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Call No: 451-01 BIN
Author: Bingham, Dennis, 1954
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WESTERNS; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; Stewart, James; NICHOLSON, JACK; EASTWOOD, CLINT; LAST DETAIL, THE (US, Hal Ashby, 1973); BEGUILED, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1971); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971); HARVEY (US, Henry Koster, 1950); HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1973); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); TIGHTROPE (US, Richard Tuggle, 1984); UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (US, Clint Eastwood, 1990)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index
ISBN: 0813520738; 0813520746 (pbk.)
LON: 10548892

Call No: 730.3 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow.
Notes: Includes note and index.
ISBN: 0 415 23507 3
Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film.

Call No: 71(94) AUS
Author: Craven, Ian
Place: London
Publisher: Frank Cass
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 239 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; GONSKI REPORT; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SUBURBS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND TV; DINGO, ERNIE; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995); BIG STEAL, THE (AT, Nadia Tass, 1990); CASTLE, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 1997); DEATH IN BRUNSWICK (AT, John Ruane, 1991); HEARTBREAK KID, THE (AT, Michael Jenkins, 1993); HEARTLAND [TV] (AT, 1994); IDIOT BOX (AT, David Caesar, 1996); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); LOVE SERENADE (AT, Shirley Barrett, 1996); METAL SKIN (AT, Geoffrey Wright, 1994); MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982); MURIEL’S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994); STRICTLY BALLROOM (AT, Baz Luhrmann, 1992)
Notes: Includes index and bibliography
ISBN: 0714649740; 0714680346(pbk.) : ª16.50
LON: 21663632
Contents: 1. Australian cinema towards the millennium / Ian Craven -- 2. Patterns of production and policy: the Australian film industry in the 1990s / Lisa French -- 3. Unhappy endings: the heterosexual dynamic in Australian film / Nigel Spence and Leah McGirr -- 4. Vulnerable bodies: creative disabilities in contemporary Australian film / Liz Ferrier -- 5. Becoming a man in Australian film in the early 1990s: The big steal, Death in Brunswick, Strictly ballroom and The heartbreak kid / Philip Butterss -- 6. His natural whiteness: modes of ethnic presence and absence in some recent Australian films / David Callahan -- 7. All quiet on the western front? Suburban reverberations in recent Australian cinema / Ben Goldsmith -- 8. Romance and sensation in the 'glitter' cycle / Emily Rustin -- 9. A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape / Tara Brabazon -- 10. The castle: 1997's 'battlers' and the ir/relevance of the aesthetic / Stephen Crofts -- 11. Idiot box: television, urban myths and ethical scenarios / Kaye Ferres -- 12. Ernie Dingo: reconciliation (a love story forged against the odds?) / Alan McKee -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: filmography / Samantha Searle -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: a select bibliography / Linda Smith
ID2: 306

Call No: 451-013 EVE
Author: Everson, William K
Edition: [1st ed.]
Place: New York
Publisher: Citadel Press
PubDate: 1964]
PhysDes: xiii, 241 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS
LON: 64025629; 1531911

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CASTING
Author: Byrnes, Paul
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CASTING; ACTORS; MEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS
Summary: An article about the age differences between actors and actresses in American films. It cites a report from website Vulture, analysing the careers of 10 middle aged men in relation to the age of their female co-stars.

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

Call No: 71(73) LEV
Author: Levy, Emanuel, 1947
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: New York University Press
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and index
ISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper)
LON: 20253533

Call No: 64POS SHA
Author: Shaviro, Steven
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: x, 276 p. ; 26 cm
Series: Theory out of bounds ; v. 2
Subject: AESTHETICS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; WARHOL, ANDY; ROMERO, GEORGE; LEWIS, JERRY; CRONENBERG, DAVID; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; GUATTARI, FELIX; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index
ISBN: 0816622949 (PB : acid-free paper)
LON: 9656941

Call No: 451-01 OBR
Author: O'Brien, Daniel
Source: UK/US
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; HEROS IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (UK/US, Don Chaffey, 1963); [THREE HUNDRED] 300 (US, Zach Snyder, 2006); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-)
Summary: "The cinema has often showcased the muscular male body, most notably in genres invoking classical Greco-Roman culture, whether peplum, epic or sword-and-sorcery. This book reassesses the classically-inflected action film as a significant cinematic form, often marginalized in media studies, that transcends such reductive labels as camp or kitsch. The focus is on the depiction of heroic masculinity, often characterized as reactionary or fascist, yet far more varied and contradictory, especially in relation to femininity and non-whiteness. These diverse representations of masculinity offer a major contribution to debates on maleness within and beyond academia that has been largely unexplored. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations is one of the most important mythopoetic figures, on a par with King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tarzan and James Bond, informing popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form"-- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index
ISBN: 9781137384706
Contents: -- Introduction -- Part I: men as men should be 1. Hercules Unchained ; 2. Hercules Reformed ; 3. Hercules Diminished ; 4. Hercules Rebooted ; 5. I'm Spartacus! -- Part II: taming the women with love or death -- 6. The Loves of Hercules ; 7. The Temptress from Beyond ; 8. Fight Like a Man -- Part III: this thing of darkness 9. White Man's Burden? ; 10. Doom's Children ; 11. This is Sparta! ; Coda -- Bibliography --Index --

Call No: 71(73) CON
Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 index
ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.)
LON: 98005952; 13736490

Call No: 71(46) JOR
Author: Jordan, Barry, 1950; Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SPAIN; COMEDIES. SPAIN; THRILLERS. SPAIN; FANTASTIC FILMS. SPAIN; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. SPAIN; HORROR FILMS. SPAIN; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. SPAIN; SPAIN: CATALONIA; SPAIN: BASQUE COUNTRY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. SPAIN; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; BIGAS LUNA; GARCI, JOSE LUIS; MEDEM, JULIO; MIRO, PILAR; SAURA, CARLOS; TRUEBA, FERNANDO; COLMENA, LA (SP, Mario Camus, 1982); NADIE HABLARA DE NOSOTRAS CUANDO HAYAMOS MUERTO (SP, Agustin Diaz Yanes, 1995)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 071904412X (hbk.); 0719044138 (pbk.)
LON: abn98241412; 14031781

Call No: 626:396 MOD
Author: Modleski, Tania, 1949
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xi, 188 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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. -- PUBLISHER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-182) and index
ISBN: 0415904161 : $39.95; 041590417X (pbk) : $13.95
LON: bnb41590416; 7924353
Contents: 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 margins
ID2: 31

Call No: 62 FIE
Author: Devereaux, Leslie; Hillman, Roger
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MONTAGE; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SOUND; ADAPTATIONS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979); NAME OF THE ROSE, THE [NAME DER ROSE, DER] (GW/IT/FR, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986); RIVERS OF SAND (US, Robert Gardner, 1974)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0520085248 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0520085221 (alk. paper)
LON: 10726537

Call No: 749.4 GRE
Author: Grevn, David
Edition: 2016
Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
PhysDes: x,306 p. : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Horizons of Cinema
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996); HALLOWEEN (US, Rob Zombie, 2007); HOSTEL (US, Eli Roth, 2005)
Notes: Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey’s and Gilles Deleuze’s paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher film Scream to bromances and beta male comedies such as I Love You, Man to dramas such as Donnie Darko and 25th Hour to Rob Zombie’s remake of the horror film Halloween. Greven also traces the disturbing connections between torture porn found in such films as Hostel and gay male Internet pornography. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781438460062
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Disrecognitions 1. Ghost Faces, Genre Bodies 2. The Murderous Origins of Bromance: Genre, Queer Killers, and Scream 3. “I Love You, Brom Bones”: Beta Male Comedies, Bromances, and American Culture 4. Apparitional Men: Masculinity and the Psychoanalytic Scene 5. Trick-or-Treating Alone: Rob Zombie’s Halloween 6. Torture/Porn: Hostel, Homophobia, and Gay Male Internet Pornography Coda Notes Bibliography Index

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

Call No: 451-054(73) WIL
Author: Willis, Sharon
Place: Durham, N.C.
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 266 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; LEE, SPIKE; LYNCH, DAVID; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987)
Summary: In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-257) and index
ISBN: 0822320290 (cloth : acid-free paper); 082232041X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LON: 97013147; 13158378
Contents: Part 1. Battles of the sexes -- 1. Mutilated Masculinties and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons -- 2. Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct -- 3. Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 -- Part II. Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze -- 4. Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style -- 5. Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style -- 6. Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity

Call No: 753AUS JAN
Author: Greenfield, Sayre N., 1956; Troost, Linda, 1957
Source: US
Place: Lexington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: 202 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; THOMPSON, EMMA; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996); CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995); SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1940); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995); PERSUASION (UK, Roger Michell, 1995)
Summary: "In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced - an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millenium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels." - BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index
ISBN: 0813120845 (alk. paper)
LON: 13891695
Contents: Introduction: watching ourselves watching / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield -- Out of the drawing room, onto the lawn / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Balancing the courtship hero: masculine emotional display in film adaptation of Austen's novels / Cheryl L. Nixon -- Misrepresenting Jane Austen's ladies: revising texts (and history) to sell films / Rebecca Dickson -- Austen, class and the American market / Carol M. Dole -- Jane Austen, film, and the pitfalls of postmodern nostalgia / Amanda Collins -- "A correct taste in landscape": Pemberley as fetish and commodity / H. Elisabeth Ellington -- Mr. Darcy's body: privileging the female gaze / Lisa Hopkins -- Emma becomes Clueless / Suzanne Ferriss -- "As if!": translating Austen's ironic narrator to film / Nora Nachumi -- Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as gateway to Austen's novel / M. Casey Diana -- "Piracy is our only option": postfeminist intervention in Sense and Sensibility / Kristin Flieger Samuelian -- Feminist implications of the silver screen Austen / Devoney Looser -- Mass marketing Jane Austen: men, women, and courtship in two film adaptations / Deborah Kaplan

Call No: 451-0 DYE
Author: Dyer, Richard
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: ix, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 index
ISBN: 0415057183; 0415057191 (pbk.)
LON: 9732647

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MEN IN FILMS

Author: Ball, Steven
PhysDes: Article; Bio-filmography; Credits
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. UK; REEVES, DANIEL; LE GRICE, MALCOLM; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN; OBSESSIVE BECOMING (UK, Daniel Reeves, 1995); CHRONOS FRAGMENTED (UK, Malcolm Le Grice, 1995); TRYING TO KISS THE MOON (UK, Stephen Dwoskin, 1994)
Summary: Ball's essay explores the personal avant-garde video works of Daniel Reeves, Malcolm Le Grice and Stephen Dwoskin. Includes Reeves and Le Grice filmography.

Call No: 71(94) OXF REF
Author: Mayer, Geoff; McFarlane, Brian, 1934; Bertrand, Ina, 1939
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 1 v
Subject: 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; Bibliography
ISBN: 0195537971
LON: 20072774

Call No: 632.43 HOP
Author: Hopgood, Fincina
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: University of Melbourne
PubDate: 2000
Subject: DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); HERO IN FILMS; MILLENIUM AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA

Call No: 451-01(94) BAR
Author: Barnett, Chelsea
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Victoria
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: vii, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); SMILEY (UK, Anthony Kimmins, 1956); SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957)
Summary: "Set against the shifting social and political backdrop of a nation throwing off the shackles of one war yet faced with the instability of the new world order, Reel Men probes the concept of 1950s masculinity itself, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time. Offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, the book challenges the common belief that the fifties was a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking. Reel Men engages with fourteen Australian feature films made and released between 1949 and 1962, and examines the multiple masculinities in circulation at this time. Dealing with beloved Australian films like Jedda (1955), Smiley (1956), and The Shiralee (1957), and national icons of the silver screen including Chips Rafferty, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, and Peter Finch, Reel Men delves into our cultural past to dismantle powerful assumptions about film, the fifties, and masculinity in Australia." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780522872477
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1 the Australian film industry: dead or alive? -- 2 Australian nation, Australian men -- 3 beyond the breadwinner -- 4 assimilation stories -- 5 anything for the family? -- 6 more than mates? -- conclusion -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 81:747.5SCO NIC
Author: Mark Nicholls
CorpAuthor: Pluto Press
Place: Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Pluto Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 24 cm; 191 pp
Subject: SCORSESE, MARTIN; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); GOODFELLAS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1990); CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991); MEN IN FILMS. USA
Summary: Martin Scorsese is the most influential director of his generation and, with his work regularly included among the top twenty films of all time, his place in cinema history is indisputable. Scorsese’s films have defined the cinematic essence of each decade since the 1960s and have set the standard of New Hollywood cinema. Join author Mark Nicholls as he traces Martin Scorsese’s central theme of melancholia, nostalgia and loss through five films from the legendary director: The Age of Innocence, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and Cape Fear. Scorsese’s melancholic hero, Nicholls argues, is the Hamlet of Hollywood cinema. His journey is driven by an encounter with a corrupt and conservative mob and by his own overpowering experience of loss. Refusing to renounce that loss, under pressure from the mob, Scorsese’s men construct an elaborate and intriguing fantasy of perverse male desire. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1864031565
ID2: 45

Call No: 71(94) DER v.2
Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 1987-<1988
PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm
Series: Australian screen series
Subject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schultz, 1983); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965); ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982); F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977); HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981); KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979); PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980); WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)
LON: 5369777

Call No: 451-01 SCR
Author: Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MUSICALS; ACTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; WHITE HEAT (US, Raoul Walsh, 1949); PLAY MISTY FOR ME (US, Clint Eastwood, 1971); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
Summary: "Screening the Male challenges the traditional understanding of the male's position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale's ground-breaking article on the male spectacle, this collection looks beyong the seemingly unassailable monolithic understanding of the 'masculine' which has previously dominiated most film criticism. Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzeneeger, from the musical to the horror film. from close readings to 'queer' readings, the essays all differ in their critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest, each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generational differences." -- BOOK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN: 0415077583; 0415077591 (pbk.)
LON: 92005815; 8965703

Call No: 409.1 COO
Author: Cook, Pam
Source: UK
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; WESTERNS; SCORSESE, MARTIN; BIGELOW, KATHRYN; HAYNES, TODD; WONG KAR WAI; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983); LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988); MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); MANDY (UK, Alexander Mackendrick, 1952); DANCE WITH A STRANGER (UK, Mike Newell, 1985)
Summary: Exploring film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. Examines current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, with the suggestion that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pp. 241-46)
ISBN: 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Contents: Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.

Call No: 451BAZ
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute. Education Dept
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Education
PubDate: 0198-?]
PhysDes: 42 slides, col., photosheets 1 and 2, broadsheet, teachers' booklet, students' booklet ; in plastic folder
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS
Summary: The pack examines the construction of audiences and how they are addressed, and the commercial. The concept of stereotyping is introduced, with examples of gender stereotyping
Notes: Students' booklet entitled: The companies you keep
LON: abn84090813; 3170586

Call No: 451-01/02 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 195 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Comedia
Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; GENRES; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; BIGELOW, KATHRYN
Notes: Filmography: p. 178-185; Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-190) and index
ISBN: 0415092248; 041509223X (hbk.)
LON: 92044020; 9902660
Contents: 1. Women warriors: gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines -- 2. Black buddies and white heroes: racial discourse in the action cinema -- 3. New Hollywood, genre and the action cinema -- 4. Tough guys and wise-guys: masculinities and star images in the action cinema -- 5. Masculinite, politics and national identity -- 6. The body in crisis or the body triumphant? -- 7. Action heroines in the 1980s: the limits of 'musculinity' -- The cinema as experience: Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle

Call No: 451-01 PFE
Author: Pfeil, Fred
Place: London
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xxi, 269 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Haymarket series
Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "What do men - white straight men in particular - want? IN a series of witty and provcative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of what heterosexual masculinity over the last fifteen years. White Guys proves such topics as the rock'n'roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose, and the late Kurt Cobain; the 'male rampage' films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and the films of 'sensitive transpormation' that followed in their wake; and the curious yet symptomatic activities of the men's movement whose 'rituals' Pfeil has investigated firsthand. Pfeil's aim is to reveal the ambiguity and flux in a social category too often assumed to be monolithic and unchanging. White Guys invites its readers to consider the shifts in mainstream masculinity's representation, in relation to the general emergence of postmodern 'tribalisms' and in the context of changes in both contemporary feminism and the global economy." -- BOOK COVER
ISBN: 1859849377 : ¦39.95; 1859840329 (pbk.) : ¦12.99
LON: bnc85984937; 11499168
Contents: From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the Male Rampage Film -- The Year of Living Sensitively -- Rock Incorporated: Plugging in to Axl and Bruce -- Soft-Boiled Dicks -- Guerillas in the Mist: Wild Guys and New Age Tribes -- Chips off the Old Block