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book		Arrows of desire : the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger / Ian Christie London Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994. Call No: 802(41) CHR Author: Christie, Ian, 1945 Edition: New ed Place: London Boston Publisher: Faber and Faber PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xx, 163 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; Powell, Michael; KORDA, ALEXANDER; ARCHERS, THE Summary: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger formed the greatest creative partnership in the history of British Cinema - The Archers. Their films were often controversial: Churchill tried to suppress the release of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Later, The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman startled and enchanted cinema audiences with their use of colour, form and music. In the last ten years the magic, poetry and passion of their work has been acknowledged around the world and they are firmly in the pantheon of film masters Notes: Originally published : London : Waterstone, 1985; Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-119) and index; Filmography (p. [120]-157) ISBN: 0571162711 (pbk) LON: 10846724 More info
Online resource book		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 AUD Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: 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habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations.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: 9789089643629 Contents: 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' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:29:06 PM Status: Live Details: HTTP status 200 - Usual success response More info
Interim book		The cinema of Michael Powell : International perspectives on an English film-maker / Ian Christie & Andrew Moor (eds) London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 81POW CHR Author: Ian Christie; Andrew Moor Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 295 p. ; 24 cm Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS. UK; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966) Summary: The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), among them I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them ‘the most successful experimental film-makers in the world’). In this first ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of scholars explore his film-making landscape, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating these to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance. [Taken from back of book.] ISBN: 1844570940 More info
book		Eisenstein at ninety / edited by Ian Christie and David Elliot Oxford London: Museum of Modern Art British Film Institute, 1988. Call No: 81EIS EIS Author: Christie, Ian, 1945; Elliot, David, 1949-; Taylor, Richard, 1946 CorpAuthor: Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England); British Film Institute Place: Oxford London Publisher: Museum of Modern Art British Film Institute PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 166 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Notes: Exhibition organised by David Elliott, Ian Christie and Naum Kleiman ; historical consultant, Richard Taylor; Published to coincide with the exhibition: Eisenstein 1898-1948 : his life and work, held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 17 Jul.-28 Aug. 1988 ... [and elsewhere]; Includes bibliographical references and filmography ISBN: 0905836626 LON: abn88300926; 6135649 More info
book		The film factory : Russian and Soviet cinema in documents 1896-1939 / Edited by Richard Taylor and Ian Christie London: Routledge, 1988. Call No: 71(47) TAY Author: Taylor, Richard; Christie, Ian Edition: 1988 Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 458 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm Subject: USSR; KULESOV, LEV; MEYERHOLD, VSEVOLOD; KOZINTSEV, GRIGORI; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; SHKLOVSKY, VICTOR; SHUB, ESTHER; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; LENIN [V.I.] IN FILMS ISBN: 9780415052986 Donation: Adrian Miles More info
book		A matter of life and death / Ian Christie London: BFI Pub., 2000. Call No: 79MAT CHR Author: Christie, Ian, 1945 Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI film classics Subject: MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-86) ISBN: 0851704794 LON: 21301869 21301869 More info
book		Powell, Pressburger and others / edited by Ian Christie London: British Film Institute, 1978. Call No: 802.25 POW Author: Christie, Ian Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 124 p. ; 21 cm Subject: Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC Notes: Published in conjunction with the retrospective [sic] presented by Film Availability Services, the National Film Archive and the National Film Theatre, Oct.-Nov. 1978 ISBN: 0851700861 LON: 2839023 More info
book		Scorsese on Scorsese / edited by David Thompson and Ian Christie London: Faber, 1996. Call No: 81SCO SCO Author: Scorsese, Martin; Christie, Ian, 1945; Thompson, David Edition: Updated ed Place: London Publisher: Faber PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xxi, 254 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm Subject: SCORSESE, MARTIN Notes: Previous ed.: 1989; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 242-246 ISBN: 0571178278 (pbk) : ¦8.99 LON: gb 96068600; 12743353 More info

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