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Female spectators : looking at film and television / edited by E. Deidre Pribram London New York: Verso, 1988.
Call No: 632.53 FEMAuthor: Pribram, E. Deidre Place: London New YorkPublisher: VersoPubDate: 1988PhysDes: vii, 199 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Questions for feminismSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; DIRECTORS ; WOMEN ON TV ; FEMINISM AND TV ; BODY ON TV ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) Notes: Bibliography: p. 196-197ISBN: 0860912043; 0860919226 (pbk.)LON: 5927013
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Film ecology : defending the biosphere - doughnut economics and film theory and practice / Susan Hayward London, New York: Routledge,
Call No: 738.1 HAYAuthor: Hayward, Susan Edition: 2020Place: London, New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePhysDes: 116 pages : figures ; 23cmSubject: ECOLOGY FILMS ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) ; GIANT (US, George Stevens, 1956) ; ERIN BROKOVICH (US, Stephen Soderbergh, 2000) ; WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987) ; WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 2013) ; HOTEL RWANDA (SA/UK/IT/US, Terry George, 2004) Summary: Using the Regenerative economic model – also known as Doughnut Economics – Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and film practice.
This book attempts to answer the questions posed by T.J. Demos (in Against the Anthropocene, 2017): how do we find a way to address planetary harm and the issues it raises within the field of Film Studies? How do we construct a theoretical model that allows us to visualize the ecological transgressions brought about by the growth-model of capitalism which is heavily endorsed by mainstream narrative cinema? By turning to the model set out in Kate Raworth’s book Doughnut Economics (2017) and adapting its fundamental principles to a study of narrative cinema, Film Ecology proposes to show how, by using this model, we can usefully plot and investigate films according to criteria that are not genre/star/auteur-led, nor indeed embedded in anthropocentric theoretical models, but principles which are ecologically based. These arguments are brought to life with examples from mainstream narrative films such as The Giant (1956), Mildred Pierce (1945), Erin Brockovich (2000), Wall Street (1987), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and Missing Figures (2016).
This approach will inspire film practitioners, film theorists, critics and analysts, film students and film lovers alike to consider how they might integrate this Doughnut model into their thinking or work as part of their process. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780367265519Contents: Introduction -- Chapter One: Film and ecology, Doughnut Economics, and film theory -- Chapter Two: Film and the Anthropocene: dirty Capitalism – Mildred Pierce (1945), Tulsa (1949), and Giant (1956) -- Chapter Three: Where we are now and where we need to be: from Source and Sink to Take > Make > Use > Re-use – Erin Brockovich (2000), Wall Street (1987), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) -- Chapter Four: A moral imperative to REVOLT: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Caphernaum (2018)
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Living screens : melodrama and plasticity in contemporary film and television / Monique Rooney London -- Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2015.
Call No: 733 ROOAuthor: Rooney, Monique Source: UKPlace: London -- Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International LtdPubDate: 2015PhysDes: x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: DisruptionsSubject: MELODRAMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; WEINER, MATTHEW ; HAYNES, TODD ; VON TRIER, LARS ; MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; MILDRED PIERCE [TV](US, 2011) Summary: Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner s Mad Men, Lars von Trier s Melancholia and Todd Haynes s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a plastic form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediationNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188), filmography (pages 188-189), and indexISBN: 9781783480470Contents: Introduction -- Mad Men: melodrama and metamorphosis -- Turned back: advertising, televisual melodrama and metamorphosis in Mad Men -- Earth-object: melodrama and plasticity in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia -- Melodrama and plasticity in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce -- Postlude: Animated statue, melody, encore (moi!)
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Movies and Methods : an anthology volume II / edited by Bill Nichols Berkeley: University of California Press, c1985.
Call No: 62(082) MOV v.2Author: Nichols, Bill (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1985PhysDes: xii, 753 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GENRES ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; SEMIOLOGY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; WALSH, RAOUL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; DAUGHTER RITE (US, Michelle Citron, 1979) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE/FR, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) Summary: "The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field. Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: This is volume IIISBN: 0520054091Contents: -- historical criticism -- genre criticism -- feminist criticism -- structuralist semiotics -- psychoanalytic semiotics -- countercurrents --
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Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / Pam Cook London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 409.1 COOAuthor: Cook, Pam Source: UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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 JACKETNotes: 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.
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Women in film noir / edited by E. Ann Kaplan London: BFI Publishing, 1998.
Call No: 734:451-02 WOMAuthor: Kaplan, E. Ann Edition: Rev. and expanded edPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI PublishingPubDate: 1998PhysDes: ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMME FATALE ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963) ; BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942) ; LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) ; BLUE GARDENIA, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1953) ; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) Notes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0851706665 (pbk.); 0851706657 (hbk.)LON: 14106071
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