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book		After taste : cultural value and the moving image / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Call No: 62(04) AFT Source: K Place: Abingdon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm. Subject: B-MOVIES; CRITICISM; RECEPTION; AMATEUR FILMS; LOW BUDGET FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and unworthy films – this trend has been evident in various formats: on television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films, amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste. More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and teaching of ‘bad objects’ in the media. This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of ‘after taste’ media. Addressing global and local developments – from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western Django – the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic and political value of the moving image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415845939 Contents: 1. Introduction: after taste: cultural value and the moving image / Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis -- Part I: Critical methods and approaches. 2. `An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema / Adrian Martin -- 3. Hollywood: bad cinema's bad `other' / Jane Mills -- 4. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: towards a phenomenology of bad film / Jane Stadler -- 5. Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! through time: historicizing value judgement / Julia Vassilieva -- Part II: Taste and value. 6. Transitional tastes: teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight / Lisa Bode -- 7. `Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight / Simon Sellars -- 8. Making the commercial personal: the authorial value of Jerry Bruckheimer television / Tom Steward -- 9. Blowing chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice / Scott Wilson -- Part III: Feeling and affect. 10. Labours of love: home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship / Minette Hillyer -- 11. Dead time: cinema, Heidegger, and boredom / Richard Misek -- Part IV: Teaching bad objects forum. 12. Teaching bad objects: introduction / Jodi Brooks -- 13. The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object / Jodi Brooks -- 14. Beyond good/should/bad: teaching Australian Indigenous film and television / Therese Davis -- 15. Teaching Australian television studies / Belinda Smaill. More info
book		B is for bad cinema : aesthetics, politics and cultural value / edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, c2014. Call No: 730.2 BIS Author: Perkins, Claire; Verevis, Constantine Source: US Place: Albany, New York Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: c2014 PhysDes: xi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: AESTHETICS; AUTHORSHIP; B-MOVIES; CULT FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; EXPLOITATION FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; SUBTITLES; CANDY (AT, Neil Armfield, 2005); EVIL DEAD, THE (US, Sam Raimi, 1982 [prod. 1980]); MARNIE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Summary: B Is For Bad Cinema continues and extends, but does not limit itself to, the trends in film scholarship that have made cult and exploitation films and other "low" genres increasingly acceptable objects for critical analysis. Springing from discussions of taste and value in film, these original essays mark out the broad contours of "bad" - that is, aesthetically, morally, or commercially disreputable - cinema. While some of the essays share a kinship with recent discussions of B movies and cult films, they do not describe a single aesthetic category or represent a single methodology or critical agenda, but variously approach badcinema in terms of aesthetics, politics and cultural value. The volume covers a range of issues, from the aesthetic and industrial mechanics of low-budget production through the terrain of audience responses and cinematic effect, and onto the broader moral and ethical implications of the material. As a result, B Is For Bad Cinema takes an interest in a variety of film examples - overblown Hollywood blockbusters, faux pornographic works, and European art house films - to consider those that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9781438449951 Contents: Introduction: B for bad cinema / Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis; Part 1: Aesthetics -- Explosive apathy / Jeffrey Sconce -- B-grade subtitles / Tessa Dwyer -- Being in two places at the same time: the forgotten geography of rear-projection / Adrian Danks -- Redeeming cruising: tendentiously offensive, coherently incoherent, strangely pleasurable / R. Barton Palmer -- The villain we love: notes on the dramaturgy of screen evil / Murray Pomerance -- From bad to good and back to bad again? cult cinema and its unstable trajectory / Jamie Sexton; Part 2: Authorship -- Coffee in paradise: the horn blows at midnight / Tom Conley -- The risible: on Jean-Claude Brisseau / Adrian Martin -- The evil dead DVD commentaries, amateurishness and "bad film" discourse / Kate Egan -- Liking The magus / I.Q. Hunter -- BADaptation: is candy faithful? / Constantine Verevis More info
Online resource digital clippings file		B-MOVIES Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: B-MOVIES URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/B-MOVIES.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:40:40 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		The British 'B' Film / by Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane, foreword by Rona Anderson London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Call No: 730.2(41) CHI Author: Anderson, Rona (foreword); Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: x, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: B-MOVIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. UK Summary: "The British 'B' Film is the first book to provide an in-depth account of what 'B' films were like, how they came to be made, and how they were received. The careers of many notable actors, directors and oter film-makers were launched in these unpretentious but often very entertaining films that ran for roughly an hour before the cinema 'interval'. Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane's carefully researched study traces the storyof 'B' film production in Britain, from World War 2 to the late 1960s, providing a fresh perspective on the 'B' movie phenomenon , both as artefact and as industry product, as well as highlighting what such films tell us about the changing times in which they were made." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781844573196 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- foreword -- preface -- 1. Big Ships and Little Ships: The Bs at War -- 2. 'What's on with it?': The Rise and Fall of the Bs -- 3. The 'B' Factories: Companies, Studios and Producers -- 4. Behind the Scenes -- 5. On the Screen -- 6. The Men from the Yard -- 7. Britain in the Bs -- 8. The Best of the Bs -- Appendix: Revolving Bs: British Second Features on the Gaumont British, Odeon and Rank Circuits -- More info
book		Deathtripping : an illustrated history of the cinema of transgression / [written, edited and compiled by Jack Sergeant] London San Francisco: Creation Books, 1995. Call No: 771 SAR Author: Sargeant, Jack Place: London San Francisco Publisher: Creation Books PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: UNDERGROUND FILMS; B-MOVIES; ZEDD, NICK; B, BETH & SCOTT; KERN, RICHARD; LUNCH, LYDIA; TURNER, TOMMY; WOJNAROWICZ, DAVID; HUGHES-FREELAND, TESSA; STARK, CASANDRA; ROSSI, JERI CAIN; BAYLOR, RICHARD; PHILLIPS, TODD; FINGERED (US, Richard Kern, 1986); WHERE EVIL DWELLS (US, Tommy Turner & David Wojnarowicz, 1985); MY NIGHTMARE (US, Richard Kern, 1993); GEEK MAGGOT BINGO (US, Nick Zedd, 1983) Summary: Deathtripping is an illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema Of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement and its roots in the New York art/rock and underground film scenes Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-244) and indexes ISBN: 1871592291 : ª11.95 : $16.95 LON: 12298911 More info
book		Film, form, and phantasy : Adrian Stokes and film aesthetics / Michael O'Pray Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Call No: 626 [159.964.2] OPR Author: O'Pray, Michael Source: US Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: xiv, 252 p. ; 23 cm Series: Language, Discourse, Society Subject: AESTHETICS; EXPRESSIONISM; B-MOVIES; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; MONTAGE; FORD, JOHN; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; DREYER, CARL TH. Summary: The critical writings of Adrian Stokes, based on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's innovative theories, were enormously influential on visual art and culture during his lifetime, but have rarely been applied to film. In this first major study of Stokes, his ideas and those of the philosopher Richard Wolheim are considered in relation to two central issues in current film theory - film as representation and as expression. Stokes fundamental distinction between carving and modelling which reflects Klein's own division in mental life between paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions is explored in relation to the traditional division in film theory between montage and realism. At the core of this study is the role of the Kleinian notion of phantasy in understanding film as an art form. To this end, the carving and modelling modes are applied to the films of Ford, Hitchcock, Rossellini, Antonioni, Dreyer, Eisenstein and American B movies. [ Taken from the back of the book.] Notes: Bibliography : p.237-245; Includes index Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009 More info
book		More than night : film noir in its contexts / James Naremore Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998. Call No: 734.1 NAR Author: Naremore, James Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 13441055 More info
journal article		The other side of the cinema in Classic images (November 1983) iss.101 p.10-11, 25 Author: O'Hara, Ashley PhysDes: Article Subject: B-MOVIES; AMAZON QUEST (US, Steve Sekely, 1949); ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER, THE (US, Ronnie Ashcroft, 1958); BREED OF THE WEST (US, Alan James, 1930); DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (US, Al Adamson, 1971); FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (US, Richard E. Cunha, 1958); IT'S ALIVE (US, Larry Buchanan, 1969); SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS (US, Greydon Clark, 1977) Summary: A personal selection, with credits and synopsis, of favourite "bad" cinema or "b-grade" movies by Ashley O'Hara including "Amazon Quest", "The Astounding She Monster", "Breed of the West", "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein", "It's Alive" and "Satan's Cheerleaders" Notes: Review. - synopsis. - credits More info
book		Talking pictures / Barry Norman London: BBC Books, Hodder and Stoughton, 1987. Call No: 70 NOR Author: Norman, Barry Source: UK Place: London Publisher: BBC Books; Hodder and Stoughton PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 344 p. : ill.(some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HOLLYWOOD; SOUND; STUDIO SYSTEM; SEX AND THE CINEMA; WAR AND THE CINEMA; CRIME FILMS. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; B-MOVIES; WESTERNS; ACTORS. USA Summary: The book deals with the history of film making from the silent movies to the present day Notes: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood. Cinema Industries,. 1927-1986 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index ISBN: 0563205628 (BBC Books); 0340389168 (Hodder & Stoughton) Levy Rating: 5 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Terence Fisher / Peter Hutchings Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the U.S.A by Palgrave, 2001. Call No: 81FIS HUT Author: Hutchings, Peter Source: UK Place: Manchester and New York Publisher: Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the U.S.A by Palgrave PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: vii, 198 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Series: British Film Makers Subject: HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS; HORROR FILMS. UK; B-MOVIES; FISHER, TERENCE Summary: A study of the career of British filmmaker Terence Fisher. Some films looked at in detail are: The Astonished Heart, To The Public Danger, Portrait From Life, So Long at the Fair, Stolen Face, Four Sided Triangle, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Dracula - Prince of Darkness, The Hounds of the Baskervilles, Frankenstein Created Woman, and many others he directed for Hammer Film Productions Notes: Series editors: Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard. -- Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0719056365 Donation: Brian McFarlane Contents: Introduction -- 1. Fisher in context -- 2. Fisher before horror -- 3. The horror man: 1957-62 -- 4. Highs and lows: 1962-72 -- Conclusion More info
book		The western : from silents to the seventies / George N. Fenin and William K. Everson Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977. Call No: 736.1 FEN Author: Fenin, George N. Everson, William K. Edition: Revised Source: UK Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 396 p., ill ; 22cm Subject: WESTERNS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; B-MOVIES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; INCE, THOMAS HARPER; FORD, JOHN; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; HOPALONG CASSIDY (US, Howard Bretherton, 1935) Summary: The book covers the history of the western movie, from the silent period to the 70s, and from the bmovie to the "adult" western of the 70s .It presnts such heros as Hopalong Cassidy, or Gene Autry, and directors such as John Ford. It looks at the costumes, fist and gun fights, and the landscapes of the westerns. The book also looks at the westerns (spaghetti ) made in Italy and Japan Notes: Reprint of the 1973 ed. published by Grossman, New York. ISBN: 0140044167 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Western History and the Hollywood version -- Contents and moral influence of the western -- The primitives: Edwin S. Porter and Broncho Billy Anderson -- David W. Griffith and Thomas H. Ince: 1909-1913 -- William Surrey Hart and Realism -- Tom Mix and showmanship -- Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920 -- James Cruze's The Covered Wagon and John Ford's The Iron Horse -- The Twenties -- The Western costume -- The Thirties -- The Western serial: its birth and demise -- The Forties -- Trends in the postwar Western -- The stuntman and the second unit director -- Exeunt the "B"s, enter television -- The Western's international audience and the international western -- Into the Sixties -- The spaghetti western and the western "made in Japan" -- After maturity: a projection into the future More info

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