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book		After taste : cultural value and the moving image / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Call No: 62(04) AFT Source: K Place: Abingdon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm. Subject: B-MOVIES; CRITICISM; RECEPTION; AMATEUR FILMS; LOW BUDGET FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and unworthy films – this trend has been evident in various formats: on television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films, amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste. More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and teaching of ‘bad objects’ in the media. This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of ‘after taste’ media. Addressing global and local developments – from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western Django – the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic and political value of the moving image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415845939 Contents: 1. Introduction: after taste: cultural value and the moving image / Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis -- Part I: Critical methods and approaches. 2. `An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema / Adrian Martin -- 3. Hollywood: bad cinema's bad `other' / Jane Mills -- 4. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: towards a phenomenology of bad film / Jane Stadler -- 5. Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! through time: historicizing value judgement / Julia Vassilieva -- Part II: Taste and value. 6. Transitional tastes: teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight / Lisa Bode -- 7. `Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight / Simon Sellars -- 8. Making the commercial personal: the authorial value of Jerry Bruckheimer television / Tom Steward -- 9. Blowing chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice / Scott Wilson -- Part III: Feeling and affect. 10. Labours of love: home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship / Minette Hillyer -- 11. Dead time: cinema, Heidegger, and boredom / Richard Misek -- Part IV: Teaching bad objects forum. 12. Teaching bad objects: introduction / Jodi Brooks -- 13. The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object / Jodi Brooks -- 14. Beyond good/should/bad: teaching Australian Indigenous film and television / Therese Davis -- 15. Teaching Australian television studies / Belinda Smaill. More info
book		The age of the dream palace : cinema and society in Britain 1930-1939 / Jeffrey Richards London Boston: Routlege & K. Paul, 1984. Call No: 71(41) RIC Author: Richards, Jeffrey Place: London Boston Publisher: Routlege & K. Paul PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Cinema and society Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; FIELDS, GRACIE; HOWARD, LESLIE; FORMBY, GEORGE; MATTHEWS, JESSIE Notes: Includes indexes ISBN: 0710097646 : $30.00 (est.) LON: 2989884 6476895 More info
book		American film and society since 1945 / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster London: Macmillan, 1984. Call No: 71(73) QUA Author: Quart, Leonard; Auster, Albert Place: London Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: 156 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [147]-148 ISBN: 0333300211; 0333300238 (pbk.) LON: 3114297 3114297 More info
Interim book		American movie audiences: from the turn of the century to the early sound era / Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999. Call No: 410(73) STO Author: Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 186 p. ; 23 cm Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; AUDIENCES, US; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: This book is an investigation by various authors into the early days of American cinema. Topics covered include: Jewish immigrant audiences in New York City 1905-14, Small town picture shows, representations of the audience in early cinema advertising, at the movies in Milwaukee in 1918. ISBN: 0851707211 More info
book		Another cinema for another society / Gaston Roberge Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1985. Call No: 408.1(540) ROB Author: Roberge, Gaston Source: II Place: Calcutta Publisher: Seagull Books PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cm Subject: CRITICISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; RAY, SATYAJIT; WELLES, ORSON; BRON, PETER; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927) Summary: "Father Gaston Roberge, Director of Chitrabani, a Calcutta-based institution involved in development communication, and a media critic in his own right, with five title to his credit already, proposes, in his latest work, a militant programme... for another cinema committed to the building up of another society.' He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics, with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles, and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema" -Book blurb ISBN: 0861320751 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Preface -- Part one: cinema -- Introduction: a militant programme -- What is it in cinema that makes it cinema -- Montage: the formative principle -- An anthropology of the cinema -- An exercise in film appreciation or the magnificent Andre Bazin -- Author-ity, text-uality and read-in(g) -- Part two: society -- The end of a film era -- Nine and one facts and not a few illusions -- Of many movies and some words to talk about them -- Films for social change -- Politics in film -- The politics of non-political cinema -- The cultural and social influence of foreign films -- History through films and filmed history -- Conclusion -- Film education for a new movie-man -- index More info
book		Apocalypse postponed / Umberto Eco ; edited by Robert Lumley Bloomington London: Indiana University Press British Film Institute, 1994. Call No: 403 ECO Author: Eco, Umberto; Lumley, Robert, 1951 Place: Bloomington London Publisher: Indiana University Press British Film Institute PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: vii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Perspectives Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GINGER AND FRED [GINGER E FRED] (IT/FR/GW, Federico Fellini, 1986); GINGER AND FRED [GINGER E FRED] (IT/FR/GW, Federico Fellini, 1986) Summary: An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organized in four main parts, "Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed," "Mass Media and the Limits of Communication," "The Rise and Fall of Counter-Cultures," and "In Search of Italian Genius," Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's Ginger and Fred, and the Italian genius industry Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0851704468 (pbk.); 0253318513 (U.S. : cloth); 0851704182 (cloth) LON: 10612725 More info
book		Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014. Call No: 758 BAR Author: Baron, Cynthia; Carson, Diane; Bernard, Mark Source: US Place: Detroit MI Publisher: Wayne State University Press PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: viii, 334 pages ; 23 cm Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series Subject: FOOD IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography ISBN: 9780814334317 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014 Contents: Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics. More info
Online resource book		Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. Available at OAPEN (open access) Call No: 410.3 AUD Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Series: Key debates ; 3. Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCES; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; EXHIBITION; BOX OFFICE Summary: "This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and indexes. ISBN: 9789089643629 Contents: Introduction: in search of audiences / Ian Christie -- pt. 1. Reassessing historic audiences. "At the picture palace": the British cinema audience, 1895-1920 / Nicholas Hiley The gentleman in the stalls: Georges Melies and spectatorship in early cinema / Frank Kessler Beyond the nickelodeon: cinema going, everyday life and identity politics / Judith Thissen Cinema in the colonial city: early film audiences in Calcutta / Ranita Chatterjee Locating early non-theatrical audiences / Gregory A Waller Understanding audience behavior through statistical evidence: London and Amsterdam in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick and Clara Pafort-Overduin -- pt. 2. New frontiers in audience research. The aesthetics and viewing regimes of cinema and television, and their dialectics / Annie van den Oever Tapping into our tribal heritage: The lord of the rings and brain evolution / Torben Grodal Cinephilia in the digital age / Laurent Jullier and Jean-Marc Leveratto Spectator, film and the mobile phone / Roger Odin Exploring inner worlds: where cognitive psychology may take us / a dialogue between Tim J. Smith and Ian Christie -- pt. 3. Once and future audiences. Crossing out the audience / Martin Barker The cinema spectator: a special memory / Raymond Bellour Operatic cinematics: a new view from the stalls / Kay Armatiage What do we really know about film audiences? / Ian Christie. URL status: URL: 'https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34451' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:29:06 PM Status: Live Details: HTTP status 200 - Usual success response More info
book		Australian Film Festivals : audience, place, and exhibition culture / by Kirsten Stevens New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2016. Call No: 151(94) STE Author: Stevens, Kirsten Source: AT/US Place: New York Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: c2016 PhysDes: xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm Series: Framing film festivals Subject: FESTIVALS; FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; EXHIBITION; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Summary: "This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven spectacles throughout Australia, while never developing the same industry and market foci of their international fellows. Drawing on over sixty-years of archival records, festival commentary, interviews with festival insiders and ephemera, this book opens up a largely uncharted history of film culture activity in Australia. " -- BOOK BACK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781137586377 Contents: -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Enthusiastic Amateurs: Origins of Australia's Film Festival Movement -- 3: Growth and Change: Curator-Led Festivals, Fragmenting Audiences, and Shifting Film Exhibition Cultures -- 4: From Film Weeks to Festivals: The Spread of the Urban Film Festival After 1980 -- 5: Between Success and Failure: Crisis and Recovery at the Melbourne International Film Festival -- 6: Programming Perceptions: Film Festivals and the Construction of Taste -- 7: A Festival for Every Occasion: Niche Programming, Event Culture, and Vertically Integrated Film Festivals -- 8: Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Early Features of Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival Programmes (1952-1965) -- Appendix 2: Summary of Select Film Culture and Festival Activities, 1960s-1970s -- Appendix 3: Selective List of Film Events in Melbourne, 1949-2000 -- Appendix 4: Film Festivals in Melbourne and Sydney, 2015 -- Notes -- archives and Research Collections -- Bibliography -- Index -- More info
book		Australian national cinema / Tom O'Regan London New York: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 408.1(94) ORE Copy Management: 2 copies Author: O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cm Series: National cinemas series Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-391) and indexes ISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302 LON: 12193364 Contents: 1. Introducing Australian national cinema -- 2. Theorizing Australian cinema -- 3. A national cinema -- 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema -- 5. Formations of value -- 6. Making meaning -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Unity -- 9. Negotiating cultural transfers -- 10. A distinct place in the cinema -- 11. Problematizing the social -- 12. Problematizing gender -- 13. Problematizing nationhood -- 14. Critical dispositions. More info
book		Best of British : cinema and society, 1930-1970 / Jeffrey Richards and Anthony Aldgate Oxford, England: B. Blackwell, 1983. Call No: 71(41) RIC Author: Richards, Jeffrey; Aldgate, Anthony Place: Oxford, England Publisher: B. Blackwell PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 170 p. ; 28 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK Notes: Filmography: p. [162]-166; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0631130187 : ª12.50 LON: 2833274 More info
book		Beyond the screen : emerging cinema and engaging audiences / Sarah Atkinson New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Call No: 409(-017.2) ATK Author: Atkinson, Sarah Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xiv, 293 pages ; 24 cm. Subject: AUDIENCES; DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; MOBILE AND ONLINE MEDIA; MOBILE CINEMAS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA Summary: This book presents an expanded conceptualization of cinema which encompasses the myriad ways film can be experienced in a digitally networked society where the auditorium is now just one location amongst many in which audiences can encounter and engage with films. It includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through numerous examples and case studies of recent and near-future developments. -- taken from the back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. ISBN: 9781501308659 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2016 Contents: Introduction -- Extending cinema -- Mobile cinema -- Socially layered cinema -- The ethics of emerging cinema -- The business of emerging cinema -- The grammar of emerging cinema -- Epilogue. More info
book		Bollywood : sociology goes to the movies / Rajinder Kumar Dudrah New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. Call No: 408.1 (54) DUD Author: Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar Source: II Place: New Delhi Publisher: Sage Publications PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 210 p. : ill. (b+w) ; 22cm. Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BOLLYWOOD Summary: Replete with memorable examples and penetrating insights, this book: Provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical engagement with Bollywood cinema and its audiences Examines the role and representations of cultural icons in Bollywood films Discusses the Bollywood film industry as it develops in the era of globalization ISBN: 0761934618 Language: English More info
book		The book of the cinema / foreword by Francois Truffaut; a Chris Milsome book London: Artists House, 1979. Call No: 70:62 MIL; FOLIO Author: Milsome, Chris [editorial director] Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Artists House PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 240 p. ; 32 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; SOUND; PRODUCTION; APPRECIATION; CRITICISM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; FORD, JOHN; HAWKS, HOWARD; WELLES, ORSON; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BERGMAN, INGMAR; GODARD, JEAN-LUC Notes: Includes A-Z filmmakers and actors, and glossary. ISBN: 0861340108 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
Interim book		British cinemas and their audiences : sociological studies / by J.P. Mayer London: Dennis Dobson, 1948. Call No: 46(41) MAY Author: Mayer, J.P. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Dennis Dobson PubDate: 1948 PhysDes: [viii] 280 p. : illus. : 22cm. Series: International theatre and cinema Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH; ETHICS IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes appendices, bibliography and index. More info
book		The changing face of evil in film and television / edited by Martin F. Norden New York: Rodopi, 2007. Call No: 626 [216] (04) NOR Author: Norden, Martin F. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Rodopi PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xxi, 244p. : ill. ; 23cm Series: At the Interface, vol 41. Subject: EVIL IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND TV Summary: Collection of essays examining the way evil has been represented in both film and television. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9789042023246 Language: English Contents: Introduction / Martin F. Norden -- The bite at the beginning : encoding evil through film title design / Matthew Soar -- Screening evil in history : Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III / Linda Bradley Salamon -- The radical monism of Alfred Hitchcock / Mike Frank -- Natural evil in the horror film : Alfred Hitchcock's The birds / Cynthia Freeland -- "The devil made me do it" : representing evil and disarticulating mind/body in the supernatural serial killer film / Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider -- Virtue, vice, and the Harry Potter universe / Thomas Hibbs -- Training day and The shield : evil cops and the taint of blackness / Robin R. Means Coleman and Jasmine Nicole Cobb -- The "uncanny" relationship of disability and evil in film and television / Martin F. Norden -- Comedy and the Holocaust in Roberto Benigni's Life Is beautiful/La vita e` bella / Carlo Celli -- On the void : the fascinating object of evil in Human remains / Garnet C. Butchart -- The perfidious president and "the beast" : evil in Oliver Stone's Nixon / John F. Stone -- Televising 9/11 and its aftermath : the framing of George W. Bush's faith-based politics of good and evil / Gary R. Edgerton, William B. Hart and Frances Hassencahl More info
book		Cinema and society : France and Germany during the Twenties / Paul Monaco New York ; Oxford ; Amsterdam: Elsevier, c1976. Call No: 71 MON Author: Monaco, Paul Place: New York ; Oxford ; Amsterdam Publisher: Elsevier PubDate: c1976 PhysDes: viii, 194 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. GERMANY; INDUSTRY, FILM. FRANCE; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY Summary: An analysis of the social function of cinema in France and Germany in the decade following World War I. Notes: Based on the author's thesis, Brandeis University, 1973, presented under title: Cinema and society in France and Germany, 1919-29. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 169-184. ISBN: 0444990194 More info
Old collection book		Cinema survey / Robert Herring; Bryher; Dallas Bower [London]: Brendin Publishing, [1937]. Call No: F49:37 HER Author: Herring, Robert et al. Source: UK Place: [London] Publisher: Brendin Publishing PubDate: [1937] PhysDes: 31p. ; 19 cm. Series: the survey pamphlets Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; EDUCATION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA More info
Interim book		The Cinema to-day / by D.A. Spencer and H.D. Waley London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Call No: 70 SPE Author: Spencer, D.A.; Waley, H.D. Edition: 2nd edition Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1956 PhysDes: x, 202p. ; illus ; 22cm. Series: The Pageant of progress series (no.9) Subject: TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; CINEMATOGRAPHY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliography and index. More info
book		City flicks : Indian cinema and the urban experience / edited by Preben Kaarsholm Oxford: Seagull Books, 2007. Call No: 408.1(54) KAA Author: Kaarsholm, Preben Edition: rev. and updated Source: UK Place: Oxford Publisher: Seagull Books PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: ix, 274p. :24cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; BOLLYWOOD; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. INDIA Summary: "The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussions of urbanity and film language to realism and the Indian city in Bengali film of the 1940s; from the cultural resonances of popular Hindi film songs and the idea of the "city" to realism and fantasy in cinematic representations of metropolitan Indian life; from cinematic aspects of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to genre, narrative form and film style in contemporary Indian urban action films; from the complexities of female spectatorship to an analysis of the current primacy of Bollywood; and finally, to the cultural impact and influence of Indian cinema on audiences outside India." [taken from cover] ISBN: 1905422369 Language: English Contents: Introduction Unreal City: Cinematic Representation, Globalization and the Ambiguities of Metropolitan Life / Preben Kaarsholm 1 -- Urban Legends: Notes on a Theme in Early Film Theory / Peter Larsen 26 -- The City and the Real: Chhinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s / Moinak Biswas 40 -- Reading a Song of the City-Images of the City in Literature and Films / Sudipta Kaviraj 60 -- Realism and Fantasy in Representations of Metropolitan Life in Indian Cinema / M. Madhava Prasad 82 -- A Close-Up on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Martin Zerlang 99 -- The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha 111 -- Chalo Jahaji: Bollywood in the Tracks of Indenture to Globalization / Manas Ray 138 -- Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema in Nigeria / Brian Larkin 180 -- The Politics of Urban Segregation and Indian Cinema in Durban / Vashna Jagarnath 207 -- The Exhilaration of Dread: Genre, Narrative Form and Film Style in Contemporary Urban Action Films / Ravi S. Vasudevan 219 -- Vigilantism and the Pleasures of Masquerade: The Female Spectator of Vijayasanthi Films / Tejaswini Niranjana 233 More info
Interim book		Common fame : the culture of celebrity / by Richard Schickel London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1985. Call No: 465 SCH Author: Schickel, Richard Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Pavilion Books Limited PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 299p. : 22cm. Subject: STAR SYSTEM; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: American edition entitled "Intimate strangers: the culture of celebrity". ISBN: 0907516963 More info
Interim book		A competitive cinema / Terence Kelly with Graham Norton and George Perry London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1966. Call No: 201 (41) KEL Author: Kelly, Terence; Norton, Graham; Perry, George Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs PubDate: 1966 PhysDes: 204 p. : 23 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; GOVERNMENT AID. UK; NATIONAL CONTENT. UNITED KINGDOM; EXHIBITION. UK; BOX OFFICE; DISTRIBUTION; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; EDUCATION, FILM. UK; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; BRITISH LION; NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION Notes: Includes bibliography and index More info
book		Convergence culture : where old and new media collide / by Henry Jenkins New York, NY: NYU Press, 2006. Call No: 202 JEN Author: Jenkins, Henry Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: NYU Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 308 p. : b+w ill. ; 24cm Subject: MEDIA; MEDIA STUDIES; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER GAMES AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND TV; SOCIETY AND TV; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SURVIVOR [TV]; AMERICAN IDOL [TV] (US, 2002-); MATRIX, THE [...] (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999-2003); HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE [HARRY POTTER] (UK/US, Chris Columbus, 2001) Summary: "The standard convergence narrative of recent years presents media concentration as a threat both to the diversity of communication channels and to individuals' opportunities to engage in public discourse. A respected and well-established media scholar, Jenkins (MIT) here counters such pessimistic perspectives on the brave new media world with theoretical and evidentiary attestations to the growing power of individuals and grassroots groups to affect the larger media landscape." Notes: Includes index; Includes glossary ISBN: 9780814742815 More info
book		Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity / Jill Julius Matthews Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. Call No: 408.1(94) MAT Author: Matthews, Jill Julius Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency Press PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: x, 342 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: This bookpaints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In the pub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 0868197556 More info
Yet to catalogue book		The dream that kicks : the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain / Michael Chanan London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Call No: 71 (41) CHA Author: Chanan, Michael Source: UK Place: London Boston Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 353 p. ; 23 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. UK; INDUSTRY, TV. UK; ENTERTAINMENT. UK; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK; PRE-CINEMA HISTORY. UK; PERCEPTION; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC HALL Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 331-336 ISBN: 0710003196 LON: 1738702 1829453 Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: The dialectic of invention -- Part 3: Music hall and popular culture -- Part 4: Middle-class culture and its influences -- Part 5: The early years -- Part 6: The dream that kicks -- Bibliography More info
book		The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969]. Call No: 70 JAC Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New York Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake PubDate: [c1969] PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439 LON: 5011 ID2: 291 More info
book		Family fictions : representations of the family in 1980s Hollywood cinema. / Sarah Harwood; foreword by Janet Thumin; consultant editor Jo Camping Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamps: Macmillan, 1997. Call No: 747.4 HAR Author: Harwood, Sarah Source: UK Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamps Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 265p. ; 23cm Subject: FAMILY IN FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BARRYMORE, DREW; BRIDGES, LLOYD; CLOSE, GLENN; DOUGLAS, MICHAEL; GRAVES, PETER; NIELSEN, LESLIE; WILLIS, BRUCE; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); FLYING HIGH II [; TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (US, James L. Brooks, 1983) Summary: What do ET, Fatal Attraction and Look Whos Talking have in common? . As well as being amongst the most popular films at the UK box office of recent years all three represent dysfunctional families, families which profoundly transgressed contemporary ideological norms. The eighties were a decade in which the family occupied a pivotal position in an increasinglingly complex social and moral universe and film itself enjoyed a resurgence. Sarah Harwood argues that Hollywood cinema engaged with debates over the' crisis in the family' in intense and complex ways, both feeding and resisting dominant social mythologies In a fascinating analysis of films as diverse as 'Aiplane!' and 'Terms of Endearment' Family Fictions maps the functions, paradoxes and pleasures of familial representations in recent times. These startling analyses shed light on power and gender relations in contemporary cinema as well as on how the films themselves engaged with their broader cultural contexts Notes: Filmography : p. 248-252; Bibliography : p. 253-258; Includes index ISBN: 0333648439 (hbk); 0333648447 (pbk) More info
book		Film / Roger Manvell Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. Call No: 62 MAN Author: Manvell, Roger, 1909 Edition: Further rev Place: Harmondsworth Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1950 PhysDes: 182 p., [80] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm Series: Pelican book ; A126 Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; CENSORSHIP; INDUSTRY, FILM; DOCUMENTARY FILMS Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 251-263 LON: abn86084370; 4435368 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:39:26 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The film and the public / Roger Manvell Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1955. Call No: 62(081) MAN Author: Manvell, Roger Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1955 PhysDes: 352 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm Subject: TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: contains supplements and index Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:35 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The film in national life : being the report of an enquiry conducted by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films into the service which the cinematograph may render to education and social progress London: Allen and Unwin, 1932. Call No: 71(41) FIL Author: Gott, Benjamin, Sir CorpAuthor: Commission on Educational and Cultural Films Place: London Publisher: Allen and Unwin PubDate: 1932 PhysDes: 203p ; 28cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK Notes: Chairman: Sir Benjamin Gott; Includes bibliography LON: 12457861 More info
book		The films of the eighties : a social history / William J. Palmer Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. Call No: 409 PAL Author: Palmer, William J. Source: US Place: Carbondale Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; WAR AND THE CINEMA; NUCLEAR WARFARE IN FILMS; TERRORISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA Summary: "In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties. Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the 'holograph of history' that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCaprra. In the eighties,such issues included the war in Vietnam, the preservation of the American farm, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, changes in Soviet-American relations, neoconservative feminism, and yuppies. Among the films Palmer examines are Platoon, The Killing Fields, The River, Out of Africa, Little Drummer Girl, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Silkwood, The Day After, Red Dawn, Moscow on the Hudson, Troop Beverly Hills, and Fatal Attraction. Utilizing the principles of New Historicism, Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780809320295 Contents: The holograph of history -- The Vietnam War as film text -- The "coming home" films -- The terrorism film texts -- The nuclear war film texts -- From the "evil empire" to Glasnost -- The feminist farm crisis and other neoconservative feminist texts -- The yuppie texts -- Film in the holograph of new history More info
book		The French through their films / Robin Buss London: Batsford, 1988. Call No: 408.1(44) BUS Author: Buss, Robin Place: London Publisher: Batsford PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 165 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; FRANCE; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; FILMOGRAPHIES. FRANCE; HISTORICAL FILMS. FRANCE; FAMILY IN FILMS. FRANCE; BRESSON, ROBERT; CHABROL, CLAUDE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MALLE, LOUIS; PAGNOL, MARCEL; RENOIR, JEAN; CARNE, MARCEL; CLAIR, RENE; DEMY, JACQUES; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; GABIN, JEAN; GANCE, ABEL; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); DIMANCHE A LA CAMPAGNE, UN (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1984) Notes: French cinema films,. 1900-1985. Social aspects (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Filmography: p. 91-156 ISBN: 0713453605 LON: 5952835 More info
book		The geopolitical aesthetic : cinema and space in the world system / Fredric Jameson Bloomington London: Indiana University Press BFI Pub., 1992. Call No: 62 JAM Author: Jameson, Fredric Place: Bloomington London Publisher: Indiana University Press BFI Pub. PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xvi, 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; CONSPIRACY FILMS; AESTHETICS; MEDIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; THIRD WORLD; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; RENOIR, JEAN; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; TAHIMIK, KIDLAT; GIDE, ANDRE; ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1976); BLOWOUT (US, Brian De Palma, 1981); PARALLAX VIEW, THE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1974); PASSION (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1982); SALVADOR (US, Oliver Stone, 1986); VIDEODROME (CN, David Cronenberg, 1983); K'UNG-PU FEN-TZU (TZ/HK, Edward Yang [pseud. of Yang Teh-Chang], 1986); UNDER FIRE (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1983) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0253330939 (U.S.); 0851703119 (England) LON: 8458641 More info
book		Hard hates, rednecks, and macho men : class in 1970s American cinema / Derek Nystrom New York: Oxford University Press, Inc, 2009. Call No: 451-01(73) NYS Author: Nystrom, Derek Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: x, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. USA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CRUISING (US, William Friedkin, 1980); DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972); [FIVE] 5 EASY PIECES (US, Bob Rafelson, 1970); LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977); SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (US, John Badham, 1977) Summary: "Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men examines a wide range of American films from the 1970s and argues that their persistent depictions of white, working-class masculinity provided a powerful class fantasy, one that spoke to middle-class anxieties provoked by the period's social and political upheavals. Drawing on iconic films from the era Nystrom presents an incisive, evocative study of labor, class, and American cinema in the wake of Vietnam, women's and gay liberation, the rise of the New Right, and other events that defined the decade" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER ISBN: 9780195336771 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012 Contents: Introduction. Making Class Visible in Film and Cultural Studies -- Pt. I. Hard Hats and Movie Brats -- 1. Class and the Youth-Cult Cycle -- Pt. II. Rednecks and Good Ole Boys: The Rise of the Southern -- 2. Deliverance, An Allegory of the Sunbelt -- 3. Keep On Truckin': The Southern Cycle and the Invention of the Good Ole Boy -- Pt. III. Macho Men and the New Nightlife Film -- 4. Saturday Night Fever and the Queering of the White, Working-Class Male Body -- 5. Extra Masculinity: Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Cruising -- Conclusion: Working-Class Solidarity and Its Others -- Afterword: Hard Hats Revisited: The Labor of 9/11. More info
book		Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992 / Joseph Natoli Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Call No: 409(73) NAT Author: Natoli, Joseph, 1943 Place: Albany Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xi, 238 p. ; 24 cm Series: SUNY series in postmodern culture Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; NATIVE AMERICANS IN FILMS; ROBIN HOOD IN FILMS; KING, RODNEY; PHOENIX, RIVER; STONE, OLIVER; CAPE FEAR (US, J. Lee Thompson, 1961); CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); PRINCE OF TIDES, THE (US, Barbra Streisand, 1991); HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1991); OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (US, Norman Jewison, 1991); ROBIN HOOD : PRINCE OF THIEVES (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1991); GRAND CANYON (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1991); GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-); BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT (GG/FR/AT, Wim Wenders, 1991); SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991); WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987); UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); BOB ROBERTS (US, Tim Robbins, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) ISBN: 0791421546 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 0791421538 (acid-free paper) LON: 10867366 More info
book		Home, exile, homeland : film, media, and the politics of place / edited by Hamid Naficy New York: Routledge, 1999. Call No: 409.1 HOM Author: Naficy, Hamid (ed) Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: xii, 248 p. ; 23 cm Series: AFI film readers. Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND TV Summary: " Global changes in capital, power, technology, and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by internationally accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly globalized world. Ranging from intensely personal to highly theoretical, the contributors explore our complex negotiation of 'home' and 'homeland' in a postmodern world." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0415919479 Contents: preface: arrivals and departures / Homi K. Bhabha. 1. framing exile: from homeland to homepage / Hamid Naficy -- pt. 1. traveling concepts. 2. exile, nomadism, and diaspora: the stakes of mobility in the western canon / John Durham Peters -- pt. 2. synesthetic homing. 3. "is any body home?": embodied imagination and visible evictions / Vivian Sobchack. 4. home: smell, taste, posture, gleam / Margaret Morse. 5. the intolerable gift: residues and traces of a journey / Teshome H. Gabriel. 6. the key to the house / Patricia Seed -- pt. 3. cinematic modes of production. 7. ethnicity, authenticity, and exile: a counterfeit trade? german filmmakers and hollywood / Thomas Elsaesser. 8. between rocks and hard places: the interstitial mode of production in exilic cinema / Hamid Naficy -- pt. 4. mediated collective formations. 9. bounded realms: household, family, community, and nation / David Morley. 10. recycling colonialist fantasies on the texas borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso. 11. "home is where the hatred is": work, music, and the transnational economy / George Lipsitz. 12. by the bitstream of babylon: cyberfrontiers and diasporic vistas / Ella Shohat. More info
book		In Godzilla's footsteps : Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage / Edited by William Tsutsui and Michiko Ito New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Call No: 409 TSU Author: Tsutsui, Wlliam; Ito, Michiko Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: xii, 212p. ; b+w ill. : 24cm. Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GODZILLA [GOJIRA] (JA, Koji Hashimoto & R.J. Kizar, 1985); GODZILLA IN FILMS Summary: "These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped (by and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons in the wake of the Godzilla phenomenon. They fall within a wide range of disciplines: film studies, anthropology, history, literature, theater, and cultural studies. Contributors include Susan Napier, Anne Allison, and Christine Yano.' Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781403964632 Language: English Contents: When Godzilla speaks / Susan Napier 9 -- Mobilizing Gojira : mourning modernity as monstrosity / Mark Anderson 21 -- Gojira as Japan's first postwar media event / Barak Kushner 41 -- Lost in translation and morphed in transit : Godzilla in Cold War America /Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu 51 -- Wrestling with Godzilla: intertextuality, childish spectatorship, and the national body / Aaron Gerow 63 Mothra's gigantic egg : consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi 83 Hybridity and negotiated identity in Japanese popular culture / Joyce E. Boss 103 Teaching Godzilla : classroom encounters with a cultural icon / Joanne Bernardi 111 "Our first kiss had a radioactive taste" : Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 127 Godzilla meets Super Kyogen, or how a dinosaur saved the world / Eric C. Rath 139 Monstering the Japanese cute: pink globalization and its critics abroad /Christine R. Yano 153 Kikaida for life : cult fandom in a Japanese live-action TV show in Hawai'i /Hirofumi Katsuno 167 Apocalypse in fantasy and reality: Japanese pop culture in contemporary Russia / Yulia Mikhailova 181 Epilogue : he did the stomp, he did the monster stomp / Theodore C. Bestor More info
book		Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema / Janet Staiger Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Call No: 62 STA Author: Staiger, Janet Place: Princeton, N.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCES; ART CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PARODY; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; BORDWELL, DAVID; DYER, RICHARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GARLAND, JUDY; FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); ZELIG (US, Woody Allen, 1983); STAR IS BORN, A (US, George Cukor, 1954); UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index ISBN: 0691047979 (alk. paper); 0691006164 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 8200386 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:34:53 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		May '68 and film culture / Sylvia Harvey London: BFI Pub., 1978. Call No: 626:335.5 HAR Author: Harvey, Sylvia Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 167 p. ; 21 cm Subject: MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE Notes: Bibliography: p. 165-167 ISBN: 0851701043 LON: abn81025542; 2026463 More info
book		Movie man / David Thomson London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. Call No: 62 THO Author: Thomson, David, 1941 Place: London Publisher: Secker & Warburg PubDate: 1967 PhysDes: 234 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GRANT, CARY; MONROE, MARILYN; NOVAK, KIM; LANG, FRITZ; RENOIR, JEAN; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HAWKS, HOWARD; DEMY, JACQUES; RIVETTE, JACQUES; PREMINGER, OTTO Notes: Includes index; "Filmography": p. 217-223 LON: xls00449773; 4094552 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:39:11 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Movies and mass culture / edited and with an introduction by John Belton New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Call No: 408.1(73) MOV Author: Belton, John Place: New Brunswick, NJ Publisher: Rutgers University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Rutgers depth of field series Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; FILM NOIR. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA. USA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS. USA; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; BERKELEY, BUSBY; Lombard, Carole; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index ISBN: 0813522277 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813522285 (pbk.) LON: 11604013 More info
book		The multiplex in India : a cultural economy of urban leisure / Adrian Athique and Douglas Hill New York: Routledge, 2010. Call No: 38(540) ANT Author: Anthique, Adrian; Hill, Douglas Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: ix, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series Subject: CULUTRE AND THE CINEMA. INDIA; EXHIBITION. INDIA; MULTIPLEX CINEMAS. INDIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. INDIA Summary: During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times - both a stmptom of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a 'globalised' consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus become key sites in the long-running struggle over cultural legitimacy and the right to public space in Indian cities. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the new leisure infrasructure arising at the intersection between contemporary trends in cultural practice and the spational politics that are reshaping the cities of India. Exploring the significance, and convergence, of economic liberalisation, urban redevelopment and the media explosion in India, the book demonstrates an innovative approach towards the cultural and political economy of leisure in a complex and rapidly changing society. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[225]-238) and index ISBN: 9780414533591 Contents: 1. Situating the multiplex as a research object -- 2. From cinema hall to multiplex : a public history -- 3. Film exhibition and the economic logic of the multiplex -- 4. India poised : assessing the geography of opportunity -- 5. Location and lifestyle : the infrastructure of urban leisure -- 6. Spatial politics of the multiplex : an environmental model -- 7. A 'decent crowd' : the social imagination of the multiplex public -- 8. Screening the multiplex -- Conclusion : the multiplex and the leisure economy More info
book		On the waterfront : BFI film classics / Leo Braudy London, UK: British Film Institute, London, 2005. Call No: 79ONT BRA Author: Braudy, Leo Edition: 1st ed Source: UK Place: London, UK Publisher: British Film Institute, London PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 88p ; 18.5 cm + b&w ill. Series: BFI Film Classics Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; PRODUCTION. USA; FINANCING. USA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABOUR; FINANCING; LABOUR ISSUES IN FILMS; HUMAN RELATIONS IN FILMS; RELIGION IN FILMS; KAZAN, ELIA; BRANDO, MARLON; SAINT, EVA MARIE; MILLER, ARTHUR; BERNSTEIN, LEONARD; SCHULBERG, BUDD; SPIEGEL, SAM; MALDEN, KARL; STEIGER, ROD; STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1951); GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1945); BABY DOLL (US, Elia Kazan, 1956) Summary: With director Elia Kazan’s death in 2003 and actor Marlon Brando’s in 2004, a reappraisal of this classic film is timely and necessary. In this definitive study, Leo Braudy tells the complicated story of the film’s production. He revisits the facts behind the controversy of Kazan’s infamous ‘naming of names’ during the McCarthy communist trials of the 1950s. But above all this is an analysis of the enduring appeal of On the Waterfront: the method inspired acting, the music and cinematography, the use of authentic locations and its powerfully symbolic depiction of post-war American values. [Taken from back cover]. Notes: includes film credits ISBN: 184457072X More info
book		Picture palace : a social history of the cinema London: Gentry Books, [1974]. Call No: 71(41) FIE Author: Field, Audrey, 1910 Place: London Publisher: Gentry Books PubDate: [1974] PhysDes: 160 p. : illus. ; 23 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK Notes: Bibliography: p. [154] ISBN: 0856140295 LON: 733255 More info
book		Plan for cinema / Dallas Bower London: Dent, 1936. Call No: 67 BOW Author: Bower, Dallas Place: London Publisher: Dent PubDate: 1936 PhysDes: xi, 147 p. ; 19 cm Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA LON: 36018235; 2686977 More info
Interim book		Power and paranoia : history, narrative and the American cinema, 1940-1950 / Dana Polan New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Call No: 49:93 POL "1940/50" Author: Polan, Dana Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [309]-326. ISBN: 0231062846 More info
Interim book		Reel change : a guide to social issue films / Patricia Peyton (ed.) San Francisco CA: The Film Fund, 1979. Call No: F025:F744 REE CorpAuthor: The Film Fund Source: US Place: San Francisco CA Publisher: The Film Fund PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 22 cm ; 140 p. Subject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ISBN: 0960317013 More info
journal article		Save Ferris? : A guide to Xer media/citizenship in Metro Education (2000) iss.14 p.9-13 Author: Brabazon, Tara PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (US, John Hughes, 1986) Summary: Examines how cultural theories have attempted to deal with the phenomenon of Generation X subculture. More info
subject clippings file		SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA More info
Interim book		Soviet films : principal stages of development / Grigori V. Alexandrov, Ivan A. Piryev and Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin Bombay, India: People's Publishing House, 1951. Call No: 71(47) PUD Author: Alexandrov, Grigori V.; Piryev, Ivan A.; Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich Source: II Place: Bombay, India Publisher: People's Publishing House PubDate: 1951 PhysDes: 58 p. : illus. ports. Subject: USSR; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; RUSSIA More info
book		The spectacular modern woman : Feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Call No: 451 02 "192" CON Author: Conor, Liz Edition: 1st ed. Source: USA Place: Bloomington, Indiana Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 334 p. : b+w ill. ; 23 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; PROSTITUTES IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; ADVERTISING; CARTOONS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; LYELL, LOTTIE; MOTH OF MOONBI, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) Summary: In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Wetter industrial societies into visual or ‘oculacentric’ cultures with significant and complex consequences for women’s lives. With the rise of mass media, Conor shows how women’s identities were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 0253216702 More info
book		Spectatorship : the power of looking on / Michelle Aaron London: Wallflower Press, 2007. Call No: 412 AAR Author: Aaron, Michelle Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Wallflower Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: 139p. ; b+w ill. : 20cm Series: Short Cuts Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; THEORY; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); IDIOTERNE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 1998); FEM BESPAND, DE (DE/BE/SZ/UK, Jorgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, 2003) Summary: Introduction to film text on spectatorship and its effects Notes: includes index, biography and filmography ISBN: 9781905674015 Language: English More info
Interim book		The Stars : an account of the star-system in motion pictures / by Edgar Morin translated by Richard Howard London: Grove Press Inc., John Calder Ltd., 1960. Call No: 465 MOR Author: Morin, Edgar Source: US Place: New York; London Publisher: Grove Press Inc.; John Calder Ltd. PubDate: 1960 PhysDes: 189p. : illus. : 18cm. Series: Evergreen profile book 7 Subject: STAR SYSTEM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes a list of chronilogical landmarks More info
book		The story of the lost reflection : the alienation of the image in Western and Polish cinema / Paul Coates London: Verso, 1985. Call No: 62 COA Author: Coates, Paul, 1953 Place: London Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 167 p. ; 21 cm Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. POLAND; REALISM IN FILMS; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; BUNUEL, LUIS; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HERZOG, WERNER; ROSI, FRANCESCO; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY; ZANUSSI, KRZYSZTOF Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. [159]-161 ISBN: 0860911004 : ª20.00 ($25.00 U.S.) LON: bnb86091100; 3801747 More info
book		Theology through film / Neil P. Hurley New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Call No: 45:2 HUR Author: Hurley, Neil P. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Row PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; RELIGION IN FILMS; EVIL IN FILMS; EDUCATION, USE OF FILMS IN Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 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
book		Tourism and the branded city : Film and identity on the Pacific Rim / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and John G. Gammack Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Call No: 49[659.1]DON Author: Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk; Gammack, John G. Source: UK Place: Hampshire Publisher: Ashgate Publishing PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: x, 216p. : ill. ; 24cm Series: New Directions in Tourism Analysis Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 9780754648291 Language: English More info
book		The ultimate film : the UKs 100 most popular films / Ryan Gilbey, Keith Mansfield, Ashley Western London, UK: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023.5 (41) GIL Author: Gilbey, Ryan Edition: 1st ed Source: UK Place: London, UK Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 336 p ; 24cm + col, b&w ill. Subject: CINEMAS. UK; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA; CRITICS; CRITICISM; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK Summary: From the 1930s to today, this book charts the diverse tastes that make up Britain’s film favourites. Each film is looked at in turn. What did the critics think of it when it was released and, with the benefit of hindsight, were they right? Who featured in front of and behind the camera? Did popular success always go together with critical acclaim and Oscar nominations? And what was it that about these films that struck a chord with cinemagoers? [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 184457105X More info
Old collection book		The use of the film / Basil Wright London: Bodley Head, 1948. Call No: 49 WRI Author: Wright, Basil Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Bodley Head PubDate: 1948 PhysDes: 72 p. ; 19 cm. Series: New Developments Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM More info
Old collection book		Using films : a handbook for the program planner / edited by James L. Limbacher New York: Educational Film Library Association, [1967]. Call No: F49 USI Author: Limbacher, James L. (ed.) Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Educational Film Library Association PubDate: [1967] PhysDes: 130 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA More info
book		Visible fictions : cinema, television, video / John Ellis London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Call No: 611 ELL Author: Ellis, John, 1952 Place: London Boston Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: viii, 295 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND TV; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK Notes: Bibliography: p. 289-295 ISBN: 0710093047 (pbk.) LON: 82011290; 2251819 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:38:48 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
Interim book		Young and innocent? the cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 / Andrew Higson Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Call No: 71(41) HIG Author: Higson, Andrew Source: UK Place: Exeter Publisher: University of Exeter Press PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: [xii], 420 p. ill. 24cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA Notes: Bibliography: p.371-404. - Includes index ISBN: 0859897176. v. pbk More info

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