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Call No: 730(94) AUS
Author: McWilliam, Kelly; Ryan, Mark David
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PhysDes: 248 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Rutledge advances in film studies
Subject: AUSTRALIA; GENRES; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; TEEN FILMS; WAR FILMS AUSTRALIA
Summary: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138603141
Contents: 1. Australian Film Genre Studies / Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam -- 2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema / Amanda Howell -- 3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century / Adrian Danks -- 4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International / Lesley Speed -- 5. New Australian Crime Drama / Greg Dolgopolov -- 6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies / Mark David Ryan -- 7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream / Liz Giuffre -- 8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie / Deborah Thomas -- 9. Courting the Romance / Kelly McWilliam -- 10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008 / Andrew James Couzens -- 11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film / Kelly McWilliam -- 12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers / Jonathan Rayner -- 13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia / Daniel Reynaud -- 14. Questioning the Australian Western / Grayson Cooke.

Call No: 761(04) BEY
Author: Warren, Charles, 1948
Place: Hanover, NH
Publisher: University Press of New England
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; DIRECTORS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; NEWSREELS; MEMORY IN FILMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; GENOCIDE IN FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); OPHULS, MARCEL; RESNAIS, ALAIN; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); VERTOV, DZIGA; MARKER, CHRIS; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972); GARDNER, ROBERT; MCELWEE, ROSS; ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Summary: "In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum on nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema verite, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who..., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss. Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All of the books essays provide deeply felt understandings of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and index
ISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11642141
Contents: Words of welcome / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction, with a brief history of nonfiction film / Charles Warren -- Death and the image / Jay Cantor -- Memory's movies / Patricia Hampl -- Eternal Verites / William Rothman -- The toil of thought: on several nonfiction films by women / Helene Keyssar -- The camera people / Eliot Weinberger -- The impulse to preserve / Robert Gardner -- You are there / Maureen Howard -- Earth and beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren -- In search of the centaur: the essay film / Phillip Lopate -- Vertov's cinematic transposition of reality / Vlada Petric -- Sorting facts; or, nineteen ways of looking at marker / Susan Howe

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS
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Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 03 MCB REF
Author: McBride, Joseph
Source: US
Place: Lincolnwood, Ill.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: xii, 307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: BEST FILMS; ACTORS; WORST FILMS; CRITICISM; AWARDS. ACADEMY; ANIMATED FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; ADAPTATIONS
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0809228912
LON: 13784374

Author: Christopher Bell
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; WELLES, ORSON; CINEMATOGRAPHY; TOLAND, GREGG
Summary: A film synopsis and brief overview of the film's production is followed by a discussion of the virtuosity in cinematography and the collaborative nature of the film. Article ends with a comparison of the film's subject and author.

Call No: 761 SPE
Author: Spence, Louise; Navarro, Vinicius
Source: US/UK
Place: New Brunswick, NJ
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: x, 281 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: AESTHETICS; AUTHORSHIP; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMMENTARY; CONSTRUCTIVISM; CONTINUITY; CINEMA-DIRECT; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; EDITING; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; INTERVIEWING; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS; LIGHTING; LOCATION SHOOTING; MEMORY IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; NON-FICTION FILMS; PALESTINE; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; SOUND; SOUND EQUIPMENT; THEORY; TRUTH IN FILMS; VOICE OVER; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI (CM/FR/G, Jean-Marie Téno, 1992); GOKUSHITEKI EROSU: RENKA 1974 (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1974); FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984); HALVING THE BONES (US, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, 1995); HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986); HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974); JOYCE AT 34 (US, Joyce Chopra, 1972); LESSONS OF DARKNESS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992); LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NEKAM ACHAT MISHTEY EYNAY (FR/IS, Avi Mograbi, 2005); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PRELUDE TO WAR (US, Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak, 1942); SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); TIES THAT BIND, THE (US, Su Friedrich, 1984); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966)
Summary: "Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naive concept of "reality"- for them, documentaries are sources of information. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions? Crafting truth illuminates the way these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of those choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction cinema. " -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9780813549033
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Authenticity -- Evidence -- Authority -- Responsibility -- Argument -- Dramatic stories, poetic and essay documentaries -- Editing -- Camerawork -- The profilmic -- Sounds / coauthored with Carl Lewis --index --
ID2: 90

Call No: 761(73) BLU
Author: Bluem, A. William
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Hastings House
PubDate: [1965]
PhysDes: 311 p. illus., ports. 24 cm
Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES. USA; JOURNALISM IN THE CINEMA; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; RADIO AND THE CINEMA; TELEVISION JOURNALISM; TELEVISION; TELEVISION. USA; TRUTH IN FILMS; WAR AND TV
Summary: "The documentary movement in American television is explored critically in this knowledgeable, and often controversial, book. Analyzed here are forms and functions of the television documentary; its heritage in other media (print, still photography, motion pictures, radio, living theatre); its major achievements; the people who have shaped it; the problems and the possibilities of its use in a free society." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Bibliography: p. 297-301
ISBN: 0803815271
LON: 646183 8085578
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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

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

Author: Hookham, John
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; SOUTH AFRICA IN FILMS; WORLD APART, A (UK, Chris Menges, 1988)
Summary: Hookham travelled to South Africa to shoot part of his autobiographical documentary. He discusses how "A world apart" works as an autobiographical film. He believes that autobiographical work must be truthful, comprehensible, reveal the social context and explore the private as well as public.

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; LIFE (US, Anton Corbijn, 2015)
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; DRAMAS; KINGSLEY, BEN; DEHAAN, DANE; PATTINSON, ROBERT; CORBIJN, ANTON; LIFE (US, Anton Corbijn, 2015)
Summary: A review of the film 'Life,' a biopic on the movie star James Dean and in particular his 1955 photoshoot with Life Magazine.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Author: Gardner, Geoffrey
PhysDes: Article
Subject: TWO THOUSAND WEEKS (AT, Tim Burstall, 1969); BURSTALL, TIM; AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS
Summary: Interview with Australian filmmaker Tim Burstall, concerning the making of his film "Two Thousand Weeks", and his views on the comparison between his autobiographical film and Fellini's "8 1/2" as well as the existence of a national cinema in Australia.

Author: Lane, Jim
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS
Summary: Article on the convergence of autobiographical films with autobiographical literature and theory in an American context.