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African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900 - 1960 / Charlene Regester Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 802.27(73)-054(=96) REGAuthor: Regester, Charlene Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: xi, 405 p., 14 p. of plates : ill. 23 cmSubject: BLACK CINEMA. US ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; MADAME SUL-TE-WAN ; BEAVERS, LOUISE ; MCKINNEY, NINA MAE ; WASHINGTON, FREDI ; MCDANIEL, HATTIE ; HORNE, LENA ; SCOTT, HAZEL ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY ISBN: 9780253221926Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: Introduction -- Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility -- Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career -- Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference -- Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks -- Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin -- Lena Horne : actress and activist -- Hazel Scott : resistance to othering -- Ethel Waters : personification of otherness -- Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real -- Conclusion
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American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image / edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr New York: Ungar, c1979.
Call No: 409(73) AMEAuthor: O'Connor, John E ; Jackson, Martin A Place: New YorkPublisher: UngarPubDate: c1979PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935) ; SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920) ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943) ; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95LON: 1282547
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American independent cinema : a sight and sound reader / edited by Jim Hillier London: British Film Institute, 2001.
Call No: 71(73) AMEAuthor: Hillier, Jim Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2001PhysDes: xvii, 283 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: USA ; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; WARHOL, ANDY ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACK FILMMAKERS. US ; DASH, JULIE ; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991) ; RIGGS, MARLON ; TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989) ; CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994) ; FRIDAY (US, F. Gary Gray, 1995) ; CLOCKERS (US, Spike Lee, 1995) ; LEE, SPIKE ; GIRL SIX (US, Spike Lee, 1996) ; GET ON THE BUS (US, Spike Lee, 1996) ; SLAM (US, Marc Levin, 1998) ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; POISON (US, Todd Haynes, 1991) ; MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991) ; VAN SANT, GUS ; SWOON (US, Tom Kalin, 1992) ; GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994) ; TOTALLY F***ED UP (US, Gregg Araki, 1993) ; HAYNES, TODD ; SAFE (US, Todd Haynes, 1995) ; DOOM GENERATION, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1995) ; PEIRCE, KIMBERLY ; BOYS DON'T CRY (US, Kimberly Peirce, 1999) ; JARMUSCH, JIM ; NIGHT ON EARTH (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1991) ; SLACKER (US, Richard Linklater, 1990) ; SURE FIRE (US, Jon Jost, 1990) ; LINKLATER, RICHARD ; BEFORE SUNRISE (US, Richard Linklater, 1995) ; LIVING IN OBLIVION (US, Tom DiCillo, 1995) ; WALKING AND TALKING (US, Nicole Holofcener, 1996) ; HARTLEY, HAL ; HENRY FOOL (US, Hal Hartley, 1997) ; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998) ; GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1999) ; TIMECODE (US, Mike Figgis, 2000) ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993) ; ANDERSON, PAUL THOMAS ; BOOGIE NIGHTS (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997) ; MAGNOLIA (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) ; FERRARA, ABEL ; BAD LIEUTENANT (US, Abel Ferrara, 1992) ; BLACKOUT, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1997) ; ADDICTION, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1995) ; FUNERAL, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1996) ; JONZE, SPIKE ; BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999) ; KORINE, HARMONY ; GUMMO (US, Harmony Korine, 1997) ; JULIEN DONKEY-BOY (US, Harmony Korine, 1999) ; LYNCH, DAVID ; TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992) ; LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996) ; SAYLES, JOHN ; CITY OF HOPE (US, John Sayles, 1991) ; LONE STAR (US, John Sayles, 1996) ; LIMBO (US, John Sayles, 1999) ; HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (US, John McNaughton, 1986) ; ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991) ; BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993) ; EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (US, Gus Van Sant, 1993) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; Tarantino, Quentin ; USUAL SUSPECTS, THE (US, Bryan Singer, 1995) ; BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996) ; NORMAL LIFE (US, John McNaughton, 1996) ; THIS WORLD, THEN THE FIREWORKS (US, Michael Oblowitz, 1997) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; BIG LEBOWSKI, THE (US, Joel Coen, 1998) ; OUT OF SIGHT (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1998) ; LIMEY, THE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1999) ; SODERBERGH, STEVEN ; HANGIN' WITH THE HOMEBOYS (US, Joseph B. Vasquez, 1991) ; JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. (US, Leslie Harris, 1992) ISBN: 0851707580 : ¦40.00; 0851707599(pbk.) : ¦12.99LON: 20980358
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Baz Luhrmann's Australia reviewed in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.2 p.93-96
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The best American movie writing 1999 / edited by Peter Bogdanovich New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
Call No: 67(04) BESPlace: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin'sPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 280 p.Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; BOORMAN, JOHN ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; SINATRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; THOMPSON, KAY ; YASUJIRO OZU ; MANGOLD, JAMES ; RISKIN, ROBERT ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; MCCAREY, LEO ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDAL, GORE ; DOVE, BILLIE ; GRANT, CARY ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) ; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998) ; RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998) ; STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) ISBN: 0312244832ID2: 291
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Black cinema / The Black Filmmaker Foundation [New York]: Black Filmmaker Foundation, copyright 1982.
Call No: 027 BLAAuthor: Black Filmmaker Foundation Edition: second editionSource: USPlace: [New York]Publisher: Black Filmmaker FoundationPubDate: copyright 1982PhysDes: 62 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmSubject: BLACK FILMMAKER FOUNDATION ; BLACK FILMMAKERS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS Summary: "The Black Filmmaker Foundation is pleased to present the second edition of its catalogue of film and video works by black independent producers. This edition represents an expansion in the number of titles, subject areas, film and video makers. These works represent the black experience in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and England." - INTRODUCTIONNotes: Includes index pages 60-61Contents: Fiction films -- Documentary films -- Animation and experimental -- Videp
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Black film, British cinema London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1988.
Call No: 451-054(=9) BLACorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)Place: LondonPublisher: Institute of Contemporary ArtsPubDate: 1988PhysDes: 62 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSeries: ICA documents ; 7Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. UK ; BLACK CINEMA. UK ; BLACK FILMMAKERS. UK ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. UK ; ASIANS IN FILMS. UK ; BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE ; SANKOVA FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTIVE ; CHANNEL FOUR ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985) ; PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE, THE (UK, Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien, 1986) Notes: Papers originally presented at a day conference, conducted at ICA, Feb. 1988; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0905263960LON: 6631335
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Blacks in American films : Today and yesterday / by Edward Mapp Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
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Blacks in black and white : a source book on Black films / by Henry T. Sampson Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
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Blacks in the cinema : the changing image London: British Film Institute (Education Department), 1971.
Call No: 451-054(=9) PINAuthor: Pines, Jim Place: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute (Education Department)PubDate: 1971PhysDes: [1], 24 p. ; 31 cmSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA Notes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0851700136LON: 74865044; 376170
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Blaxploitation films / Mikel J Koven Harpenden, Herts, UK: Kamera Books, 2010.
Call No: 722.81 (=9) KOVAuthor: Koven, Mikel J Source: UKPlace: Harpenden, Herts, UKPublisher: Kamera BooksPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 160 p., [8] p. of col. plates : col. ill., ports ; 20 cmSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS Summary: In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, R 'n' B, and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros; and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across the screen. An antidote to the sanitized "safe" images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby presented to America, these films depicted a reality about the world which African-American audiences could identify with, even if the stories themselves were pure fantasy. This guide reviews and discusses more than 60 Blaxploitation films, considering them from the perspectives of class and racial rebellion, genre, and Stickin' it to the Man. Subgenres covered include Blaxploitation horror films, kung-fu movies, westerns, and parodiesNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781842433348
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Camera politica : the politics and ideology of contemporary Hollywood film / by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Call No: 409(73) RYACopy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2Author: Ryan, Michael, 1951 ; Kellner, Douglas, 1943 Place: Bloomington, Ind.Publisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: DISASTERS IN FILMS. USA ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; SOUTH IN FILMS. USA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; BUDDY FILMS. USA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FANTASY FILMS. USA ; UTOPIA IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CONSPIRACY FILMS. USA ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; BORDEN, LIZZIE ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; Peckinpah, Sam ; Reagan, Ronald ; ROMERO, GEORGE ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; HOOPER, TOBE ; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM ; BROOKS, JAMES L. ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; MILIUS, JOHN ; PAKULA, ALAN J. ; SCOTT, RIDLEY ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (US, Mike Nichols, 1971) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; DEATH WISH (US, Michael Winner, 1974) ; DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978) ; DRESSED TO KILL (US, Brian De Palma, 1980) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (US, James L. Brooks, 1983) ; UNDER FIRE (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1983) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 321-324ISBN: 0253313341LON: 5193671
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The celluloid South : Hollywood and the southern myth / by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
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Church and cinema : a way of viewing film / by James M. Wall Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1971.
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Cinema of outsiders : the rise of American independent film / Emanuel Levy New York: New York University Press, c1999.
Call No: 71(73) LEVAuthor: Levy, Emanuel, 1947 Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New York University PressPubDate: c1999PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; OUTSIDERS IN FILMS ; MEN IN FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; COMEDIES. USA ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE ; ARAKI, GREGG ; NUNEZ, VICTOR ; BROOKS, ALBERT ; SMITH, KEVIN ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; FERRARA, ABEL ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; HARTLEY, HAL ; HAYNES, TODD ; JARMUSCH, JIM ; JOST, JON ; LEE, SPIKE ; LINKLATER, RICHARD ; LYNCH, DAVID ; MAMET, DAVID ; NAIR, MIRA ; SAYLES, JOHN ; CASSAVETES, NICK ; SODERBERGH, STEVEN ; SOLONDZ, TODD ; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989) ; BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984) ; BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991) ; IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (US, Neil Labute, 1997) ; GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992) ; MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973) Summary: "Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and indexISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper)LON: 20253533
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Clara Law's Floating Life and Australian identity in Metro (1997) iss.110 p.3-6
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Coming-of-age tale in a gritty LA in Sunday Age [M Magazine] (16/08/2015) p.15
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Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998.
Call No: 71(73) CONAuthor: Neale, Stephen ; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1998PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: USA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; DISTRIBUTION. USA ; EXHIBITION. USA ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; MEN IN FILMS. USA ; MELODRAMA ; MUSIC, FILM ; SOUND TRACKS ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; BLACK CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR ; ACTION FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; MIRAMAX FILMS ; NEW LINE CINEMA ; TIME WARNER ; VERHOEVEN, PAUL ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; HAMILTON, LINDA ; MCDORMAND, FRANCES ; ELFMAN, DANNY ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) ; LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and indexISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.)LON: 98005952; 13736490
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The devil finds work : an essay / James Baldwin New York: Vintage, 2011.
Call No: 744.6(73) BALAuthor: Baldwin, James Edition: 2011Place: New YorkPublisher: VintagePubDate: 2011PhysDes: 127 pages ; 21 cmSubject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; WELLES, ORSON ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; DEFIANT ONES, THE (US, Stanley Kramer, 1958) ; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (US, Stanley Kramer, 1967) ; CHE! (US, Richard Fleischer, 1969) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) Summary: From “the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness.
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering a look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin considers such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.
Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained and shaped us. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780307275950
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Diasporas of Australian cinema / edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert Bristol: Intellect, 2009. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 408.3 DIASource: UKPlace: BristolPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2009PhysDes: 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007) ; SILVER CITY (AT, Sophia Turkiewicz, 1984) ; BIRTHDAY BOY (AT, Sejong Park, 2004) Summary: Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume of essays to focus on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian film-making over the past century. Topics include, post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, 'wogsploitation' comedy, and post-ethnic cinema. This collection also provides a comprehensive filmography making it a useful reference text for scholars of Australian film and cultural studies. The book is a vital contribution to the burgeoning international body of critical work on diasporic cinemas --CoverNotes: Catherine Simpson and Renata Murawska are lecturers in the department of media at Macquarie University in Sydney. Anthony Lambert is a lecturer in the department of critical and cultural studies at Macquarie University.; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781841501970Contents: Preface -- Diasporas of Australian cinema - a provocation: Toby Miller; Part one: Theories -- Introduction: rethinking diasporas - Australian cinema, history and society: Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert -- Tinkering at the borders: lucky miles and the diasporic (no) road movie: Catherine Simpson -- Ethics and risk in Asian-Australian cinema: 'The Last Chip': Audrey Yue -- 'I'm falling in your love': cross-cultural romance and the refugee film: Sonia Magdelena Tascon -- White aborigines: women, space mimicry and mobility: Anthony Lambert; Part two: Representations -- Wogboy comedies and the Australian national type: Felicity Collins -- Excess in Oz: the crazy Russian and the quiet Australian: Greg Dolgopolov -- Anzac's 'others': 'cruel Huns' and 'noble Turks': Antje Gnida and Catherine Simpson -- 'Now you blokes own the place': representations of Japanese culture in recent Australian cinema: Rebecca Coyle -- Other shorelines, or the Greek-Australian cinema: John Conomos; Part three: Film-makers -- 'A European heart': Exile, isolation and interiority in the life and films of Paul Cox: Marek Haltof -- Sophia Turkiewicz: Australianizing Poles, or 'bloody nuts and balts' in Silver City (1984): Renata Murawska -- Lebanese Muslims speak back: two films by Tom Zubrycki: Susia Khamis -- Sejong Park's Birthday Boy and Korean-Australian encounters: Ben Goldsmith and Brian Yecies -- Diasporic filmography: Garry Gillard and Anthony LambertURL status: URL: 'https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=457082'
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Divided lenses : screen memories of war in East Asia / edited by Michael Berry and Chiho Sawada Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.
Call No: 737(5-012) DIVSource: USPlace: HonoluluPublisher: University of Hawai'i PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: WAR AND THE CINEMA ; WAR FILMS ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. JAPAN ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. CHINA ; KOREAN WAR FILMS ; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR FILMS ; TAIWAN ; MANGA ; VIDEO GAMES ; COMPUTER GAMES ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; [TWO THOUSAND AND NINE] 2009: LOST MEMORIES [2009 IOSEUTEU MAEMORIJEU] (KO, Si-myung Lee, 2002) ; BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS [NU JIZHONGYING] (HK, Kuei Chih-Hung, 1973) ; CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/CC/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007) ; FRIENDS (JP/KO, 2002) ; SCARLET ROSE: THE GODDESSES OF JINLING [XUESE MEIGUI: JINLING NUSHEN] [TV](CC, Yu Liqing, 2007) Summary: Exploring how the years of 1931-1953 have been recreated and negotiated in cinema. This period saw conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War and events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bomibings of Hiroshina and Nagasaki. The films relating to the experiences of the countries China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and other Far East countries, as well as the United States of America are examined. - partially taken from coverNotes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305), filmography, television and video game lists (pages 281-290) and indexISBN: 9780824851514Donation: donated by Senses of CinemaContents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Divided Lenses / Michael Berry -- Part I : screen histories of war in East Asia -- War, history, and remembrance in Chinese cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of female spies and national heroes : a brief history of anti-Japanese films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The "division blockbuster" in South Korea: the evolution of cinematic representations of war and division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under the flag of the rising sun: imagining and reimagining the Pacific war in the Japanese cinema / David Desser -- Japanese manga and anime on the Asia-Pacific war experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity and change in Hollywood's representations of American-Asian relations in war and peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Part II : reading war trauma -- Oscillating histories : representations of comfort women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting the enemy : photographic attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War and nationalism in recent Japanese cinema : Yamato, trauma, and forgetting the postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The promise and limits of "pop culture diplomacy" in East Asia : contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History and its alternatives : war games as social form / Eric Hayot
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Feature films as history / edited by K.R.M. Short London: Croom Helm, c1981.
Call No: 45:93 SHOAuthor: Short, K. R. M. (Kenneth R. M.) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Croom HelmPubDate: c1981PhysDes: 192 p. ; 23cmSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; CENSORSHIP. UK ; CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947) ; FRANCE ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; GERMANY ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; JEWS IN FILMS. USA ; RENOIR, JEAN ; UNITED KINGDOM ; USSR ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. Notes: Historical sources: Cinema films (BNB/PRECIS); Includes indexISBN: 0709904592 : ª9.95 : CIP revLON: 2012107
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Feminism and film / Maggie Humm Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
Call No: 626:396 HUMAuthor: Humm, Maggie Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 246 p. ; 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; MULVEY, LAURA ; KUHN, ANNETTE ; KAPLAN, E. ANN ; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; ROSE, JACQUELINE ; WOOLF, VIRGINIA ; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991) ; DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ISBN: 0748609008Order Received: 1998LON: abn97233530; 13317515
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Feminism without women : culture and criticism in a "postfeminist" age / Tania Modleski New York: Routledge, 1991.
Call No: 626:396 MODAuthor: Modleski, Tania, 1949 Place: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1991PhysDes: xi, 188 p. ; 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; MEN IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; BODY IN FILMS Summary: Feminism Without Women examines the operation of "postfeminism" in popular culture, especially popular film, and in cultural studies. By scrutinizing a variety of feminist and poststructuralist theoretical positions and freqently juxtaposing her discussions with analyses of contemporary movies (ranging from Pee-wee's Big Adventure to Lethal Weapon and Three Men and a Baby ), Modleski offers a broad perspective on the future of feminism. In particular, she shows how women as social subjects are once again being relegated to the margins of discourse and society, only now, ironically, they are in danger of being marginalized by feminism itself . Feminism Without Women is a multifaceted response to the shift within feminist theory from "gynocritics" (a woman-centred critical practice) to an increasingly male-oriented "gender studies". This move has been accompanied by feminist/philosophical attempts to abolish the very category of "woman". A large portion of the book is devoted to analyzing the state of "male feminism" and argues that the "new masculinities" being heralded by some feminists are less revolutionary than is often claimed; that these kinder , gentler masculinit are in many ways perfectly consonant with the conservative times. Modleski situates her discussions of criticism and theory in the context of popular culture, and social issues relevant to feminism: surrogate mothering, women and war, the debates over pornography, gay representation in the era of AIDS, the controversy within feminism over lesbian S&M, and the intensification of racism in the 1980s and 1990s. -- PUBLISHERNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-182) and indexISBN: 0415904161 : $39.95; 041590417X (pbk) : $13.95LON: bnb41590416; 7924353Contents: Part I: Theory and methodology -- 1. Postmortem on postfeminism -- 2. Femininity as mas(s)querade -- 3. Some functions of feminist criticism; or, the scandal of the mute body -- Part II: Masculinity and male feminism -- 4. A father is being beaten: male feminism and the war films -- 5. Three men and baby m -- 6. The incredible shrinking he(r)man: male regression, the male body, and film -- Part III: Race, gender, and sexuality -- 7. Cinema and the dark continent: race and gender in popular film -- 8. Lethal bodies: thoughts on sex, gender, and representation from the mainstream to the marginsID2: 31
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Film at the intersection of high and mass culture / Paul Coates Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Call No: 408 COAAuthor: Coates, Paul, 1953 Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 201 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; FILM NOIR ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; STARS ; GENRES ; HORROR FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; FRANJU, GEORGES ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; LANG, FRITZ ; LEE, SPIKE ; MADONNA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; POTTER, DENNIS ; BEDROOM WINDOW, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1986) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963) ; MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962) ; AUFZEICHNUNGEN ZU KLEIDERN UND STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1989) ; OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) ; ROCKY IV (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1985) ; OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) ; SOLARIS (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) ; WESELE (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1972) ; DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-194) and indexISBN: 0521444721 (hardback)LON: 10419843
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Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 64GEN FILAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENRES ; WESTERNS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; DISASTER FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; CANADA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SEMIOLOGY ; STRUCTURALISM ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; FORD, JOHN ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; CHANDLER, RAYMOND ; FRYE, NORTHROP ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949) ; YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957) ; VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and indexISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11563059
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Films vs real life : communicating Aboriginality in cinema and television in UTS Review (May 1997) vol.3 iss.1 p.160-182
Author: McKee, Alan PhysDes: Article; BibliographySubject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV. AUSTRALIA ; GRANT, STAN ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; BLACKFELLAS (AT, James Ricketson, 1992) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; REAL LIFE [TV] (AT, 1988) Summary: The article suggests that while the medium of film has tended to search for an Aboriginality which looks 'right', television allows the racial identity of indigenous Australians to be understood in other ways.
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From Madea to media mogul : theorizing Tyler Perry / edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre ; foreword by Eric Pierson Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Call No: 81PER FROAuthor: Russworm, TreaAndrea M. (editor) ; Sheppard, Samantha N. (editor) ; Bowdre, Karen M. (editor) Source: USPlace: Jackson, MississippiPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xxxiv, 255 pages ; 24 cmSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; CRITICISM ; PERRY, TYLER Summary: "For over a decade Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as Madea, a self-proclaimed "mad black woman," not afraid to brandish a gun or a scalding pot of grits. But to others who watch the film industry, he is the businessman who by age thirty-six had sold more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos, $20 million in merchandise, and was producing 300 projects each year viewed by 35,000 every week. Is the commercially successful African American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer "malt liquor for the masses," an "embarrassment to the race," or is he a genius who has directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas, or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social satires? Do Perry's flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional tales that affirm the notion of a "post-racial" society? This volume makes the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. The essays challenge value-judgment criticism and offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work"-- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781496820174Contents: -- foreword - centrality / Eric Pierson -- acknowledgments -- introduction - respectability -- Media Studies Has Ninety-Nine Problems ... But Tyler Perry Ain't One of Them? / TreaAndrea M Russworm -- ch 1 Platforms -- "Tyler Perry Presents ...": The Cultural Projects, Partnerships, and Politics of Perry's Media Platforms / Samantha N Sheppard -- ch 2 Chitlin -- From the Margins to Center Stage: Tyler Perry's Popular African American Theatre / Rashida Z Shaw -- ch 3 Gospel -- Tyler Perry, T D Jakes, and the Birth of Gospel Cinema / Keith Corson -- ch 4 Affect -- Worship at the Altar of Perry: Spectatorship and the Aesthetics of Testimony / Brandeise Monk-Payton -- ch 5 Cinephilia -- "All My Life I Had to Fight": Domestic Trauma and Cinephilia in Tyler Perry's Archive of Feelings / Ben Raphael Sher -- ch 6 Disguise -- "Who I Am Is Conflicting with This Dress I Got On": Madea's Intimate Public and the Possibilities and Limitations of False Disguise / Rachel Jessica Daniel -- ch 7 Niche -- One Man Hollywood: The Decline of Black Creative Production in Post-Network Television / Aymar Jean Christian and Khadijah Costley White -- ch 8 Thirst -- Bring the Payne: The Erasure of the Black Sitcom and the Emergence of Tyler Perry's House of Payne / Artel Great -- ch 9 Exceptionalism -- Spike and Tyler's Beef: Blackness, Authenticity, and Discourses of Black Exceptionalism / Karen M Bowdre -- ch 10 Mogul -- The Case for Calling George Lucas the "White Tyler Perry" / Paul N Reinsch -- ch 11 Rebrand -- To Brand and Rebrand: Questioning the Futurity of Tyler Perry / Leah Aldridge -- epilgue Madea - Playing with the Changes / Miriam J Petty -- contributors -- index --
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Genre, gender, race and world cinema : an anthology / Edited by Julie F. Codell Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 62(082) GENAuthor: Codell, Julie F. Source: USPlace: Malden, MassachusettsPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cmSubject: BOLLYWOOD ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FILM NOIR ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; WORLD CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IRAN ; MELODRAMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; KAIGE, CHEN ; NAIR, MIRA ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ; HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993) ; INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
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TODO SOBRE MI MADRE ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000) Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."ISBN: 1405132337Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements
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Giorgio Mangiamele : cinematographer of the Italian migrant experience / by Raffaele Lampugnani Ballan, Vic: Connor Court Publishing, 2012.
Call No: 81MAN LAMAuthor: Lampugnani, Raffaele Source: ATPlace: Ballan, VicPublisher: Connor Court PublishingPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 196 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MIGRATION ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO ; CONTRATTO, IL (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1953) Summary: "Giorgio Mangiamele is without doubt one of the most interesting and artistically gifted filmmakers in contemporary Australian cinema, even though his ideas and talent were often hampered in a technical sense by material and financial circumstances; he is absolutely crucial as representative of the post-war Italian migration experience in Australia. His oeuvre has received considerable critical attention recently but a serious, organic, critical analysis has been hampered by misconceptions about his marginal position with respect to mainstream production and the typcasting of the author as a "migrant" cinematographer. This study has sought to bridge the prejudical divide between the diasporic context and the artistic value, talent and intentions of the filmmaker. Underpinning this argument with Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical framework of "minor" literatures, it is suggest that Mangiamele's diasporic cinematic production did have an influence on mainstream cinema and society, in the sense that "minor no longer designates specific literatures but the revolutionary conditions for every literature within the heart of what is called great (or established) literature" (Kafka, 18). In order to elucidate Mangiamele's acuity, and cinematographic talent and human observational skills, a socio-historical and cultural framing for his oeuvre is provided confirming the author's crucial importance for the post-war period, his highly individual style and work imbued with ethical and moral principles as well as compassion and humanistic concerns." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 9781921421631Contents: -- main abbreviations -- introduction -- 1. migrant bricoleur or influental pioneer? The Deleuzian theory of 'minor literature' as a critical tool to frame Giorgio Mangiamele's cinematic production -- 2. migrant bricoleur, neorealist imitator, scholar, or gifted artist? who is really behind (or in front of) the camera? -- 3. the mise-en-scene of history and of diasporic reality in Mangiamele's first film, Il contratto -- 4. Mangiamele, cinematographer of enduring perceptions of southern Italian migrant backwardness -- 5. constructing a filmic discourse on Italian canonical intertextual references -- 6. a 'nosographic' reading of Mangiamele's ambivalent emotional and psychological relationship with host society, depicting states and feelings of dislocation and banishment -- 7. observing and depicting human behaviour to restore dignity in society: the social mise e scene and social performance in Mangiamele's early films -- conclusion -- bibliography -- filmography -- appendix --
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Head on: multicultural representations of Australian identity in 1990s national cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.61-78
Author: Bennett, James PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; STRICTLY BALLROOM (AT, Baz Luhrmann, 1992) ; HEAD ON (AT, Ana Kokkinos, 1998) Summary: ...1990s Australian cinema provides a key site for the examination of Australian identity in multicultural terms. Drawing on the work of Ghassan Hage, Stuart Hall and Daniel Nourry, this article investigates how notions of Australian identity in a multicultural society are played out (and with) by Australian cinema in the 1990s. Particular attention is paid to Head on (Kokkinos, 1998) and Strictly ballroom (Lurhmann, 1992), as examples of different approaches to this issue. -- Taken from Abstract
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Heavenly bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer London: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 465.1 DYEAuthor: Dyer, Richard Edition: second editionSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 210 p. ; 24 cmSubject: SEX IN FILMS ; STARS ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; MONROE, MARILYN ; ROBESON, PAUL ; GARLAND, JUDY Summary: Focusing on the lives and careers of three of the biggest names in Hollywood history – Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland – Dyer details how their screen image was constructed. Through subtle readings of their films and wealth of background material, he goes on to survey the development of each star’s image in relation to particular social groups. Monroe is discussed in the context of 1950s sexuality and the image of woman; Robeson in terms of black identity and different white and black perceptions of it; and Garland as a gay icon. All three are set in the wider context of the social significance of the very idea of stardom.ISBN: 041531027X
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Heavenly Bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1986.
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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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Hollywood spectatorship : changing perceptions of cinema audiences / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 410 HOLAuthor: Maltby, Richard, 1952 ; Stokes, Melvyn CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: 240p. ; 24 cmSubject: AUDIENCES ; SPECTATORSHIP ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959) ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; CINEPHILIA ISBN: 0851708110; 0851708102(pbk.) : ¦15.99LON: 21774778
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Humor in Middle Eastern cinema / edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2014.
Call No: 732(5-011) HUMAuthor: Revi, Gayatri (ed.) ; Rahman, Najat (ed.) Source: USPlace: DetroitPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: c2014PhysDes: 282 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and mediaSubject: AFGHANISTAN ; ARAB COUNTRIES ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; BOLLYWOOD ; CENSORSHIP ; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US ; EGYPT ; HUMOUR IN FILMS ; INDIA ; IRAN ; IRAQ ; ISRAEL ; IRONY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; PALESTINE ; POLITICAL FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; SATIRE IN FILMS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; PAKISTAN ; CHAHINE, YOUSSEF ; DHOUIB, MONCEF ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; ZARHIN, SHEMI ; AMERIKALI (TU, Serif Gören, 1993) ; BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD (IR/FR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) ; DIVINE INTERVENTION (FR/MR/G/PA, Elia Suleiman, 2002) ; ALEXANDRIA... WHY? [ISKANDARIYA....LEEH?] (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; ALEXANDRIA... WHY? [ISKANDARIYA....LEEH?] (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; TELE ARRIVE, LA (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) ; TERE BIN LADEN (II, Abhishek Sharma, 2010) ; TV IS COMING, THE (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) Summary: "While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent—including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an “emancipatory,” “liberatory,” even “revolutionary” function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region’s masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan. This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema." -- GOOGLE BOOKSNotes: Contains bibliography and filmography -- contains index -- contains list of contributorsISBN: 9780814339374Contents: Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman -- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's TV Is Coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehran Modiri: space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic meditations: war and genre in The Outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny: humor and anti-americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta
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In darkest Hollywood : exploring the jungles of cinema's South Africa / Peter Davis Randburg: Ravan, 1996.
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Irish and African American Cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Call No: 451-054(=1 .415/.73) PRAAuthor: Pramaggiore, Maria Source: USPlace: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: ix, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; WHITES IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. IRELAND ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; THEORY ; LEE, SPIKE ; JORDAN, NEIL Summary: "Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and indexISBN: 9780791470954Contents: Ch. 1. Identifying others -- Ch. 2. Sampling blackness : music and identification in the films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- Ch. 3. "It's a wise child that knows his own father" : pregnant performances and maternal mythologies -- Ch. 4. Culturing violence : masculine identification in Irish and African American gangster films -- Ch. 5. "Both sides of the epic" : identification and the nonessentialist Western -- Conclusion : film identification and postmodern identity politics.
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Issues in feminist film criticism / edited by Patricia Erens Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Call No: 626:396 EREAuthor: Erens, Patricia, 1938 Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1990PhysDes: xxvi, 450 p. : 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "Issues in Feminist Film Criticism brings together a wide variety of theoretical writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the last decade and beyond.
Among the subjects treated are images of women on the screen; questions of film realism; the notion of counter-cinema; the concept of "reading against the grain"; the use of psychoanalytic theories; concerns over female spectatorship; women's place in specific genres, especially film melodrama; and issues related to the representations of lesbians and women of color." -- BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-438) and indexISBN: 0253319641 (alk. paper); 0253206103 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 89046336; 7125665
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L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.
Call No: 82LAR LARSource: USPlace: Oakland, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; LOS ANGELES IN FILMS ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACK CINEMA ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; L.A. REBELLION Summary: "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisherNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index -- Filmography: pages (pages 355-402)ISBN: 9780520284685Contents: Preface : Once upon a time in the West...L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor -- Introduction : Emancipating the image : the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers -- Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Threads and nets : the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans -- Rebellious unlearning : UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field -- Tough enough : Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Anticipations of the rebellion : black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James -- Re/soundings : music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey -- Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin -- Bruising moments : affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard -- The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Encountering the rebellion : liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo -- Part two : L.A. Rebellion oral histories (pages 321-353)
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Lieux et non-lieux: subverting spaces of recognition and belonging in Looking for Alibrandi in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.1 p.21-31
Author: Percopo, Luisa PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI (AT, Kate Woods, 2000) Summary: This article addresses Kate Woods' film Looking for Alibrandi (2000), its concern with the interdependence of space and subjectivity and its role in presenting alternative discourses of the Australian nation. Drawing on the spatial theorization of French anthropologist Marc Auge, I contend that the film offers new models of identity through the protagonist's subversion of the categorization of public and private spaces. I argue that Josie Alibrandi is portrayed in the film as an agent of change, and her 'acts of improvisation' result both in an active manipulation of cultural constructions grounded in these spaces, and in her claim to a multiplicity of identities.--Abstract
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Liminality, temporality and marginalization in Giorgio Mangiamele's migrant movies in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.209-221
Author: Rando, Gaetano PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO ; CLAY (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1964) ; SPAG, THE (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1962) Summary: Giorgio Mangiamele, born in Catania in 1926, migrated to Melbourne in 1952 and constitutes a rare example of CALD involvement in the early development of Australian cinema in the post-war period. His feature film Clay (1965) was the first Australian film to be invited to enter the competition at the Cannes Film Festival. However, despite his significant contribution to the emerging Australian cinematic culture, particularly to the development of ‘art’ cinema, he has received relatively little recognition. Over a thirty-year period Mangiamele made fourteen films as director or director/producer. His first productions – The contract (1953), Unwanted (c.1957), The brothers (1958), The spag (1961) and Ninety-nine per cent (1963) – present themes related to the Italian migration experience in Australia in the 1950s depicted in all its immediacy and contemporaneity as an integral feature of the existentialist condition of our times. The only Australian director consistently to deal with such themes at the time, Mangiamele focuses on the dislocation, the alienation, the loneliness and the recall of the home country that constitutes the experience of his emblematic characters struggling to make sense of a society that is in many ways unaccepting. This article proposes to apply the concepts of liminality and temporality elaborated by Hamid Nacify (2001) to the analysis of the themes related to the Italian-Australian diaspora in the films of Giorgio Mangiamele.--ABSTRACT
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The matter of images : essays on representations / Richard Dyer London New York: Routledge, 1993.
Call No: 451-0 DYEAuthor: Dyer, Richard Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1993PhysDes: ix, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; MEN IN FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; PAPILLON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973) ; PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984) ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; JEZEBEL (US, William Wyler, 1938) ; SIMBA (UK, Brian Desmond Hurst, 1955) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0415057183; 0415057191 (pbk.)LON: 9732647
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More than night : film noir in its contexts / James Naremore Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998.
Call No: 734.1 NARAuthor: Naremore, James Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1998PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FILM NOIR ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; B-MOVIES ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; CENSORSHIP ; HERO IN FILMS ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; FILMS IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS ; CRIMINALS IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; WASHINGTON, DENZEL ; ALDRICH, ROBERT ; CHANDLER, RAYMOND ; DUNAWAY, FAYE ; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS ; FRANKLIN, CARL ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; HAMMETT, DASHIELL ; JACKSON, SAMUEL L. ; LADD, ALAN ; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947) ; DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995) ; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexesISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 13441055
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Movies and mass culture / edited and with an introduction by John Belton New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Call No: 408.1(73) MOVAuthor: Belton, John Place: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Rutgers depth of field seriesSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM NOIR. USA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS. USA ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; BERKELEY, BUSBY ; Lombard, Carole ; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and indexISBN: 0813522277 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813522285 (pbk.)LON: 11604013
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Multiple voices in feminist film criticism / Diane Carson,Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, editors Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Call No: 626:396 MULAuthor: Carson, Diane ; Dittmar, Linda, 1938 ; Welsch, Janice R Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: ix, 547 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. MEXICO ; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. THIRD WORLD ; WOMEN IN FILMS. CUBA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; BORDEN, LIZZIE ; DASH, JULIE ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; DOANE, MARY ANN ; GARBO, GRETA ; GORRIS, MARLEEN ; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE ; MULVEY, LAURA ; TRINH, T. MINH-HA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; ARZNER, DOROTHY ; FIELD, CONNIE ; CHENZIRA, AYOKA ; SAYONARA (US, Joshua Logan, 1957) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980) ; SWING SHIFT (US, Jonathan Demme, 1984) ; SUZANNE, SUZANNE (US, Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1982) ; RAMPARTS D'ARGILE (FR/AE, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, 1970) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; BORN IN FLAMES (US, Lizzie Borden, 1983) ; DRY WHITE SEASON, A (US, Euzhan Palcy, 1989) ; MARRYING KIND, THE (US, George Cukor, 1952) ; MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954) ; MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930) ; PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959) ; RETRATO DE TERESA (CU, Pastor Vega, 1979) ; QINGCHUN JI (CC, Zhang Nuanxin, 1986) ; SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989) ; BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0816622728(acid-free paper); 0816622736 (pbk.)LON: 10052767
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The negro in Hollywood films / V.J. Jerome New York: Masses & Mainstream, December, 1950.
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The Oxford companion to Australian film / edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call No: 71(94) OXF REFAuthor: Mayer, Geoff ; McFarlane, Brian, 1934 ; Bertrand, Ina, 1939 Place: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 1 vSubject: 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; BibliographyISBN: 0195537971LON: 20072774
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Oz so white? Diversity appears on Australian screen in Canberra Times [Saturday Forum] (23/01/2016) p.3
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIAAuthor: Hawker, Philippa PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: AWARDS. ACADEMY ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the amount of diversity of actors and filmmakers in Australian film and tv. This is done in relation to the recent discussion about the all white acting nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards. People quoted include: Idris Elba, Darren Dale (Blackfella Films), Bali Padda (from Actors' Equity), Fiona Cameron (Screen Australia)Notes: same article details: 'Hollywood's lack of diversity blindingly clear' in Saturday Age. p.27.; 'White wash' in Sydney Morning Herald. p. 28 [same author and date as article]
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Philosophy and film / edited and with an introduction by Cynthia A. Freeland and Thomas E. Wartenberg New York: Routledge, 1995.
Call No: 626 PHIAuthor: Freeland, Cynthia A ; Wartenberg, Thomas E Place: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1995PhysDes: 258 p. ; 24 cmSubject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; FILM NOIR ; HORROR FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; LEE, SPIKE ; SEA OF LOVE (US, Harold Becker, 1989) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; GHOST (US, Jerry Zucker, 1990) ; WHITE PALACE (US, Luis Mandoki, 1990) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; EUROPA, EUROPA (FR/GW, Agnieszka Holland, 1990) ; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0415909201; 041590921X (pbk.)LON: 11213335
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Postmodernism in the cinema / edited by Cristina Degli-Esposti New York: Berghahn Books, 1998.
Call No: 61 POS DEGAuthor: Degli-Esposti, Christina Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Berghahn BooksPubDate: 1998PhysDes: viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO ; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO. USA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. POLAND ; POLAND ; TRAVEL IN FILMS ; FRANCE ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; ANIMATION ; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR ; ADAPTATIONS. FORSTER, E. M. ; ADAPTATIONS. GENET, JEAN ; AUTEUR THEORY ; DEGLI-ESPOSTI, CHRISTINA ; BARON, CYNTHIA ; KRAIDY, MARWAN ; WEINSTEIN, DAVID ; SHARY, TIMOTHY ; BRUNS, JOHN ; MAULE, ROSANNA ; FALKOWSKA, JANINA ; STRAIN, ELLEN ; BOLUS-REICHERT, CHRISTINE ; LAGA, BARRY ; DEUTELBAUM, MARSHALL ; HOLDEN-MOSES, PHILIP ; WILES, MARY ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; ITAMI, JUZO ; FORSTER, E. M. ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; GREENAWAY, PETER ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992) ; ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992) ; SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-) ; BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (US, Stephen Herek, 1989) ; WAYNE'S WORLD (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1992) ; SINGLES (US, Cameron Crowe, 1992) ; REALITY BITES (US, Ben Stiller, 1994) ; TAMPOPO (JA, Juzo Itami, 1986) ; A NOS AMOURS (FR, Maurice Pialat, 1983) ; MESSA E FINITA, LA (IT, Nanni Moretti, 1985) ; QUE HE HECHO PARA MERECER ESTO!! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1984) ; PSY (PL, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 1993) ; CZLOWIEK Z ... (PL, Konrad Szolajski, 1993) ; WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (UK, Charles Sturridge, 1991) ; ROOM WITH A VIEW, A (UK, James Ivory, 1986) ; PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984) ; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991) ; DREAMS (US, Akira Kurosawa, 1990) ; DROWNING BY NUMBERS (UK, Peter Greenaway, 1988) ; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) Summary: By offering sophisticated and multi-faceted, yet highly accessible discussions on a number of key issues, Postmodernism in the Cinema presents new strategies for reading and understanding postmodernism and opens up the horizons of investigation to address the dynamic relationship between the art of moving images and complex concepts of postmodern theory. Organized according to specific themes such as auteurism, metacinema, national cinema, and the parodic, this anthology includes thirteen essays and examines films including The Player, Aladdin, Singles, Reality Bites, Wayne’s World, Tampopo, A Room with a View, Barton Fink, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, Drowning by Numbers, Coup de torchon, Querelle, and more. [Taken from back cover]Notes: Papers from a conference held in 1994 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.; Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 1571811060Contents: Introduction: Postmodernism(s) Cristina Degli-Esposti -- Chapter 1: The Player's parody of Hollywood: A different kind of suture - Cynthia Baron -- Chapter 2: Intertextual maneuvers around the subaltern: Aladdin as postmodern text - Marwan Kraidy -- Chapter 3: Of Mice and Bart: The Simpsons and the postmodern - David Weinstein -- Chapter 4: Reification and loss in postmodern puberty: The cultural logic of Fredric Jameson and American youth movies - Timothy Shary -- Chapter 5: Refiguring pleasure: Itami and the postmodern Japanese film - John Bruns -- Chapter 6: De-authorizing the auteur: postmodern politics of interpellation in contemporary European cinema - - Rosanna Maule -- Chapter 7: Postmodernist condition in post-socialist eastern European films: the case of a political pastiche and the socialist-hollywood thriller in recent films of Polish filmmakers - Janina Falkowska -- Chapter 8: E.M. Forster's anti-touristic tourism and the sightseeing gaze of cinema - Ellen Strain -- Chapter 9: Imaginary geographies: the colonial subjects in contemporary French cinema - Christine Bolus-Reichert -- Chapter 10: Decapitated spectators: Barton Fink, (Post)history, and cinematic pleasure - Barry Laga -- Chapter 11: Something like an autobiography in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - Marshall Deutelbaum -- Chapter 12: Not waving but drowning by numbers: Peter Greenaway's cautionary tale - Philip Holden-Moses -- Chapter 13: A double voice: the dual paternity of Querelle - Mary WilesID2: 291
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Postnationalist African Cinemas / by Alexie Tcheuyap Manchester: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Call No: 71(6) TCHAuthor: Tcheuyap, Alexie Source: UK/USPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; AFRICA IN FILMS ; AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS Summary: Book on African Cinema - looking at comedy, choreography, crime, society, myth, sexuality, witchcraft, and African cinema today.Notes: Filmography: p. 255-258; Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-255) and indexISBN: 9780719083358Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1.African cinema and national(ist) constructions -- 2.Wealth and poverty of nationalist scholarship -- 3.Postnational(ist) imaginary and new paradigms -- 4.Structure of the book -- Notes -- ch. 1 Comedy and film -- 1.Comedic archetypes -- 2.Verbal and visual comedy -- Notes -- ch. 2 Choreographing subjects -- 1.Dance on stage -- 2.Dance, syntax and discourse -- Notes -- ch. 3 Crimes, society and the `commandement' -- 1.Africa and theories of (impossible) crime fiction -- 2.Absent investigation and the triumph of the commandement -- 3.Flawed investigations and the decline of the commandement -- Notes -- ch. 4 Myth, tragedy and cinema -- 1.On African cultural `specificity' and tragic forms -- 2.Oedipal conflicts, enemy brothers and families in crisis -- 3.Absolutism, oracles and the tragic -- Notes -- ch. 5 Epic constructions -- 1.Narrative performance -- 2.Epic magnification -- Notes -- ch. 6 (Un)masked sexuality --
1.African sexuality as category of analysis -- 2.Sex in the nation and the trouble with representation -- 3.Framing bodies and the temptation of pornography -- Notes -- ch. 7 Witchcraft and the postcolonial -- 1.From sorcery imaginary to the imaginary sorcerer -- 2.Occult side of power, power of the occult -- Notes -- conclusion: what is Africa cinema (today)? -- notes -- bibliography and filmography -- index --
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Race daze : Australia in identity crisis / Jon Stratton Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 1998.
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Racial stigma on the Hollywood Screen : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Call No: 451-054(=95)(73) LOCAuthor: Locke, Brian Edition: First Plagrave Macmillan paperback editionSource: USPlace: New York, NYPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2012PhysDes: xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; CRASH (US, Paul Haggis, 2004) ; FLASH GORDON (US/UK, Mike Hodges, 1980) ; LAST SAMURAI, THE (US, Edward Zwick, 2003) ; LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92) ; LETHAL WEAPON 4 (US, Richard Donner, 1998) ; MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999) ; RISING SUN (US, Philip Kaufman, 1993) Summary: "Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood's representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between US democratic ideals and white America's persistent domination over blacks." -book blurb.Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexesISBN: 9781137029348Contents: List of figures -- acknowledgements -- Introduction - Three's a crowd: Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit: Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade Runner (1982, 1992 and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The Matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue - Pearl Harbor eclipsed? The Last Samurai (2003) -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Film and television index -- General index
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Reconstructing images of history : Christopher Doyle, Rabbit-proof fence and postcolonial collage in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.121-140
Author: Chane, Queenie Monica PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DOYLE, CHRISTOPHER ; RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001) Summary: Indigenous Australian and Asian Australian dialogues are still emerging in Australian cinema. This article will examine how Asian Australian cultural politics offer alternative accounts of indigenous-settler relations that are not reduced to a black and white discourse. A politics of cultural hybridity disrupts dominant modes of representation by revealing the fluidity and artifice of prevailing cultural boundaries. I expand on the critical framework of a ‘third space’ through Christopher Doyle's Rabbit-Proof Fence photo collages. While his subject matter is taken from the film's mode of production through his role as cinematographer, Doyle's interaction through collage and his Asian film background enables a hybrid engagement with indigenous cultural representations. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1.
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Recontextualizing the historical reception of Blaxploitation : articulations of class, black nationalism, and anxiety in the genre's advertisements in Velvet Light trap (2002) vol.50 p.48-61
Author: Kraszewski, Jon PhysDes: ArticleSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; BLACULA (US, William Crain, 1972) ; I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (US, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971) ; SHAFT (US, John Singleton, 2000) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) Summary: This is a study of blaxploitation advertisements and the genre, examing the complex relationship between blaxpoitaton text and spectator. The heterogeneous identity at play within blaxploitation's black spectators is examined. Class becomes important to studying blaxploitation and its audience not because it demarcates a subgenre that diverged in interest from other films concerned with violence and ultrasexuality but because class - specifically the way in functions in blaxploitation advertisements - can help reconceptualize the blackness of blaxploitation and its spectators in more dynamic ways. The genre is situated in a complex historical moment where three relatively autonomous influences on black identity operated simultaneously.
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Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.
Call No: 744 HOOAuthor: Hooks, Bell Place: New York, NYPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1996PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cmSubject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; LOOK IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; DEATH IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; Tarantino, Quentin ; LEE, SPIKE ; DASH, JULIE ; CLARK, LARRY ; JAFFA, ARTHUR ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; BILLOPS, CAMILLE ; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE ; WANG, WAYNE ; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE ; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978) ; GIRL SIX (US, Spike Lee, 1996) ; CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994) ; WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995) ; LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995) ; EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994) ; ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992) ; FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991) ; KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover)LON: 96026474; 12664107
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Reverse shots : indigenous film and media in an international context / edited by Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2015.
Call No: 451-054 (=1-81)(71):(93):(94) REVAuthor: Pearson, Wendy Gay (ed.) ; Knabe, Susan (ed.) Source: CNPlace: Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaPublisher: Wilfred Laurier University PressPubDate: c2015PhysDes: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Film and media studies series; Film + media studiesSubject: CRITICISM ; MEDIA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; INDIGENOUS ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND ; NEW ZEALAND
MAORI CINEMA ; NORWAY ; CANADA ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS Summary: "From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity.
The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway. "
--BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9781554583355Contents: -- pt. I dream makers -- Introduction Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media / Susan Knabe -- One: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt. II decolonizing histories -- Two: Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Three:Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- Four.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Five: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk / Colleen McGloin -- Six."Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt. III mediating practices -- Seven: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / jo smith and Sue Abel -- Eight: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- Nine: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV documentary approaches -- Ten: The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- Eleven: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew / Ute Lischke -- Twelve: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- Thirteen:"I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V other perspectives --Fourteen: Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Fifteen: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk / Davinia Thornley -- glossary -- bibliography -- index --
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Seeing and believing : religion and values in the movies / Margaret R. Miles Boston: Beacon Press, c1996.
Call No: 45:2 MILAuthor: Miles, Margaret Ruth Source: USPlace: BostonPublisher: Beacon PressPubDate: c1996PhysDes: xvi, 254 p. ; 23 cmSubject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; ETHICS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; JESUS DE MONTREAL (CN/FR, Denys Arcand, 1989) ; MISSION, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1986) ; ROMERO (US, John Duigan, 1989) ; NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (US, Brian Gilbert, 1991) ; CHOSEN, THE (US, Jeremy Paul Kagan, 1981) ; CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981) ; HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990) ; RAPTURE, THE (US, Michael Tolkin, 1991) ; LONG WALK HOME, THE (US, Richard Pearce, 1990) ; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; JUNGLE FEVER (US, Spike Lee, 1991) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0807010316
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Tasteless, romantic and full of history : The German reception of Australia and Rabbit-proof fence in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.2 p.115-129
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Undressing cinema : clothing and identity in the movies / Stella Bruzzi London New York: Routledge, 1997.
Call No: 226.4 BRUAuthor: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1997PhysDes: xxi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: COSTUMES ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; FEMME FATALE ; TRANSVESTISM ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971) ; SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ; TROP BELLE POUR TOI (FR, Bertrand Blier, 1989) ; READY TO WEAR (US, Robert Altman, 1994) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994) ; NEW JACK CITY (US, Mario Van Peebles, 1991) ; BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991) ; WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995) ; DISCLOSURE (US, Barry Levinson, 1994) ; SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1992) ; LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994) ; GLEN OR GLENDA (US, Edward D. Wood, 1953) ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; MRS DOUBTFIRE (US, Chris Columbus, 1993) ; BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index; Filmography: p. 204-207ISBN: 0415139562 (hbk : alk. paper); 0415139570 (pbk : alk. paper)LON: 97007260; 13082009ID2: 38
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Unsettling whiteness : the slippage of race and nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.103-119
Author: Johnston, Meg PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LAW, CLARA ; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004) Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’.
Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1
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Violence and American cinema / edited by J. David Slocum New York: Routledge, 2001.
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Visions of the East : orientalism in film / edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1997.
Call No: 626-054 VISAuthor: Berstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c1997PhysDes: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; INDOCHINE (FR, Regis Wargnier, 1992) ; ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992) ; PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937) ; CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945) Summary: "Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed include The Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and severeal films of France's 'cinema colonial'."-BOOK BLURBNotes: includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and indexISBN: 0813522951Contents: Acknowledgements / Matthew Bernstein -- Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania / Antonia Lant --"Out-Salomeing Salome": Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism / Gaylyn Studlar -- The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole / Andrienne L. McLean -- The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine / Marina Heung -- A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Alladin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East / Alan Nadel -- The "Cinema colonial" of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice / Charles O'Brien -- Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic / Dudley Andrew -- In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra / Mary Homer.
Reading the Letter in a Postcolonial World / Phebe Shih Chao -- Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography
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Walkabout / Louis Nowra Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.: Currency Press, ScreenSound Australia, 2003.
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When whitewashing is not the real problem in Sydney Morning Herald (6/04/2017) p.20
Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; GHOST IN THE SHELL (US, Rupert Sanders, 2017)Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; JOHANSSON, SCARLETT ; GHOST IN THE SHELL (US, Rupert Sanders, 2017) Summary: Commentary on the charge that Hollywood is 'whitewashing' characters. This means white actors are playing roles that should be performed by those of various ethnic backgrounds. Particular focus is on the action film GHOST IN THE SHELL, with some comments on DOCTOR STRANGE
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Whitewash: Hollywood in the dark on diversity in Sunday Age (9/04/2017) p.27
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMSAuthor: Bailey, John PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; BOX OFFICE. USA Summary: Report on the lower than expected audience attendence to recent blockbuster films GHOST IN THE SHELL and THE GREAT WALL in comparison to the runaway success of the low budget thriller GET OUT and other recent films that feature ethnic minorities in lead roles
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Whose story is reclaimed in The home song stories? in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.1 p.15-20
Author: Tuccio, Silvana PhysDes: ArticleSubject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SPAG, THE (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1962) ; HOME SONG STORIES, THE (AT, Tony Ayres, 2007) Summary: The home song stories offers a personal view of dislocation, family and the experience of difference; it widens the concept of what is an Australian story. The director of the film. who is also the narrator, reflects on his childhood and on his mother's experience of alterity in a foreign country, attempting in the process, to reclaim a part of himself.
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Women in film noir / edited by E. Ann Kaplan London: BFI Publishing, 1998.
Call No: 734:451-02 WOMAuthor: Kaplan, E. Ann Edition: Rev. and expanded edPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI PublishingPubDate: 1998PhysDes: ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMME FATALE ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963) ; BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942) ; LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) ; BLUE GARDENIA, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1953) ; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) Notes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0851706665 (pbk.); 0851706657 (hbk.)LON: 14106071
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The X-men films : a cultural analysis / edited by Claudia Bucciferro Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, c2016.
Call No: 79(04)XME XMEAuthor: Bucciferro, Claudia Source: USPlace: Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: c2016PhysDes: 241 pages ; 24 cmSubject: THEORY ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; UTOPIA IN FILMS ; FANTASY FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; X-MEN (US, Bryan Singer, 2000) ; X-MEN 2 (US, Bryan Singer, 2003)
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X2 ; X2 (US, Bryan Singer, 2003) ; X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (US, Brett Ratner, 2006) ; X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (US/NZ/AT, Gavin Hood, 2009) ; X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (US, Matthew Vaughn, 2011) ; X-MEN : DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (US/ UK, Bryan Singer, 2014) Summary: " In The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis, Claudia Bucciferro has assembled a collection of essays that draw from work in communication, cultural studies, and media studies. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters analyze issues that include gender, sexuality, disability, class, and race. The contributors pose intriguing questions about the franchise, such as: What do “mutants” really represent? What role do women and people of color play in the narratives? Why does it matter that Professor X is disabled? Why is Mystique often shown naked? What facilitated Wolverine’s rise to prominence? And how do topics regarding identity, trauma, and bioethics, figure in the stories? Exploring issues relevant for a multicultural world and connecting thematic elements from the films to political debates and social struggles, the book seeks to make a thoughtful contribution to the scholarship of popular culture. The X-Men Films will appeal to media scholars and students, as well as to anyone interested in the X-Men series." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781442265332Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction / Claudia Bucciferro -- part I Utopian and Immersive Experiences -- 1: Mutopia: American Utopianism and the Mutant Superhero / Matt Yockey -- 2: The Immersive Marketing Campaign for X-Men: Days of Future Past / Nicolo Gallio -- part: II Agency and Authority -- 3: Superhuman Authority: Fascism and Bioethics in the X-Men Films / Evan Hayles Gledhill -- 4: Magneto's Dilemma: The Technological Limitations of Mutant Transhumanism / Ron Von Burg and D. Stokes Piercy -- 5: PTXD: Gendered Narratives of Combat, Trauma, and the Civil-Military Divide / Christina M Knopf and Christine M Doran -- part III Women and Power -- 6: Containing the X-Women: De-powering and De-queering Female Characters / Carolyn Cocca -- 7: Shape-Shifting Identity: Mystique's Embodied Agency / Jason Zingsheim -- 8: The "Stolen" Superpowers of Marvel's Rogue / Julie Davis and Robert Westerfelhaus -- 9: The Curious Case of "Dr" Jean Grey, Mystique, and Mariko / Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pre, Loretta L Pecchioni and John H Overton -- part IV Masculinity and Race -- 10: Wolverine in Transition: Shifting Portrayals of Masculinity and Identity / Nathan Miczo -- 11: Techno-Orientalist Villains and White Masculinity in the Wolverine Movies / David C Oh -- 12: Reframing Disabled Masculinity: Xavier as Marvel's Supercrip / Jessica Benham -- 13: Mutating Minorities: White Racial Framing and Group Positioning / Jason Smith -- part V Passing and Otherness -- 14: Passing While Homo Superior / Kat Overland -- 15: Mutancy, Otherness, and Empathy in the X-Men / Claudia Bucciferro -- epilogue / Jason Zingsheim and Claudia Bucciferro -- index -- about the editor and contributors --
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