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Author: Smaill, Belinda
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); CHINESE TAKEAWAY (AT, Mitzi Goldman, 2002)
Summary: Documentary is a genre not widely understood through its capacity to engage the emotions. This article works to acknowledge the affective labour performed by documentary and, more specifically, the way emotions give meaning to documentary subjects. The analysis explores the production of Asian Australian subjects as documentary authors in four prominent films produced over the previous decade: Chinese Takeaway (Mitzi Goldman, 2002), Sadness: A Monologue by William Yang (Tony Ayres, 1999), The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) and Letters to Ali (Clara Law. 2004). These texts allow for a fruitful examination of the way the emotions that shape the expression of these author-subjects, such as mourning and care, might impact on the documentary representation of cultural otherness. Asian Australian subjectivity coalesces in and around these texts in a manner that is founded on the activity of mourning. Included here are not only the bereavements of loved ones, but also the losses that are bound to the movements of modernity, such as the lost fullness which is the promise of diaspora, the failure or absence of universal citizenship and the lack of safety in life lived in advanced capitalism. This article explores not only the absences suggested in these films, but also how these absences present a site of ethical encounter for the viewer that both resists reducing and assimilating the Asian Australian author to a devalued ethnic other while also addressing a community of viewers through a relation of reciprocity based in caring attachments to the social realm. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Publicity
Subject: AL TISH'ALI IM ANI OHEV (IS, Barbara Noble, 1979)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: ALI (US, Michael Mann, 2001)

Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ALI AND AVA (UK/US, Clio Barnard, 2021)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Press kit
Subject: ALI AU PAYS DES MIRAGES (AE, Ahmed Rachedi, 1979)

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ALI G

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit; Publicity
Subject: ALI G INDAHOUSE (UK, Mark Mylod, 2002)

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ALI, RUBINA

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)

Call No: S ALI
Author: Knight, Andrew; Sami, Osamah
Place: AT
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 98 leaves ; 30 cm.
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: "After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl." - IMDb
Notes: Unpublished script
Donation: AFI / AACTA

Call No: P ALI
PhysDes: 1 poster : colour photograph ; 100 X 70 cm.
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: Image: Birds eye view of man (Ali) standing in the middle of a group of men and he is the only one looking up. Text: "A true story... unfortunately."
Notes: Double sided.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: AT (TU/GW, Ali Ozenturk, 1982)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Author: Maddox, Gary
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: When Helana Sawires went to Sydney's Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, she was a budding drummer and Egyptian tabla player. That changed when she discovered acting in year nine.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: RED WIND, THE [BADE SORKH] (IR, Ali Mohammad Ghasemi, 2002)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BARB AL TABANNAT (IS, Ali Nassar, 1997)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BLACK TO THE PROMISED LAND (IS, Madeline Ali, 1992)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Press kit
Subject: CAB DRIVER (US, Hafiz Ali Abdulla, 2005)
Notes: Simon Strong import_191126

Author: Hadden, Sasha
PhysDes: Article
Subject: MCALPINE, DONALD; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: Sasha Hadden document some camera tests undertaken by cinematographer Don McAlpine. The film Ali's Wedding (which McAlpine shot) is also mentioned.

Call No: 761 SMA
Author: Smaill, Belinda
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, England
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: vii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; CHILDREN IN FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; EMOTION IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; REALITY TV; SEX IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; THEORY; VIEWERS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; LOVELACE, LINDA; BORN INTO BROTHELS: CALCUTTA'S RED LIGHT KIDS (II/US, Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman, 2004); CORPORATION, THE (CN, Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar, 2003); DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, THE (UK, Kim Longinotto, 2002); DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (UK, Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998); ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (US, Alex Gibney, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); FIX: THE STORY OF AN ADDICTED CITY (CN, Nettie Wild, 2002); INSIDE DEEP THROAT (US, Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 2005); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); SEX: THE ANNABEL CHONG STORY (CN, Gough Lewis, 1999)
Summary: "The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture proposes that emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy or nostalgia play a powerful role in the circulation and reception of documentaries. Emotion shapes how political issues and individuals are represented and perceived in documentary and it is crucial to how we engage with the vicissitudes of the public sphere. In the past documentary has been popularly perceived in ways that align it with education, science, history and the rational realm. This frame has never been adequate for understanding the broad array of styles and themes that can be seen in the documentary genre. Focusing on the question of subjectivity, Smail analyses various different kinds of individuals that can be found in documentaries, such as the female porn star, the politically disenfranchised, children, and the documentary auteur. She envisages an interdisciplinary approach to documentary drawing on scholarship from not only film studies, but also gender studies, queer theory, cultural theories of affect, critical race studies, political theory and pyschoanalysis. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index
ISBN: 9780230237513 (hbk.)
Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- part one: documentary and pleasure -- 1: introduction: representation and documentary emotion -- 2: pleasure and disgust: desire and the female porn star -- part two: pain and the other -- 3: Injury, identity and recognition: Rize and Fix: the story of an addicted city -- 4: women, pain and the documentaries of Kim Longinotto -- part three: the labour of authorship: caring and mourning -- 5: loss and care: Asian Australian documentary -- 6: civic love and contemporary dissent documentary -- part four: past, present and future: hope and nostalgia -- 7: children, futurity and hope: Born into Brothels -- 8:nostalgia, historical time and reality television: the idol series -- epilogue -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Author: Davidson, John
Subject: INDUSTRY, VIDEO; BLU-RAY; HIGH DEFINITION DVD; HIGH DEFINITION DVD, PORNOGRAPHIC; DAVOUDIAN, ALI
Summary: The war between the High definition DVD formats (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) have effected the adult industry as to which direction the industry will take in pressing their adult content DVDs. The article suggests that the adult industry cemented the prominence of the VHS video format when home video porn films were pressed on VHS instead of Betamax. The adult industry could also have the same effect on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD war. Ali Davoudian, founder of the adult entertainment company digital playground – stated his company would go with the HD-DVD as the technology of choice for high definition porn films, because Sony was against the use of Blu-ray format for such purposes. However he has also been quoted as saying that he prefers Blu-ray technology as Blu-ray disks have a higher capacity than HD-DVD.
Notes: -- accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007).
Quotations: FILMS The Rescuers Big booty Revenge 2 Strap Attack 5

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: FLOWER STORM, THE [GOLBARAN] (IR, Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1972)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BORDER [GRANS] ( SW/DK, Ali Abbasi, 2018)

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HAIDAR, ALI

Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HOLY SPIDER (DK/GG/SW/FR, Ali Abbasi, 2022)

Author: Reid, John Howard [editor]
PhysDes: Article
Subject: MONTEZ, MARIA; ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (US, Arthur Lubin, 1944)
Notes: Credits. - one line synopsis. - comment. - other view sourced from “The New York Times”

Author: Gillet, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL FILM THEATRE PROGRAM; BECKER, JACQUES; ALI BABA ET LES QUARANTE VOLEURS (FR, Jacques Becker, 1954); ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (FR, Jacques Becker, 1954
Notes: Jacques Becker retrospective program. - short credits and synopses for each film. - illustration - "Ali Baba et les Quarante Voleurs" has the English translation title of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" or the shortened title of "Ali Baba"

Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: KHAN, NUSRAT FATEH ALI

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Publicity
Subject: LEILA ET LES AUTRES (AE, Sid Ali Mazif, 1978)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004)

Author: Richard Luck
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004)
Summary: D.V.D. review of Letters to Ali

Call No: P LET
Place: AT
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 99 X 69 cm.
Subject: LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004)
Summary: Image: Children's drawing of a boy and a girl, crying, beneath barbed wire. Drawing by Erin Silberstein. Text: ' "Children must not be put in jail without just cause" Malcolm Fraser Australian Prime Minister 1975-83'. Text: ' "One day I picked up my DV camcorder and followed Trish and her family, travelling 6000km across Australia through a deser to a remote detention centre to visit and Afghan boy with whom they had been exchanging letters for 18 months." Clara Law - the filmmaker'.
Notes: Small creases in middle.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LOVE AAJ KAL (II, Imtiaz Ali, 2009)

Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MACGRAW, ALI

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ATOMIC HEART [MADAR-E GHALB ATOMI] (IR, Ali Ahmadzade, 2014)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MAN IN THE MIRROR (AT, Ali Mousawi, 2015)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MARAA LE IBNI (AE, Ali Ghalem, 1983)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MOHAMMED ALI'S HAPPY DAY FEAST (AT, Nicola Tyndale-Biscoe, 1997)

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. ARAB
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. ARAB; MAN IN THE MIRROR (AT, Ali Mousawi, 2015)
Summary: Report on the star of the short film MAN IN THE MIRROR, Abbas Sharhani, who bares an uncanny resemblence to pop star Michael Jackson. Information about Man in the Mirror and other films at the Arab Film festival are included

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LETTERS IN THE WIND, THE [NAMEHEY BAD] (IR, Ali Reza Amini, 2002)

Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: OZGENTURK, ALI

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: PORCI CON LE ALI (IT, Paolo Pietrangeli, 1977)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: PROJECT 11 (II/CN/CC/IS/JA/LU/PK/US/UK, Ali Ahmed Brohi/Vikas Chandra/Dharamveer Chauhan/ Joseph Cohen/ Alessio Giorgetti/ Hiro Ikematsu/ Yi Luo/ Nkumi Mtingwa/ Rafal Rakoczy/ Ryan Singh/ Sydney Walsh, 2011)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: SAATHIYA (II, Shaad Ali, 2002)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SED'MAJA PULJA (UR, Ali Hamraev, 1972)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; MOONLIGHT (US, Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Author: Johnson, Neala
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: ALI, MAHERSHALA; MOONLIGHT (US, Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Summary: Interview with MOONLIGHT actor Mahershala Ali where he discusses the film and his career

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; ALI'S WEDDING in production
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: Brief article on Australian film ALI'S WEDDING, with comments made by the film's writer and actor Osamah Sami

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2016)
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ALI'S WEDDING (AT, Jeffrey Walker, 2017)
Summary: Snippet about the premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in November of the Australian film ALI'S WEDDING, which has been dubeed the first Australian muslim romantic comedy

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SILENCE, THE [SILENZIO, IL] (IT/FR, Farnoosh Samadi / Ali Asgari, 2016)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TEHRAN TABOO [TEHERAN TABU ] (GG/AT, Ali Soozandeh, 2017)
Notes: Simon-Batch 16B_Nov 26, 2019

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TEHRAN TABOO (AU/ GG, Ali Soozandeh, 2017)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: TIEMPO DE MORIR (CK/CU, Jorge Ali Triana, 1985)
URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/T/TIEMPO_DE_MORIR.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:57:56 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TRIPTIKH (UR, Ali Khamraev, 1978)

Author: Johnston, Meg
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LAW, CLARA; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004)
Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’. Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1