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book		Filming the modern Middle East : politics in the cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab world London ; New York: I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Call No: 71(53) KHA Author: Khatib, Lina Source: UK Place: London ; New York Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: ARAB COUNTRIES; MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES; MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; POLITICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS IN FILMS; TERRORISM AND THE CINEMA; RELIGION IN FILMS Summary: "Today the world's media have a pressing need to understand and interpret the modern Middle East. In this timely book, Lina Khatib examines how contemporary American cinema and the cinemas of the Arab world contribute to this global preoccupation in their representations of Middle Eastern politics. This examination of Hollywood as the dominant Western interpreter of the Arab World also views the Arab world in terms of how it perceives itself and others through its films." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmography ISBN: 9781845111915 Contents: Introduction: Orientalism and the Cinematic Middle East --; Chapter I: The Politicized Landscape -- Why space matters -- Hollywood's spatial political stage -- The spatial contradictions of Arab cinemas -- Conclusion --; Chapter II: Gendered Tools of Nationalism -- The changing face of the American male/nation -- The female nations of Arab cinema -- Conclusion --; Chapter III: Conflicts Within and Without: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (and the Gulf War) -- Hollywood's America: world police -- Arab cinemas: nostalgia and resistence -- Conclusion --; Chapter IV: From the Other Outside to the Other Within: Representing Islamic Fundementalism -- Why fundamentalism matters -- Hollywood's fundamentalist terrorists -- Islamic fundamentalism in Egyptian and Algerian cinemas: the Other within -- Conclusion; Epilogue: On Difference, Resistance, and Nationalism -- On difference -- On resistance -- On nationalism -- Beyond the East/West divide 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		Screening the Red Army Faction : historical and cultural memory / Christine Gerhardt United States: 2018. Call No: 745.9[323.28](430.1) Author: Gerhardt, Christine Place: United States PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: xii, 308 pages : illustrated ; 25cm Subject: TERRORISM AND THE CINEMA; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM, DIE (GW, Volker Schlondorff & Margarethe von Trotta, 1975); DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST (GW, Alf Brustellin & Bernhard Sinkel & Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Alexander Kluge & Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus & Maximiliane Mainka & Peter Schubert & Edgar Reitz & Katja Rupe & Hans Peter Cloos & Volker Schlondorff, 1978); BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX, DER see BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, THE (G/F/CZ, Uli Edel, 2008); STILLE NACH DEM SCHUSS, DIE (GG, Volker Schlondorff, 2000); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); MUTTER KUSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975); ZWEITE ERWACHEN DER CHRISTA KLAGES, DAS (GW, Margarethe von Trotta, 1978) Summary: Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic's most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife. Looking back at the history of representations of the RAF in various media, this book considers how our understanding of the Cold War era, of the long sixties and of the RAF is created and re-created through cultural texts. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781501336676 Donation: Arian Danks Contents: Introduction -- 1. Looking Back: The Political and Historical Context, 1945-1970 -- 2. Print Media and Social Movements in West Germany, 1967-1972 -- 3. The RAF, Surveillance and the German Autumn in Cinema, 1966-1978 -- 4. Diverging Trajectories: The RAF and Political Alternatives in New German Cinema, 1972-1982 -- 5. Terrorism and the Cold War: The RAF and East Germany's The Ministry of State Security, 1982-1990 -- 6. Terrorism and Memory: Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 and the Kunst-Werke Exhibit Myth of the RAF -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index More info
book		Transnational cinema : the film reader / Edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2006. Call No: 408.3 TRA Author: Ezra, Elizabeth (ed.) Rowden, Terry (ed.) Source: UK Place: Abingdon, Oxon, UK Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 244 pages ; 25 cm Series: in focus: Routledge film readers Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; DIASPORIC CINEMA; TERRORISM AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS; MIGRATION; GLOBALISATION; WORLD CINEMA Summary: "Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader provides an overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational cinema. Bringing together seminal essays from a wide range of sources, this volume engages with films that fashion their narrative and aesthetic dynamics in relation to more than one national or cultural community. The reader is divided into four sections: From National to Transnational Cinema / Global Cinema in the Digital Age / Motion Pictures: Film, Migration and Diaspora / Tourists and Terrorists." -- PUBLISHERS WEB SITE ISBN: 9780415371589 Contents: Introduction: What is Transnational Cinema? / Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden -- Introduction to Section I: From National to Transnational Cinema -- The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema? / Andrew Higson -- Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema / David Murphy -- Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- Bombay Boys and Girls: Transnational Gender and Sexual Politics in the New Indian Cinema in English / Jigna Desai -- Introduction to Section II: Global Cinema in the Digital Age -- The Instantaneous Worldwide Release: Coming Soon to Everyone, Everywhere / Robert E. Davis -- Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Participatory Fandom: Mapping New Congruencies Between the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture /Elana Shefrin -- Transnational Documentary: A Manifesto / John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- Introduction to Section III: Motion Pictures: Film, Migration, and Diaspora -- Situating Accented Cinema? / Hamid Naficy -- Beur Cinema and the Politics of Location: French Immigration Politics and the Naming of a Film Movement / Peter Bloom -- Diaspora and National Identity: Exporting 'China' through the Hong Kong Cinema / David Desser -- Migrancy and the Latin American Cinemascape: Towards a Post-National Critical Praxis / Ann Marie Stock -- Introduction to Section IV: Tourists and Terrorists -- Romance And/As Tourism: Heritage Whiteness and the (Inter)National Imaginary in the New Woman's Film? / Diane Negra -- Four Forms for Terrorism: Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir / John S. Nelson -- Terror and After... / Homi K. Bhabha -- More info

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