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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.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS

Call No: 81TO TEO
Author: Teo, Stephen
Source: HK
Place: Aberdeen, Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: x, 294 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: TO, JOHNNY; ADVENTURE FILMS
Summary: "Director in Action examines the career of Johnnie To, whose art-house action hits include A Hero Never Dies, The Longest Nite, Running out of Time, The Mission, PTU, Breaking News, Election and Election 2. The author discusses the symbiotic relationship between director and genre, why To is regarded as an auteur, and the influence he has on the trajectory of the action genre in the Hong Kong cinema..." -- Back Cover
Notes: Signed by the author; Includes bibliography and notes
ISBN: 9789622098404
Language: English
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. From The big heat to Lifeline -- 3. Nucleus of the Milky Way -- 4. Directed by Johnnie To -- 5. The uneven auteur -- 6. Postscript -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Author's interview with Johnnie To -- Appendix 2: Johnnie To on Election

Call No: 71(94) MOR
Author: Moran, Albert; Vieth, Errol
Source: AT
Place: Port Melbourne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xii, 219 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: GENRES. AUSTRALIA; ADVENTURE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA; DETECTIVE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; THRILLERS. AUSTRALIA; YOUNG PEOPLE. AUSTRALIA, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Analyses Australian film from the 1970's in terms of genre.
ISBN: 0816649227

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

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; EVEREST (US/UK, Baltasar Kormakur, 2015)
Author: Dent, Nick
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; DRAMAS; THRILLERS; DISASTER FILMS; CLARKE, JASON; BROLIN, JOSH; GYLLENHAAL, JAKE; WORTHINGTON, SAM; WATSON, EMILY; KNIGHTLEY, KEIRA; EVEREST (US/UK, Baltasar Kormakur, 2015)
Summary: A review of the recently released film 'Everest' by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur documenting the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 79 THE CUL
Author: Culotta, Nino
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Humorbooks
PubDate: 1964
PhysDes: 205 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ADVENTURE FILMS; THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966)
Summary: This book describes the adventures of Italian journalist Nino Culotta in Australia--Taken from back cover of the book
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 738.5 BOU
Author: Bouse Derek
Place: Philadelphia PA
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 23 cm ; 280 pp
Subject: NATURAL HISTORY FILMS; COUSTEAU, JACQUES; SCIENCE IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; IMAX; ADVENTURE FILMS
Summary: Wildlife and natural history films have boomed in popularity and have become one of modern society's most important sources of information about the natural world. Yet they have been largely ignored by film and television critics and scholars - up until now. In Wildlife Films, Derek Bouse challenges conventional thinking about this neglected area of film and television, arguing that the wildlife genre has been underrated as an area of filmic creativity, yet overrated as a tool for science education and nature conservation. He argues that wildlife films owe a greater debt formally and thematically to Hollywood entertainment than to documentary. Indeed, throughout its history, the wildlife film's most salient attribute has been its proclivity for telling stories rather than for revealing scientific fact. Through storytelling devices, such as individualizing animal behaviour to engage audiences' emotions, wildlife films have become enormously successful at popularizing science. Wildlife Films asks, however, whether an overreliance on storytelling devices may also lead to distorted portrayals of evolutionary biology, and to depictions of animal family and social interactions that may sometimes be better reflections of our own values than of behavioural realities. Bouse argues that if the projection onto nature of our moral vision and our models of society comes at the expense of scientific accuracy, it is the predictable result of the "tyranny of formula" in popular film and television, where the pressures of convention are imposed by the economics of a competitive, ratings-driven industry. Wildlife Films considers the entire history of the wildlife and natural history genre, from its nineteenth-century origins, to the safari films of the 1920s and '30s, to the studio-bound television programs of the '50s, right up to today's animal "docu-soaps" and spectacular IMAX productions. It shows how a film genre unfairly dismissed by media historians and critics has given rise to a powerful global industry that is today helping to spearhead digital high-definition television. Tracing over 100 years of wildlife and natural history filmmaking, Wildlife Films shows that this is a significant force in broadcasting and a genre as vibrant and creative as any. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 0812217284