{"product_id":"30-for-30-tok-james-cartwright-9798180461803","title":"30 for 30 Tok: IB Film: The Thinking Behind the Subject","description":"The camera does not capture reality. It constructs it, one framing decision at a time. Cinema has shaped how billions of people understand history, other cultures, and themselves, and this book asks what kind of knowledge an art form so powerful and so constructed actually produces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e30 For 30 TOK: IB Film\u003c\/i\u003e is the twenty-fifth book in the 30 For 30 TOK series, which pairs thirty IB diploma subjects with thirty searching questions about the nature of the knowledge it produces. This volume focuses on the IB Film course, asking questions about representation, authorship, the truth claims of documentary, the male gaze, the film canon, and the epistemological implications of technologies that make moving images easier to fabricate than ever before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Kuleshov effect to deepfakes, from the politics of Hollywood's global dominance to the question of whether film criticism produces reliable knowledge about art, the thirty questions in this book press on what cinema knows and what it cannot avoid distorting. Sample responses model what careful, critically informed engagement with film and its epistemological dimensions looks like in practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesigned for IB Film students, teachers, TOK educators, and anyone who wants to watch films more intelligently and understand what they are actually doing when they do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Cartwright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180461803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"James Cartwright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097378300159,"sku":"9798180461803","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/30-for-30-tok-james-cartwright-9798180461803","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}