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book		Cinema and social change in Latin America : conversations with filmmakers / edited by Julianne Burton Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. Call No: 802.25(8=6) CIN Author: Burton, Julianne Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xvi, 302 p. : ports. ; 24 cm Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; BOLIVIA; CHILE; NICARAGUA; MEXICO; CUBA; BIRRI, FERNANDO; SANJINES, JORGE; GUZMAN, PATRICIO; ROCHA, GLAUBER; ALEA, TOMAS GUTIERREZ; SANTOS, NELSON PEREIRA DOS; SOLAS, HUMBERTO; DIEGUES, CARLOS; RUIZ, RAUL; GUMUCIO DAGRON, ALFONZO; HANDLER, MARIO; SILVA, JORGE; RODRIGUEZ, MARTA; VAZQUEZ, EMILIO RODRIGUEZ; IBARRA, CARLOS VICENTE; SOLBERG-LADD, HELENA; EGUINO, ANTONIO; VILLAGRA, NELSON; FERNANDEZ VIOLANTE, MARCELA; ACHUGAR, WALTER; COLINA, ENRIQUE; GARCIA ESPINOSA, JULIO Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. [285]-286 ISBN: 0292724535; 0292724543 (pbk.) LON: 4568383 More info
book		Cinema today / Buscombe, Edward London: Phaidon Press, 2003. Call No: 70 BUS Author: Buscombe, Edward Place: London Publisher: Phaidon Press PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 512 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; GENRES; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; BOLLYWOOD; AUSTRALIA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES Summary: "Fully illustrated with over 700 images including film stills, posters and behind-the-scenes shots, this book also features in-depth case studies on a wide range of films. Cinema Today provides an unparalleled insight into the heart of the film industry." Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0714840815; 0714845167 More info
book		The contemporary Hollywood film industry / edited by Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Call No: 201.1 (73) CON Author: McDonald, Paul; Wasko, Janet Source: US Place: Malden, Massachusetts; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria Publisher: Blackwell Publishing PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM; STUDIO SYSTEM; FINANCING; DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTION; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; EXHIBITION; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; VIDEODISCS; SOUNDTRACKS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; LABOUR; STATE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; COPYRIGHT; EXPORT OF FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; INDIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; VIDEO GAMES AND THE CINEMA Summary: "The contemporary Hollywood film industry is characterized by continuity and change. While many well-established Hollywood studios continue to dominate the film business, the industry has also witnessed various changes during the past two decades. "'The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry' is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examine the US film industry as an international phenomenon, from the 1980s to the present day. It explores a host of challenges and changes facing Hollywood, and includes important discussions of the industry's labor and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations. Essays consider the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood products, corporate changes, and various new-media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery." (Taken from the back cover) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 9781405133883 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:18:10 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The documentary film book / edited by Brian Winston London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Call No: 761 DOC Author: Winston, Brian CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cm Subject: AFRICA; ART CINEMA; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BRAZIL; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; HISTORY ON TV; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; ISRAEL; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; REALITY TV; GRIERSON, JOHN; MOORE, MICHAEL; VERTOV, DZIGA; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009); AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURB ISBN: 9781844573417 Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index More info
Interim book		Der Film Lateinamerikas : eine dokumentation. Retrospektive zur XXIX. / Internationale Filmwoche Manheim Internationale Filmwoche Manheim, 1980. Call No: 71(8=6) FIL CorpAuthor: Internationale Filmwoche Manheim Source: GG Publisher: Internationale Filmwoche Manheim PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 614 p. : plates ; 21 cm Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; LATINO CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; ARGENTINA; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CHILE; CUBA; MEXICO; NICARAGUA; VENEZUELA Notes: Text in German (1-312p.) and Spanish (313-614p.); Spanish Title: El cine en America Latina Language: German; Spanish More info
book		Film manifestos and global cinema cultures : a critical anthology / [edited by] Scott MacKenzie Berkeley London: University of California Press, 2014. Call No: 62 FIL Author: MacKenzie, Scott (ed.) Source: US Place: Berkeley London Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xxi, 651 p. ; 26 cm Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CONSTRUCTIVISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; WORLD CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; AESTHETICS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM Summary: Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture. -- extract taken from the back of the book Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references and index. ISSN: 9780520276741 Contents: Introduction. “An Invention without a Future” -- 1. The Avant-Garde(s) -- The Futurist Cinema (Italy, 1916) F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. -- Lenin Decree (USSR, 1919) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The ABCs of Cinema (France, 1917–1921) Blaise Cendrars -- WE: Variant of a Manifesto (USSR, 1922) Dziga Vertov -- The Method of Making Workers’ Films (USSR, 1925) Sergei Eisenstein -- Constructivism in the Cinema (USSR, 1928) Alexei Gan -- Preface: Un chien Andalou (France, 1928) Luis Buñuel -- Manifesto of the Surrealists Concerning L’Age d’or (France, 193) The Surrealist Group -- Manifesto on “Que Viva Mexico” (USA, 1933) The Editors of Experimental Film -- Spirit of Truth (France, 1933) Le Corbusier -- An Open Letter to the Film Industry and to All Who Are Interested in the Evolution of the Good Film (Hungary, 1934) László Moholy-Nagy -- LightFormMovementSound (USA, 1935) Mary Ellen Bute -- Prolegomena for All Future Cinema (France, 1952) Guy Debord -- No More Flat Feet! (France, 1952) Lettriste International -- The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952) Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gabriel Pomerand -- The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953) Jim Davis -- A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961) Maya Deren -- The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961) New American Cinema Group -- Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962) Ron Rice -- From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963) Stan Brakhage -- Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964) George Kuchar -- Film Andepandan [Independents] Manifesto (Japan, 1964) Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. -- Discontinuous Films (Canada, 1967) Keewatin Dewdney -- Hand-Made Films Manifesto (Australia, 1968) Ubu Films, Thoms -- Cinema Manifesto (Australia, 1971) Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill -- For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses (USA, 1971) Hollis Frampton -- Elements of the Void (Greece, 1972) Gregory Markopoulos -- Small Gauge Manifesto (USA, 1980) JoAnn Elam and Chuck Kleinhans -- Cinema of Transgression Manifesto (USA, 1985) Nick Zedd -- Modern, All Too Modern (USA, 1988) Keith Sanborn -- Open Letter to the Experimental Film Congress: Let’s Set the Record Straight (Canada, 1989) Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. -- Anti-1 Years of Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1996) Jonas Mekas -- The Decalogue (Czech Republic, 1999) Jan Švankmajer -- Your Film Farm Manifesto on Process Cinema (Canada, 212) Philip Hoffman -- 2. National and Transnational Cinemas -- From “The Glass Eye” (Italy, 1933) Leo Longanesi -- The Archers’ Manifesto (UK, 1942) Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- What Is Wrong with Indian Films? (India, 1948) Satyajit Ray -- Buñuel the Poet (Mexico, 1951) Octavio Paz -- French Cinema Is Over (France, 1952) Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. -- Some Ideas on the Cinema (Italy, 1953) Cesare Zavattini -- A Certain Tendency in French Cinema (France, 1954) François Truffaut -- Salamanca Manifesto & Conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca (Spain, 1955) Juan Antonio Bardem -- Free Cinema Manifestos (UK, 1956–1959) Committee for Free Cinema -- The Oberhausen Manifesto (West Germany, 1962) Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. -- Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] (West Germany, 1965) Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. -- The Mannheim Declaration (West Germany, 1967) Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. -- Sitges Manifesto (Spain, 1967) Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jordà, and Julián Marcos -- How to Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Guy Glover -- How to Not Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Claude Jutra -- From “The Estates General of the French Cinema, May 1968” (France, 1968) Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement (India, 1968) Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen -- What Is to Be Done? (France, 1970) Jean-Luc Godard -- The Winnipeg Manifesto (Canada, 1974) Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. -- Hamburg Declaration of German Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. -- Manifesto I (Denmark, 1984) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto II (Denmark, 1987) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto III: I Confess! (Denmark, 199) Lars von Trier -- The Cinema We Need (Canada, 1985) R. Bruce Elder -- Pathways to the Establishment of a Nigerian Film Industry (Nigeria, 1985) Ola Balogun -- Manifesto of 1988 (German Democratic Republic, 1988) Young DEFA Filmmakers -- In Praise of a Poor Cinema (Scotland, 1993) Colin McArthur -- Dogme ’95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity (Denmark, 1995) Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg -- I Sinema Manifesto (Indonesia, 1999) Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. -- 3. Third Cinemas, Colonialism, Decolonization, and Postcolonialism -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Group (Mexico, 1961) El grupo nuevo cine -- Cinema and Underdevelopment (Argentina, 1962) Fernando Birri -- The Aesthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965) Glauber Rocha -- For an Imperfect Cinema (Cuba, 1969) -- Julio García Espinosa Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World (Argentina, 1969) Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino -- Film Makers and the Popular Government Political Manifesto (Chile, 1970) Comité de cine de la unidad popular -- Consciousness of a Need (Uruguay, 1970) Mario Handler -- Militant Cinema: An Internal Category of Third Cinema (Argentina, 1971) Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas -- For Colombia 1971: Militancy and Cinema (Colombia, 1971) Carlos Alvarez -- The Cinema: Another Face of Colonised Québec (Canada, 1971) Association professionnelle des cinéastes du Québec -- 8 Millimeters versus 8 Millions (Mexico, 1972) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. -- Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group (Palestine, 1973) Palestinian Cinema Group -- Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting (Algeria, 1973) Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembene, Jorge Silva, et al. -- The Luz e Ação Manifesto (Brazil, 1973) Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. -- Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema (Bolivia, 1976) Jorge Sanjinés -- Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers (Mexico, 1975) Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. -- The Algiers Charter on African Cinema (Algeria, 1975) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Declaration of Principles and Goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema (Nicaragua, 1979) Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema -- What Is the Cinema for Us? (Mauritania, 1979) Med Hondo -- Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers (Niger, 1982) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective (UK, 1983) John Akomfrah -- From Birth Certificate of the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, Nicknamed the School of Three Worlds (Cuba, 1986) Fernando Birri -- FeCAViP Manifesto (France, 1990) Federation of Caribbean Audiovisual Professionals -- Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop (Zimbabwe, 1990) SADCC (South African Development Coordination Conference) -- Pocha Manifesto #1 (USA, 1994) Sandra Peña-Sarmiento -- Poor Cinema Manifesto (Cuba, 24) Humberto Solás -- Jollywood Manifesto (Haiti, 28) Ciné Institute -- The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation (Canada, 29) John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. -- 4. Gender, Feminist, Queer, Sexuality, and Porn Manifestos -- Woman’s Place in Photoplay Production (USA, 1914) Alice Guy-Blaché -- Hands Off Love (France, 1927) Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. -- The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez (USA, 1962) Jack Smith -- On Film No. 4 (In Taking the Bottoms of 365 Saints of Our Time) (UK, 1967) Yoko Ono -- Statement (USA, 1969) Kenneth Anger -- Wet Dream Film Festival Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1970) S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) -- Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (UK, 1973) Claire Johnston -- Manifesto for a Non-sexist Cinema (Canada, 1974) FECIP (Fédération européenne du cinéma progressiste) -- Womanifesto (USA, 1975) Feminists in the Media -- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (UK, 1975) Laura Mulvey -- An Egret in the Porno Swamp: Notes of Sex in the Cinema (Sweden, 1977) Vilgot Sjöman -- For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman (France, 1978) Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef -- Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen -- Wimmin’s Fire Brigade Communiqué (Canada, 1982) Wimmin’s Fire Brigade -- Thoughts on Women’s Cinema: Eating Words, Voicing Struggles (USA, 1986) Yvonne Rainer -- The Post Porn Modernist Manifesto (USA, 1989) Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. -- Statement of African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video (Burkina Faso, 1991) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Puzzy Power Manifesto: Thoughts on Women and Pornography (Denmark, 1998) Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Børglum, et al. -- Cinema with Tits (Spain, 1998) Icíar Bollaín -- My Porn Manifesto (France, 22) Ovidie -- No More Mr. Nice Gay: A Manifesto (USA, 29) Todd Verow -- Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto (UK, 29) Sally Potter -- Dirty Diaries Manifesto (Sweden, 29) Mia Engberg -- 5. Militating Hollywood -- Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) (USA, 193) Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America -- Red Films: Soviets Spreading Doctrine in U.S. Theatres (USA, 1935) William Randolph Hearst -- Statement of Principles (USA, 1944) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals -- Screen Guide for Americans (USA, 1947) Ayn Rand -- White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art (USA, 1962) Manny Farber -- Super Fly: A Summary of Objections by the Kuumba Workshop (USA, 1972) Kuumba Workshop -- The World Is Changing: Some Thoughts on Our Business (USA, 1991) Jeffrey Katzenberg -- Full Frontal Manifesto (USA, 21) Steven Soderbergh -- 6. The Creative Treatment of Actuality-- Towards a Social Cinema (France, 1930) Jean Vigo -- From “First Principles of Documentary” (UK, 1932) John Grierson -- Manifesto on the Documentary Film (UK, 1933) Oswell Blakeston -- Declaration of the Group of Thirty (France, 1953) Jean Painlevé, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. -- Initial Statement of the Newsreel (USA, 1967) New York Newsreel -- Nowsreel, or the Potentialities of a Political Cinema (USA, 1970) Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel -- Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case (Poland, 1971) Bohdan Kosinski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Tomasz Zygadlo -- The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagata YIDFF Manifesto (Japan, 1989) Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. -- Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema (Germany, 1999) Werner Herzog -- Defocus Manifesto (Denmark, 2) Lars von Trier -- Kill the Documentary as We Know It (USA, 22) Jill Godmilow -- Ethnographic Cinema (EC): A Manifesto{ths}/{ths}A Provocation (USA, 23) Jay Ruby -- Reality Cinema Manifesto (Russia, 25) Vitaly Manskiy -- Documentary Manifesto (USA, 28) Albert Maysles -- China Independent Film Festival Manifesto: Shamans Animals (People’s Republic of China, 211) By several documentary filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival -- 7. States, Dictatorships, the Comintern, and Theocracies -- Capture the Film! Hints on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda (USA, 1925) Willi Münzenberg -- The Legion of Decency Pledge (USA, 1938) Archbishop John McNicholas -- Creative Film (Germany, 1935) Joseph Goebbels -- Vigilanti Cura: On Motion Pictures (Vatican City, 1936) Pope Pius XI -- Four Cardinal Points of A Revolução de Maio (Portugal, 1937) António Lopes Ribeiro -- From On the Art of Cinema (North Korea, 1973) Kim Jong-il -- 8. Archives, Museums, Festivals, and Cinematheques -- A New Source of History: The Creation of a Depository for Historical Cinematography (Poland/France, 1898) Boleslaw Matuszewski -- The Film Prayer (USA, c. 192) A. P. Hollis -- The Film Society (UK, 1925) Iris Barry -- Filmliga Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1927) Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, Men’no Ter Bbaak, et al. -- Statement of Purposes (USA, 1948) Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 -- The Importance of Film Archives (UK, 1948) Ernest Lindgren -- A Plea for a Canadian Film Archive (Canada, 1949) Hye Bossin -- Open Letter to Film-Makers of the World (USA, 1966) Jonas Mekas -- A Declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française (France, 1968) Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française -- Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art (USA, 1969) Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow -- Anthology Film Archives Manifesto (USA, 1970) P. Adams Sitney -- Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive (USA, 1971) Alan Lomax -- Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1998) Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick -- Don’t Throw Film Away: The FIAF 7th Anniversary Manifesto (France, 28) Hisashi Okajima and La fédération internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group -- The Lindgren Manifesto: The Film Curator of the Future (Italy, 21) Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (UK, 212) Mark Cousins -- 9. Sounds and Silence -- A Statement on Sound (USSR, 1928) Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov -- A Rejection of the Talkies (USA, 1931) Charlie Chaplin -- A Dialogue on Sound: A Manifesto (UK, 1934) Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun -- Amalfi Manifesto (Italy, 1967) Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. -- 10. The Digital Revolution -- Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto (USA, 1966) Stan VanDerBeek -- The Digital Revolution and the Future Cinema (Iran, 2) Samira Makhmalbaf -- The Pluginmanifesto (UK, 21) Ana Kronschnabl -- Digital Dekalogo: A Manifesto for a Filmless Philippines (The Philippines, 23) Khavn de la Cruz -- 11. Aesthetics and the Futures of the Cinema -- The Birth of the Sixth Art (France, 1911) Ricciotto Canudo -- Memo from Walt Disney to Don Graham (USA, 1935) Walt Disney -- The Birth of a New Avant Garde: La caméra-stylo (France, 1948) Alexandre Astruc -- From Preface to Film (UK, 1954) Raymond Williams -- The Snakeskin (Sweden, 1965) Ingmar Bergman -- Manifesto (Italy, 1965) Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. -- Manifesto on the Release of La Chinoise (France, 1967) Jean-Luc Godard -- Direct Action Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1985) Rob Nilsson -- Remodernist Film Manifesto (USA, 28) Jesse Richards -- The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return (People’s Republic of China, 21) Jia Zhangke -- More info
book		Film policy : international, national, and regional perspectives / edited by Albert Moran New York: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 205 FIL Author: Moran, Albert Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xvi, 285 p Subject: GOVERNMENT CONTROL; STATE AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, VIDEO. USA; DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRY, FILM; COPRODUCTION. FRANCE; COPRODUCTION. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. CANADA; INDUSTRY, FILM. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDONESIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. SINGAPORE; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; MAORI CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0415097916 (pbk.); 0415097908 (hardcover) LON: 12158074 More info
book		Hojas de cine : Testimonios y documentos del nuevo cine latinoamericano Mexico: Fundacion Mexicana de Cineastas, 1988. Call No: 71 (7/8) HOJ Place: Mexico Publisher: Fundacion Mexicana de Cineastas PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 600+292+588 p ; 20 cm Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES Notes: Vol. 1 : Centro y sudamerica [Central and South America] Vol. 2 : Mexico Vol. 3 : Centroamerica y el caribe [Central America and the Caribbean] ISBN: 9682919223 Language: Spanish More info
book		Latin American cinema : film and history / E. Bradford Burns Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, University of California, 1975. Call No: 71(8=6) BUR Author: Burns, E. Bradford (Edward Bradford) Place: Los Angeles Publisher: UCLA Latin American Center, University of California PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: vii, 137 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES Notes: Bibliography: p. 116-137 ISBN: 0879030267 LON: 453626 More info
subject clippings file		LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES More info
book		The politics of documentary / Michael Chanan London: British Film Institute, 2007. Call No: 761 CHA Author: Chanan, Michael Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: viii, 280 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; COMMENTARY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FREE CINEMA; MONTAGE; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; POLITICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS IN FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; ROUCH, JEAN; VERTOV, DZIGA; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) Summary: "Chanan traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Grierson and his contemporaries, though to Free Cinema, Cinema verite and Direct Cinema, up to the current resurgence of documentary with high profile films such as those of Michael Moore. Chanan's thematic approach takes in topics such as the documentary before documentary, how documentary film language works, the veracity of the image, the construction of the soundtrack, the migration of documentary to television, political documentary, censorship, first-person film making, and the relation of the archives to history and memory. Drawing on examples of documentary cinema in Japan, Iran, and Latin America as well as Europe and the USA, Chanan argues that documentary provides a crucial public space in which ideas are debated, opinion is formed and those in authority are held to account. " - BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781844572267 Contents: Part 1: Mapping the field -- 1:The new documentary wave -- 2: The documentary field -- 3: Rules of evidence -- Part 2: Historical moments -- 4: Documentary before documentary -- 5: Discovery of space -- 6: The documented point of view -- 7: Soundscapes -- 8: Public address -- 9:Essays and endeavours -- 10:Truth games -- Part 3: Contemporary Themes -- 11:Different histories -- 12: Living history -- 13: The space of the subject -- 14: After Verite -- 15: History and memory -- Index More info
book		Theorising national cinema / Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen (eds) London: British Film Institute, London, 2006. Call No: 408.1 THE Author: Vitali, Valentina; Willemen, Paul CorpAuthor: BFI Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute, London PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 326 p. ill. : 24 cm Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; JAPAN; KOREA; REPUBLIC OF IRELAND; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; BURCH, NOEL; RUSSIA; FRANCE; TAIWAN; PALESTINE; ARAB COUNTRIES; INDIA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS; GLOBALISATION Summary: Why do we think of clusters of films as a 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Theorising National Cinema is a major contribution to work on national cinemas, by many of the leading scholars in the filed. It addresses the knotty and complex relationships between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and of the films it made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation, and it goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of the nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, South Korea, Russia, France and Italy. The issue of a 'national cinema' for nation states of contested status, with disputed borders or displaced peoples, is discussed in relation to film-making in Taiwan, Ireland and Palestine. The contributors also consider the future of national cinema in an age of transnational cultural flows, exploring issues of national identity and cinema in Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East, India, Africa and Europe. ISBN: 1844571203 More info
Interim book		True variety : Funding the art of world cinema 2003. Call No: 213.13 TRU Author: Emile Fallaux (ed.); Malu Halasa (ed.); Nupu Press (ed.) CorpAuthor: International Film Festival Rotterdam PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 24 cm ; 164 p + CD Subject: FINANCING. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FINANCING; AESTHETICS; FESTIVALS. ROTTERDAM; THIRD CINEMA; IRAN; MEHRUJUI, DARIUSH; PALESTINE; TURKEY; ARGENTINA; KUREISHI, HANIF; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; INDIA; NETHERLANDS; SOUTH AFRICA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; MEXICO; RUSSIA Summary: World Cinema in the Global Village. Variety in the age of globalization. Hollywood, Bollywood and Hong Kong may produce and export the bulk of the world’s movies but a steady supply of films from other cultures creates real diversity. Filmmakers who work in the context of emerging national cinemas need support to express themselves. For fifteen years, the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has been providing that support. And the benefits have been mutual. [Taken from inside book]. Notes: Also contains a CD More info
book		Twenty-five years of the new Latin American cinema / edited by Michael Chanan London: Channel Four Television BFI Books, 1983. Call No: 71(8=6) TWE Author: Chanan, Michael Place: London Publisher: Channel Four Television BFI Books PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: iv, 40 p. ; 30 cm Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; ARGENTINA Notes: "Produced to accompany seasons of such films to be shown at the National Film Theatre in London and on Channel Four Television in the autumn of 1983"--Cover; "Filmography": p. 39-40 ISBN: 0851701507 : ª2.00 LON: 2850000 More info
newspaper article		World of cinema floats into Venice : Latin America fared well in this year's competition in The Australian [Arts & Entertainment] (15/09/2015) p.15 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; FESTIVALS. VENICE Author: Stratton, David PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; LATINO CINEMA; LATINOS IN FILMS; FESTIVALS. VENICE; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; MITCHELL, RADHA; NEILL, SAM; RUSH, GEOFFREY; EDGERTON, JOEL; DEPP, JOHNNY; MCCARTHY, THOMAS; GITAI, AMOS; REDMAYNE, EDDIE; LOOKING FOR GRACE (AT, Sue Brooks, 2015) Summary: A review of some of the films selected for the 72nd Venice International Film Festival which won awards, including Latin American films and the three Australian films that were represented - Sue Brooks' 'Looking for Grace,' Simon Stone's 'The Daughter,' and the documentary 'Tanna.' More info

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