@lebedame-wegelagerin tagged me to list ten books I’m planning to read this year! No specific order
1. Kino-Debatte. Texte zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Film 1909 – 1929 (Cinema-debate. Texts on the relation of literature and film 1909-1929)
Content is self-explanatory, already started this and absolutely loving it, it’s so fascinating reading intellectual’s fears, worries and hopes for cinema when it was still very young. Favourite part so far was the one guy claiming cinema is the salvation for theatre because all the bad actors can now do movies and bring back meaning to theatre
2. Margarete Bruns – Das Rätsel Farbe (The Mystery Colour)
Book about colours, their history, meaning and effects, accidentally bought this for a lot more money than I expected because I mixed up shelves at the bookstore so I now feel obliged to read it
3. Scott MacKenzie – Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
Collection of Film Manifestos from the last 100 years and from all over the world. I’m already slowly digging through this currently and plan on finishing it sometime this year
4. Susan Sontag - Illness as Metaphor
Well-known probably, critical theory about victim-blaming through language. It’s Susan Sontag so it definitely won’t disappoint
5. David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster
One of his essay collections, I couldn’t finish Infinite Jest and this is a lot shorter and supposedly much more readable
6. @coilsandmagnets – [untitled]
Collection of short stories, yet to be released
7. Brandon Sanderson - Children of the Nameless
MtG lore, haven’t read any yet and this seems to be well-liked
8. Michelangelo Antonioni – The Architecture of Vision
Texts and Interviews by Antonioni, definitely need to see more of his films tho before reading this
9. B. Ruby Rich - New Queer Cinema
Overview about the movement, have this on my to-read-list for quite a while, but stuff I only have digitally is always difficult to read for me
10. Wolfgang Schwentker - The Samurai
Impulse purchase early this year after watching a bunch of samurai movies, never got to read it, but maybe later this year!
This was surprisingly difficult to answer, I don’t plan out my books that much, but it was a ton of fun thinking about it, thanks for the tag <3
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