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Call No: 740.1 APO
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; CIVILISATION (US, Raymond B. West, 1916); [FOUR] 4 HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); BED SITTING ROOM, THE (UK, Richard Lester, 1969); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011); OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
Summary: We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays. As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science. -- taken from publisher's site
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781442260276
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2016
Contents: Introduction / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani -- THE EARLY DEPICTIONS OF DISASTER. World War One and Hollywood's First Modern Armageddon: Understanding Wartime and Post-Conflict Representations of a Global Cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) / Cle´mentine Tholas-Disset -- The end of the world: loss and redemption in Four horsemen of the apocalypse / Karen Randell -- GLOBAL DEMISE AND COLD WAR. "Radiation's rising, but one mustn't grumble too much": nuclear apocalypse played as farce in Richard Lester's The bed-sitting room / Thomas Prasch -- The legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, science fiction blockbusters and the future of humanity / Peter Kra¨mer -- "Gentleman, you can't fight in here": gender symbolism and the end of the world in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia / Catriona Mcavoy -- MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE APOCALYSPE. Is there an end to it? fictional shelters and shelter-fiction / Solvejg Nitzke -- Melancholia and the apocalypse within / Pierre Floquet -- Eco apocalypse: environmentalism, political alienation and therapeutic agency / Philip Hammond and Hugh Ortega Breton --POLOITICS OF SHOWING THE UNTHINKABLE. Disaster films: the end of the world and the risk society hero / Frederick Wasser -- The (gender) politics of disaster in 2012 / Charles Antoine Courcoux -- Tarkovsky's The sacrifice: a religious humanist apocalypse / Tatjana Ljuji -- Dead narratives: defining humanity through stories / A. Fiona Pearson and Scott Ellis -- MOVING BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD. Opposing Thatcherism: filmic apocalypse as a political strategy in 1980s Britain / Angela Krewani -- Painting in time: on the use of digital visual effects in Melancholia / Andreas Kirchner -- The corporate and corporeal: min(d)ing the body conscience and consumption in early 21st century Hollywood dystopia / Wendy Sterba.

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CIVILISATION (US, Raymond B. West, 1916)

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PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1988)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1981)

Call No: 751.0(73) SEX
Author: Sexton, Jamie
Edition: 2023
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2023
PhysDes: viii, 202 pages : illustrated
Series: Music and the moving image series
Subject: ROCK MUSIC IN FILMS; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; ARAKI, GREGG; COPPOLA, SOFIA; SMITHEREENS (US, Susan Seidelman, 1982); SUBURBIA (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1983); PARIAH (US, Randolph Kret, 1998); SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (US, Boots Riley, 2018); DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1981); LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE FABULOUS STAINS (CN, Lou Adler, 1982)
Summary: The first academic book to explore indie music and indie music cultures on screen. Combines historical, cultural, aesthetic and industry analysis to explore the functions and broader appeal of indie music on film Includes analyses of indie punk scenes on film Examines gender and racial issues within indie music and film Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since the 1980s. Indie music has, since the 2000s, become highlighted in some indie films as an attraction, but this book probes how the appeal of indie music stretches back to the late 1970s, when punk music made its impact on filmmaking. Sexton looks at a range of issues where indie music and indie film intersect, including commercial concerns, the growth of niche marketing, the increased employment of popular music in cinema and questions of authenticity, as well as the fraught tensions between commercial and artistic concerns. Case studies include: sonic authorship and indie music, representations of punk and indie scenes on screen, and an exploration of how racial and gender issues inform the representation and reception of indie cultures on film. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781474414067
Contents: Introduction -- A Brief History of Indie Music in American Indie Film -- Sonic Authorship 1: Gregg Araki -- Sonic Authorship 2: Sofia Coppola -- Documenting Scenes and Performers 1: Punk, Smithereens and Suburbia -- Documenting Scenes and Performers 2: Grunge and Riot Grrrl -- Indie Music, Film, and Race 1: Medicine for Melancholy and Pariah -- Indie Music, Film, and Race 2: Sorry to Bother You -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 67(41) MOO
Author: Moore, Suzanne
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: ix, 305 pages ; 20 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; ALWAYS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989); BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988); BLACK RAIN (US, Ridley Scott, 1989); BLUE STEEL (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1989); BROKEN NOSES (US, Bruce Weber, 1987); CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988); DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988); DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1988); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); FAMILY VIEWING (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1987); FAREWELL TO THE KING (US, John Milius, 1989); GHOSTS... OF THE CIVIL DEAD (AT, John Hillcoat, 1988); GOOD MOTHER, THE (US, Leonard Nimoy, 1988); JESUS OF MONTREAL (CN/FR, Denys Arcand, 1989); KAMIKAZE HEARTS (US, Juliet Bashore, 1986); KROTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988); LONGTIME COMPANION (US, Norman Rene, 1990); MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (US, Alek Keshishian, 1991); MARUSA NO ONNA (JA, Juzo Itami, 1987); PARIS BY NIGHT (UK, David Hare, 1989); PATTY HEARST (US, Paul Schrader, 1988); ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989); SCANDAL (UK, Michael Caton-Jones, 1989); SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (US, Wes Craven, 1988); SHE-DEVIL (US, Susan Seidelman, 1989); SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS (US, Sheila McLaughlin, 1987); SKIN DEEP (US, Blake Edwards, 1989); SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (US, Joesph Ruben, 1991); SOMETHING WILD (US, Jonathan Demme, 1986); STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (US, William Shatner, 1989); SWEETIE (AT, Jane Campion, 1989); TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (US, Steve Barron, 1990); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); THIRTYSOMETHING [TV] (US, 1987-91); TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1990) SEE ATAME!; TORCH SONG TRILOGY (US, Paul Bogart, 1988); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); TUCKER (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1988); TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991); UNHOLY, THE (US, Camilio Vila, 1988); WAR OF THE ROSES, THE (US, Danny DeVito, 1989); WIRED (US, Larry Peerce, 1989); WORLD APART, A (UK, Chris Menges, 1988); BAUDRILLARD, JEAN; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; WINDSOR, BARBARA
Summary: "In her articles and essays, Suzanne Moore takes a vitriolic look at the icons of modern life - post feminism, Baudrillard, Laura Ashley, Twin Peaks, the new man, safe sex, James Bond, a green planet. In her film reviews, she dissects the 'mega' filmmakers of our time - Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Russell and David Lynch. Definitely not 'one of the boys', Suzanne Moore's attitude to the good and famous is refreshing and irreverent." -Book blurb.
Notes: Contains bibliography
ISBN: 1852422424
Contents: Introduction -- Feminism -- Men: Men against men; Target man; The brothers grim; Toy soldiers or wicked willies; Prince; Torch Song tightrope; Here's looking at you, kid -- Women: Material girl; Hi, I'm Anneka - fly me; Green light spells danger; The odds of getting even; A call to underarms; Fatal fantasies; Happiness is a warm gun; Close-up as the cookie crumbles; Women who read too much; The great awakening; Modern romance; The merry life of Windsor -- Children: Hiding in the wardrobe; Hung-up on Father Christmas; Politics of choice; Birth and death; Maternal melodramas; Eternal childhood; Unhappy families; Heroes in a half-shell -- Fantasy -- Fear: Killjoy culture; Filming by numbers; The death of intimacy; To hell and back; Murder most foul; Electric shocks; Fag end; Soft soap -- Flesh: Good vibrations; Deviant laws; Everyday eroticism; One big act; A screw of convenience?; Missionary sex; The struggle for safe endings -- Faith: Kidnapped by the counter-culture; Sculpting in time; Playing Jesus by night; Nithing but the truth; Always a love story; Jazz junkie -- Power: Pleasure: Understimulation; And now for the news; Film slobs; The metal age; All night long; The money game; Mall-content?; Mini-politics: saying no in public; Belushi's last high; something to stay home about; Reach for the stars; Starship stories -- Politics: Political poison; Junk culture; Never really at home; A problem of identities; Brand loyalty; Sun rises in the east; You can't do the right thing all the time; Great expectations -- Populism: Postmodern paralysis; Britain's macho man; On the side of the man in the street; Against the sober grain -- Postmodernism: Politics of seduction; Getting a bit of the other - the pimps of postmodernism.
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