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Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real / Nezar Al Sayyad New York : London: Routledge, 2006.
Call No: 756.1-25 SAYAuthor: Sayyad, Nezar Al Source: UK/USPlace: New York : LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2006PhysDes: xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS ; ART AND THE CINEMA ; CITIES IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927) ; BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985) ; CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) ; NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; END OF VIOLENCE, THE (US/FR, Wim Wenders, 1997) ; FALLING DOWN (US, Joel Schumacher, 1993) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MANHATTAN (US, Wody Allan, 1979) ; METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927) ; METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958) ; MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985) ; PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967) ; PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; SLIVER (US, Phillip Noyce, 1993) ; TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976) ; TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998) Summary: "Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema while arguing that urbanism cannot be understood outside the space of the celluloid city." "Nezar AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and reel through time and space via a series of films that represent different modernities. He contrasts the 'rational' European city of early twentieth-century industrial modernity as portrayed by Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (1927) with its American counterpart in Modern Times (1936). He illustrates the different forms of small town life and an urbanizing modernity across the Atlantic as exemplified by Cinema Paradiso (1989) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Using Metropolis (1927) and Brazil (1985), he shows how utopian ideals harbour within them their dystopian realities, while Jacques Tati's nostalgia for tradition in Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) reveals a cynical modernity and a rebelling against its idealism." "AlSayyad argues that the postmodern city of Blade Runner (1982) and Falling Down (1993) illustrates some of the urban outcomes of a globalizing economy.
Turning to spectacle and surveillance, he examines Rear Window (1954), Sliver (1993), and The End of Violence (1997) as a voyeuristic modernity. To understand the city experienced by individuals of different social backgrounds, he takes Manhattan (1979), Annie Hall (1977), and Taxi Driver (1976), while Do the Right Thing (1989) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) are used to explore a modernity of race and ethnicity. Finally, he uses Pleasantville (1998) and The Truman Show (1998) to unpack the hyperreality of exurban postmodernity and to demonstrate how today the real and the reel have become mutually constitutive." "By considering how the real city and the reel city reference each other in an act of mutual representation and definition, this book advances the discussion on cinematic space and theories of the city."--BOOK BLURB.Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0415700493Contents: -- about the author -- preface -- Introduction : the cinematic city and the quest for the modern -- 1. Industrial modernity : the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city -- 2. Urbanizing modernity : the traditional cinematic small town -- 3. Orwellian modernity : utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past -- 4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism -- 5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city -- 6. Voyeuristic modernity : the lens, the screen and the city -- 7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit : the city through different eyes -- 8. An alternative modernity : race, ethnicity and the urban experience -- 9. Exurban postmodernity : utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality -- epilogue -- illustration credits and sources -- selected bibliography -- index --
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The eyes have it : cinema and the reality effect / Murray Pomerance New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Call No: 630.3 POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2013PhysDes: xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Techniques of the moving imageSubject: ART DIRECTION ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; MOTION CONTROL ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SET DECORATING ; SET DESIGNING ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KELLY, GENE ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (US, Michael Lehmann, 2002) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; ARIZONA DREAM (FR, Emir Kusturica, 1992) ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) ; CLOVERFIELD (US, Matt Reeves, 2008) ; DARK PASSAGE (US, Delmer Daves, 1947) ; DEFIANCE [US, Edward Zwick, 2008] ; DR STRANGELOVE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FIELD OF DREAMS (US, Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) ; IN HARM'S WAY (US, Otto Preminger, 1965) ; NORTH BY NORTHWEST (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) ; RANDOM HARVEST (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1942) ; SIGNS (US, M. Night Shyamalan, 2002) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Summary: The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, sensory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences - including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs - Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 200s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and wilfully engaged. Four meditations deal with "reality effects" from different philosophical and technical angles. "Vivid Rivals" assesses active participation and critical judgement in seeing effects with works such as Defiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, and Thelma & Louise. "The Two of Us" considers double placement and doubled experience with films such as The Prestige, Niagara and A Stolen Life. "Being There" discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as Gran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, In Harm's Way, and other films. "Fairy Land" explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of Brigadoon, which borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Contains illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780813560588
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Global cinematic cities : new landscapes of film and media / edited by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb New York; Chichester, UK: Wallflower Press, 2016.
Call No: 756.1-25 GLOAuthor: Andersson, Johan ; Webb, Lawrence Edition: 2016Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Wallflower PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: vii, 262 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: CITIES IN FILMS ; NIGERIA ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BOURNE IDENTITY, THE (US, Doug Liman, 2002) ; BOURNE LEGACY, THE (US, Tony Gilroy, 2012) ; BOURNE SUPREMACY, THE (US, Tony Gilroy, 2012) ; BOURNE ULTIMATUM, THE (US, PAUL GREENGRASS, 2007) ; TOMORROW NEVER DIES (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1997) ; HER (US, Spike Jonze, 2013) Notes: Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231177474Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Decentring the Cinematic City—Film and Media in the Digital Age
Part 1: Transnational Screen Cities -- 1. In the City but Not Bounded by It: Cinema in the Global, the Generic and the Cluster City, by Thomas Elsaesser -- 2. Traversing the Øresund: the Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen, by Pei-Sze Chow -- 3. Neoliberalism, Nollywood, and Lagos, by Jonathan Haynes
Part 2: Global City Imaginaries -- 4. New Urban and Media Ecologies in Contemporary Buenos Aires, by Joanna Page -- 5. When Harry Met Siri: Digital Romcom and the Global City in Spike Jonze's Her, by Lawrence Webb -- 6. Cinephilia and the City: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema, by Malini Guha -- Part 3: Public Screens and New Media Landscapes -- 7. Screen Cultures and the 'Generic City': Public Screens in Cairo and Shanghai, by Chris Berry -- 8. The City as Found Footage: the Reassemblage of Chinese Urban Space, by Yomi Braester -- 9. Remediating the 'Other Half': Planet Slum as Transmedia Project, by Igor Krstic
Part 4: New Narrative Topographies -- 10. Interstitial Cityspace and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary French Cinema, by William Higbee -- 11. Seoul, Busan and Somewhere Near: Korean Gangster Noir and Social Immobility, by Jinhee Choi -- 12. Chase Sequences and Transport Infrastructure in Global Hollywood Spy Films, by Christian B. Long
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In glorious technicolor : a century of film and how it has shaped us / Francine Stock with Stephen Hughes London: Pimlico, 2011.
Call No: 70 STOAuthor: Stock, Francine ; Hughes, Stephen Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: PimlicoPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 344 p. ; 25 cm.Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's ; BIRTH OF A NATION , THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Weine, 1920) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE (G, Robert Wiene, 1920)
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CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS ; FLESH AND THE DEVIL (US, Clarence Brown, 1926) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ; GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) ; BETE HUMAINE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938) ; BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942) ; SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) ; STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960) ; BANDE A PART (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976) ; AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; TOP GUN (US, Tony Scott, 1986) ; WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . (US, Rob Reiner, 1989) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994) ; THREE COLOURS: RED (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
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TROIS COULEURS: BLANC ; TROIS COULEURS: BLANC (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) ; TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) ; TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009) ; UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (TH/UK/FR/G/SP/NE, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) Summary: Charting key films from the past hundred years, along with technological developments and historical landmarks, Francine Stock explores in compelling detail the nature of our relationship with film - from the first screenings of the Lumiere Brothers' short films, which saw audiences shrinking from oncoming trains, to the perception-altering 3-D Avatar. The twenties saw the birth of celebrity, still so influential even today. With the influence of Freud and the unconscious came film noir, anticipated by dark European classics like La Bete Humaine; Hollywood in the fifties turned ideological fears into lurid sci-fi and body-snatching horror; with the social change of the sixties came refracted ways of seeing, from Alfie to theStargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey or a compelling seventies nightmares like Carrie. Moving towards our own century, Francine Stock considers how film reflects back on itself, bending time and technology to look to the future. More than a century on from those earliest awe-inspiring images, we are still in thrall to the power of film. In this fascinating, entertaining and illuminating book Francine Stock shows how film both reflects and remakes our world.ISBN: 9781845951993
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Love in the film / William K. Everson Seacaucus: Citadel Press, 1979.
Call No: 747.5 EVEAuthor: Everson, William K. Source: USPlace: SeacaucusPublisher: Citadel PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: 251 p. : ill. ; 29 cmSubject: ALGIERS (US, John Cromwell, 1938) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; BERKELEY SQUARE (US, Frank Lloyd, 1933) ; BRIEF ECSTASY (UK, Edmond T. Greville, 1937) ; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945) ; CONRAD IN QUEST WITH HIS YOUTH (US, William C. DeMille, 1920) ; DADDY LONG LEGS (US, Jean Negulesco, 1955) ; DESIRE (US, Frank Borzage, 1936) ; DON JUAN (US, Alan Crosland, 1926) ; EKSTASE (CZ/A, Gustav Machaty, 1933) ; FIRST LOVE (US, Henry Koser, 1939) ; HALLELUjAH, I'M A BUM (US, Lewis Milestone, 1933) ; HOT SATURDAY (US, William A. Seiter, 1932) ; I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; LOST HORIZON (US, Frank Capra, 1937) ; MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS (UK, Arthur Crabtree, 1944) ISBN: 080650644XDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Offscreen onscreen : the inside stories of 60 great films / Peter van Gelder London: Aurum, 1990.
Call No: 792(047.1) GELAuthor: Van Gelder, Peter Place: LondonPublisher: AurumPubDate: 1990PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AIRPLANE (US, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, 1980) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; BEVERLY HILLS COP (US, Martin Brest, 1984) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945) ; BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969) ; CARRY ON CLEO (UK, Gerald Thomas, 1964) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986) ; DAM BUSTERS, THE (UK, Michael Anderson, 1955) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; DUCK SOUP (US, Leo McCarey, 1933) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) ; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; GENEVIEVE (UK, Henry Cornelius, 1953) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; GOLDFINGER (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1964) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; GREASE (US, Randal Kleisner, 1978) ; HARD DAY'S NIGHT, A (UK, Richard Lester, 1964) ; HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944) ; HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; HIGH SOCIETY (US, Charles Walters, 1956) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; LAVENDER HILL MOB, THE (UK, Charles Crichton, 1951) ; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (UK, David Lean, 1962) ; MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (UK, John Sturges, 1960) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969) ; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; RAMBO : FIRST BLOOD PART II (US, George Pan Cosmatos, 1985) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) ; ROAD TO MOROCCO (US, David Butler, 1942) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) ; TOOTSIE (US, Sydney Pollack, 1982) ; TOP HAT (US, Mark Sandrich, 1935) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (US, Roger Zemekis, 1988) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ISBN: 1854101617; 1854101617 (pbk) : ¦9.95 : CIP confirmedLON: bnc85410161; 7335916
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