The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium by Gilberto Perez (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
Sewn-bound hardcover
First printing
465 pages
9x6 inches

Very Good condition in a price clipped dust jacket. Price sticker on back. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

“A pleasure. Gilberto Perez is one of the smartest film critics writing anywhere.”―Jonathan Rosenbaum

”Gilberto Perez's ambitious, abundant, and cultivated book―the fruit of decades of thinking and teaching―accompanies readers on a journey of discovery into the wonder of film.”―Stanley Cavell

In an international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade, The Material Ghost tied for first place with Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma. Gilberto Perez draws on his lifelong love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write a lively, wide-ranging, penetrating study of films and filmmakers and the nature of the art form.