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subject clippings file		CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA More info
book		Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. Call No: 62 BRA Author: Branston, Gill Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Open University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: p. cm Series: Issues in cultural and media studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB) LON: 21519736 More info
book		Cinema and the wealth of nations : media, capital, and the liberal world system / Lee Grievson Oakland, California: University of California Press, Call No: 203(73) GRI Author: Grievson, Lee Edition: 2018 Place: Oakland, California Publisher: University of California Press PhysDes: xvi, 466 pages : illustrated ; 24cm Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. US; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; FINANCING. USA; INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. USA Summary: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been—and continues to be—brutally violent, unequal, and destructive. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780520291690 Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- -- 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard -- 2. The Panama Caper -- 3. Empire of Liberty -- 4. Liberty Bonds -- 5. The State of Extension -- 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization -- 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship -- 8. Highways of Empire -- 9. League of Corporations -- 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis -- 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen -- 12. Welfare Media -- 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! -- -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index More info
book		The flash of capital : film and geopolitics in Japan / Eric Cazdyn Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Call No: 71(520) CAZ Author: Cazdyn, Eric Source: US Place: Durham, NC Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: JAPAN; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS. JAPAN; CRITICISM. JAPAN; ADAPTATIONS. JAPAN; YASUJIRO OZU; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; KUROSAWA AKIRA; KINUGASA TEINOSUKE; OSHII MAMORU; TSUKAMOTO SHINYA; OKUZAKI KENZO; IMAMURA, SHOHEI; OSHIMA NAGISA; YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Hara Kazuo, 1987); ROJO NO REIKON (JA, M. Murata, 1924) ISBN: 0822329395 Contents: I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation -- II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital -- III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic -- IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur -- V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History -- VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics. ID2: 291 More info
book		From Tian'anmen Square to Times Square : transnational China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens, 1989-1997 / Gina Marchetti Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, c2006. Call No: 408.1(51) MAR Author: Marchetti, Gina Place: Philadelphia PA Publisher: Temple University Press PubDate: c2006 PhysDes: xviii, 302 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. CHINA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; CHAN, EVANS; CHOW, RAYMOND; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KHOO, ERIC; LAW, CLARA; LEE, BRANDON; LEE, BRUCE; YANG, EDWARD; QIUYUE (HK/JA, Clara Law, 1992); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); CHUNGKING EXPRESS [CHONGQING SENLIN] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994); GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE, THE (US, Richard Gordon & Carma Hinton, 1995); [TWELVE] 12 STOREYS (SI, Eric Khoo, 1997); WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, THE (UK, Richard Quine, 1960) ISBN: 18592132782 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009 Contents: 1. China and the Chinese on world screens 1989-1997 -- 2. Buying American, consuming Hong Kong: Chungking express, The opium war, These shoes weren't made for walking, and Comrades: almost a love story -- 3. Working women in the people's Republic of China: Out of Phoenix Bridge, Women from the Lake of Scented Souls, and A little life opera -- Gangland Taiwan in the transnational imagination: Mahjong and Goodbye south goodbye -- 5. The postmodern condition in Singapore: Mee Pok Man and Twelve storeys -- 6. Transnational cinema and hybrid identities: To liv(e) and Crossings -- 7. Gender and generation in Clara Law's migration trilogy: Farewell China, Autumn moon, and Floating life -- 8. Fighting diaspora: the legacy of Bruce and Brandon Lee in Rapid fire -- 9. In the space of the Square: The gate of heavenly peace ID2: 291 More info
book		The president electric : Ronald Reagan and the politics of performance / Timothy Raphael Ann Arbor Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Call No: 81REA RAP Author: Raphael, Timothy Source: US Place: Ann Arbor Mich. Publisher: University of Michigan Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: ix, 271 p. ; 23 cm Series: Theater: theory, text, performance Subject: CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; POLITICS IN THE CINEMA; PRESIDENTS [USA] IN FILMS; Reagan, Ronald Summary: "While Ronald Reagan first entered politics in 1965, his public profile as a performer in radio, film, television, and advertising and his experience in public relations proved invaluable political assets. By the time he left office in 1989, the media in which he trained had become the primary source for generating and wielding political power. The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance reveals how the systematic employment of the techniques and technologies of mass-media performance contributed to Reagan's rise to power and defined his style of governance. The President Electric stands out among books on Reagan as the first to bring the rich insights of the field of perfoemance studies to an understanding of the Ronald Reagan phenomenon, connecting Reagan's training in electronic media to the nineteenth century notion of the "fiat of electricity" - the emerging sociopolitical power of three entities (mechanical science, corporate capitalism, and mass culture) that electric technology made possible. The book describes how this new regime of cultural and political representation shaped the development of the electronic mass media that transformed American culture and politics and educated Ronald Reagan for his future role as president." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes notes, works cited list and index. ISBN: 9780472050734 More info
book		Still life in real time : Theory after television / Richard Dienst Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. Call No: 62 DIE Author: Dienst, Richard Place: Durham, N.C. Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xvi, 207 pages ; 23 cm Series: Post-contemporary interventions Subject: ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; DERRIDA, JACQUES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; VIDEO RECORDERS Summary: "Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it." -- publisher's advertisement Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0822314665 Donation: Adrian Miles Contents: Part I: Televisual Flows -- The Outbreak of Television -- Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory -- Part II: Commercial Breaks -- History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story -- Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna -- "Appetite and satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and commerce in Twin Peaks -- Part III: Theoretical images -- The dangers of being in a televisual world: Heidegger and the ontotechnological question -- From post cards to smart bombs (and back again): derrida and the televisual textual system -- Ineluctable modalities of the televisual More info
book		Television in The West and its doctrines / N. S. Biryukov Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977. Call No: 402 BIR Author: Biryukov, N. S. Edition: 1981 Place: Moscow Publisher: Progress Publishers PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: TELEVISION; IDEOLOGY AND TV; PROPAGANDA ON TV; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA Contents: Introduction -- Chapter one: A short history of television in capitalist countries -- Chapter two: Television and other news media -- Chapter three: The structure of television in capitalist countries -- Chapter four: Television and monopoly capital -- Chapter five: Television and ideology -- Chapter six: Television as the object of research -- Chapter seven: The impartiality doctrine in bourgeois television -- Chapter nine: "Free flow of information" and telvision's international relations -- Conclusion More info

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