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Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DIGITAL CINEMA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CLAYDEN, JAMES
Summary: There has been no shortage of proposals in recent years about what might constitute the ‘digital aesthetics’ of the audio-visual media. Most often these proposals of new aesthetic models are conceived in terms of a sharp break with conventional narrative form — where convention is yoked to Hollywood on the one hand, and a certain tradition of European art cinema on the other. However, a largely unexplored connection is the very fertile link between digital work and the traditions of experimental cinema. The prolific film-maker-painter — dramaturg, James Clayden, active since the early 1970s, is an especially important figure in the crossover from film to digital in Australia. With small amounts of government subsidy and finance raised from other sources, he has made several experimental features and a myriad of shorts in recent years. These have received more attention and acclaim at overseas film festivals than in Australia, where the experimental exhibition scene has largely atrophied. Intriguingly, Clayden has gone back to celluloid works (on Super 8 or 16mm) and re-fashioned them in a radical way for several digital projects; he has also been preparing a more conventional narrative art-cinema project. This article will use these rich intersections of forms, gauges and modes in Clayden's recent career as a way of approaching a new theorization of digital aesthetics in Australian cinema. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of a special issue on digital cinema in Australia and New Zealand

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Review; Illustration(s)
Subject: LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996)
Summary: A detailed review of "Lost Highway", with particular reference to the clone or doppelganger structure of the narrative.

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BLOW OUT (US, Brian De Palma, 1981)

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LES PATTERSON SAVES THE WORLD (AT, George T. Miller, 1987)
Summary: Les Patterson saves the world

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Book review; Bibliography
Subject: SCORSESE, MARTIN
Summary: A book review of 'The Scorsese Connection', by Lesley Stern.

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOGS IN SPACE (AT, Richard Lowenstein, 1986); GOTHIC (UK, Ken Russell, 1986)
Summary: Article on 'Industrial Culture' - "Dogs in Space"and "Gothic"

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DIM SUM A LITTLE BIT OF HEART (US, Wayne Wang, 1985)
Summary: Review and credits

Call No: 64GEN STU
Author: Brophy, Philip; Caputo, Raffaele; Martin, Adrian
Place: Northcote, Vic.
Publisher: Stuff Publication
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 93 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: GENRES
Notes: Editorial board: Philip Brophy, Raffaele Caputo, Adrian Martin; "This issue of Stuffing was founded with the assistance of the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission."; Includes bibliographical references
LON: 5944692

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: BREILLAT, CATHERINE; [TRENTE-SIX] 36 FILLETTE (FR, Catherine Breillat, 1988); ROMANCE (FR, Catherine Breillat, 1999)
Summary: A discussion surrounding the works of Breillat and her narrative style.

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: GREAT AMERICAN BUGS BUNNY - ROAD-RUNNER CHASE, THE (US, Chuck Jones, 1979)

Author: Martin, Adrian
Subject: FRIDAY THE 13TH (US, Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INNERSPACE (US, Joe Dante, 1987)
Summary: Review; Credits

Call No: 630 MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Place: Brooklyn, NY
Publisher: Punctum Books
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 38 pages, 30cm
Notes: Spiral bound
ISBN: 9780615719467

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOUND; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: This article is an historical survey of Australian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present day organized around the use of music and sound. Six aesthetic categories are distinguished: film as backdrop to live music; live music as backdrop to film; pre-recorded music as a ‘bed’ for images; images as a bed for pre-recorded music; disjunction between image and sound; image–sound fusion. The debate over the effects of musical rhythm in cinema is discussed.--ABSTRACT

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR
Summary: Adrian Martin on the history and characteristics of 'teen cinema', in particular four seminal examples: American grafitti; Summer of '42; Animal house and Saturday night fever . He argues the genre cannot be appreciate by selecting fine examples in isolation from other examples; and that to appreciate only the ironic or subversive films gives a misleading sense of what is essentially a light genre.

Call No: 79 MAD MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Source: AT
Place: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.
Publisher: Currency Press; ScreenSound Australia
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Martin compares the three Mad Max movies, sharing his views on which works best and why. In a chapter dedicated to each film, he looks at their critical reception and their themes, examines Miller's shooting techniques and provides a shot-by-shot analysis of integral scenes.
Notes: Notes: p.74-78 Bibliography: p.79-81 Filmography: p.82-83 Credits: p.84-87
ISBN: 0868196703

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INVADERS FROM MARS (US, Tobe Hooper, 1986)
Summary: Review

Call No: 635.25 MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Edition: 2014
Place: Basingstoke [England]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xvi, 236 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Series: Palgrave close readings in film and television
Subject: DIRECTION; GHATAK, RITWIK; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY; REALITY TV
Summary: Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781349444175
Contents: Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue: At the Ballet Ruse 1. A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific 2. Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive 3. What Was Mise en scene? 4. The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched 5. The Crises (2): The Style It Takes 6. Sonic Spaces 7. A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scene 8. Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century 9. The Rise of the Dispositif Epilogue: Five Minutes and 15 Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak Notes Bibliography

Call No: 62(081) MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Edition: 2018
Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
PhysDes: 424 pages ; 24 cm
Series: film culture in transition
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CINEPHILIA; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; FILM HISTORY; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; CASSAVETES, JOHN; DE PALMA, BRIAN; FULLER, SAMUEL; GARREL, PHILIPPE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; POLANSKI, ROMAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; RUIZ, RAUL; SCORSESE, MARTIN; AFTER HOURS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1985); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); COTTON CLUB, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1984); ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961); ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984); HATEFUL EIGHT, THE (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2015); TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
Summary: The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9789462986831
Contents: PART I - LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling PART II – SCENOGRAPHIES -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced PART III - A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism PART IV - THE LYRICAL IMPULSE -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions -- 13. Delirious Enchantment PART V - GENRE GAMES -- 14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power -- 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle -- 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic -- 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema PART VI – INTERVENTIONS -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual -- 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality PART VII - ENVOI -- 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez Lopez Notes -- Sources of Texts -- Index

Call No: 79ONC MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian, 1959
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 96 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm
Series: BFI modern classics
Notes: Bibliography: p. 95-96
ISBN: 0851705548; 0851705448
LON: abn98196556; 13937932

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008)
Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema.
Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT

Call No: 403 MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Place: Ringwood, Vic.
Publisher: McPhee Gribble
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 212 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; THRILLERS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES; BLOCKBUSTERS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; ENDINGS OF FILMS; CAPRA, FRANK; EDWARDS, BLAKE; SCORSESE, MARTIN; THIRTYSOMETHING [TV] (US, 1987-91); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); BENNY HILL SHOW, THE [TV] (UK, 1979); DUNLEAVY [TV] (US, 1992?); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946)
Notes: Includes index; CIP confirmed; Subtitle on cover: The dreams and desires at the heart of our popular culture; Bibliography: p. 199-201
ISBN: 0869142917 (pbk.)
LON: 10669030

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BLACK WIDOW (US, Bob Rafelson, 1987)
Summary: Review

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BODY DOUBLE (US, Brian de Palma, 1984)
Summary: Review

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ALL OF ME (US, Carl Reiner, 1984)
Notes: Review

Author: Crawford, Anne-Marie; Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: WINGS OF DESIRE [HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER] (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987)
Summary: Review; Credits