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        Technothriller

        Technothriller

        Technothriller

        Film and the American Imagination

        by Soraya Murray

        ISBN: 9780262051019

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 3, 2026

        What technothrillers—popular films that center advanced technology—can tell us about ourselves, and how they ignite our imagination in technologically supercharged times.
        Last Week in End Times Cinema

        Last Week in End Times Cinema

        Last Week in End Times Cinema

        by A. S. Hamrah

        ISBN: 9781635902686

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: November 25, 2025

        An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.
        Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool

        Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool

        Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool

        by George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar

        Foreword by John Waters

        ISBN: 9781965874240

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: November 18, 2025

        A rollicking picaresque memoir on moviemaking from the titans of underground trash cinema.
        Sensual Laboratories

        Sensual Laboratories

        Sensual Laboratories

        Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art

        by Sophia Satchell-Baeza

        Foreword by Jarvis Cocker

        ISBN: 9781913689872

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 28, 2025

        An innovative counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.
        Six Films

        Six Films

        Six Films

        by Marguerite Duras

        Translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan

        ISBN: 9781965874202

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: September 30, 2025

        The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.
        Eternal Current Events

        Eternal Current Events

        Eternal Current Events

        Early Writings

        by Chris Marker

        Translated by Jackson B. Smith

        ISBN: 9781965874004

        Publisher: Inpatient Press

        Pub Date: July 29, 2025

        The first English translation of Chris Marker's early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art.
        Paradise

        Paradise

        Paradise

        The Psychoanalysis of Trash

        by Ken Hollings

        ISBN: 9781913689858

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: November 5, 2024

        The third and final volume of Ken Hollings' personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics.
        Double Vision

        Double Vision

        Double Vision

        The Cinema of Robert Beavers

        by Rebekah Rutkoff

        ISBN: 9780262048767

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 27, 2024

        A lavishly illustrated inside account of one of avant-garde film's most original outsiders, the filmmaker Robert Beavers.
        Ruins and Resilience

        Ruins and Resilience

        Ruins and Resilience

        The Longevity of Experimental Film

        by Karel Doing

        ISBN: 9781915983022

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: July 23, 2024

        Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective.
        Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

        Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

        Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

        by Ian Penman

        ISBN: 9781635901887

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: May 2, 2023

        A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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