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Call No: 626:396 GRE
Author: Green, Philip, 1932
Place: Amherst
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; FILM NOIR. USA; CREED, BARBARA; MULVEY, LAURA; STONE, SHARON; ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); FURNESS, DEBORRA-LEE; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946); IMPULSE (US, Sandra Locke, 1990); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); MS 45 (US, Abel Ferrara, 1981); NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); RIVER WILD, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1994); SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); SHAME [TV] (US, 1992); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); VANISHING, THE (US, George Sluizer, 1993); SPOORLOOS (NE/FR, George Sluizer, 1988)
Summary: Distinguishing his own neo-Marxist approach from that of other media scholars, Philip Green pursues two interrelated themes. In the first part of the book, he looks at the strategies Hollywood has employed to deflect or absorb the ideological challenges posed by the feminist critique of contemporary American society. He demonstrates the ways in which mainstream movies and television programs, no matter how unconventional or "subversive" they may appear, produce and reproduce familiar images of sexuality and gender identity. In the second part, Green highlights instances in which reproduction of the dominant ideology is less successful by examining several recent cinematic genres - the female action movie, the rape-revenge cycle, and the new film noir - that portray the real ambiguities of a social order in upheaval; As a male consumer of the cultural commodities being discussed, the author offers a perspective on American films and television different from that of most other feminist critics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-248) and index
ISBN: 1558491198 (cloth : alk. paper); 1558491201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 13262384
ID2: 290

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 02 WOL
Author: Wolf, William; Wolf, Lillian Kramer
Place: London
Publisher: Paddington Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 429 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); DUCK SOUP (US, Leo McCarey, 1933); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); THIRTY-NINE STEPS, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1935); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); ROMA CITTA APERTA (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1945); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); SORROW AND THE PITY, THE [CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE] (FR/GW/SZ, Marcel Ophuls, 1969); PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955); ROOM AT THE TOP (UK, Jack Clayton, 1959); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); [EIGHT AND A HALF] 8 1/2 [OTTO E MEZZO] (IT, Federico Fellini, 1963); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); ULYSSES (UK/US, Joseph Strick, 1967); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971); DEEP THROAT (US, Jerry Gerard, 1972); HEAVY TRAFFIC (US, Ralph Bakshi, 1973); SLEEPER (US, Woody Allen, 1973); NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975); PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (IT, Lina Wertmuller, 1976); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Notes: incl. index
ISBN: 0709208758
LON: vtb00270168; 10429365

Call No: 744.6(73) QUI
Author: Quinn, Eithne
Edition: 2020
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
Subject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; BLACK FILMMAKERS. US; POITIER, SIDNEY; DAVIS, OSSIE; VAN PEEBLES, MELVIN; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971); SUPER FLY (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1972); BLUE COLLAR (US, Paul Schrader, 1978)
Summary: Hollywood is often thought of—and certainly by Hollywood itself—as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action, Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed wider racial politics, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films like In the Heat of the Night, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Super Fly, Claudine, and Blue Collar, this volume considers how issues of race and labor played out on the screen during the tumultuous early years of affirmative action. Quinn charts how black actors leveraged their performance capital to force meaningful changes to employment and film content. She examines the emergence of Sidney Poitier and other African Americans as A-list stars; the careers of black filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Ossie Davis; and attempts by the federal government and black advocacy groups to integrate cinema. Quinn also highlights the limits of Hollywood’s liberalism, showing how predominantly white filmmakers, executives, and unions hid the persistence of racism behind feel-good stories and public-relations avowals of tolerance. A rigorous analysis of the deeply rooted patterns of racial exclusion in American cinema, A Piece of the Action sheds light on why conservative and corporate responses to antiracist and labor activism remain pervasive in today’s Hollywood. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231164375

Author: Kraszewski, Jon
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; BLACULA (US, William Crain, 1972); I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (US, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971); SHAFT (US, John Singleton, 2000); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
Summary: This is a study of blaxploitation advertisements and the genre, examing the complex relationship between blaxpoitaton text and spectator. The heterogeneous identity at play within blaxploitation's black spectators is examined. Class becomes important to studying blaxploitation and its audience not because it demarcates a subgenre that diverged in interest from other films concerned with violence and ultrasexuality but because class - specifically the way in functions in blaxploitation advertisements - can help reconceptualize the blackness of blaxploitation and its spectators in more dynamic ways. The genre is situated in a complex historical moment where three relatively autonomous influences on black identity operated simultaneously.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)