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book		The address of the eye : a phenomenology of film experience / Vivian Sobchack Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Call No: 626:165.62 SOB Author: Sobchack, Vivian Carol Place: Princeton, N.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xxi, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; SEMIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; EXISTENTIALISM AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index ISBN: 0691031959 (alk. paper) LON: 8114969 More info
book		Aesthetics of film / Jacques Aumont ... [et al.] ; translated and revised by Richard Neupert Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Call No: 62 AES Author: Aumont, J. (Jacques) CorpAuthor: EsthTtique du film. English Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: x, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Texas film studies series Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; SEMIOLOGY; AESTHETICS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; MONTAGE; REALISM IN FILMS; THEORY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; BARTHES, ROLAND; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-259) and index ISBN: 0292704372 (pbk.); 0292704283 (alk. paper) LON: 8459109 More info
book		Alien zone II : the spaces of science-fiction cinema / edited by Annette Kuhn London New York: Verso, 1999. Call No: 735.1 KUH Author: Kuhn, Annette Place: London New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 308 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; UTOPIA IN FILMS; FANS; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ADAPTATIONS. WELLS, H.G.; VAN DAMME, JEAN-CLAUDE; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; CREED, BARBARA; TRUMBULL, DOUGLAS; JOHNNY MNEMONIC (US, Robert Longo, 1995); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); DEMOLITION MAN (US, Marco Brambilla, 1993); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Notes: Filmography: p. [276]-284; Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index ISBN: 1859842593 (paper); 1859847463 (cloth) LON: 20466609 More info
book		Attack of the leading ladies : gender, sexuality, and spectatorship in classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Call No: 735.2 BER Author: Berenstein, Rhona J Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Film and culture Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; HORROR FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; GAZE IN FILMS Summary: "From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes straining and mouth open wide as she emitted an ear-piercing scream, the damsel in distress awaited rescue from the monster's horrible attentions. Or so it semmed. The first book to explore the gender dynamics of classic horror film, 'Attack of the leading ladies' addresses the roles of women both on- and off-screen. Combining close textual analysis with the study of advertising campaigns, reviews, fan magazines and censorship materials, Rhona J. Berenstein presents an in-depth look at such films as 'Bride of Frankenstein', 'Dr. X', 'Dracula', 'King Kong', 'Mad Love', 'Svengali', and 'White Zombie'."-- BOOK COVER Notes: Filmography: p. [237]-246; Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index ISBN: 0231084633 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0231084625 (cloth : alk. paper) LON: 11723761 Contents: Introduction: horror of classic horrors -- Spectatorship-as-drag: re-dressing classic horror cinema -- Horror for sale: the marketing and reception of classic horror cinema -- Looks could kill: the powers of the gaze in hypnosis films -- The interpretation of screams: female fear, homosocial desire, and mad-doctor movies -- White skin, white masks: Race, gender, and monstrosity in jungle-horror cinema More info
book		The brain is the screen : Deleuze and the philosophy of the cinema / Gregory Flaxman, editor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Call No: 620 DEL FLA Author: Flaxman, Gregory Source: US Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: x, 395 pages ; 24 cm Subject: DELEUZE, GILLES; SPECTATORSHIP; PERCEPTION Summary: "With this collection, the first to focus solely and extensively on Deleuze's cinematic work, the nature and reach of that work finally become clear. Composed of a substantial introduction, twelve original essays produced for this volume, and a new English translation of a personal, intriguing, and little-known interview with Deleuze on his cinema books, The Brain is the Screen is a sustained engagement with Deleuze's cinematic philosophy that leads to a new view of the larger confrontation of philosophy with cinematic images." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0816634475 Contents: Introduction / Gregory Flaxman -- Approaching Images. 1. Of images and Worlds: Toward a Geology of the Cinema / Jean-Clet Martin. -- 2. Cinema Year Zero / Gregory Flaxman. -- 3. Escape from the Image: Deleuze's Image-Ontology / Martin Schwab. -- 4. The Eye of Montage: Dziga Vertov and Bergsonian Materialism / Francois Zourabichvili -- Mapping Images. -- 5. The Film History of Thought / Andras Balint Kovacs. -- 6. Into the Breach: Between The Movement-Image and The Time-Image / Angelo Restivo. -- 7. Signs of the Time: Deleuze, Peirce, and the Documentary Image / Laura U. Marks. -- 8. The Roots of the Nomadic: Gilles Deleuze and the Cinema of West Africa / Dudley Andrew -- Thinking Images. -- 9. Cinema and the Outside / Gregg Lambert. -- 10. Midday, Midnight: The Emergence of Cine-Thinking / Eric Alliez. -- 11. The Film Event: From Interval to Interstice / Tom Conley. -- 12. The Imagination of Immanence: An Ethics of Cinema / Peter Canning -- After-Image. -- 13. The Brain Is the Screen: An Interview with Gilles Deleuze. -- Contributors More info
journal article		China! : Max Keogh interviews Don Kennedy about his recent China trip in Lumiere (January/February, 1974) iss.31 p.4-7 Author: Keogh, Max PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; SPECTATORSHIP; ENTERTAINMENT Summary: Interview with Don Kennedy, technical advisor for Film Australia, on his recent trip to China. Kennedy reflects on the Chinese filmmaking and entertainment industries. More info
book		The cinema book / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink London: British Film Institute, 1999. Call No: 70(04) CIN Author: Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke Edition: 2nd ed Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: x, 406 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; STUDIO SYSTEM; STARS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; GERMANY; USSR; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; UNITED KINGDOM; ART CINEMA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; THIRD CINEMA; THIRD WORLD; GENRES; WESTERNS; MELODRAMA; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; COMEDIES; ACTION FILMS; AUTHORSHIP; AUTEUR THEORY; STRUCTURALISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SARRIS, ANDREW Notes: Previous ed.: 1985 ISBN: 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.) ª23.99; 0851707297; 0851707262 (pbk.) LON: 14510520 More info
book		Cinema in the digital age / Rombes, Nicholas New York: New York Columbia University Press, 2017. Call No: 62 ROM Author: Rombes, Nicholas Edition: Revised edition Place: London; New York Publisher: New York Columbia University Press PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: 22 b& w illustrations Subject: DIGITAL CINEMA; NOSTALGIA; FILMMAKING; DISTRIBUTION; DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; EDITING; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; VIDEO FORMATS; PARANORMAL ACTIVITY : THE MARKED ONES ( US, Christopher Landon, 2014); THEORY; SPECTATORSHIP; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); APPLE; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FORMATS; CINEMATOGRAPHY Summary: Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution. Nicholas Rombes considers Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), and The Ring (2002), among others. Haunted by their analogue pasts, these films are interested not in digital purity but rather in imperfection and mistakes-blurry or pixilated images, shaky camera work, and other elements that remind viewers of the human behind the camera.With a new introduction and new material, this updated edition takes a fresh look at the historical and contemporary state of digital cinema. It pays special attention to the ways in which nostalgia for the look and feel of analogue disrupts the aesthetics of the digital image, as well as how recent films such as The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)-both shot digitally-have disguised and erased their digital foundations. The book also explores new possibilities for writing about and theorizing film, such as randomization. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 9780231167550 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Accelerationism 2.The Adorno Paradox 3.Against Method 4.Analog/ Digital Splice 5.Blood, Simple 6.Boredom and Analog Nostalgia 7.The Digital Spectacular 8.Disposable Aesthetics 9.DV Humanism 10.Filmless Films 11.Frame Dragging 12.The Ideology of the Long Take 13.Image/ Text 14.Incompleteness 15.Interfaces 16.iPod Experiment 17.Ironic Mode 18.Looking at Yourself Looking 19.The Lost Underground 20.Love in the Time of Fragments 21.Media as Its Own Theory 22.Mobile Viewing 23.Moving Space in the Frame, and a Note on Film Theory 24.Natural Time 25.Nonlinear 26.Paranormal Activity 2 27.Pausing 28.Punk 29.Realism 30.Real Time 31.The Real You 32.The Reality Industrial Complex 33.Remainders 34.Sampling 35.Secondary Becomes Primary 36.Self-Deconstructing Narratives 37.Shaky Camera 38.Shoot! 39.Simultaneous Cinema 40.Small Screens Contents note continued: 41.Target Video 42.Time, Memory 43.Time-Shifting 44.Tmesis: Skimming and Skipping 45.Undirected Films 46.Viewer Participation 47.Virtual Humanism: Part 1 48.Virtual Humanism: Part 2 49.Visible Language, Spring 1977 50.Interpreting Film Images Through Randomized Constraint: The Blue Velvet Project More info
book		Cinema without reflection : Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift / Akira Mizuta Lippit Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Call No: 620 DER Author: Lippit, Akira Mizuta Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: 70 pages ; 18 cm. Series: Forerunners: Ideas First Subject: DERRIDA, JACQUES; SPECTATORSHIP; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida's reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined. Following Derrida's interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida's philosophy." ISBN: 9781517900045 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Anniverse -- Plus Surplus Love -- Eye-Line -- Ultrasound Light -- [& #x2665;] -- A Stranger Cinema -- Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift -- On the Disappearance of Narcissus and the Reappearance of Narcissism -- Postscript (PS): Exverse More info
book		Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998. 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 More info
book		Critical cinema : beyond the theory of practice / edited by Clive Myer ; with a foreword by Bill Nichols London ; New York: Wallflower Press, c2011. Call No: 62(04) CRI Source: US Place: London ; New York Publisher: Wallflower Press PubDate: c2011 PhysDes: xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: THEORY; AESTHETICS; SEMIOLOGY; SPECTATORSHIP; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; RANCIERE, JACQUES; SCRIPTWRITING; AUTHORSHIP Summary: Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world's leading writers on nonfiction film, this volume features contributions by such prominent authors as Noel Burch, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Brian Winston and Patrick Fuery. Seminal filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway and Mike Figgis also contribute to the debate, making this book a critical text for students, academics and independent filmmakers as well as for any reader interested in new perspectives on culture and film. -- taken from the back of the book. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9781906660369 Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Theoretical Practice: Diegesis Is Not a Code of Cinema / Clive Myer -- 2.Cinema, Theory, Women / Clive Myer -- 3.Theory and Practice / Noel Burch -- 4.Passing Time: Reflections on the Old and the New / Peter Wollen -- 5.Sublime Acts: The Fate of Resistance between Film Theory and Practice / Laura Mulvey -- 6.Rancie`re and the Persistence of Film Theory / Patrick Fuery -- 7.Behind the Mask of the Screenplay: The Screen Idea / Nico Baumbach -- 8.The Theory-Practice Interface in Film Education: Observational Documentary in India / Ian W. MacDonald -- 9.The Student Author, Lacanian Discourse Theory and La nuit ame´ricaine / Aparna Sharma -- 10.Just Because You Have Eyes Does Not Mean You Can See / Coral Houtman -- 11.Theory for Practice: Ceci n'est pas l'e´piste´mologie / Peter Greenaway -- 12.Film and Philosophy: An Interview with Mike Figgis / Brian Winston -- 13.Playing with New Toys: An Interview with Peter Greenaway / Clive Myer -- Contents note continued: 14.An Interview with Noel Burch: Playing with Toys by the Wayside / Clive Myer. More info
book		Deleuze, cinema and the thought of the world / Allan James Thomas Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Call No: 630 THO Author: Thomas, Allan James Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Edinburgh University Press PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm. Series: Plateaus Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; THEORY; VIEWERS; DELEUZE, GILLES Summary: Examination of how philosopher Gilles Deleuze addressed philosophical issues by using cinema. Looks at the types of philosophical issues that Deleuze turned to cinema to answer, and why he chose cinema to tackle these issues rather than just use philosophy alone Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-262) and index. ISBN: 9781474432795 Contents: 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema -- 2 The Interval as Disaster -- 3 Movement, Duration and Difference -- 4 What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? -- 5 Genesis and Deduction -- 6 The Thought of the World -- 7 The Night, the Rain -- 8 Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy -- References; Index. More info
book		An everyday magic : cinema and cultural memory / Annette Kuhn New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Call No: 630.5 KUH Author: Kuhn, Annette Source: UK / US Place: London; New York Publisher: I.B. Tauris PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 273 p. : 24 cm Series: Cinema and Society Subject: THEORY; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; KUHN, ANNETTE Summary: An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory explores cinemagoing and cinema culture in the 1930s, when ‘going to the pictures’ was everybody’s favourite spare-time activity. From the familiar and magical surroundings of the picture houses themselves to the action and romance on the screen, Annette Kuhn draws on extensive interviews with picturegoers, research in cultural history, and readings of popular films of the day to discover how cinema brought a special magic to the daily lives of a generation of young men and women growing up in an austere climate of making-do. And from Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald to Fred and Ginger, she shows how audiences looked to their screen heroines and heroes for inspiration, and at the importance of cinemagoing in make-believe, play, friendship and growing up. This fascinating book throws new light on such issues as cinema spectatorship, childhood, adolescence, ageing and film reception, and provides a major contribution to understandings of both the role of cinema in its heyday and the nature of popular memory. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1860648673 More info
book		Female spectators : looking at film and television / edited by E. Deidre Pribram London New York: Verso, 1988. Call No: 632.53 FEM Author: Pribram, E. Deidre Place: London New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: vii, 199 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Questions for feminism Subject: 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. 196-197 ISBN: 0860912043; 0860919226 (pbk.) LON: 5927013 More info
book		Fields of vision : essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography / edited by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 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 More info
book		Film as social practice / Graeme Turner London New York: Routledge, 1988. Call No: 408 TUR Author: Turner, Graeme Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: xv, 187 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Series: Studies in communication Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCES; AUSTRALIA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; WRIGHT, WILL; BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926) Summary: “Explores the feature film as entertainment, as narrative, and as cultural event. Graeme Turner discusses the major theoretical issues surrounding the history of film production and film studies, using them to examine the cultural function of film and its place in our popular culture. This updated third edition includes: discussion of classical and popular contemporary films, updated and expanded discussion of debates surrounding film narrative and arguments revised throughout to take into account recent developments in film and cultural theory and changing cinematic trends.” [Taken from back cover] Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 180-184 ISBN: 0415007348; 0415007356 (pbk.) LON: 5742606 More info
Old collection book		Film: Book 1 : the audience and the filmmaker / edited by Robert Hughes New York: Grove Press, 1959. Call No: 62 FIL Author: Hughes, Robert Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Grove Press PubDate: 1959 PhysDes: v. : ill., ports ; 20 cm. Series: Evergreen Books E140 Subject: PERIODICALS, FILM; ART AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO; BUNUEL, LUIS; CLEMENT, RENE; MEYERS, SIDNEY; DREYER, CARL TH.; HENNING-JENSEN, BJARNE; KAZAN, ELIA; Lean, David; SATYAJIT, RAY; RENOIR, JEAN; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; Fellini, Federico; AGEE, JAMES; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; MEKAS, JONAS; MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934); ALL OF MY BABIES : A MIDWIFE'S OWN STORY (US, George Stoney, 1952) ISBN: 0195018346 More info
Interim book		The film cultures reader / Graeme Turner (ed.) New York: Routledge, 2002. Call No: 408 TUR Author: Graeme Turner (ed.) Place: London; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; AESTHETICS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SOUND; THEORY; CREED, BARBARA; KUHN, ANNETTE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; USA; MONROE, MARILYN; SEX IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; ACTION FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; THRILLERS; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption. ISBN: 0415252822 More info
book		Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Call No: 631.19 PIP Author: Pippin, Robert B. Source: US Place: Chicago Publisher: University of Chicago Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); TALK TO HER [HABLE CON ELLA] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998); DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC Summary: "In this book, philosopher Robert B. Pippin reveals how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodovar's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and in the Dardenne brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (with an eye to cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780226672007 Contents: Section I: Cinema As Reflective Form 1. Cinematic Reflection -- 2. Cinematic Self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Section II: Moral Variations 3. Devils & Angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her -- 4. Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III: Social Pathologies 5. Cinematic Tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Can "Life" Itself be "False"? -- 6. Love & Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV: Irony & Mutuality 7. Cinematic Irony: The Strange Case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- 8. Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V: Agency & Meaning 9. Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- 10. Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers ID2: 343 More info
journal article		from Charcot to Charlot : Unconscious imitation and spectatorship in French cabaret and early cinema in Critical inquiry (Spring 2001) vol.27 iss.3 p.515-549 Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Author: Gordon, Rae Beth PhysDes: Article Subject: ACTING; SPECTATORSHIP; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Summary: Gordon discusses the impact of film and whether its relationship is due to an intense feeling of reality or to an equally intense state of hallucinatory hypnotic trance. -- article abstract provided by publisher More info
book		Guilty pleasures : feminist camp from Mae West to Madonna / Pamela Robertson Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. Call No: 626:396 ROB Author: Robertson, Pamela, 1964 Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: ix, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CAMP; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; WOMEN IN FILMS; BURLESQUE; TRANSVESTISM; FANS; MUSICALS; BAXTER, WARNER; CAGNEY, JAMES; DOANE, MARY ANN; DYER, RICHARD; GARBO, GRETA; BERKELEY, BUSBY; FISCHER, LUCY; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; MONROE, MARILYN; MADONNA; Crawford, Joan; WEST, MAE; DESIGNING WOMEN [TV] (US, 1986-89); BELLE OF THE NINETIES (US, Leo McCarey, 1934); FOOTLIGHT PARADE (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933); [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933); JOAN DOES DYNASTY [TV] (US, Joan Braderman, 1986); GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954) Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Chicago); Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and index ISBN: 0822317486 (pa : alk. paper); 0822317516 (cl : alk. paper) LON: 12009413 More info
book		Hollywood spectatorship : changing perceptions of cinema audiences / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 2000. Call No: 410 HOL Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 240p. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); CENSORSHIP. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CINEPHILIA ISBN: 0851708110; 0851708102(pbk.) : ¦15.99 LON: 21774778 More info
journal article		I-ing film in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1986) vol.12 iss.4 p.654-671 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; HISTOIRE D'O : (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1975) Author: Holland, Norman N. PhysDes: Article Subject: PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; STORY OF O, THE [HISTOIRE D'O, L'] (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1975) ID2: 273 More info
book		The image / Jacques Aumont ; translated by Claire Pajackowska London: British Film Institute, 1997. Call No: 62 AUM Author: Aumont, Jacques Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Subject: PERCEPTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "Images have become a source of knowledge and persuasion as well as pleasure every bit as powerful as the written word. And yet, the image, as it manifests itself in painting, cinema, journalism, television and photograph, remains a fascinatingly enigmatic device." - taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. -- Translated by Claire Pajackowska -- Translated from the French ISBN: 0851704107 Contents: Introduction -- Chapter One: The Role of the Eye. I. What the eye does -- II. From the visible to the visual -- III. From the visual to the imaginary -- IV. Conclusion: The eye and the image -- Chapter Two: The Role of the Spectator. I. The image and its spectator -- II. The representational illusion -- III. The spectator as desiring subject -- IV. Conclusion: The anthropology of the spectator -- Chapter Three. I. The spatial dimension of the apparatus -- II. The temporal dimension of the apparatus -- III. Apparatus, technology and ideology -- IV Conclusion: Apparatus and history -- Chapter Four: The role of the image. I. Analogy -- II. Represented space -- III. Represented time -- IV. Signification in the image -- Chapter Five: The role of art. I. The abstract image -- II. The expressive image -- III. The auratic image -- IV. A civilization of images? -- Index 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		An introduction to film studies / edited by Jill Nelmes London: Routledge, 1999. Call No: 62 INT Author: Nelmes, Jill, 1954 Edition: 2nd ed Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: xviii, 522 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: WARNER BROS.; STUDIO SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GENRES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ANIMATION; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; INDIA; USSR; GERMANY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; CENSORSHIP; STARS; AUTEUR THEORY; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; KULESOV, LEV; KAPOOR, RAJ; Ray, Satyajit; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; SHUB, ESTHER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; POTTER, SALLY; TOCCAFONDO, GIANLUIGI; FELLOW TRAVELLER (UK/US, Philip Saville, 1990); DUCK AMUCK (US, Chuck Jones, 1953); GIRLS' NIGHT OUT (UK, Joanna Quinn, 1987); COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935); DEADSY (UK, David Anderson, 1989); DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); PLATOON (US, Oliver Stone, 1986); MARS ATTACKS! (US, Tim Burton, 1996); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); WHEN WE WERE KINGS (US, Leon Gast, 1996); GIRLS LIKE US (US, Jane C. Wagner & Tina De Feliciantonio, 1997); CREATURE COMFORTS (UK, Nick Park, 1991); NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961); DESERT HEARTS (US, Donna Deitch, 1985); LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992); LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (UK, Isaac Julien, 1989); GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994); TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996); FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997); ABSCHIED VON GESTERN (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1966); AMERIKANISCHE FREUND, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1977); DEUTSCHLAND, BLEICHE MUTTER (GW, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0415173094 (hb); 0415173108 (pb) LON: 14043939 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:01:28 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		An introduction to film studies / edited by Jill Nelmes London: Routledge, 2003. Call No: 62 INT Author: Nelmes, Jill, 1954 Edition: 3rd ed Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: xviii, 522 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: WARNER BROS.; STUDIO SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GENRES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ANIMATION; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; INDIA; USSR; GERMANY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; CENSORSHIP; STARS; AUTEUR THEORY; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; KULESOV, LEV; KAPOOR, RAJ; Ray, Satyajit; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; SHUB, ESTHER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; POTTER, SALLY; TOCCAFONDO, GIANLUIGI; FELLOW TRAVELLER (UK/US, Philip Saville, 1990); DUCK AMUCK (US, Chuck Jones, 1953); GIRLS' NIGHT OUT (UK, Joanna Quinn, 1987); COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935); DEADSY (UK, David Anderson, 1989); DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); PLATOON (US, Oliver Stone, 1986); MARS ATTACKS! (US, Tim Burton, 1996); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); WHEN WE WERE KINGS (US, Leon Gast, 1996); GIRLS LIKE US (US, Jane C. Wagner & Tina De Feliciantonio, 1997); CREATURE COMFORTS (UK, Nick Park, 1991); NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961); DESERT HEARTS (US, Donna Deitch, 1985); LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992); LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (UK, Isaac Julien, 1989); GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994); TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996); FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997); ABSCHIED VON GESTERN (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1966); AMERIKANISCHE FREUND, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1977); DEUTSCHLAND, BLEICHE MUTTER (GW, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) Summary: Reference work covering a wide range of concepts, theories and ideas about film studies covering different periods and countries. Attempts to present the diversity of thought within film theory. First published in 1996. Notes: Includes annotated key reading for each chapter, bibliography, glossary of key terms and index. ISBN: 0415173094 (hb); 0415173108 (pb) LON: 14043939 More info
book		Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Call No: 670 INV GRI Author: Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee Source: UK Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: American Film Institute; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; CRITICISM; FILM ART MEDIA; FILM CULTURE; FILM NOIR; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; FILMOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK]; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETIES, FILM; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; BACHMANN, GIDEON; BARRY, IRIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; BERGSTROM, JANET; BORDWELL, DAVID; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BURGESS, ERNEST; BUSCOMBE, ED; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COOK, PAM; DEREN, MAYA; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FULLER, SAMUEL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; HAWKS, HOWARD; HAYS, WILL; HEATH, STEPHEN; HUFF, THEODORE; MACCABE, COLIN; METZ, CHRISTIAN; PARK, ROBERT; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR; PENLEY, CONSTANCE; RAINER, YVONNE; RAMSAYE, TERRY; RICHTER, HANS; ROTHA, PAUL; SARRIS, ANDREW; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SELDES, GILBERT; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H; STERN, SEYMOUR; THRASHER, FREDRICK; VOGEL, AMOS; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WEINBERG, HERMAN G; WHANNEL, PADDY; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher description Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780822342892 Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson -- Making Cinema Knowable -- Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan -- Making Cinema Educational -- Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen -- Making Cinema Legible -- Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis Little Books / Mark Betz -- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies -- Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick More info
book		Issues in feminist film criticism / edited by Patricia Erens Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Call No: 626:396 ERE Author: Erens, Patricia, 1938 Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: xxvi, 450 p. : 24 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; WOMEN IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; DIRECTORS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "Issues in Feminist Film Criticism brings together a wide variety of theoretical writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the last decade and beyond. Among the subjects treated are images of women on the screen; questions of film realism; the notion of counter-cinema; the concept of "reading against the grain"; the use of psychoanalytic theories; concerns over female spectatorship; women's place in specific genres, especially film melodrama; and issues related to the representations of lesbians and women of color." -- BACK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-438) and index ISBN: 0253319641 (alk. paper); 0253206103 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 89046336; 7125665 More info
Old collection book		Jean-Luc Godard : son + image, 1974-1991 / edited by Raymond Bellour with Mary Lea Bandy New York: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1992. Call No: 81GOD JEA Source: UK Place: New York Publisher: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams PubDate: c1992 PhysDes: 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm Subject: NOUVELLE VAGUE; CAHIERS DU CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; TELEVISION AND THE ARTS; AUTEUR THEORY; TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972); FEMME EST UNE FEMME, UNE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961); WOMAN IS A WOMAN, A (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961); VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962); CARABINIERS, LES (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963); MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963); BANDE A PART (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964); FEMME MARIEE, UNE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964); ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); MASCULIN-FEMININ (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); GAI SAVOIR, LE (FR/GW, Jean-Luc Godard, 1969); ONE PLUS ONE (UK, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); ONE A.M. (FR/US, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); BRITISH SOUNDS (UK, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger, 1969); PRAVDA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1970); VENT D'EST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970); [TWO OR THREE] 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER [DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); LUTTES EN ITALIE (FR/IT Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre GORIN, 1969); TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972); SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1980); PASSION (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1982); JE VOUS SALUE MARIE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985); SOIGNE TA DROITE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987); NOUVELLE VAGUE (Fr, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990); PRENOM CARMEN (FR/SW, Jean-Luc Godard, 1983) Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... October 30-November 30, 1992, organized by Mary Lea Bandy, director, Laurence Kardish, curator, and Barbara London, assistant curator, video ... and Colin MacCabe, guest curator"--T.p. verso. Filmography: p. 232-235. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-238) Some articles translated from the French. ISBN: 0810961148 Language: English More info
journal article		Lest We Forget in Lumiere (May, 1973) iss.23 p.33-34 Author: Murray, John C. PhysDes: Article Subject: INSIDE DAISY CLOVER (US, Robert Mulligan, 1965); SPECTATORSHIP Summary: Article wherein the author reflects on the different effects viewing INSIDE DAISY CLOVER first on television, then in a cinema, had on him. More info
book		Lost angels : psychoanalysis and cinema / Vicky Lebeau London New York: Routledge, 1995. Call No: 626:159.964.2 LEB Author: Lebeau, Vicky, 1963 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; ELLIS, BRET EASTON; HINTON, S.E.; FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (US, John Hughes, 1986); RIVER'S EDGE (US, Tim Hunter, 1986); RUMBLE FISH (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983); OUTSIDERS, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-165) and index ISBN: 0415107210 (pbk.); 0415107202 LON: 10868509 More info
Online resource book		Making sense of cinema : empirical studies into film spectators and spectatorship / edited by Carrielynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 412.3 MAK Author: Reinhard, Carrielynn; Olson, Christopher J. Edition: 2016 Place: New York Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: xvi, 298 pages ; illustrated ; 23 cm Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RESEARCH Summary: There are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators make sense of film texts, from the film text itself, the psychological traits and sociocultural group memberships of the viewer, or even the location and surroundings of the viewer. However, we can only understand the agency of film spectators in situations of film spectatorship by studying actual spectators' interactions with specific film texts in specific contexts of engagement. Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship uses a number of empirical approaches (ethnography, focus groups, interviews, historical, qualitative experiment and physiological experiment) to consider how the film spectator makes sense of the text itself or the ways in which the text fits into his or her everyday life. With case studies ranging from preoccupations of queer and ageing men in Spanish and French cinema and comparative eye-tracking studies based on the two completely different soundscapes of Monsters Inc. and Saving Private Ryan to cult fanbase of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and attachment theory to its fictional characters, Making Sense of Cinema aligns this subset of film studies with the larger fields of media reception studies, allowing for dialogue with the broader audience and reception studies field. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781501320217 Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Empirical approaches to film spectators and spectatorship / CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson -- Chapter 2: Spectatorship in public space: The moving image in public art / Annie Dell'Aria -- Chapter 3: The festival collective: Cult audience and Japanese Extreme Cinema / Jessica Hughes -- Chapter 4: Transnational investments: Aging in Les Invisibles (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2013) and its reception / Darren Waldron -- Chapter 5: Preferred readings and dissociative appropriations: Group discussions following and challenging the tradition of cultural studies / Alexander Geimer -- Chapter 6: “Legolas, he's cool … and he's hot!”: The meanings and implications of audiences' favorite characters / Martin Barker -- Chapter 7: In search of the child spectator in the late silent era / Amanda C. Fleming -- Chapter 8: Seeing, sensing sound: Eye tracking soundscapes in Saving Private Ryan and Monsters, Inc. / Andrea Rassell, Sean Redmond, Jenny Robinson, Jane Stadler, Darrin Verhagen, and Sarah Pink -- Chapter 9: Seeing animated worlds: Eye tracking and the spectator's experience of narrative / Craig Batty, Adrian Dyer, Claire Perkins, and Jodi Sita -- Chapter 10: Focalization, attachment, and film viewers' responses to film characters: Experimental design with qualitative data collection / Katalin Bálint and András Bálint Kovács -- Chapter 11: Making sense of the American superhero film: Experiences of entanglement and detachment / CarrieLynn D. Reinhard -- Chapter 12: Indexing the events of an art film by audiences with different viewing backgrounds / Sermin Ildirar -- Chapter 13: Exploring the role of narrative contextualization in film interpretation: Issues and challenges for eye tracking methodology / Thorsten Kluss, John Bateman, Heinz-Peter Preußer and Kerstin Schill -- Chapter 14: Conclusion: A methodological toolbox for film reception studies / Christopher J. Olson More info
book		Media in mind / David Reynolds Oxford: Oxford University Press, Call No: 62 REY Author: Reynolds, David Edition: 2019 Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University Press PhysDes: x, 206 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; [FOUR HUNDRED] 400 BLOWS, THE [; ARGENT, L' (FR, Marcel L'Herbier, 1928); NI NEI PIEN CHI TIEN (FR/TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001) Summary: Where do you end, and where do media begin? In Media in Mind, author Daniel Reynolds draws upon naturalist philosophies of the mind from John Dewey through contemporary theories of embodied and extended cognition to make the case that the lines separating media from the minds of their users are not blurry or variable so much as they never existed to begin with. Through analyses of films and video games from 1900 to the present, Media in Mind shows how media forms and technologies challenge dominant models of perception and mental representation, and how they complicate theoretical understanding of concepts like the platform and the interface. In order to do justice to the profound and literally mind-changing power of media, Reynolds argues, we need to think not so much about the relationship between media and the mind as about the roles that media play in our minds. Through this crucial distinction, Media in Mind surveys more than a century of media theory to illustrate the ways that scholars of film and digital media have situated and reconsidered a series of divisions between media, user, and world, and how these these conceptual divisions have reflected and inflected their ways of understanding the mind. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780190872526 Contents: Introduction: The Discontinuities -- 1. Transactionism: A Theory of Media in Mind -- 2. Feeling Through the World: Skilled Perception in a Changing Environment -- 3. Media and Radical Embodiment: Where is Representation? -- 4. Platforms as Emergence -- 5. Encounters at the Intraface -- 6. Designing a Game Boy --Conclusion: The Continuity -- Bibliography More info
book		Mothers of invention : film, media, and caregiving labor / edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, April 2022. Call No: 451-055.52 MOT Author: Mayer, So; Columpar, Corinn Edition: 2022 Place: Detroit, Michigan Publisher: Wayne State University Press PubDate: April 2022 PhysDes: 368 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media Subject: BASHU, GHARIBETH KOUCHAK (IR, Bahram Beiz'i, 1986); COVID NINETEEN; DOCUMENTARIES; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; GENRES; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; MOTHERS IN FILMS; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA Summary: Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Laborconstructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality. In four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an exciting array of approaches—including textual analysis, industry studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal reflection—Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach—from the films Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016), and A Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to the television series Top of the Lake (2013–2017) and Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), among others—as well as discussion of the creative practices, be they related to production, pedagogy, curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film and media artists and/or scholars. Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780814348529 Donation: Senses of Cinema More info
book		Narration in light : Studies in cinematic point of view / George M. Wilson Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1986. Call No: 632.51 WIL Author: Wilson, M. George Source: US Place: Baltimore Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: x, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: POINT-OF-VIEW; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COMMENTARY; SPECTATORSHIP; PERCEPTION; MCCABE, COLIN; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); DEVIL IS A WOMAN, THE (IT, Josef von Sternberg, 1935); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 209-219 ISBN: 0801831377 Contents: Film, perception, and point of view -- Fritz Lang's You only live once -- Coherence and transparency in classical narrative film -- Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest -- Some modes of nonomniscience -- Max Ophuls' Letter from an unknown woman -- On narrators and narration in film -- Josef von Sternberg's The devil is a woman -- Nicholas Ray's Rebel without a cause -- Morals for method More info
book		The new avengers : feminism, femininity and the rape-revenge cycle / Jacinda Read Manchester, UK: Manchester University, 2000. Call No: 626:396 REA Author: Read, Jacinda Source: UK Place: Manchester, UK Publisher: Manchester University PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 290 p; 22 cm Series: Inside Popular Film Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; CRIME IN FILMS; SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (US, Joesph Ruben, 1991); WESTERNS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: In this, the first full-length study of the rape-revenge film, Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period. Arguing that rape-revenge is better understood not as a genre, but as a narrative structure, the author analyses the ways in which various deployments of this structure rework the ‘mass cultural fictions of femininity’ inscribed in the genres over which they have been mapped. (from backcover). ISBN: 0719059054 More info
book		Off screen : women and film in Italy / edited by Giuliana Bruno and Maria Nadotti ; foreword by Laura Mulvey London New York: Routledge, 1988. Call No: 626:396(45) OFF Author: Bruno, Giuliana; Nadotti, Maria CorpAuthor: Conference "Italian and American Directions: Women's Film Theory and Practice (1984 : New York, N.Y.) Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: xiii, 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: ITALY; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ITALY; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; SPECTATORSHIP. ITALY; WOMEN IN FILMS. ITALY; SCUOLA SENZA FINE (IT, Adriana Monti, 1983?); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) Notes: Some papers translated from Italian; Papers presented at the Conference "Italian and American Directions: Women's Film Theory and Practice," held in New York, Dec. 1984; Includes index; "Filmography: Women in film in Italy": p. [165]-190; Bibliography: p. [191]-193 ISBN: 0415008565; 0415008573 (pbk.) LON: 5606579 More info
book		Picturegoers : a critical anthology of eyewitness experiences / Luke McKernan Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2022. Call No: 412 MCK Author: McKernan, Luke Edition: 2022 Place: Exeter Publisher: University of Exeter Press PubDate: 2022 PhysDes: xx, 226 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; SPECTATORSHIP ISBN: 9781804130124 More info
journal article		Pleading an Aesthetic Excuse in Montage (September 1968) p.9-13 Author: Durgnat, Raymond PhysDes: Article Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; AESTHETICS; STAR SYSTEM; FANS; CINEPHILIA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCES Summary: Essay discusses the star system with regard to audience spectatorship: why some actors become stars and attract fanbases, in the cinema. More info
book		Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Call No: 62 POS Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: Madison Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cm Series: Wisconsin studies in film Subject: THEORY; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; MUSIC, FILM; NON-FICTION FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; JAPAN; DENMARK; EXHIBITION; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; AUDIENCES; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDITING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; GENRES; LOVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GIBSON, JAMES J.; COHN, HARRY; JAMESON, FREDRIC; MANDEL, ERNEST; RENOV, MICHAEL; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 95037052; 11859923 More info
book		Re-viewing reception : television, gender, and postmodern culture / Lynne Joyrich Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996. Call No: 64POS JOY Author: Joyrich, Lynne, 1959 Place: Bloomington, Ind. Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 18 Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO; GENDER AND TV; MELODRAMA; FAMILY ON TV; FEMINISM AND TV; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SPECTATORSHIP; CONSUMERISM ON TV; ROBOTS ON TV; CYBERNETICS AND TV; MIAMI VICE [TV] (US, 1984-90); MOONLIGHTING [TV] (US, 1985-89); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE [TV] (US, 1986-91); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-218) and index ISBN: 025321078X (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253330769 (alk. paper) LON: 96006931; 12195271 More info
book		The real gaze : film theory after Lacan / Todd McGowan Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c2007. Call No: 626[159.964.2] MCG Author: McGowan, Todd Place: Albany, NY Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: c2007 PhysDes: xii, 254 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; LACAN, JACQUES; SPECTATORSHIP; KUBRICK, STANLEY; LEE, SPIKE; MANN, MICHAEL; FELLINI, FEDERICO; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WELLES, ORSON; DENIS, CLAIRE; NEOREALISM; HOWARD, RON; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; Wenders, Wim; LYNCH, DAVID Summary: "Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenege the foundations of ideology." -- from the back cover. McGowan makes the argument for his theory with reference to the works of several directors and film movements. Notes: Includes index. ISBN: 9780791470398 More info
book		The reality of illusion : an ecological approach to cognitive film theory / Anderson, Joseph D. United States: Southern Illinois University Press, [1996]. Call No: 747.7 AND Author: Anderson, Joseph D. Source: Adrian Miles Place: United States Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press PubDate: [1996] PhysDes: xiv, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: Anderson's primary argument is that motion picture viewers mentally process the projected images and sounds of a movie according to the same perceptual rules used in response to visual and aural stimuli in the world outside the theater. To process everyday events in the world, the human mind is equipped with capacities developed through millions of years of evolution. In this context, Anderson builds a metatheory influenced by the writings of J. J. and Eleanor Gibson and employs it to explore motion picture comprehension as a subset of general human comprehension and perception, focusing his ecological approach to film on the analysis of cinema's true substance: illusion. Anderson investigates how viewers, with their mental capacities designed for survival, respond to particular aspects of filmic structure - continuity, diegesis, character development, and narrative - and examines the ways in which rules of visual and aural processing are recognized and exploited by filmmakers. He uses Orson Welles's Citizen Kane to disassemble and redefine the contemporary concept of character identification; he addresses continuity in a shot-by-shot analysis of images from Casablanca; and he uses a wide range of research studies, such as Harry F. Harlow's work with infant rhesus monkeys, to describe how motion pictures become a substitute or surrogate reality for an audience. By examining the human capacity for play and the inherent potential for illusion, Anderson considers the reasons viewers find movies so enthralling, so emotionally powerful, and so remarkably real. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index. ISBN: 0809321963 More info
journal article		The Reception of Films in Wide Angle (1986) vol.8 iss.1 p.[whole issue] Author: Kirihara, Donald PhysDes: Article Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; NOW, VOYAGER (US, Irving Rapper, 1942) Summary: Wide Angle edition on spectatorship and audience reception to film. More info
book		Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 744 HOO Author: Hooks, Bell Place: New York, NY Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cm Subject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; LOOK IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; DEATH IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; Tarantino, Quentin; LEE, SPIKE; DASH, JULIE; CLARK, LARRY; JAFFA, ARTHUR; BURNETT, CHARLES; BILLOPS, CAMILLE; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE; WANG, WAYNE; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978); GIRL SIX (US, Spike Lee, 1996); CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995); EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994); ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991); KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover) LON: 96026474; 12664107 More info
book		Sexuality & space / Beatriz Colomina, editor ; Jennifer Bloomer ... [et al.] New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992. Call No: 631.2 SEX Author: Colomina, Beatriz; Bloomer, Jennifer Place: New York, N.Y. Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 389 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Princeton papers on architecture ; 1 Subject: SEX IN FILMS; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; SPECTATORSHIP Notes: Proceedings of a symposium, held at Princeton University School of Architecture March 10-11, 1990; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 1878271083 (paper) : $14.95 LON: 91040146; 8637487 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
Online resource digital clippings file		SPECTATORSHIP Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SPECTATORSHIP Notes: import_Batch10C_simon Strong 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		Understanding film texts / Patrick Phillips London: British Film Institute, 2000. Call No: 512.1 PHI Author: Phillips, Patrick Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xiii, 158 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: AESTHETICS; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; COSTUMES; DIALOGUE; EDITING; EXHIBITION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PERCEPTION; REALISM IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; VIRTUAL REALITY; DICAPRIO, LEONARDO; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO; AFTER LIFE (JA, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998); AMERICAN BEAUTY (US, Sam Mendes, 1999); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); C`EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS (BE, Remy Belvaux & Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde, 1992); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FESTEN (DK, Thomas Vinterberg, 1998); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); SECRETS & LIES (FR/UK, Mike Leigh, 1996); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); SLIDING DOORS (US, Peter Howitt, 1998); WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) ISBN: 085170798X; 0851707998(pbk.) LON: 21445642 More info
book		Videocracy : how YouTube is changing the world... with double rainbows, singing foxes, and other trends we can't stop watching / Kevin Allocca London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Call No: 408 ALL Author: Allocca, Kevin Place: London Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: xv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subject: YOUTUBE; ONLINE VIDEO PROGRAMMING; SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; INTERNET Summary: From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world. Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, Gangnam Style, the Bed Intruder song, an ASAPscience explainer, Rebecca Black's Friday, or the Evolution of Dance, Kevin Allocca's Videocracy reveals how these beloved videos and famous trends--and many more--came to be and why they mean more than you might think. YouTube is the biggest pool of cultural data since the beginning of recorded communication, with four hundred hours of video uploaded every minute. (It would take you more than sixty-five years just to watch to watch the vlogs, music videos, tutorials, and other content posted in a single day!) This activity reflects who we are, in all our glory and ignominy. As Allocca says, if aliens wanted to understand our planet, he'd give them Google. If they wanted to understand us, he'd give them YouTube. In Videocracy, Allocca lays bare what YouTube videos say about our society and how our actions online--watching, sharing, commenting on, and remixing the people and clips that captivate us--are changing the face of entertainment, advertising, politics, and more. Via YouTube, we are fueling social movements, enforcing human rights, and redefining art--a lot more than you'd expect from a bunch of viral clips. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-323) and index. ISBN: 9781408880272 More info
book		Watching television : hermeneutics, reception and popular culture / Tony Wilson Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1993. Call No: 611 WIL Author: Wilson, Tony Source: UK Place: Cambridge, UK Publisher: Polity Press PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: TELEVISION; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "This book offers an original and sophisticated analysis of some of the issues raised by the reception of television programmes. Wilson uses concepts drawn from the philosophical traditions of hermeneutics and phenomenology - concepts such as horizon, identification as play and life-world - to explore the interaction between programmes and viewers. The result is not only a systematic theoretical account of watching television, but also a set of practical guidelines for the analysis of programmes and contexts of reception." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliography: p.[210]-222, and index. ISBN: 0745616364 Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Television Programmes -- 1. Television: Familiarity and Phenomenology. 1.1. Audience and Life-world. -- 1.2. Beginning the Analysis: the Breakfast-time Viewer. -- 1.3. Television's Familiarity and 'Personal Sense' -- 2. Television: Hermeneutics and Horizons. 2.1. Understanding as a 'Fusion of Horizons'. -- 2.2. Identification and Social Roles. -- 2.3. Identification and New Perspectives. -- 2.4. Post-structuralist Hermeneutics -- 3. Audiences: Constructions of Sense. 3.1. Watching Television. -- 3.2. Viewers and Varieties of Meaning. -- 3.3. Serials, Sense and Identification -- 4. Viewing and the Veridical Effect. 4.1. The Audience's Horizon of Expectations. -- 4.2. Identification and the Veridical Effect. -- 4.3. Producing the Veridical Effect. -- 5. Mechanisms of Identification in Film and Television 5.1 The Filmic Point-of-view Shot -- 5.2 The Televisual Point-of-view Shot -- 5.3 Televisual Identification and the Subjective Travelling Shot -- 5.4 Discourses of Speech in Voiceover -- 5.5 Discourses of Speech in Direct Address -- 6. Subverting the Veridical Image 6.1 The Text of Contradiction -- 6.2 The Text of Possibility -- 6.3 The Postmodern Image -- 7. Towards an 'Epic' Television 7.1 The Programme as Hierarchy -- 7.2 Subverting the Hierarchy -- Conclusion: Resisting Television's Familiarity -- Bibliography -- Index More info

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