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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Stills
Subject: BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

Call No: 633.22 COA
Author: Coates, Paul
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 178 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Subject: COLOUR; COLORIZATION; FRENCH CANCAN (FR/IT, Jean Renoir, 1955); [TWO OR THREE] 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER [DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); SOLARIS (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972); STELLET LICHT (MX/FR/NE/G, Carlos Reygadas, 2007); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); EUROPA (DK/FR/GG, Lars Von Trier, 1991); THREE COLORS: RED [TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE] (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); CRIES AND WHISPERS [VISKNINGAR OCH ROP] (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Summary: Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and engages with a range of critical approaches to filmic colour, building on the work of such theorists as Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim and Stanley Cavell. Coates also provides close analyses of films by directors such as Antonioni, Bergman, Godard, Hitchcock, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Sirk, Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Von Trier and Zhang Yimou. Coates' focus is on films that deliberately exploit the rich multiplicity of cultural meanings and associations ascribed to colour, including All That Heaven Allows, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle, The Double Life of Véronique, The Flight of the Red Balloon, Red Desert, Schindler's List, Silent Light, Solaris, The Three Colours Trilogy and The Wizard of Oz. [Taken from publishers website]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781844573141
Contents: Vertigo and yellow -- Guillermo del Toro and the dialectics of yellow and green -- Grief and green: Solaris, I lvira Madigan -- Natural camouflage: Joseph Losey's The Boy With Green Hair -- Green unseen: the poetics of absence in The Flight of the Red Ballon -- From yellow to green (via black): The Double Life of Veronique -- From yellow to blue: three Colours: Blue -- The desert and the beach: Deleuze, Antonioni, Zhang Ke Jia -- The painter's primaries and totality: le Mepris -- le Mepris 2: the triumph of blue -- Blue angel, blue devil: Goya in Bordeaux -- Trapped in blue: la Religieuse -- C. TOUR/OF FOUR D'AMRIQUE -- 6. Melos, Drama, Melodrama: From Demy to Sirk to Antonioni -- Introduction -- Singin' and dancin'? in the rain: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Singin' in the Rain -- Coupling and uncoupling colours: Une femme est une femme -- Totally? Tenderly? Tragically?: An American in Paris, Le Mepris and Moulin Rouge (with a postscript on The Golden Coach) -- A note on melodrama and modernism -- Melodrama, realism and All That Heaven Allows -- Modernist melodrama? The Oberwald Mystery

Call No: 81POW CHR
Author: Ian Christie; Andrew Moor
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 295 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS. UK; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966)
Summary: The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), among them I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them ‘the most successful experimental film-makers in the world’). In this first ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of scholars explore his film-making landscape, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating these to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance. [Taken from back of book.]
ISBN: 1844570940

Call No: 81CAR CAR
Author: Cardiff, Jack
Place: London
Publisher: Faber
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xiv, 258 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: BOGART, HUMPHREY; CARDIFF, JACK; FLYNN, ERROL; GOLDSTEIN, ROBERT; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HUSTON, JOHN; MONROE, MARILYN; Powell, Michael; BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948); PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (UK, Albert Lewin, 1951); PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, THE (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1957); SONS AND LOVERS (UK, Jack Cardiff, 1960); WESTERN APPROACHES (UK, Pat Jackson, 1944)
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 245-248
ISBN: 0571192742; 0571192742 (pbk) : ¦9.99 : Formerly CIP
Order Received: 1998
LON: gb 97048661; 13333870

Call No: 70 (04) CHA
Author: Chapman, James and Glancy, Mark and Harper, Sue
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 256p. : 23cm.
Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; SCRIPTWRITERS; MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (US, Peter Weir, 2003); NOW, VOYAGER (US, Irving Rapper, 1942); GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); WICKER MAN, THE (UK, Robin Hardy, 1973); FONDA, JANE; BERGMAN, INGMAR
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:; Gone with the wind (1939) and the lost cause : a critical view / Melvyn Stokes; History and representation : the case of 1970s British cinema / Sue Harper 27; Gallipoli (1981) : 'a poignant search for national identity' / Mark Connelly 41; 'This ship is England' : history, politics and national identity in Master and commander : the far side of the world (2003) / James Chapman 55; Art in context : British film design of the 1940s / Laurie Ede 73; The author as author : restoring the screenwriter to British film history / Andrew Spicer 89; When 'Hanoi Jane' conquered Hollywood : Jane Fonda's films and activism, 1977-81 / Peter Kramer 104; The politics of the swashbuckler / Jeffrey Richards 119; The Stalinist musical / Richard Taylor 137; Now, voyager (1942) : melodrama then and now / Martin Shingler 152; From gangsta to gangster : the hood film's criminal allegiance with Hollywood / Jonathan Munby 166; Blackmail (1929), Hitchcock and film nationalism / Mark Glancy 185; British cinema, American reception : Black Narcissus (1947) and the legion of decency / Sarah Street 201; Studying cross-cultural marketing and reception : Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) / Ingrid Stigsdotter, and Tim Bergfelder 215; The wicker man (1973) email digest : a case study in Web ethnography / Justin Smith 229
ISBN: 9780230001695
Language: English