Search Catalogue | AFI Research Collection

4 results out of 4

Online resource book		Cinema against spectacle : technique and ideology revisited / by Jean-Louis Comolli; translated and edited by Daniel Fairfax Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. Available at OAPEN (open access) Call No: 62(081) COM Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Series: Film theory in media history Subject: COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MITRY, JEAN; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; VERTOV, DZIGA; WELLES, ORSON Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9789089645548 Contents: Cinema against Spectacle -- I.Opening the Window? -- II.Inventing the Cinema? -- III.Filming the Disaster? -- IV.Cutting the Figure? -- V.Changing the Spectator? -- Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field -- I.On a Dual Origin, The ideological place of the "base apparatus", Birth = deferral: The invention of the cinema -- II.Depth of Field: The Double Scene, Bazin's "surplus realism", The work of "transparency", For a materialist history of the cinema, "For the first time..." -- III."Primitive" Depth of Field -- IV.Effacement of Depth/ Advent of Speech -- V.Which Speech?. More info
book		Documentary time : film and phenomenology / Malin Wahlberg Minneopolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2008. Call No: 630:761 WAH Author: Wahlberg, Malin Source: US Place: Minneopolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: c2008 PhysDes: xvii, 170 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Series: Visible evidence ; v. 21 Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; WARHOL, ANDY; DELEUZE, GILLES; BAZIN, ANDRE; MITRY, JEAN Summary: The book attempts to look at the idea of time for both the maker of documentaries, and the viewer of such works; it attempts to bring together the philosophy of time and the ideas of documentary making [Taken from the back of the book] Notes: Bibliography: p.151-164; Includes index ISBN: 9780816649686 More info
book		The major film theories : an introduction / J. Dudley Andrew London New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Call No: 62 AND Author: Andrew, Dudley, 1945 Place: London New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: x, 278 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; BALAZS, BELA; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; BAZIN, ANDRE; MITRY, JEAN; METZ, CHRISTIAN Summary: "The major film theories is designed for anyone with a serious interest in the art of film. It is both a history film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important and influential writers on the subject - Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry and Metz. Andrew sets these major theorists one against the other forcing them to speak to common issues, thereby making them reveal the bases of their thought. He compares the formative tradition with that of the realist to illustrate the development of both theories." The final secion of the book deals with contemporary French film theory which is still in the process of develping. Andrew locates these film theories in the contect of larger intellectual movements, including Gestalt psychology, Russian formalism, Neo-Kantianism and Existentialism." -- Back cover Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 261-272 ISBN: 0195019911 : $3.95 (U.S.) LON: 75025465; 741859 Contents: Introduction -- Part 1 : The formative tradition -- Hugo Munsterberg. Matter and means ; Form and function -- Rudolf Arnheim. Material ; The creative use of the medium ; Film form ; The purpose of film -- Sergei Eisenstein. The raw material of film ; Cinematic means : creation through montage ; Film form ; The final purpose of film -- Be´la Bala´zs and the tradition of formalism. A summary of formative film theory ; Russian formalism ; Be´la Bala´zs ; The raw material of film art ; The creative potential of film technique ; Cinematic shape or form ; Cinematic functions -- Part 2 : Realist film theory -- Siegfried Kracauer. Matter and means ; Compositional forms ; The purpose of cinema ; Rebuttals -- Andre´ Bazin. The raw material ; Cinematic means and form ; The function of cinema -- Part 3 : Contemporary French film theory -- Jean Mitry. The raw material ; Creative potential in film ; The form and purpose of cinema -- Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema. The raw material ; The means of signification in cinema ; The forms and possibilities of film ; Semiology and the purposes of film -- The challenge of phenomenology : Ame´de´e Ayfre and Henri Agel URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:38:25 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Call No: 62 CAS Author: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cm Subject: THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; BARTHES, ROLAND; BAZIN, ANDRE; BORDWELL, DAVID; DELEUZE, GILLES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; LACAN, JACQUES; HORKHEIMER, MAX; MITRY, JEAN; MORAN, EDGAR; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index ISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.) LON: 14328673 More info

Online resources

Some of our items are now available digitally. On the catalogue they are indicated with an ‘online resource’ label above the thumbnail.

Some items have direct links that you can use if you are eligible. Some items are only available to RMIT staff and students or may be otherwise limited.

Some items are not deliverable directly. Please request these items using the search results form (or contact us) and we will contact you to check eligibility and to arrange delivery. Please note that digital clippings files for films prior to 2020 may have different contents to their physical equivalents and you should check both versions if possible.

Country codes