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book		100 American independent films : BFI screen guides / Jason Wood London: bfi Publishing, 2004. Call No: 71(73)WOO Author: Wood, Jason Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: xiii, 263 p. : ill. ; 17 cm Series: BFI screen guides Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; FESTIVALS. CANNES; AWARDS. INDEPENDENT SPIRIT; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE; BUSCEMI, STEVE; CASSAVETES, JOHN; LYNCH, DAVID; LEE, SPIKE; SAYLES, JOHN; SODERBERGH, STEVEN; SCORSESE, MARTIN; Tarantino, Quentin; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HARTLEY, HAL; HOPPER, DENNIS; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) Summary: This guide defines and outlines a personal but representative selection of 100 recommneded American independent films. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the film's significance, production and exhibition history and cross-references to other films. [Taken from back cover]. Notes: Includes preface by Scott McGehee and David Siegel; Bibliography: p. 245-248.; Includes index ISBN: 1844570061 More info
book		American directors : volume II / Jean-Pierre Coursodon with Pierre Sauvage New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983. Call No: 802.25(73) COU vol.2 Author: Coursodon, Jean-Pierre; Sauvage, Pierre Place: New York Publisher: McGraw-Hill PubDate: c1983 PhysDes: 2 v. ; 24 cm Subject: DIRECTORS. USA; ALDRICH, ROBERT; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BOETTICHER, BUDD; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; BROOKS, RICHARD; CASSAVETES, JOHN; CASTLE, WILLIAM; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; CORMAN, ROGER; DASSIN, JULES; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DMYTRYK, EDWARD; DONEN, STANLEY; EASTWOOD, CLINT; EDWARDS, BLAKE; FLEISCHER, RICHARD; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; FULLER, SAMUEL; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; KAZAN, ELIA; KELLY, GENE; KERSHNER, IRVIN; KUBRICK, STANLEY; LEWIS, JERRY; LOGAN, JOSHUA; LOSEY, JOSEPH; LUMET, SIDNEY; Lupino, Ida; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L.; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; PARRISH, ROBERT; Peckinpah, Sam; PENN, ARTHUR; POLLACK, SYDNEY; POLONSKY, ABRAHAM; RAFELSON, BOB; RAFELSON, BOB; RAY, NICHOLAS; RITCHIE, MICHAEL; ROSSEN, ROBERT; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SIDNEY, GEORGE; SIEGEL, DON; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; STURGES, JOHN; TASHLIN, FRANK; WELLES, ORSON; WISE, ROBERT; ZINNEMANN, FRED Notes: Includes filmographies and indexes ISBN: 0070132623 (pbk. : v. 2) : $8.95; 0070132631 (v. 1) : $13.95; 0070132615 (pbk. : v. 1) : $8.95; 007013264X (v. 2) : $13.95 LON: 2198273 More info
book		American dreaming : the films of John Cassavetes and the American experience / Raymond Carney Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Call No: 81CAS CAR Author: Carney, Raymond Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: x, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN; FACES (US, John Cassavetes, 1968); GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980); HUSBANDS (US, John Cassavetes, 1970); KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE, THE (US, John Cassavetes, 1976); MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (US, John Cassavetes, 1971); SHADOWS (US, John Cassavetes, 1960); TOO LATE BLUES (US, John Cassavetes, 1961); WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 313-327; Bibliography: p. 307-311 ISBN: 0520050991 LON: 3055051 Contents: Faces, p82-118 -- Gloria, p272-288 -- Husbands, p119-139 -- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, p217-245 -- Minnie and Moskowitz, p140-183 -- Shadows, p20-62 -- Too Late Blues, p 63-77 -- A Woman Under the Influence, p184-216 More info
book		American film now : the people, the power, the money, the movies / by James Monaco New York: New American library, 1979. Call No: 71(73) MON Author: Monaco, James Source: US Place: New York Publisher: New American library PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; BROOKS, MEL; CASSAVETES, JOHN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; DE PALMA, BRIAN; LUCAS, GEORGE; MAZURSKY, PAUL; RITCHIE, MICHAEL; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; SCHRADER, PAUL; SIMON, NEIL Summary: "Hollywood movies today are bigger - but are they better than ever? In this major examination of modern American cinema, one of our leading film critics ponders this question - and produces a wide-screen picture of the answer. Here in detail are the careers and creative milestones of the new "Whiz Kids" of hollywood - such glittering names as Scorsese, De Palma, Lucas, Spielberg, Altman, Mazursky, and Coppola. Here are the new masters of comedy - Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen. Here are the blockbusters that made fiscal history- Jaws, The Exorcist, the Godfather, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nashville, Superman, and all the others. Here, too, are the masterpieces that passed unnoticed, and the disasters that Hollywood would like to forget. Here are the new writers turning out novelizations of screenplays and screenplays of novels, and the current and rising stars who collectively represent America's vision of glamour and aristocracy. Above all, here is a bottom-line report on the new economics that have turned Hollywood from an old-fashioned industry centered on making movies into a "leisure-time" business obsessed with making money for coporate owners. Add to this a complete rundown of the top critics' choice for the best films of the decade, and a comprehensive "Who's Who" in current American filmmaking, and you have American Film Now- the definitve guide to the film industry as it is today and as it will be tomorrow." BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index. Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010 Contents: -- 1 Properties and packages: Getting started, building "projects", the rules of the game -- 2 Products and profits: conglomeration, the cash flow, slicing the pie, agenting -- 3 The entertainment machine: " Eat, swim, play, not talk!", the family of genres, the quarks of film -- 4: The people who make movies: the assets, Obiter Dicta: major contributors, the rest of the crew -- 5 The Whiz kids: Peter Bogdanovich, Billy Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader -- 6 The black film ( and the black image): Hello, Sam; Ossie davis, Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles, Bill Gunn, Michael Schultz -- 7 The importance of being funny: comics and comedians: whats funny?, the genre and the style, the sunshine boys make movies: Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen -- 8 Myth, reality, and other ways of meaning: Realism and documentary, the mythos and ethos, myth for myth's sake, "If you want to send a message, call Western Union", The way we live now -- 9 Who's talking? Cassavetes, Altman, and Coppola: John Cassavetes and the mystiwue of the actor, Robert Altman and the myth of the character, Francis Coppola: the Stinky Kid as mogul -- 10 Who's talking? Ritchie and Mazursky: Michael Ritchie the ironist, Paul Mazursky the satirist -- 11 The fourth estate: Begelmania, A new constellation, What is to be done? -- The Data -- Critics and critical choices -- the best films of the decade -- ten major filmographies: Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Francis Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Paul Mazursky, Michael Ritchie, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg -- reading about American film now: a guide -- references -- Who's who in Americn film now?: writers, directors, actors, actresses, producers, cinematographers, composers, designers, special effects, sound -- index -- credits 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
personality microfilm collection		Cassavetes, John Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity; Stills Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN More info
journal article		Cassavetes - lost but found in Filmnews (Australia) (May-89) vol.XIX iss.4 p.6 Author: Kaufman, Tina PhysDes: Article Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; LOST FILMS Summary: On the difficulty of locating and obtaining prints for the Australian Film Institute's retrospective of the late actor and independent filmmaker, John Cassavetes. Notes: Article More info
Interim book		Cassavetes on Cassavetes / Ray Carney Boston, MA: Boston University, Boston MA, 1989. Call No: 81CAS CAR Author: Carney, Raymond Source: US Place: Boston, MA Publisher: Boston University, Boston MA PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 129 p. Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN; CARNEY, RAY More info
book		Cassavetes on Cassavetes / edited by Ray Carney London: Faber, 2001. Call No: 81CAS CAR Author: Cassavetes, John, 1929; Carney, Raymond Place: London Publisher: Faber PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: xv, 526 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN ISBN: 0571201571(pbk.) : ¦17.99 LON: 22482822 More info
book		Deleuze on cinema / Ronald Bogue New York: Routledge, 2003. Call No: 620 DEL BOG Author: Bogue, Ronald Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: x, 231 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: BAZIN, ANDRE; DELEUZE, GILLES; CASSAVETES, JOHN; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; FELLINI, FEDERICO; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN; ROUCH, JEAN; WELLES, ORSON Summary: This text provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index. ISBN: 0415966043 Donation: Estate of Adrian Miles Contents: Ch. 1. Bergson and Cinema; Deleuze's Bergson; Three Bergsonian Theses on Movement; Image, Movement, Matter, Light; The Three Movement-Images --Ch. 2. Frame, Shot, and Montage; Frame and Shot; Montage: Organic and Dialectic; Montage: Quantitative and Intensive --Ch. 3. Eighteen Signs (More or Less); Peirce and Signs; The Perception-Image; The Affection-Image; The Impulse-Imag; The Action-Image; The Reflection-Image; The Relation-Image --Ch. 4. Hyalosigns: Crystals of Time; Opsigns; Mnemosigns and Onirosigns; Hyalosigns; Crystalline States --Ch. 5. Chronosigns: The Order of Time and Time as Series; Sheets of the Past, Peaks of the Present; Robbe-Grillet, Welles, and Resnais; Powers of the False; Rouch's Ethnofictions; Bodies and Categories --Ch. 6. Noosigns and Lectosigns: Image and Thought, Sight and Sound; The Classic Image of Thought; The Thought of the Outside; The Spiritual Automaton; Silent and Audible Lectosigns; The Modern Lectosign; A Note on Cinema, Theater, and Television. More info
book		Faces / by John Cassavetes ; compiled by Al Ruban New York: New American Library, 1970. Call No: 79FAC CAS Author: Cassavetes, John, 1929; Ruban, Al Place: New York Publisher: New American Library PubDate: 1970 PhysDes: 319 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm Subject: FACES (US, John Cassavetes, 1968); CASSAVETES, JOHN Notes: "A Signet Book." LON: 1757302 1757302 More info
book		Falling for you : essays of cinema and performance / edited by Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros Sydney: Power Publications, 1999. Call No: 227 FAL Author: Stern, Lesley; Kouvaros, George Place: Sydney Publisher: Power Publications PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 314 p. ; 22 cm Subject: ACTING; COMEDIES; BENJAMIN, WALTER; GARLAND, JUDY; STREISAND, BARBRA; CASSAVETES, JOHN; HARTLEY, HAL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; FUNNY GIRL (US, William Wyler, 1968); LOVE STREAMS (US, John Cassavetes, 1984); WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974); AIQING WANSUI (TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 1864870257 : $14.95 LON: 20003607 More info
book		The film director as superstar London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. Call No: 802.25 GEL Author: Gelmis, Joseph, 1935 Place: London Publisher: Secker and Warburg PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: xx, 316 p., 12 plates; illus., ports. 22 cm Subject: MCBRIDE, JIM; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DOWNEY, ROBERT; MAILER, NORMAN; WARHOL, ANDY; CASSAVETES, JOHN; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; FORMAN, MILOS; POLANSKI, ROMAN; CORMAN, ROGER; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; PENN, ARTHUR; LESTER, RICHARD; NICHOLS, MIKE; KUBRICK, STANLEY ISBN: 0436173700 LON: 210670 210670 More info
book		Film world : interviews with cinema's leading directors / Michel Ciment; translated by Julie Rose New York: Berg, 2009. Call No: 802.25 CIM Author: Ciment, Michel Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Berg PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: viii, 372 p. ; 25 cm Series: Talking images series Subject: BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; BOORMAN, JOHN; BRESSON, ROBERT; CAMPION, JANE; CASSAVETES, JOHN; CRONENBERG, DAVID; EGOYAN, ATOM; FELLINI, FEDERICO; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GREENAWAY, PETER; HERZOG, WERNER; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN; WONG KAR WAI; KAURISMAKI, AKI; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; KITANO TAKESHI; IM KWON-TAEK; LEIGH, MIKE; DE OLIVEIRA, MANOEL; RAY, SATYAJIT; SCORSESE, MARTIN; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; VON TRIER, LARS; ZHANG YIMOU Summary: "Film world brings together key interviews with cinema's learing directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years..." -- Back cover Notes: First published in France, 2003, by Editions Stock as Petite planete cinematographique; Includes index ISBN: 9781845204577 Language: English, translated from the French Contents: 1. Bernardo Berrolucci -- 2. John Boorman -- 3. Robert Bresson -- 4. Jane Campion -- 5. John Cassavetes -- 6. David Cronenberg -- 7. Atom Egoyan -- 8. Federico Fellini -- 9. Jean-Luc Godard -- 10. Peter Greenaway -- 11. Werner Herzog -- 12. Hou Hsiao-hsien -- 13. Wong Kar-wai -- 14. Aki Kaurismaki -- 15. Abbas Kiarosrami -- 16. Krzyszrof Kieslowski -- 17. Takeshi Kirano -- 18. Im Kwon-taek -- 19. Mike Leigh -- 20. Manoel de Oliveira -- 21. Satyajit Ray -- 22. Marrin Scorsese -- 23. Andrei Tarkovsky -- 24. Lars von Trier -- 25. Zhang Yimou. ID2: 291 More info
book		The films of John Cassavetes : pragmatism, modernism, and the movies / Ray Carney ; photographs by Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Call No: 81CAS CAR Author: Carney, Raymond Place: Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USA Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Cambridge film classics Subject: CASSAVETES, JOHN Notes: Filmography: p. 313-315; Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-311) ISBN: 0521381193 (hardback); 0521388155 (paperback) LON: 10052163 More info
Interim book		International film guide 1976 / edited by Peter Cowie London: Tantivy Press, 1975. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 058 INT "1976" Author: Cowie, Peter Place: London Publisher: Tantivy Press PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: v. Subject: CACOYANNIS, MICHAEL; CASSAVETES, JOHN; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; ZANUSSI, KRZYSZTOF ISBN: 090420801X More info
book		Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture 1982-2016 / Adrian Martin Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Call No: 62(081) MAR Author: Martin, Adrian Edition: 2018 Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press PhysDes: 424 pages ; 24 cm Series: film culture in transition Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CINEPHILIA; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; FILM HISTORY; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; CASSAVETES, JOHN; DE PALMA, BRIAN; FULLER, SAMUEL; GARREL, PHILIPPE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; POLANSKI, ROMAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; RUIZ, RAUL; SCORSESE, MARTIN; AFTER HOURS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1985); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); COTTON CLUB, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1984); ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961); ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984); HATEFUL EIGHT, THE (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2015); TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) Summary: The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9789462986831 Contents: PART I - LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling PART II – SCENOGRAPHIES -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced PART III - A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism PART IV - THE LYRICAL IMPULSE -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions -- 13. Delirious Enchantment PART V - GENRE GAMES -- 14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power -- 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle -- 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic -- 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema PART VI – INTERVENTIONS -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual -- 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality PART VII - ENVOI -- 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez Lopez Notes -- Sources of Texts -- Index More info
book		The naked lens : an illustrated history of beat cinema / written,edited and compiled by Jack Sargeant London: Creation Books, 1997. Call No: 61:82 SAR Author: Sargeant, Jack Place: London Publisher: Creation Books PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 250 p. ; 24cm Subject: LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CASSAVETES, JOHN; MEKAS, JONAS; VAN SANT, GUS; SMITH, JACK; SMITH, HARRY; FRANK, ROBERT; MEAD, TAYLOR; BALCH, ANTONY; MAECK, KLAUS; BUKOWSKI, CHARLES; BARFLY (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1987); CHAPPAQUA (US, Conrad Rooks, 1966); CUT UPS, THE (UK, Antony Balch, 1967); DECODER (GW, Muscha, 1984); DRUGSTORE COWBOY (US, Gus Van Sant, 1989); FLAMING CREATURES (US, Jack Smith, 1963); FLOWER THIEF, THE (US, Ron Rice, 1962); NAKED LUNCH (CN/UK, David Cronenberg, 1991); PULL MY DAISY (US, Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1959); SHADOWS (US, John Cassavetes, 1960); TOWERS OPEN FIRE (UK, Antony Balch, 1963); WHOLLY COMMUNION (UK, Peter Whitehead, 1965) ISBN: 1871592674 LON: abn98046647; 13683320 More info
book		Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / Jonathan Rosenbaum Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Call No: 67(081) PLA Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cm Subject: CRITICISM; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; BARTHES, ROLAND; CASSAVETES, JOHN; TATI, JACQUES; WELLES, ORSON; RESNAIS, ALAIN; RUIZ, RAUL; ALLEN, WOODY; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; FARBER, MANNY; TARR, BELA; RIVETTE, JACQUES; GERTRUD (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964); OHAYO (JA, Ozu Yasujiro, 1959); MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962); OTHELLO (MR, Orson Welles, 1951); MELO (FR, Alain Resnais, 1986); HARDLY WORKING (US, Jerry Lewis, 1980); AMOR DE PERDICAO (PO, Manoel de Oliveira, 1979); BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988); WHITE DOG (US, Samuel Fuller, 1982); JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE, Chantal Akerman, 1975); SPEAKING DIRECTLY: SOME AMERICAN NOTES (US, Jon Jost, 1974); RAMEAU'S NEPHEW BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (CN, Michael Snow, 1974); MOSES UND ARON (GW/FR/IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1975); DEEP COVER (US, Bill Duke, 1992); PANAMA DECEPTION, THE (US, Barbara Trent, 1992); SAGA OF ANATAHAN, THE (JA, Josef von Sternberg, 1953); BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991); ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953); KING LEAR (US/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index ISBN: 0520086325 (alk. paper); 0520086333 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 93042954; 10612641 ID2: 291 More info
book		Projections 7 : film-makers on film-making in association with Cahiers du Cinéma / edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue London: Faber & Faber, 1997. Call No: 802 PRO v.7 Author: Boorman, John, 1933; Donohue, Walter Place: London Publisher: Faber & Faber PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 301 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: SCORSESE, MARTIN; CAPRA, FRANK; BARRON, BEBE; DORMAEL, JACO VAN; SCHOONMAKER, THELMA; DE NIRO, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; ROCHA, GLAUBER; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; RENOIR, JEAN; OPHULS, MAX; MASTROIANNI, MARCELLO; FERRARA, ABEL; ASSAYAS, OLIVIER; CURTIS, JAMIE LEE; LEIGH, JANET; BURNS, LILLIAN; GIRARDOT, HIPPOLYTE; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; MITCHUM, ROBERT; HODGSON, PIERRE; COX, BRIAN; CARON, LESLIE; SYMS, SYLVIA; WRIGHT, TERESA; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; DE PALMA, BRIAN; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; LUCAS, GEORGE; Tarantino, Quentin; WALSH, RAOUL; HUSTON, JOHN; MCCAREY, LEO; Lupino, Ida; CASSAVETES, JOHN; WELLES, ORSON; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; DAFOE, WILLEM; SIRK, DOUGLAS; ALMEREYDA, MICHAEL; BOORMAN, JOHN; BAD LIEUTENANT (US, Abel Ferrara, 1992); CASINO (US, Martin Scorsese, 1995); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973); NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983); GOODFELLAS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1990); CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991); MANHUNTER (US, Michael Mann, 1986); L-SHAPED ROOM, THE (UK, Bryan Forbes, 1962); VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); FORBIDDEN PLANET (US, Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956); DEAD MAN (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1995); CAHIERS DU CINEMA Notes: Filmography: p. 300-301 ISBN: 0571190332 LON: abn97280608; 13386768 More info
book		Rewriting indie cinema : improvisation, psychodrama, and the screenplay / J.J Murphy New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Call No: 224(73) MUR Author: Murphy, Murphy Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subject: SCRIPTS; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA; CASSAVETES, JOHN; LODEN, BARBARA; GREAVES, WILLIAM; VAN SANT, GUS; SWANBERG, JOE; MEKAS, JONAS; WARHOL, ANDY; CLARKE, SHIRLEY; MAILER, NORMAN; FERRARA, ABEL; KEITEL, HARVEY; VAN SANT, GUS; SWANBERG, JOE Summary: "Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance.In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practice." -- Taken from Trove Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780231191975 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Introduction. Across the spectrum: from improvisation to psychodrama -- And I hate actors: the new American cinema -- Let's not phony it up anymore: the films of John Cassavetes -- Place-based realism: Mackenzie, Loden, and Burnett -- Experiments in psychodrama: Mekas, Warhol, Clarke, and Mailer -- Human life isn't necessarily well-written: the films of William Greaves: symbiopsychotaxiplasm: take one and take 2 1/ 2 -- Beyond the method: Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel -- Tied to a machine: the films of Gus Van Sant -- Like how you talk: the films of Joe Swanberg -- Improvisation and place: Putty Hill, Stand clear of the closing doors, and the films of Sean Baker -- Rediscovering psychodrama: Frownland, Heaven knows what, and Stinking heaven -- The line between reality and staging: Actor Martinez, Actress, and The witness -- Conclusion: blending fiction and documentary More info
journal article		Screen capture : Needeya Islam reviews essays on cinema and performance in Falling For You in Realtime (Dec 1999-Jan 2000) iss.34 p.15 Author: Islam, Needeya PhysDes: Book review Subject: ACTING; CASSAVETES, JOHN Summary: Of 'Falling for you: essays on cinema and performance' edited by George Kouvaros and Lesley Stern. More info
book		Who the hell's in it : portraits and conversations / Peter Bogdanovich London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2004. Call No: 802.27 BOG Author: Bogdanovich, Peter Edition: 2005 Place: London Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 528 pages ; illustrated ; 20 cm Subject: ACTING; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; GISH, LILLIAN; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRANDO, MARLON; ADLER, STELLA; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY; GRANT, CARY; LEMMON, JACK; LEWIS, JERRY; MARTIN, DEAN; MINEO, SAL; Stewart, James; WAYNE, JOHN; FONDA, HENRY; KARLOFF, BORIS; CASSAVETES, JOHN; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CAGNEY, JAMES; DIETRICH, MARLENE; Perkins, Anthony; SINATRA, FRANK; GAZARRA, BEN; HEPBURN, AUDREY; POITIER, SIDNEY; PHOENIX, RIVER; MONROE, MARILYN Summary: From Peter Bogdanovich - director, screenwriter, actor, and cinema scholar - 26 fascinating portraits of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie actors and actresses: stars whom he has known, admired, and occasionally worked with. Within these pages is Bogdanovich on Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Cagney, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Lemmon, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, and many more. With an acute and affectionate eye, Bogdanovich shows us Lillian Gish, the first virginal hearth goddess of the silver screen; Marlon Brando, refusing to play the same from one picture to the next, yet ever recognisable as the great actor, in spite of himself; Jerry Lewis, whose goofy comedy represented the nine-year-old in all of us; and Cary Grant, the epitome of screen elegance, benignly aware that in life even he could never live up to his own legend. Bogdanovich captures brilliantly - in their own words and his - the personality, the work, the style and the enduring iconic appeal of America's movie greats. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780571224319 Donation: James Sabine More info

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