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The artist between images and across media : James Clayden in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.2 p.179-189
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: DIGITAL CINEMA ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; CLAYDEN, JAMES Summary: There has been no shortage of proposals in recent years about what might constitute the ‘digital aesthetics’ of the audio-visual media. Most often these proposals of new aesthetic models are conceived in terms of a sharp break with conventional narrative form — where convention is yoked to Hollywood on the one hand, and a certain tradition of European art cinema on the other. However, a largely unexplored connection is the very fertile link between digital work and the traditions of experimental cinema. The prolific film-maker-painter — dramaturg, James Clayden, active since the early 1970s, is an especially important figure in the crossover from film to digital in Australia. With small amounts of government subsidy and finance raised from other sources, he has made several experimental features and a myriad of shorts in recent years. These have received more attention and acclaim at overseas film festivals than in Australia, where the experimental exhibition scene has largely atrophied. Intriguingly, Clayden has gone back to celluloid works (on Super 8 or 16mm) and re-fashioned them in a radical way for several digital projects; he has also been preparing a more conventional narrative art-cinema project. This article will use these rich intersections of forms, gauges and modes in Clayden's recent career as a way of approaching a new theorization of digital aesthetics in Australian cinema. -- AbstractNotes: Part of a special issue on digital cinema in Australia and New Zealand
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A Bigger thing : David Lynch's Lost Highway in Practice (Spring/Summer 1997) iss.2 p.59-64
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Blow out in Metro (Summer/Autumn 1982) iss.58 p.58
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Blowing raspberries in Freeze Frame (May 1987) vol.1 iss.2 p.39
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Call it Scorsese in UTS Review (May 1997) vol.3 iss.1 p.216-223
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: Book review; BibliographySubject: SCORSESE, MARTIN Summary: A book review of 'The Scorsese Connection', by Lesley Stern.
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The dark side of taste in Xpress (April-May 1987) p.9
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Dim Sum in Cinema Papers (September 1987) iss.65 p.50-51
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Film : genre Northcote, Vic.: Stuff Publication, 1987.
Call No: 64GEN STUAuthor: Brophy, Philip ; Caputo, Raffaele ; Martin, Adrian Place: Northcote, Vic.Publisher: Stuff PublicationPubDate: 1987PhysDes: 93 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSubject: GENRES Notes: Editorial board: Philip Brophy, Raffaele Caputo, Adrian Martin; "This issue of Stuffing was founded with the assistance of the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission."; Includes bibliographical referencesLON: 5944692
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Fire and ice: the cinema of Catherine Breillat in Realtime (Apr-May 2000) iss.36 p.13
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The great American cartoon in Buff (17 October 1980) vol.1 iss.1 p.2
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The horror genre - Friday the 13th in Buff (Oct 17 1980) vol.1 iss.1 p.7
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Innerspace/ The pick-up artist in Cinema Papers (Jan 1988) vol.67 p.46-47
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Last day every day : Figural thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / Adrian Martin Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2012.
Call No: 630 MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Place: Brooklyn, NYPublisher: Punctum BooksPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 38 pages, 30cmNotes: Spiral boundISBN: 9780615719467
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Lessons of noise and silence : avant-garde cinema and experimental music in Australia in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.223-234
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SOUND ; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: This article is an historical survey of Australian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present day organized around the use of music and sound. Six aesthetic categories are distinguished: film as backdrop to live music; live music as backdrop to film; pre-recorded music as a ‘bed’ for images; images as a bed for pre-recorded music; disjunction between image and sound; image–sound fusion. The debate over the effects of musical rhythm in cinema is discussed.--ABSTRACT
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Live to tell : teen movies yesterday and today in Lumina (Summer 2010) iss.2 p.118-128
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR Summary: Adrian Martin on the history and characteristics of 'teen cinema', in particular four seminal examples: American grafitti; Summer of '42; Animal house and Saturday night fever . He argues the genre cannot be appreciate by selecting fine examples in isolation from other examples; and that to appreciate only the ironic or subversive films gives a misleading sense of what is essentially a light genre.
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The Mad Max Movies : Mad Max / Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome / Adrian Martin Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.: Currency Press, ScreenSound Australia, 2003.
Call No: 79 MAD MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Source: ATPlace: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.Publisher: Currency Press; ScreenSound AustraliaPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cmSeries: Australian Screen ClassicsSubject: MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA Summary: Martin compares the three Mad Max movies, sharing his views on which works best and why. In a chapter dedicated to each film, he looks at their critical reception and their themes, examines Miller's shooting techniques and provides a shot-by-shot analysis of integral scenes.Notes: Notes: p.74-78
Bibliography: p.79-81
Filmography: p.82-83
Credits: p.84-87ISBN: 0868196703
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Milking Aliens in Freeze Frame (June 1987) vol.1 iss.3 p.44
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Mise en scene and film style : From classical Hollywood to new media art / Adrian Martin Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 635.25 MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Edition: 2014Place: Basingstoke [England]Publisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xvi, 236 p. : illus. ; 22 cmSeries: Palgrave close readings in film and televisionSubject: DIRECTION ; GHATAK, RITWIK ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY ; REALITY TV Summary: Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781349444175Contents: Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Prologue: At the Ballet Ruse
1. A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific
2. Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive
3. What Was Mise en scene?
4. The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched
5. The Crises (2): The Style It Takes
6. Sonic Spaces
7. A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scene
8. Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century
9. The Rise of the Dispositif
Epilogue: Five Minutes and 15 Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak
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Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture 1982-2016 / Adrian Martin Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
Call No: 62(081) MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Edition: 2018Place: AmsterdamPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPhysDes: 424 pages ; 24 cmSeries: film culture in transitionSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; CINEPHILIA ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM HISTORY ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GARREL, PHILIPPE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; AFTER HOURS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1985) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; COTTON CLUB, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1984) ; ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961) ; ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984) ; HATEFUL EIGHT, THE (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2015) ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) Summary: The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9789462986831Contents: PART I - LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling
PART II – SCENOGRAPHIES -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced
PART III - A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism
PART IV - THE LYRICAL IMPULSE -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions -- 13. Delirious Enchantment
PART V - GENRE GAMES -- 14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power -- 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle -- 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic -- 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema
PART VI – INTERVENTIONS -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual -- 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality
PART VII - ENVOI -- 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez Lopez
Notes -- Sources of Texts -- Index
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Once upon a time in America / Adrian Martin London: British Film Institute, 1998.
Call No: 79ONC MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian, 1959 CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1998PhysDes: 96 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cmSeries: BFI modern classicsNotes: Bibliography: p. 95-96ISBN: 0851705548; 0851705448LON: abn98196556; 13937932
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Ozploitation compared to what? : A challenge to contemporary Australian film studies. in Studies in Australasian Cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.1 p.9-21
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008) Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema.Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT
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Phantasms / Adrian Martin Ringwood, Vic.: McPhee Gribble, 1994.
Call No: 403 MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Place: Ringwood, Vic.Publisher: McPhee GribblePubDate: 1994PhysDes: xii, 212 p. ; 21 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; THRILLERS ; MYTH AND THE CINEMA ; COMEDIES ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CITIES IN FILMS ; ENDINGS OF FILMS ; CAPRA, FRANK ; EDWARDS, BLAKE ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; THIRTYSOMETHING [TV] (US, 1987-91) ; JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991) ; BENNY HILL SHOW, THE [TV] (UK, 1979) ; DUNLEAVY [TV] (US, 1992?) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) Notes: Includes index; CIP confirmed; Subtitle on cover: The dreams and desires at the heart of our popular culture; Bibliography: p. 199-201ISBN: 0869142917 (pbk.)LON: 10669030
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Platoon/BlackWidow/Something Wild in Xpress (Apr-May 1987) p.32
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A question of cinema: De Palma's 'Body Double' in Tension (1985) vol.7 p.5-7
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Short reviews--An A-Z : All of Me in Cinema papers (September 1985) iss.53 p.68
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Wings of desire in Cinema Papers (May 1988) iss.69 p.57-58
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