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Call No: 451 (-01) (-055.52) BRU
Author: Bruzzi, Stella
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 217 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS. USA; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955); CAPE FEAR (US, J. Lee Thompson, 1961); KRAMER VS. KRAMER (US, Robert Benton, 1979); DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); THREE MEN AND A BABY (US, Leonard Niimoy, 1987); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); MAGNOLIA (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Summary: The father is one of the central figures of Hollywood narrative. Despite this, this is the first book to examine cinematic representations of the father. Brining Up Daddy offers a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad looking at important Hollywood fathers from World War II to the present and discusses films for a variety of genres. The book looks at films decade by decade and adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history. Key films include Since You Went Away, The Search, Rebel without a Cause, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Cape Fear, Kramer vs Kramer, Die Hard, Three Men and a Baby, Boyz n the Hood and Magnolia. In its treatment of the father this unique study discusses why the father is such a seminal character in so many narratives and what he has come to symbolise and represent. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 1844571106

Call No: 743 CON
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: CHRISTMAS IN FILMS; REMEMBER THE NIGHT (UK, Mitchell Leisen, 1939); SCROOGE (UK, Henry Edwards, 1935); CHRISTMAS CAROL, A (US, Edwin L. Marin, 1938); SCROOGE [CHRISTMAS CAROL, A] (US, Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951); SCROOGE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1970); CHRISTMAS CAROL, A (UK, Clive Donner, 1984); SCROOGED (US, Richard Donner, 1988); MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE (US, Brian Henson, 1992); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, THE (US, William Keighley, 1941); HOLIDAY INN (US, Mark Sandrich, 1942); CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE (UK, Harry Watt, 1941); TURKEY TIME (UK, Tom Walls, 1933); HOLLY AND THE IVY, THE (UK, George More O'Ferrall, 1953); CHEATERS, THE (US, Joe Kane, 1945); MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, Les Mayfield, 1994); MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, George Seaton, 1947); SANTA CLAUSE, THE (US, John Pasquin, 1994); ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS (US, John Cherry, 1988); SANTA CLAUSE: THE MOVIE (US, Jeannot Szwarc, 1985); GREMLINS (US, Joe Dante, 1984); SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (US, Charles E. Sellier Jr., 1984); SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART II (US, Lee Harry, 1987); TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (US, Harry Selick, 1993); CHRISTMAS STORY, A (US, Bob Clark, 1983); LETHAL WEAPON (US, Richard Donner, 1987); DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); DIE HARD 2 (US, Renny Harlin, 1990); HOME ALONE (US, Chris Columbus, 1990); HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (US, Chris Columbus, 1992); LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE (US, Renny Harlin, 1996); JINGLE ALL THE WAY (US, Brian Levant, 1996); MERLUSSE (FR, Marcel Pagnol, 1935); CHATEAU DE MA MERE, LE (FR, Yves Robert, 1990); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE, LA (FR, Etienne Chatiliez, 1988); ELISA (FR, Jean Becker, 1994); KARNAVALNAIA NOCH (UR, Eldar Ryazanov, 1956); IRONIYA SUDBY ILI S LYOGKIM PAROM (UR, Eldar Ryazanov, 1975); PLACIDO (SP, Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1961)
Summary: A look at depictions of Christmas across various national cinemas and genres throughout the 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Filmography: p. ([223]-232)
ISBN: 1860643973
Contents: -- God Bless Us, Every One: Movie Adaptations Of A Christmas Carol / James Chapman -- A Hollywood Carol's Wonderful Life / Jonathan Munby -- Dreaming Of Christmas: Hollywood And The Second World War / H. Mark Glancy -- Christmas Under Fire: The Wartime Christmas In Britain / Sarah Street -- Crisis At Christmas: Turkey Time, The Holly And The Ivy, The Cheaters / Jeffrey Richards -- Santa Claus: The Movie / Mark Connelly -- You Better Watch Out: Christmas In The Horror Film / Kim Newman -- 'Peace On Earth, Goodwill To All Men': The Depiction Of Christmas In Moden Hollywood Films / Rowana Agajanian -- Christmas In French Cinema / Guy Austin -- Father Frost On 31 December: Christmas And New Year In Soviet And Russian Cinema / Birgit Beumers -- Satirizing The Spanish Christmas: Placido / Peter William Evans

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit; Publicity
Subject: DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Stills; Clippings; Press kit
Subject: DIE HARD 2 (US, Renny Harlin, 1990)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DIE HARD 4.0 (US, Len Wiseman, 2007)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Stills; Clippings; Press kit
Subject: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (US, John McTiernan, 1995)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, A (US, John Moore, 2013)

Call No: 451-01(73) JEF
Author: Jeffords, Susan, 1953
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: Reagan, Ronald; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; MEN IN FILMS. USA; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA. USA; COLD WAR FILMS. USA; HERO IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA; BODY IN FILMS. USA; UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988); BACK TO THE FUTURE [...] (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1985-90); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (US, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991); CASUALITIES OF WAR (US, Brian De Palma, 1989); DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); FIRST BLOOD (US, Ted Kotcheff, 1982); KINDERGARTEN COP (US, Ivan Reitman, 1990); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); MISSISSIPPI BURNING (US, Alan Parker, 1988); RAMBO [...] (US, 1982-1988); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); TWINS (US, Ivan Reitman, 1988)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-208) and index
ISBN: 0813520029; 0813520037 (pbk.)
LON: 9874831

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