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Don't shoot darling! : women's independent filmmaking in Australia / edited by Annette Blonski, Barbara Creed, Freda Freiberg Richmond, Vic.: Greenhouse, 1987.
Call No: 462-02(94) DONCopy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2Author: Blonski, Annette ; Creed, Barbara ; Freiberg, Freda Place: Richmond, Vic.Publisher: GreenhousePubDate: 1987PhysDes: 400 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 28 cmSubject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA ; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA ; INDEPENDENT FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ADDIS, ERIKA ; ANSARA, MARTHA ; ASH, EVE ; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE ; FISKE, PAT ; GIBSON, SARAH ; GRACE, HELEN ; LAMBERT, SUSAN ; HARTMAN, RIVKA ; HOASS, SOLRUN ; KEARNEY, BRIANN ; KELLY, GABRIELLE ; ROLLE, DI ; SCHWARZ, MONIQUE ; THORNLEY, JENI ; TILSON, ALISON ; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN ; CAMPION, JANE ; BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (AT, Sarah Gilbert & Susan Lambert, 1980) ; IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1987) ; FOR LOVE OR MONEY (AT, Megan McMurchy & Jeni Thornley, 1983) ; MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE (AT, Gillian Leahy, 1986) ; WE AIM TO PLEASE (AT, Robin Laurie & Margot Nash, 1977) ; SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (AT, Helen Grace, 1983) ; SONG OF CEYLON, A (AT, Laleen S.B. Jayamanne, 1984) Summary: Don't shoot darling! affirms the significant role played by women filmmakers. Various contributors examine the institutions and organisation which provide support for women's films; the achievements and limitations of affirmative action training schemes for women; and the reception and coverage of women's independent films by the press. A number of particular films - among them, For love or mone, My life without Steve, Serious Undertakings and Behind closed doors - are analused from feminist critical perspectives, and the book includes a collection of statements by individual women filmmakers about their own experiences and attitudes. -- Back coverNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexesISBN: 0864360584 : price unknownLON: anb86436058; 5042996Contents: Preface -- Beginnings -- Big brother - women and the state -- Feminist initiatives -- Training and affirmative action -- Personal statements -- The press -- Textual analysis
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Fatal Attraction in Cinema Papers (March 1988) iss.68 p.42-44
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Media matrix : sexing the new reality / Barbara Creed Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2003.
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The monstrous-feminine : film, feminism, psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed London New York: Routledge, 1993.
Call No: 626:396 CREAuthor: Creed, Barbara Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1993PhysDes: viii, 182 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Popular fiction seriesSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; SEX IN FILMS ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) ; CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976) ; BROOD, THE (CN, David Cronenberg, 1979) ; HUNGER, THE (US, Tony Scott, 1983) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and indexISBN: 0415052599 (pbk.); 0415052580LON: 93000445; 9905552
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Pandora's box : essays in film theory / Barbara Creed Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2004.
Call No: 62(04) CREAuthor: Creed, Barbara Source: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Australian Centre for the Moving ImagePubDate: 2004PhysDes: xi, 144 p. ; 21 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA Summary: Brings together a collection of classic essays on the important topic of contemporary film theory from the influence of feminism to queer theory and the reasons for the powerful effect of horror films.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Feminist Film Theory: history and debates -- 2: The monstrous-feminine: horror, theory, film -- 3: Me Jane: you Tarzan! race and gender in the jungle -- 4: Dream Screen: film and psychoanalytic theory -- 5: From here to modernity: feminist and postmodern theory -- 6: In the pink: queer theory, queer cinema -- Index
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Phallic panic : film horror and the primal uncanny / Barbara Creed Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, c2005.
Call No: 735.21 CREAuthor: Creed, Barbara Source: ATPlace: Carlton, VicPublisher: Melbourne University PressPubDate: c2005PhysDes: xix, 232 p. : ill, ports ; 21cmSubject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS ; DRACULA IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; FRANKENSTEIN ; FREDDY KREUGER IN FILMS ; GHOSTS IN FILMS ; HORROR FILM ; JACK THE RIPPER IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MONSTERS IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; VAMPIRE IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; WERWOLVES IN FILMS Summary: In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity, through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire, mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity, and what it means to a society.Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-224; Filmography: p.212-214; Includes indexISBN: 052285172
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