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Cinema of obsession : erotic fixation and love gone wrong in the movies / written by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini New York: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Call No: 747.6 MAIAuthor: Mainon, Dominique ; Ursini, James Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Limelight EditionsPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xv, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GAZE IN FILMS ; LOVE IN FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; ROMANTIC FILMS Summary: "Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, The Killers, Wild at Heart, Last Tango in Paris, Vertigo - the names alone evoke dark images of peverse passion and erotic fixation, heartbreak, deception, and love gone terribly wrong. In Cinema of Obsession, noted film scribes Dominique Mainon and James Ursini tackle stories of love and its many dark permutations - the male domination of Phantom of the Opera and The Collector, the star-crossed love stories of Romeo and Juliet and Bonnie and Clyde, the violent female obsession of Mulholland Drive and Fatal Attraction - all of these and dozens more are discussed in depth, analyzed, and dissected. In addition to plot description, character analysis, and commentary, Mainon and Ursini offer psychological profiles of cinema's most infamous and tortured characters. No stone is left unturned in this, the first-ever comprehensive guide to the twisted side of romantic cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes filmography: p. 367-387; Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-389) and indexISBN: 9780879103477Contents: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inverted Desire and Obsessive Love -- 1. Obsessive Love in the Cinema: The Seminal Films -- 2. Amour Fou: Postwar Sexual/Romantic Implosion -- 3. Love on the Run: The Fugitive Couple -- 4. A Voyeur's Tale: The Male Gaze -- 5. The Tables Turned: The Female Gaze -- Appendix: The Literary, Philosophical, and Psychological Roots of Obsession and Mad Love -- Filmography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of titles --
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Love, Mortality and the Moving Image / by Emma Wilson Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Call No: 747.19 WILAuthor: Wilson, Emma Source: UK/USPlace: Basingstoke, EnglandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2012PhysDes: ix, 184 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cmSubject: LOVE IN FILMS ; DEATH IN FILMS ; VIDEO ART Summary: "In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study scrutinizes emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing. Its focus is on love, tenderness, and eroticism, on the undoing of the self in desire and loss, and on the pursuit of relations with a missing other. In dialogue with Judith Butler on greivability, and Giorgio Agamben on bare life, Emma Wilson traces connections between imaging of intimate losses and public acts of mourning in response to atrocity, the Shoah and Hurricane Katrina. The book lays out a series of sensitive new readings of works by Agnes Varda, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others. Attending to images of tactility, to fine details of texture, light, and affect, it re-imagines the role of the sensuous in lens-based art. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780230308398Contents: -- acknowledgments -- plates -- introduction -- 1.Love -- 2.Mother -- 3.Child -- 4.Coma -- 5.Pieta -- 6.Touch -- 7.Home -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Moving Image Artworks -- index --
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Lovers / Linda Sunshine Atlanta, Ga.: Turner Pub., c1992.
Call No: 802.27 SUNAuthor: Sunshine, Linda Edition: 1st edPlace: Atlanta, Ga.Publisher: Turner Pub.PubDate: c1992PhysDes: 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: LOVE IN FILMS ; GARBO, GRETA ; GILBERT, JOHN ; GABLE, CLARK ; HARLOW, JEAN ; Crawford, Joan ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; ROGERS, GINGER ; LOY, MYRNA ; MACDONALD, JEANETTE ; EDDY, NELSON ; FLYNN, ERROL ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; PIDGEON, WALTER ; GARLAND, JUDY ; ROONEY, MICKEY ; GARSON, GREER ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BACALL, LAUREN ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; BURTON, RICHARD ; NEWMAN, PAUL ; WOODWARD, JOANNE ; TRACY, SPENCER ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ALLEN, WOODY ; Keaton, Diane ; FARROW, MIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201), filmographies, and indexISBN: 1878685031 : $29.95LON: 8931051
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The piano / Gail Jones Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press, 2007.
Call No: 79PIA JONAuthor: Jones, Gail CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission: National Film and Sound ArchiveSource: AustraliaPlace: Strawberry Hills, NSWPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: viii, 85 p. : ill. ; 20cmSeries: Australian Screen ClassicsSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; REGIONAL CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; REGIONAL CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS ; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN FILMS ; SPEECH ; ROMANCE IN FILMS ; LOVE IN FILMS ; SEA IN FILMS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; MOTHERS IN FILMS ; CHILDREN IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; SILENCE IN FILMS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; JANE CAMPION ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) Summary: "When 'The Piano' opened in 1993 it was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece. Written and directed by Jane Campion, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win this prestigious award. It went on to win Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Campion), Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin).
"In this thoughtful and perceptive critique, Gail Jones assesses the film's unearthly and controversial visions, its poetic power and its capacity to entrance and to alienate."Notes: Includes notes, bibliography, filmography, 'The Piano' credits and synopses of other books in the 'Australian Screen Classics' series.ISBN: 9780868197999
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Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Call No: 62 POSAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: MadisonPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cmSeries: Wisconsin studies in filmSubject: THEORY ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; MUSIC, FILM ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; JAPAN ; DENMARK ; EXHIBITION ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; EDITING ; PERCEPTION ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS ; GENRES ; LOVE IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; WARNER BROS. ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; GIBSON, JAMES J. ; COHN, HARRY ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; MANDEL, ERNEST ; RENOV, MICHAEL ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 95037052; 11859923
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