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Reading with Godard: Michel de Montaigne by Timothy Barnard

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Satirical dialogues in the wilderness from 1703

Dialogues with a Canadian
Baron de Lahontan
Full of wit and controversy, a dialogue between Baron de Lahontan and the Indigenous leader Kondiaronk from 1703. The first English translation in over 300 years. A landmark document in relations between Indigenous peoples and Europeans and in Canadian history and the history of the Enlightenment.

Lesley Stern anthology

Bodies and Things: Selected Writings
Four major texts by the late Lesley Stern, including her caboose volume Dead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing and two other long-form essays on the topic of bodies and things. With an extensive interview and commentary by Tracy Cox-Stanton and Bill Brown.

Two essential volumes by and about Jean-Luc Godard

Introduction to a True History of Cinema and TV Reading with Jean-Luc Godard
Totalling 1,000 pages: Godard's legendary Montreal lectures, in the only complete edition in any language; and 109 readable short essays by 50 scholars on the books that influenced Godard's work. Buy one, get the second half-price.

The most comprehensive collection in English

The André Bazin Reader
A 670-page collection of writings by André Bazin throughout his entire career. A widely acclaimed translation that casts his ideas in an entirely new light. Soon to be accompanied by over 2,000 epigrams from his entire body of work, André Bazin, Rhetorician: Epigrams 1942-1958.
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