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subject clippings file		CRIMINALS IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS More info
book		The great gangster pictures / by James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts ; editor, T. Allan Taylor ; research associates, John Robert Cocchi ... [et al.]. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Call No: 734.2 PAR Author: Parish, James Robert; Pitts, Michael R Place: Metuchen, NJ Publisher: Scarecrow Press PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: viii, 431 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS; GANGSTER FILMS Summary: Early Gangster films ISBN: 081080811 More info
book		Imagined landscapes : geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell and Stephen Carleton Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. Call No: 756(94) STA Author: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen Source: US Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cm Series: The spatial humanities Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NORTHERN TERRITORY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DAWN, NORMAN; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE, THE (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2008); RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011); SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009); VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (AT, Jonathon Auf Der Heide, 2009); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Summary: "Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which Asutralian space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identifu patterns of represnetation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated prespective on the translation of space across narraitve forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER ISBN: 9780253018458 Contents: Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries -- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography -- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone -- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time -- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land -- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown More info
book		More than night : film noir in its contexts / James Naremore Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998. Call No: 734.1 NAR Author: Naremore, James Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 13441055 More info
book		The new film history : sources, methods, approaches / edited by James Chapman, Mark Glancy and Sue Harper Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Call No: 70 (04) CHA Author: Chapman, James and Glancy, Mark and Harper, Sue Source: UK Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xi, 256p. : 23cm. Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; SCRIPTWRITERS; MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (US, Peter Weir, 2003); NOW, VOYAGER (US, Irving Rapper, 1942); GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); WICKER MAN, THE (UK, Robin Hardy, 1973); FONDA, JANE; BERGMAN, INGMAR Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:; Gone with the wind (1939) and the lost cause : a critical view / Melvyn Stokes; History and representation : the case of 1970s British cinema / Sue Harper 27; Gallipoli (1981) : 'a poignant search for national identity' / Mark Connelly 41; 'This ship is England' : history, politics and national identity in Master and commander : the far side of the world (2003) / James Chapman 55; Art in context : British film design of the 1940s / Laurie Ede 73; The author as author : restoring the screenwriter to British film history / Andrew Spicer 89; When 'Hanoi Jane' conquered Hollywood : Jane Fonda's films and activism, 1977-81 / Peter Kramer 104; The politics of the swashbuckler / Jeffrey Richards 119; The Stalinist musical / Richard Taylor 137; Now, voyager (1942) : melodrama then and now / Martin Shingler 152; From gangsta to gangster : the hood film's criminal allegiance with Hollywood / Jonathan Munby 166; Blackmail (1929), Hitchcock and film nationalism / Mark Glancy 185; British cinema, American reception : Black Narcissus (1947) and the legion of decency / Sarah Street 201; Studying cross-cultural marketing and reception : Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) / Ingrid Stigsdotter, and Tim Bergfelder 215; The wicker man (1973) email digest : a case study in Web ethnography / Justin Smith 229 ISBN: 9780230001695 Language: English More info
book		Phallic panic : film horror and the primal uncanny / Barbara Creed Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, c2005. Call No: 735.21 CRE Author: Creed, Barbara Source: AT Place: Carlton, Vic Publisher: Melbourne University Press PubDate: c2005 PhysDes: xix, 232 p. : ill, ports ; 21cm Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FRANKENSTEIN; FREDDY KREUGER IN FILMS; GHOSTS IN FILMS; HORROR FILM; JACK THE RIPPER IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; VAMPIRE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WERWOLVES IN FILMS Summary: In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity, through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire, mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity, and what it means to a society. Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-224; Filmography: p.212-214; Includes index ISBN: 052285172 More info

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