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CLOSE CONTACT : (AT, Scott Hartford Davies, 1999)
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CONTACT : (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
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CONTACT : (AT, Bentley Dean & Martin Butler, 2009)
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Critical receptions in Filmnews (Jul 1983) vol.XIII iss.7 p.14
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First contact / Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1988, c1987.
Call No: 79FIR CONAuthor: Connolly, Bob ; Anderson, Robin Place: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.Publisher: Penguin BooksPubDate: 1988, c1987PhysDes: vii, 316 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983) Notes: Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world; Bibliography: p. [313]-316ISBN: 0140074651 (pbk.)LON: 5768908 5768908
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FIRST CONTACT : (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983)
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First contact in Australian Film Review (Sep 29 - Oct 12 1983) vol.1 iss.17 p.13-16
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First Contact in Filmnews (Jul 1983) vol.XIII iss.7 p.2
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First contact in US in Australian Film Review (Sep 29 - Oct 12 1983) vol.1 iss.17 p.22
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[First contact : poster]
Call No: P FIRPhysDes: 1 poster : b&w ; 72 X 30 cm.Subject: FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983) Summary: Text: 'First Contact between Australian explorers and the people of the New Guinea Highlands in the 1930s. An Australian documentary incorporating footage from the actual expeditions into unexplored territory./"Our own dead have turned white and come back"'.
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First contact strikes gold in Australian Film Review (Jun 9-22 1983) vol.1 iss.9 p.14
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FIRST CONTACT [TV] : (AT, 2014)
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Hello, he lied : and other truths from the Hollywood trenches / Lynda Obst Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 1997.
Call No: 81OBS OBSAuthor: Obst, Lynda Rosen Place: Pymble, N.S.W.Publisher: HarperCollinsPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: HOLLYWOOD ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; PRODUCERS ; PRODUCING ; STUDIOS, FILM. USA ; OBST, LYNDA ; BAD GIRLS (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1994) ; CONTACT (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1997) ; FISHER KING, THE (US, Terry Gilliam, 1991) ; SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (US, Nora Ephron, 1993) Summary: Welcome to the world of Hollywood - a constantly spinning cyclone of glamour, money, and gossip where there is no glossary and people play by rules discernible only to those on the inside. It is a world that Lynda Obst, one of the most successful producers in Hollywood today, entered two decades ago as a neophyte and where through resolve, determination, and quick wit, she has been able to produce some of today's biggest movies, including The Fisher King and Sleepless in Seattle.
Now in Hello, He Lied, Lynda Obst takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of her world - onto sound stages with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, inside meetings with David Geffen and Peter Guber, on location in New York City with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer, and into negotiations over The Hot Zones. She shares what she has learned in over twenty years in the business, about how to pitch an idea, impress a suit, win a bidding war over a hot script, and massage egos, as well as the all consuming issue of how to dress on location, what to say to skittish directors, where to eat lunch - whether in New York, LA, or a town you've never heard of - and most important, how to produce successful, critically acclaimed movies.Notes: First published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1996ISBN: 0732258618 : $16.95LON: abn97006410; 12942780
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Movie blockbusters / edited by Julian Stringer London: Routledge, 2003.
Call No: 721.303.311 STRAuthor: Stinger, Julian (ed.) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2003PhysDes: 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: BLOCKBUSTERS ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND ; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. KOREA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. ARGENTINA ; AWARDS. ACADEMY ; HOLLYWOOD ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; CAMERON, JAMES ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997) ; CONTACT (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1997) ; FUGITIVE, THE (US, Andrew Davis, 1993) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) Summary: Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience: is this what – or all – blockbusters are? Movie Blockbuster brings together leading film scholars to consider this most high-profile and culturally significant genre. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives, the book traces how and why the ‘even movie’ has played such a large role in popular imagination, tracing a path from the spectacles of the silent era to the effects-laden mega-hits of the digital age.ISBN: 0415256097
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NORTHERN TERRITORY CONTACT : (AT, Ian Walker, 1981)
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NORTHERN TERRITORY CONTACT 3 : (AT, Ian Walker, 1981)
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Oscar faces an OZ invasion in Video Age (Apr 1984) vol.3 iss.4 p.20-21, 65
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Oz film scores at Int'l festivals in Australasian Cinema (15/4/1983) vol.12 iss.6 p.4
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Point of contact in Sunday Herald Sun [TV Guide] (27/11/2016) p.1
Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; FIRST CONTACT [TV] (AT, 2014)Author: Vickery, Colin PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: FIRST CONTACT [TV] (AT, 2014) Summary: Interview with Natalie Imbruglia, an actor who took part in the reality tv documentary show FIRST CONTACT
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Prejudice confronted in Weekend Australian [Review] (26/11/2016) p.23
Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; FIRST CONTACT [TV] (AT, 2014)Author: Blundell, Graeme PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: FIRST CONTACT [TV] (AT, 2014) Summary: Review of the latest series of the documentary/reality tv show FIRST CONTACT, where six caucasian Australians are placed amongst Indigenous communities around the country
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Shorts in Australian Film Review (Nov 10-23 1983) vol.1 iss.20 p.36
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Shorts - First Contact in Australian Film Review (Apr 14-27 1983) vol.1 iss.5 p.16
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Smart chicks on screen : representing women's intellect in film and television / edited by, Laura Mattoon D'Amore Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, c2014.
Call No: 626:396SMAAuthor: Duncan, Stephen R. ; Meade, Melissa ; Chinen Biesen, Sheri ; Levitt, Linda ; Whitney, Allison ; Feroli, Mikaela ; Reese, De Anna J. ; Tally, Margaret ; Campbell, Raewyn ; Stone, Amanda ; Berstein, Rachel S. Source: USPlace: LanhamPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: c2014PhysDes: 245 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Film and HistorySubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN ON TV ; FEMININITY IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; CONTACT (AT, Bentley Dean & Martin Butler, 2009) ; MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007) ; GREY'S ANATOMY [TV] (US, 2005-) ; GIRLS [TV] (US, 2012) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950) ; BIG BANG THEORY, THE [TV] (US, 2007-) ; ELEMENTARY [TV] (US, 2012-) Summary: While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out of line with reality. Women continue to be marginalized for their choices, overshadowed by men, and judged by their bodies. In fact, the intelligence of women is rarely the focus of television or film narratives, and on the rare occasion when smart women are showcased, their portrayals are undermined by socially awkward behavior or their intimate relationships are doomed to perpetual failure. While Hollywood claims to offer a different, more evolved look at women, these movies and shows often just repackage old character types that still downplay the intelligence and savvy of women.
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women’s Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D’Amore brings together an impressive array of scholarship that interrogates the portrayal of females on television and in movies. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: In what ways are women in film and television limited, or ostracized, by their intelligence? How do female roles reinforce standards of beauty, submissiveness, and silence over intellect, problem solving, and leadership? Are there women in film and television who are intelligent without also being objectified?
The thirteen essays by international, interdisciplinary scholars offer a wide range of perspectives, examining the connections—and disconnections—between beauty and brains in film and television. Smart Chicks on Screen will be of interest to scholars not only of film and television but of women’s studies, reception studies, and cultural history, as well. -- [Extract taken from the back of book]Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781442237476Contents: 1.Not Just Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Miss-)Uses of Hollywood's Dumb Blonde Image / Stephen R. Duncan -- 2.The Fuzzy End of the Lollypop: Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like It Hot / Melissa Meade -- 3.Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film Noir / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- 4.Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in 1950s B-Movies / Linda Levitt -- 5."The High Priestess of the Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in Contact / Allison Whitney -- 6.Mad Men's Peggy Olson: A Prefeminist Champion in a Postfeminist TV Landscape / Stefania Marghitu -- 7.A Deeper Cut: Enlightened Sexism and Grey's Anatomy / Mikaela Feroli -- 8."There Is No Genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Rewriting of Gender and Intelligence on CBS's Elementary / Natasha Patterson -- 9.Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, and Power in Hollywood / De Anna J. Reese -- 10. Postfeminism, Sexuality, and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls / Margaret J. Tally -- 11. I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man!: Female Nerds and the Order of Discourse / Raewyn Campbell -- 12.Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory / Amanda Stone -- 13.Too Smart for Their Own Good?: Images of Young Jewish Women in Television and Film / Rachel S. Bernstein
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STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT : (US, Jonathan Frakes, 1996)
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Women directors dominate 1983 Greater Union Awards in Australasian Cinema (13/5/1983) vol.12 iss.8 p.1
PhysDes: ArticleSubject: GREATER UNION ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; DANCE OF DEATH (AT, Dennis Tupicoff, 1983 ) ; PEEL (AT, Jane Campion, 1982) ; STATIONS (AT, Jackie McKimmie, 1983) ; SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (AT, Helen Grace, 1983) ; FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983) ; LION IN THE DOORWAY, THE (AT, John Pradhubodh Walker, 1983) ; MORE TRICKS THAN WE HAVE (AT, Cinemedia, 1982) ; THREE HORSEMEN (AT, David & Judith MacDougall, 1982) Summary: Article on the films nominated for the Greater Union Awards for Australian Short Films, with a high percentage being dircted by women.
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[XIA DAO GAO FEI] FULL CONTACT : (HK, Ringo (Ling-Tung) Lam, 1993)
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