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festival catalogue		3rd International art film festival : metropolitan museum of art / April 26, 27 and 28, 1957 / International art film festival US: [s.n], 1957. Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES Source: US Place: US Publisher: [s.n] PubDate: 1957 PhysDes: 24 p. ; 22 cm Subject: FESTIVALS. USA [VARIOUS]; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART IN FILMS Notes: Contains two short essays on the topic of art in film; Contains program notes and film summaries More info
book		Art history for filmmakers : the art of visual storytelling / Gillian McIver London: Bloomsbury, c2016. Call No: 61:75 MCI Author: McIver, Gillian Source: US/UK Place: London Publisher: Bloomsbury PubDate: c2016 PhysDes: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm Subject: THEORY; ART IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; HEROS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its close relationship with the visual arts. Art history for Filmmakers shows how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to demonstrate composition, color theory and lighting. It reveals how the visual culture that gave rise to cinema has itself been shaped and informed by the development of painting, the oldest of the art forms.Featuring stunning images from classic films and iconic artwork, this book will build your appreciation of the history of art, enrich your understanding of the visual language of film, and help to feed that understanding into your own original filmmaking" -- BACK COVER BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781472580658 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Introduction. How does art history relate to cinema history? -- A brief linear (traditional) history of art - -Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Visual culture and storytelling. Narrative and storytelling in art -- Color and narrative -- Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema -- Perspective and composition -- Light -- Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism. What is realism? - -What is representation? -- Art after photography: modern conceptions of realism in art -- Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism. Fantasy worlds in cinema and art -- Oneiric: the world of dreams -- Surrealism -- Going beyond the real -- Case study: The Archers -- Sex and violence. Sex in art and cinema -- Violence in art and cinema -- Sex and violence -- Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror. Religious horror -- Supernatural horror -- Body horror -- Monsters -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape. Why landscape? -- Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? -- The American landscape and the American West -- Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts. History painting; victory, virtue, and the hero - -Heroism and the Western -- Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements. Culture or mass culture? -- expressionism -- Abstraction -- Abstract expressionism -- Minimalism -- Going "Beyond the West" -- Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion. How can we use art history in filmmaking? Case studies -- More info
subject clippings file		ART IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ART IN FILMS More info
newspaper article		Gold proves leaden in formulaic feel-good tale : Woman in Gold in Sydney Morning Herald [Arts and Entertainment] (21/05/2015) p.31 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Author: Wilson, Jake PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ART IN FILMS; JEWS IN FILMS; NAZIS IN FILMS; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Summary: Review of 2015 film WOMAN IN GOLD, starring Helen Mirren as a Jewish victim of Nazi persecution who claims her family are the rightful owners of Klimt's famous painting, 'Woman in Gold' Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars More info
newspaper article		Gold standard in Weekend Australian [Review] (23/05/2015) p.13 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Author: Bodey, Michael PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ART AND THE CINEMA; ART IN FILMS; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Summary: Interview with director of WOMAN IN GOLD Simon Curtis about his experiences working on the film and working with Helen Mirren. The article draws parallels between the film and other recent real-life scandals surrounding artworks. More info
book		The Parisian avant-garde in the age of cinema, 1900-1923 / Jennifer Wild Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Call No: 61 [929:7] Author: Wild, Jennifer Edition: 2015 Place: Oakland Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: 344, xv p. ; illus. ; 23 cm Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; FRANCE; ART IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Notes: The first decades of the twentieth century were pivotal for the historical and formal relationships between early cinema and Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and Dada. To examine these relationships, Jennifer Wild’s interdisciplinary study grapples with the cinema’s expanded identity as a modernist form defined by the concept of horizontality. Found in early methods of projection, film exhibition, and in the film industry’s penetration into cultural life by way of film stardom, advertising, and distribution, cinematic horizontality provides a new axis of inquiry for studying early twentieth-century modernism. Shifting attention from the film to the horizon of possibility around, behind, and beyond the screen, Wild shows how canonical works of modern art may be understood as responding to the changing characteristics of daily life after the cinema. Drawing from a vast popular cultural, cinematic, and art-historical archive, Wild challenges how we have told the story of modern artists’ earliest encounter with cinema and urges us to reconsider how early projection, film stardom, and film distribution transformed their understanding of modern life, representation, and the act of beholding. By highlighting the cultural, ideological, and artistic forms of interpellation and resistance that shape the phenomenology of a wartime era, The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900–1923 provides an interdisciplinary history of radical form. This book also offers a new historiography that redefines how we understand early cinema and avant-garde art before artists turned to making films themselves. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780520279896 Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE CINEMA’S LESSONS 1. SEEING THROUGH CINEMA: PROJECTION IN THE AGE OF CUBISM 2. APOLLINAIRE’S AURA: PICABIA, THE DIAGRAM, AND EARLY FILM STARDOM 3. DUCHAMP’S DIAGRAMS: FILM, SPECTATOR, STAR 4. THE VERTICAL GAZE: CINEMATIC BEHOLDING IN THE AGE OF WAR 5. THE RADICAL TIME OF RECEPTION: THE CINEMA OF BALLISTICS 6. THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBVERSIVE SYSTEMS: DADA, CHAPLIN, AND THE END OF AN AGE Notes Index More info
dvd		Play [DVD] Melbourne, Australia: Short Play Publications, 2010. Call No: D Play Source: AT Place: Melbourne, Australia Publisher: Short Play Publications PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: 1 DVD (PAL) (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 ¾ in. + booklet Series: Short Play ; 00:01 Subject: FILM; MEDIA; ANIMATION; ART IN FILMS Summary: "Play, the inaugural volume of the Short Play publication, brings together a selection of 14 video works from artists who employ elements of play within their practice. Dancing, singing, frolicking, flying, teleporting and time travelling, these works share a playful vivacity that acts as a vehicle for sly subversion. Including six essays that expand on the concepts in the work, this diverse and challenging volume runs the gamut of play's myriad possiblities, in terms of both its role in contemporary art and its significance to everyday life. The result is often a double-edged sword of profundity and fun; a tongue-in-cheek delinquency projecting something deeper while eschewing any po-faced sentimentality of the past. " -- BLURB/BACK OF CONTAINER Notes: This is volume 00:01; Includes acompanying pamphlet with six written essays ISBN: 9780980876109 Contents: -- runaway (5:55) 2008 / Brown Council -- killing two birds (2:18) 2004 / Hit&Miss -- echoes of gold (7:19) 2008 / Rachel Feery & Lisa Stewart -- the t1 19 (1:18) 2009 / Timothy P Kerr -- dancing auswitz (silenced) (6:33) 2009-10 / Jane Korman -- green eye hill sound (6:22) 2010 / Alanna + Mathew Lorenzon-- memento mori (5:57) 2010 / Riki-Metisse Marlow -- study for retrograde motion (installation) (2:21) 1988/2008 / Ms&Mr -- sugar sweet (3:12) 2009-10 / Hannah Raisin -- safari team dig to china - part III (11:51) 2008-09 / Safari Team -- permutation set (edit) (8:54) 2010 / Sam Smith -- a someone else's problem field (0:59) 2009-10 / Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart -- the servants of the moon (4:58) 2007 / Michael Vale -- trilogy (7:10) 2001 / Jemima Wyman -- Technical Details: PAL ; All regions Credits: Contributing artists: Brown Council ; Hit&Miss ; Rachel Feery & Lisa Stewart ; Timothy P Kerr ; Jane Korman ; Alanna & Matthew Lorenzon ; Riki-Metisse Marlow ; Ms& Mr ; Hannah Raisin ; Safari Team ; Sam Smith ; Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart ; Michael Vale ; Jemima Wyman ; Contributing writers: Davina Adamson ; Laura Castagnini ; Rachel Feery ; Shae Nagorcka ; Jessie Scott ; Jadan Sproule-Carroll curated/produced by Rachel Feery ; edited by Mark Hewitt ; Graphic designer Carla McKee; Sound designer Ed Gould; Motion graphics by Jayt Buchanan; Video Authoring by Thomas Kinsman Standard Number: 9780980876109 More info
newspaper article		Tale of quest for stolen painting lacks lustre in Sunday Canberra Times [Relax] (24/05/2015) p.25 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Author: Mathieson, Craig PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ART IN FILMS; WOMAN IN GOLD (US/UK, Simon Curtis, 2015) Summary: Review of 2015 film WOMAN IN GOLD Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars More info

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