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James Combs

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Cinematic Schooling

Popular Learning at the Movies
By: James Combs
£58.99

Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.

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Comic Grace

We Mortal Fools in Movie Comedy
By: James Combs
£49.99

This book asks not only why some movie comedies are great, but what is unique and enduring in the legacy of comedy on film. It entertains the proposition that comedy may be motion picture’s greatest achievement, inquiring into what audiences cherish.

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Magical Suspension

The Movies as a Fun Experience
By: James Combs
£47.99

This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.

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Movie Time

By: James Combs
£34.99

Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.

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Moving Pictures

An Inquiry into the Cinematic Experience
By: James Combs
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This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.

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The Lasting Picture Show

By: James Combs
£58.99

Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.

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Wit’s End

Making Sense of the Great Movies
By: James Combs
£44.99

This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.

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