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Alternative scriptwriting / Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush Boston: Focal Press, 1995.
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Cinema art nouveau / A. Ruszkowski Lyon: 1937.
Call No: 67 RUSAuthor: Ruszkoiwski, A Place: LyonPubDate: 1937Subject: CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; CLAIR, RENE ; COWARD, NOEL ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; DUVIVIER, JULIEN ; GANCE, ABEL ; GARSON, GREER ; LANG, FRITZ ; LORRE, PETER ; PIDGEON, WALTER ; PRESLE, MICHELINE ; RENOIR, JEAN ; MADAME CLAUDE (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1977) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; ROMAN DE RENARD, LE (FR, Ladislas Starevitch, 1941 [prod. 1929-41]) ; VISITEURS DU SOIR, LES (FR, Marcel Carne, 1942) Language: French
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Flicks : studying film as text / Dinah Partridge, Peter Hughes Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Call No: 512.1 PARAuthor: Partridge, Dinah ; Hughes, Peter, 1949 Edition: 2nd edSource: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: viii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cmSubject: TEACHING MATERIALS ; PRINCESS BRIDE, THE (US, Rob Reiner, 1987) ; ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; COOLBAROO CLUB, THE (AT, Roger Scholes, 1996) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; FRONTLINE [TV] (AT, 1994- ) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; GENRES ; HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990) ; HEARTS OF DARKNESS : A FILMMAKERS APOCALYPSE (US, Fax Bahr & George Hinkenlooper, 1991) ; HOUSEKEEPING (US, Bill Forsyth, 1987) ; MITT LIV SOM HUND (SW, Lass Hallestrom, 1985) ; MURIEL'S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994) ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NOT FOURTEEN AGAIN (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1996) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; POLICE ON TV ; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; SECRET GARDEN, THE (US, Agnieszka Holland, 1993) ; SEINFELD [TV] (US, 1990-98) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988) ; SHINE (AT/UK, Scott Hicks, 1996) ; SITUATION COMEDY ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) Notes: BibliographyISBN: 0195506774 : $26.95; 0195506774 (pbk.)LON: 13455821ID2: 290
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Mother knows best : the voices of Mrs. Bates in Psycho in Hitchcock annual (1994) p.3-17
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The philosophy of tv noir / edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble Lexington, KN: University of Kentucky Press, c2008.
Call No: 734.1 PHIAuthor: Sanders, Steven M. ; Skoble, Aeon J. Place: Lexington, KNPublisher: University of Kentucky PressPubDate: c2008PhysDes: viiii, 272 p. ; 24 cmSeries: the philosophy of popular culureSubject: AESTHETICS ; ALIENS IN FILMS ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; ETHICS AND TV ; FILM NOIR ; RELIGION AND TV ; CARTER, CHRIS ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [TV] (US/CA, 2000-) ; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997) ; D.O.A. (US, Ruldolph Mate, 1950) ; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) ; FUGITIVE, THE (US, Andrew Davis, 1993) ; HE WALKS BY NIGHT (US, Alfred Werker, 1948) ; LEVIATHAN (US/IT, George Pan Cosmatos, 1989) ; NAKED CITY [TV] (US, 1958-1963) ; X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-) Summary: Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many emigre filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind collection, contributors from philosophy, film studies, and literature raise fundamental questions about the human predicament, giving this unique volume its moral resonance and demonstrating why television noir deserves our attention." "With this focus on the philosophical dimensions of crime, espionage, and science fiction series, The Philosophy of TV Noir draws out the full implications of film noir and establishes TV noir as an art form in its own right."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780813124490Contents: Dragnet, film noir, and postwar realism / R. Barton Palmer -- Naked city: the relativist turn in TV noir / Robert E. Fitzgibbons -- John Drake in Greeneland: noir themes in Secret agent / Sander Lee -- Action and integrity in The fugitive / Aeon J. Skoble -- Noir et blanc in color: existentialism and Miami vice / Steven M. Sanders -- 24 and the existential man of revolt / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Carniva`le knowledge: give me that old-time noir religion / Eric Bronson -- The Sopranos, film noir, and nihilism / Kevin L. Stoehr -- CSI and the art of forensic detection / Deborah Knight, George McKnight -- Detection and the logic of abduction in The X-files / Jerold J. Abrams, Elizabeth Cooke -- Kingdom of darkness: autonomy and conspiracy in The X-files and Millennium / Michael Valdez Moses -- The prisoner and self-imprisonment / Shai Biderman, William J. Devlin -- Twin Peaks, noir, and open interpretation / Jason Holt.
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Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Call No: 62 POSAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: MadisonPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cmSeries: Wisconsin studies in filmSubject: THEORY ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; MUSIC, FILM ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; JAPAN ; DENMARK ; EXHIBITION ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; EDITING ; PERCEPTION ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS ; GENRES ; LOVE IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; WARNER BROS. ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; GIBSON, JAMES J. ; COHN, HARRY ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; MANDEL, ERNEST ; RENOV, MICHAEL ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 95037052; 11859923
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The real stars : Articles and interviews on Hollywood's great character actors / Leonard Maltin (general editor) New York: Curtis Books, 1973.
Call No: N81REA MALCorpAuthor: Film Fan MonthlyPlace: New YorkPublisher: Curtis BooksPubDate: 1973PhysDes: 320 p. : ill., ports ; 18 cmSeries: Curtis FilmsSubject: ALLGOOD SARAH ; BUCHANAN, EDGAR ; COMPTON, JOYCE ; CONRIED, HANS ; FLOWERS, BESS ; GEORGE, GLADYS ; GILBERT, BILLY ; GRANGER, DOROTHY ; INGRAM, REX ; IVAN, ROSALIND ; KELLY, PATSY ; MERKEL, UNA ; PAIGE, MABEL ; SONDERGAARD, GALE ; SUMMERS, HOPE ; SUTTON, GRADY ; YURKA, BLANCHE ; ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; FILMOGRAPHIES Summary: The book contains interviews, profiles, and filographies of Hollywood's best known supporting actors
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Screened out : playing gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall / Richard Barrios New York: Routledge, 2003.
Call No: 749.4 (71) BARAuthor: Barrios, Richard Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2003PhysDes: xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS Summary: "Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies." "Screened Out is a look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie-making. Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today, Richard Barrios offers a compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays, and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler - iconoclastic images that could shock and entertain simultaneously. The screen, Barrios argues, offered powerful messages about tragedy and oppression and, sometimes simultaneously, could also strike notes of freedom and compassion."
"Mining studio records, scripts, drafts and cut scenes, censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory. He also offers a pointed warning: we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world - have made since Stonewall."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 041592328X (hb : alk. paper)
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Script development : critical approaches, creative practices, international perspectives / edited by Craig Batty - Stayci Taylor Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 224 SCRAuthor: Batty, Craig ; Taylor, Stayci Edition: 2021Place: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2021PhysDes: xxii, 296 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; SCRIPTWRITERS ; SCRIPTWRITING Summary: This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry experiences, it brings together scholars and practitioners from around the world to offer critical insights into this core, but often hidden, aspect of screenwriting and screen production. Chapters speculate and reflect upon how creative, commercial and social practices – in which ideas, emotions, people and personalities combine, cohere and clash – are shaped by the practicalities, policies and rapid movements of the screen industry. Comprising two parts, the book first looks ‘into’ script development from a theoretical perspective, and second looks ‘out from’ the practice to form practitioner-led perspectives of script development. With a rising interest in screenwriting and production studies, and an increased appetite for practice-based research, the book offers a timely mapping of the terrain of script development, providing rich foundations for both study and practice. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9783030487126Contents: Introduction / Craig Batty, Stayci Taylor
Part I: Looking into Script Development: Theories on Practice -- Originality and Authorship in the Development of the Screen Idea / Ian W. Macdonald -- How Government Institutions Shape Script Development: Comparative Case Studies of Screen Australia and the Danish Film Institute / Cath Moore, Radha O’Meara -- Script Development and the Post-Socialist Producer: Towards a Comparative Approach to Cultures of Development / Petr Szczepanik -- Cultural Difference in Script Development: The Australian Example/ Glenda Hambly -- Complicating Cops and Criminals: Racial Politics in the Classic Network Crime Drama / Caryn Murphy -- Telling Stories About Yesterday’s Hero for Today’s World: The Script Development of the Chilean TV Series Heroes (2006–2007) / Carmen Sofia Brenes, Margaret McVeigh, Alejandro C. Reid, Alberto N. García -- Nordic Noir with an Icelandic Twist: Establishing a Shared Space for Collaboration Within European Coproduction / Rosamund Davies
Part II: Looking Out from Script Development: Practice into Theory -- Sympoiesis and Scripting Urban Terror: Decomposition of a Writing Under Duress / Joshua McNamara -- Script Development and Social Change in Papua New Guinea / Mark Eby -- Storytelling for Our Own People: A Reflection on Script Developing with the Maori Filmmaker Barry Barclay / Christina Milligan -- So Much Drama, So Little Time: Writers’ Rooms in Australian Television Drama Production / Noel Maloney, Philippa Burne -- Defining the Beats in the TV Sitcom / D. T. Klika -- Subjects of the Gaze: Script Development as Performance / Emma Bolland, Louise Sawtell -- The Promiscuous Screenplay: A Tale of Wanton Development and Loose Authorship / Siobhan Jackson -- Room for Improvement: Discourses of Quality and Betterment in Script Development / Craig Batty, Stayci Taylor
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The World of Alan J. Pakula in Lumiere (January-February, 1973) iss.20 p.13-16
Author: Ryan, Tom PhysDes: ArticleSubject: PAKULA, ALAN J. ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; STERILE CUCKOO, THE (US, ALAN J. PAKULA, 1969 ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS Summary: Tom Ryan's response to Alan J. Pakula's two films THE STERILE CUCKOO, and KLUTE, with particular focus on character formation, development, and representation.
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