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A century of Australian cinema / edited by James Sabine for the Australian Film Institute Port Melbourne: Mandarin, 1995.
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Cinema by design : Art nouveau, modernism, & film history / Fischer, Lucy New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Author: Fischer, Lucy Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: xvi, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; FILM HISTORY ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ART AND THE CINEMA Summary: Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomon; the elite dress and decor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-sc ne of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risque works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780231175036Contents: Introduction
Art Nouveau and the age of attractions
Art nouveau and American film of the 1920s: prestige, class, fantasy, and the exotic
Architecture and the city: Barcelona, Gaudi´, and the cinematic imaginary
Art nouveau, chambers of horror, and "the Jew in the text"
Art nouveau, patrimony, and the art world
Epilogue: the 1960s and the Art nouveau revival.
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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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Cities in film : architecture, urban space and the moving image : an international interdisciplinary conference, university of Liverpool, 26-28th March 2008 / edited by Julia Hallman (... et al.) Liverpool, UK: School of Architecture. the University of Liverpool, 2008.
Call No: 161CIT [72]CorpAuthor: University of LiverpoolPlace: Liverpool, UKPublisher: School of Architecture. the University of LiverpoolPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 283 p. : ill., ports ; 25 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS ; CONFERENCES. UK. ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK Summary: 'City in Film' will explore the relationship between film, architecture and the urban landscape drawing on interests in film, architecture, urban studies and civic design, cultural geography, cultural studies and related fields. The conference is part of University of Liverpool's contribution to the European Capital of Culture 2008, and aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues around architectural and film history and theory, film and urban space, and to point towards new intellectual frameworks for discussion. It seeks to draw on the work of theorists and practitioners engaged in ideas in these areas, examining film in the context of urban design and development and exploring in particular the contested social, cultural and political terrain that underpins these practices. We particularly welcome contributions on non-fiction film, documentaries, actuality and amateur film, the influence of film on urban and architectural design, and the role of film in the construction of virtual environments and spaces of memoryNotes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 9780955788413Donation: Deb Verhoeven
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Cityscapes I in Wide Angle (October 1997) vol.19 iss.4 p.[whole issue]
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Cityscapes II in Wide Angle (July 1998) vol.20 iss.3 p.[whole issue]
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Designing dreams : modern architecture in the movies / Donald Albrecht New York, N.Y.: Published by Harper & Row in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, 1986.
Call No: 61[72] ALBAuthor: Albrecht, Donald CorpAuthor: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New York, N.Y.Publisher: Published by Harper & Row in collaboration with the Museum of Modern ArtPubDate: 1986PhysDes: xx, 203 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: ART DIRECTION ; SET DECORATING ; SET DESIGNING ; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA ; FOUNTAINHEAD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1949) ; A NOUS, LA LIBERTE! (FR, Rene Clair, 1931) ; SHALL WE DANCE (US, Mark Sandrich, 1937) ; SWING TIME (US, George Stevens, 1936) ; BLACK CAT, THE (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934) ; VOCE IONTANA, LA (IT, Guido Brigone, 1933) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 191-195; Filmography: p. 179-189ISBN: 0060550201 (hard); 0060961066 (pbk.)LON: 4543437
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Gauffered velour : :a history of motion picture exhibition and picture theatres in the Illawarra District of New South Wales, 1897-1994. / Robert Parkinson Campbelltown, N.S.W.: Australian Theatre Historical Society, 1995..
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Screening the City / Mark Shiel / Tony Fitzmaurice New York: Verso, 2003.
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Sexuality & space / Beatriz Colomina, editor ; Jennifer Bloomer ... [et al.] New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
Call No: 631.2 SEXAuthor: Colomina, Beatriz ; Bloomer, Jennifer Place: New York, N.Y.Publisher: Princeton Architectural PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: 389 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Princeton papers on architecture ; 1Subject: SEX IN FILMS ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; SPECTATORSHIP Notes: Proceedings of a symposium, held at Princeton University School of Architecture March 10-11, 1990; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 1878271083 (paper) : $14.95LON: 91040146; 8637487
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The southern movie palace: rise, fall and resurrection Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.
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Urban Australia and post-punk : exploring Dogs in Space / edited by David Nichols and Sophie Perillo Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Call No: 79 DOG URBAuthor: Nichols, David ; Perillo, Sophie Edition: 2020Place: SingaporePublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2020PhysDes: xviii, 338 pages : illustrated ; 22 cmSubject: DOGS IN SPACE (AT, Richard Lowenstein, 1986) ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut.
This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9789813297012Contents: Introduction - Perillo, Sophie -- If You Were a Freak, You Were Equally Excluded -- Sejavka, Sam - It Was Filmic -- Farnan, Peter - I Was In-Between Two Worlds -- Clifforth, John - The B-Side of a Single? An Autobiohistoriography -- Grant, Stuart - In My Mind the World Was Safer -- Ansel, Karen - Let’s Go and Get in Some Trub -- Clayton-Jones, Edward - Everyone Was Interchangeable -- Taylor, Jules - We’re the Most Fabulous People Australia Has Ever Known -- Delaney, Cornelius - It Was Never Pistols at Dawn -- McQuade, Cathy - Bowie Queues -- Butler, Bruce - Excerpt from Comic Book -- Gaynor, Jerome - Rock Star in Space -- Simic, Zora - The Intimacy of Distance: Re/Reading Dogs in Space -- Carroll, Laura - ‘Someone’s Been Fucking Using This for Meat Again’: 18 Berry Street and Melbourne Sharehousing in the 1970s and 1980s -- McKew, Molly (et al.) - Richmond and 18 Berry Street Revisited -- Lesh, James (et al.) - ‘Making It’: The Ears, INXS, and Music Scene Restructuring as Seen Through Dogs in Space - Taylor, Sarah -- The Strange Life of ‘Shivers’ and Its Place in Dogs in Space - MacKinney, Lisa -- ‘The Fucked Room’: Situating the Dogs in Space Soundtrack and ‘Rooms for the Memory’ in the Diffusion of the Dogs in Space Story - Nichols, David -- Say Clitoris: Queers in Space - Castricum, Simona -- Fun House: DIY House Venues and the Melbourne Underground - Hawkins, Carolyn -- Finding ‘Places to Be Bad’ in Social Media: The Case of TikTok - Mackenzie, Sorcha Avalon (et al.) -- Coda: ‘What It Feels Like When a Subculture Appears’—Richard Lowenstein Interview, 2009 - Block, Trevor -- Bibliography -- Index
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Urban cinematics : understanding urban phenomena through the moving image / edited by Franc¸ois Penz and Andong Lu Bristol: Intellect, 2011.
Call No: 756.1-25 URBAuthor: Penz, Franc¸ois ; Lu, Andong. CorpAuthor: University of Cambridge. Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and CommunicationSource: UKPlace: BristolPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject: CITIES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume." -- back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781841504285Contents: Introduction: What is urban cinematics? / Franc¸ois Penz and Andong Lu -- Part 1: City symphonies: montaged urban cinematic landscapes. Cine´-city strolls : imagery, form, language, and meaning of the city film / Helmut Weihsmann -- I am here, or, the art of getting lost : Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony / Patrik Sjo¨berg -- Get out of the car : a commentary / Thom Andersen -- Part 2: Cinematic urban archaeology. Aids to objectivity? : photography, film, and the new "science" of urbanism / Nicholas Bullock -- Which role for the cinema in a working-class city : the case of Saint-Etienne / Roger Odin -- A film of two cities : Sean Connery's Edinburgh / Murray Grigor -- Film as re-imaging the modern space / Mark Lewis -- Part 3: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape. Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken / Hing Tsang -- From maps of "progress" to crime maps (and back again?) : the plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film / Celia Dunne -- Night on Earth, urban wayfinding, and everyday life / Andrew Otway -- Part 4: The cinematic in the urban. Sleepwalking from New York to Miami / Alison Butler -- Film in our midst : city as cinematic archive / Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore -- Parkour vision / Layla Curtis -- Part 5: Cinematic urban design practice. Urban anagram : a bio-political reflection on cinema and city life / Maria Hellstro¨m Reimer -- Reconsidering cinematic mapping : halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping / Marc Boumeester -- Mapping urban space : moving image as a research tool / Wowo Ding -- The moving image of the city : expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity : intensive studio workshop on "Continuity of action in space" / Maureen Thomas -- Contributors
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