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title clippings file		ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS : (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) More info
book		Color : the film reader / Angela Dalle Vacche (editor) New York, London: Routledge, 2006. Call No: 633.22 COL Author: Dalle Vacche, Angela; Brian Price Source: US Place: New York, London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: x, 214 p, [6] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm Series: In focus - Routledge film readers Subject: COLOUR; AESTHETICS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; TECHNICOLOR; BAZIN, ANDRE; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; ROHMER, ERIC; BATCHELOR, JOHN; OSHIMA, NAGISA; BRAKHAGE, JANE; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ANDERSON, PAUL THOMAS; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; JARMAN, DEREK; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN; SIRK, DOUGLAS; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); DIAL M FOR MURDER (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); GIGI (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1958); IMITATION OF LIFE (US, Douglas Sirk, 1959); REBECCA (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1940); VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958); WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Summary: "The first anthology devoted to the subject of color in film. Thematic sections will address the development of color technology and how visual style was affected by the shift from black and white to color; look at color in film theory, including writings from auteurs such as Bresson, Eisenstein and Oshima on the subject; and finally, there will be a number of case studies of color in films by Godard, Hitchcock, Almodovar and others."[ Taken from the back of the book] Notes: Bibliography: (p [202]-205); Includes index ISBN: 0415324424; 9780415324427 More info
book		Fear eats the soul : Angst essen seele auf / Laura Cottingham London UK: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 79ANG COT Author: Cottingham, Laura Edition: 1st ed. Source: UK Place: London UK Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 86 p. : col, b&w, ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI film classics Subject: RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; HUMAN RELATIONS IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; WARHOL, ANDY; SIRK, DOUGLAS; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979); BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (GW/IT, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980); QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982); FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975); BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) Summary: Set in Munich in the 1970s, Fear Eats the Soul melds the convention of melodrama with a radical sensibility in order to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in post-war Germany. Laura Cottingham celebrates Fassbinder’s achievement, placing Fear Eats the Soul in relation to his extraordinary prolific career in theatre, film and television. Her analysis pulls back the thin curtain that separated his work from his tumultuous life. [Taken from back cover]. Notes: includes film credits ISBN: 1844570711 More info
book		Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Call No: 631.19 PIP Author: Pippin, Robert B. Source: US Place: Chicago Publisher: University of Chicago Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); TALK TO HER [HABLE CON ELLA] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998); DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC Summary: "In this book, philosopher Robert B. Pippin reveals how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodovar's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and in the Dardenne brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (with an eye to cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780226672007 Contents: Section I: Cinema As Reflective Form 1. Cinematic Reflection -- 2. Cinematic Self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Section II: Moral Variations 3. Devils & Angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her -- 4. Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III: Social Pathologies 5. Cinematic Tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Can "Life" Itself be "False"? -- 6. Love & Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV: Irony & Mutuality 7. Cinematic Irony: The Strange Case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- 8. Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V: Agency & Meaning 9. Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- 10. Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers ID2: 343 More info
book		The films of Douglas Sirk : exquisite ironies and magnificent obsessions / Tom Ryan Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, [2019]. Call No: 81SIR RYA Author: Ryan, Tom Source: US Place: Jackson, Mississippi Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: [2019] PhysDes: 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: FILM; GERMANY; CRITICISM; DIRECTORS; SIRK, DOUGLAS; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); IMITATION OF LIFE (US, Douglas Sirk, 1959) Summary: "Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film's great directors. Sirk worked in Europe during the 1930s, mainly for Germany's UFA studios, and then in America in the 1940s and '50s. The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides an overview of his entire career, including Sirk's work on musicals, comedies, thrillers, war movies, and westerns. One of the great ironists of the cinema, Sirk believed rules were there to be broken. Whether defying the decrees of Nazi authorities trying to turn film into propaganda or arguing with studios that insisted characters' problems should always be solved and that endings should always restore order, what Sirk called "emergency exits" for audiences, Sirk always fought for his vision. Offering fresh insights into all of the director's films and situating them in the culture of their times, critic Tom Ryan also incorporates extensive interview material drawn from a variety of sources, including his own conversations with the director. Furthermore, his enlightening study undertakes a detailed reconsideration of the generally overlooked novels and plays that served as sources for Sirk's films, as well as providing a critical survey of previous Sirk commentary, from the time of the director's "rediscovery" in the late 1960s up to the present day." -- Provided by publisher. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: pages 257-265. ISBN: 9781496822376 Contents: Chapter One: Detlef Sierck in Europe -- Chapter Two: American Beginnings: The European Legacy -- Chapter Three: In the Shadows: Sirk and the Noir Inclination -- Chapter Four: The Uncomfortable Comedies -- Chapter Five: Sirk and God: 'The Pure Ambiguity of Experience' -- Chapter Six: Pastoral Yearnings: Sirk and the Musical -- Chapter Seven: Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the Idea of the Hero -- Chapter Eight: Sirk, the Family Melodrama, and the Production Code -- Chapter Nine: Sirk and John M. Stahl: Adaptations and Remakes -- Chapter Ten: Out of the Past -- Chapter Eleven: Into the Future: Sirk's Legacy. More info
book		From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies / Molly Haskell Harmondsworth Eng. Baltimore: Penguin, 1974. Call No: 451-02 HAS Author: Haskell, Molly Place: Harmondsworth Eng. Baltimore Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: xiv, 388 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; ASTOR, MARY; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOW, CLARA; Crawford, Joan; CUKOR, GEORGE; DAY, DORIS; DIETRICH, MARLENE; HAWKS, HOWARD; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; HOLLIDAY, JUDY; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MONROE, MARILYN; RUSSELL, ROSALIND; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; WILDER, BILLY; DUNNE, IRENE; WOMEN, THE (US, George Cukor, 1939); BEYOND THE FOREST (US, King Vidor, 1949); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); DESIGN FOR LIVING (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1933); ADAM'S RIB (US, George Cukor, 1949); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0140039465 : ª0.95 ($3.95 U.S.) LON: 74194670; 352052 More info
book		On the verge of revolt : women in American films of the fifties / Brandon French New York: Ungar, 1978. Call No: 451-02 FRE Author: French, Brandon, 1944 Place: New York Publisher: Ungar PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: xxiv, 165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950); QUIET MAN, THE (US/IR, John Ford, 1952); MARRYING KIND, THE (US, George Cukor, 1952); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); COUNTRY GIRL, THE (US, George Seaton, 1954); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955); HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON (US, John Huston, 1957); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (US, Fred Zinneman, 1953); TENDER TRAP, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1955); NUN'S STORY, THE (US, Fred Zinneman, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 155-157 ISBN: 0804422206; 0804461589 (pbk.) LON: 78004294; 1220409 More info
journal article		Two films by Douglas Sirk in Cinema (UK) (August 1970) iss.6/7 p.62-64 Author: Joannides, Paul PhysDes: Article Subject: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE, A (US, Douglas Sirk, 1958) Summary: Looks at devices and style in two Douglas Sirk directed films: "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" and "All That Heaven Allows" More info

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