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Interim book		Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2004. Call No: 730.3 TAS Author: Tasker, Yvonne Source: UK Place: Abingdon, Oxon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow. Notes: Includes note and index. ISBN: 0 415 23507 3 Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film. More info
subject clippings file		ACTION FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ACTION FILMS More info
Interim book		At full speed : Hong Kong cinema in a borderless world / Esther C.M. Yau, editor Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Call No: 71(512.317) ATF Author: Yau, Ching-Mei Esther Source: US Place: Minneapolis, Minn. Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: vii, 342 p., ill. ; 25 cm Subject: TSUI, HARK; ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; WONG KAR-WAI; CHAN, JACKIE; HUI, ANN; DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0816632359 (PB : alk. paper) ID2: 291 More info
book		The cinema book / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink London: British Film Institute, 1999. Call No: 70(04) CIN Author: Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke Edition: 2nd ed Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: x, 406 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; STUDIO SYSTEM; STARS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; GERMANY; USSR; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; UNITED KINGDOM; ART CINEMA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; THIRD CINEMA; THIRD WORLD; GENRES; WESTERNS; MELODRAMA; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; COMEDIES; ACTION FILMS; AUTHORSHIP; AUTEUR THEORY; STRUCTURALISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SARRIS, ANDREW Notes: Previous ed.: 1985 ISBN: 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.) ª23.99; 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.) LON: 14510520 More info
Interim book		Cinema of interruptions : action genres in contemporary Indian cinema / by Lalitha Gopalan London: British Film Institute, 2002. Call No: 71(540) GOP Author: Gopalan, Lalitha Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: vi, 218 p. : illus. ; 24 cm Subject: ACTION FILMS; INDIA Notes: Includes bibliography and index. ISBN: 0851709222 More info
book		Classical masculinity and the spectacular body on film : the mighty sons of Hercules / by Daniel O'Brien Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Call No: 451-01 OBR Author: O'Brien, Daniel Source: UK/US Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; HEROS IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (UK/US, Don Chaffey, 1963); [THREE HUNDRED] 300 (US, Zach Snyder, 2006); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-) Summary: "The cinema has often showcased the muscular male body, most notably in genres invoking classical Greco-Roman culture, whether peplum, epic or sword-and-sorcery. This book reassesses the classically-inflected action film as a significant cinematic form, often marginalized in media studies, that transcends such reductive labels as camp or kitsch. The focus is on the depiction of heroic masculinity, often characterized as reactionary or fascist, yet far more varied and contradictory, especially in relation to femininity and non-whiteness. These diverse representations of masculinity offer a major contribution to debates on maleness within and beyond academia that has been largely unexplored. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations is one of the most important mythopoetic figures, on a par with King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tarzan and James Bond, informing popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form"-- BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index ISBN: 9781137384706 Contents: -- Introduction -- Part I: men as men should be 1. Hercules Unchained ; 2. Hercules Reformed ; 3. Hercules Diminished ; 4. Hercules Rebooted ; 5. I'm Spartacus! -- Part II: taming the women with love or death -- 6. The Loves of Hercules ; 7. The Temptress from Beyond ; 8. Fight Like a Man -- Part III: this thing of darkness 9. White Man's Burden? ; 10. Doom's Children ; 11. This is Sparta! ; Coda -- Bibliography --Index -- More info
book		Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No: 71(73) CON Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; SPECTATORSHIP; MEN IN FILMS. USA; MELODRAMA; MUSIC, FILM; SOUND TRACKS; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BLACK CINEMA. USA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; BLOCKBUSTERS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; ACTION FILMS; AUDIENCES; MIRAMAX FILMS; NEW LINE CINEMA; TIME WARNER; VERHOEVEN, PAUL; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; HAMILTON, LINDA; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; ELFMAN, DANNY; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and index ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.) LON: 98005952; 13736490 More info
newspaper article		Discomfort and awe as Cruise exerts control in The Age [Arts & entertainment] (30/07/2015) p.20 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE Author: Wilson, Jake PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION (US, Christopher McQuarrie , 2015); ACTION FILMS Summary: Review of Mission Imossible: Rogue Nation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars More info
Interim book		The film cultures reader / Graeme Turner (ed.) New York: Routledge, 2002. Call No: 408 TUR Author: Graeme Turner (ed.) Place: London; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; AESTHETICS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SOUND; THEORY; CREED, BARBARA; KUHN, ANNETTE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; USA; MONROE, MARILYN; SEX IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; ACTION FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; THRILLERS; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption. ISBN: 0415252822 More info
book		Film genre 2000 : new critical essays / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon Albany: State University of New York Press, c2000. Call No: 64GEN DIX Author: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950 Place: Albany Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: c2000 PhysDes: vii, 266 p. ; 24 cm Series: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video Subject: GENRES; BLACK CINEMA. USA; ADAPTATIONS; MUSICALS; POLITICAL FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; CRIME FILMS; ACTION FILMS; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; FILM NOIR; WESTERNS; ROMANTIC FILMS Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0791445135 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0791445143 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 20076491 More info
book		Genre and Hollywood / Steve Neale London: Routledge, 2000. Call No: 64GEN NEA Author: Neale, Steve Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cm Subject: GENRES; FILM NOIR; MELODRAMA; ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FORMALISM; FRONTIERS IN FILMS; GANGSTER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; USA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; THRILLERS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BASINGER, JEANINE; DOHERTY, THOMAS; SCHATZ, THOMAS Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliography and index ISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.) LON: 21413450 More info
book		High contrast : race and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Sharon Willis Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. Call No: 451-054(73) WIL Author: Willis, Sharon Place: Durham, N.C. Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 266 p. ; 24 cm Subject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; LEE, SPIKE; LYNCH, DAVID; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) Summary: In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-257) and index ISBN: 0822320290 (cloth : acid-free paper); 082232041X (pbk. : acid-free paper) LON: 97013147; 13158378 Contents: Part 1. Battles of the sexes -- 1. Mutilated Masculinties and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons -- 2. Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct -- 3. Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 -- Part II. Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze -- 4. Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style -- 5. Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style -- 6. Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity More info
book		Hong Kong action cinema / Bey Logan London: Titan Books, 1995. Call No: 736.35(512.317) LOG Author: Logan, Bey Place: London Publisher: Titan Books PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 191 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 28cm Subject: ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; WOMEN IN FILMS. HONG KONG; CHAN, JACKIE; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; CHOW, YUN-FAT; LEE, BRUCE; LAU KAR LEUNG; HUNG, SAMO; CHENG PEI PEI; ROTHROCK, CYNTHIA; PENN, KIM MAREE; CRAWFORD, SOPHIA; ACES GO PLACES (HK, Tsang Chi Wai, 1982); ARMOUR OF GOD, THE [; JINGCHA GUSHI (HK, Jackie Chan [pseud. of Cheng Long], 1985); [BIG BOSS, THE] (HK, Lo Wei, 1971); [FIST OF FURY] (HK, Lo Wei, 1972); LASHOU SHENTAN (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1992); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); [CITY ON FIRE] (HK, Ringo (Ling-Tung) Lam, 1987); [DRUNKEN MASTER, THE] (HK, Yuen Woo-Ping, 1978); [EASTERN CONDORS] (HK, Samo Hung, 1987); [PEDICAB DRIVER] (HK, Samo Hung, 1990); ENTER THE DRAGON (US/HK, Robert Clouse, 1973); WAY OF THE DRAGON, THE (HK, Bruce Lee, 1973); YINGXIONG BENSE (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1986); [BULLET IN THE HEAD] (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1990); DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 188 ISBN: 1852865407 (pbk) LON: 11245180 More info
book		Hong Kong connections : transnational imagination in action cinema / edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. Call No: 730.3 (512.317) MOR Place: Hong Kong Publisher: Hong Kong University Press PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: xvi, 343 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; HISTORY OF CINEMA. HONG KONG; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. HONG KONG Summary: Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders? Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US, as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity, and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms - suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the difference as well as the links that constitute popularity. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1932643192 More info
Interim book		John Woo : the films / by Kenneth E. Hall North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1999. Call No: 81WOO HAL Author: Hall, Kenneth E. Source: US Place: North Carolina Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 239 p. :illus. filmog. : 24 cm Subject: ACTION FILMS. HONG KONG; DIRECTORS. CHINA; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; BROKEN ARROW (US, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1996); DIEXUE SHUANG XIONG (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1989); FACE/OFF (US, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1997); HARD TARGET (US, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1993); YINGXIONG BENSE (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1986); YINGXIONG BENSE II (HK, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1988) Notes: Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0786406194 More info
newspaper article		The man from U.N.C.L.E. in The Age [The shortlist] (14/08/2015) p.8 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., THE (US, Guy Ritchie, 2015) Author: Hawker, Phillipa PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ACTION FILMS; RITCHIE, GUY; MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., THE (US, Guy Ritchie, 2015) Summary: Review of the film, The man from U.N.C.L.E., directed by Guy Ritchie Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars More info
newspaper article		Maze Runner: the scorch trials in Sunday Herald Sun [Arts & Entertainment] (13/09/2015) p.83 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (US, Wes Ball, 2015) Author: Dent, Nick PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SEQUELS; ACTION FILMS; SCIENCE IN FILMS; THRILLERS; BALL, WES; O'BRIEN, DYLAN; SCODELARIO, KAYA; GILLEN, AIDEN; CLARKSON, PATRICIA; MAZE RUNNER, THE (US, Wes Ball, 2014); MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (US, Wes Ball, 2015) Summary: Review and film critique of the movie 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,' sequel of 'The Maze Runner,' including plot summary. Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars More info
book		Michael Bay / by Lutz Koepnick Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, c2018. Call No: 81 BAY KOE Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter), (author.) Source: US Place: Urbana, Illinois Publisher: University of Illinois Press PubDate: c2018 PhysDes: 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Series: Contemporary Film Directors Subject: BAY, MICHAEL; ACTION FILMS; BAD BOYS (US, Michael Bay, 1995); ROCK, THE (US, Michael Bay, 1996); ARMAGEDDON (US, Michael Bay, 1998); PEARL HARBOR (US, Michael Bay, 2001); BAD BOYS II (US, Michael Bay, 2003); ISLAND, THE (US, Michael Bay, 2005); TRANSFORMERS (US, Michael Bay, 2007); TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (AT, Michael Bay, 2009); TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (US, Michael Bay, 2011); PAIN & GAIN (US, Michael Bay, 2013); TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (US/C, Michael Bay, 2014); [THIRTEEN] 13 HOURS (US, Michael Bay, 2016); TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (US/C/CN, Michael Bay, 2017) Summary: "If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually pushes the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers. Lutz Koepnick engages the bigness of works like Armageddon and the Transformers movies to explore essential questions of contemporary filmmaking and culture. Combining close analysis and theoretical reflection, Koepnick shows how Bay's film, knowingly or not, address profound issues about what it means to live in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. According to Koepnick's astute readings, no one eager to understand the state of cinema today can ignore Bay's work. Bay's cinema of world-making and transnational reach not only exemplifies interlocking processes of cultural and economic globalization, it urges us to contemplate the future of moving images, of memory, matter, community, and experience, amid a time of rampant political populism and ever-accelerating technological change." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index Includes filmography ISBN: 9780252083204 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: World Cinema in the Age of Populism -- Cinema -- Action -- Time -- Matter -- Sound -- Politics -- Interviews -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index. More info
newspaper article		Monster hits, super profits in Daily Telegraph (15/04/2017) p.60 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BLOCKBUSTERS. USA Author: Shearer, Geoff PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS. USA; MONSTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; ACTION FILMS Summary: Looking at the proliferation of big budget film franchises such as Marvel, DC as well as monster and supernatural series being promoted by various studios Notes: I More info
book		The New Australian cinema / editor: Scott Murray, associate editor: Peter Beilby West Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, 1980. Call No: 71(94) NEW Author: Murray, Scott, 1951- joint ed; Beilby, Peter. joint ed Place: West Melbourne, Vic. Publisher: Nelson PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 207p. : ill.(part col.) ; 28 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ACTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Notes: Australian cinema films, 1970-1979 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0417831); On cover: foreword by Phillip Adams: introduction by Ken G. Hall; Produced by Cinema Papers, North Melbourne, Vic; Index; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0170055728 : $14.95 Aust LON: abn95019370; 11368160 More info
book		Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark London New York: Routledge, 1993. Call No: 451-01 SCR Author: Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MUSICALS; ACTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; WHITE HEAT (US, Raoul Walsh, 1949); PLAY MISTY FOR ME (US, Clint Eastwood, 1971); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) Summary: "Screening the Male challenges the traditional understanding of the male's position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale's ground-breaking article on the male spectacle, this collection looks beyong the seemingly unassailable monolithic understanding of the 'masculine' which has previously dominiated most film criticism. Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzeneeger, from the musical to the horror film. from close readings to 'queer' readings, the essays all differ in their critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest, each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generational differences." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes ISBN: 0415077583; 0415077591 (pbk.) LON: 92005815; 8965703 More info
book		Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker London New York: Routledge, 1993. Call No: 451-01/02 TAS Author: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 195 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Comedia Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; GENRES; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; BIGELOW, KATHRYN Notes: Filmography: p. 178-185; Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-190) and index ISBN: 0415092248; 041509223X (hbk.) LON: 92044020; 9902660 Contents: 1. Women warriors: gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines -- 2. Black buddies and white heroes: racial discourse in the action cinema -- 3. New Hollywood, genre and the action cinema -- 4. Tough guys and wise-guys: masculinities and star images in the action cinema -- 5. Masculinite, politics and national identity -- 6. The body in crisis or the body triumphant? -- 7. Action heroines in the 1980s: the limits of 'musculinity' -- The cinema as experience: Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle More info
book		Violence and American cinema / edited by J. David Slocum New York: Routledge, 2001. Call No: 730.5(73) SLO Author: Slocum, David J Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm Series: AFI film readers Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; FILM NOIR. USA; WESTERNS; ACTION FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; GENOCIDE IN FILMS Summary: This text is a "discussion of film violence old and new ... consideration of its nature, its effects, and its cinematic, cultural, and historical meaning." (from back cover) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0415928109 (pbk.) More info
book		Violent America : the movies 1946-1964 / Lawrence Alloway New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971. Call No: 730.3(73) ALL Author: Alloway, Lawrence Edition: 1971 Place: New York Publisher: Museum of Modern Art PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: 96 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: ACTION FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; KILLERS, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1964); KILLERS, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) Notes: distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn. ISBN: 9780870706226 Donation: Megan McMurchy More info
book		White guys : studies in postmodern domination and difference / Fred Pfeil London: Verso, 1995. Call No: 451-01 PFE Author: Pfeil, Fred Place: London Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xxi, 269 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Haymarket series Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA Summary: "What do men - white straight men in particular - want? IN a series of witty and provcative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of what heterosexual masculinity over the last fifteen years. White Guys proves such topics as the rock'n'roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose, and the late Kurt Cobain; the 'male rampage' films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and the films of 'sensitive transpormation' that followed in their wake; and the curious yet symptomatic activities of the men's movement whose 'rituals' Pfeil has investigated firsthand. Pfeil's aim is to reveal the ambiguity and flux in a social category too often assumed to be monolithic and unchanging. White Guys invites its readers to consider the shifts in mainstream masculinity's representation, in relation to the general emergence of postmodern 'tribalisms' and in the context of changes in both contemporary feminism and the global economy." -- BOOK COVER ISBN: 1859849377 : ¦39.95; 1859840329 (pbk.) : ¦12.99 LON: bnc85984937; 11499168 Contents: From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the Male Rampage Film -- The Year of Living Sensitively -- Rock Incorporated: Plugging in to Axl and Bruce -- Soft-Boiled Dicks -- Guerillas in the Mist: Wild Guys and New Age Tribes -- Chips off the Old Block More info

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