Reverse Shot Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Dark Ages
D. S. Tierney
A highlight of Disney's animation "Dark Ages" and a source of childhood trauma for some, THE FOX AND THE HOUND is explored by @kelli_weston for the latest essay in our #Summerof81 symposium: https://t.co/pts4qvT7UB https://t.co/nilc5Q1ARO
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crimes of the Future: Theory and Its Global Reproduction
Jean-Michel Rabaté
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE "both takes itself as a serious piece of art and lampoons the appetite for novel spectacle that subsumes so much of contemporary visual culture." A terrific read by @Reckless_Edit on Cronenberg, Maggie Nelson, and desensitization. https://t.co/SXxJGzrEdU https://t.co/MU1HLD2u1p
Paperback, 2014
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS brings "the rich psychological detail of the book to the screen with mesmerizing photographic beauty." Read Chris Shields's review of Felix Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch's film, now playing: https://t.co/kEZHKpJ2NL https://t.co/1aKTwSuCdP
Paperback, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bones and All
R. C. S
Luca Guadagnino grasps for homespun Americana in his laidback yet gory latest. @justinstew reviews BONES AND ALL: https://t.co/Q2gpEkmtaE https://t.co/XjIpdHiTGt
Paperback, 2022
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heat 2
Michael Mann
"For those of you who can’t get enough of HEAT, now there’s Michael Mann's HEAT 2, a gritty, vivid, 468-page second helping that delivers the goods and also goes to surprising new places." Gavin Smith talks to Mann about his new book: https://t.co/gWezhabNtt https://t.co/lHhajY9ZuX
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Terrafemme: Return of the divine feminine
Josue D. a. Kedi
Courtney Stephens's TERRA FEMME, a film and live performance, weaves together archival amateur travel footage shot by women in the early 20th century. Read our new conversation between Stephens and Matilda Hague. @AnthologyFilm tonight and Sunday. https://t.co/6xniE13yeZ https://t.co/EvnewMG7Od
Paperback, 2015
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino
47. Gavin Smith read Quentin Tarantino’s CINEMA SPECULATION cover to cover and lived to tell the tale. https://t.co/CoLzjOARpq https://t.co/XeIi4SfCne
Paperback, 2024
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
September
Michael James
27. In September, @eshynes paid loving and eloquent tribute to the late James Caan with his essay on the Queens-born actor’s performance in Michael Mann’s THIEF. https://t.co/igCHCtJNor https://t.co/RJ7hw8MeWj
Paperback, 2021
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book