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book		African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900 - 1960 / Charlene Regester Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2010. Call No: 802.27(73)-054(=96) REG Author: Regester, Charlene Source: US Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: xi, 405 p., 14 p. of plates : ill. 23 cm Subject: BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; MADAME SUL-TE-WAN; BEAVERS, LOUISE; MCKINNEY, NINA MAE; WASHINGTON, FREDI; MCDANIEL, HATTIE; HORNE, LENA; SCOTT, HAZEL; WATERS, ETHEL; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY ISBN: 9780253221926 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013 Contents: Introduction -- Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility -- Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career -- Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference -- Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks -- Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin -- Lena Horne : actress and activist -- Hazel Scott : resistance to othering -- Ethel Waters : personification of otherness -- Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real -- Conclusion More info
book		American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image / edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr New York: Ungar, c1979. Call No: 409(73) AME Author: O'Connor, John E; Jackson, Martin A Place: New York Publisher: Ungar PubDate: c1979 PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935); SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939); MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943); BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282 ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95 LON: 1282547 More info
book		American independent cinema : a sight and sound reader / edited by Jim Hillier London: British Film Institute, 2001. Call No: 71(73) AME Author: Hillier, Jim Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: xvii, 283 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; CASSAVETES, JOHN; BRAKHAGE, STAN; WARHOL, ANDY; BLACK CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLACK FILMMAKERS. US; DASH, JULIE; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991); RIGGS, MARLON; TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989); CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994); FRIDAY (US, F. Gary Gray, 1995); CLOCKERS (US, Spike Lee, 1995); LEE, SPIKE; GIRL 6 (US, Spike Lee, 1996); GET ON THE BUS (US, Spike Lee, 1996); SLAM (US, Marc Levin, 1998); HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; POISON (US, Todd Haynes, 1991); MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991); VAN SANT, GUS; SWOON (US, Tom Kalin, 1992); GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994); TOTALLY F*ED UP (US, Gregg Araki, 1993); HAYNES, TODD; SAFE (US, Todd Haynes, 1995); DOOM GENERATION, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1995); PEIRCE, KIMBERLY; BOYS DON'T CRY (US, Kimberly Peirce, 1999); JARMUSCH, JIM; NIGHT ON EARTH (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1991); SLACKER (US, Richard Linklater, 1990); SURE FIRE (US, Jon Jost, 1990); LINKLATER, RICHARD; BEFORE SUNRISE (US, Richard Linklater, 1995); LIVING IN OBLIVION (US, Tom DiCillo, 1995); WALKING AND TALKING (US, Nicole Holofcener, 1996); HARTLEY, HAL; HENRY FOOL (US, Hal Hartley, 1997); HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998); GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1999); TIMECODE (US, Mike Figgis, 2000); ALTMAN, ROBERT; SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993); ANDERSON, PAUL THOMAS; BOOGIE NIGHTS (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997); MAGNOLIA (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999); FERRARA, ABEL; BAD LIEUTENANT (US, Abel Ferrara, 1992); BLACKOUT, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1997); ADDICTION, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1995); FUNERAL, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1996); JONZE, SPIKE; BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999); KORINE, HARMONY; GUMMO (US, Harmony Korine, 1997); JULIEN DONKEY-BOY (US, Harmony Korine, 1999); LYNCH, DAVID; TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992); LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996); SAYLES, JOHN; CITY OF HOPE (US, John Sayles, 1991); LONE STAR (US, John Sayles, 1996); LIMBO (US, John Sayles, 1999); HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (US, John McNaughton, 1989[prod. 1985]); ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991); BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993); EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (US, Gus Van Sant, 1993); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); Tarantino, Quentin; USUAL SUSPECTS, THE (US, Bryan Singer, 1995); BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996); NORMAL LIFE (US, John McNaughton, 1996); THIS WORLD, THEN THE FIREWORKS (US, Michael Oblowitz, 1997); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); BIG LEBOWSKI, THE (US, Joel Coen, 1998); OUT OF SIGHT (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1998); LIMEY, THE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1999); SODERBERGH, STEVEN; HANGIN' WITH THE HOMEBOYS (US, Joseph B. Vasquez, 1991); JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. (US, Leslie Harris, 1992) ISBN: 0851707580 : ¦40.00; 0851707599(pbk.) : ¦12.99 LON:** 20980358 More info
Interim book		The best American movie writing 1999 / edited by Peter Bogdanovich New York: St. Martin's, 1999. Call No: 67(04) BES Place: New York Publisher: St. Martin's PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 280 p. Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; BLACKS IN FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; BOORMAN, JOHN; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; SINATRA, FRANK; FORD, JOHN; THOMPSON, KAY; OZU YASUJIRO; MANGOLD, JAMES; RISKIN, ROBERT; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SARRIS, ANDREW; MCCAREY, LEO; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; CAPRA, FRANK; VIDAL, GORE; DOVE, BILLIE; GRANT, CARY; BURNETT, CHARLES; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997); TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958); L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997); SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998); STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) ISBN: 0312244832 ID2: 291 More info
book		Black cinema / The Black Filmmaker Foundation [New York]: Black Filmmaker Foundation, copyright 1982. Call No: 027 BLA Author: Black Filmmaker Foundation Edition: second edition Source: US Place: [New York] Publisher: Black Filmmaker Foundation PubDate: copyright 1982 PhysDes: 62 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Subject: BLACK FILMMAKER FOUNDATION; BLACK FILMMAKERS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; BLACK CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS Summary: "The Black Filmmaker Foundation is pleased to present the second edition of its catalogue of film and video works by black independent producers. This edition represents an expansion in the number of titles, subject areas, film and video makers. These works represent the black experience in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and England." - INTRODUCTION Notes: Includes index pages 60-61 Contents: Fiction films -- Documentary films -- Animation and experimental -- Videp More info
book		Black film, British cinema London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1988. Call No: 451-054(=9) BLA CorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) Place: London Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 62 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Series: ICA documents ; 7 Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. UK; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. UK; BLACK FILMMAKERS. UK; BLACKS IN FILMS. UK; ASIANS IN FILMS. UK; BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE; SANKOVA FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTIVE; CHANNEL FOUR; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986); MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985); PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE, THE (UK, Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien, 1986) Notes: Papers originally presented at a day conference, conducted at ICA, Feb. 1988; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0905263960 LON: 6631335 More info
book		Blacks in American films : Today and yesterday / by Edward Mapp Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972. Call No: 451-054(=9) MAP Author: Mapp, Edward Edition: c.1971 Place: Metuchen, NJ Publisher: Scarecrow Press PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 278 p. : illus. ; 22 cm Subject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ISBN: 0810804581 More info
book		Blacks in black and white : a source book on Black films / by Henry T. Sampson Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977. Call No: 451-054(=9) SAM Author: Sampson, Henry T., 1934 Place: Metuchen, N.J. Publisher: Scarecrow Press PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: x, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0810810239 LON: 846166 846166 More info
subject clippings file		BLACKS IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS More info
book		Blacks in the cinema : the changing image London: British Film Institute (Education Department), 1971. Call No: 451-054(=9) PIN Author: Pines, Jim Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute (Education Department) PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: [1], 24 p. ; 31 cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0851700136 LON: 74865044; 376170 More info
book		Blaxploitation films / Mikel J Koven Harpenden, Herts, UK: Kamera Books, 2010. Call No: 722.81 (=9) KOV Author: Koven, Mikel J Source: UK Place: Harpenden, Herts, UK Publisher: Kamera Books PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: 160 p., [8] p. of col. plates : col. ill., ports ; 20 cm Subject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS Summary: In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, R 'n' B, and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros; and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across the screen. An antidote to the sanitized "safe" images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby presented to America, these films depicted a reality about the world which African-American audiences could identify with, even if the stories themselves were pure fantasy. This guide reviews and discusses more than 60 Blaxploitation films, considering them from the perspectives of class and racial rebellion, genre, and Stickin' it to the Man. Subgenres covered include Blaxploitation horror films, kung-fu movies, westerns, and parodies Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781842433348 More info
book		Camera politica : the politics and ideology of contemporary Hollywood film / by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1988. Call No: 409(73) RYA Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Ryan, Michael, 1951; Kellner, Douglas, 1943 Place: Bloomington, Ind. Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: HOLLYWOOD; DISASTERS IN FILMS. USA; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; SOUTH IN FILMS. USA; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; BUDDY FILMS. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; FANTASY FILMS. USA; UTOPIA IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CONSPIRACY FILMS. USA; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; BORDEN, LIZZIE; CIMINO, MICHAEL; Peckinpah, Sam; Reagan, Ronald; ROMERO, GEORGE; SCORSESE, MARTIN; HOOPER, TOBE; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM; BROOKS, JAMES L.; DE PALMA, BRIAN; LUCAS, GEORGE; KUBRICK, STANLEY; MILIUS, JOHN; PAKULA, ALAN J.; SCOTT, RIDLEY; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (US, Mike Nichols, 1971); CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977); DEATH WISH (US, Michael Winner, 1974); DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978); DRESSED TO KILL (US, Brian De Palma, 1980); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (US, James L. Brooks, 1983); UNDER FIRE (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1983); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971); GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 321-324 ISBN: 0253313341 LON: 5193671 More info
book		The celluloid South : Hollywood and the southern myth / by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981. Call No: 741.9(73) CAM Author: Campbell, Edward D. C., 1946 Edition: 1st ed Place: Knoxville Publisher: University of Tennessee Press PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: xvii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA. USA; SOUTH IN FILMS. USA; USA; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 196-204 ISBN: 0870493272 LON: 2006444 More info
Interim book		Church and cinema : a way of viewing film / by James M. Wall Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1971. Call No: 49:2 WAL Author: Wall, James M. Source: US Place: Grand Rapids Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: 135 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; SEX IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA More info
book		Cinema of outsiders : the rise of American independent film / Emanuel Levy New York: New York University Press, c1999. Call No: 71(73) LEV Author: Levy, Emanuel, 1947 Source: US Place: New York Publisher: New York University Press PubDate: c1999 PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; OUTSIDERS IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; FILM NOIR; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMEDIES. USA; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE; ARAKI, GREGG; NUNEZ, VICTOR; BROOKS, ALBERT; SMITH, KEVIN; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; FERRARA, ABEL; WATERS, JOHN (US); HARTLEY, HAL; HAYNES, TODD; JARMUSCH, JIM; JOST, JON; LEE, SPIKE; LINKLATER, RICHARD; LYNCH, DAVID; MAMET, DAVID; NAIR, MIRA; SAYLES, JOHN; CASSAVETES, NICK; SODERBERGH, STEVEN; SOLONDZ, TODD; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989); BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (US, Neil Labute, 1997); GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973) Summary: "Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style."--BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and index ISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper) LON: 20253533 More info
newspaper article		Coming-of-age tale in a gritty LA in Sunday Age [M Magazine] (16/08/2015) p.15 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DOPE (US, Rick Famuyiwa, 2015) Author: Mathieson, Craig PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; FAMUYIWA, RICK; DOPE (US, Rick Famuyiwa, 2015) Summary: A review of the film Dope, directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars More info
book		Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No: 71(73) CON Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; HOLLYWOOD; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; SPECTATORSHIP; MEN IN FILMS. USA; MELODRAMA; MUSIC, FILM; SOUND TRACKS; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLOCKBUSTERS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; ACTION FILMS; AUDIENCES; MIRAMAX FILMS; NEW LINE CINEMA; TIME WARNER; VERHOEVEN, PAUL; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; HAMILTON, LINDA; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; ELFMAN, DANNY; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and index ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.) LON: 98005952; 13736490 More info
book		Feature films as history / edited by K.R.M. Short London: Croom Helm, c1981. Call No: 45:93 SHO Author: Short, K. R. M. (Kenneth R. M.) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Croom Helm PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: 192 p. ; 23cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); CENSORSHIP. UK; CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); FRANCE; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); GERMANY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; JEWS IN FILMS. USA; RENOIR, JEAN; UNITED KINGDOM; USSR; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. Notes: Historical sources: Cinema films (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index ISBN: 0709904592 : ª9.95 : CIP rev LON: 2012107 More info
book		Feminism and film / Maggie Humm Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Call No: 626:396 HUM Author: Humm, Maggie Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Edinburgh University Press PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 246 p. ; 24 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; BLACKS IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; CRONENBERG, DAVID; MULVEY, LAURA; KUHN, ANNETTE; KAPLAN, E. ANN; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; ROSE, JACQUELINE; WOOLF, VIRGINIA; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991); DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988); KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ISBN: 0748609008 Order Received: 1998 LON: abn97233530; 13317515 More info
book		Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Call No: 64GEN FIL Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: GENRES; WESTERNS; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; DISASTER FILMS; EPIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; MELODRAMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; MUSICALS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CANADA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; MICHEAUX, OSCAR; CRONENBERG, DAVID; FORD, JOHN; PENN, ARTHUR; SIRK, DOUGLAS; CAVELL, STANLEY; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; FRYE, NORTHROP; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951); [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957); VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and index ISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 11563059 More info
book		From Madea to media mogul : theorizing Tyler Perry / edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre ; foreword by Eric Pierson Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Call No: 81PER FRO Author: Russworm, TreaAndrea M. (editor); Sheppard, Samantha N. (editor); Bowdre, Karen M. (editor) Source: US Place: Jackson, Mississippi Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: xxxiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS; FILM; INDUSTRY, FILM; CRITICISM; PERRY, TYLER Summary: "For over a decade Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as Madea, a self-proclaimed "mad black woman," not afraid to brandish a gun or a scalding pot of grits. But to others who watch the film industry, he is the businessman who by age thirty-six had sold more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos, $20 million in merchandise, and was producing 300 projects each year viewed by 35,000 every week. Is the commercially successful African American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer "malt liquor for the masses," an "embarrassment to the race," or is he a genius who has directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas, or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social satires? Do Perry's flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional tales that affirm the notion of a "post-racial" society? This volume makes the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. The essays challenge value-judgment criticism and offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work"-- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781496820174 Contents: -- foreword - centrality / Eric Pierson -- acknowledgments -- introduction - respectability -- Media Studies Has Ninety-Nine Problems ... But Tyler Perry Ain't One of Them? / TreaAndrea M Russworm -- ch 1 Platforms -- "Tyler Perry Presents ...": The Cultural Projects, Partnerships, and Politics of Perry's Media Platforms / Samantha N Sheppard -- ch 2 Chitlin -- From the Margins to Center Stage: Tyler Perry's Popular African American Theatre / Rashida Z Shaw -- ch 3 Gospel -- Tyler Perry, T D Jakes, and the Birth of Gospel Cinema / Keith Corson -- ch 4 Affect -- Worship at the Altar of Perry: Spectatorship and the Aesthetics of Testimony / Brandeise Monk-Payton -- ch 5 Cinephilia -- "All My Life I Had to Fight": Domestic Trauma and Cinephilia in Tyler Perry's Archive of Feelings / Ben Raphael Sher -- ch 6 Disguise -- "Who I Am Is Conflicting with This Dress I Got On": Madea's Intimate Public and the Possibilities and Limitations of False Disguise / Rachel Jessica Daniel -- ch 7 Niche -- One Man Hollywood: The Decline of Black Creative Production in Post-Network Television / Aymar Jean Christian and Khadijah Costley White -- ch 8 Thirst -- Bring the Payne: The Erasure of the Black Sitcom and the Emergence of Tyler Perry's House of Payne / Artel Great -- ch 9 Exceptionalism -- Spike and Tyler's Beef: Blackness, Authenticity, and Discourses of Black Exceptionalism / Karen M Bowdre -- ch 10 Mogul -- The Case for Calling George Lucas the "White Tyler Perry" / Paul N Reinsch -- ch 11 Rebrand -- To Brand and Rebrand: Questioning the Futurity of Tyler Perry / Leah Aldridge -- epilgue Madea - Playing with the Changes / Miriam J Petty -- contributors -- index -- More info
Interim book		Heavenly bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer London: Routledge, 2004. Call No: 465.1 DYE Author: Dyer, Richard Edition: second edition Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 210 p. ; 24 cm Subject: SEX IN FILMS; STARS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; ROBESON, PAUL; GARLAND, JUDY Summary: Focusing on the lives and careers of three of the biggest names in Hollywood history – Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland – Dyer details how their screen image was constructed. Through subtle readings of their films and wealth of background material, he goes on to survey the development of each star’s image in relation to particular social groups. Monroe is discussed in the context of 1950s sexuality and the image of woman; Robeson in terms of black identity and different white and black perceptions of it; and Garland as a gay icon. All three are set in the wider context of the social significance of the very idea of stardom. ISBN: 041531027X More info
Old collection book		Heavenly Bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1986. Call No: 465 DYE Author: Dyer, Richard Source: UK Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire Publisher: Macmillan Education PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 208 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; STARS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; ROBESON, PAUL; GARLAND, JUDY ISBN: 0333295404 More info
book		The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Call No: 744 ROF Author: Roffman, Peter, 1950; Purdy, Jim, Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; DEPRESSION IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; MADNESS IN FILMS; BAD GUYS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS; JEWS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKLISTING. USA; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS; WARNER BROS.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; LANG, FRITZ; BORZAGE, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; GARFIELD, JOHN; CAPRA, FRANK; VIDOR, KING; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936); CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932); DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937); FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948); GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933); STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937); THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938); GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951); LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950); LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932); LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934); MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932); OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934); PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949); PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934); RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936); [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940); MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954); YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351 ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.) LON: 1763505 More info
book		Irish and African American Cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Call No: 451-054(=1 .415/.73) PRA Author: Pramaggiore, Maria Source: US Place: Albany Publisher: State University of New York Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: ix, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video Subject: BLACKS IN FILMS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; WHITES IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. IRELAND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; THEORY; LEE, SPIKE; JORDAN, NEIL Summary: "Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance."--BOOK JACKET. Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index ISBN: 9780791470954 Contents: Ch. 1. Identifying others -- Ch. 2. Sampling blackness : music and identification in the films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- Ch. 3. "It's a wise child that knows his own father" : pregnant performances and maternal mythologies -- Ch. 4. Culturing violence : masculine identification in Irish and African American gangster films -- Ch. 5. "Both sides of the epic" : identification and the nonessentialist Western -- Conclusion : film identification and postmodern identity politics. More info
book		L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015. Call No: 82LAR LAR Source: US Place: Oakland, California Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: xxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; LOS ANGELES IN FILMS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. US; L.A. REBELLION Summary: "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index -- Filmography: pages (pages 355-402) ISBN: 9780520284685 Contents: Preface : Once upon a time in the West...L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor -- Introduction : Emancipating the image : the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers -- Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Threads and nets : the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans -- Rebellious unlearning : UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field -- Tough enough : Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Anticipations of the rebellion : black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James -- Re/soundings : music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey -- Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin -- Bruising moments : affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard -- The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Encountering the rebellion : liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo -- Part two : L.A. Rebellion oral histories (pages 321-353) More info
book		The matter of images : essays on representations / Richard Dyer London New York: Routledge, 1993. Call No: 451-0 DYE Author: Dyer, Richard Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: ix, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; FILM NOIR; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; PAPILLON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973); PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984); GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946); JEZEBEL (US, William Wyler, 1938); SIMBA (UK, Brian Desmond Hurst, 1955); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0415057183; 0415057191 (pbk.) LON: 9732647 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
book		Movies and mass culture / edited and with an introduction by John Belton New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Call No: 408.1(73) MOV Author: Belton, John Place: New Brunswick, NJ Publisher: Rutgers University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Rutgers depth of field series Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; FILM NOIR. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA. USA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS. USA; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; BERKELEY, BUSBY; Lombard, Carole; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index ISBN: 0813522277 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813522285 (pbk.) LON: 11604013 More info
book		Multiple voices in feminist film criticism / Diane Carson,Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, editors Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Call No: 626:396 MUL Author: Carson, Diane; Dittmar, Linda, 1938; Welsch, Janice R Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: ix, 547 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS. MEXICO; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; WOMEN IN FILMS. THIRD WORLD; WOMEN IN FILMS. CUBA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; BORDEN, LIZZIE; DASH, JULIE; DIETRICH, MARLENE; DOANE, MARY ANN; GARBO, GRETA; GORRIS, MARLEEN; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE; MULVEY, LAURA; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; ARZNER, DOROTHY; FIELD, CONNIE; CHENZIRA, AYOKA; SAYONARA (US, Joshua Logan, 1957); AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); SWING SHIFT (US, Jonathan Demme, 1984); SUZANNE, SUZANNE (US, Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1982); RAMPARTS D'ARGILE (FR/AE, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, 1970); SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954); BORN IN FLAMES (US, Lizzie Borden, 1983); DRY WHITE SEASON, A (US, Euzhan Palcy, 1989); MARRYING KIND, THE (US, George Cukor, 1952); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959); RETRATO DE TERESA (CU, Pastor Vega, 1979); QINGCHUN JI (CC, Zhang Nuanxin, 1986); SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989); BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0816622728(acid-free paper); 0816622736 (pbk.) LON: 10052767 More info
book		Postnationalist African Cinemas / by Alexie Tcheuyap Manchester: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Call No: 71(6) TCH Author: Tcheuyap, Alexie Source: UK/US Place: Manchester Publisher: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: AFRICAN COUNTRIES; AFRICA IN FILMS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES; BLACKS IN FILMS; BLACK CINEMA Summary: Book on African Cinema - looking at comedy, choreography, crime, society, myth, sexuality, witchcraft, and African cinema today. Notes: Filmography: p. 255-258; Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-255) and index ISBN: 9780719083358 Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1.African cinema and national(ist) constructions -- 2.Wealth and poverty of nationalist scholarship -- 3.Postnational(ist) imaginary and new paradigms -- 4.Structure of the book -- Notes -- ch. 1 Comedy and film -- 1.Comedic archetypes -- 2.Verbal and visual comedy -- Notes -- ch. 2 Choreographing subjects -- 1.Dance on stage -- 2.Dance, syntax and discourse -- Notes -- ch. 3 Crimes, society and the `commandement' -- 1.Africa and theories of (impossible) crime fiction -- 2.Absent investigation and the triumph of the commandement -- 3.Flawed investigations and the decline of the commandement -- Notes -- ch. 4 Myth, tragedy and cinema -- 1.On African cultural `specificity' and tragic forms -- 2.Oedipal conflicts, enemy brothers and families in crisis -- 3.Absolutism, oracles and the tragic -- Notes -- ch. 5 Epic constructions -- 1.Narrative performance -- 2.Epic magnification -- Notes -- ch. 6 (Un)masked sexuality -- 1.African sexuality as category of analysis -- 2.Sex in the nation and the trouble with representation -- 3.Framing bodies and the temptation of pornography -- Notes -- ch. 7 Witchcraft and the postcolonial -- 1.From sorcery imaginary to the imaginary sorcerer -- 2.Occult side of power, power of the occult -- Notes -- conclusion: what is Africa cinema (today)? -- notes -- bibliography and filmography -- index -- More info
book		Racial stigma on the Hollywood Screen : the Orientalist buddy film / Brian Locke New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Call No: 451-054(=95)(73) LOC Author: Locke, Brian Edition: First Plagrave Macmillan paperback edition Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; CRASH (US, Paul Haggis, 2004); FLASH GORDON (US/UK, Mike Hodges, 1980); LAST SAMURAI, THE (US, Edward Zwick, 2003); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); LETHAL WEAPON 4 (US, Richard Donner, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); RISING SUN (US, Philip Kaufman, 1993) Summary: "Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood's representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between US democratic ideals and white America's persistent domination over blacks." -book blurb. Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexes ISBN: 9781137029348 Contents: List of figures -- acknowledgements -- Introduction - Three's a crowd: Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit: Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade Runner (1982, 1992 and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The Matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue - Pearl Harbor eclipsed? The Last Samurai (2003) -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Film and television index -- General index More info
journal article		Recontextualizing the historical reception of Blaxploitation : articulations of class, black nationalism, and anxiety in the genre's advertisements in Velvet Light trap (2002) vol.50 p.48-61 Author: Kraszewski, Jon PhysDes: Article Subject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; BLACULA (US, William Crain, 1972); I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (US, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971); SHAFT (US, John Singleton, 2000); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) Summary: This is a study of blaxploitation advertisements and the genre, examing the complex relationship between blaxpoitaton text and spectator. The heterogeneous identity at play within blaxploitation's black spectators is examined. Class becomes important to studying blaxploitation and its audience not because it demarcates a subgenre that diverged in interest from other films concerned with violence and ultrasexuality but because class - specifically the way in functions in blaxploitation advertisements - can help reconceptualize the blackness of blaxploitation and its spectators in more dynamic ways. The genre is situated in a complex historical moment where three relatively autonomous influences on black identity operated simultaneously. More info
book		Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 744 HOO Author: Hooks, Bell Place: New York, NY Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cm Subject: RACE AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; LOOK IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; Tarantino, Quentin; LEE, SPIKE; DASH, JULIE; CLARK, LARRY; JAFFA, ARTHUR; BURNETT, CHARLES; BILLOPS, CAMILLE; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE; WANG, WAYNE; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978); GIRL 6 (US, Spike Lee, 1996); CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995); EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994); ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991); KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover) LON: 96026474; 12664107 More info
Interim book		Seeing and believing : religion and values in the movies / Margaret R. Miles Boston: Beacon Press, c1996. Call No: 45:2 MIL Author: Miles, Margaret Ruth Source: US Place: Boston Publisher: Beacon Press PubDate: c1996 PhysDes: xvi, 254 p. ; 23 cm Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; ETHICS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988); JESUS DE MONTREAL (CN/FR, Denys Arcand, 1989); MISSION, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1986); ROMERO (US, John Duigan, 1989); NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (US, Brian Gilbert, 1991); CHOSEN, THE (US, Jeremy Paul Kagan, 1981); CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981); HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990); RAPTURE, THE (US, Michael Tolkin, 1991); LONG WALK HOME, THE (US, Richard Pearce, 1990); DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); JUNGLE FEVER (US, Spike Lee, 1991); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0807010316 More info
book		Undressing cinema : clothing and identity in the movies / Stella Bruzzi London New York: Routledge, 1997. Call No: 226.4 BRU Author: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: xxi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: COSTUMES; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; GANGSTER FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; FEMME FATALE; TRANSVESTISM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971); SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); TROP BELLE POUR TOI (FR, Bertrand Blier, 1989); READY TO WEAR (US, Robert Altman, 1994); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994); NEW JACK CITY (US, Mario Van Peebles, 1991); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); DISCLOSURE (US, Barry Levinson, 1994); SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1992); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); GLEN OR GLENDA - I LED TWO LIVES (US, Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1953); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MRS. DOUBTFIRE (US, Chris Columbus, 1993); BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index; Filmography: p. 204-207 ISBN: 0415139562 (hbk : alk. paper); 0415139570 (pbk : alk. paper) LON: 97007260; 13082009 ID2: 38 More info
book		Violence and American cinema / edited by J. David Slocum New York: Routledge, 2001. Call No: 730.5(73) SLO Author: Slocum, David J Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm Series: AFI film readers Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; FILM NOIR. USA; WESTERNS; ACTION FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; GENOCIDE IN FILMS Summary: This text is a "discussion of film violence old and new ... consideration of its nature, its effects, and its cinematic, cultural, and historical meaning." (from back cover) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0415928109 (pbk.) More info

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