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newspaper article		Adventures in Le Magic Kingdom in Australian Financial Review [Boss] (08/07/2016) p.38 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Author: Gray, Joanna PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; POWELL, CATHERINE Summary: Profile piece on Catherine Powell, an Australian based Disney executive who has been hired to run EuroDisney More info
book		The art of Walt Disney / by Robert D. Feild London: Collins, 1944. Call No: 81DIS FEI Author: Feild, Robert D Place: London Publisher: Collins PubDate: 1944 PhysDes: xv, 290 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm Subject: DISNEY, WALT; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Notes: First published 1942; Includes index LON: abn87025187; 5006988 More info
book		The art of Walt Disney : from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms New York: H. N. Abrams, 1975]. Call No: 81DIS FIN Author: Finch, Christopher, 1939 Edition: New concise ed Place: New York Publisher: H. N. Abrams PubDate: 1975] PhysDes: 160 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm Subject: DISNEY, WALT; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ISBN: 0810903210 LON: 74008435; 440732 More info
book		The big picture : The fight for the future of movies / Ben Fritz Boston: Eamon Dolan Book/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Call No: 210.31(73) FRI Author: Fritz, Ben Source: US Place: Boston Publisher: Eamon Dolan Book/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cm. Subject: SONY CORPORATION; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; AMAZON; NETFLIX; IMAX; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; WARNER BROS.; FRANCHISES; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015) Summary: "The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film. In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, IMAX, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits. But despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what our movies will look like in the new era." -- Book jacket. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index. ISBN: 9780544789760 Contents: A notes on sources ix -- Introduction: Groundhog Day-How franchises killed originality in Hollywood xii -- Part 1: How Hollywood got here -- The Odd Couple: Lynton and Pascal's glory days at Sony -- Reality Bites: How everything went wrong for the movie business -- Inception: The secret origin of the superhero movie -- Revenge of the Nerds: The rise of Marvel Studios -- Spiderman: Homecoming- why Sony gave up its most valuable asset -- Star Wars: The decline of the A-list -- A Star is Born: Netflix, the new home for movie stars -- Frozen: Why studios stopped making mid-budget dramas -- Trading places: How tv stole movies' spot atop Hollywood -- Part 2: Where Hollywood is headed -- The Terminator: Disney, the perfect studio for the franchise age -- The Producers: Creativity meets franchise managment -- The Shop Around the Corner: Amazon saves the indie film business -- Apt Pupil: China's shifting relationship with Hollywood -- Field of Dreams: Studio defectors and the future of nonfranchise films -- The Last Picture Show? More info
book		Breaking in to the movies : film and the culture of politics / Henry A. Giroux Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Call No: 409 GIR Author: Giroux, Henry A. Source: US Place: Malden Publisher: Blackwell Publishers PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 297 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WERTMULLER, LINA; CLARK, LARRY; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); DANGEROUS MINDS (US, John N. Smith, 1995); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); ONE EIGHT SEVEN (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1997); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ISBN: 0631226044 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. Call No: 62 BRA Author: Branston, Gill Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Open University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: p. cm Series: Issues in cultural and media studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB) LON: 21519736 More info
book		Disney animation SDI / compiled by Barbara McDougal [Melbourne]: [s.n.], 1994. Call No: 19WAL MCD Author: McDougal, Barbara Place: [Melbourne] Publisher: [s.n.] PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 59 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS LON: abn98271701; 14066038 More info
book		Disney discourse : producing the magic kingdom / edited by Eric Smoodin New York: Routledge, 1994. Call No: 19WAL DIS Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: x, 270 p. ; 24 cm Subject: DISNEY, WALT; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; MERCHANDISING; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-255) and index ISBN: 0415906156 (hb : acid-free paper); 0415906164 (pb : acid-free paper) LON: 93032366; 10475200 More info
newspaper article		Disney feels the force with Star Wars mania in Weekend Australian (19/12/2015) p.27 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (US, J.J. Abrams, 2015) Author: Davidson, Darren PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; HOYTS; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (US, J.J. Abrams, 2015) Summary: Report on the massive financial impact the latest STAR WARS film is having on the film industry worldwide and in Australia More info
book		The Disney films / Leonard Maltin New York: Crown, c1973. Call No: 772(73) MAL Author: Maltin, Leonard Place: New York Publisher: Crown PubDate: c1973 PhysDes: viii, 312 p. illus. ; 29 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Summary: 'The Disney films' documents Walt Disney's contributions to both movies and television. Plot summaries and critical commentaries are provided for the feature films as well as chapters on short subjects, television shows and posthumous releases. ISBN: 0517500469 LON: 588782 588782 Donation: donated by Wayne Levy Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The feature films -- 3. Without Walt -- 4. The Disney shorts -- 5. Disney on TV -- 6. Disneyana More info
newspaper article		Disney keen for Vice-lie grip on edgy youth market in The Australian (25/08/2016) p.25 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; VICE Author: Hagey, Keach PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; JOURNALISM; VICE; SMITH, SHANE Summary: Report on Vice, the digital media company who received $400 million investment from the Disney company, and it's Chief Executive Shane Smith More info
newspaper article		Disney plots Australian SVOD service in Australian Financial Review (15/02/2016) p.31 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Author: White, Dominic -- Mason, Max PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; VIDEO ON DEMAND Summary: Walt Disney Company is considering releasing a subscription video on demand service for Australia. Report on what this means for other subscription TV services in Australia, especially Foxtel More info
book		The Disney studio story / Richard Holliss, Brian Sibley London, [England]: Octopus, c1988. Call No: 19WAL HOL; FOLIO Author: Holliss, Richard; Sibley, Brian, 1949 Place: London, [England] Publisher: Octopus PubDate: c1988 PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. ; 33 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY, WALT; MICKEY MOUSE; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p.239-242 ISBN: 0706430409; 0706431405 (jacket) LON: 6092038 6092038 More info
book		The Disney touch : how a daring management team revived an entertainment empire / Ron Grover Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, c1991. Call No: 19DIS GRO Author: Grover, Ron Source: US Place: Homewood, IL Publisher: Business One Irwin PubDate: c1991 PhysDes: xix, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY, WALT Summary: "In 1984, Walt Disney Producations was a sick company. Lackluster attendence at its theme parks and a string of box office disasters had taken their toll on corporate earnings, slahing them to $98 million from $135 million only four years earlier. By 1985, a year after the arrival of Michael Eisner and Frank Wells, Disney's revival was well under way as every area of the company's performance began to show dramatic improvement" -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index ISBN: 155623385 Contents: -- introduction -- chapter 1: the house that walt built -- chapter 2: someday my prince will come -- chapter 3: rebuilding the magic kingdom -- chapter 4: team disney -- chapter 5: lord mickey gets richer -- chapter 6: down and out in burbank -- chapter 7: wishing upon a star -- chapter 8: mr. spielberg comes to toontown -- chapter 9: riches beneath the castle --chapter 10: the empty nest -- chapter 11: new lands to conquer -- chapter 12: a kingdom for europe -- chapter 13: guarding the kingdom's coffers -- chapter 14: hollywood shuffle -- chapter 15 : when mickey gets grumpy -- chapter 16: ringing up mickey -- chapter 17: beyond tomorrowland -- notes -- index -- More info
book		Disney war / by James B. Stewart New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Call No: 19DIS STE Author: Stewart, James B. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: xv, 572 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; EISNER, MICHAEL; DISNEY, ROY EDWARD; KATZENBERG, JEFFREY; OVITZ, MIKE Summary: "...Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former executives and board members, as well as thousands of pages of never-before-seen letters, memos, transcripts, and other documents, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years: What really caused the rupture with studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenburg, a man who was regarded Eisner as a father but who became his fiercest rival? How could Eisner have so misjudged Michael Ovitz, a man who was not only :the most powerful man in Hollywood" but also his friend, whom he appointed as Disney president and immediately wanted to fire? what caused the break between Eisner and Pixar abruptly abandon its partnership with Disney? Why did Eisner so misturst Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him? How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards? ...Stewart describes how Eisner lost his chairmanship, and why he felt obliged to resign as CEO, effective 2006. No other book so thoroughly penetrates the secretive world of the corporate boardroom. Disney War is enthralling tale of one of America's most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. Disney War is an epic achievment. It tells a story that - in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax - might itself have been the subject of a Disney aminated clasis - except that it's all true." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0684809931 Contents: Cast member -- Prologue -- Part one: the wonderful world of Disney -- Part two: disenchanted kingdom -- Part three: Disneywar -- Epilogue -- A note on sources -- Acknowledgements -- Index More info
newspaper article		Disney was all of your favorite things in The Herald [-] (16/12/1966) p.- Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; DISNEY, WALT Author: Hawken, Noel PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: DISNEY, WALT; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Summary: Obiturary of animator and studio head Walt Disney Notes: old clips pile from June 2015 More info
book		Eisenstein on Disney / edited by Jay Leyda ; translated by Alan Upchurch ; introduced by Naum Kleiman London: Methuen London, 1988. Call No: 81DIS EIS Author: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948; Leyda, Jay, 1910 Place: London Publisher: Methuen London PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 101 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Series: Eisenstein texts ; 3 Subject: DISNEY, WALT; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Notes: California. Los Angeles. Hollywood. Cinema industries: Walt Disney Productions. Productions: Animated cinema films (BNB/PRECIS); "A Methuen paperback"; Translation from the Russian ISBN: 0413196402 (pbk.) : ª8.95 LON: bnb41319640; 6230454 More info
book		Film and reality : an historical survey / Roy Armes Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1974. Call No: 62 ARM Author: Armes, Roy Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry. Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced. ISBN: 0140217010 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:28 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Film rhythm after sound : technology, music, and performance / Lea Jacobs Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2015]. Call No: 70"1" JAC Author: Jacobs, Lea Source: US Place: Oakland, California Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: [2015] PhysDes: xii, 266 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm Subject: DAWN PATROL, THE (US, Edmund Goulding, 1938); DIALOGUE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; HAWKS, HOWARD; IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); TWENTIETH CENTURY (US, Howard Hawks, 1934); WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; SOUND Summary: The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this evolution via close examination of important prototypes of early sound filmmaking, as well as contemporary discussions of rhythm, tempo, and pacing. Jacobs looks at the rhythmic dimensions of performance and sound in a diverse set of case studies: the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration Ivan the Terrible, Disney's Silly Symphonies and early Mickey Mouse cartoons, musicals by Lubitsch and Mamoulian.- from Publisher website. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252, filmography (pages 253-256) and index. ISBN: 9780520279650 Contents: Introduction : film rhythm and the problem of sound -- A lesson with Eisenstein : rhythm and pacing in Ivan the Terrible, Part I -- Mickey Mousing reconsidered -- Lubitsch and Mamoulian -- Dialogue timing and performance in Hawks. More info
book		Hollywood in the information age : beyond the silver screen / Janet Wasko Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1994. Call No: 201(73) WAS Author: Wasko, Janet Place: Cambridge, U.K. Publisher: Polity Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: x, 308 p. ill. ; 23cm Subject: USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; PRODUCTION. USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; PAY TV. USA; INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. USA; CABLE TV. USA; INDUSTRY, VIDEO. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS. USA; PRODUCT PLACEMENT; MURDOCH, RUPERT; NEWS CORPORATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; ORION PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; TIME WARNER Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [255]-301 ISBN: 0745603181; 074560319X (pbk.) LON: 11620231 More info
Interim book		The Hollywood story / Roy Pickard London: Viscount Books, 1986. Call No: 210.31 PIC Author: Pickard, Roy Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Viscount Books PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32cm. Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; WARNER BROS.; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; RKO; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. Summary: A book about Hollywood; through the superstars, films, scandals and stories of the great studios that made Hollywood what it is. It is the story of Hollywood in its golden years, covering the period from sound cinema in the 1920s, up to the 1980s. ISBN: 0603038077 More info
book		The Hollywood studios / Roy Pickard London: F. Muller, 1978. Call No: 71(73) PIC Author: Pickard, Roy Place: London Publisher: F. Muller PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 530 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: UNIVERSAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNITED ARTISTS; WARNER BROS.; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; RKO; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [487]-491 ISBN: 0584104456 : ª14.95 LON: 1473681 More info
newspaper article		Narnia heaven-sent opportunity in Courier-Mail (19/12/2005) p.7 Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER Author: McLean, Sandra Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; HERITAGE HM; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; BOX OFFICE; HOPPING, JOHN; CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, THE: THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE (US, Andrew Adamson, 2005) Summary: How The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is being marketed to Christian audiences throughout Australia and the link to trying to ensure a large box-office for the film. Notes: -- accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007). Quotations: -- Mentions that Mel Gibson's The Passion had a 1.3 billion in box office revenue and DVD sales More info
book		Of mice and magic : a history of American animated cartoons / Leonard Maltin / Jerry Beck New York: New American Library, c1980. Call No: 772(73) MAL Author: Maltin, Leonard Place: New York Publisher: New American Library PubDate: c1980 PhysDes: ix, 470 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: CARTOONS. USA; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UPA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY, WALT; VAN BEUREN STUDIOS; FLEISCHER, MAX; TERRY, PAUL; IWERKS, UB; LANTZ, WALTER Notes: Includes filmographies and index LON: 1721928 More info
book		Open secret : gay Hollywood, 1928-1998 / David Ehrenstein New York: William Morrow and Co., c1998. Call No: 80(73) EHR Author: Ehrenstein, David Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: William Morrow and Co. PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: x, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; STUDIO SYSTEM; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BARKER, CLIVE; CRUISE, TOM; CUKOR, GEORGE; DEGENERES, ELLEN; FOSTER, JODIE; HAINES, WILLIAM; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; HECHE, ANNE; HUDSON, ROCK; HUNTER, TAB; MCKELLEN, IAN; SELLECK, TOM; SPACEY, KEVIN; VAN SANT, GUS; WHALE, JAMES; COHEN, BRUCE; FLEMING, ANDREW; GEFFEN, DAVID; THREESOME (US, Andrew Fleming, 1994); ELLEN [TV] (US, 1995-) Summary: How homosexual actors and actresses came to define straight America's sexual self-image is only one of the paradoxical and provocative questions explored in Open Secret, a revealing cultural chronicle of gay Hollywood. Part social history and part Tinseltown expose, this entertaining book spans seventy years, painting knowing and vivid portraits of many of Hollywood's foremost gays and lesbians, often in the words of eyewitnesses or the principals themselves Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-356) and index ISBN: 0688153178 (alk. paper) LON: 14008751 More info
newspaper article		Reel time : Baker in director debut for Winton's Breath in The Australian (20/04/2016) p.15 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM & TV. AUSTRALIA (WEEKLY SUMMARIES) Author: Bodey, Michael PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: BREATH (AT, Simon Baker, 2017); SEE PICTURES; TICKET TO RIDE [company]; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA; FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. ESSENTIAL INDEPENDENTS; WATTS, NAOMI; GYPSY [TV] in production; AVATAR sequels in production; JUSTICE LEAGUE, THE in production; STUFFED (AT, Warwick Young, 2014) Summary: Round-up of film/tv industry news stories for the week, including: Simon Baker starting shooting of the film BREATH, AVATAR sequels production has begun, THE JUSTICE LEAGUE film starting shooting with well-known producers onboard including Dr George Miller Doug Mitchell, Barrie Osbourne, Managing Director of Australia/NZ Disney Catherine Powell is moving just as Disney's box office share in Australia is growing, Richard Sowada has put together a festival of American Independent cinema, Warwick Young has won Best Foreign Film category at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for his film STUFFED, Naomi Watts will produce and act in the Netflix series GYPSY More info
book		Scenes from a revolution : the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008. Call No: 71 (73) HAR Author: Harris Mark Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Canongate PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: COLUMBIA PICTURES; CRITICISM; CRITICS; DIRECTORS. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; ALLEN, WOODY; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; ASHBY, HAL; BANCROFT, ANNE; BEATTY, WARREN; BENTON, ROBERT; BERGMAN, INGRID; BLAKE, ROBERT; BRANDO, MARLON; BURTON, RICHARD; CAINE, MICHAEL; CARON, LESLIE; CUKOR, GEORGE; COLLINS, JOAN; CONNERY, SEAN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; CORMAN, ROGER; DANIELS, WILLIAM; DAVIS, SAMMY, Jr.; DAY, DORIS; DUNAWAY, FAYE; DUVALL, ROBERT; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FLEISCHER, RICHARD; FONDA, JANE; FRANKOVICH, MIKE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HARRISON, REX; HENRY, BUCK; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN; NEWMAN, DAVID; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967); CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963); COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967); [DOCTOR] DR DOLITTLE (US, Richard Fleischer, 1967); GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967); GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (US, Stanley Kramer, 1967); KAEL, PAULINE; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) Summary: In this book, Mark Harris looks at 1967, and marks it as a pivotal moment in Hollywood's history: the shift from studio -generated epics, westerns and musicals, such as "Doctor Doolitle"to the director-centred European aesthetic seen in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "The Graduate". It was the birth of the New Hollywood. The book look at five films made in this year- "Bonnie & Clyde", "In the heat of the night", "Doctor Doolittle" "The Graduate" and "Guess who's coming to dinner" from the. first draft of the scripts to the impact of their release. The author interviews most of the actors in volved in the making of these films and presents a book about Hollywood and the United States at a critical juncture in their history. [Taken from the cover] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-438) and index. ISBN: 9781847671028 ID2: 277 More info
newspaper article		Short cuts : Disney down under in The Age (04/04/2013) p.36 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; [TWENTY THOUSAND] 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA in production Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; [TWENTY THOUSAND] 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (UK, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, 2014) Summary: Snippet on the possibility that Disney studios will shoot the blockbuster '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' in Australia More info
newspaper article		Short cuts : Disney's loss in Sydney Morning Herald [Arts & Entertainment] (10/03/2016) p.30 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Summary: Disney studio expected to make a loss on Craig Gillespie's The Fines Hours More info
newspaper article		Spielberg's BFG looms as giant letdown for Disney in The Age (05/07/2016) p.9 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BFG, THE (UK/CN/US, Steven Spielberg, 2016) Author: Galvin, Nick with New York Times PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BFG, THE (UK/CN/US, Steven Spielberg, 2016) Summary: Snippet on the lower than expected box office returns for the film THE BFG and the implications for the Disney company More info
book		Star Wars after Lucas : a critical guide to the future of the galaxy / Golding, Dan Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Call No: 81 STA GOL Author: Golding, Dan Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2019 Subject: STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); LUCAS, GEORGE; MERCHANDISING; NOSTALGIA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (US, J.J. Abrams, 2015); ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (US, Gareth Edwards, 2016); STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (US, Rian Johnson, 2017); FRANCHISES; STAR WARS: REBELS Summary: Focusing on The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016), The Last Jedi (2017), and the television series Rebels (2014–18), Dan Golding explores the significance of pop culture nostalgia in overcoming the skepticism, if not downright hostility, that greeted the Star Wars relaunch. In its granular textual readings, broad cultural scope, and insights into the complexities of the multimedia galaxy, this book is as entertaining as it is enlightening. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9781517905422 Contents: Introduction: Star wars and the history of nostalgia Before the empire: the politics of George Lucas and the critique of the original trilogy It calls to you: selling Star wars in 2015 Look how old you've become: the force awakens as legacy film An awakening: diversity as the politics of the force awakens Just like old times?: music, seriality, and the fugue of the force awakens You have to start somewhere: contrasting nostalgias in the force awakens and rogue one You think anybody's listening?: fighting fascism in rogue one and rebels I've always hated watching you leave: death, Han Solo, and Carrie Fisher I will finish what you started: Star wars from the last jedi and beyond. More info
book		Storming the magic kingdom : Wall Street, the raiders and the battle for Disney / John Taylor New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Call No: 19DIS TAY Author: Taylor, John Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: x, 261 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; INDUSTRY, FILM; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PRODUCTION COSTS; PRODUCTION DEALS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; AHMANSON, CAROLINE; BAGNALL, MICHAEL; BALDWIN, ROBERT; BASS, SID RICHARDSON; BERGER, RICHARD; BOESKY, IVAN; CHAMBERS, RICHARD; CHECCHI, ALFRED; COBB, CHARLES; DAILY, PETER; DAVIS, MARTIN; DAVIS, MARVIN; DILLER, BARRY; DISNEY, ROY EDWARD; DISNEY, WALT; DRAPKIN, DONALD; EISNER, MICHAEL; FLOM, JOSEPH; GOLD, STANLEY; JACOBS, IRWIN; HAWLEY, PHILIP; KELLNER. PETER; MILLER, RONALD; RAINWATER, RICHARD; STEINBURG, SAUL; WATSON, RAYMOND L Summary: "The riveting account of how a covey of corporate raiders and Wall Street mercenaries launched an assault on that bastion of American values, Walt Disney Productions, and of the furious combat that followed" - BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0394546407 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
newspaper article		Strong DVD sales for 'The Incredibles' boost Pixar Animation's bottom line in Courier-Mail (07/05/2005) p.43 Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER Author: Keating, Gina Subject: PIXAR; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; INCREDIBLES, THE (US, Brad Bird, 2004) Summary: The Incredibles look set to become the 2nd highest selling DVD of all time behind Finding Nemo. Article also talks about relationship between Pixar and Walt Disney company. Notes: -- accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007). More info
book		Understanding Disney : the manufacture of fantasy / Janet Wasko Cambridge: Polity, 2001. Call No: 19DIS WAS Author: Wasko, Janet Source: UK Place: Cambridge Publisher: Polity PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: ix, 261 p. : ill., 24 cm Subject: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY CHANNEL; DISNEY, WALT Summary: Examines the phenomena of the 'Disney Universe' by attempting to explore the impact on popular culture that Disney has had since the 1930's. Notes: Reprinted: 2002 ISBN: 0745614841 More info
book		Walt Disney : Hollywood's dark prince : a biography / by Marc Eliot Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, 1993. Call No: 81DIS ELI Author: Eliot, Marc Place: Secaucus, N.J. Publisher: Carol Pub. Group PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xxii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY, WALT Summary: Everyone remembers him as the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere. Now for the first time, Marc Eliot presents the real Walt Disney. The author reveals Walt Disney's twenty-five-year association with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, serving as a Hollywood-based official informant before being promoted to the rank of Special Agent in Charge, rooting out Communists, subversives, and Jews. A lifelong anti-Semite, he absorbed his prejudice from his father, a strict fundamentalist who believed in corporal punishment and forced child labor; Walt Disney's phobic behavior is examined in detail, as is his obsessive hand-washing, heavy drinking, and sexual inadequacies. Unwilling to accept his father's violence as a form of love, and unwilling to "prove" his own identity, he feared he had actually been adopted in infancy and was illegitimate. He spent a lifetime searching for his real mother. Marc Eliot shows how these psycho-sexual conflicts drove Walt to the depths of lifelong despair and how they found expression in his "classic" animated characters and films, now so deeply embedded in American culture. In fact, they were created by a man who used the wealth and prestige they gave him to mold a nightmare empire of vengeance and power. Told against a panoramic view of Hollywood's golden age of glamour and backdoor politics, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a fascinating work that concludes with a look into the Disney empire as it exists today Notes: "A Birch Lane Press Book."; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 155972174X : $21.95 LON: 92038788; 9605598 More info
subject clippings file		WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS More info
book		Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse memorabilia : the vintage years 1928-1938 / introduction, Bevis Hillier ; principal consultant, Bernard C. Shine London: Octopus Books, 1986. Call No: 91 WAL Author: Hillier, Bevis; Shine, Bernard C. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Octopus Books PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 180 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: MICKEY MOUSE; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; MEMORABILIA Summary: Covering the ten-year period during which the most sought-after and the best of the classic Mickey articles were produced (1928-1938) , this lively book, created with the full co-operation and input of the Walt Disney Archives, brings to print for the first time the finest and rarest early Mickey memorabilia. Drawn from the world's greatest collections, the objects are comprehensively categorized and illustrated in over 230 especially commissioned, stunning full-colour photographs. -BOOK JACKET ISBN: 0706428404 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface Ward Kimball -- Introduction Bevis Hillier -- Tin Toys -- Celluloid Toys -- Toys of Other Materials -- Dolls and Puppets -- Figures -- Timepieces -- Tableware -- Buttons and Miscellaneous -- Publications -- Cards and Posters -- Original Art -- Collectors and Collections -- Bibliography -- Bisqueography -- List of Licensees More info
book		The wonderful world of Disney animals / William R. Koehler New York: Howell Book House, 1979. Call No: 227.4KOE Author: Koehler, William R. CorpAuthor: ` Place: New York Publisher: Howell Book House PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BIG RED (US/CA, Norman Tokar, 1962); INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, THE (CN/US, Flecher Markle, 1963); SHAGGY DOG, THE (US, Charles Barton, 1959); SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (UK, Ken Annakin, 1960); THAT DARN CAT! (US, Robert Stevenson, 1965); THOSE CALLOWAYS (US, Norman Tokar, 1965); TOBY TYLER, OR TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS (US, Charles Barton, 1960); UGLY DACHSHUND, THE (US, Norman Tokar, 1966) ISBN: 0876058101 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info

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