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Author: Mayer, Geoff
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: ENDINGS OF FILMS; ARLINGTON ROAD (US, Mark Pellington, 1999); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999); PASSION (AT, Peter Duncan, 1999)
Summary: Detailed review of "Passion" with particular focus on the film's ending

Call No: 632.6 JOH
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Equinox
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: x, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SOUND; SEX IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); LAST EMPEROR, THE (UK/CC, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987); SHELTERING SKY, THE (US/IT, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990); EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976); BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Summary: With its capacity to defamiliarize and subvert visual representation, sound is not simply a source of information supplementary to the visual in the cinematic representation of sexuality, but a site of ambiguous ideologies and power relations. -- This collection exemplifies a variety of approaches to the sonic representation of sexuality in cinema. It draws on a range of sexual scenarios from pornography to sci-fi to art-house and includes cinema from various cultures and countries. Among the topics addressed are how the deployment of sound is implicated in gender politics in the representation of sexuality and how sounds are able to radically colour and even override the visual and lexical content of a film. -- Through sonicity the film-maker can challenge the ideologies at play underneath surface stereotypes, and introduce emotional overtones which meliorate the alienation generally associated with porn. Sound and music can establish a historical period as well as spatially localize sexuality within a framework that problematizes the distinctions between porn and erotica. They can introduce into the ahistorical sextopia of porn the cultural specificity of the notion of 'pornography' and indeed can shift a film in and out of that category, even desexualizing the naked human body. -- Bruce Johnson is an adjunct professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, and Visiting Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. His many publications in popular music and literary studies include The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz. --Book Jacket.
ISBN: 9781845533182
Contents: Sound decisions : interviews with Ole Ege / Bruce Johnson -- Beyond the valley of the ultra cliche´ : erotic plenitude in the films of Russ Meyer / Mark Evans with Matt Burgess -- The push/pull game : the dynamics of sound in Bertolucci's Last tango in Paris, The last emperor and The sheltering sky / Lesley Chow -- Depraved desire : sado-masochism, sexuality and sound in mid-1970s cinema / Clarice Butkus -- The peculiar "love" music in Oshima's Ai no korida / James Wierzbicki -- Lust in space : science fiction themes & sex cinema (1960-82) / Phil Hayward -- Zero gravity : science fiction themed porn cinema and its soundtracks 1990-2010 / Phil Hayward and Emil Stoichkov -- It's gotta be that new wave music : music in New wave hookers carries the joke / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Making "a mall movie about a man with a 13-inch penis?" : popular music representations of pornographic intention / Liz Giuffre -- Musical loops : eyes wide shut? ears wide open / Kevin Clifton -- Multiple positions : sound, sex and aural dominance in 9 songs / Andrea Warren -- Music, image, and orgasm : getting off on the Shortbus / Marianne Tatom Letts -- In extremis : the roots, soundscapes and significations of 21st century zombie porn / Ralph G. Marsh

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Call No: 79EYE CHI
Author: Chion, Michel
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 95 p. : illus. : 19 cm
Series: BFI Modern Classics
Subject: KUBRICK, STANLEY; EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Notes: Includes credits (p91-95)
ISBN: 085170932X

Call No: 79TWO CHI
Author: Chion, Michel
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 196p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: KUBRICK, STANLEY; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
ISBN: 0851708404; 0851708390(pbk.) : ¦14.99
LON: 22295588

Call No: 81KID COO
Author: Cook, Pam
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave macmillan [on behalf of the] bfi
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 148 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm
Series: Film stars (British Film Institute)
Subject: ACTORS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; KIDMAN, NICOLE; DEAD CALM (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1989); TO DIE FOR (US, Gus Van Sant, 1995); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999); HOURS, THE (US, Stephen Daldry, 2002); AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: "Nicole Kidman is much more than a high-profile actress; she is a successful example of contemporary globalised stardom and a product of fundamental changes in the media industries over the last two decades. In this enthralling account of Kidman's career, Pam Cook traces her journey from Australian actress to global superstar, looking at her persona across a variety of forms: film and television, fashion, commercials, charity work and the internet. Pam Cook's analysis of Kidman's performance in key films such as Dead Calm (1989), To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and The Hours (2002) reveals her development of an 'actorly' style that enables her to combine celebrity with award winning-roles. Cook explores the intricate media networks that circulate Kidman's image and story , assessing the contribution of her Australian identity to her personal brand, the Botox controversy, her recent move into production, and her cultural impact. This absorbing case study unveils a star narrative as compelling as any of those in Kidman's films. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes filmography; Includes bibliographic references (p. 137-140) and index
ISBN: 9781844574889
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1: stardom -- 2: performance -- 3: persona -- notes -- bibliography -- filmography -- index --

Call No: 749.2 WAL
Author: Waldrep, Shelton
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: 294 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999); FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987); KUBRICK, STANLEY; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; CANYONS, THE (US, Paul Schrader, 2013); MAGIC MIKE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2012); SAVAGES (US, Oliver Stone, 2012); NYMPHOMANIAC [VOL. I AND VOL. II] (DK/G/BE/UK/FR, Lars von Trier, 2013); LOVE (FR/BE, Gaspar Noe, 2015); JAMES BOND IN FILMS
Summary: As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. The Space of Sex's second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader's The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone's Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without compromise. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501333057
Contents: Introduction -- Part One: Topographies of Desire -- 1.Framing the Image: The Female Body in Late Kubrick -- 2.The Spy Who Loved Me: Bond and the Playboy Aesthetic -- Part Two: The Pornographic Imaginary -- 3.Theorizing Pornography -- 4.Body of Art -- Part Three: The Space of Sex in Contemporary Film and Television -- 5.Porn as Form and Content -- 6.Spatializing Desire -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 175 KUB
PubDate: 2004
Subject: KUBRICK, STANLEY; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; KILLING, THE (US, Stanley Kubrik, 1956); LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962); CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); BARRY LYNDON (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1975); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Summary: Exhibition catalogue for the Deutsches Filmmuseum’s exhibition dedicated to the late director and currently displayed at ACMI as “Stanley Kubrick: Inside the Mind of a Visionary Filmmaker”. “The whole idea seemed strange at first. Exhibiting Stanley’s equipment, his plans, notes, photos? It did not feel right and would have been unthinkable during his lifetime, yet on careful reflection and discussion with Christiane Kubrick it became quite clear that while his privacy had to be guarded, his professional output was for all to be seen to celebrate the life of a great filmmaker. The efforts, the hard work, the inventiveness and wealth of ideas are so interesting, whereas the mystery of artistic talent will always remain under seal. Stanley Kubrick’s films will remain a valid reflection of his time and culture for future generations.” [“Foreword”, Jan Harlan].
ISBN: 3887990692