philosophy of transcendental idealism, his studies of pessimism, his collections of essays and aphorisms, his incorporation of Eastern religion and metaphysics in his philosophy, and his impressive posthumous in¿uence on philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Henri Bergson and Oswald Spengler, psychologists such as Otto Rank, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and a host of writers and artists such as Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, Rainer Rilke, André Gide, Hugo von Hoffmansthal, Stéphane Mallarmé, W.B. Yeats, Italo Svevo, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Musil, Jorge Borges, George B. Shaw, Karl Kraus, J.-K. Huysmans, Edgar Allan Poe, August Strindberg, Guy de Maupassant, Frank Wedekind, Antonin Dvorak, Arnold Schönberg, Gustav Mahler, Charles Baudelaire, Jacob Burckhardt, George Gissing, Emile Zola, Richard Wagner, Sergei Prokoviev, Leo Tolstoy, Hermans Melville and Hesse, and Thomases Mann and Hardy. European Writers Series. Illustrated. Includes a 16-page biographical sketch of Schopenhauer, and an additional introduction to his work. 140pp. www.crmoon.com

SARGENTBy T. Martin WoodJohn Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was a British painter best-known for his fashionable society portraits. Later, Sargent moved into creating landscapes and war paintings. This is a reprint of a book published in 1908, by an author who knew the artist and visited his studio. Fully illustrated with works by Sargent and his contemporaries. Bibliography and notes. Painters Series. 100 pages. www.crmoon.com

THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIU-TUNGBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTony Ching Siu-tung (b. 1953) started out as an actor and stuntman, working in movies in the late 1960s and 1970s; he moved into television as martial arts co-ordinator, in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s (where on several historical TV series); he moved up to directing movies with 1983's Duel To the Death. This book is fully illustrated in colour. Tony Ching Siu-tung's two signature works are probably A Chinese Ghost Story and The Swordsman 2. Critically, those two films (and their movie series, the Chinese Ghost Story series and the Swordsman series) have garnered the highest criticial accolades (and they were big hits financially), and The Swordsman 2 has been the subject of numerous analyses of gender-bending issues in cinema. The sight of Brigitte Lin in drag and later fooling around with Jet Li as a 'woman' seems to drive film critics goo-goo. Tony Ching Siu-tung has won awards for the action choreography for The Witch From Nepal, Shaolin Soccer, New Dragon Gate Inn, Hero and The Swordsman. Like the other famous action directors in Hong Kong cinema (such as Yuen Woo-ping, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen and Yuen Bun), Tony Ching Siu-tung has worked with every single star in Hong Kong, every producer, every cameraman, designer, stylist, costumier, etc, and probably every stuntman and stuntwoman. Ching Siu-tung had provided action direction for Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, John Woo, Wong Jing, Ringo Lam, Zhang Yimou, Peter Chan, Andy Lau, Kevin Chu, and Stephen Chow, among others. That is, practically all of the major filmmakers in China. Technically, the movies directed by Tony Ching Siu-tung are breathtaking - in every department of film production, Ching's movies excel. Costumes are lavish, the sets are super-detailed, and the cinematography is stellar. Sometimes you really are looking at something very close to a classical, Chinese painting, where the billowing robes that the actors wear fit in perfectly, and are spot-on equivalents for the spiritual mood of Chinese art. Fully illustrated in colour throughout (over 290 illustrations), with images from the films of Tony Ching and other Chinese/ Hong Kong productions. With filmography, bibliography and notes. 592 pages. Hardcover, with a full colour laminate cover. www.crmoon.com

THE STORY OF SPANISH PAINTINGBy Charles H. CaffinThis is a study of the great Spanish painters, including Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velazquez, El Greco, José de Ribera, Juan Bautista de Mazo, Francisco de Zurburan, and Goya. The book features an introduction to each of the painters and their art, and chapters on the historical context of Spanish painting. Fully illustrated, including illustrations of the painters' works. 204pp. www.crmoon.com