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Call No: 735.1 KUH
Author: Kuhn, Annette
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 308 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; UTOPIA IN FILMS; FANS; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ADAPTATIONS. WELLS, H.G.; VAN DAMME, JEAN-CLAUDE; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; CREED, BARBARA; TRUMBULL, DOUGLAS; JOHNNY MNEMONIC (US, Robert Longo, 1995); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); DEMOLITION MAN (US, Marco Brambilla, 1993); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Notes: Filmography: p. [276]-284; Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index
ISBN: 1859842593 (paper); 1859847463 (cloth)
LON: 20466609

Call No: 756.1-25 SAY
Author: Sayyad, Nezar Al
Source: UK/US
Place: New York : London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; CITIES IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); END OF VIOLENCE, THE (US/FR, Wim Wenders, 1997); FALLING DOWN (US, Joel Schumacher, 1993); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MANHATTAN (US, Wody Allan, 1979); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958); MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); SLIVER (US, Phillip Noyce, 1993); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998)
Summary: "Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema while arguing that urbanism cannot be understood outside the space of the celluloid city." "Nezar AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and reel through time and space via a series of films that represent different modernities. He contrasts the 'rational' European city of early twentieth-century industrial modernity as portrayed by Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (1927) with its American counterpart in Modern Times (1936). He illustrates the different forms of small town life and an urbanizing modernity across the Atlantic as exemplified by Cinema Paradiso (1989) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Using Metropolis (1927) and Brazil (1985), he shows how utopian ideals harbour within them their dystopian realities, while Jacques Tati's nostalgia for tradition in Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) reveals a cynical modernity and a rebelling against its idealism." "AlSayyad argues that the postmodern city of Blade Runner (1982) and Falling Down (1993) illustrates some of the urban outcomes of a globalizing economy. Turning to spectacle and surveillance, he examines Rear Window (1954), Sliver (1993), and The End of Violence (1997) as a voyeuristic modernity. To understand the city experienced by individuals of different social backgrounds, he takes Manhattan (1979), Annie Hall (1977), and Taxi Driver (1976), while Do the Right Thing (1989) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) are used to explore a modernity of race and ethnicity. Finally, he uses Pleasantville (1998) and The Truman Show (1998) to unpack the hyperreality of exurban postmodernity and to demonstrate how today the real and the reel have become mutually constitutive." "By considering how the real city and the reel city reference each other in an act of mutual representation and definition, this book advances the discussion on cinematic space and theories of the city."--BOOK BLURB.
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0415700493
Contents: -- about the author -- preface -- Introduction : the cinematic city and the quest for the modern -- 1. Industrial modernity : the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city -- 2. Urbanizing modernity : the traditional cinematic small town -- 3. Orwellian modernity : utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past -- 4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism -- 5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city -- 6. Voyeuristic modernity : the lens, the screen and the city -- 7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit : the city through different eyes -- 8. An alternative modernity : race, ethnicity and the urban experience -- 9. Exurban postmodernity : utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality -- epilogue -- illustration credits and sources -- selected bibliography -- index --

Call No: 756.1-25 MEN
Author: Mennel, Barbara
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: x, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS
Summary: "Cities and Cinema puts urban theory and cinema studies in dialogue. The book's first section analyzes three important genres of city films that follow in historical sequence, each associated with a particular city, moving from the city film of the Weimar Republic to the film noir associated with Los Angeles and the image of Paris in the cinema of the French New Wave. The second section discusses socio-historical themes of urban studies, beginning with the relationship of film industries and individual cities, continuing with the portrayal of war-torn and divided cities, and ending with the cinematic expression of utopia and dystopia in urban science fiction. The last section negotiates the question of identity and place in a global world, moving from the portrayal of ghettos and barrios to the city as a setting for gay and lesbian desire, to end with the representation of the global city in transnational cinematic practices." "The book suggests that modernity links urbanism and cinema. It accounts for the significant changes that city film has undergone through processes of globalization, during which the city has developed from an icon in national cinema to a privileged site for transnational cinematic practices. It is a key text for students and researchers of Film Studies, Urban Studies, and Cultural Studies."--BOOK JACKET.
ISBN: 978-0-415-36446-1
Contents: Introduction. The founding myth of cinema, or the "train effect" -- Introduction to Section I -- 1. Modernity and the city film: Berlin -- 2. The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles -- 3. The city of love: Paris -- Introduction to Section II -- 4. City film industry: Hong Kong -- 5. The city in ruins and the divided city: Berlin, Belfast, and Beirut -- 6. Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities -- Introduction to Section III -- 7. Ghettos and barrios -- 8. The city as queer playground -- 9. The global city and cities in globalization -- Conclusion: from the "train effect" to the "favela effect" - how to do further research.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS

Author: Ginnane, Tony
PhysDes: Article; Stills Credits
Subject: GINNANE, TONY; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CITIES IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Australian filmmaker Anthony Ginnane comments on the making of his film "We Are None of Us Perfect", on location in Melbourne in 1968.

Call No: 71(4) MAZ
Author: Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; CHELSOM, PETER; LUNGIN, PAVEL; MACHULSKI, JULIUSZ; MARTONE, MARIO; MICHELL, KEITH; MORTE DI UN MATEMATICO NAPOLE TANO [DEATH OF A NEAPOLITAN MATHEMATICIAN] (IT, Mario Martone, 1992); AMORE MOLESTO, L' (IT, Mario Martone, 1995); BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (UK, Jasmin Dizdar, 1999); BHAJI ON THE BEACH (UK, Gurinder Chadha, 1993); BYE-BYE (FR, Karim Dridi, 1995); FLOWER OF MY SECRET, THE [FLOR DE MI SECRETO, LA] (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1995); FUNNY BONES (US, Peter Chelsom, 1995); GIRL GUIDE (PL, Juliusz Machulski, 1995); KIKA (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1993); KILER (PL, Juliusz Machulski, 1997); LUNA PARK (RU/FR, Pavel Lungin, 1992); MARIUS ET JEANETTE (FR, Robert Guediguian, 1997); NENETTE ET BONI (FR, Claire Denis, 1996); NOTTING HILL (UK, Roger Michell, 1998); SLIDING DOORS (US, Peter Howitt, 1998); TAKSI-BLJUZ (UR/FR, Pavel Lungin, 1990); TEATRO DI GUERRA (IT, Mario Martone, 1998); TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996); TWIN TOWN (UK, Kevin Allen, 1997); WONDERLAND (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 1999)
Summary: Exploring the postmodern city in the context of European cinema.

Call No: 738(71) MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott
Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cm
Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS; NATURE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS. USA; CITIES IN FILMS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; GOTTHEIM, LARRY; COLE, THOMAS; MURPHY, J. J.; ANGER, KENNETH; MENKEN, MARIE; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE; BRAKHAGE, STAN; KELLER, MARJORIE; ROBERTSON, ANNE CHARLOTTE; LOWDER, ROSE; MANGOLTE, BABETTE; BENNING, JAMES; STONE, OLIVER; SPIRO, ELLEN; DEBONT, JAN; KUCHAR, GEORGE; BURCKHARDT, RUDY; WEEGEE; THOMPSON, FRANCIS; MENKEN, MARIE; HARRIS, HILARY; LEE, SPIKE; STAUFFACHER, FRANK; BAILLIE, BRUCE; RUDNICK, MICHAEL; GEHR, ERNIE; O'NEILL, PAT; MARTIN, EUGENE; MEKAS, JONAS; GREAVES, WILLIAM; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; HUOT, ROBERT; DORSKY, NATHANIEL; HUTTON, PETER; DASH, JULIE; FRANKLIN, CARL; CONNER, BRUCE; HERZOG, WERNER; LANZMANN, CLAUDE; STRAND, CHICK; NOREN, ANDREW; PIERCE, LEIGHTON; GATTEN, DAVID
Summary: "Explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualises his discussion with wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, painting and photography. Examining the representation of nature and landscape in particular, and location in general, MacDonald offers new readings of films under consideration as well as an expanded sense of modern film history."
Notes: Includes distribution sources for films and videos (in US), notes and index
ISBN: 0520227387

Call No: 756.1-25 GLO
Author: Andersson, Johan; Webb, Lawrence
Edition: 2016
Place: New York; Chichester, UK
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: vii, 262 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS; NIGERIA; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BOURNE IDENTITY, THE (US, Doug Liman, 2002); BOURNE LEGACY, THE (US, Tony Gilroy, 2012); BOURNE LEGACY, THE (US, Tony Gilroy, 2012); BOURNE ULTIMATUM, THE (US, Paul Greengrass, 2007); TOMORROW NEVER DIES (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1997); HER (US, Spike Jonze, 2013)
Notes: Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231177474
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Decentring the Cinematic City—Film and Media in the Digital Age Part 1: Transnational Screen Cities -- 1. In the City but Not Bounded by It: Cinema in the Global, the Generic and the Cluster City, by Thomas Elsaesser -- 2. Traversing the Øresund: the Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen, by Pei-Sze Chow -- 3. Neoliberalism, Nollywood, and Lagos, by Jonathan Haynes Part 2: Global City Imaginaries -- 4. New Urban and Media Ecologies in Contemporary Buenos Aires, by Joanna Page -- 5. When Harry Met Siri: Digital Romcom and the Global City in Spike Jonze's Her, by Lawrence Webb -- 6. Cinephilia and the City: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema, by Malini Guha -- Part 3: Public Screens and New Media Landscapes -- 7. Screen Cultures and the 'Generic City': Public Screens in Cairo and Shanghai, by Chris Berry -- 8. The City as Found Footage: the Reassemblage of Chinese Urban Space, by Yomi Braester -- 9. Remediating the 'Other Half': Planet Slum as Transmedia Project, by Igor Krstic Part 4: New Narrative Topographies -- 10. Interstitial Cityspace and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary French Cinema, by William Higbee -- 11. Seoul, Busan and Somewhere Near: Korean Gangster Noir and Social Immobility, by Jinhee Choi -- 12. Chase Sequences and Transport Infrastructure in Global Hollywood Spy Films, by Christian B. Long Index

Call No: 741.9 FRA
Author: Fraser, George MacDonald
Source: US
Place: London
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: xix, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; RELIGIOUS FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; WESTERNS
Summary: The book looks at the history of mankind, divided into seven stages ranging from the Creation to the Vietnam war, and attempts to compare historical fact with the way history is presented by Hollywood, and shows where Hollywood got it right and where it got it wrong.
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0718129970
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: Introduction -- First age: the ancient world -- Second age: knights and barbarians -- Third age: Tudors and sea-dogs -- Fourth age: romance and royalty -- Fifth age: rule Britannia -- Sixth age: new world, old west -- Seventh age: the violent century -- References -- Index

Call No: 71(94) OXF REF
Author: Mayer, Geoff; McFarlane, Brian, 1934; Bertrand, Ina, 1939
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 1 v
Subject: AUSTRALIA; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FOOD IN FILMS; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; JEWS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PERIODICALS, FILM. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA; MUSIC, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WAR AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MCCALLUM, JOHN; MILLER, NATALIE; NEVIN, ROBYN; RABE, PAMELA; RUSH, GEOFFREY; TINGWELL, CHARLES (BUD); WILLIAMSON, DAVID; WITHERS, GOOGIE
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography
ISBN: 0195537971
LON: 20072774

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

Call No: 756.1-25 BAR
Author: Barber, Stephen
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Reaktion Books
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 208 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Series: Locations
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS
Summary: Explores the intricate relationship between film and the urban landscape, looking in particular the cinemas of Eurpoe and Japan. Looks at cities such as Lisbon, Tallinn, Berlin, and Toyko.
ISBN: 186189127X

Call No: 756.1-25 URB
Author: Penz, Franc¸ois; Lu, Andong.
CorpAuthor: University of Cambridge. Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication
Source: UK
Place: Bristol
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume." -- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781841504285
Contents: Introduction: What is urban cinematics? / Franc¸ois Penz and Andong Lu -- Part 1: City symphonies: montaged urban cinematic landscapes. Cine´-city strolls : imagery, form, language, and meaning of the city film / Helmut Weihsmann -- I am here, or, the art of getting lost : Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony / Patrik Sjo¨berg -- Get out of the car : a commentary / Thom Andersen -- Part 2: Cinematic urban archaeology. Aids to objectivity? : photography, film, and the new "science" of urbanism / Nicholas Bullock -- Which role for the cinema in a working-class city : the case of Saint-Etienne / Roger Odin -- A film of two cities : Sean Connery's Edinburgh / Murray Grigor -- Film as re-imaging the modern space / Mark Lewis -- Part 3: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape. Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken / Hing Tsang -- From maps of "progress" to crime maps (and back again?) : the plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film / Celia Dunne -- Night on Earth, urban wayfinding, and everyday life / Andrew Otway -- Part 4: The cinematic in the urban. Sleepwalking from New York to Miami / Alison Butler -- Film in our midst : city as cinematic archive / Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore -- Parkour vision / Layla Curtis -- Part 5: Cinematic urban design practice. Urban anagram : a bio-political reflection on cinema and city life / Maria Hellstro¨m Reimer -- Reconsidering cinematic mapping : halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping / Marc Boumeester -- Mapping urban space : moving image as a research tool / Wowo Ding -- The moving image of the city : expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity : intensive studio workshop on "Continuity of action in space" / Maureen Thomas -- Contributors

Author: Nolan, Petra
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919)
Summary: Explores "The sentimental bloke's" aesthetic and its rejection of the conventional positioning of the city as a site of either moral destitution or material plenty.

Call No: 756 (945) WOR
Author: Mitchell Neil (ed.)
Place: Bristol, UK
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 128 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm
Series: World film locations series
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE IN FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "Tracing cinematic depictions of life in Melbourne from the Victorian era to the present day, World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as an illuminating and visually rich guide to films set wholly or partially in one of Australia's most diverse and culturally important cities. In a series of short analyses of iconic scenes and longer essays focusing on key directors, recurring themes and notable locations, the contributors examine the city's relationship to cinema from a variety of angles. Covering everything from sporting dramas to representations of the outlaw Ned Kelly to the coming-of-age films of the 1980s and beyond, this accessible trip around the birthplace of Australian cinema validates Melbourne's reputation as a creative hotbed and reveals the true significance of the films and filmmakers associated with the city. Illustrated throughout with full-color film stills and photographs of the locations as they are now, World Film Locations:Melbourne also contains city maps for those wishing to explore Melbourne's cinematic streets with this volume's expert guidance" -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography
ISBN: 9781841506401
Contents: -- Maps/Scenes -- scenes 1-8: 1906-1970 -- scenes 9-16: 1973-1979 -- scenes 17-24: 1980-1986 -- scenes 25-32: 1986-1994 -- scenes 33-39: 1995-2002 -- scenes 40-46: 2005-2010 -- Essays -- Melbourne: city of imagination / Adrian Danks -- Melbourne studios / Deb Verhoeven -- Hardboiled Melbourne / Jack Sargeant -- a view from the west: the cinema of Ana Kokkinos / Lisa French -- sporting Melbourne: centre of a nation's obsession / Julian Buckeridge -- stanley's shadow: the central business district / Dean Brandum -- the world seems difficult: youth, Melbourne, cinema / Gem Blackwood -- resources -- contributors -- filmography --

Call No: 756(944) WOR
Source: UK/US
Place: Bristol -- Chicago
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: World Film Locations
Subject: AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs, beachside communities, and green outlying exurbs, Sydney offers many intriguing possibilities to filmmakers. World Film Locations: Sydney takes readers on a virtual tour of Sydney to explore how representations in movies have both played into and influenced how we think of these spaces and those that frequent them." -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9781783203628
Contents: -- Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-8: 1919-1974 -- Scenes 9-16: 1975-1981 -- Scenes 17-24: 1982-1986 -- Scenes 25-32: 1992-1999 -- Scenes 33-39: 1999-2005 -- Scenes 40-46: 2006-2011 -- Essays -- Sydney: city of the imagination / Tina Kaufman -- The man from England: Brian Trenchard-Smith / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- The world behind the Coke sign / Jack Sargeant -- Life's a beach... / Deb Verhoeven -- Sojourner Sydney: looking from the outside / Jane Mills -- The phantasm of the opera: the Sydney Opera House / Gemma Blackwood -- Ubu films: Sydney's underground radical culture 1965 - 1972 / Lisa French -- resources -- contributor bios -- filmography

Call No: 756(592.3) WOR
Source: UK
Place: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 122 pages ; col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm
Series: World film locations
Subject: WORLD CINEMA; SINGAPORE; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; LOCATION SHOOTING
Summary: "A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point, and a cultural hub where goods, inventions, and ideas are shared and traded. Though Singapore was home to a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, between independence in 1965 and the early 1990s, few movies were made in Singapore. A new era for cinema in the sovereign city-state started with the international recognition of Eric Khoo's first features, followed by a New Wave comprised of graduates from local film schools. In recent years the Singapore film industry has produced commercial successful fare, such as the horror movie The Maid, as well as more artistic films like Sandcastle, the first Singaporean film to be selected for International Critic's Week at Cannes, and Ilo Ilo, which won the Camera d'or at Cannes in 2013. Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travelers to a rich, but less known, international cinema." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes recommended further reading; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9781783203611
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-7 -- 1910-1958 -- Scenes 8-14 -- 1961-1966 -- Scenes 15-21 -- 1967-1990 -- Scenes 22-28 -- 1995-2002 -- Scenes 29-35 -- 2004-2009 -- Scenes 36-42 -- 2009-2013 -- Essays -- Singapore: City of the Imagination / Toh Hun Ping -- Malay Screen in a Predominantly Chinese Singapore / Yvonne Ng Uhde -- The Outsider's Singapore: A Brief History of 'Western' Film-makers' Expeditions in Singapore / Ben Slater -- A History of Saying No: Singapore International Film Festival and Censorship / Daniel Hui -- Eric Khoo / Silvia Wong -- The Cultural Materialism of Singapore in Jack Neo's Cinema / Stephen Teo -- A View of Public Housing in Singapore Cinema / Warren Sin

Call No: 756(495) WOR
Source: UK
Place: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 128 pages : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm
Series: World film locations
Subject: GREECE; CITIES IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; LOCATION SHOOTING
Summary: "A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital. World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens--popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs, and slums often represented in postwar neorealist films--and then on to garden cities and upper class suburbs, especially those preferred by the auteurs of the 1970s. Of course, no Grecian vacation would be complete without a visit to the sea, and summer resorts, hotels, and beaches near Athens are frequent backdrops for international productions. However, more recent economic strife has emptied city neigbourhoods, created urban violence, and caused an increase in riots in the Mediterranean city, and representations of this on film are juxtaposed with images of the eternal and idyllic city. Featuring both Greek and foreign productions from various genres and historical periods, World Film Locations: Athens ultimately works to establish connections between the various aethetics of dominant representations of Athens." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmography; Includes recommended further reading
ISBN: 9781783203598
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-8: 1924-1956 -- Scenes 9-16: 1956-1966 -- Scenes 17-24: 1968-1984 -- Scenes 25-32: 1982-2003 -- Scenes 33-39: 2005-2010 -- Scenes 40-46: 2011-2014 -- Essays -- Athens: City of the Imagination / Anna Poupou and Eirini Sifaki -- Open-air Cinemas in Post-war Athens / Dimitris Eleftheriotis -- Athens in Burning / Dimitris Papanikolaou -- Nikos Panayotopoulous's Athens: From Relic of Antiquity to Hipster Urban Refuge / Athena Kartalou -- Controversies of Space in Popular Greek Cinema (1950-70)" From the Courtyard to the Living Room / Angeliki Milonaki -- Dirtopia and Its Urban Subcultures: Cinematic Athens in the Post-dictatorship Era / Afroditi Nikolaidou and Anna Poupou -- Athens in the 1960s Greek Musical / Lydia Papadimitriou