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book		Anxious cinephilia : pleasure and peril at the movies / Sarah Keller New York: Columbia University Press, Call No: 412.3 KEL Author: Keller, Sarah Edition: 2020 Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PhysDes: vii, 302 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS; BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); BAZIN, ANDRE; FILM CULTURE; CINEPHILIA; DIGITAL CINEMA; FRANCE; MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (AT/US, George Miller, 2015); STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005); WORLD WAR Z (US/MT, Marc Forster, 2013) Summary: The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a “cinephile.” In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images. Keller reframes the history of cinephilia from the earliest days of film through the French New Wave and into the streaming era, arguing that love and fear have shaped the cinematic experience from its earliest days. This anxious love for the cinema marks both institutional practices and personal experiences, from the curation of the moviegoing experience to the creation of community and identity through film festivals to posting on social media. Through a detailed analysis of films and film history, Keller examines how changes in cinema practice and spectatorship create anxiety even as they inspire nostalgia. Anxious Cinephilia offers a new theoretical approach to the relationship between spectator and cinema and reimagines the concept of cinephilia to embrace its diverse forms and its uncertain future. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780231180870 Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ardor and Anxiety: The History of Cinephilia -- 2. Enchanting Images -- 3. Cinephilia and Technology: Anxieties and Obsolescence -- 4. The Exquisite Apocalypse -- Conclusion: Anxious Times, Anxious Cinema -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index More info
book		Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular culture / Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer London ; New York: Routledge, 2011. Call No: 744.7 FEM Author: Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca Source: US Place: London ; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; IDENTITY IN FILMS; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN DIRECTORS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; [THIRTEEN] 13 GOING ON 30 (US, Gary Winick, 2004); BABY MAMA (US, Michael McCullers, 2008); BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002); BRAVE ONE, THE (US/AT, Neil Jordan, 2007); BRIDE WARS (US, Gary Winick, 2009); CASINO ROYALE (CZ/US/UK, Martin Campbell, 2006); ENCHANTED (US, KEVIN LIMA, 2007); [FORTY] 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, THE (US, Judd Apatow, 2005); FRIENDS WITH MONEY (US, Nicole Holofcener, 2006); HARD CANDY (US, David Slade, 2005); JUNO (US/CN, Jason Reitman 2007); KISSING JESSICA STEIN (US, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2001); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); MICHAEL CLAYTON (US, Tony Gilroy, 2007); MISS CONGENIALITY (US, Donald Petrie, 2000); SECRET LIFE OF BEES (US, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008); SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE (US, MICHAEL PATRICK KING, 2008); SINGLE MAN, A (US, Tom Ford, 2009); SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS, THE (US, Ken Kwapis, 2005); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005) Summary: "Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporaty Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of masculinity as well as femininity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes list of figures, bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780415895880 Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements; Introduction: "Re-vision"?: Feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer; Part I: Masculinity in question -- "The first Bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger -- Queer memories and universal emotions: A Single Man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis -- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstruction of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after New Queer Cinema / Gary Needham; Part II: New feminine subjects: a space for women? -- Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism: gender, irony, and new romantic comedy / Yvonne Tasker -- Neoliberal feminism in Miss Congeniality (2000) / Yael D Sherman -- Girls' sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky -- Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner; Part III: Consuming culture(s) -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap -- Music and the woman's film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton -- Independence at what cost? Economics and desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money (2006) / Michele Schreiber -- The feminist politics of Sofia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christine Lane and Nicole Richter; Part IV: Relationships, identity and family -- "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), and the new intimacies of reproduction / JaneMaree Maher -- Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler -- "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride Wars (2009), wedding envy, and chick flicks / Heather Brook -- Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad; Part V: Gender and violence -- Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Blythwood's The Secret Life of Bees (2008) / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- From victim to vigilante: gender, violence, and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer -- "When the woman looks": Haute Tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant; Contributors -- Index More info
Old collection book		Masterpieces on film : a guide to films for study in English classes / Charles MacFarland Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985. Call No: 53:820 MAC Author: MacFarland, Charles Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Longman Cheshire PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 172 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: TEACHING MATERIALS; ADAPTATIONS; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953); TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960); TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (IT/US, Franco Zefferelli, 1967); ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968); CHARLY (US, Ralph Nelson, 1968); ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); MURPHY'S WAR (UK, Peter Yates, 1971); STING, THE (US, George Roy Hill, 1973); BREAKING AWAY (US, Peter Yates, 1979); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ISBN: 0582872200 More info
book		The panic broadcast : portrait of an event by Howard Koch / Howard Koch New York: Avon Books, 1970. Call No: 79WAR KOC Author: Koch, Howard Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Avon Books PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 163 p. : ill. ; 18 cm Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953) Summary: Story of the initial broadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio play. Includes broadcast script. Notes: Includes introductory interview with Arthur C Clarke. ISBN: 38000408095 Language: English More info
title clippings file		WAR OF THE WORLDS : (US, Byron Haskin, 1953) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Publicity Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953) More info
title clippings file		WAR OF THE WORLDS : (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005) More info
journal article		War of the Worlds : Narrative and Graphic Design in Wide Angle (1976) vol.1 iss.2 p.58-63 Author: Hank, Steve PhysDes: Article Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953); FILMMAKING; NARRATIVE IN FILMS Summary: Article analysing the narrative of 'War of the World' in relation to the graphic design and camera shots, highlighting the patterns used throughout the film. More info
book		The war of the worlds : Mars' invasion of earth, inciting panic and inspiring terror from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles and beyond / written by H.G. Wells; CD narrated by John Callaway; forword by Ray Bradbury; afterword by Ben Bova Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2005. Call No: 79 WAR WEL Author: Wells, H.G.; Welles, Orson; Bradbury, Ray; Bova, Ben Place: Naperville, Ill. Publisher: Sourcebooks PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: xx, 265 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm + 1 CD ROM (4 3/4 in) Subject: WELLES, ORSON; INDEPENDENCE DAY (US, Roland Emmerich, 1996); MARS ATTACKS! (US, Tim Burton, 1996); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Byron Haskin, 1953); WELLS, H.G Notes: CD is in sleeve inside back cover ISBN: 9781570719851 More info
Online resource digital clippings file		WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE [TV] : (UK/FR/US, 2019) Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE [TV] (UK/FR/US, 2019) Cross Reference: WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE [TV] (UK/FR/US, 2019) More info

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