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Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. Available at OAPEN (open access)
Call No: 410.3 AUDPlace: AmsterdamPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Series: Key debates ; 3.Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH ; AUDIENCES ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; EXHIBITION ; BOX OFFICE Summary: "This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and indexes.ISBN: 9789089643629Contents: Introduction: in search of audiences / Ian Christie -- pt. 1. Reassessing historic audiences. "At the picture palace": the British cinema audience, 1895-1920 / Nicholas Hiley The gentleman in the stalls: Georges Melies and spectatorship in early cinema / Frank Kessler Beyond the nickelodeon: cinema going, everyday life and identity politics / Judith Thissen Cinema in the colonial city: early film audiences in Calcutta / Ranita Chatterjee Locating early non-theatrical audiences / Gregory A Waller Understanding audience behavior through statistical evidence: London and Amsterdam in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick and Clara Pafort-Overduin -- pt. 2. New frontiers in audience research. The aesthetics and viewing regimes of cinema and television, and their dialectics / Annie van den Oever Tapping into our tribal heritage: The lord of the rings and brain evolution / Torben Grodal Cinephilia in the digital age / Laurent Jullier and Jean-Marc Leveratto Spectator, film and the mobile phone / Roger Odin Exploring inner worlds: where cognitive psychology may take us / a dialogue between Tim J. Smith and Ian Christie -- pt. 3. Once and future audiences. Crossing out the audience / Martin Barker The cinema spectator: a special memory / Raymond Bellour Operatic cinematics: a new view from the stalls / Kay Armatiage What do we really know about film audiences? / Ian Christie.URL status: URL: 'https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34451'
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The Brakhage lectures: Georges Melies, David Wark Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein Chicago: The GoodLion, [1972].
Call No: 802.25 BRAAuthor: Brakhage, Stan CorpAuthor: CaterpillarPlace: ChicagoPublisher: The GoodLionPubDate: [1972]PhysDes: 106 p. illus. 24 cmSubject: MELIES, GEORGES ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; DREYER, CARL TH. Notes: "Lectures [given] ... at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the fall and early winter of 1970-71."; "First appeared ... in four issues of the magazine Caterpillar: 11, 13, 14, 15/16."ISBN: 0912844043LON: 622100
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The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969].
Call No: 70 JACAuthor: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New YorkPublisher: Hopkinson and BlakePubDate: [c1969]PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; COLORIZATION ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; GERMANY ; ANIMATED FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; CLAIR, RENE ; FORD, JOHN ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; LESTER, RICHARD ; DISNEY, WALT ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; KAEL, PAULINE ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; BASS, SAUL ; MEKAS, JONAS ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439LON: 5011ID2: 291
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Film and reality : an historical survey / Roy Armes Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1974.
Call No: 62 ARMAuthor: Armes, Roy Place: Harmondsworth, MiddlesexPublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1974PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cmSubject: 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: 0140217010URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film and the narrative tradition / John L. Fell Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Call No: 632.2 FELAuthor: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927 Edition: 1st edPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1986PhysDes: xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) ; MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Previously published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. -- Includes appendices -- Bibliography: p. 258-271 -- Index: p. 273 -284 -- c1974ISBN: 0520053680 (paper)LON: abn90010427; 6864524Contents: Introduction -- I. VERBAL ARTS : 1. Mise en scene -- 2. Dissolves by gaslight -- 3. It is not a good book, my son -- 4. Space, time, and Victorian prose -- II. GRAPHIC ARTS : 5. Mr. Griffith, meet Winsor McCay -- 6. The picture in our heads -- 7. Art, photography, and the shape of things to come -- III. THE MOVIES : 8. Ten cent palace life -- 9. A particular phase of perception -- APPENDICES : I. Early development of American sheet music -- II. Twenty representative British and American melodramas -- III. Subliterature in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Lenses -- V. The phasmatrope -- VI. Nineteenth-century developments in printing -- VII. Winsor McCay -- VIII. Musical machines -- IX. Chronological listing in Niver In the Beginning Collection.
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Focus on the science fiction film / William Johnson (ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972.
Call No: 735.1 JOHSource: USPlace: Englewood Cliffs, NJPublisher: Prentice HallPubDate: 1972PhysDes: 182 p. ; 21 cmSeries: Film FocusSubject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; SIEGEL, DON ; TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960) ; FRAU IM MOND, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1929) ; THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936) ; [DOCTOR] DR CYCLOPS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack,1940) ; DESTINATION MOON (US, Irving Pichel, 1950) ; WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (US, Rudolph Maté, 1951) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960) ; FAHRENHEIT 451 (UK, Francois Truffaut, 1966) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ISBN: 0137951612Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Franju / Raymond Durgnat London: Studio Vista, c1967.
Call No: 81FRA DURAuthor: Durgnat, Raymond Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Studio VistaPubDate: c1967PhysDes: 144 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.Series: Movie paperbacksSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; POETIC REALISM ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; FRANJU, GEORGES ; SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju, 1948) ; PREMIERE NUIT, LA (FR, Georges Franju, 1958) ; EN PASSANT PAR LA LORRAINE (FR, Georges Franju, 1951) ; HOTEL DES INVALIDES (FR, Georges Franju, 1952) ; GRAND MELIES, LE (FR, Georges Franju, 1952) ; POUSSIERES, LES (FR, Georges Franju, 1954) ; A PROPOS D'UNE RIVIERE (FR, Georges Franju, 1955) ; NOTRE DAME CATHEDRALE DE PARIS (FR, Georges Franju, 1956) ; TETE CONTRE LES MURS, LA (FR, Georges Franju, 1959) ; YEUX SANS VISAGE, LES (FR/IT, Georges Franju, 1959) ; PLEINS FEUX SUR L'ASSASSIN (FR, Georges Franju, 1960) ; THOMAS L'IMPOSTEUR (FR, Georges Franju, 1965) ; RIDEAUX BLANCS, LES (FR, Georges Franju, 1965) Notes: Bibliography: p. 143-144.ISBN: 0289277973
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From Melies to new media : spectral projections / Wendy Haslem Bristol: Intellect, 2019.
Call No: 701"00" HASAuthor: Haslem, Wendy Edition: 2019Place: BristolPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 191 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD ; MELIES, GEORGES ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; COLOUR ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; MULVEY, LAURA ; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) ; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902) Summary: From Méliès to New Media contributes to a dynamic stream of film history that is just beginning to understand that new media forms are not only indebted to but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. Adopting a media archaeology, this book will present a comparative examination of cinema including early film experiments with light and contemporary music videos, silent film and their digital restorations, German Expressionist film and post-noir cinema, French Gothic film and the contemporary digital remake, Alfred Hitchcock’s films exhibited in the gallery, post medium films as abstracted light forms and interactive digital screens revising experiments in precinema. Media archaeology is an approach that uncovers the potential of intermedial research as a fluid form of history. It envisages the potential of new discoveries that foreground forgotten or marginalised contributions to history. It is also an approach that has been championed by influential new historicists like Thomas Elsaesser as providing the most vibrant and productive new histories (2014). -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781783209897Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beginnings and Ends: Historical Collusion -- Chapter 1: Cigarette Burns and Bullet Holes: Celluloid Cues in Digital Cinema -- Section I: Early Cinema: Colour and Spectrality -- Chapter 2: Applied Colour: Chromatic Frankenstein's Monsters? -- Chapter 3: The Serpentine Dance Films: 'Dream Visions That Change Ten Thousand Times a Minute' -- Section II: Luminescence, Montage and Frame Ratios -- Chapter 4: Memory and Noir: Neon Contrasts -- Chapter 5: Cutting: Shock and Endurance -- Chapter 6: Screens, Scale Ratio: Vertical Celluloid in the Digital Age -- Section III: Cinema Beyond the Frame -- Chapter 7: Hallucinatory Framing and Kaleidoscopic Vision -- Chapter 8: Ephemeral Screens: The Muybridgizer -- Bibliography -- Index
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Georges Melies : presentation et bio-filmographie / par Georges Sadoul Paris: Editions Seghers, 1961.
Call No: 81MEL SADAuthor: Sadoul, Georges Place: ParisPublisher: Editions SeghersPubDate: 1961PhysDes: 239p : ill ; 17cmSubject: MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Includes bibliographyLON: qum00132541; 12412564
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A history of narrative film / David A. Cook New York: Norton, c1981.
Call No: 70 COOAuthor: Cook, David A Edition: 1st edPlace: New YorkPublisher: NortonPubDate: c1981PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; STAR SYSTEM ; EXPRESSIONISM ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; ITALY ; NEOREALISM ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; FILM NOIR ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; JAPAN ; THIRD WORLD ; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC ; USSR ; MELIES, GEORGES ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; Keaton, Buster ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707LON: 1583335 1583335
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The language of new media / Lev Manovich Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press, c2001.
Call No: 775 MANAuthor: Manovich, Lev Source: USPlace: Cambridge, Mass. LondonPublisher: MIT PressPubDate: c2001PhysDes: xxxix, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: LeonardoSubject: DIGITAL BROADCASTING ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; MEDIA ; INTERACTIVE CINEMA ; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA ; INTERNET AND TV ; COMPUTER GRAPHICS ; COMPUTER GAMES ; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; ANIMATION ; VIRTUAL REALITY ; LOOP FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0262133741 : No priceLON: 21628309
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Marvellous Melies / Paul Hammond London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1974.
Call No: 81MEL HAMAuthor: Hammond, Paul Place: LondonPublisher: Gordon Fraser GalleryPubDate: 1974PhysDes: 159 p. : ill., facsims., plan, ports. ; 22 cmSubject: MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Filmography: p. 134-151; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0900406380 : ª4.00. 0900406399 pbkLON: 75307567; 261955
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Marvellous Melies / Paul Hammond London: Gordon Fraser, 1974.
Author: Hammond, Paul Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Gordon FraserPubDate: 1974PhysDes: 24 cm ; 159 pISBN: 0900406380Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: Publicity; ClippingsSubject: MELIES, GEORGES
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Movies of the twenties : and early cinema / Jurgen Muller (ed) Koln: Taschen GMBH, 2007.
Call No: 70"192" MULAuthor: Muller, Jurgen Edition: 2007Place: KolnPublisher: Taschen GMBHPubDate: 2007PhysDes: 482 pgaes : illustrated ; 26 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902) ; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) ; STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913) ; CABIRIA (IT, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916) ; MADAME DUBARRY (G, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; EROTIKON (SW, Mauritz Stiller, 1920) ; GOLEM, THE [ ; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921) ; FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922) ; [FOUR] 4 HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921) ; THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Fred Niblo, 1921) ; ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925) ; TOL'ABLE DAVID (US, Henry King, 1921) ; NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; HAXAN [WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES] (SW/DK, Benjamin Christensen, 1922) ; [DOCTOR] DR MABUSE: THE GAMBLER [DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER] (G, Fritz Lang, 1922) ; SAFETY LAST (US, Fred Newmayer/Sam Taylor, 1923) ; HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (US, Wallace Worsley, 1923) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923) ; WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924) ; THIEF OF BAGDAD (US, Raoul Walsh, 1924) ; SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924) ; NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24) ; LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; NAVIGATOR, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924) ; GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925) ; IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925) ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; FREUDLOSE GASSE, DIE (G, Wilhelm Pabst, 1925) ; PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925) ; SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926) ; LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; BLACK PIRATE, THE (US, Albert Parker, 1926) ; FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926) ; ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925) ; METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926) ; KONETS SANKT-PETERSBURGA (UR, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1927) ; NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927) ; CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE, UN (FR, Rene Clair, 1927) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) ; CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928) ; WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928) ; CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928) ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929) ; BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929) ; CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928) ; LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931) ; BLAUE ENGEL, DER (G, Josef von Sternberg, 1930) ; ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US, Lewis Milestone, 1930) ; SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1929) ; MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930) ; WESTFRONT 1918 (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930) ; AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930) Notes: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 L'arrive d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens.
Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s the very first "talkies", albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front were produced. This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times. -- jacket blurbISBN: 9783822846131Donation: Megan McMurchy
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On the history of film style / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: THEORY ; EDITING ; CAHIERS DU CINEMA ; LENSES ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MONTAGE ; REALISM IN FILMS ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BURCH, NOEL ; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE ; BARDECHE, MAURICE ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; BRASILLACH, ROBERT ; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS ; GUNNING, TOM ; KULESOV, LEV ; LEENHARDT, ROGER ; LUMIERE, LOUIS ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; MELIES, GEORGES ; TOLAND, GREGG ; WELLES, ORSON ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0674634284 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674634292 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 97004016; 13106257Contents: 1. The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History -- 2. Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History -- 3. Against the Seventh Art: Andre Bazin and the Dialectical Program -- 4. The Return of Modernism: Noel Burch and the Oppositional Program -- 5. Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs -- 6. Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in Depth
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Performing Illusions : cinema, special effects and the virtual actor / Dan North London: Wallflower, 2008.
Call No: 236 NORAuthor: North, Dan Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2008PhysDes: viii, 232 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; SPECIAL EFFECTS Summary: "The camera supposedly never lies, yet film's ability to frame, cut and reconstruct all that passes before its lens made cinema the pre-eminent medium of visual illusion and revelation from the early twentieth century onwards. This volume examines film's creative history of special effects and trickery, encompassing everything from George Melies' first trick films to the modern CGI era. Evaluating movements towards the use of computer-generated 'synthespians' in films such as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), this title suggests that cinematic effects should be understood not as attempts to mimic real life perfectly but as constructions of substitute realities, situating them in the cultural lineage of the stage performers and illusionists of the nineteenth century. With analyses of films such as Destination Moon (1950), Spider-Man (2002) and the King Kong films (1933 and 2006), this new volume provides an insight into cinema's capacity to perform illusions."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781905674534Contents: 1. The Magic Theatre -- 2. Rituals of Incarnation -- 3. Invasion and Excusion -- 4. The Computer -- 5. The Synthespian.
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Phantasmagoria : pre-cinema to virtuality : Melies, Hegedus, Iwai, Oursler Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996.
Call No: 911(94) PHAAuthor: Iwai, Toshio ; Melies, Georges, 1861-1938 ; Oursler, Tony ; Hegedus, Agnes CorpAuthor: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)Place: SydneyPublisher: Museum of Contemporary ArtPubDate: 1996PhysDes: iv, 51 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSubject: MELIES, GEORGES ; IWAI, SHUNJI ; OURSLER, TONY ; HEGEDUS, AGNES Notes: Associated with an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 27 March-30 June 1997; Includes bibliographic referencesISBN: 187563245XLON: abn97232888; 13317221
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Rediscovering French film / edited by Mary Lea Bandy ; introduction by Richard Roud New York Boston: Museum of Modern Art Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983.
Call No: 71(44) REDAuthor: Bandy, Mary Lea CorpAuthor: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Place: New York BostonPublisher: Museum of Modern Art Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, BrownPubDate: c1983PhysDes: 220 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: FRANCE ; FRANCE. 1927-1932 ; CLAIR, RENE ; PAGNOL, MARCEL ; GREMILLON, JEAN ; GABIN, JEAN ; COCTEAU, JEAN ; RENOIR, JEAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; LUMIERE, LOUIS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; FEUILLADE, LOUIS ; GANCE, ABEL ; FEYDER, JACQUES ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; BECKER, JACQUES ; MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE ; CARNE, MARCEL ; JAUBERT, MAURICE ; GUITRY, SACHA ; ARLETTY ; LUMIERE D'ETE (FR, Jean Gremillon, 1942) ; DOUCE (FR, Claude Autant-Lara, 1943) Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum, and others; Includes index; Filmography: p. 167-193; Bibliography: p. 195-210ISBN: 0870703358 (pbk.)LON: 3145053
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The Rise of the American film : a critical history / by Lewis Jacobs New York: Teachers College Press, c1939.
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The saga of special effects / Ron Fry and Pamela Fourzon London: Robert Hale & Company, 1978.
Call No: 236 FRYAuthor: Fry, Ron ; Fourzon, Pamela Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Robert Hale & CompanyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 212 p. ; 29 cmSubject: ANIMATION ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; MINIATURE WORK ; MODEL WORK ; MONSTERS IN FILMS ; ROBOTS IN FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNERS ; STOP-MOTION TECHNIQUE ; STORMS IN FILMS ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; COOPER, MERIAN C. ; FULTON, JOHN P. ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DISNEY, WALT ; DUNN, LINWOOD ; GILLESPIE, A. ARNOLD ; O'BRIEN, WILLIS ; PAL, GEORGE ; EARTHQUAKE (US, Mark Robson, 1974) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; [TWENTY THOUSAND] 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (US, Richard Fleischer, 1954) ISBN: 0709170738Contents: 1. A definition of "special effects" -- 2. The birth of an industry: Edison, Melies, Urban, Paul, and Porter -- 3. Epics without soundtracks: Griffith, Sennett, Keaton, and Lang -- 4. The entertainment decade: Warner's sound, Dunn's optical printer, and O'Brien's King Kong -- 5. Re-creating a world at war: Gillespie, Jennings, Edouart, Hitchcock, and Disney -- 6. The creature-ridden fifties: Pal, Corman, Howard, Japan's Toho studios, Harryhausen and De Mille -- 7. The spectacular sixties, from The time machine to 2001: Vogel, Cruickshank, Danforth, Lee, and Knoth -- 8. The "disastrous" seventies: Allen, Trumbull, Abbott, Mattey, Robinson, Whitlock, and Von Buelow -- Epilogue: De Laurentis' King Kong - the present (and future) of special effects
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Sergei Eisenstein, selected works : Volume I, Writings, 1922-1934 / edited and translated by Richard Taylor London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
Call No: 623 EISAuthor: Eisenstein, Sergei ; Taylor, Richard (ed.) Source: UK/USPlace: LondonPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2010PhysDes: ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Selected worksSubject: MONTAGE ; THEORY ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. Summary: "Superbly translated from the definitive Russian texts, and copiously annotated, Volume 1 documents the complex course of Eisenstein's writings during the revolutionary years prior to the establishment of Socialist Realism as orthodox Soviet aesthetic doctrine. This was also the period of Eisenstein's great silent masterpieces, The Strike, The Battleship Potemkin, October and The General Line, and of his controversial sojourns in Hollywood and Mexico. The writings in this first volume give a picture of Eisenstein the committed socialist artist, passionately engaged in the debates over the art forms of the future, but also of Eisenstein the humorist and Eisenstein the profoundly innovative aesthetic thinker." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Translated from the RussianISBN: 9781848853553Contents: -- general editor's preface -- introduction -- translator's note -- abbreviations -- 1922 -- 1: Sergei Yutkevich and Eisenstein: The Eighth art. On expressionism, America and, of course, Chaplain -- 1923 -- 2: The Montage of Attractions -- 1924 -- 3: The Montage of Film Attractions -- 1925 -- 4: The problem of the materialist approach to form -- 5: the method of making a worker's film -- 1926 -- 6: Constanta (whither The Battleship Potemkin) -- 7: However odd - Khokhlova! -- 8: Eisenstein on Eisenstein, the director of Potemkin -- 9: Bela Forgets the scissors -- 10: the two skulls of Alexander the Great -- 11: The German Cinema. A Traveller's Impressions -- 1927 -- 12: give us a state plan -- 1928 -- 13. Literature and cinema. Reply to a questionnaire -- 14. What we are expecting from the pary conference on cinema -- 15. Our October. Beyond the played and the non-played -- 16: for a worker's hit -- 17: Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Grigori Alexandrov: statement on sound -- 18: an unexpected juncture -- 19: Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov: The Twelfth Year -- 20: the GTK teaching and research workshop. A conversation with the leader of the workshop, S. M. Eisenstein -- 1929 -- 21: conversation with Eisenstein on Sound Cinema -- 22: the form of the script -- 23: The Arsenal -- 24: beyond the shot -- 25: perspectives -- the dramaturgy of film form (the dialectical approach to film form -- 27: the fourth dimension in cinema -- 1930 -- 28: the principles of the new russian cinema -- 29: Rin-Tin-Tin does his tricks for noted russian movie man -- 30: the dynamic square -- 1932 -- 31: help yourself! -- 32: in the interests of form -- 1933 -- 33: through the revolution to art: through art to the revolution -- 34: pantagruel will be born -- 35: to your posts -- 36: Georges Melies mistake -- 37: an attack by class allies -- 38: cinema and the classics -- 1944 -- 39: for elevated ideological content, for Film Culture! -- 40: on fascism, German cinema and Real life. Open letters to the German minister of propoganda, Dr Goebbels -- 41: 'Eh!' on the purity of film language -- 42: At last! -- notes -- index --
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VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE : (FR, George Melies, 1902) Digital clippings file available
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