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Close up : great cinematic performances. Volume 1, American / edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Call No: 227.01(73) CLOPlace: UKPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2018Series: International film starsSubject: ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; STARS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GRANT, CARY ; GAYNOR, JANET ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; DAVIS, BETTE ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; SELLERS, PETER ; Stewart, James ; Lombard, Carole ; MASON, JAMES ; BURTON, RICHARD ; LEWIS, JERRY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; HACKMAN, GENE ; ROWLANDS, GENA ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; GOULD, ELLIOTT ; PACINO, AL ; GOLDBERG, WHOOPI ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; ISAAC, OSCAR ; STEWART, KRISTEN ; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (FR/SZ/GG/US/BE, Olivier Assayas, 2014) ; MOST VIOLENT YEAR, A (US, J. C. Chandor, 2014) ; BLUE JASMINE (US, Woody Allen, 2013) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DONNIE BRASCO (US, Mike Newell, 1997) ; LONG GOOGBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980) ; CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; DANGEROUS (US, Alfred E. Green, 1935) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) Summary: "Examines the significance of women's participation in popular genres.
Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema. What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force"--Page 4 of cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781474417006Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Close-up: great American performances -- Chapter 1 Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding -- Chapter 2 Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth -- Chapter 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday -- Chapter 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Chapter 5 Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis in Dangerous -- Chapter 7 James Stewart in Vertigo -- Chapter 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be -- Chapter 9 James Mason in Lolita -- Chapter 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun -- Chapter 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.
Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther -- Chapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy -- Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night -- Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation -- Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria -- Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger -- Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye -- Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco -- Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple -- Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine -- Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year -- Chapter 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria -- Index.
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The color purple : Neverending story in Cinema P (March 1986) iss.56 p.73
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COLOR PURPLE, THE : (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985)
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Female spectators : looking at film and television / edited by E. Deidre Pribram London New York: Verso, 1988.
Call No: 632.53 FEMAuthor: Pribram, E. Deidre Place: London New YorkPublisher: VersoPubDate: 1988PhysDes: vii, 199 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Questions for feminismSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; DIRECTORS ; WOMEN ON TV ; FEMINISM AND TV ; BODY ON TV ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) Notes: Bibliography: p. 196-197ISBN: 0860912043; 0860919226 (pbk.)LON: 5927013
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The film cultures reader / Graeme Turner (ed.) New York: Routledge, 2002.
Call No: 408 TURAuthor: Graeme Turner (ed.) Place: London; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2002PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; AESTHETICS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH ; SOUND ; THEORY ; CREED, BARBARA ; KUHN, ANNETTE ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; HONG KONG ; HOLLYWOOD ; GLOBALISATION ; USA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; SEX IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; ACTION FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; THRILLERS ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; INDUSTRY, FILM Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption.ISBN: 0415252822
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Margaret Avery in Freeze Frame (June 1987) vol.1 iss.3 p.24-25
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Melodrama : stage, picture, screen / edited by Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook, Christine Gledhill London: BFI Pub., 1994.
Call No: 733 MELAuthor: Bratton, J. S. (Jacqueline Susan), 1945 ; Cook, Jim ; Gledhill, Christine Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1994PhysDes: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; MELODRAMA. GERMANY ; MELODRAMA. CHINA ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; ELSAESSER, THOMAS ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (US, Billy Woodberry, 1984) ; GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940) ; GASLIGHT (US, George Cukor, 1944) ; FU RONG ZHEN (CC, Xie Jin, 1986) ; EAST LYNNE (US, Frank Lloyd, 1931) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851704379; 0851704387 (pbk.)LON: 11032554
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Race, Gender, and Nation in The Color Purple in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1988) vol.14 iss.4 p.831-859
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Representing the rural : space, place, and identity in films about the land / edited by Catherine Fowler & Gillian Helfield Detroit Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2006.
Call No: 738.6 FOWAuthor: Fowler, Catherine ; Helfield, Gillian Source: USPlace: Detroit Mich.Publisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and television seriesSubject: CRITICISM ; LAND IN FILM ; CINEMAS. SPANISH ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; TERRE, LA (FR, André Antoine, 1921) ; SANTOS INOCENTES, LOS (SP, Mario Camus, 1984) ; ASHANI SANKET (II, Satyajit Ray, 1973) ; HORA DA ESTRELA, A (BL, Suzana Amaral, 1985) ; FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945) ; BIQUEFARRE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1983) ; DHIL AL ARDH (TI/FR, Taieb Louhichi, 1982) ; BILLY ELLIOT (UK, Stephen Daldry, 2000) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; THIASSOS, O (GR, Theo Angelopoulos, 1975) ; QIU JU DA GUANSI (CC/HK, Zhang Yimou, 1992) ; YI GE DOU BU NENG SHAO (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1999) ; WO DE FU QIN MU QIN (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1999) ; ROAD HOME, THE (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1999) Summary: Representing the Rural breaks new ground in the writing of cinema history, offering fresh perspectives on the character and place of national identity in cinematic explorations of the land, peasants, landscapes, and culture caught up in the transition from rural to metropolitan spaces [taken from back cover]Notes: Formerly CIP
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Includes filmography: p. 341-343ISBN: 0814333052
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Steven Spielberg : the man, his movies, and their meaning / Philip M. Taylor New York: Continuum, 1992.
Call No: 81SPI TAYAuthor: Taylor, Philip M Place: New YorkPublisher: ContinuumPubDate: 1992PhysDes: 176 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; HOOK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172), filmography (p. [143]-169), and indexISBN: 0826406157 : $17.95LON: 92010212; 8966119
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Steven Spielberg / George Perry London: Orion, 1998.
Call No: 81SPI PERAuthor: Perry, George Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: OrionPubDate: 1998PhysDes: 144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cmSubject: SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; ALWAYS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DUEL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1972) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987) ; HOOK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1991) ; INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989) ; INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (US, Steven Spielberg, 1984) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) ; LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1997) ; 1941 (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1979) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974) ; TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE (US, John Landis & Steven Spielberg & George Miller & Joe Dante, 1983) ISBN: 0752811940
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