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subject clippings file		ANIMALS IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS More info
Online resource digital clippings file		ANIMALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/ANIMALS_IN_FILMS.AUSTRALIA.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:23:19 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
journal article		Australian eco-horror and Gaia's revenge : animals, eco-nationalism and the 'new nature' in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.1 p.43-54 Author: Simpson, Catherine PhysDes: Article Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; NATURE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984); DARK AGE (AT/US, Arch Nicholson, 1988); ROGUE (AT, Greg Mclean, 2007); MARSUPIALS: THE HOWLING III, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1987); DYING BREED (AT, Jody Dwyer, 2008) Summary: This article focuses on moments in a series of key films: Razorback (Mulcahy, 1984), Dark Age (Nicholson, 1987), Rogue (McLean, 2007), Howling III: the Marsupials (Mora, 1987) and Dying Breed (Dwyer 2008). Using an 'eco-postcolonial' framework, the author argues that these films extend postcolonial anxieties over settler Australian notions of belonging and challenge the notion of human mastery over nature. Notes: We hear so much about extinction in debates around climate change. But what about those animals that go feral and then return – bigger, hungrier and angrier – to wreak revenge on humans who may have done them injustice? Using an eco-postcolonial framework, this article examines how a number of exploitation horror films have dealt with environmental topics and issues of trespass. In particular, I examine the agency of animals – crocs, pigs, thylacines and marsupial werewolves – in some key Australian eco-horror films from the last 30 years: Long Weekend (Eggleston,1978), Razorback (Mulcahy, 1984), Dark Age (Nicholson, 1987), Howling III: the Marsupials (Mora, 1987), Rogue (Greg McLean, 2007), Black Water (Nerlich & Traucki, 2007) and Dying Breed (Dwyer 2008). On the one hand, these films extend postcolonial anxieties over settler Australian notions of belonging, while on the other, they signify a cultural shift. The animals portrayed have an uncanny knack of adapting and hybridizing in order to survive, and thus they (the films and the animals) force us to acknowledge more culturally plural forms of being. In particular, these films unwittingly emphasize what Tim Low has termed the ‘new Nature’: an emerging ethic that foregrounds the complex and dynamic interrelationships of animals with humans.--Abstract More info
book		Bad Boy Bubby / Gabrielle Murray (author) Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Call No: 79 BAD MUR Author: Murray, Gabriel Source: UK Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: 152 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Series: controversies Subject: BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP. UK; ANIMALS IN FILMS; DISABLED IN FILMS Summary: Bad Boy Bubby focuses on a 35 year-old man-child whose 'mother/keeper' keeps him imprisoned in a windowless hovel. From the moment it entered the festival cycle in 1993, the film has polarized audiences. This volume examines how and why the film produced such conflicting responses, as well as reviewing its current relevance. -- PUBLISHERS WEB SITE ISBN: 9780230296769 Contents: Introduction -- synopsis -- 1 Somewhere between exploitation and art cinema -- 2 Censorship, film festival classifications and pressure groups -- 3 Animal cruelty and the cinema -- 4 Key scene analysis -- 5 Key themes -- 6 Legacy -- Appendix A Key Details -- Appendix B Notes -- Appendix C References.-- Index More info
Interim book		Celluloid safari : filming big game from Cape to Cairo / by Stirling Gillespie London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1939. Call No: 738.1 GIL Author: Gillespie, Stirling Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Blackie & Son Limited PubDate: 1939 PhysDes: x, 278 p. : illus Subject: FILM WORKERS; ANIMALS IN FILMS Notes: Photographs by J.Blake Dalrymple and the author.; Includes map of Africa showing route of Celluloid Safari. More info
book		Cullenbenbong / by Bernard O'Reilly Brisbane: Smith & Paterson, 1944. Call No: N79SON ORE Author: O'Reilly, Bernard Place: Brisbane Publisher: Smith & Paterson PubDate: 1944 PhysDes: 206 p. ; 18 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949) Notes: tie in of "Sons of Matthrew" More info
Interim book		Fang and claw / by Frank Buck and Ferrin Fraser New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Call No: 738.1 BUC Author: Buck, Frank; Fraser, Ferrin Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 1935 PhysDes: 3p.1., 239 p. : illus. ; 24 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS More info
book		Kiss of the beast : From Paris salon to King Kong / Ted Gott (ed.) Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2005. Call No: 175 KIS Source: AT Place: Brisbane Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 127 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN CINEMATHEQUE; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ANIMALS IN FILMS; PREHISTORIC ANIMALS IN FILM; LOST WORLD, THE (US, Willis O'Brian, 1925); GRASS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1926); CHANG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper, 1927); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); BLONDE VENUS (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1932); MUMMY, THE (US, Karl Freund, 1932); ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, THE (US, Erle C. Kenton, 1932); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); TARZAN AND HIS MATE (US, Cedric Gibbons, 1934); BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935); BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (US, Curt Siodmok, 1951); CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (US, Jack Arnold, 1954); HSING HSING WANG (HK, Meng-Hwa Ho, 1977) Summary: Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong explores images of gorillas, wild beasts and monsters in art, film, science, literature and popular culture from the late nineteenth century to today. It examens humanity's highly charged relationship with primates and draws connections between debates about evolution, race, aesthetics and sex - from satirical cartoons of gorillas in Punch! to HR Hopp's famous World War One recruiting poster Destroy this mad brute: enlist, which shows Kaiser Wilhelm as a large ape. Many incarnations of the Beauty and the Beast tale in art and film unfold in Kiss of the Beast - from French artist Emmanuel Fremiet's sculptures of a gorilla carrying off a woman of 1859 and 1887, to the classic 1933 image o Fay Wray in the grip of King Kong. Early short films and animations; groundbreaking expeditionary documentaries; iconic 'monster' movies from 130s to 1950s Hollywood; and some of the many versions of the Kong story from America, Japan and Hong Kong are also featured. Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong is richly illustrated with film stills from many famous big ape and monster movies - including King Kong, Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon - as well as posters, sculptures, painting, prints and rare books. This book was published in conjunction with 'Kiss of the Beast', an integrated exhibition and film program presented by the Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery. ISBN: 1876509082 Donation: Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery More info
journal article		A land for animals, a space for children : the landscape in Australian family films in Spectator (Fall 2016) vol.36 iss.2 p.15 - 22 Author: Huntington, Eleanor M PhysDes: Article Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ANIMALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995); HAPPY FEET (AT/ US, George Miller, 2006); RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011) Summary: In the most successful family films produced and directed by Australians in the last two decades, the Australian landscape and animals' roles in such spaces instruct young viewers how to navigate life in a postcolonial and explicitly multicultural nation. Through close textual readings of Babe, Happy Feet and Red Dog, coupled with analysis of official Australian government policy, this paper argues that the main animal characters deconstruct the paternal/ colonial Anglo - Celtic dominance through their interactions with their landscapes. [Abstract] More info
book		Not so dumb : the life and times of the animal actors / Raymond Lee New York: Castle Books, 1970. Call No: 738.66 LEE Author: Lee, Raymond Place: New York Publisher: Castle Books PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 238 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; INSECTS IN FILMS Notes: Title on dust jacket: Not so dumb : animals in the movies ISBN: 498075257 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
subject clippings file		PREHISTORIC ANIMALS IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PREHISTORIC ANIMALS IN FILMS More info
book		Regarding life : animals and the documentary moving image / Belinda Smaill Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. Call No: 761 SMA Author: Smaill, Belinda Edition: 2016 Place: Albany Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: ix,190 p. : illustrated ; 23 cm Series: Horizons of Cinema Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; NATURAL HISTORY FILMS; NATURAL HISTORY PROGRAMMES; GRIZZLY MAN (CN/US, Werner Hersog, 2005); FOOD, INC. (US, Robert Kenner, 2008); SWEETGRASS (FR/UK/US, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009) Summary: As indicated by the success of such films as March of the Penguins and Food, Inc., the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals and nature onscreen. In Regarding Life, Belinda Smaill brings together examples from a broad array of moving image contexts, including wildlife film and television, advocacy documentary, avant-garde nonfiction, and new media to identify a new documentary terrain in which the representation of animals in the wild and in industrial settings is becoming markedly more complex and increasingly more involved with pivotal ecological debates over species loss, food production, and science. While attending to some of the most discussed documentaries of the last two decades, including Grizzly Man; Food, Inc.; Sweetgrass; Our Daily Bread; and Darwin’s Nightmare, the book also draws on lesser-known film examples, and is one of the first to bring film studies understandings to new media such as YouTube. The result is a study that melds film studies and animal studies to explore how documentary films render both humans and animals, and to what political ends. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781438462486 Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Labor, Agriculture, and Long Take Cinema: Working on the Surface of the Earth 3. Meat, Animals, and Paradigms of Embodiment: Documentary Identification and the Problem of Food 4. Arctic Futures and Extinction: Loss, the Archive, and (Wildlife) Film 5. Antarctica, Science, and Exploration: Encounters at the End of the World 6. The Nonfiction of YouTube and “Naturecams”: Posthumanism and Reflections on Agency 7. In Conclusion: Documentary, Science, and the Umwelt Notes Works Cited Index More info
book		Sheep and the Australian cinema / Deb Verhoeven Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2006. Call No: 738.6(94) VER Author: Verhoeven, Deb Source: AT Place: Carlton, Vic. Publisher: Melbourne University Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: xii, 317 p. ; 21 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; HALL, KEN G.; DERRIDA, JACQUES; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933) Summary: The book focuses on two key 'sheep films': The Squatter's Daughter and Bitter Springs. Both movies are concerned with the national project, in which sheep growing and nation building are seamlessly aligned. But Verhoeven artfully demonstrates that it is precisely in their emphasis on textual re-iteration and repetition that the sheep films critique an otherwise ostensibly 'national' vision. [taken from back cover] ISBN: 0522852394 ID2: 53 More info
Interim book		Wild animals on the films / by Joseph Delmont with a translation from the German by G.Morrison Gilmour London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1925. Call No: 802.274 DEl Author: Delmont, Joseph Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Methuen & Co., Ltd. PubDate: 1925 PhysDes: 222 p. ; 20 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA More info
book		The wonderful world of Disney animals / William R. Koehler New York: Howell Book House, 1979. Call No: 227.4KOE Author: Koehler, William R. CorpAuthor: ` Place: New York Publisher: Howell Book House PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BIG RED (US/CA, Norman Tokar, 1962); INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, THE (CA/US, Flecher Markle, 1963); SHAGGY DOG, THE (US, Charles Barton, 1959); SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (UK, Ken Annakin, 1960); THAT DARN CAT! (US, Robert Stevenson, 1965); THOSE CALLOWAYS (US, Norman Tokar, 1965); TOBY TYLER, OR TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS (US, Charles Barton, 1960); UGLY DACHSHUND, THE (US, Norman Tokar, 1966) ISBN: 0876058101 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Wool blend : sheep, films and the Australian social fabric / Deb Verhoeven Melbourne: 2004. Call No: 62(043) VER Author: Verhoeven, Deb Source: AT Place: Melbourne PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 278p. : ill. ; 31cm Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REPETITION IN FILMS; SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950) Notes: Includes bibliographical references Includes filmography More info
book		Working in Hollywood / Alexandra Brouwer and Thomas Lee Wright New York: Crown Publishers, c1990. Call No: 22(73) BRO Author: Brouwer, Alexandra; Wright, Thomas Lee Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: c1990 PhysDes: xii, 546 pages ; 25 cm Subject: ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; ANIMALS IN FILMS; ART DIRECTION; CAMERAS; CASTING; CHOREOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSERS; COSTUME DESIGNERS; DIRECTION; DISTRIBUTION; EDITING; EXHIBITION; FINANCING; LAW AND THE CINEMA; LOCATION HUNTING; LOCATION SHOOTING; MAKE-UP ARTISTS; MUSIC IN FILMS; POST-PRODUCTION; PRE-PRODUCTION; PRODUCERS; PRODUCING; PRODUCTION; PROJECTION; SCRIPTWRITING; SET DESIGNING; SOUND; SPECIAL EFFECTS; STUNTS Summary: "Now appearing for the first time ever: WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD, the definitive book that reveals how major movie studios are made, fromn the first glimmer of an idea to the final cut, to sales and marketing. Here is moviemaking told in the words of the people who do it: the deal makers, directors, artists, craftspeople, technicians, and executives." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0517574012; 9780517574010 Donation: Simon Wincer Contents: 1. The helmsmen -- 2. The deal -- 3. The guardians -- 4. The money -- 5. The talent -- 6. The look -- 7. The artists -- 8. The movers -- 9. The camera -- 10. The print -- 11. The magicians -- 12. The sound -- 13. The fury -- 14. The salesmen -- More info

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