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101 sci-fi movies you must see before you die / general editor Steven Jay Schneider Sydney: ABC Books, c2009.
Call No: 735.1 ONEAuthor: Schneider ,Steven Jay (ed.) Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: ABC BooksPubDate: c2009PhysDes: 416 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 16 cmSubject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: "Lists "must-see" science fiction movies in a chronological arrangement, providing information on director, producer, screenplay writer, music, and cast members, along with a review of each." -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA
"Voyage to the moon -- Metropolis -- Back to the Future -- Things to Come -- The Day the Earth Stood Still -- Forbidden Planet -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- The Incredible Shrinking Man -- La Jetée -- Children of Men -- Aelita -- Gojira -- Alphaville -- Planet of the Apes -- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- It Came From Outer Space -- A Clockwork Orange -- Solaris -- Sleeper -- La Planete Sauvage -- The Man Who Fell to Earth -- Star Wars -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- Stalker -- Alien -- The Empire Strikes Back -- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -- The Thing -- Blade Runner -- Videodrome -- Return of the Jedi -- The Terminator -- Brazil -- The Quiet Earth -- The Fly -- Aliens -- Akira -- Total Recall -- Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Jurassic Park -- Independence Day -- Tetsuo -- The Matrix -- The Fifth Element -- Gattaca -- Logan's Run -- THX 1138 -- Open your eyes -- Dune -- TRON" -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: "A Quintessence book" -- Title page verso; Includes index.ISBN: 9780733324956Contents: -- Introduction -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- The 2000s -- Index -- Contributors -- Picture credits --
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200 movies & discussions : (series 2) / Peter Malone Melbourne: Chevalier Press, 1975.
Call No: F53 MALAuthor: Malone, Peter Source: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Chevalier PressPubDate: 1975PhysDes: ca. ; 22 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ISBN: 869400045
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5001 nights at the movies : an a-z film guide for cinema, tv and video viewers / Pauline Kael London: Arrow Books, 1987.
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Abel Ferrara / Nicole Brenez ; translated from the French by Adrian Martin Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Call No: 81FER BREAuthor: Brenez, Nicole Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSeries: Contemporary film directors / edited by Jame NaremoreSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; CRITICISM ; FERRARA, ABEL Notes: Includes filmography (pp. [173]-191).
Includes bibliographical references (pp. [193]-197) and index.ISBN: 9780252074110 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 13
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Adaptation theory and criticism : postmodern literature and cinema in the USA / by Gordon E. Slethaug New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Call No: 753.1(73) SLEAuthor: Slethaug, Gordon E. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 2014PhysDes: vi, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject: ADAPTATIONS ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; USA ; THEORY ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (US, Fred Schepisi, 1993) ; SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; GANGS OF NEW YORK (GG/IT/US, Martin Scorsese, 2002) ; GREAT GATSBY, THE (US/AT, Baz Luhrmann, 2013) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; SMOKE (US, Wayne Wang, 1995) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; BROKEN FLOWERS (US, Jim Jarmusch, 2005) ; SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (US, Rupert Sanders, 2012) ; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937) Summary: "Exploring Hollywood feature films as well as small studio productions, Adaptation Theory and Criticism provides the reader with an informative background on adaptation theory and postmodern methodology and includes eight case studies on more than a dozen American films, some of which have been used before (Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, The Great Gatsby, and Do the Right Thing) and some that have received less consideration (Six Degrees of Seperation, Smoke, Smoke Signals, Broken Flowers, and various Snow White narratives including Enchanted, Mirrir Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman. Useful for both film and literary studies, Gordon Slethaug's Adaptation theory and criticism cogently combines existing scholarship with new theories and insights, encouraging readers to think about intertextual connections between literature and film in the USA." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and indexISBN: 9781623564407Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- introduction -- 1.Modernism/postmodernism and origin/intertextual play in adaptation theory -- Modernism: High culture, poetic genius, and influence -- Postmodernism: Textuality, intertextuality, pastiche/bricolage, freeplay, and interculturalism -- 2.Adaptation, surplus value, and supplementation in Six Degrees of Separation and Short Cuts -- Surplus, supplementation, and transformation in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation -- E Pluribus Unum: Raymond Carver's fiction and Robert Altman's Short Cuts -- 3.Intertextual doubling in The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, and The Great Gatsby -- Tribalization as intertextual symptom: Scorcese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York -- Ironized intertextuality: The Age of Innocence and The Great Gatsby -- 4.Freeplay, citation, and ethnocriticism: Single and multiple sources in Smoke Signals, SMOKE, and Do the Right Thing --
-- Ethnocriticism and adaptation: Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals -- From Lee to Auster and Wang: Postmodern indeterminacy and racial relations in Do the Right Thing and SMOKE -- Beyond Auster's short story: Do the Right Thing and SMOKE -- 5.Palimpsests and bricolage: Playful and serious citation in Broken Flowers and Snow White's offspring -- Palimpsest, play, and the myth of filiation in Broken Flowers: Clues, signs, and referential mania -- Snow White's offspring: The hyper-palimpsest -- 6.Conclusion -- works cited -- index --
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After taste : cultural value and the moving image / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.
Call No: 62(04) AFTSource: KPlace: AbingdonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2012PhysDes: viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm.Subject: B-MOVIES ; CRITICISM ; RECEPTION ; AMATEUR FILMS ; LOW BUDGET FILMS ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and unworthy films – this trend has been evident in various formats: on television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films, amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste.
More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and teaching of ‘bad objects’ in the media. This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of ‘after taste’ media. Addressing global and local developments – from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western Django – the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic and political value of the moving image.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780415845939Contents: 1. Introduction: after taste: cultural value and the moving image / Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis -- Part I: Critical methods and approaches. 2. `An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema / Adrian Martin -- 3. Hollywood: bad cinema's bad `other' / Jane Mills -- 4. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: towards a phenomenology of bad film / Jane Stadler -- 5. Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! through time: historicizing value judgement / Julia Vassilieva -- Part II: Taste and value. 6. Transitional tastes: teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight / Lisa Bode -- 7. `Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight / Simon Sellars -- 8. Making the commercial personal: the authorial value of Jerry Bruckheimer television / Tom Steward -- 9. Blowing chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice / Scott Wilson -- Part III: Feeling and affect. 10. Labours of love: home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship / Minette Hillyer -- 11. Dead time: cinema, Heidegger, and boredom / Richard Misek -- Part IV: Teaching bad objects forum. 12. Teaching bad objects: introduction / Jodi Brooks -- 13. The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object / Jodi Brooks -- 14. Beyond good/should/bad: teaching Australian Indigenous film and television / Therese Davis -- 15. Teaching Australian television studies / Belinda Smaill.
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Afterimage [London]: Afterimage Pub.,
Call No: held no.1-12 Apr. 1970-Oct. 1985; -- IN STORAGE. OVERNIGHT RETRIEVALCorpAuthor: Afterimage (London, England)Source: UKPlace: [London]Publisher: Afterimage Pub.PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM Notes: Description based on: no. 10 (autumn 1981); title from coverISSN: 0261-4472LON: 82643316; 2374042
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Agnes Varda between film, photography, and art / by Rebecca J. DeRoo Oakland, California: University of California Press, c2018.
Call No: 81VAR DERAuthor: DeRoo, Rebecca J. Source: USPlace: Oakland, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c2018PhysDes: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: FILM ; CRITICISM ; FEMININITY IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; FRANCE ; VARDA, AGNES ; POINTE COURTE, LA (FR, Agnes Varda, 1954) ; BONHEUR, LE (FR, Agnes Varda, 1965) ; ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (FR/BE, Agnes Varda, 1977) ; DAGUERREOTYPES (FR/G, Agnes Varda, 1978) Summary: "Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different media, she is a figure who defies easy categorization. In this extensively researched book, Rebecca J. DeRoo demonstrates how Varda draws upon the histories of art, photography, and film to complicate the overt narratives in her works and to advance contemporary cultural politics. Based on interviews with Varda and unparalleled access to Varda's archives, this interdisciplinary study constructs new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture. " -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9780520279414Contents: -- Acknowledgments -- Reinterpreting Varda: the mother of the new wave reframes its histories -- Complicating neorealism and the new wave: La Pointe Courte -- Filmic and feminist strategies: questioning ideals of happiness in Le Bonheur -- Reconsidering contradictions: feminist politics and the musical genre in L'une Chante, L'autre Pas -- The limits of documentary: identity and urban transformation in daguerreotypes -- Melancholy and merchandise: documenting and displaying widowhood in L'iIe Et Elle -- Varda now: autobiography, memory, and retrospective -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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The altering eye : contemporary international cinema / Robert Phillip Kolker Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Call No: 62 KOLAuthor: Kolker, Robert Phillip Source: USPlace: OxfordPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1983PhysDes: 428 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC Summary: " Most filmmakers, especially in the United States, have chosen not to upset their audiences. But since World War 2, an alternative cinema has emerged on a significant scale, particularly in Europe and Latin America- a cinema that challenges rather than soothes, that questions assumptions rather than reinforces them. This kind of film - "made in a spirit of resistance, rebellion, and refusal" - is the focus of this important and stimulating study. Investigating many movements and styles, Robert Phillip Kolker illuminates both their diversity and their common threads. He starts with the seminal achievements of the Italian neo-realists (Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti), examining the filmmakers who influenced them and their influence in turn on later filmmakers in Engalnd, Brazil, India and Europe. He looks at the modernist experiments of Resnais and Antonioni and pays special attention to the directors of the French New Wave (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette), who broke down the remaining traditions of cinematic storytelling and invented new ones.
With deftness and clarity, Kolker discusses the New Wave's influence on such older directors as Bresson and Bunuel, as well as on younger ones, such as Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, and Jean-Marie Straub. He investigates the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog, filmmakers who have furthered the effort to make cinema a tool of enquiry and visual invention. He concludes with a look at specific political and psychological elements in contemporary film, particularly in the work of revolutionary Latin American filmmakers, the Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, as well as Godard, Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Losey, and Bunuel." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 405-415ISBN: 0195033027Contents: -- introduction -- one: the vaildity of image -- two: the substance of form -- three: politics, psychology, and memory -- notes -- bibliography -- index --URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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America's Film Legacy : the authoritative guide to the landmark movies in the National Film Registry / by Daniel Eagan New York : London: Continuum, 2010.
Call No: 71(73) EAGAuthor: Eagan, Daniel Source: USPlace: New York : LondonPublisher: ContinuumPubDate: 2010PhysDes: xxvii, 818 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: BEST FILMS ; BEST FILMS. US ; CRITICISM ; FILM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ; USA Summary: "America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, and Toy Story. Others are more obscure - Blacksmithing Scene, Mom and Dad, Chulas Fronteras, and Free Radicals. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.
Each of the 500 titles in the National Film Registry is covered in a detailed essay that includes cast, credits, and major awards, as well as screening information. With over 100 illustrations and frame enlargements. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIPISBN: 9780826429773Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- how to read the entries -- the 500 films, in chronological order -- an alphabetical list of the films -- the 500 films --
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Another cinema for another society / Gaston Roberge Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1985.
Call No: 408.1(540) ROBAuthor: Roberge, Gaston Source: IIPlace: CalcuttaPublisher: Seagull BooksPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; RAY, SATYAJIT ; WELLES, ORSON ; BRON, PETER ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927) Summary: "Father Gaston Roberge, Director of Chitrabani, a Calcutta-based institution involved in development communication, and a media critic in his own right, with five title to his credit already, proposes, in his latest work, a militant programme... for another cinema committed to the building up of another society.' He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics, with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles, and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema" -Book blurbISBN: 0861320751Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Preface -- Part one: cinema -- Introduction: a militant programme -- What is it in cinema that makes it cinema -- Montage: the formative principle -- An anthropology of the cinema -- An exercise in film appreciation or the magnificent Andre Bazin -- Author-ity, text-uality and read-in(g) -- Part two: society -- The end of a film era -- Nine and one facts and not a few illusions -- Of many movies and some words to talk about them -- Films for social change -- Politics in film -- The politics of non-political cinema -- The cultural and social influence of foreign films -- History through films and filmed history -- Conclusion -- Film education for a new movie-man -- index
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Around cinemas / by James Agate [London]: Home & Van Thal, 1946.
Call No: 67(04) AGAAuthor: Agate, James, 1877-1947 Place: [London]Publisher: Home & Van ThalPubDate: 1946PhysDes: 280 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cmSubject: CRITICISM Notes: Includes indexLON: abn85004132; 3672766
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Around cinemas (second series) / by James Agate [London]: Home & Van Thal, 1948.
Call No: 67(04) AGAAuthor: Agate, James, 1877-1947 Place: [London]Publisher: Home & Van ThalPubDate: 1948PhysDes: 284 p., [1] leaf of plate : port. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM Notes: Includes indexLON: abn84005629; 3013835
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Australian film theory and criticism : volume 1 critical positions / Noel King / Constantine Verevis / Deane Williams Bristol, UK; Chicago: Intellect, 2013-.
Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 1)Author: King, Noel ; Verevis, Constantine ; Williams, Deane Source: UK/USPlace: Bristol, UK; ChicagoPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2013-PhysDes: xii, 174 pages ; 24 cmSeries: Australian film theory and criticismSubject: CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM Summary: The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies. Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, people, and institutions across this influential period, contributors examine a multitude of books and journal articles published in Australia and distributed internationally. They offer important insights about the origins of Australian film theory and its relationship to the related disciplines of art history, performance art, and digital media.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and appendix.ISBN: 9781841505817 (v. 1) -- 9781783200375 (v. 2)Contents: Volume 1 -- Preface / Patrice Petro --
Introduction: Chapter one: Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams --; Part one: Institutions -- Chapter two: Film Theory Goes to Australia / Constantine Verevis -- Chapter three: Writing the Australian Film Revival / Constantine Verevis --; Part two: Personnel -- Chapter four: Cultural Mobility and Film Studies in Australia 1975-1990 / Noel King --; Part three: Criticism -- Chapter five: Shifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History / Deane Williams -- Chapter six: Australian Film Theory and Criticism and Cultural Studies / Deane Williams --; Conclusion -- Chapter seven: Contemporary Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams. --
Volume Two -- Introduction: Serious film studies and magpies / Noel King and Deane Williams -- Part I: Brisbane -- "From 'pictures' to formats" / Albert Moran interviewed by Noel King -- "Everyone's go their favourite periods of Cunningham's career, and it's always something before the present!" / Stuart Cunningham interiewed by Noel King -- "For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies" / Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King -- "The circulation of ideas" / Tom O'Regan interviewed by Deane Williams -- "We just thought we were unstoppable" / Colin and Jane Crisp interviewed by Noel King -- "I loved best when really practical solutions had to be found for artistic problems" / Jonathan Dawson interviewed by Noel King -- Part II: Melbourne -- "Early on I'd been an inveterate attender of Saturday matinees" / Mick Counihan interviewed by Noel King -- "Ye, but it never entered my head that it would ever become a field as such ..." / Barbara Creed interviewed by Deane Williams -- "This is all part of the historical process" / Ina Bertrand interviewed by Deane Williams --
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Australian film theory and criticism : volume 2 interviews / [edited by] Noel King and Deane Williams Bristol; Chicago: Intellect Books, 2014.
Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 2)Source: UK/USPlace: Bristol; ChicagoPublisher: Intellect BooksPubDate: 2014PhysDes: viii, 411 pages ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA Summary: "A three-volume project tracing critical positions, people, and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates both the the origins of Australian film theory and its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. This second volume gathers interviews with national and international film theorists and critics to chart the development of different discourses in Australian film studies through the decades. Seeking to examine the position of film theoriests and their relationship to film industry practitioners and policy-makers, it looks to assert Australian film's place on the international scholarly agenda." -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9781783200375Contents: Volume Two -- Introduction: Serious film studies and magpies / Noel King and Deane Williams -- Part I: Brisbane -- [Albert Moran, Stuart Cunningham, Graeme Turner, Tom O'Regan, Colin Crisp and Jane Crisp, Jonathan Dawson / interviewed by Noel King] -- Part II: Melbourne [Mick Counihan / interviewed by Noel King -- Barbara Creed, Ina Bertrand, Sam Rohdie, Lesley Stern, Bill Routt, Adrian Martin / interviewed by Deane Williams] -- Part III: Sydney and Newcastle [Ross Gibson / interviewed by Deane Williams -- Meaghan Morris / interviewed by Lauren Bliss -- David Boyd / interviewed by Noel King] -- Part IV: Adelaide and Perth [Brian Shoesmith, Noel Purdon / interviewed by Noel King -- Toby Miller / interviewed by Deane Williams] -- Part V: UK and USA [Paul Willemen, Dana Polan / interviewed by Deane Williams -- Manuel Alvarado, Colin MacCabe, Edward Buscombe, Michael Eaton, Jim Kitses / interviewed by Noel King]
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Australian national cinema / Tom O'Regan London New York: Routledge, 1996.
Call No: 408.1(94) ORECopy Management: 2 copiesAuthor: O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1996PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cmSeries: National cinemas seriesSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-391) and indexesISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302LON: 12193364Contents: 1. Introducing Australian national cinema -- 2. Theorizing Australian cinema -- 3. A national cinema -- 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema -- 5. Formations of value -- 6. Making meaning -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Unity -- 9. Negotiating cultural transfers -- 10. A distinct place in the cinema -- 11. Problematizing the social -- 12. Problematizing gender -- 13. Problematizing nationhood -- 14. Critical dispositions.
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Authorship and criticism / by Dugald Williamson Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1989.
Call No: 621 WILAuthor: Williamson, Dugald Edition: [2nd ed.]Place: SydneyPublisher: Local Consumption PublicationsPubDate: 1989PhysDes: 98 p. ; 21 cmSeries: Critical categories series ; no. 1Subject: AUTHORSHIP ; CRITICISM ; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; WEIR, PETER Notes: Previous ed.: Sydney : Local Consumption Publication, [1986?]; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 89-94ISBN: 0949793167 (pbk.) : $10.00LON: anb94979316; 6320460
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Avengers assemble! : critical perspectives on the Marvel cinematic universe / by Terence McSweeney London: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press, c2018.
Call No: 753.5 MSCAuthor: McSweeney, Terence Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University PressPubDate: c2018PhysDes: vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: SUPERHEROES IN FILMS ; HEROS IN FILMS ; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT ; IRON MAN (US, Jon Favreau, 2008) ; IRON MAN 2 (US, Jon Favreau, 2010) ; THOR (US, Kenneth Branagh, 2011) ; INCREDIBLE HULK, THE (US, Louis Leterrier, 2008) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA : THE FIRST AVENGER (US, Joe Johnston, 2011) ; AVENGERS, THE (US, Joss Whedon, 2012) ; IRON MAN 3 (US/ C, Shane Black, 2013) ; THOR: THE DARK WORLD (US, Alan Taylor, 2013) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (US, Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2014) ; GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (US/UK, James Gunn, 2014) ; ANT-MAN (US, Peyton Reed, 2015) ; AVENGERS : AGE OF ULTRON (US, Joss Whedon, 2015) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (US, Anthony Russo/Joe Russo, 2016) Summary: "We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel cinematic universe, this book asks, "Why has the superhero genre reemerged so emphatically in recent years?" In an age where people have stopped going to the cinema as frequently as they used to, they returned to it in droves for the superhero film. What is it about these films that has resonated with audiences all around the globe? Are they just disposable pop culture artifacts or might they have something interesting to say about the fears and anxieties of the world we live in today? Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of the era in which they were made." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9780231186254Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: 1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it ... and it's worked out pretty well so far' : The Stark doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 -- 2. Allegorical narratives of gods and monsters : Thor and The Incredible Hulk -- 3. State fantasy and the superhero : (Mis)remembering World War II in Captain America : The First Avenger -- 4. 'Seeing ... still working on believing!' : The ethics and aesthetics of destruction in The Avengers -- 5. 'Nothing's been the same since New York' : Ideological continuity and change in Iron Man 3 and Thor : The Dark World -- 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back' : The illusory moral ambiguities of the Post-9/11 superhero in Captain America : The Winter Soldier -- 7. Blurring the boundaries of genre and gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man -- 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?' : The enduring American monomyth in Avengers : Age of Ultron -- 9. 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?' : The MCU on the small screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter -- 10. The necessary vigilantism of the defenders : Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
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Becoming visionary : Brian De Palma's cinematic education of the senses / Eyal Peretz, with a foreword by Stanley Cavell Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Call No: 630 PERAuthor: Peretz, Eyal Source: USPlace: Stanford, CaliforniaPublisher: Stanford University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xvii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Cultural memory in the presentSubject: CRITICISM ; DE PALMA, BRIAN Summary: "How is one to think about the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our understanding of film, on the one hand, and of philosophy and the philosophical tradition, on the other? These are the questions that guide this project on the hirtherto critically neglected but seminal film director Brian De Palma. Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses is located at the intersection of philosophy and film studies, and makes each of these disciplines productive and useful for the other in a new way. It is a concrete examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist and, at the same time, a general philosophical examination of the logic of meaning governing all the major filmic categories, thus providing a comprehensive theory of film. Becoming Visionary develops a new matrix for thinking about the relationship between philosophy and film and, by extension, betweeen philosophy and the arts. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-220) and indexISBN: 9780804756853Contents: Foreword: On Eyal Peretz's Becoming Visionary / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction: The Realm of the Senses and the Vision of the Beyond - Toward a New Thinking of the Image -- 1. Carrie - Film and the Wounding of Representation -- 2. Between Paranoia and Passion - Questioning the Frame and the Screen in The Fury -- 3. Film and the Memory of the Outside: Or, Cinema as Technology, Cinema as Pornography, Cinema as Scream - Blow Out -- Coda: For a New Enlightenment: Femme Fatale, A Paradoxical Happy Ending; or, The Idea of a Future.
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Birth of the binge : serial TV and the end of leisure Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2019.
Author: Dennis Broe Edition: Broe, DennisSource: USPlace: Detroit, MichiganPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: xiii, 297 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and media seriesSubject: TELEVISION ; CRITICISM Summary: "Broe's book is scholarship that matters: he diagnoses our addictive era of 'binge TV' while highlighting possibilities for resistance. Connecting multiple aspects of the current television industry--from its pumped-up levels of sex and violence to its influence on neural and relational patterns--to the rise of the neoliberal state, Broe dismantles the illusion that television's 'post-network era' offers new freedom to the consumer. The genius of this book comes in its dizzying sweeps from one medium to another: he convinces us that serial narrative is one of the dominant narrative forms in Western mass culture, charts its aesthetic and industrial complexity, and celebrates television auteurs like Joss Whedon, J.J. Abrams, and Jane Campion, whose progressive serial narratives provide us with 'a more social and more coherent representation of an ever more perilous reality." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliography and indexISBN: 9780814345269Language: EnglishDonation: Senses of CinemaContents: Introduction -- 1. Metaseriality -- 2. Serial specificity -- 3. Serial auteurs and the possibilities of industrial resistance
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Bollywood in Britain : cinema, brand, discursive complex / by Lucia Kramer New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing, 2016.
Call No: 71(540/41) KRAAuthor: Kramer, Lucia Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg PublishingPubDate: 2016PhysDes: viii, 286 pages ; 24cmSubject: BOLLYWOOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. UK ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; ADAPTATIONS ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. INDIA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA Summary: "Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. Kramer analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, showing how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and discussing the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts including film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Hindi film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering"-- BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781501307614Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 2: What is 'Bollywood'? -- 3: Popular Indian Cinema in Britain - Facts and Figures -- 4: Britain and Indian Diaspora Films - Questions of Nostalgia -- 5: Beyond Films - The Development of the Bollywood Brand -- 6: the (trans)difference of Bollywood : British asians through the lens of 'Bollywood Star' -- 7: representations of the Hindi film industry in British first-hand reports -- 8: the changing image of Bollywood in British film reviews -- 9: Bollywood Adaptations -- 10: Conclusion -- notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index --
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The book of movie lists : an offbeat, provocative collection of the best and worst of everything in movies / Joseph McBride Lincolnwood, Ill.: Contemporary Books, c1999.
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The book of movie lists / by Gabe Essoe ; foreword by Ernest Borgnine Westport, Connecticut: Arlington House, 1981.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 03 ESS BOOAuthor: Essoe, Gabe Source: USPlace: Westport, ConnecticutPublisher: Arlington HousePubDate: 1981PhysDes: xiv, 240 p. : 23 cmSubject: BEST FILMS ; CRITICISM ; WORST FILMS ISBN: 0870004964Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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The book of the cinema / foreword by Francois Truffaut; a Chris Milsome book London: Artists House, 1979.
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"Bring on the Night" has a sting in it in Australasian Cinema (Friday, 8/8/1986) vol.14 iss.14 p.16
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Cahiers du Cinema : volume four, 1973-1978: history, ideology, cultural struggle : an anthology from Cahiers du Cinema nos 248-292, September 1973-September 1978 / edited by David Wilson; with an introduction by Berenice Reynaud London; New York: Routledge, British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 67(44) CAHSource: UK/USPlace: London; New YorkPublisher: Routledge, British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: xi, 323 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cahiers du Cinema selectionsSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; CRITICISM ; CAHIERS DU CINEMA ; ALAOUIE, BORHAN ; ALLIO, RENE ; DOUGLAS, JOHN ; FERRO, MARC ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; A TOUT ALLURE (FR, Robert Kramer, 1982) ; LITTIN, MIGUEL ; DUPONT LAJOIE (FR/IT, Yves Boisset, 1975) ; CHAMBRE VERT, LA (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1978) ; DERSU UZALA (UR/JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1975) ; INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975) ; KING KONG (US, John Guillermin, 1976) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; LACOMBE LUCIEN (FR/IT/GW, Louis Malle, 1974) ; KAFR KASSEM (LE/SY, Borhan Alaouié, 1973) ; MILESTONES (US, Robert Kramer & John Douglas, 1975) ; MOSES UND ARON (GW/FR/IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1975) ; NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975) ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) ; PORTIERE DI NOTTE, IL (IT, Liliana Cavani, 1974) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; SIX FOIS DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976) ; TIERRA PROMETIDA, LA (CL, Miguel Littin, 1973) ; XALA (SG, Ousmane Sembene, 1974) Summary: This volume covers the vibrant and turbulent period from 1973 to 1978, in which the issues of theory, history and politics dominated critical debate. The anthology combines essays by critics such as Pascal Bonitzer, Serge Daney and Therese Giraud; round-table discussions; reviews of contemporary films from Star Wars and King Kong to Padre Padrone and Jeanne Dielman; and interviews with leading theorists including Marc Ferro and Michel Foucault, presenting a rich sampler of Cahiers' provocative and indispensible contribution to debates in film and cultural politics. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 0415029880Contents: Introduction - Cahiers Du Cinema 1972-1978 - Berenice Reynaud -- Part I - Interventions and Cultural Politics -- Editorial - Cahiers Today - Cahiers du Cinema -- The Critical Function - Serge Daney -- A particular trend in French Cinema - Serge Daney, pascal Kane, Jean-Pierre Oudart, Serge Toubiana -- Round table on Chris Marker's Le Found de l'air est rouge - Jean-Paul Fargier, Therese Giraud, Sege Le Peron, Jean Narboni, Serge Daney -- Part II - Perspectives -- A matter of chance - Serge Toubiana -- Return of the same - Therese Giraud -- Theorize/terrorize - Godardian pedagogy -- On Sur et sous la communication: three questions on Six fois deux - Gilles Deleuze -- Family, history, romance - Louis Seguin -- Round table: Milestones and us - Pascal Bonitzer, Dominique Villain, Serge Daney, Jean Narboni, Serge Le Peron, Therese Giraud, Serge Toubiana -- The Aquarium (Milestones) - Serge Daney -- Part III - Theory and History -- Anti-retro - Michel Foucault in interview with Pascal Bonitzer and Serge Toubiana -- I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother...by Rene Allio - Jean Jourdheuil, Serge Toubiana, Pascal Bonitzer, Rene Allio, Pascal Kane, Michel Foucault -- Defamations (fragments). Pretext: Karl May by H.-J. Syberberg - Jean-Pierre Oudart -- Cinema and history - Marc Ferro in interview with Serge Daney and Ignacio Ramonet -- Deframings - Pascal Bonitzer -- Cold Sex (on pornography and beyond) - Yann Lardeau -- Part IV - Third Cinema -- Our Cinema - Sidney Sokhona -- Interview with Abdelaziz Tolbi - Therese Giraud, Mohand Ben Salama -- The promised land - Serge Toubiana, Pascal Bonitzer -- The feminine eye of the Town (El Chergui) - Abdelwahab Meddeb -- Blood into sign - Jean Narboni -- Xala - Daniele Dubroux -- Part V - Reviews -- On Avanti - Pascale Kane -- An India and its other (India Song) - Pascal Bonitzer -- An uncanny familiarity (Jeanne Dielman) - Daniele Dubroux -- The sign and the ape (King Kong) - Serge Toubiana -- One more bear (Dersu Uzala) - Serge Daney -- Curdled milk (Padre padrone) - Daniele Dubroux -- America without fear or favour (Star Wars) - Serge Le Peron -- Francois Truffaut La Chambre verte - Pascal Bonitzer -- An active fear (The Passion of Joan of Arc) - Jean-Pierre Oudart -- Appendix: Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s
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The camera age : essays on television / Michael J Arlen Ringwood, Vic: Penguin Books, 1982.
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A casebook on film / Charles Thomas Samuels New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
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Channels of discourse : television and contemporary criticism / edited by Robert C. Allen Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
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Chick flicks : theories and memories of the feminist film movement / B. Ruby Rich Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Call No: 626:396 RICAuthor: Rich, B. Ruby Source: USPlace: Durham, NCPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: xix, 419 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; RICH, B. RUBY ; DAUGHTER RITE (US, Michelle Citron, 1979) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) Summary: "If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100 percent pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks- with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays - captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film crticism. Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in major national publications, and her commentaries on the public radio program "The World" have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems "cinefeminism." In the hope that a new generation of feminist film culture might be revitalized by reclaiming its own history, Rich introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose. Travel, softball, sex and voodoo all somehow fit into a book that includes classic Rich articles covering such topics as the antiporn movement, the films of Yvonne Rainer, a Julie Christie visit to Washington, and the historically evocative film Maedchen in Uniform. The result is a volume that traces the development not only of women's involvement in cinema but one of its key players as well. The first book-length work from Rich - whose stature and influence in the world of film criticism and theory continue to grow- Chick Flicks exposes unexplored routes and forgotten byways of a past that's recent enough to be remembered and far away enough to be memorable. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: A collection of the author's essays from the 1970s and 1980s; Includes indexISBN: 0822321211 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 98012052; 13736840Contents: acknowledgements -- preface: Jews without books xv, introduction p1 -- prologue. I found it at the movies p7-- 1: film in the sixties p13 -- prologue. Hippie chick in the Art World p19 -- 2: Carolee Schneemann's Fuses p27 -- prologue. Angst and Joy on the Women's Film Festival Circuit p29 -- 3: Leni Riefenstahl: the deceptive myth p40 -- prologue. Life, Death, and Tragic Homecoming p48 -- 4: Voodoo Verite: Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen p52 -- prologue. An Iguana, Some wolves, and the dawn of theory p57 -- 5: in the name of feminist film criticism p62 -- prologue. O brave new world p85 -- 6: One way or another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban experience p92 -- prologue. A women's declaration of secession from the avant-garde p103 -- 7: sex and the cinema p109 -- prologue. Love's labor lost p116 -- 8: Misconception: laboring under no illusions p121 -- prologue. Cows and hero-worship 125 -- 9: the films of Yvonne Rainer p129 -- prologue. Knokke-Heist and the Fury that was Edinburgh p156 -- 10: Designing desire: Chantal Akerman p169 -- prologue. Euphoria reclaims history p174 -- 11: From repressive tolerance to erotic liberation: Maedchen in Uniform p179 -- prologue. Softball, the goddess, and the lesbian film culture p207 -- 12: The right of re-vision: Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite p212 -- prologue, The allure of alchemy p220 -- 13: Femicide Investigation: Thriller p227 -- prologue. Sour Grapes p233 -- 14. She says, he says: the power of the narrator in modernist film politics p238 -- prologue. Sex, gender, and consumer culture p253 -- 15: Antiporn: soft issue, hard world (Not a Love Story?) p261 -- prologue. Unguided tours p274 -- 16: The feminist avant-garde p281 -- prologue. Attacking the sisters, or the limits of disagreement p386 -- 17: Cinemafeminism and its discontents p291 -- prologue. Libel threats and exile tactics p299 -- 18: Truth, faith and the individual: thoughts on U.S documentary film practice p305 -- Prologue. Disempoerment and the politics of rage p315 -- 19: Lady Killers: A question of silence p319 -- Prologue. Film star as outstanding human being p326 -- 20: Julie Christie goes to Washington p329 -- prologue: Blaming the victim p337 -- 21. Good girls, bad girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk p344 -- prologue. The berks and the sex wars p347 -- 22: Feminism and sexuality in the Eighties p350 -- Epilogue: charting the Eighties p376 -- notes p391 -- index 409 --
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The Cineaste interviews : on the art and politics of the cinema / Dan Georgakas, Lenny Rubenstein Chicago: Lake View Press, c1983.
Call No: 45:32 CINAuthor: Georgakas, Dan ; Rubenstein, Lenny CorpAuthor: CineasteSource: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: Lake View PressPubDate: c1983PhysDes: xiv, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; CANBY, VINCENT ; COSTA-GAVRAS, CONSTANTIN ; CRITICISM ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; FONDA, JANE ; GUTIERREZ ALEA, TOMAS ; LITTIN, MIGUEL ; MAKAVEJEV, DUSAN ; PARKS, GORDON ; PETRI, ELIO ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; PONTECORVO, GILLO ; Ray, Satyajit ; ROCHA, GLAUBER ; ROSI, FRANCESCO ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; SAYLES, JOHN ; SCHRADER, PAUL ; SCRIPTWRITERS ; SEMBENE, OUSMANE ; TAVERNIER, BERTRAND ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; Writers Guild of America ; VARDA, AGNES ; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ ; ZANUSSI, KRZYSZTOF Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0941702022 : $25.00LON: 2921398
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Cinema : Demonstrator in Lumiere (September-October 1971) iss.11 p.12
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Cinema : words, images and Godard in Lumiere (September, 1972) iss.16 p.6-7
Author: Lawson, Sylvia ; Rosser, Edward PhysDes: ArticleSubject: CRITICISM ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; [DEUX] 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; QUEEN OF DESTINY (UK, Herbert Wilcox, 1938) Summary: Reviews of Two or Three Things I Know About Her (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) and Sixty Glorious Years (UK, Herbert Wilcox, 1938)Notes: Sixty Glorious Years has been renamed Queen of Destiny
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The cinema 1951 / edited by Roger Manvell ; associate editor R.K. Neilson Baxter Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1951.
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Cinema approaching reality : locating Chinese film theory / Victor Fan Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Call No: 626(51) FANAuthor: Fan, Victoria Source: USPlace: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSubject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM. CHINA ; THEORY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. CHINA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. HONG KONG ; BAZIN, ANDRE Summary: Examines ways in which Chinese and Euro-American film theorists conceptualize reality and cinema. In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1940s. The result is an eye-opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew, especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn. -- taken from the publisher's siteNotes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography (253-255) and index.ISBN: 9780816693573Contents: Introduction -- Approaching reality: Chinese ontology and the potentiality of time -- Cinema of thought: directed consciousness in Chinese Marxist film theory -- Soft film theory: life in all its presence and concreteness -- Fey Mou: the presence of an absence -- Cinema of ideation, cinema of play: the early Cantonese sound film -- Conclusion
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Cinema de la cruaute. English : from Bunuel to Hitchcock / by Andre Bazin ; edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut ; translated by Sabine d' Estree with the assistance of Tiffany Fliss New York: Seaver Books, 1982.
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The cinema of Neil Jordan : dark carnival / Carole Zucker, foreword by Stephen Rea London: Wallflower, 2008.
Call No: 81JOR ZUCAuthor: Zucker, Carole Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xi, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Directors' cutsSubject: AESTHETICS ; CRITICISM ; JORDAN, NEIL Summary: " The most internationally renowned of Irish film directors, Neil Jordan's diverse work has spanned Gothic horror (The Company of Wolves, 1984, and Interview with the Vampire, 1994), Irish history (Michael Collins, 1996), literary adaptation (The End of the Affair, 1999) and sexual identity (The Crying Game, 1992, and breakfast on Pluto, 2005), while retaining a distinctive stylistic flair for fantasy and the carnivalesque. This volume discusses Jordan's entire output as part of the first comprehensive study of his career, looking beyond ideological and national concerns to view his films through the prism of Celtic folklore, fairy tales, the Gothic, romanticism and postmodernism. Incorporating discussion of Jordan's award-winning literary work and benefitting from extensive access to his personal archives, this book explains the mythic and poetic impulses that suffuse the director's work" -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-197) and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781905674411Contents: acknowledgements -- foreword by Stephen Rea -- introduction -- 1: Irish film/history and mythopoesis -- 2: celtic myth and folklore: a dimension beyond existence -- 3: storytelling and performance -- 4: postmodern fairy tales and hybrid genres -- 5: Neil Jordan, author: 'the ache for aliveness' -- 6: dark romaticism -- 7: the gothic: the moment of collapse -- 8: the end of the affair: 'this is a diary of hate' -- 9: fantastic voyage: recent works -- 10: coda: the brave one: 'there's plenty of ways to die' -- notes filmography -- bibliography -- index --
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Cinema of the fantastic / by Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Call No: 735 GOLAuthor: Goldblatt, Burt ; Steinbrunner, Chris Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Saturday Review PressPubDate: 1972PhysDes: 282 p. : illus. ; 26 cmSubject: FANTASY FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: "The bizarre and the outrageous, the horifying and the romantic, the make-believe and the futuristic are the special provinces of the fantasy film. In no other film category is the terrain so breathtakingly unfamiliar, and, to guide us through it, the authors of Cinema of the Fantastic spotlight fifteen classics of the genre.Featured are A Trip to the moon, Metropolis, Freaks, King Kong, The Black Cat, The Bride of Frankenstein, Mad Love, Flash Gordon, Things to Come, The Thief of Bagdad, Beauty and the Beast, The Thing from another world, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Forbidden Planet. Each film is generously illustrated with both studio stills and prints made from the original films. Each of these movie greats is a unique sample of the imaginary worlds of man as portrayed by the motion picture, from the early silents with their innovative trick photography to the monsters and necromancy of the thirties, to the enchanted escapist worlds of Beauty and the Beast and The Thief of Bagdad, and the invsions from outer space that exploited postwar anxieties about the achievements of science. Here, too, are the great cult films now rarely available for viewing - Freaks, the Flash Gordon serials, and Mad Love. Steinbrunner and Goldblatt trace the development of the techniques from which this form developed and bring to life the inspiring creativity of the writers, producers, and directors, actors, and actresses who established the cinema of the fantastic as a current movie staple. This book is a thorough and enthusiastic picture-and-text documention of major milestones of this fabulous specialty of cinematic art. " -BOOK JACKETISBN: 0841501831Contents: -- introductory note -- a trip to the moon -- metropolis -- freaks -- king kong -- the black cat -- the bride of frankenstein -- mad love -- flash gordon -- things to come -- the thief of bagdad -- beauty and the beast -- the thing -- twenty thousand leagues under the sea -- invasion of the body snatchers -- forbidden planet -- epilogue --
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The cinema of Wes Anderson : bringing nostalgia to life / by Whitney Crothers Dilley London New York: Wallflower Press, c2017.
Call No: 81AND DILAuthor: Dilley, Whitney Crothers Source: US/UKPlace: London New YorkPublisher: Wallflower PressPubDate: c2017PhysDes: vii, 246 pages ; 24 cmSeries: Directors' cutsSubject: CRITICISM ; ANDERSON, WES ; RUSHMORE (US, Wes Anderson, 1998) ; BOTTLE ROCKET (US, Wes Anderson, 1996) ; ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE (US, Wes Anderson, 2001) ; LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, THE (US, Wes Anderson, 2004) ; DARJEELING LIMITED, THE (US, Wes Anderson, 2007) ; FANTASTIC MR FOX (US/UK, Wes Anderson, 2009) ; MOONRISE KINGDOM (US, Wes Anderson, 2012) ; GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, THE (UK/G, Wes Anderson, 2014) Summary: "Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Through the travelogue The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and the stop-motion animation of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), his films examine issues of gender, race, and class through dysfunctional family dynamics, with particular focus on masculinity and male bonding. Anderson's auteur status is enriched by his fascination with Truffaut and the French New Wave, as well as his authorship of every one of his screenplays, drawing on influences as diverse as Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, and Stefan Zweig. Works such as Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) continue to fascinate with their postmodern, hyper-nostalgic attention to detail. This book explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century "indie" culture, and reveals why Wes Anderson is one of the most inventive filmmakers working in cinema today." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780231180696Contents: -- acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Wes Anderson as Auteur -- A History -- 2 Wes Anderson: His Position in American Cinema and Culture -- 3 Gender, Youth, and the Exploration of Masculinity in Bottle Rocket -- 4 "Sic Transit Gloria": Transgressing the Boundaries of Adolescence in Rushmore -- 5 The Interplay of Narrative Text, Language, and Film: Literary Influence and Intertextuality in The Royal Tenenbaums -- 6 Opposition and Resolution: The Dissonance of Celebrity in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou -- 7 Fragmentary Narratives/Incomplete Identities in The Darjeeling Limited -- 8 Adaptation and Homage: The World of Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr. Fox -- 9 Reconstitution of the "Family" and Construction of Normalized Gender in Moonrise Kingdom -- 10 Literary Influence and Memory: Stefan Zweig and The Grand Budapest Hotel -- 11 Wes Anderson's Short Films and Commercial Work -- conclusion : memory and narrative in the works of Wes Anderson -- filmography -- bibliography -- index --
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Cinema Sewer : the adults only guide to history's sickest and sexiest movies! / edited by Robin Bougie Surrey, England: FAB Press, 2016.
Call No: 722.81 CINAuthor: Bougie, Robin (ed.) Edition: Fourth editionSource: UKPlace: Surrey, EnglandPublisher: FAB PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmSeries: Cinema Sewer; 1Subject: PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM Summary: "A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, 'Cinema Sewer' joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and artist Robin Bougie dives deep to the bottom of the cesspool of horror and sexploitation , doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him infamous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans. The best of the first 12 long-out-of-print issues of the magazine have been exhaustively revised and collated here, along with almost 100 pages of never-before-seen material. " -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781903254455
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Cinephilia and history, or The wind in the trees / Christian Keathley Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Call No: 409 KEAAuthor: Keathley, Christian Source: USPlace: Bloomington INPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: xiv, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CINEPHILIA ; CRITICISM ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; CAHIERS DU CINEMA Summary: "Cinephiles have regularily fetishized contingent, marginal details in the motion picture image: the gesture of a hand, the wind in the trees. Christian Keathley demonstrates that the spectatorial tendency that produces such cinematic encounters - a viewing practice marked by a drift in visual attention away from the primary visual elements on display - in fact has clear links to the origins of film as described by Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, and others. Keathley explores the implications of this ontology and proposes the "cinephiliac anecdote" as a new type of criticism, a method of historical writing that both imitates and extends the experience of these fugitive moments" - taken from back coverContents: 1. The desire for cinema -- 2. The cinephiliac moment and panoramic perception -- 3. Andre´ Bazin and the revelatory potential of cinema -- 4. Cahiers du cine´ma and the way of looking -- 5. Film and the limits of history -- 6. A cinephiliac history -- 7. Five cinephiliac anecdotes.
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A comparative study of selected American film critics 1958-1974 / Joseph Dalton Blades, Jr. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
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The complete history of American film criticism / Jerry Roberts Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, c2010.
Call No: 806.7(73) ROBAuthor: Roberts, Jerry Source: USPlace: Santa Monica, CAPublisher: Santa Monica PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: 480 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM. USA ; CRITICS. USA Summary: "'The Complete History of American Film Criticism' is a chronicle of the most important and influential film critics of the 20th and 21st centuries. It begins with the pioneering talents of the Silent Era critics (Frank E. Woods, Robert E. Sherwood, Gilbert Seldes) who wrote about D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford, and continues on with the significant prewar reviewers (Otis Ferguson, Frank S. Nugent, Cecelia Ager) who examined the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, and Marlene Dietrich, and the great postwar arbiters (James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris) with their insights into film noir, Alfred Hitchcock, and foreign films" --Cover, p. 2.ISBN: 9781595800497Contents: Introduction -- The beginnings : the silent era -- The sound era -- The postwar era -- The film generation : the 1960s -- The golden age : the 1970s -- The television age -- The malaise : the 1980s and 1990s -- The great wake : the 21st century
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The Compound cinema : the film writings of Harry Alan Potamkin / selected, arranged and introduced by Lewis Jacobs New York: Teachers College Press, 1977.
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Constructing the Coens : from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis / by Allen H. Redmon New York : London: Rowman & Littlefield, c2015.
Call No: 81COE REDAuthor: Redmon, Allen H. Source: US/UKPlace: New York : LondonPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: c2015PhysDes: xviii, 173 pages ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; LADYKILLERS, THE (US, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2004) ; BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991) ; RAISING ARIZONA (US, Joel Coen, 1987) ; HUDSUCKER PROXY, THE (US, Joel Coen, 1994) ; MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, THE (US, Joel Coen, 2001) ; INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (US, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2003) ; NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (US, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2007) ; BIG LEBOWSKI, THE (US, Joel Coen, 1998) ; O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (US, Joel Coen, 2000) ; BURN AFTER READING (US/UK/FR, Ethan Coen/Joel Coen, 2008) ; SERIOUS MAN, A (US/UK/FR, Ehan Coen, Joel Coen, 2009) Summary: "In Constructing the Coens: From Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis, Allen Redmon looks beyond the postmodern sensibilities of every film written and directed by the Coens to find an unexpected range of recurring ideas expressed in and about contemporary film. Redmon tackles all of the films in the Coen brothers’ canon by examining—among other topics—narrative coherence in The Man Who Wasn’t There, intertextuality in No Country for Old Men, and sexuality in Burn after Reading and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Additional chapters examine the films through the prisms of gender studies, adaptation studies, and a constructivist sensibility weaved throughout their work." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160), filmography (pages 161-163) and indexISBN: 9781442244849Donation: Sense of cinemaContents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1: "It's a problem of 'perception'": identifying the Coens' constructivist sensibility -- 2: "You don't want to be tried and found wantin'": triggering the ongoing adaptation of the the Ladykillers -- 3: "I will destroy him": negotiating the image in Barton Fink and Raising Arizona -- 4: "That gag's got whiskers on it": achieving narrative coherence in the Hudsucker proxy and The man who wasn't there -- 5: "The coin don't have no say": examining intertextuality in the Hudsucker proxy, Intolerable cruelty, and No country for old men -- 6: "A lotta ins, a lotta outs": interweaving genres in the Big Lebowski and O brother, where art thou? -- 7: "Appearances can be deceptive" : investigating sexuality in O brother, where art thou?, Intolerable cruelty, and Burn after reading -- 8: "I haven't done anything funny": scrutinizing gender in the Coens' arrangements of a bunch of men around one woman -- 9: "Accept the mystery": resisting final construction of A serious man -- Conclusion -- bibliography -- filmography -- index -- about the author --
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Contemporary Documentary / edited by Daniel Marcus and Selmin Kara London: Routledge, 2016.
Call No: 761 CONAuthor: Kara, Selmin (ed.) ; Marcus, Daniel (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2016PhysDes: xvii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: "Contemporary Documentary offers a rich survey of the rapidly expanding landscape of documentary film, television, video, and new media. The collection of original essays addresses the emerging forms, popular genres, and innovative approaches of the digital era.
The anthology highlights geographically and thematically diverse examples of documentaries that have expanded the scope and impact of non-fiction cinema and captured the attention of global audiences over the past three decades. It also explores the experience of documentary today, with its changing dynamics of production, collaboration, distribution, and exhibition, and its renewed political and cultural relevance.
The twelve chapters - featuring engaging case studies and written from a wide range of perspectives including film theory, social theory, ethics, new media, and experience design - invite students to think critically about documentary as a vibrant field, unrestricted in its imagination and quick in its response to new forms of filmmaking.
Offering a methodical exploration of the expansive reach of documentary as a creative force in the media and society of the twenty-first century, Contemporary Documentary is an ideal collection for students of film, media, and communication who are studying documentary film."
-- BOOK BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781138849549Contents: -- Introduction: Situating Contemporary Documentary / Selmin Kara and Daniel Marcus -- Forms, Genres, Innovations-- Lying to Be Real: The Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Docufictions / Ohad Landesman --The Mockumentary / Craig Hight -- Animated Documentary / Annabelle Honess Roe -- Producing the Crowdsourced Documentary: The Implications of Storytelling and Technology / Heather McIntosh -- Designed Experience in Interactive Documentaries / Siobhan O'Flynn -- Indigenous Documentary Media / Pamela Wilson -- Documentary in new contexts -- True Life: The Voice of Television Documentary / Laurie Ouellette -- Interrogating the Media: Errol Morris in the Information Age / Kris Fallon -- Documentary and the Survival of the Film Auteur: Agne`s Varda, Werner Herzog, and Spike Lee / Helen Hughes -- The Ethics of Appropriation: "Misusing" the Found Document in Suitcase of Love and Shame and A Film Unfinished / Jaimie Baron -- Documentary, Multi-Platform Production, and Cosmopolitan Dialogues / Ib Bondebjerg -- Documentary and Video Activism / Daniel Marcus --
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A Critic for Critics in Australasian Cinema (16/7/1982) vol.11 iss.12 p.36
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A critical bibliography of research studies of cinema audiences in Australia / Carol Matthews [Melbourne?]: 1982.
Call No: 410(94) CRIAuthor: Matthews, Carol Source: ATPlace: [Melbourne?]PubDate: 1982PhysDes: [106 leaves] ; 33 cmSubject: AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA ; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA ; STATISTICS. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA Summary: A bibliography for the different resources available on the subject of cinema audiences and cinema going in Australia. There is a section on television audiences within Australia. Includes an essay about cinema going resources and statistics for Australia.LON: abn98335958; 14181471
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The critical practice of film : an introduction / by Elspeth Kydd Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Call No: 62 KYDAuthor: Kydd, Elspeth Source: UK/USPlace: Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xix, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; SOUND ; EDITING ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; FILM ; COSTUMES ; COSTUME DESIGNING ; CRITICISM Summary: "The successful study of film combines criticism, theory and practice. This book covers all three areas and guides the student towards an engaged form of creative expression and an active role as reviewer and critic. Beautifully presented, this ground-breaking text offers all students an integrated understanding of film criticism and production"--Provided by publisher - LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780230229754Contents: -- illustrations -- acknowledgments -- PART I: CRITICAL PRACTICE -- The Critical Practice of Film -- Motion pictures -- PART II: FILM FORM -- Narrative Film -- Documentary Film -- Experimental film -- PART III: TECHNIQUES OF FILM -- Cinematography -- Mise-en-Scene -- Sound -- Editing -- Film music -- PART IV: ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL PRACTICE -- Analysis and interpretation of film -- Critical practice in action -- bibliography -- glossary -- index --
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The Critics and the Movies in Montage (1967) iss.1 p.22
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Cromwell in Lumiere (November-December 1970) vol.1 iss.6 p.11
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The crystal bucket : television criticism from the Observer 1976-79 / Clive James London: Picador, 1982, c1981.
Call No: 67(04) JAMAuthor: James, Clive, 1939 CorpAuthor: The ObserverPlace: LondonPublisher: PicadorPubDate: 1982, c1981PhysDes: 237 p. ; 20cmSubject: CRITICISM, TV. ; JAMES, CLIVE Notes: Originally published: London : Cape, 1981ISBN: 0330267450 (pbk)LON: bnb33026745; 2430582
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Cultural Borrowings : appropriation, reworking, transformation / edited by Iain Robert Smith United Kingdom: Institute of Film & TV Studies, University of Nottingham, 2009.
Call No: 408 CULAuthor: Smith, Iain Robert (ed) Source: UKPlace: United KingdomPublisher: Institute of Film & TV Studies, University of NottinghamPubDate: 2009PhysDes: 224 p. ; 30cmSeries: A Scope e-bookSubject: CRITICISM ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, THE (US, Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999) Summary: "Scope is a fully peer-reviewed online journal edited by staff and students in the Institute of Film & Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. It is published three times a year, in February, June and October. Established in 1999, the journal changed to its current format after five years of continuous publication. All issues dated between May 1999 and November 2004 are now available in our Archive. The first issue of the new series appeared in February 2005.
As our title suggests, Scope provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of film history, theory and criticism. Given contemporary film studies' varied concerns, it is our belief that we can best serve our readers interests by promoting as wide a range of approaches and critical methodologies as possible.
Scope is dedicated to publishing material of the highest scholarly interest, and to this end we have assembled a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board of academics and critics. We welcome contributions from established writers engaging with cutting-edge debates in film, media and cultural studies. However, we are also keen to act as a supportive environment within which those new to the field of film studies may publish their first work. "
-- Scope Website - http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/Notes: Biography of contributors is included (pages 'i-iii'); This resource (an e-book) has been downloaded from http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/ and printed offISBN: 9780956464101Contents: -- notes on contributors -- acknowledgements -- foreword: Scope's Tenth Anniversary / Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer -- introduction / Iain Robert Smith -- Part 1: Hollywood cinema and artistic imitiation -- exploitation as adaptation / I. Q Hunter -- The character-orientated franchise: promotion and exploitation of pre-sold characters in American film, 1913-2007 / Jason Scott -- Novelty through repetition: exploring the success of artistic imitiation in the contemporary film industry, 1983-2007 / Stijn Joye -- Part II: found footage and remix culture -- A taxonomy of digital video remixing: contemporary found footage practice on the internet / Eli Horwatt -- Ethical possession: borrowing from the archives / Emma Cocker -- Music videos and reused footage / Sergio Dias Branco -- Part III: Modes of parody and pastiche -- from cult to subculture: Re imaginings of Cult films in the alternative music video / Brigid Cherry -- Queering the cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a horror icon in Charles Lum's Indeliable / Darren Elliott -- irony inc. : parodic-doc horror and The Blair Witch Project / Jordan Lavender-Smith -- Part IV: transnational screen cultures -- a Marxist's gotta do what a Marxist's gotta do: political violence on the Italian frontier / Austin Fisher -- "Tom Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!" : innovation through imitiation in the cross-cultural Bollywood remake / Neelam Sidhar Wright -- "La television des professeurs?": Charles Dickens, French public service television and Oliver Twist / Pamela Atzori --
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Culture and counter-culture : a seminar on youth and the arts / Australian Unesco Seminar, Ursula College, Australian National University, 15-19 May, 1972 Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1974.
Call No: 408 CULCorpAuthor: Australian Unesco Seminar (1972 : Australian National University)Source: ATPlace: CanberraPublisher: Australian Government Publishing ServicePubDate: 1974PhysDes: 172 pages ; 30 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA ; FLAUS, JOHN ; WEIR, PETER ; THOMS, ALBIE Donation: Henry Mayer CollectionContents: Introduction / Miss Angela Moore -- Part 1: Papers of the seminar -- Opening Lecture / Mr John English -- Youth and Theatre / Mr George Whaley -- Counter-Culture as a life style / Mr Michael Rudd, Mr Doug Anders, Mr Graeme Dunstan -- The chances of survival of music's traditional forms / Mr D. Ahern, Dr C Hill -- Is patronage a blight on experimental art? / Mr Rodney Hall, Mr John Hopkins, Mr Ron Watkins, Dr G. Pont, Mr J. Phillips -- The Visual and plastic arts - points of view / Mr Patrick McCaughey -- Public Lecture / Mr John English -- Which Culture Counter What? / Mr A. Bear -- The Electric Humanities - Film and Television / Mr J. Flaus, Mr K. Guyatt, Mr Peter Weir, Mr Albie Thoms -- Writing / Mr Frank Moorhouse, Dr Norman Talbot -- Part II: Proceedings -- Workshop Reports -- Visual Arts / Mr Edward Snell -- T.V. / Mr Peter Weir -- Drama / Mr Mike Morris -- Music / Mr David Aherd -- Part III - Appendixes -- Appendix I - Seminar Program -- Appendix II - Seminar Planning Committee -- Appendix III - List of participants
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Cycles, sequels, spin-offs, remakes, and reboots : multiplicities in film and television / edited by Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016.
Call No: 753.81 CYCAuthor: Klein, Amanda Ann (ed.) ; Palmer, R. Barton (ed.) Edition: First editionSource: USPlace: Austin, TXPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: vi, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmSubject: FILM ; CRITICISM ; REMAKES ; SEQUELS Summary: "With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences, industrial practices, and popular culture.
The essays in this volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and television have used multiplicities to streamline the production process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in previously successful and/or sensational story properties. An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural work that is very worthy of serious study." -- BOOK BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also published electronicallyISBN: 9781477308172Donation: Senses of cinemaContents: -- ch. 1 Introduction / Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer -- ch. 2 The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City / Amanda Ann Klein -- ch. 3 Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum / Robert Rushing -- ch. 4 The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations / R. Barton Palmer -- ch. 5 Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949--1950 "Race Problem" Cycle and the African American Press / Steven Doles -- ch. 6 Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s / Constantine Verevis -- ch. 7 Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake / Chelsey Crawford -- ch. 8 Anime's Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the Shojo Body as a Weapon / Elizabeth Birmingham -- ch. 9 It's Only a Film, Isn't It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror / Vincent M. Gaine -- ch. 10 Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance / Murray Pomerance -- ch. 11 A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identification in Nollywood's Anti-Biopic Cycle / Noah Tsika -- ch. 12 Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships / Sarah Kornfield -- ch. 13 Smart TV: Showtime's "Bad Mommies" Cycle / Claire Perkins -- ch. 14 My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4's Skins / Faye Woods -- ch. 15 Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire / Kathleen Williams -- ch. 16 Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema / Kathleen Loock -- ch. 17 I Can't Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore's American Man / Amy Borden -- ch. 18 Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal / Andrew Scahill -- list of contributors -- index --
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A David Called Joe in Lumiere (September 1970) vol.1 iss.4 p.29-30
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David Lynch / Kenneth C. Kaleta New York Toronto New York: Twayne Maxwell Macmillan Canada Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
Call No: 81LYN KALAuthor: Kaleta, Kenneth C Place: New York Toronto New YorkPublisher: Twayne Maxwell Macmillan Canada Maxwell Macmillan InternationalPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xviii, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Twayne's filmmakers seriesSubject: Lynch, David, 1946- Criticism and interpretation Notes: Filmography: p. [196]-202; Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]) and indexISBN: 0805793178 (alk. paper); 0805793232 (pbk.)LON: 9006519
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Decades never start on time : a Richard Roud anthology / by Richard Roud ; edited by Michael Temple and Karen Smolens Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan of behalf of the British Film Institute, 2014.
Call No: 67(04) ROUAuthor: Roud, Richard Source: UKPlace: Basingstoke, HampshirePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan of behalf of the British Film InstitutePubDate: 2014PhysDes: viii, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; ROUD, RICHARD Summary: A selection of Richard Roud's published and unpublished writing during the 1950s to the 1980s.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-266) and indexesISBN: 9781844576258Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 1956--62 -- 1.1.`Britain in America' -- 1.2.`Max Ophuls' (extract) -- 1.3.`Face to face: James Agee' -- 1.4.`Face to face: Andre Bazin' -- 1.5.`How to see a movie (in the U.S.A.)' -- 1.6.`Novel novel; fable fable?' -- 1.7.`National Film Theatre; the first ten years' -- 1.8.`The Left Bank' -- pt. 2 1963--9 -- 2.1.`Festival at the Lincoln Center' -- 2.2.`End of Bardolotry' -- 2.3.`Muriel observed' -- 2.4.`Cannes hol' -- 2.5.`Rondo Galant: the world of Jacques Demy' -- 2.6.`The Red Desert' -- 2.7.`Object lesson' -- 2.8.`Anguish: Alphaville' -- 2.9.`New films' -- 2.10.`Film criticism in Britain' -- 2.11.`Masculin feminin' -- 2.12.`Far from Vietnam' -- 2.13.`A Langlois unto himself' -- 2.14.`Weekend in Paris' -- 2.15.`The end of the Cannes party' -- 2.16.`Minimal cinema: Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach' -- 2.17.`The Cossacks go in at Pesaro' -- 2.18.`If with no buts' -- 2.19.`Le Gai Savoir' -- pt. 3 1970--6 -- 3.1.`The varieties of tyranny' --
Contents note continued: 3.2.`Films to change the world?' -- 3.3.`Fathers and sons' -- 3.4.`Look back in shame' -- 3.5.`Going between' -- 3.6.`The international gravy train' -- 3.7.`Visconti misses the gondola' -- 3.8.Jean-Marie Straub (extracts) -- 3.9.`Daddy of 'em all' -- 3.10.`The dragon...' -- 3.11.`It takes two to tango' -- 3.12.`How can we know the dancer from the dance?' -- 3.13.`Hollywood embers' -- 3.14.`Apple pie bedlam' -- 3.15.`The Rules of the Game' -- 3.16.`Hold the front page' -- 3.17.`The Passenger' -- 3.18.`Film of the century' -- 3.19.`Memorandum on processes of prospection and selection' -- 3.20.`Movies versus motion pictures' -- pt. 4 1977--83 -- 4.1.`Henri Langlois' -- 4.2.`The Left Bank revisited' -- 4.3.`The baggy-trousered philanthropist' -- 4.4.`Robert Bresson' -- 4.5.`Louis Feuillade and the serial' -- 4.6.`Jean Renoir: to 1939' -- 4.7.`London and New York' -- 4.8.`Gross can be beautiful' -- 4.9.`Biter bit' -- 4.10.A Passion for Films (extracts) --
Contents note continued: 4.11.`The first foreign-language film I ever saw' -- 4.12.`Melville' -- pt. 5 1984--9 -- 5.1.`Decades Never Start On Time' (extracts) -- 5.2.`The moral taste of Lotte Eisner' -- 5.3.`Remembering Losey' -- 5.4.`An Untitled Biography of Truffaut' (extract)
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Defending the defenders in Lumiere (April, 1973) iss.22 p.16-19
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Deleuze and cinema : the aesthetics of sensation / Barbara M. Kennedy Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Call No: 620 DEL KENAuthor: Kennedy, Barbara M. Source: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2002PhysDes: 229 pages ; 24 cmSubject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; THEORY ; CRITICISM ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; ENGLISH PATIENT, THE (US, Anthony Minghella, 1996) ; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) ; LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994) Summary: "Through discussions of Orlando, The English Patient, Romeo and Juliet, Strange Days and Leon this subtle and powerful book reintroduces debates about film as an art form and the place of film theory within our aesthetic sensibilities." - taken from back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. -- Filmography: pages 223-224.ISBN: 0748617264Contents: Introduction: Discovering the beautiful stranger ... -- From micro-politics to aesthetics -- From Oedipal myths ... to new interventions -- From abstract machines to Deleuzian becomings -- Constituting bodies : from subjectivity and affect to the becoming-woman of the cinematic -- Towards an aesthetics of sensation -- Orlando : Deleuzian landscapes of immanence -- The English patient : Deleuzian landscapes of immanence -- Romeo and Juliet : Deleuzian sensations -- Strange days : Deleuzian sensations -- Reconfiguring love ... a Deleuzian travesty? Leon and a molecular politics via the girl and the child.
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A discussion with Werner Herzog Melbourne, Vic.: 1983.
Call No: 81HER AUSCorpAuthor: Australian Film InstituteSource: ATPlace: Melbourne, Vic.PubDate: 1983PhysDes: 36 p. ; 28 cmSubject: FILMMAKING ; AUTHORSHIP ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; PRODUCTION ; CRITICISM, TV. ; HERZOG, WERNER ; ISLAND (AT, Paul Cox, 1989) ; JEDER FUR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE (GW, Werner Herzog, 1974) ; KASPAR HAUSER (GE, Peter Sehr, 1993) Summary: Transcript of a discussion with Werner herzog at the AFI Longford Cinema, Melbourne.Language: English
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Documentary practice in a participatory culture / by Patrick Anthony Tarrant Queensland: 2008.
Call No: 761 TARAuthor: Tarrant, Patrick Anthony Source: ATPlace: QueenslandPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 157 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; THEORY ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; REALITY TV ; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA ; HUBBUB (AT, Patrick Tarrant, 2007) ; ONE MORE LIKE THAT (AT, Patrick Tarrant, 2007) Summary: " Debates concerning the veracity, ethics and politics of the documentary form circle endlessly around the function of those who participate in it, and the meaning attributed to their participation. Great significance is attached to the way that documentary filmmakers do or do not participate in the world they seek to represent, just as great significance is attached to those subjects whose participation extends beyond playing the part of eyewitness or expert, such that they become part of the filmmaking process itself.
This Ph.D explores the interface between documentary practice and participatory culture by looking at how their practices, discursive fields and histories intersect, but also by looking at how participating in one might mean participating in the other. In short, the research is an examination of participatory culture through the lens of documentary practice and documentary criticism. In the process, however, this examination of participatory culture will in turn shed light on documentary thinking, especially the meaning and function of 'the participant' in contemporary documentary practice." -- ABSTRACTNotes: Presented to the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology; Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157); Note the published version contains 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.), but this is not included with our copyContents: -- keywords -- abstract -- table of contents -- list of figures -- supplementary material -- copyright -- statement of original authorship -- acknowledgments -- chapter 1: introduction -- chapter 2: participatory cultures & documentary practices -- chapter 3: camera movies (awesome, I fuckin' shot them!) -- chapter 4: finding, filming and documenting (the articulate archive) -- chapter 5: conclusion (the thesis film) -- appendix 1: interview questions used for hubbub -- appendix 2: instructions for the dvd -- works cited -- filmography --
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Edward Yang / John Anderson Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Call No: 81YAN ANDAuthor: Anderson, John Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 128 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSeries: Contemporary film directors / edited by James NaremoreSubject: DIRECTORS.TAIWANESE ; CRITICISM ; YANG, EDWARD Notes: Includes filmograghy (pp.[117]-121)
Includes bibliographical references (pp.[123]-124) and indexISBN: 0252072367 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Encounters of the Filmic Kind : guidebook to film theories / Reka M. Cristian and Zoltan Dragon Szeged, Hungary: JATEPress, 2008.
Call No: 62 CRIAuthor: Cristian, Reka M. ; Dragon, Zoltan Source: HUPlace: Szeged, HungaryPublisher: JATEPressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xiv, 149 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Papers in English and American studies, 14. Monograph series ; 5Subject: THEORY ; CRITICISM Summary: " The topic selection of the volume is excellent; the book discusses the origins of a large variety of movies, their cultural background, and the theory-making processes that surround them. Encounters of the Filmic Kind is creatively organised by analytical concepts rather than by genre. The playful style of the chapter titles and subtitles is unusual for a textbook, yet they are effective because they provide a breezy touch to complex theoretical discussions. The book will especially benefit university students on all levels. For its high theoretical level, however, it is also recommended for established scholars interested in film studies." -- Avital Bloch; Center for Social Research, University of Colima, MexicoNotes: Errata slip inserted: "The name of Christian Metz appears throughout the book erroneously as Cristian Metz"; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9789634828587Contents: -- preface -- contents -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- Chapter 1: Encounters of the first kind: once upon a time in film by Reka M. Cristian -- chapter 2 : do you speak film? : film language and adaptation by Zoltan Dragon -- chapter 3: dream on: psychoanalysis and the cinema by Zoltan Dragon -- chapter 4: cowboys, deadly women and Co: genres of the cinema by Zoltan Dragon -- chapter 5: cinema and its discontents: auteur, studio, star by Reka M Cristian -- chapter 6: gender and the cinema: all sides of the camera by Reka M. Cristian -- chapter 7: third cinema encounters: Reka M. Cristian -- chapter 8: ultimately onscreen: the futures of the cinema in the age of new media by Zoltan Dragon -- epilogue -- index --
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The Erotic Adventures of Zoro in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.8
Subject: FILM ; CRITICISM Summary: Review of The Erotic Adventures of Zoro
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Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard / by Richard Brody New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2009.
Call No: 81GOD BROAuthor: Brody, Richard Edition: 1st Paperback editionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and CompanyPubDate: 2009PhysDes: xv, 701 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) ; PETIT SOLDAT, LE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) ; WOMAN IS A WOMAN, A (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) ; FEMME EST UNE FEMME, UNE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) ; CARABINIERS, LES (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) ; CONTEMPT (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963)
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[DEUX] 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE ; [DEUX] 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; LA CHINOISE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; FRANCE/TOUR/RETOUR/DEUX ENFANTS [TV](FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1978) ; SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1980) ; HAIL, MARY (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)
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ALLEMAGNE NEUF ZERO ; ALLEMAGNE NEUF ZERO (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1991) ; HELAS POUR MOI (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1983) ; FOR EVER MOZART (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1996) ; ELOGE DE L'AMOUR (SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) Summary: "Shifting fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art, the films of Jean-Luc Godard changed the nature of cinema. Godard's own persona - cultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman - projects similarly shifting images. In the modern canon, he is a figure as mysterious as he is indispensible. Now, acclaimed critic Richard Brody offers the fullest picture yet of Godard's life and work, demsytifying the elusive filmmaker through hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, and collaborators. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy family, his changeable and often disturbing politics, his tumultuous dealings with fellow filmmakers, and his troubled relations with women. Tracing an arc from the director's early writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years, Everything Is Cinema shows decisively that Godard's films have left their mark on all screens, everywhere. -- BOOK BLURBNotes: "NBCC Award. Criticism. Nominees" -- Awards website; Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-675) and index; We have a duplicate copy of this bookISBN: 9780805080155Contents: -- preface -- 1: We do not think, we are thought -- 2: A matter of loving or dying -- 3: Breathless -- 4: Le petit soldat -- 5: A woman is a woman -- 6: Vivre sa vie, le nouveau monde, les carabiniers -- 7: Contempt -- 8: Montparnasse et levallois, band of outsiders -- 9: A married woman -- 10: The American business -- 11: Alphaville -- 12: Pierrot le fou -- 13: Masculine feminine -- 14: Made in USA, two or three things I know about her -- 15: La chinoise, weekend -- 16: Revolution (1968-1972) -- 17: Restoration (1973-1977) -- 18: France tour de´tour deux enfants, et al., 1978-1979 -- 19: Sauve qui peut (la vie) -- 20: Passion and first name: Carmen -- 21: Hail Mary -- 22: Detective and soigne ta droite -- 23: King Lear -- 24: Histoire(s) du cine´ma, part I -- 25: Nouvelle vague -- 26: Germany year 90 nine zero -- 27: He´las pour moi, JLG/JLG, histoire(s) du cine´ma, parts 2 and 3 -- 28: For ever Mozart, histoire(s) du cine´ma, part 4 -- 29: Eloge de l'amour -- 30: Notre musique -- epilogue -- acknowledgments -- notes -- index --
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Evilspeak in Australasian Cinema (16/7/1982) vol.11 iss.12 p.33
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! / by Dean J. Defino London: Wallflower Press, copyright 2014.
Call No: 79FAS DEFAuthor: DeFino, Dean J. Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Wallflower PressPubDate: copyright 2014PhysDes: 106 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cmSeries: CultographiesSubject: CULT FILMS ; CRITICISM ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; MEYER, RUSS ; FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (US, Russ Meyer, 1966) Summary: "Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was a box-office failure on its release in 1965. It has since been embraced by art-house audiences and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story cliche´s lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies, the film has the coherence of a dream and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. This book considers the production and critical reception of the film, its place within the culture of the 1960s, its representations of gender and sexuality, and the specific ways it meets cult film criteria." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780231167390Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Russ Meyer and Me -- 1 The Pussycats Gear Up -- 2 The Pussycats Find Their Audience -- 3 Seeing America First -- 4 Pussycats and Satyrs -- 5 A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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Fatal visions: the golden age 1990-1998 : The best of issues 7-21 / edited by Michael Helms [Thornbury, Vic.]: [Fatal Visions], 2016.
Call No: 120 FATAuthor: Helms, Michael ; Sargeant, Jack Source: ATPlace: [Thornbury, Vic.]Publisher: [Fatal Visions]PubDate: 2016PhysDes: 296 p: ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; EDUCATION, USE OF FILMS IN ; JODOROWSKY, ALEXANDRO ; WORST FILMS ; PROPAGANDA FILMS ; GERMANY ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; JACKSON, PETER (NZ) ; HENENLOTTER, FRANK ; HEWITT, JON ; MEXICO ; RAIMI, SAM ; HENRIKSEN, LANCE ; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen] ; FERRARA, ABEL ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; HONG KONG ; JAPAN Summary: In 2012 The LedaTape Organisation put out Fatal Visions: The Wonder Years 1988-1989, the first volume to collect some of the earliest writings to appear in Fatal Visions, the Australian zine devoted to trash film and attendant culture that became a critically well-received and internationally distributed magazine.
Four years later Fatal Visions: The Golden Age 1990-1998, the second volume in the Fatal Visions series has come screaming into the world.
What’s presented here is a personal selection by editor Michael Helms from the final fifteen issues of Fatal Visions. A true best-of and showcase for as many of the still highly relevant and entertaining articles, interviews and reviews from some of the most exciting writers working in trash film.
- Blondes, Bockwurst & Porn – a trashfilm tour of Europe by Jack Stevenson.
- Mexploitation Explained by Steve Fentone.
- Cool & The Crazy – Bruce Milne’s seminal article on The Cramps.
- Eyeball On Asia – watching film in Asian countries with Stefan Hammond.
- Kris Gilpin interviews Charles Napier.
- Other interviews include Abel Ferrara, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lance Henriksen, Peter Jackson and John Woo.
- Hundreds of cinema & video reviews.
- Foreword by Jack Sargeant.
Profusely illustrated – with index!Notes: Includes indexISBN: 9780994411211ID2: 251
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Fatal visions: the wonder years 1988-89 : a compendium of the first 6 issues / edited by Michael Helms Thornbury, Vic.: Fatal Visions, 2012.
Call No: 120 FATAuthor: Helms, Michael (ed.) Source: ATPlace: Thornbury, Vic.Publisher: Fatal VisionsPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 248 p: ill. ; 24 cmSeries: LedaTape S (cop a feel) seriesSubject: AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: "A collection of Fatal Visions, Melbourne's own infamous trash film zine, has congealed into perfect bound format. Proving that dead tree technology has not entirely slipped into a coma this compilation covers the earliest and rarest entries in FVs decade-long publication history" -- back cover.Notes: Includes index
Originally published in serial form beginning 1988 Fatal visions 1035-2740ISBN: 9781921775666ID2: 252
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Favorite movies : critics' choice / edited by Philip Nobile New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973.
Call No: 675.1 FAVPlace: New YorkPublisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.PubDate: 1973PhysDes: 301 p. ; 25 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; CRITICS ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; 8 1/2 (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1963) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; FAHRENHEIT 451 (UK, Francois Truffaut, 1966) ; UGETSU MONOGATARI (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) ; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (UK, David Lean, 1962) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; FRENCH CANCAN (FR/IT, Jean Renoir, 1955) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972) ; MADAME DE... (FR, Max Ophuls, 1953) ; AVVENTURA, L' (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; TOKYO MONOGATARI (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; HATARI! (US, Howard Hawks, 1961) ; DOCKS OF NEW YORK, THE (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1928) Summary: Twenty-seven film critics respond to the question of what are their favorite films, and also write about their experiences in their profession.Notes: Includes index.Contents: -- My favorite movies / Dwight Macdonald -- Favorite directors / Peter Bogdanovich -- On The Searchers / Jay Cocks -- The private world of Fahrenheit 451 / Josheph McBride -- On not playing favorites / John Simon -- Ugetsu: a meditation on Mizoguchi / Andrew Sarris -- These are a few of my favorite things / William Pechter -- Lean and Lawrence: the alst adventurers / Stephen Farber -- Night World / David Denby -- The Rules Of The Game / Richard Roud -- French Cancan / Roger Greenspun -- Some nights in Casablanca / Richard Schickel -- A few notes on Jerome Hill's Film Portrait / Jonas Mekas -- Madame De: a musical passage / Molly Haskell -- My favorite movie - Madame De / Peter Harcourt -- The seaweed-gatherer / Robin Wood -- My adventure / Charles Thomas Samuels -- Antonioni: more from less / Richard Gilman -- "War!" said Scarlett. "Don't you men think about anything important?" / Ellen Willis -- Ask me know questions and I'll tell you... / Judith Crist -- Tokyo Story: the virtues of mannered simplicity / Francis X. J. Coleman -- Psycho therapy / Richard Carliss -- Looking backward at the film 2001 / Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr. -- The inevitable movie / Parker tyler -- TV favorites / Howard Thompson -- Auteurism, Hawks, Harari! and me / Stuart Byron -- Docks Of New York / Martin Rubin
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Feminist film theorists : Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed / Shohini Chaudhuri London ; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Call No: 626:396 CHAAuthor: Chaudhuri, Shohini Source: UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2006PhysDes: x, 148 p. ; 20 cmSeries: Routledge critical thinkersSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; MULVEY, LAURA ; CREED, BARBARA ; SILVERMAN, KAJA ; DE LAURETIS, TERESA Summary: "Since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood. This book focuses on the groundbreaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, and Barbara Creed. Each of these thinkers has opened up a new and distinctive approach to the study of film and this book provides the most detailed account so far of their ideas. It illuminates six key concepts and demonstrates their value as tools for film analysis."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780415324335Contents: Why Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, and Creed? -- 1. Beginnings -- The eternal feminine -- Psychoanalysis and feminism -- The tools of film theory -- 2. The male gaze -- Sexual politics -- Lust of the eyes -- The female spectator -- 3. The female voice -- Female confessions -- Fantasies of the maternal voice -- The 'homosexual-maternal fantasmatic' -- Female authorship -- 4. Technologies of gender -- Beyond the paradox of woman -- The technology of sex -- The technology of gender -- Rethinking women's cinema -- Desire in narrative -- 5. Queering desire -- Film and the visible -- Sexual indifference -- Lesbian fetishism -- 6. The monstrous-feminine -- The abject -- The archaic mother -- Medusa's head -- The deadly femme castratrice -- Crisis TV -- 7. Masculinity in crisis -- The dominant fiction -- Historical trauma -- The screen and the gaze -- Male masochism -- After Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, and Creed.
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Feminist film theory and Cleo from 5 to 7 / by Hilary Neroni New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Call No: 626[396]:79CLE NERAuthor: Neroni, Hilary Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2016PhysDes: 160 pages ; 20 cmSeries: Film theory in practiceSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; CLEO DE 5 A 7 (FR, Agnes Varda, 1962) ; CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (FR, Agnes Varda, 1962) Summary: "The Film theory in practice series marries the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film. Through three key concepts - identification, framing the women's body, and the female auteur - Hilary Neroni lays bare the debates and approaches used throughout the vibrant history of feminist film theory, providing a point of entry to the theory that ranges from its inception to today. Considering Agnes Varda's classic film in this light, Feminist Film Theory and Cleo from 5 to 7 unlocks new ways of looking at both film and feminist theory." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIPISBN: 9781501313691Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- Introduction -- Feminist Film Theory -- Feminism and Cleo from 5 to 7 --conclusion -- Further reading -- index --
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Feminist in the dark : reviewing the movies / by Kathi Maio Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, c1988.
Call No: 67(04):396 MAIAuthor: Maio, Kathi, 1951 Place: Freedom, CAPublisher: Crossing PressPubDate: c1988PhysDes: 223 p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 18 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ISBN: 0895943220 (pbk.) : $7.95; 0895943239 (hard) : $23.95LON: 5982754
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Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog / Eric Ames Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
Call No: 81HER AMEAuthor: Ames, Eric Source: USPlace: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: c2012PhysDes: x,334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Visible evidence ; 27Subject: CRITICISM ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; HERZOG, WERNER ; GRIZZLY MAN (CN/US, Werner Hersog, 2005) Summary: Over the course of his career Werner Herzog has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker delcared: "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization." Ferocious Reality is the first book to ask how this conviction , so hostile to the traditional tenets of documentary, can inform the work of one of the world's most provocative documentarians. In close, contextualized analysis of more than twenty-five films spanning Herzog's career, Ames makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so. His book expands the field of cinema studies even as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog's extraordinary oeuvre." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780816677641Contents: -- acknowledgments -- the Minnesota declaration -- Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider : Werner Herzog eats his shoe -- Sensational bodies. Game in the sand ; Handicapped future ; Land of silence and darkness ; Wodaabe -- Moving landscapes. The dark glow of the mountains ; Fata Morgana ; La Soufriere ; Lessons of darkness ; Wheel of time -- Ecstatic journeys. Huie's sermon ; Bells from the deep ; Pilgrimage -- Baroque visions. The great ectasy of Woodcarver Steiner ; Death for five voices ; God and the burdened -- Cultural politics. Fitzcarraldo ; Ballad of the little soldier ; Ten thousand years older ; The white diamond -- Reenactments. Little Dieter needs to fly ; Wings of hope ; Rescue dawn -- Autobiographical acts. I am my films ; Portrait Werner Herzog ; My best fiend ; Grizzly man -- Conclusion: Herzog's ve´rite´ -- Encounters at the end of the world ; Cave of forgotten dreams --
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Fight Pictures : a history of boxing and early cinema / Dan Streible Berkeley: University of California Press, c2008.
Call No: 739.683 STRAuthor: Streible, Dan Source: USPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c2008PhysDes: xix, 396 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: BOXING FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; CRITICISM Summary: " The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), became one of cinema's earliest major attractions and ushered in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media, Fight Pictures is the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era movie screens and became part of American popular culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index; Includes filmography: p. 291-303ISBN: 9780520250758Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: 1. The Sporting and Theatrical Syndicate: Boxing Pictures and the Origins of Cinema, 1891-1896 -- 2. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight: Women at the Veriscope, 1897 -- 3. Under the Lights: Filming Ringside in the Jim Jeffries Era, 1899-1904 -- 4. Fake Fight Films: S. Lubin of Philadelphia, 1897-1908 -- 5. Fight Pictures in the Nickelodeon Era: Miles Bros. of New York & San Francisco, 1905-1912 -- 6. Jack Johnson Films: Black Exhibition and White Suppression, 1908-1910 -- 7. Jack Johnson's Decline: The Prizefight Film Ban, 1911-1915 -- 8. Bootlegging: The Clandestine Traffic in Fight Pictures, 1916-1940.
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Film : the creative eye / David A. Sohn Dayton: Geo A. Pflaum, 1970.
Call No: 62 SOHAuthor: Sohn, David A. Source: USPlace: DaytonPublisher: Geo A. PflaumPubDate: 1970PhysDes: xi, 176 p. ; 21 cmSubject: SHORT FILMS ; CRITICISM Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- introduction -- 1. the searching eye: the observer and the creative spirit -- the searching eye -- why man creates -- 2: the precise eye: a sharper vision -- leaf -- dunes -- waters of Yosemite -- autumn: frost country -- 3: the inventive eye: impression and compression -- art -- american time capsule -- world of '68 -- home of the brave -- deep blue world -- 4: sensitive eye: the poetry of awareness -- moods of surfing -- sky capers -- catch the joy-dune buggies -- ski the outer limits -- turned on -- full fathom five -- producer's statement --
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Film : readings in the mass media / Allen Kirschner and Linda Kirschner New York: The Odyssey Press, c1971.
Call No: 62(04) KIRAuthor: Kirschner, Allen
Kirschner, Linda Place: New YorkPublisher: The Odyssey PressPubDate: c1971PhysDes: 315 pages : 23 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; RATING FOR FILMS. USA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; COMEDIES ; DIRECTION ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) Summary: A collection of essays on the history, art and effects of film separated into 3 sections (form and technique, audience and effects, and critics and criticism) with the final section focussing largely on the film The GraduateNotes: Bibliography: p. 313-315.Contents: Movies: the reel world / Marshall McLuhan -- Comedy's greatest era / James Agee -- from King of comedy / Mack Sennett -- The movies 100 years from now / David Wark Griffith -- The modern photoplay / Irving Thalberg -- The movies / H.L. Mencken -- Film and reality / Rudolf Arnheim -- Direction / Alfred Hitchcock -- Reflections on the film actor / Michelangelo Antonioni -- What is "film making"? / Ingmar Bergman -- The reality of New Cinema / Ken Kelman -- Where are we, the underground? / Jonas Mekas -- What makes a good screen story? / Mervyn LeRoy -- The writer and the film / Dudley Nichols -- The movies are now high art / Richard Schickel -- The movies are better than the theater / Walter Kerr -- The film generation / Stanley Kauffmann -- Engaging the eye-minded / Arthur Knight -- Movies: morals, violence, sex: anything goes / Judith Christ -- Film as environment / Anthony Schillaci -- Loverboy of the bourgeoisie / Tom Wolfe -- Freedom of speech in a mass medium / Richard S. Randall -- Rating code / Motion Picture Association of America -- Movies, the desperate art / Pauline Kael -- Should American films be subsidized? / William Fadiman -- The movie industry and the film culture / Ernest Callenbach -- On reviewing, I: Turnstiles / Renata Adler -- Is film criticism only propaganda? / Parker Tyler -- The graduate: four reviews. The graduate makes out / Hollis Alpert ; Tales out of school / Bosley Crowther ; Summa cum laude / Joseph Morgenstern ; The graduate / Stephen Farber and Estelle Changas -- Mike Nichols talks about The graduate / Joseph Gelmis -- The future of film / Members of the National Society of Film Critics: Hollis Alpert ; Brendan Gill ; Philip T. Hartung ; Stanley Kauffmann ; Arthur Knight ; Joseph Morgenstern ; Andrew Sarris ; Richard Schickel ; Wilfrid Sheed ; John Simon
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Film : an introduction / John L. Fell New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975.
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Film and the critical eye / Dennis DeNitto and William Herman New York: Macmillan, 1975.
Call No: 62 DENAuthor: DeNitto, Dennis ; Herman, William Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: MacmillanPubDate: 1975PhysDes: xii, 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; LAST LAUGH, THE (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; RULES OF THE GAME, THE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1946) ; BELLE ET LA BETE, LA (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1946) ; RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950) ; RONDE, LA (FR, Max Ophuls, 1950) ; SEVENTH SEAL, THE (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; WILD STRAWBERRIES (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; SMULTRONSTALLET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; ASHES AND DIAMONDS (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1959) ; POPIOL I DIAMENT (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1959) ; JULES AND JIM (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1962) ; JULES ET JIM (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1962) Notes: Bibliography: p. 527-536
Includes filmographies and indexISBN: 002328370XContents: --Part one -- 1: viewing a film -- 2: interpreting a film -- Part two -- 3: the language of film -- 4: the rhetoric of film -- Part three -- 5: The Last Laugh, Murnau -- 6: The Gold Rush, Chaplin -- 7: M Lang -- 8: Grand Illusion, Renoir -- 9: The Rules of the Game, Renoir -- 10: Beauty and the Beast, Cocteau -- 11: Rashomon Kurosawa -- 12: La Ronde, Ophuls -- 13: The Seventh Seal, Bergman -- 14: Wild Strawberries, Bergman -- 15: Ashes and Diamonds, Wajda -- 16: L'avventura, Anotonioni -- 17: Il Posto, Olmi -- 18: Jules and Jim, Truffaut -- 19: Notes on Six films -- Biographies and filmographies -- bibliographies --index --URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film appreciation / Allan Casebier New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1976.
Call No: 62 CASAuthor: Casebier, Allan Place: New YorkPublisher: Harcourt Brace JovanovichPubDate: c1976PhysDes: ix, 207 p., [2] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cmSubject: THEORY ; AESTHETICS ; SOUND ; AUDIENCES ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; EXPRESSIONISM ; MYTH AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; CRITICISM ; WELLES, ORSON ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971) Notes: Includes index; "Bibliography/filmography": p. [183]-190ISBN: 0155273701Order Received: 2000Order Type: DonationLON: 746910URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: Knopf Distributed by Random House, 1986.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Edition: 2nd edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Knopf Distributed by Random HousePubDate: 1986PhysDes: xiii, 400 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmSubject: PRODUCTION ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; EDITING ; SOUND ; CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 387-389ISBN: 0394352378 (pbk.)LON: 85018198; 4389326URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film criticism and caricatures : 1943-53 / Richard Winnington ; selected with an introduction by Paul Rotha London: Elek, 1975.
Call No: 67 (049.32) WINAuthor: Winnington, Richard Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: ElekPubDate: 1975PhysDes: 196p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.Subject: CRITICISM Notes: Includes indexesISBN: 023640007X
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Film criticism as cultural fantasy : the perpetual French discovery of Australian cinema / by Andrew McGregor Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2010.
Call No: 670 MCGAuthor: Lang, Peter Source: SZPlace: Bern, SwitzerlandPublisher: Peter LangPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 315 p. ; 23 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA ; FRANCE ; AUSTRALIA Summary: " This book presents an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics of cultural representation and interpretation in film criticism. It examines how French critical reception of Australian cinema since the revival period of the 1970s has evolved as a narrative of perpetual discovery, and how a clear parallel can be drawn between French critics' reading of Australian film and their interpretation of an exotic Australian national identity. In French critical writing on Australian cinema, Australian identity is frequently defined in terms of extremes of cultural specificity and cultural anonymity. On the one hand, French critics construct a Euro-centric orientalist fantasy of Australia as not only a European Antipodes, but the antithesis of Europe. At the same time, French critics have tended to subordinate Australian cultural identity within the framework of a resented Anglo-American filmic and cultural hegemony. The book further explores this marginalisation by examining the influence of the French auteur paradigm, particularly in reference to the work of Jane Campion, as well as by discussing the increasingly problematic notion of national identity, and indeed national cinemas, within the universal framework of international film culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.; Includes bibliographical references and filmography.ISBN: 9783034300537Contents: Cultural fantasy : the perpetual French discovery of an ever-emerging -- Cinema of the Antipodes -- In the beginning : the Australian cinema industry from the cine´matographe to the revival -- Points of view : film criticism, film journals and press reviews in France -- Before the revival : the French critical reception of Australian cinema pre-1971 -- The new frontier : the French critical reception of Australian cinema 1971-1979 -- Forever young : the French critical reception of Australian cinema 1980-1984 -- International icons : the French critical reception of Australian cinema 1985-1989 -- Kitsch stylisation : the French critical reception of Australian cinema 1990-1994 -- Perpetual discovery : the French critical reception of Australian cinema 1995-2001 -- Conclusions.
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Film criticism in the digital age / edited by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, c2015.
Call No: 62 FILAuthor: Frey, Mattias (ed.) ; Sayad, Cecilia Source: US/UKPlace: New Brunswick, New JerseyPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2015PhysDes: vi, 273 pages ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA Summary: "In Film criticism in the Digital Age ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book's contributors find many signs of the film critic's declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics--whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers--have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture." -- BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780813570723Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction: critical questions / Mattias Frey -- part I the critic and the audience -- 1 Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Postvanguard World / Greg Taylor -- 2 Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense of a Crisis / Cecilia Sayad -- 3 "The Last Honest Film Critic in America": Armond White and the Children of James Baldwin / Daniel McNeil -- part II new forms and activities -- 4 The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDb / Mattias Frey -- 5 The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in Italy / Giacomo Manzoli and Paolo Noto -- 6 Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical Counterpublics / Maria San Filippo -- 7 Elevating the "Amateur": Nollywood Critics and the Politics of Diasporic Film Criticism / Noah Tsika -- part III insitutions and the profession -- 8 American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet Era / Anne Hurault-Paupe -- 9 Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital Age / Outi Hakola -- 10 The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have (to Have) a Soul? / Thomas Elsaesser -- part IV critics speak -- 11 The Critic Is Dead... / Jasmina Kallay -- 12 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Movies / Armond White -- 13 Who Needs Critics? / Nick James -- 14 Excerpts from Cineaste's "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium" / Theodoros Panayides, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, the self-styled siren (Farran Smith Nehme), and Stephanie Zacharek -- afterword / Cecilia Sayad -- selected bibliography -- notes on contributors -- index --
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Film, form & feeling / Dennis DeNitto New York: Harper & Row, c1985.
Call No: 62 DENAuthor: DeNitto, Dennis, Place: New YorkPublisher: Harper & RowPubDate: c1985PhysDes: xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: THEORY ; CRITICISM ; EDITING ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; EXPRESSIONISM ; MONTAGE ; NEOREALISM ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; COMEDIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; PROPAGANDA FILMS ; WESTERNS ; MUSICALS ; VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967) ; TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967) ; BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; OKTIABR [OCTOBER] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1928) ; LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949) ; QUATRE CENTS COUPS, LES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1959) ; MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934) ; TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953) ; WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ; TOP HAT (US, Mark Sandrich, 1935) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961) ; SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1956) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 493-503ISBN: 0060416297 (pbk.)Order Received: 2000Order Type: DonationLON: 3664711
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Film Genre : theory and criticism / edited by Barry K. Grant Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1977.
Call No: 622 FILAuthor: Grant, Barry K. (ed) Source: USPlace: Metuchen, NJPublisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.PubDate: 1977PhysDes: viii, 249 p. ; 23 cm.Subject: THEORY ; CRITICISM ; GENRES Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 212-237.ISBN: 081081059XDonation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: -- acknowledgements p v -- introduction p1 -- Part One -- Leopards and history: The problem of film genre, by Frank D. McConnell p7 -- Genre, by Andrew Tudor p16 -- the idea of genre in the American Cinema, by Edward Buscombe p24 -- Genre film: a classical experience, by Thomas Sobchack p39 -- Genre Film and the Status Quo, by Judith Hess p53 -- Social Implications in the Hollywood genres, by Jean-Loup Bourget p62 -- Part two -- The Screwball Comedy, by Jim Leach p75 -- The bug in the rug: Notes on the disaster genre, by Maurice Yacowar p90 -- Epic, epic, epic, epic, by Raymond Durgnat p108 -- The iconography of the gangster film, by Colin McArthur p118 -- The poetics of horror: more than meets the eye, by D. L White p124 -- The aesthetics of form and convention in the movie musical, by Timothy Scheurer p145 -- Monsters from the Id, by Margaret Tarratt p161 -- Winning the weepstakes: the problems of American Sports Movies, by Nora Sayre p182 -- Genre and movies [the western], by Douglas Pye p195 -- bibliography: theory p212, comedy films p214, crime films p215, disaster films p217, epic films p217, erotic films p218, gangster films p220, horror films p221, musical films p223, science fiction films p225, sports films p228, war films p228, western films p230, miscellaneous p235, addendum p236, index p239 --
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Film in society / edited by Arthur Asa Berger New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Books, 1980.
Call No: 67(049.32) BERAuthor: Berger, Arthur Asa Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, USAPublisher: Transaction BooksPubDate: 1980PhysDes: 151 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; THX 1138 4EB (US, George Lucas, 1967) ; CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISIE, LE (FR/SP, Luis Bunuel, 1972) ; AMARCORD (IT/FR, Frederico Fellini, 1973) Summary: "Every important genre found in film has been reviewed during the past fifteen years in Society magazine, as has the art of significant directors and pictures. Many of these reviews, compiled here for the first time, have a societal focus and are concerned with what the films reveal or reflect about the societies in which they were produced. They recognise, however, the aesthetic and social dimensions of film and do not neglect such matters as performance, editing and style. Throughout these reviews are discussions of images, symbolism, techniques employed by directors and genre analyses. This collection explores and is concerned with the sociopolitical and aesthetic impact of this art form and its effect on such topics as socialization, technology, racism, and sexuality. Readers will find reviews by sociologists, psychologists, pyschiatrists, political scientists and others- each offering illuminating insights and revealing analyses of these important films. An introduction by the editor focuses on the different techniques used in analyzing films. Important stills from many of the films are also included. This book will stimulate the scholar, the student, and the layman interested in film and the society behind and reflected in the films. " - BOOK BLURBNotes: Consists of reviews originally published in Society magazine.ISBN: 0878552456Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010Contents: Berger, A. A. Introduction: Society on film, film in Society.--Coles, R. Hollywood's new social criticism.--Peterson, R. A. Nashville and America in one dimension.--Walling, W. Chinatown.--Silver, I. All in the Mafia family: The Godfather.--Beck, B. The overdeveloped society: THX 1138.--Hecht, C. Total institutions on celluloid: Wiseman Films.--Rubenstein, R. E. Sputtering fires of Black revolution: BURN!--Horowitz, I. L. The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.--Ledeen, M. A. Amarcord.--Mellen, J. On Lina Wertmuller.--Lewis, G. H. Culture, Kubrick, and Barry Lyndon.--Clavir, J. Black spookery: Blacula, Dracula A.D. 1972.--Slade, J. W. Recent trends in pornographic films.--Shatzkin, R. Disaster epics: cashing in on vicarious experience.--Jowett, G. Bibliography: a selected group of books on film and society (p. 143-151)
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Film Moments : criticism, history, theory / edited by Tom Brown and James Walters London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2010.
Call No: 62(04) FILAuthor: Brown, Tom ; Walters, James Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film InstitutePubDate: 2010PhysDes: xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: FILM ; CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; THEORY Summary: "The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide selection of key scenes aross a broad spectrum of national cinemas, historical periods and genres, featuring films by renowned auteurs including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli and important contemporary directors such as Pedro Costa, Zhang Ke Jia and Quentin Tarantino, addressing films including City Lights, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, 8 1/2, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Conte d'ete, United 93, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema" -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781844573356Contents: -- Shadow play and dripping teat The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Tom Gunning -- Between melodrama and realism Under the Skin of the City (2001) / Laura Mulvey -- Internalising the musical The Band Wagon (1953) / Andrew Klevan -- The visitor's discarded clothes in Theorem (1968) / Stella Bruzzi -- Style and sincerity in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) / James Walters -- The moves Blood (1989) / Adrian Martin -- The properties of images Lust for Life (1956) / Steve Neale -- Two views over water action and absorption in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) / Edward Gallafent -- Making an entrance Bette Davis's first appearance in Jezebel (1938) / Martin Shingler -- A narrative parenthesis in Life is Beautiful (1997) / Deborah Thomas -- The end of summer Conte d'e´te´ (1996) / Jacob Leigh -- Enter Lisa Rear Window (1954) / Douglas Pye -- Opening up The Secret Garden (1993) / Susan Smith -- A magnified meeting in Written on the Wind (1956) / Steven Peacock -- "Everything is connected, and everything matters" relationships in I [heart] Huckabees (2004) / John Gibbs -- The Ending of 8 1 / 2 (1963) / Richard Dyer -- Haptic vision and consumerism a moment from Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924) / Thomas Elsaesser -- Visions of sound in City Lights (1931) / Charles Barr -- "Entertainment and dystopia" Maurice Chevalier performs Avec le sourire (1936) / Tom Brown -- Music, crime and the gaze La Be^te humaine (1938) / Ginette Vincendeau -- Thunder and lightning Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation / Rick Altman -- Hearing, fearing the sonic design of suspense in Cat People (1942) / Helen Hanson -- "I've seen him take his knife--" The Searchers (1956) / R.J. Ellis -- Another story myth and history in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) / Pam Cook -- A sculptural moment the epilogue to Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971) / Mark Broughton -- Star Wars (1977) back and forth in time and space / Jonathan Bignell -- Between freedom and confinement music in The World (2004) / Claudia Gorbman -- Performance, with strings attached Team America's (2004) snub to the actor / Alex Clayton -- E´loge de l'Amour (2001) moments in time / Alison Butler -- Contested endings interpreting The Piano's (1993) final scenes / Barbara Klinger -- Mourning, loss and trauma, and the ambiguities of proper and improper desire in Exotica (1994) / Elizabeth Cowie -- Stepping out of Blockbuster mode the lighting of the beacons in The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003) / Kristin Thompson -- Dorothy's dream mindscreen in The Wizard of Oz (1939) / Bruce F. Kawin -- Looking on and looking the other way Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the racialised ethics of spectatorship / Michele Aaron -- Working through the body textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006) / Lisa Purse -- "I wasn't expecting that!" cognition and shock in Alien's (1979) chestburster scene / Jonathan Frome -- The inflection of a dream in Scarlet Street (1945) / George M. Wilson -- Judy's plan a reading of the "Flashback" sequence in Vertigo (1958) / William Rothman -- index --
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Film review digest annual 1977 / edited by David M. Brownstone and Irene M. Franck Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1978.
Call No: 67(04) FIL "1977"Author: Brownstone, David ; Franck, Irene Source: USPlace: Millwood, NYPublisher: KTO PressPubDate: 1978PhysDes: v. ill. 27 cm.1977-1978Series: Film Review Digest AnnualSubject: CRITICISM Summary: A cumulation of reviews from Film review digest.ISBN: 0527293210
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Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / by Carolyn Jess-Cooke Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Call No: 753.83 JESAuthor: Jess-Cooke, Carolyn Source: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2009PhysDes: viii, 166 p. ; 24 cmSubject: SEQUELS ; FILM ; CRITICISM ; ADAPTATIONS ; HOLLYWOOD ; THEORY ; A.I: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (US, Steven Spielberg, 2001) Summary: "The film sequel has been maligned in popular culture as a vampirish corporative exercise in profit-making and narrative regurgitation. Drawing upon a wide range of examples from early cinema to the twenty-first century, this volume reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema. Now creeping into world cinemas and independent film festivals, the sequel is persistently employed as a vehicle for cross-cultural dialogue and as a structure by which memories and cultural narratives can be circulated across geographical and historical locations. This book aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures. Its account ranges from sequels in recent mainstream cinema, art-house and 'indie' sequels, non-Hollywood sequels, the effects of the domestic market on sequelisation, and the impact of the video game industry on Hollywood." --BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780748626045Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: The age of the $equel: beyond the profit principle -- 1 Before and after the blockbuster: a brief history of the film sequel -- 2 Screaming, slashing, sequelling: what the sequel did to the horror movie -- 3 "It's all up to you!": sequelisation and user-generated content --4 Adventures in Indiewood: sequels in the independent film marketplace -- 5 Signifying Hollywood: sequels in the global economy -- 6 Sequelisation and secondary memory: Steven Spielberg's Artificial intelligence: A. I. (2001) -- references -- index --
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The films of Carlos Saura : the practice of seeing / Marvin D'Lugo Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Call No: 81SAU DLUAuthor: D'Lugo, Marvin Place: Princeton, New JerseyPublisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; SPAIN ; SAURA, CARLOS ; EL DORADO (SP/FR, Carlos Saura, 1988) ; GOLFOS, LOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1959) ; LLANTO POR UN BANDIDO (SP, Carlos Saura, 1963) ; CAZA, LA (SP, Carlos Saura, 1966) ; PEPPERMINT FRAPPE (SP, Carlos Saura, 1967) ; CARMEN (SP, Carlos Saura, 1983) ; STRESS ES TRES TRES (SP, Carlos Saura, 1968) ; JARDIN DE LAS DELICIAS, EL (SP, Carlos Saura, 1970) ; ANA Y LOS LOBOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1972) ; CRIA CUERVOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1976) ; OJOS VENDADOS, LOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1978) ; MAMA CUMPLE 100 ANOS (SP/FR, Carlos Saura, 1979) ; ZANCOS, LOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1984) ; AMOR BRUJO, EL (SP, Carlos Saura, 1986) ; NOCHE OSCURA, LA (SP, Carlos Saura, 1989) ; MADRIGUERA, LA (SP, Carlos Saura, 1969) Summary: An analysis of the films of Carlos Saura from 1959-1989, looking particularly at the influence of Franco's enforced Spanish cultural identity on the filmmakers works.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247).
Includes index.ISBN: 0691031428
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The films of Claire Denis : intimacy on the border / edited by Marjorie Vecchio ; with a foreword by Wim Wenders New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call No: 81DEN FILAuthor: Vecchio, Marjorie ; Wenders, Wim Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; DIRECTORS. FRANCE ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; TIME IN FILMS ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; BEAU TRAVAIL (FR, Claire Denis, 1999) ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; INTRUDER, THE (FR, Claire Denis, 2004)
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VENDREDI SOIR ; VENDREDI SOIR (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) ; WHITE MATERIAL (FR/CM, Claire Denis, 2009) Summary: "The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including 'Chocolat', 'Beau travail' and 'White Material' explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualising the complications of such dualities. Following a foreword by Wim Wenders, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, neo-colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers familiar with Denis's working style and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781848859548Contents: --List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Foreword: 'Klarchen'
--Part I Interviews -- 'To let the image sing': Conversations with Dickon Hinchliffe and Stuart Staples: Martine Beugnet -- Interview with Nelly Quettier: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Alex Descas: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
-- Part II Relations -- La famille Denis: Catherine Wheatley -- Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's 'I Can't Sleep': Sam Ishii-Gonzales -- Beyond the other: grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis: James S. Williams --
-- Part III Global citizenship -- Beyond postcolonialism? From 'Chocolat' to 'White Material': Cornelia Ruhe -- 'Trouble Every Day: the neo-colonialists bite back: Florence Martin -- Forgiveness and employment: a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis: Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos -- 'The Intruder' according to Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
--Part IV Within film -- Delivering: Claire Denis's opening sequences: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Rhythms of nationality: Denis and dance: Laura McMahon -- That interrupting feeling: interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's 'L'Intrus': Firoza Elavia -- Points of flight, lines of fracture: Claire Denis's uncanny landscape: Henrik Gustafsson -- Arthouse/grindhouse: Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity': Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy
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The films of Douglas Sirk : exquisite ironies and magnificent obsessions / Tom Ryan Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, [2019].
Call No: 81SIR RYAAuthor: Ryan, Tom Source: USPlace: Jackson, MississippiPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: [2019]PhysDes: 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: FILM ; GERMANY ; CRITICISM ; DIRECTORS ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; IMITATION OF LIFE (US, Douglas Sirk, 1959) Summary: "Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film's great directors. Sirk worked in Europe during the 1930s, mainly for Germany's UFA studios, and then in America in the 1940s and '50s. The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides an overview of his entire career, including Sirk's work on musicals, comedies, thrillers, war movies, and westerns. One of the great ironists of the cinema, Sirk believed rules were there to be broken. Whether defying the decrees of Nazi authorities trying to turn film into propaganda or arguing with studios that insisted characters' problems should always be solved and that endings should always restore order, what Sirk called "emergency exits" for audiences, Sirk always fought for his vision. Offering fresh insights into all of the director's films and situating them in the culture of their times, critic Tom Ryan also incorporates extensive interview material drawn from a variety of sources, including his own conversations with the director. Furthermore, his enlightening study undertakes a detailed reconsideration of the generally overlooked novels and plays that served as sources for Sirk's films, as well as providing a critical survey of previous Sirk commentary, from the time of the director's "rediscovery" in the late 1960s up to the present day." -- Provided by publisher.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: pages 257-265.ISBN: 9781496822376Contents: Chapter One: Detlef Sierck in Europe -- Chapter Two: American Beginnings: The European Legacy -- Chapter Three: In the Shadows: Sirk and the Noir Inclination -- Chapter Four: The Uncomfortable Comedies -- Chapter Five: Sirk and God: 'The Pure Ambiguity of Experience' -- Chapter Six: Pastoral Yearnings: Sirk and the Musical -- Chapter Seven: Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the Idea of the Hero -- Chapter Eight: Sirk, the Family Melodrama, and the Production Code -- Chapter Nine: Sirk and John M. Stahl: Adaptations and Remakes -- Chapter Ten: Out of the Past -- Chapter Eleven: Into the Future: Sirk's Legacy.
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The films of Jean-Luc Godard : seeing the invisible / David Sterritt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Call No: 81GOD STEAuthor: Sterritt, David Source: UK/USPlace: CambridgePublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Cambridge film classicsSubject: CRITICISM ; AESTHETICS ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; MY LIFE TO LIVE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
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JE VOUS SALUE MARIE ; JE VOUS SALUE MARIE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) ; NOUVELLE VAGUE (Fr, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990) Summary: "The films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's revolutionary New Wave movement in the early 1960s, through a period of drastic political experimentation in the late 1960s and 1970s, to a current introspective period in which he explores issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, Godard's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. He then traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films: Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numero deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague. Also included is a concise analysis of his work in video, television, and mixed-media formats. Linking works by Godard to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Filmography: p. 281-290
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and indexISBN: 0521589711Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Breathless -- 3. My Life to Live -- 4. Weekend -- 5. Numero deux -- 6. Hail Mary -- 7. Nouvelle Vague -- 8. Video and Television -- notes -- select bibliography -- filmography -- index --
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The flash of capital : film and geopolitics in Japan / Eric Cazdyn Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Call No: 71(520) CAZAuthor: Cazdyn, Eric Source: USPlace: Durham, NCPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2002PhysDes: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: JAPAN ; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS. JAPAN ; CRITICISM. JAPAN ; ADAPTATIONS. JAPAN ; OZU YASUJIRO ; MIZOGUCHI KENJI ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; KINUGASA TEINOSUKE ; OSHII MAMORU ; TSUKAMOTO SHINYA ; OKUZAKI KENZO ; IMAMURA SHOHEI ; OSHIMA NAGISA ; YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Hara Kazuo, 1987) ; ROJO NO REIKON (JA, M. Murata, 1924) ISBN: 0822329395Contents: I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation -- II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital -- III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic -- IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur -- V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History -- VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics.ID2: 291
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Focus on Films in Australasian Cinema (11/2/1983) vol.12 iss.2 p.5
Author: Salter, Denbeigh PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NIGHT SHIFT (US, Ron Howard, 1982) ; SWORD AND THE SORCERER, THE (US, Albert Pyun, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; CRITICISM Summary: Reviews of 'Blade Runner', 'Night Shift', and 'The Sword and the Sorcerer' by Denbeigh Salter.
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Focus on Films in Australasian Cinema (12/11/1982) vol.11 iss.20 p.8
Author: Salter, Denbeigh PhysDes: ArticleSubject: WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) ; LONELY HEARTS (AT, Paul Cox, 1982) ; AMATEUR, THE (US, Charles Jarrot, 1982) ; CRITICISM Summary: Denbeigh Salter's thgouhts on 'We of the Never Never', 'Lonely Hearts', and 'The Amateur'.
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Footnotes to the film / edited by Charles Davy London: Lovat Dickson Ltd, Readers' Union, 1938.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 003 FOOAuthor: Davy, Charles Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Lovat Dickson Ltd; Readers' UnionPubDate: 1938PhysDes: 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject: PRODUCTION ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; DIRECTION ; ACTING ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; SCRIPTWRITING ; COMEDIES ; CARTOONS ; COSTUMES ; COSTUME DESIGNING ; SET DESIGNING ; SETS ; ART DIRECTION ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; COLOUR ; REALISM IN FILMS ; UNITED KINGDOM ; HOLLYWOOD ; USA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; CRITICISM ; CENSORSHIP ; SOCIETIES, FILM Notes: Includes contributor biographies and indexDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Includes essays by Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Basil Wright, Graham Greene, Alberto Cavalcanti, John Betjeman, Maurice Jaubert, Paul Nash, John Grierson, Alexander Korda, Basil Dean, Maurice Kann, Elizabeth Bowen, Sidney L. Bernstein, Alistair Cooke, Forsyth Hardy, Charles Davy
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The Frodo franchise : the Lord of the rings and modern Hollywood / Kristin Thompson Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Call No: 79LOR THOAuthor: Thompson, Kristin Source: USPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xxi, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; LORD OF THE RINGS, THE ( US, PETER JACKSON, 2001) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2003) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2002) Summary: "In writing The Frodo Franchise: "The Lord of the Rings" and Modern Hollywood, Kristin Thompson enjoyed unprecedented access to the project's insiders. She interviewed seventy-six people - from Peter Jackson to fan webmasters to producers of the video games to directors of the DVD supplements to tour operators in New Zealand, among many others. She spent weeks on site while the third part of the trilogy was being finished - the ultimate inside vantage point - and the resulting book captures the full dimensions of the struggle to get Rings to the screen."
"Thompson examines the movie's scripting and design as well as the new technologies deployed to produce the films and the all-important videogames and DVDs. She recounts how Jackson, then a little-known director with no hits to his credit, made the startling suggestion of shooting all three epic parts of J. R. R.Tolkien's classic simultaneously and how Jackson then, in realizing his vision, enormously expanded a few small companies into a world-class filmmaking complex. She profiles the fans whose websites provided the film with a wealth of free publicity. Thompson's own enthusiasm - she is a longtime devotee of the novels - and her expertise as a respected film historian underlie her discussion of the impact Rings has had on the companies that made the film and its related products, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and, surprisingly, on independent cinema."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780520247741Language: EnglishContents: Introduction : sequel-itis -- Pt. 1. The film -- 1. Prudent aggression -- 2. Not your father's Tolkien -- 3. Handcrafting a blockbuster -- Pt. 2. Building the franchise -- 4. Flying billboards and FAQs -- 5. Click to view trailer -- 6. Fans on the margins, pervy Hobbit fanciers, and partygoers -- Pt. 3. Beyond the movie -- 7. Licenses to print money -- 8. Interactive Middle-earth -- Pt. 4. The lasting power of the rings -- 9. Fantasy come true -- 10. Right in your own backyard.
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From Madea to media mogul : theorizing Tyler Perry / edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre ; foreword by Eric Pierson Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Call No: 81PER FROAuthor: Russworm, TreaAndrea M. (editor) ; Sheppard, Samantha N. (editor) ; Bowdre, Karen M. (editor) Source: USPlace: Jackson, MississippiPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xxxiv, 255 pages ; 24 cmSubject: BLACKS IN FILMS ; FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; CRITICISM ; PERRY, TYLER Summary: "For over a decade Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as Madea, a self-proclaimed "mad black woman," not afraid to brandish a gun or a scalding pot of grits. But to others who watch the film industry, he is the businessman who by age thirty-six had sold more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos, $20 million in merchandise, and was producing 300 projects each year viewed by 35,000 every week. Is the commercially successful African American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer "malt liquor for the masses," an "embarrassment to the race," or is he a genius who has directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas, or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social satires? Do Perry's flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional tales that affirm the notion of a "post-racial" society? This volume makes the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. The essays challenge value-judgment criticism and offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work"-- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781496820174Contents: -- foreword - centrality / Eric Pierson -- acknowledgments -- introduction - respectability -- Media Studies Has Ninety-Nine Problems ... But Tyler Perry Ain't One of Them? / TreaAndrea M Russworm -- ch 1 Platforms -- "Tyler Perry Presents ...": The Cultural Projects, Partnerships, and Politics of Perry's Media Platforms / Samantha N Sheppard -- ch 2 Chitlin -- From the Margins to Center Stage: Tyler Perry's Popular African American Theatre / Rashida Z Shaw -- ch 3 Gospel -- Tyler Perry, T D Jakes, and the Birth of Gospel Cinema / Keith Corson -- ch 4 Affect -- Worship at the Altar of Perry: Spectatorship and the Aesthetics of Testimony / Brandeise Monk-Payton -- ch 5 Cinephilia -- "All My Life I Had to Fight": Domestic Trauma and Cinephilia in Tyler Perry's Archive of Feelings / Ben Raphael Sher -- ch 6 Disguise -- "Who I Am Is Conflicting with This Dress I Got On": Madea's Intimate Public and the Possibilities and Limitations of False Disguise / Rachel Jessica Daniel -- ch 7 Niche -- One Man Hollywood: The Decline of Black Creative Production in Post-Network Television / Aymar Jean Christian and Khadijah Costley White -- ch 8 Thirst -- Bring the Payne: The Erasure of the Black Sitcom and the Emergence of Tyler Perry's House of Payne / Artel Great -- ch 9 Exceptionalism -- Spike and Tyler's Beef: Blackness, Authenticity, and Discourses of Black Exceptionalism / Karen M Bowdre -- ch 10 Mogul -- The Case for Calling George Lucas the "White Tyler Perry" / Paul N Reinsch -- ch 11 Rebrand -- To Brand and Rebrand: Questioning the Futurity of Tyler Perry / Leah Aldridge -- epilgue Madea - Playing with the Changes / Miriam J Petty -- contributors -- index --
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Gaslight melodrama : from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood / Guy Barefoot New York: Continuum, c2002.
Call No: 733 BARAuthor: Barefoot, Guy Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: ContinuumPubDate: c2002PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; CRITICISM ; GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940) ; HANGOVER SQUARE (US, John Brahm, 1945) ; BRITANNIA MEWS (UK, Jean Negulesco, 1949) ; [DOCTOR] DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (US, Victor Fleming, 1941) Summary: "In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out onto the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a "cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century." For another, it seemed that for Hollywood there was "no world of today save the world of London by gaslight." In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourses that gave rise to such films. The main focus of the book is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Hangover Square. Gaslight Melodrama also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama amid Victorian or Edwardian furnishings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century; 19th century discussions of gas-lighting in street, home, and theater; and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.ISBN: 0826453341Contents: 1. Introduction: Gaslight, Gaslight, and Gaslight Melodrama -- 2. Industrial Light and Magic: Images of Gaslight from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century -- Gaslight and the Nineteenth Century -- From Stage to Screen -- Toward the Modern City -- 3. Gothic Sources/London Discourses: The Dark Metropolis on Page and Screen -- Nineteenth-Century London at 20th Century-Fox -- Londonania -- Descent and Invention -- From the Medieval to the Suburban -- 4. Lady Isabel, Dr. Jekyll, and Other Victorians: Twentieth-Century Reception, Reaction, and Reconstruction -- Jekyll and Hyde -- America -- Britain -- Victorians, Vampires, and Piano Legs -- 5. The Furniture in the Attic: Back to the Victorian -- The Process of Historical Reconstruction -- Victoria the Great -- New Victorian and Neo-Victorianism -- Surrealism, Lost Forms, Hollywood -- Elegance, Wretchedness, and Age -- 6. The Body in the Canal: Decorum and Melodrama in the Period Film -- House by the River -- Ivy and Others.
The Suspect -- Critique and Closure -- 7. Melodrama and the Construction of the Past.ID2: 168
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Glued to the box : television criticism from the Observer 1979-82 / Clive James London: Pan, 1983.
Call No: 67(04) JAMAuthor: James, Clive, 1939 Place: LondonPublisher: PanPubDate: 1983PhysDes: 280 pSubject: CRITICISM, TV. Notes: Picador edition; Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1983ISBN: 0330281747LON: abn87117025; 5266246
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Going Steady / Pauline Kael Boston: Little Brown & Co., c1968.
Call No: 67 (049.32) KAEAuthor: Kael, Pauline Edition: 1stSource: USPlace: BostonPublisher: Little Brown & Co.PubDate: c1968PhysDes: xiii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967) ; BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE (UK, William Friedkin, 1968) ; BOSTON STRANGLER, THE (US, Richard Fleischer, 1968) ; BROTHERHOOD, THE (US, Martin Ritt, 1968) ; BULLITT (US, Peter Yates, 1968) ; BYE BYE BRAVERMAN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1968) ; CANDY (FR,/IT/US, Christian Marquand, 1968) ; CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1936) ; CHARLIE BUBBLES (UK, Albert Finney, 1967) ; LA CINA E VICINA (IT, Marco Bellocchio, 1967) ; CHARLY (US, Ralph Nelson, 1968) ; CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (UK, Ken Hughes, 1968) ; DOCTOR FAUSTUS (GB/IT, Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, 1967) ; FACES (US, John Cassavetes, 1968) ; FINIAN'S RAINBOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1968) ; FIXER, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1968) ; FUNNY GIRL (US, William Wyler, 1968) ; HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH (UK, Clive Donner, 1968) ; ICE STATION ZEBRA (US, John Sturges, 1968) ; IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968) ; I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS! (US, Hy Averback, 1968) ; JOANNA (UK, Michael Same, 1968) ; KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, THE (US, Robert Aldrich, 1968) ; LA CHINOISE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; MAGUS, THE (US, Guy Green, 1968) ; MODEL SHOP, THE ( FR/US, Jacques Demy, 1969) ; NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY, THE (US, Hubert Cornfield, 1968) ; NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1968) ; NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (US, Jack Smight, 1968) ; PLANET OF THE APES (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1967) ; POOR COW (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1967) ; PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, THE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1968) ; PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967) ; ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) ; SECRET CEREMONY (UK, Joseph Losey, 1969) ; SIMON DEL DESIERTO (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1965) ; SPLIT, THE (US, Gordon Flemyng, 1968) ; STALKING THE MOON (US, Robert Mulligan, 1969) ; BAISERS VOLES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1968) ; SUBJECT WAS ROSES, THE (US, Ulu Grosbard, 1968) ; SWEET NOVEMBER (US, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968) ; THREE IN THE ATTIC (US, Richard Wilson, 1968) ; YELLOW SUBMARINE (UK, George Dunning, 1968) ; YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT (US, Barry Feinstein, 1968) Notes: "An Atlantic monthly press book"; "Movie reviews originally published in the New Yorker, Jan. 1968-Mar. 1969"Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: --foreword -- 1: movies by the week: first sequence p1 -- Movies as Opera , 'China is Near' p3 -- Celebrities make spectacles of themselves, 'Wild 90' p9 -- Ciphers, 'How to save a marriage- and ruin your life'/ 'Sebastian' p18 -- Intentions, 'Poor cow' p25 -- Making Lawrence more Lawrentian, 'The Fox' p29 -- Apes Must Be Remembered, Charlie, 'Planet of the Apes'/ 'Sweet November'/' Doctor Faustus' p36 -- A Great Folly, and a Small One, Mae March's death and 'Intolerance'/'Charlie Bubbles' p42 -- That Clean Old Peasant Again, 'The Two of Us'/'Bye Bye Braverman'/ 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' / 'A Matter of Innocence' p49 -- Business as Usual, 'We Still Kill the Old Way' / 'The Secret War of Harry Frig' p55 -- The Freedom to Make Product, '30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia' / 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' p59 -- O Pioneer!, 'The Producers' / 'Op the Junction' / 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' p66 -- The Old Wave, 'Benjamin '/ 'No Way to Treat a Lady' p72 -- A Minority Movie,'La Chinoise' p76 -- 2: Trash, Art, and the Movies p85 -- 3: Movies by the Week: Second Sequence p131 -- Bravo!, 'Funny girl' p132 -- Weekend in Hell, 'Weekend' p138 -- War as Vaudeville, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' / 'Les Biches' / 'You are What You Eat' / 'Duffy' / 'Charly' p145 -- 'She Came at Me in Sections', 'Romeom and Juliet' / 'I Love You, Alice b. Toklas!' / ' Finian's Rainbow' / 'The Subject was Roses' p153 -- Cripes!, 'Star!' / 'Bullit" / 'The Boston Strangler' p161 -- A Fresh Start, 'Pretty Poison' / 'Secret Ceremony' / 'Barbarella' p168 -- Lioness in Winter, 'The Lion in Winter' p174 -- Muddling Through, 'The Shoes of the Fisherman' / 'The Split' / 'Head' p179 -- Metamorphosis of the Beatles, 'Yellow Submarine' p187 -- the Corrupt and the Primitive, 'Joanna' / 'Faces ' p193 -- The Concealed Art of Carol Reed, 'Oliver!' p200 -- Frightening the Horses, 'The Killing of Sister Geroge' / 'The Fixer' / 'The Girl on a Motorcycle' / 'A Flea in Her Ear' / 'The Magus' / 'The Birthday Party' / 'Greetings ' p206 -- A Sign of Life, 'Shame' p214 -- Big Misses, 'Ice Station Zebra' / 'Candy' / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' p222 -- Filmed Theatre, 'the Sea Gull' p228 -- Baggy Pants, 'The Night they Raided Minsky's' / 'The Sergeant' p237 -- Son of Little Ceaser, 'The Brotherhood' p243 -- Overkill? 'The Stalking Moon' p248 -- Saintliness, 'Simon of the Desert' p254 -- The Lady from Across the Sea, 'Model Shop' p263 -- He Walks in Beauty, 'Mayerling' / 'Hell in the Pacific' p273 -- The Small Winner, 'Stolen Kisses' / 'Three in the Attic' / 'the Night of the Following Day' p273 -- SChool Days, School Days 'If...' / 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' p279 -- index p289 --
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Green Documentary : environmental documentary in the twenty-first Century / by Helen Hughes Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2014.
Call No: 761 HUGAuthor: Hughes, Helen Source: UK/USPlace: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USAPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2014PhysDes: 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CRITICISM ; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; ECOLOGY FILMS Summary: "During the first decade of the twenty first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues, representing the world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, has been met with critical and popular acclaim.Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon." -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [143] - 156) and indexISBN: 9781783201839Contents: -- acknowledgements -- chapter 1: introduction: contemplation, irony, argument -- chapter 2: the institutional context -- chapter 3: the contemplative response -- chapter 4: the ironic response -- chapter 5: the argumentative response -- chapter 6: the material response -- works cited -- index --
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Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd street, and beyond / edited by Austin Fishers and Johnny Walker New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Call No: 722.81 GRIAuthor: Fisher, Austin (ed.) ; Walker, Johnny (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2016PhysDes: 266 pages ; 25 cmSeries: Global exploitation cinemasSubject: EXPLOITATION FILMS ; BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's ; EROTIC FILMS ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM Summary: "The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres.
The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already understood." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781628927498Contents: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond -- Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker -- Chapter 1 -- Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory / Glenn Ward -- Chapter 2 -- Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses / Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia / Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 / Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film / Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies / Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story / Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western / Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle / David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper / Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- index --
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Halliwell's hundred : a nostalgic choice of films from the golden age / Leslie Halliwell Herts: Granada Publishing, 1982.
Call No: 67(049.32) HALAuthor: Halliwell, Leslie Source: UKPlace: HertsPublisher: Granada PublishingPubDate: 1982PhysDes: 403 p. ; 24 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM Summary: A hundred detailed revaluations of films which have delighted him over half a century of filmgoing. The films are not offered as the greatest ever made. Halliwell reminds his readers of films whose principal aim was to entertain. [Taken from inside dust jacket.]ISBN: 0246113308Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Here It Comes : The Most Underrated Movie of the Year in Lumiere (September 1970) vol.1 iss.4 p.26-27
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A heritage of horror : the English Gothic Cinema 1946-1972 / by David Pirie London: Gordon Fraser, 1973.
Call No: 735.2 PIRAuthor: Pirie, David Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Gordon FraserPubDate: 1973PhysDes: 192 p. : illus. ; 22 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; HORROR FILMS. UK ; CRITICISM Summary: "The bloodthirsty Count Dracula and the vengeful creation of Baron Frankenstein gripped the English imagination at their birth in the nineteenth century. They rose again in the 1950s with a host of nightmarish creatures, re-created by Hammer Films. The emergent genre has been the significant major casualty of the persistent refusal to take English commercial films seriously and yet the horror film is the only cinematic myth which Britain can claim as its own. The English horror film has been emulated abroad but the essential English quality, that fine balance between eroticism and blatant sexuality, between an organic horror and the desire to shock or titillate, is usually lost. The specifically English character of the genre is rooted in the nature of the Gothic novels from which it has developed and the author traces the English fascinaion for horror from this literature to the birth and development of Hammer Films and its rivals. In this book, the work of the directors who have made horror films is examined and a large number of specific films are discussed and illustrated." - BOOK BLURBISBN: 0900406275Contents: -- introduction p8 -- 1: the characteristics of English gothic literature p11 -- 'the tempestuous loveliness of terror' p11 -- surrealism and the gothic tradition p19 -- 2: the identification of Hammer p22 -- Hammer's origins p25 -- the press reaction p40 -- Hammer after Frankenstein p42 -- 3: the world of Terence Fisher p50 -- 4: approaches to Frankenstein: Fisher, Francis and Sangster -- 5: approaches to Dracula : Fisher, Francis, and Baker p82 -- 6: other approaches to horror: Sadian movies p99 -- the Amicus factor p110 -- 7: three satellite directors p114-- Don Sharp p114 -- John Giling p119 -- Vernon Sewell p125 -- 8: science fiction, exoticism, and psychosis p131 -- 9: a renaissance of themes and ideas? p145 -- Michael Reeves p145 -- new approaches to horror since Reeves p155 -- 10: towardsa new horror mythology p165 -- filmography and index --
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Horizons west: directing the western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood London: British Film Institute, 2004.
Call No: 736 KITAuthor: Kitses, Jim Edition: 2nd ed.Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 343 p. ; 23 cmSubject: WESTERNS ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; Peckinpah, Sam ; LEONE, SERGIO ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; MANN, ANTHONY ; BOETTICHER, BUDD ; FORD, JOHN Notes: An expanded update on the 1969 edition, ‘Horizons West’ focuses on the ‘Western’ genre. It pays attention to the work of particular film directors (John Ford, Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and Clint Eastwood) and the many themes that these people directed. Includes a brief assessment of criticism of the Western influenced by postmodernism and other cultural movements.ISBN: 1844570509
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Hours in the dark : essays on cinema / T.G. Vaidyanathan Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Call No: 62 VAIAuthor: Vaidyanathan, T.G. Source: IIPlace: DelhiPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 289 p ; 22cmSubject: CRITICISM ; BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) ; Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969) ; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975) ; GODFATHER PART II, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; ROSELAND (US, James Ivory, 1977) ; PADRE PADRONE (IT, Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, 1977) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991) ; GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982) ; JUNOON (II, Shyam Benegal, 1979) ; TRIKAL (II, Shyam Benegal, 1986) ; PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955) ; NAYAK (II, Satyajit Ray, 1966) ; SEEMABADDHA (II, Satyajit Ray, 1971) ; SHATRANJ KE KHILARI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1977) Summary: " T. G Vaidyanathan has been the reviewer most film-makers, critics and movie-goers have always paid attention to. This collection of essays covers nearly three decades of film criticism by him. The book gathers together his essays on individual films in several languages, both Indian and foreign. The essays are energetic and acerbic, often partisan, but never dull. Written in an approachable style, they bring alive years of movie-watching in a manner neither entirely journalistic nor academic. The films discussed range from the Taviani brothers' Padre Padrone to Jonathon Demme's The Silence of the lambs and Benegal's Trikaal. There is a special section on Satyajit Ray, general pieces on the concerns of modern cinema in India, as well as accounts of Vaidyanathyan's encounters with directors such as Roman Polanski and Tomas Gutierrez Alea. The book includes an annotated bibliography with suggestions for further reading" - BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289)ISBN: 019563764XDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: preface -- perspectives from the west -- 1. towards a century of cinema -- 2 -- denouement in the modern film -- 3 --- western or anti-western ? -- 4 -- the Welles charisma -- 5 -- fassbinder: breaking the heart without betraying the mind -- 6 -- Bergman's swan song -- 7 -- Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-up (1966) -- 8 -- Costa-Gavras, Z (1969) -- 9 -- Milos Foreman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) -- 10 -- Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather Part II (1975) -- 11 -- James Ivory, Roseland (1977) -- 12 -- Vittorio and Paulo Taviani, PAdre Padrone (1977) -- 13 -- Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) -- 14 -- Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981) -- 15 -- Jordan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) -- 16 -- Martin Scorcese, Cape Fear (1991) -- Some aspects of Modern Indian Cinema: -- 1 --- The problems of post-colonial cinema -- 2 -- art and commerce: is there a choice? -- 3 -- films from literature -- 4 -- Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (1982) -- 5 -- Aparna Sen, 36 Chowinghee Lane (1981) -- 6 -- Aparna Sen, Paroma (1985) -- Shyam Benegal, Junoon (1978) -- 8 -- Shyam Benegal, Trikaal (1985) -- Satyajit Ray: Artist and craftsman -- 1 -- The humanism of Ray -- 2 -- Pather Panchali (1955) -- 3 -- Death in the Apu trilogy -- 4 -- Nayak (1966) -- 5 -- Seemabaddha (1971) -- 6 -- Shantranj Ke Khiladi (1977) -- A view of the south -- 1 -- Kannada cinema: an overview -- 2 -- the cinema of girish Kasaravalli -- 3 -- Girish Kasaravalli, Tabrana KAthe (1987) -- 4 -- Girish Kasaravalli, Bannada Vesha (1988) -- 5 -- Girish Karnad, B.V Karanth, Vamsha Vrisksha (1971) -- 6 -- B.V Karanth, Chomana Dudi (1975) -- 7 -- Pattabhi Rama Reddy, Chanda Marutha (1977) -- 8 -- Prema Karanth, Phiyamma (1982) -- 9 -- Baragur Ramachandrappa, Kote (1989) -- 10 -- Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Swayamvaram (1972) -- 11 M. T Vasudevan Nair, Nirmalayam (1973) -- 12 -- P. Madhavan, Mythological Syndrome in Tamil Cinema -- 13 -- K. Balachander, Arangetram (1973) -- 14 -- J. Mahendran, Udhiri Pookal (1979) -- Conversations -- 1 -- Alea and the Cuban revolution -- 2 -- a portrait of Polanski -- 3 -- Youssef Chahine, 'Lilli Marlene' and the El Alamain Battle -- 4 -- Marianne Ahrne and the Invarare -- annotated bibliography --URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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How to appreciate motion pictures : a manual of motion-picture criticism prepared for high-school students / by Edger Dale New York: Macmillan, 1933.
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How to watch television / edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Call No: 67(04) THOAuthor: Thompson, Ethan ; Mittell, Jason Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New York University PressPubDate: 2013PhysDes: x, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AUDIENCES ; CRITICISM, TV. ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FEMINISM AND TV ; INDUSTRY, TV. ; INDUSTRY, TV. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND TV ; POLITICS AND TV ; YOUTUBE Summary: "We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it "good" or "bad". Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program's cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context. How to Watch Television brings together forty original essays from today's leading scholars on television culture, writing about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a particular television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. The essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis - suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate. The contributors discuss a wide range of television programs past and present, covering many formats and genres, broadcast and cable, providing a broad representation of the programs that are likely to be covered in a media studies course. While the book primarily focuses on American television, important programs with international origins and transnational circulation are also covered. Addressing television series from the medium's earliest days to contemporary online transformations of television, How to Watch Television is designed to engender classroom discussion among television critics of all backgrounds." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes indexISBN: 9780814763988Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an owner's manual for television: Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell --; I. TV form: aesthetics and style -- 'Homicide': realism: Bambi L. Haggins -- 'House': narrative complexity: Amanda D. Lotz -- 'Life on Mars': transnational adaptation: Christine Becker -- 'Mad Men': visual style: Jeremy G. Butler -- 'Nip/Tuck': popular music: Ben Aslinger -- 'Phineas & Ferb': children's television: Jason Mittell -- 'The Sopranos': episodic storytelling: Sean O'Sullivan -- 'Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!': metacomedy: Jeffrey Sconce; II. Television representations: social identity and cultural politics -- '24': challenging stereotypes: Evelyn Alsultany -- 'The Amazing Race': global othering: Jonathan Gray -- 'The Cosby Show': representing race: Christine Acham -- 'The Dick Van Dyke Show': queer meanings: Quinn Miller -- 'Eva Luna': Latino/a audiences: Hector Amaya -- 'Glee'/'House Hunters International': gay narratives: Ron Becker -- 'Grey's Anatomy': feminism: Elana Levine -- 'Jersey Shore': ironic viewing: Susan J. Douglas; III. TV politics: democracy, nation, and the public interest -- '30 Days': social engagement: Geoffrey Baym and Colby Gottert -- 'America's Next Top Model': neoliberal labor: Laurie Ouellette -- 'Family Guy': undermining satire: Nick Marx -- 'Fox & Friends': political talk: Jeffrey P. Jones -- 'M*A*S*H': socially relevant comedy: Noel Murray -- 'Parks and Recreation': the cultural forum: Heather Hendershot -- 'Star Trek': serialised ideology: Roberta Pearson -- 'The Wonder Years': televised nostalgia: Daniel Marcus; IV. TV industry: industrial practices and structures -- 'Entertainment Tonight': tabloid news: Anna Helen Petersen -- 'I Love Lucy': the writer-producer: Miranda J. Banks -- 'Modern Family': product placement: Kevin Sandler -- 'Monday Night Football': brand identity: Victoria E. Johnson -- 'NYPD Blue': content regulation: Jennifer Holt -- 'Onion News Network': flow: Ethan Thompson -- 'The Prisoner': cult TV remakes: Matt Hills -- 'The Twilight Zone': landmark television: Derek Kompare; V. TV practices: medium, technology, and everyday life -- 'Autotune the News': remix video: David Guerney -- 'Battlestar Galactica': fans and ancillary content: Suzanne Scott -- 'Everyday Italian': cultivating taste: Michael Z. Newman -- 'Gossip Girl': transmedia technologies: Louisa Stein -- 'It's Fun to Eat': forgotten television: Dana Polan -- 'One Life to Live': soap opera storytelling: Abigail de Kosnik -- 'Samurai Champloo': transnational viewing: Jiwon Ahn -- 'The Walking Dead': adapting comics: Henry Jenkins; Contributors -- Index
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Images of dignity : Barry Barclay and fourth cinema / Stuart Murray Wellington: Huia, 2008.
Call No: 81BAR MURAuthor: Murray, Stuart Source: NZPlace: WellingtonPublisher: HuiaPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xiv, 108 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; PRODUCTION ; DIRECTION ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; NEW ZEALAND ; MAORI CINEMA ; MAORI IN FILMS ; BARCLAY, BARRY ; MATTER OF TASTE, A (NZ, Barry Barclay,1968) ; SPINNINING A YARN (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1971)
ALL THAT WE NEED (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1972)
THERE'S A PROBLEM HERE (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1972 ) TOWN THAT LOST A MIRACLE, THE [TV](NZ,1972)
IN THE COMPANY OF TREES (NZ, Barry Barclay, ; ASHES (NZ,1975) [TV] ; HUNTING hORNS (NZ,1976,) [TV] ; WOMEN IN POWER: INDIRA GANDHI (NZ, 1976) [TV] ; IN SEARCH OF PAKEHATANGA - AUTUMN FIRES (NZ,1977) [TV] ; AKU MAHI WHATU MAORI (NZ, 1977) [TV] ; MY ART OF MAORI WEAVING (NZ,1977) [TV] ; MAHAWELI (NZ, Barry Barclay,1979)
NEGLECTED MIRACLE ,THE (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1985) ; KAMATE! KAMATE! (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987) ; NGATI (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987) ; TE UREWERA (NZ, 1987) [TV] ; TE RUA(NZ/G Barry Barclay, 1991) ; STOREHOUSE, THE( NZ, Barry Barclay,1991) ; FEATHERS OF PEACE, THE (NZ, Barry Barclay, 2000) ; KAIPARA AFFAIR, THE (NZ, Barry Barclay, 2005) Summary: The book looks at the films, television work and documentaries of Barry Barclay, and presents him as a film maker who made a significant contribution to New Zealand's understanding of both its Maori community and bicultural character.Notes: Bibliography: p. 99-103; Includes filmography; Includes indexISBN: 9781869693282
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In Defence of Peckinpah in Lumiere (November, 1972) iss.18 p.7-9
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Independent filmmaking around the Globe / edited by Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2015.
Call No: 210.4 INDAuthor: Baltruschat, Doris (ed.) ; Erickson, Mary P. (ed.) Source: USPlace: TorontoPublisher: University of Toronto PressPubDate: c2015PhysDes: xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Subject: FILMMAKING ; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION ; INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS ; DIRECTORS ; PRODUCERS ; CRITICISM ; EUROPEAN CINEMA ; BRITISH CINEMA ; UNITED KINGDOM ; AUSTRALIA ; PERU ; GREECE ; TURKEY ; IRAQ ; CHINA ; AFRICA ; MALAYSIA ; CANADA ; USA Summary: "Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics make it easier for independent filmmakers to produce films outside both the mainstream global film industry and their own national film systems. Identifying and analyzing the many complex forces that shape the production and distribution of feature films, the authors detail how independent filmmakers create work that reflects independent voices and challenges political, economic, and cultural constraints.
With chapters on the under-explored cinemas of Greece, Turkey, Iraq, China, Malaysia, Peru, and West Africa, as well as traditional production centres such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time." -- TAKEN FROM FIRST PAGE OF BOOKNotes: Includes bibliographical references and filmographyISBN: 9781442626836Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- foreword: producing independently in global industry / David Hamilton -- ackowledgments -- 1.The Meaning of Independence: Concepts, Contexts, and Interpretations / Mary P. Erickson -- pt. One Independent Film vis-a-vis the Local and Global Mainstream -- 2.An Increasingly Global Presence: Contemporary American Independent Cinema outside the United States / Yannis Tzioumakis -- 3.European Union Initiatives for Independent Filmmakers across Europe / Teresa Hoefert de Turegano -- 4.Dependency and Independence in British Independent Film / Erik Knudsen -- 5.From Aussiewood Movies to Guerrilla Filmmaking: Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary Australian Cinema / Mark David Ryan -- 6.Independent Filmmaking in the Peruvian Context: Seeking Meaning / Gabriela Martinez -- pt. Two The Meaning of Independence in Regions of Conflict and Change -- 7.In the Shadow of the Studios, the State, and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece / Lydia Papadimitriou -- 8.Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political Radicalism / Murat Akser -- 9.Filmmaking in Iraq: A Rebirth / Mary P. Erickson -- 10.The Grassroots Perspective: Sixth Generation Cinema and Independent Filmmaking in China / Hongwei Lu -- 11.Independent Filmmaking in Africa: New Voices and Challenges / Martin Mhando -- pt. Three Digital Media and the Independent Voice -- 12.Syiok Sendiri? Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia / Gaik Cheng Khoo -- 13.Independent Filmmaking in the Canadian Arctic / Doris Baltruschat -- 14.Digital Video Films as "Independent" African Cinema / Sheila Petty -- glossary -- filmography -- bibliography -- contributors --
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International Film Guide 2009 : the definitive annual review of world cinema / edited by Ian Haydn Smith London: Wallflower Press, c2009.
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International Film Guide 2010 : the definitive annual review of world cinema / edited by Ian Haydn Smith London: Wallflower, c2010.
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International film guide 2011 : the definitive annual review of world cinema / edited by Ian Haydn Smith Brighton: International film guide, 2011.
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058 INT "2011"Author: Smith, Ian Haydn Edition: 47th ed.Source: UKPlace: BrightonPublisher: International film guidePubDate: 2011PhysDes: 416 p. ; ill. : 25 cmSubject: AWARDS ; FESTIVALS ; CRITICISM Notes: 47th editionISBN: 9781908215000
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International film guide 2012 : the definitive annual review of world cinema / edited by Ian Haydn Smith Brighton: International Film Guide, 2012.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 058 INT "2012"Author: Smith, Ian Haydn Edition: 48th ed.Source: UKPlace: BrightonPublisher: International Film GuidePubDate: 2012PhysDes: 339 p . : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FESTIVALS ; CRITICISM ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; ALFREDSON, TOMAS ; DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC ; DAVIES, TERENCE ; MALICK, TERRENCE ; REFN, NICHOLAS WINDING Notes: 48th editionISBN: 9781908215017Contents: : -- Directors of the Year -- Tomas Alfredson -- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -- Terence Davies -- Terrence Malick -- Nicolas Winding Refn -- DVD Focus -- World Survey -- Algeria -- Argentina -- Armenia -- Australia -- Austria -- Belgium -- Bolivia -- Bosnia & Herzegovina -- Brazil -- Bulgaria -- Canada -- Chile -- China -- Colombia -- Croatia -- Cuba -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- Estonia -- Finland -- France -- Georgia -- Germany -- Greece -- Hong Kong -- Hungary -- Iceland -- India -- Iran -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Kazakhstan -- Lithuania -- Mexico -- Morocco -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Nigeria -- Norway -- Poland -- Portugal -- Romania -- Russia -- Serbia -- Singapore -- Slovakia -- South Africa -- South Korea -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Taiwan -- Thailand -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Ukraine -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Additional Countries -- Burkina Faso -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Chad -- Costa Rica -- Gabon -- Guatemala -- Iraq -- Ivory Coast -- Kyrgyzstan -- Lebanon -- Malaysia -- Mali -- Mauritania -- Nepal -- Palestine -- Qatar -- Senegal -- Tajikistan -- Uzbekistan -- Festival News -- Festival Director Profiles -- Film Festival Calendar -- Leading Festivals -- Festivals and Markets of Note -- index to advertisers --
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Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Call No: 670 INV GRIAuthor: Grieveson, Lee ; Wasson, Haidee Source: UKPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: American Film Institute ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; CRITICISM ; FILM ART MEDIA ; FILM CULTURE ; FILM NOIR ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; FILMOGRAPHIES ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA ; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK] ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOCIETIES, FILM ; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; BARRY, IRIS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; BERGSTROM, JANET ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BURGESS, ERNEST ; BUSCOMBE, ED ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COOK, PAM ; DEREN, MAYA ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HAYS, WILL ; HEATH, STEPHEN ; HUFF, THEODORE ; MACCABE, COLIN ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; PARK, ROBERT ; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR ; PENLEY, CONSTANCE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; RAMSAYE, TERRY ; RICHTER, HANS ; ROTHA, PAUL ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SELDES, GILBERT ; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H ; STERN, SEYMOUR ; THRASHER, FREDRICK ; VOGEL, AMOS ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; WEINBERG, HERMAN G ; WHANNEL, PADDY ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780822342892Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson
-- Making Cinema Knowable --
Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson
Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson
"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick
Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan
-- Making Cinema Educational --
Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson
Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland
Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd
From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen
-- Making Cinema Legible --
Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest
Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis
Little Books / Mark Betz
-- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies --
Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope
Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick
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Is this the end of film critics? in Crikey.com.au (08/02/2017)
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"It's only a movie, Ingrid" : encounters on and off screen / Alexander Walker London: Headline Book Publishing, 1989.
Call No: 67(04) WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Headline Book PublishingPubDate: 1989PhysDes: viii, [312] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FESTIVALS. CANNES ; DR STRANGELOVE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; BOGARDE, DIRK ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; COOPER, GARY ; Crawford, Joan ; CRAWFORD, NOEL ; DAVIS, BETTE ; EVANS, EDITH ; Fellini, Federico ; FORBES, BRYAN ; GARBO, GRETA ; GIELGUD, JOHN ; GRANT, CARY ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; HARVEY, LAURENCE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOWARD, TREVOR ; HUSTON, JOHN ; KAZAN, ELIA ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; Lean, David ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; LOSEY, JOSEPH ; Shakespeare, William ; TRACY, SPENCER ; TYNAN, KENNETH ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; WELLES, ORSON ; ZINNEMANN, FRED ISBN: 0747230218Contents: -- "Do you mean to say they pay you to go to the movies?" -- "Name the six best films you've ever seen" -- Charlie's Angel and the Culture Minister's walking stick -- A day in the hard-playing hard-working life of a far from mad old woman -- Cary Grant and the Harry Lime connection -- The soft words of Mr Rattigan - the hard blows of Mr Russell --- Even Hollywood princesses don't always live happy ever after -- No need to bribe a film festival jury; it can do that for itself -- What made Marlon Brando stop running and find peace at last -- The girl who blew in with the Boston winds -- Peter O'Toole meets himself, two feet tall and blue-eyed, coming back from a trip abroad -- Random thoughts on the Englishness (or otherwise) of English film actors -- Inexactly expressed sentiments about the most private person I know -- "Why this one and not that one, why one event and not the other?"
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Japanese Cinema in Wide Angle (1977) vol.1 iss.4 p.[whole issue]
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Jean-Luc Godard / by Douglas Morrey Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Call No: 81GOD MORAuthor: Morrey, Douglas Source: UK/USPlace: Manchester and New YorkPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 271 p : ill. ; 22 cmSeries: French film directorsSubject: CRITICISM ; FRANCE ; THEORY ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) ; PETIT SOLDAT, LE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) ; MASCULIN-FEMININ (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) ; LA CHINOISE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) ; GAI SAVOIR, LE (FR/GW, Jean-Luc Godard, 1969) ; PRAVDA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1970) ; TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972) ; ICI ET AILLEURS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Mieville, 1976) ; NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975) ; NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975) ; HELAS POUR MOI (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1983) ; HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1997) ; ELOGE DE L'AMOUR (SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) Summary: "This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the early successes of the French New Wave, through the political works of the late 1960s and 1970s and the difficult films of the 1980s, to the recent triumphs of Histoire(s) du cinema and Eloge de l'amour. Drawing on a wide range of literary, filmic and philosophical texts, the book places Godard's work within its intellectual context in France, examining how developments in French culture and thought since 1950 have been mirrored in - and sometimes anticipated by - Godard's films. At the same time, numerous sequences from Godard's films are singled out for close analysis in order to demonstrate how the director's radical approaches to narrative, editing, sound and shot composition have made the cinema into an analytical tool in its own right - a machine for thinking. The book will be useful to all students of Godard's films, and of interest to scholars of modern and contemporary French cinema, culture and thought. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Filmography: p. [244]-262; Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-264) and indexISBN: 0719067596Contents: -- list of plates -- series editors' foreword -- acknowledgments -- 1. necessity or contingency: Godard as film critic, 1950-59 -- 2. scenes from domestic life: 1960-65 -- 3. outside: 1960-62 -- 4. end of the beginning/beginning of the end: 1966-67 -- 5. schooling: 1968-72 -- 6. home movies: 1974-78 -- 7. love and work: 1979-84 -- 8. smiling with regret: 1984-90 -- 9. the sense of an ending: 1991-96 -- 10. old man river: 1998- -- conclusion -- filmography -- select bibliography -- index --
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Joel and Ethan Coen / R. Barton Palmer Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Call No: 81COE PALAuthor: Palmer, R. Barton Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Series: Contemporary film directors / edited by James NaremoreSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; CRITICISM ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN Notes: Includes filmography (pp. [193]-199).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]) and indexISBN: 0252071859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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John Sayles / by David R. Shumway Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2012.
Call No: 81SAY SHUAuthor: Shumway, David R. Source: USPlace: UrbanaPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: c2012PhysDes: 182 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSeries: Contemporary film directorsSubject: FILM ; CRITICISM ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SAYLES, JOHN ; RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (US, John Sayles, 1980) ; LIANNA (US, John Sayles, 1983) ; BABY IT'S YOU (US, John Sayles, 1983) ; BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, THE (US, John Sayles, 1984) ; MATEWAN (US, John Sayles, 1987) ; EIGHT MEN OUT (US, John Sayles, 1988) ; CITY OF HOPE (US, John Sayles, 1991) ; PASSION FISH (US, John Sayles, 1992) ; LONE STAR (US, John Sayles, 1996) ; MEN WITH GUNS (US, John Sayles, 1997) ; LIMBO (US, John Sayles, 1999) ; CASA DE LOS BABYS (US/MX, John Sayles, 2003) ; SILVER CITY (US, John Sayles, 2004) ; HONEYDRIPPER (US, John Sayles, 2007) Summary: "In this study, David R. Shumway examines the defining characteristic of Sayle's cinema: its realism. Positing the filmmaker as a critical realist, Shumway explores Sayle's attention to narrative in critically acclaimed and popular films such as Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish and Lone Star. The study also details the conditions under which Sayle's films have been produced, distributed, and exhibited, affecting the way in which these films have been understood and appreciated. In the process, Shumway presents Sayles as a teacher who tells historically accurate stories that invite audiences to consider the human world they all inhabit." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and indexISBN: 9780252078569Contents: -- acknowledgments -- John Sayles: critical realist -- John Sayles: independent -- John Sayles: realist -- Beginnings: return of the Secaucus seven -- Establishing a career -- Lianna and Baby it's you -- The brother from another planet and Springsteen videos -- Matewan -- Eight Men out -- Place and melodrama: city of hope and passion fish -- Stories -- Lone star -- Men with guns -- Limbo -- Millennial ZSayles -- Casa de los babys -- Silver city -- Honeydripper -- interviews with John Sayles -- filmography -- bibliography -- index --
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Karel Reisz / Colin Gardner Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2006.
Call No: 81REI GARAuthor: Gardner, Colin Source: UKPlace: Manchester, UKPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: British film makersSubject: CRITICISM ; REISZ, KAREL ; SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (UK, Karel Reisz, 1960) ; NIGHT MUST FALL (UK, Karel Reisz, 1964) ; SWEET DREAMS (US, Karel Reisz, 1985) ; GAMBLER, THE (US, Karel Reisz, 1974) ; WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? (US, Karel Reisz, 1978) ; FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE (UK, Karel Reisz, 1981) ; EVERYBODY WINS (UK/US, Karel Reisz, 1990) Notes: Includes bibliography (p. [279]-293) and index.; Includes filmographyISBN: 0719075483Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: 1 Introduction : Karel Reisz, 'the last great man in England' -- 2 Reisz the critic -- 3 Free cinema and the new left : Momma don't allow (1956), We are the Lambeth boys (1959) and March to Aldermaston (1959) -- 4 Kitchen sink realism and the birth of the British New Wave : Saturday night and Sunday morning (1960) -- 5 Keeping up with the Truffauts : Night must fall (1964) -- 6 Gorilla war : Morgan : a suitable case for treatment (1966) -- 7 Life into art - Reisz and the biopic : Isadora (1968) and Sweet dreams (1985) -- 8 Reisz in Hollywood : deconstructing existentialism and the counterculture in The gambler (1974) and Dog soldiers/Who'll stop the rain (1978) -- 9 A sentimental education : The French lieutenant's woman (1981) -- 10 Theatre of the absurd : Arthur Miller's Everybody wins (1990) and Samuel Beckett's Act without words I (2000) -- 11 Conclusion.
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Ken Russell : a guide to references and resources / Diane Rosenfeldt Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., c1978.
Call No: 81RUS ROSAuthor: Rosenfeldt, Diane Place: BostonPublisher: G.K. Hall & Co.PubDate: c1978PhysDes: viii, 140 p. ; 25 cm.Series: Reference publication in filmSubject: CRITICISM ; RUSSELL, KEN Summary: A biography, filmography and extensive bibliography of writings about Ken Russell.Notes: Includes indices.ISBN: 081617881X
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Lana and Lilly Wachowski / Cael M. Keegan Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Call No: 81WAC KEEAuthor: Keegan, Cael M. Place: UrbanaPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: x, 180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Series: Contemporary film directorsSubject: FILM ; DIRECTORS ; PRODUCERS ; CRITICISM ; TRANSGENDER AND THE CINEMA ; TRANSGENDERISM IN FILMS ; CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; WACHOWSKI, LANA ; WACHOWSKI, LILLY ; WACHOWSKI, LARRY ; WACHOWSKI, ANDREW ; ANIMATRIX, THE (US, Peter Chung & Andy Jones & Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Takeshi Koike & Mahiro Maeda & Kouji Morimoto & Shinichiro Watanabe, 2003) ; BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996) ; MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999) ; MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, THE (US, Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski, 2003) ; V FOR VENDETTA (US/GG, James McTeigue, 2005) ; SPEED RACER (US, ANDY WACHOWSKI, LARRY WACHOWSKI, 2008) ; CLOUD ATLAS (G/US/HK/SI, Tom Tykwer/Andy Wachowski, 2012) ; JUPITER ASCENDING (US, The Wachowskis, 2015) ; SENSE8 [TV] (US, 2015-2018) Summary: "Lana and Lilly Wachowski are intensely political film writers, directors, and producers whose work has made an indelible impact on American popular culture. From The Matrix (1999) to Cloud Atlas (2012), they have left their mark as innovators in the industry, consistently pushing the boundaries of what is perceived as technically and topically possible in studio film. They are also the world's first major transgender film directors and arguably the most influential transgender cultural producers in human history. Their coming out makes possible a reevaluation of the Wachowskis' entire oeuvre as curating alternate approaches to gender, emobodiment, and perception, that might be retrospectively theorized as "trans." In this study, Cael Keegan will argue that the Wachowskis' work can be read as an aesthetic history of transgender political consciousness as it has evolved in popular media. He explores the significance of the Wachowskis as film and genre innovators who have permanently altered the technology and aesthetics of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Keegan sees the radical identities at play in many of their early films as emerging from a queer sensibility and and a hoped-for sense of the body's plasticity. Moving chronologically through the Wachowskis' filmography, he uses the films' theorization of gender and embodied identity at the intersection of convergence, virtuality, biopolitical surveillance and capitalist realism to open these much-discussed works to new modes of analysis" --Notes: "Lilly Wachowski was born in 1967 in Chicago as Andrew Wachowski" -- Libraries Australia; Lana Wochowski was born as Larry Wochowski - Libraries Australia; Alternate Names: The Wachowski Brothers or The Wachowskis; Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.ISBN: 9780252083839Contents: Trans opt: Received -- "You can believe what you feel": Bound -- Ecstatic passages: The Matrix -- Redpill -- Adventures in transreality: The animatrix -- Heroic ends: The matrix reloaded and The matrix revolutions -- Revolutionary guises: V for Vendetta -- Sensorial assault -- Fixed races: Speed racer -- Escaping history: Cloud atlas -- Speculative heights: Jupiter ascending -- Epilogue: event horizon: Sense8 --
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Literary life : a second memoir / Larry McMurty New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Call No: 81MCM MCMAuthor: McMurty, Larry Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Simon and SchusterPubDate: 2009PhysDes: 175 pages ; 23 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FILM WORKERS ; SCRIPTWRITERS ; SCRIPTWRITING ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; MCMURTRY, LARRY ; LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) ; LONESOME DOVE (US, Simon Wincer, 1989) Summary: "Larry McMurtry is that rarest of artists, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In LITERARY LIFE, the sequel to BOOKS, he expounds on the private trials and triumphs of being a writer. From his earliest inkling of his future career while at Rice University, to his tenure as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford with Ken Kesey in 1960, to his incredible triumphs as a best-selling author, this intimate and charming autobiography is replete with literary anecdotes and packed with memorable observations about writing, writers, and the author himself. It is a work to be cherished not only by McMurtry's admirers, but by the innumerable aspiring writers who seek to make their own mark on American literature." [BOOK BLURB]ISBN: 9781439159941Donation: Simon Wincer
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Living images : film comment and criticism / Stanley Kauffmann London: Harper & Row, 1975.
Call No: 67(049.32) KAUAuthor: Kauffmann, Stanley Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Harper & RowPubDate: 1975PhysDes: xii, 404 p. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM Summary: A collection of film reviews written by Stanley KauffmannISBN: 0060122684Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Looking for trouble : on shopping, gender and the cinema / Suzanne Moore London: Serpent's Tail, 1991.
Call No: 67(41) MOOAuthor: Moore, Suzanne Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Serpent's TailPubDate: 1991PhysDes: ix, 305 pages ; 20 cmSubject: 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) ; 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)
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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 bibliographyISBN: 1852422424Contents: 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.ID2: 291
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Lorentz on film : movies, 1927 to 1941 / by Pare Lorentz ; introduction by Robert L. Snyder ; prologue by King Vidor Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1986.
Call No: 67(04) LORAuthor: Lorentz, Pare, 1905 Place: NormanPublisher: University of Oklahoma PressPubDate: c1986PhysDes: xv, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; LORENTZ, PARE Summary: A collection of Pare Lorentz's criticism and comments on the film industry from 1927-1941Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hopkinson and Blake, c1975; Includes indexISBN: 0806120177 (pbk.)LON: 4516614
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I lost it at the movies / Pauline Kael London: Cape, 1966.
Call No: 67(04) KAEAuthor: Kael, Pauline Place: LondonPublisher: CapePubDate: 1966PhysDes: ix, 365 p. ; 22 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; CARROSSE D`OR, LE (FR/IT, Jean Renoir, 1953) ; SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1956) ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; JEUX INTERDITS (FR, Rene Clement, 1952) ; SCIUSCIA (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1946) ; SHICHININ NO SAMURAI (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961) ; AVVENTURA, L' (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) ; ONE, TWO, THREE (US/GW, Billy Wilder, 1961) ; MARK, THE (UK, Guy Green, 1961) ; INNOCENTS, THE (UK, Jack Clayton, 1962) ; NOTTE, LA (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961) ; ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961) ; DOLCE VITA, LA (FR/IT, Federico Fellini, 1960) ; TASTE OF HONEY, A (UK, Tony Richardson, 1961) ; VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; JULES ET JIM (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1962) ; NOBI (JA, Kon Ichikawa, 1959) ; BILLY BUDD (UK, Peter Ustinov, 1962) ; YOJIMBO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1961) ; DEVI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1960) ; 8 1/2 (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1963) Summary: A collection of Kael's writings on cinema including reviews mostly from 1961-1963.Notes: Includes index.LON: nun00460852; 4159070
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Lounge critic : the couch theorist's companion / edited by Annabel Rattigan & Terry Waddell Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2004.
Call No: 67 LOUAuthor: Rattigan, Annabel ; Waddell, Terry Place: MelbournePublisher: Australian Centre for the Moving ImagePubDate: 2004PhysDes: xi, 179 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: CRITICISM Summary: A collection of incisive and accessible commentaries on some of the most treasured and important television series. The book includes in- depth critical analyses of the postmodern masterpiece Twin Peaks, the groundbreaking series The Sopranos, and the award-winning Australian comedy Kath and KimNotes: Includes biobliographical referencesISBN: 1920805079Contents: Introduction -- 3 -- Not just another Buffy paper: Towards an Aesthetics of Television / Sue Turnbull -- 19 -- The West Wing: Wonderland White House of Jed Bartlet / Chris Boyd -- 35 -- Transformative Television: RTV Helps you Discover the 'Real' you / Jane Roscoe -- 49 Look Who's Talking: Discussing talk on TV / Debi Enker -- 63 -- BritAsia --A New England / Kylie Boltin -- The Yellow Feather of Suburbia / Georgina Naidu -- 79 -- The Sopranos: 21st Century Television / Anna Dzenis -- 95 -- Is Queer the New Black? -- 113 -- Wrapped in Plastic: Surrealism, Soap Opera and Mystery in Twin Peaks / Martyn Pedler & Saige Walton -- 129 -- 'Look at moiye, Kimmie, look at moiye': Kath and Kim and the Australian comedy of taste / Sue Turnbull --145 -- Jumping the Shark: Does the End of Sexual Tension Mean the End of Your Favourite TV show? / Sophie Cunningham -- 159 -- Television as a Plastic Resources / Julian Thomas -- 170 -- References
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Loving and Laughing in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.8
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The Magnificent Seven Ride in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.9
Subject: FILM ; CRITICISM Summary: Review of The Magnificent Seven Ride
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Making a lady out of film in Lumiere (December, 1973) iss.30 p.13-17
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Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Harvard film studiesSubject: ALLEGORY IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SEMANTICS ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; DOUCHET, JEAN ; MICHELSON, ANNETTE ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-328)ISBN: 067454336X (pbk.); 0674543351 (alk. paper)LON: 6253502
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The Maltese touch of evil : film noir and potential criticism / by Shannon Scott Clute and Richard L. Edwards Hanover, N.H. ; London: University Press of New England, c2011.
Call No: 734.1 CLUAuthor: Clute,Shannon Scott ; Edwards, Richard L. Source: US/UKPlace: Hanover, N.H. ; LondonPublisher: University Press of New EnglandPubDate: c2011PhysDes: xviii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: FILM NOIR ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; PODCASTING Summary: "Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergence between fans and scholars with regard to goals and methods for appreciating and studying noir. The Maltese Touch of Evil aims to bridge that gap. Based on a series of popular podcasts, this unique and inspired investigation of film noir sets out to examine the case of noir more closely, and in the process reconfigures the critical evidence on noir that has been presented to date. The Maltese Touch of Evil reproduces and resequences nearly 150 still images from 31 great films, laying them out with the authors' informed and entertaining insights into the significance of each shot. The result is a de facto meta-film noir, a celebration of the genre that shows how these films are themselves "constrained' texts whose carefully calculated visual forms silmultaneously generate narrative and critical commentary on that narrative. You will never look at film noir the same way again." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-300), filmography and indexISBN: 9781611680478Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: -- acknowledgments -- preface -- A void in film noir studies -- One hundred thousand billion films noir: Oulipian works and potential -- Workshop of potential criticism: anoulipism and plagiarism by anticipation -- Build my scaffolding high: noir films as constrained texts -- Oufinopo: the noiremes -- post script: how we wrote our Noiremes -- postliminary 1: the guilty parties: out of the past: investigating Film Noir -- postliminary 2: computers and writers -- the MTOE project -- appendix 1 : selected filmography -- appendix 2 : podcastography -- notes -- further readings -- references -- index --
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Martin Scorsese : interviews / Edited by Robert Ribera Jackson: University Press of Mississipp, 2017.
Call No: 81 SCO SCOAuthor: Ribera, Robert ; Scorsese, Martin Edition: Revised and updated editionPlace: JacksonPublisher: University Press of MississippPubDate: 2017PhysDes: xxxi, 250 pages ; 24 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; UNDERGROUND FILMS. USA ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976) ; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) ; COLOR OF MONEY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1986) ; MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; GOODFELLAS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1990) ; NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977) ; DEPARTED, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 2006) ; HUGO (US, Martin Scorsese, 2011) ; WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 2013) ; NO DIRECTION HOME [TV] (UK/US, Martin Scorsese, 2005) ; BLUES, THE [TV] (US, 2003) Summary: Many critics and film historians throughout the world praise Martin Scorsese as the greatest living American director. In this collection of interviews covering a period of two decades Scorsese's own words, sometimes emotionally direct and always revealing, trace his astonishing career. Like a Scorsese film, a Scorsese interview is daring and impassioned and is charged with his trademark wit and brilliance.Notes: Includes index.
Formerly CIP.
Includes filmography.
Also issued online.ISBN: 9781496809476Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: Martin Scorsese and the American Underground / Doris Freedman (1970) -- Dialogue on Film: Martin Scorsese The American Film Institute (1975) -- Taxi Dancer: Martin Scorsese Interviewed / Jonathan Kaplan (1977) -- Raging Bull / Michael Henry (1981) --Taxi Driver / Paul Schrader (1982) -- Chalk Talk / Peter Biskind and Susan Linfield (1986) -- Martin Scorsese: In the Streets / Peter Occhiogrosso (1987) -- And Blood / Richard Corliss (1988) -- Scorsese: A Bicoastal Story / Amy Taubin (1988) -- What the Streets Mean / Anthony DeCurtis (1990) -- Martin Scorsese Interviewed / Gavin Smith (1993) -- Martin Scorsese's Testament / Ian Christie (1996) -- Everything Is Form / Amy Taubin (1998) -- Fresh Air: Director Martin Scorsese / Terry Gross (2003) -- 2006 Charles Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Martin Scorsese / Jim Jarmusch (2006) -- Martin Scorsese on The Departed / Michael Goldman (2006) -- Docufictions: An Interview with Martin Scorsese on Documentary Film / Raffaele Donato (2007) -- In Hugo, Martin Scorsese Salutes a Movie Magician / Melissa Block (2011) -- The Art of Martin Scorsese / Jim Leach (2013) -- DP/ 30: Scorsese on The Wolf of Wall Street / David Poland (2014).
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The mass ornament : Weimar essays / Siegfried Kracauer ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Thomas Y. Levin Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Call No: 62(081):408.1(430) KRAAuthor: Kracauer, Siegfried Source: USPlace: Cambridge, MAPublisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: 403 p. ; 24 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; FRANKFURT SCHOOL Summary: This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up the master themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, mass culture and urban experience, and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades, the cinema, bestsellers and their readers, photography, dance, hotel lobbies, Kafka, the Bible, and boredom. For Kracauer, the most revelatory facets of modern metropolitan life lie on the surface, in the ephemeral and the marginal. The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary essays continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile. This volume presents the full scope of his gifts as one of the most wide-ranging and penetrating interpreters of modern life. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 067455163X
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The master of suspense and the New Wave's darling in The Age (21/07/2016) p.26
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The material ghost : films and their medium / Gilberto Perez Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Call No: 62 PERAuthor: Perez, Gilberto, 1943 Place: BaltimorePublisher: Johns Hopkins University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: xi, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; CRITICISM ; ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; AVVENTURA, L' (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; NAMA-YE NAZDIK (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ; COLLEGE (US, James W. Horne, 1927) ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; FORD, JOHN ; FORTINI/CANI (IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1976) ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; KARINA, ANNA ; Keaton, Buster ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; LECONS D'HISTOIRE (IT, Jean-Marie Staub & Daniele Huillet, 1972) ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922) ; PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]) ; RENOIR, JEAN ; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE ; ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930) Summary: Summary: In The Material Ghost, Perez draws on his life-long love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write an engaging study of films and filmmakers and the nature of the art form.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-448) and indexesISBN: 0801856736 (alk. paper)LON: 21392968
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Merchants of Menace : the Business of Horror Cinema / edited by Richard Nowell New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Call No: 735.2:203 MERAuthor: Nowell, Richard (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xiv, 264 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA ; PRODUCTION ; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; DIRECTION ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; DISTRIBUTION ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996) ; SCREAM 2 (US, Wes Craven, 1997) ; SCREAM 3 (US, Wes Craven, 2000) ; SCREAM 4 (US, Wes Craven, 2011) Summary: "Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema responds to a major void in film history by shedding much-needed new light on the economic dimensions of one of the world's most enduring audiovisual forms. Given horror cuts across budgetary categories, industry sectors, national film cultures, and media, Merchants of Menace also promises to expand understandings of the economics of cinema generally. Covering 1930-present, this groundbreaking collection boasts fourteen original chapters from world-leading experts taking as their focus such diverse topics as early zombie pictures, post-WWII chillers, Civil Rights-Era marketing, Hollywood literary adaptations, Australian exploitation, "torture-porn" Auteurs, and twenty-first-century remakes." - Publisher's WebsiteNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9781623564209Contents: -- Production lines, trends, and cycles. "House of horrors": corporate strategy at Universal Pictures in the 1930s / Kyle Edwards -- The undead of Hollywood and poverty row: the influence of studio-era industrial patterns on zombie film production, 1932-46 / Todd K. Platts -- By the book: American horror cinema and horror literature of the late 1960s and 1970s / Peter Hutchings -- Risen from the vaults: recent horror film remakes and the American film industry / Kevin Heffernan -- Monster factory: international dynamics of the Australian horror movie industry / Mark David Ryan -- Film content, style, and themes. "Bad medicine": the psychiatric profession's interventions into the business of postwar horror / Tim Snelson -- Horror film atmosphere as anti-narrative (and vice versa) / Robert Spadoni --"A kind of Bacall quality?: Jamie Lee Curtis, stardom, and gentrifying non-Hollywood horror / Richard Nowell -- "New decade, new rules": rebooting the scream franchise in the digital age / Valerie Wee -- Movie marketing, branding, and distribution. "Hot profits out of cold shivers!": horror, the first run market, and the Hollywood studios, 1938-42 / Mark Jancovich -- Strange enjoyments: the marketing and reception of horror in the civil rights era black press / Mikal J. Gaines -- Bids for distinction: the critical-industrial function of the horror auteur / Joe Tompkins -- Low budgets, no budgets, and digital-video nasties: recent British horror and informal distribution / Johnny Walker -- Hammer 2.0: legacy, modernization, and hammer horror as a heritage brand / Matt Hills --
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Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger : a film analysis / Michael Alan Scott Ann Arbor Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1981.
Call No: 79PAS SCOAuthor: Scott, Michael Place: Ann Arbor Mich.Publisher: University Microfilms InternationalPubDate: 1981PhysDes: 3, viii, 258 leaves ; 22 cm.Subject: CRITICISM ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; SCHNEIDER, MARIA ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) Summary: A analysis of the formal and thematic elements within Antonioni's film The Passenger, with an appendix providing a shot-by-shot desciption of the film.Notes: Typescript; issued also on microfilm.
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University.
Bibliography: leaves 140-144.
Appendices: leaves 145-258.
Typescript (photocopy).
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Minding movies : observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking / by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Call No: 62(04) BORAuthor: Bordwell, David ; Thompson, Kristin Source: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ANIMATION ; CRITICISM ; FILM ; GENRES ; PRODUCTION ; THEORY Summary: "Minding movies presents a selection from over three hundred essays on genre movies, art films, animation, and the business of Hollywood that have graced David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's blog Observations on Film Art since its debut in 2006. Informal pieces, conversational in tone but grounded in three decades of authoritative research, the essays gathered here range from in-depth analyses of individual films such as Slumdog Millionaire and Inglourious Basterds to adjustments of Hollywood media claims and forays into cinematic humor. For Bordwell and Thompson, the most fruitful place to begin is how movies are made, how they work, and how they work on us. Written for film lovers, these essays- on topics ranging from Borat to blockbusters and back again - will delight current fans and gain new enthusiasts. Serious but not solemn, vibrantly informative without condescension, and above all illuminating reading, Minding Movies offers ideas sure to set film lovers thinking - and keep them returning to the silver screen. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes indexISBN: 9780226066998Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- pt. 1. The business : World rejects Hollywood blockbusters!? ; Live with it! There'll always be movie sequels. Good thing, too ; Superheroes for sale ; What won the weekend? Or, how to understand box-office figures ; Snakes, no; Borat, yes: not all internet publicity is the same ; Don't knock the blockbusters --
pt. 2. Writing about movies : In critical condition ; Love isn't all you need ; Do filmmakers deserve the last word? ; Crix nix Variety's tics --
pt. 3. Film as art : But what kind of art? ; This is your brain on movies, maybe ; Movies still matter --
pt. 4. Storytelling and style : Anatomy of the action picture ; Times go by turns ; Grandmaster flashback ; Originality and origin stories ; Good actors spell good acting ; By Annie standards ; Unsteadicam chronicles ; Pausing and chortling: a tribute to Bob Clampett --
pt. 5. Films : A behemoth from the dead zone ; Cronenberg's violent reversals ; The movie looks back at us ; Lessons from Babel ; Slumdogged by the past ; Rat rapture ; A welcome basterdization --
pt. 6. Into the future : New media and old storytelling ; The celestial multiplex ; Take my film, please -- index --
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Mizoguchi and Japan / Mark Le Fanu London: British Film Institute, 2005.
Call No: 81MIZ FANAuthor: Mark Le Fanu Source: British Film InstitiutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005PhysDes: 218 p ; 23 cmSubject: MIZOGUCHI KENJI ; JAPAN ; DIRECTORS. JAPAN ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM Summary: Mizoguchi and Japan is the first full-length study for over twenty years of a director hailed by Cahiers du Cinema recently as "the greatest of all cineastes". On the surface such a claim might be considered controversial since, for a majority of Western cinema-goers, the names more usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Mark Le Fanu's admiration for Kurosawa and Ozu is second to none, but here, in his long-awaited new study, he makes the case for placing Mizoguchi at the very pinnacle of Japanese film achievement.[Taken from back cover].ISBN: 1844570576ID2: 291
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The Money shot : cinema, sin and censorship / Jane Mills Annandale, N.S.W: Pluto Press, 2001.
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Movie journal : the rise of the new American cinema, 1959-1971 New York: Macmillan, [1972].
Call No: 771(73) MEKAuthor: Mekas, Jonas, 1922 Place: New YorkPublisher: MacmillanPubDate: [1972]PhysDes: xi, 434 p. 22 cmSubject: MEKAS, JONAS ; CRITICISM Summary: Selections from the author's column Movie journal published in the Village voiceLON: 332630
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The movie musical from Vitaphone to 42nd Street : as reported in a great fan magazine / edited by Miles Kreuger New York: Dover Publications, 1975.
Call No: 751.1 MOVAuthor: Kreuger, Miles (ed.) Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Dover PublicationsPubDate: 1975PhysDes: 367 pages ; 28 cmSubject: MUSICALS ; MUSICALS. USA ; CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) Summary: "The editor, Miles Kreuger, head of the Institute of the American Musical and the foremost authority on Hollywood musicals, has provided an introduction outlining the little-known history of sound films from the 1890's through 1928 and has written informative brief texts for each of the following years through 1933 and for a final section on Record Reviews. An ideal browsing book that will give you hours of pleasure, this unusual volume is a unique sourcebook in film history that will intrigue you for many years to come." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: "An anthology of selected articles and illustrations from Photoplay magazine which appeared between 1926 and 1933." -- Libraries AustraliaISBN: 0486231542Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- introduction: from the beginnings through 1928 -- 1926-1928 -- 1929 -- 1930 -- 1931 -- 1932 -- 1933 -- record reviews -- index of films -- index of persons --
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Movie wars : how Hollywood and the media conspire to limit what films we can see / by Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago: A Capella, 2000.
Call No: 409 ROSAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: ChicagoPublisher: A CapellaPubDate: 2000PhysDes: v, 234 p. ; 24 cmSubject: DISTRIBUTION ; EXHIBITION ; GLOBALISATION ; AUDIENCES ; American Film Institute ; FESTIVALS ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; FESTIVALS. CANNES ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. US ; MIRAMAX FILMS ; BEST FILMS ; BEST FILMS. US ; CRITICISM ; PERIODICALS, FILM ; WELLES, ORSON ; DANTE, JOE ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; EBERT, ROGER ; WEINSTEIN, HARVEY ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; MASLIN, JANET ; SMALL SOLDIERS (US, Joe Dante, 1998) ; MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1942) ; STARSHIP TROOPERS (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1997) ; STAR WARS : EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (US, George Lucas, 1999) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 1556524064LON: 21468355
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Movies and methods : an anthology / edited by Bill Nichols Berkeley: University of California Press, c1976.
Call No: 62(082) MOV v.1Author: Nichols, Bill Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1976PhysDes: xi, 640 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: STRUCTURALISM ; CRITICISM ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS IN FILMS ; GENRES ; AUTEUR THEORY ; FILM NOIR ; THEORY ; WESTERNS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FILM NOIR ; SEMIOLOGY ; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; CAPRA, FRANK ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; SERPICO (US, Sidney Lumet, 1973) ; GODFATHER PART II, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; VENT D'EST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970) ; WIND FROM THE EAST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970) ; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) ; KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; SHOCK CORRIDOR (US, Samuel Fuller, 1963) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; BLOW JOB (US, Andy Warhol, 1963) ; RIO LOBO (US, Howard Hawks, 1970) ; YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939) Summary: "Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to locate in the scattered literature. The contents are drawn almost entirely from the publications of the past fifteen years, and include work by the most original film thinkers - some well known to a wide public, some widely known among readers of film journals. Several important film-makers are also represented." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes index; This is volume 1ISBN: 0520031512LON: cln74022969; 10151896Contents: --- part 1 contextual criticism -- political criticism -- genre criticism -- feminist criticism -- part 2 formal criticism -- auteur criticism -- mise-en-scene criticism -- part 3 theory -- film theory -- structuralism-semiology --
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Movies and Methods : an anthology volume II / edited by Bill Nichols Berkeley: University of California Press, c1985.
Call No: 62(082) MOV v.2Author: Nichols, Bill (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1985PhysDes: xii, 753 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GENRES ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; SEMIOLOGY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; WALSH, RAOUL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; DAUGHTER RITE (US, Michelle Citron, 1979) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE/FR, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) Summary: "The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field. Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: This is volume IIISBN: 0520054091Contents: -- historical criticism -- genre criticism -- feminist criticism -- structuralist semiotics -- psychoanalytic semiotics -- countercurrents --
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Movies into film : film criticism 1967-1970 / John Simon New York: Dell Publishing, 1971.
Call No: 67(04) SIMAuthor: Simon, John Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Dell PublishingPubDate: 1971PhysDes: xiii, 446 p. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; SEX IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; MUSICALS ; FESTIVALS ; AWARDS ; ADAPTATIONS ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; MARAT/SADE (UK, Peter Brook, 1967) ; TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (US/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1967) ; CAMPANADAS A MEDIANOCHE (SP/SZ, Orson Welles, 1966) ; ULYSSES (UK/US, Joseph Strick, 1967) ; FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (UK, John Schlesinger, 1967) ; REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (US, John Huston, 1967) ; VOYNA I MIR (RU, Sergei Bondarchuk, 1968) ; HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE (US, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968) ; KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, THE (US, Robert Aldrich, 1968) ; PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, THE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1968) ; JUSTINE (US, George Cukor, 1969) ; TROPIC OF CANCER (US, Joseph Strick, 1969) ; WOMEN IN LOVE (UK, Ken Russell, 1969) ; VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY, THE (UK, Christopher Miles, 1970) ; GUERRE EST FINIE, LA (FR/SW, Alain Resnais, 1966) ; DUTCHMAN (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1967) ; COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) ; SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969) ; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969) ; THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (US, Sydney Pollack, 1969) ; Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969) ; PATTON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) ; WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970) ; REVOLUTIONARY, THE (UK, Paul Williams, 1970) ; JOE (US, John G. Avildsen, 1970) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) ; YELLOW SUBMARINE (UK, George Dunning, 1968) ; IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968) ; THREE IN THE ATTIC (US, Richard Wilson, 1968) ; LAST SUMMER, THE (US, Frank Perry, 1969) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; ALICE'S RESTAURANT (US, Arthur Penn, 1969) ; STERILE CUCKOO, THE (US, ALAN J. PAKULA, 1969) ; MAGIC GARDEN OF STANLEY SWEETHEART, THE (US, Leonard Horn, 1970) ; LET IT BE (UK, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970) ; FOX, THE (US, Mark Rydell, 1968) ; HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH (UK, Clive Donner, 1968) ; BELLE DE JOUR (FR/IT, Luis Bunuel, 1967) ; BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967) ; JAG AR NYFIKEN - GUL (SW, Vilgot Sjoman, 1967) ; PRISONNIERE, LA (FR/IT, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968) ; TEOREMA (IT, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) ; COMING APART (US, Milton Moses Ginsberg, 1970) ; MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (US, Mike Sarne, 1970) ; FREEDOM TO LOVE (IT, Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen, 1969) ; BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (US, Russ Meyer, 1970) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ; IN COLD BLOOD (US, Richard Brooks, 1967) ; TRUE GRIT (US, Henry Hathaway, 1969) ; BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969) ; TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1969) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; LE MARIEE ETAIT EN NOIR (FR/IT, Francois Truffaut, 1968) ; BAISERS VOLES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1968) ; HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES (FR/IT, Louis Malle & Roger Vadim & Federico Fellini, 1968) ; DAMNED, THE (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969) ; SATYRICON (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1969) ; ZABRISKIE POINT (US, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) ; SIRENE DU MISSISSIPPI, LA (FR/IT, Francois Truffaut, 1969) ; PASSAGER DE LA PLUIE, LE (FR/IT, Rene Clement, 1970) ; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) ; VARGTIMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1967) ; SKAMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1968) ; CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; BICHES, LES (FR, CLaude Chabrol, 1968) ; CHAMADE, LA (FR/IT, Alain Cavalier, 1968) ; FEMME INFIDELE, LA (FR/IT, Claude Chabrol, 1968) ; SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (UK, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) ; LA CINA E VICINA (IT, Marco Bellocchio, 1967) ; POOR COW (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1967) ; TANTE ZITA (FR, Robert Enrico, 1968) ; BULLITT (US, Peter Yates, 1968) ; FACES (US, John Cassavetes, 1968) ; HAR HAR DU DITT LIV (SW, Jan Troell, 1966) ; CSILLAGOSOK, KATONAK (HU, Miklos Jancso, 1967) ; PUTNEY SWOPE (US, Robert Downey, 1969) ; DOWNHILL RACER (US, Michael Ritchie, 1969) ; M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969) ; PAINT YOUR WAGON (US, Joshua Logan, 1969) ; CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967) ; OLIVER (UK, Carol Reed, 1968) ; ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1970) ; HOW I WON THE WAR (UK, Richard Lester, 1967) ; MIDNIGHT COWBOY (US, John Schlesinger, 1969) ; PETULIA (US, Richard Lester, 1968) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; MAGUS, THE (US, Guy Green, 1968) ; CANDY (FR,/IT/US, Christian Marquand, 1968) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE (US, Norman Jewison, 1968) ; CATCH 22 (US, Mike Nichols, 1970) ; RACHEL, RACHEL (US, Paul Newman, 1968) ; CHARLIE BUBBLES (UK, Albert Finney, 1967) Summary: The author critically analyses a number of films from the period 1967-1970 as a means to show the changes that occured during this time, the historical context of this period and films, and to predict future directions.Notes: Includes index.ISBN: 44005880295Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- adaptations -- politics and society -- the youth film -- sex -- the new violence -- declines and pratfalls of major directors -- Ingmar Bergman -- French film in eclipse -- young directors -- is Hollywood going contemporary? -- musicals -- pseudo-art -- the festival and awards game -- critical mattersID2: 41
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My side of the picture in Metro (2000) iss.123 p.79-95
Author: Kemp, Peter ; Brooks, Sue ; Brennan, Richard ; Gyngell, Kim ; Hellier, Trudy ; Sallows, Ken ; Freeman, Nicolette ; Armiger, Martin ; Hunter, Tim ; Raymond, Leigh PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Bio-filmography; Credits; Filmography; Illustration(s)Subject: PRODUCERS. AUSTRALIA ; ACTORS. AUSTRALIA ; EDITING. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA ; BROOKS, SUE ; BRENNAN, RICHARD ; GYNGELL, KIM ; SALLOWS, KEN ; Freeman, Nicolette ; SOMETHING IN THE AIR [TV] (AT, 2000-) ; TRAPPED (AT, Trudy Hellier, 2000) Summary: A supplement offering an arena for Australian screen practitioners to analyse and comment upon matters and issues pertaining to their own particular craft or field.
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Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture 1982-2016 / Adrian Martin Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
Call No: 62(081) MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Edition: 2018Place: AmsterdamPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPhysDes: 424 pages ; 24 cmSeries: film culture in transitionSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; CINEPHILIA ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM HISTORY ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GARREL, PHILIPPE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; AFTER HOURS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1985) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; COTTON CLUB, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1984) ; ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961) ; ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984) ; HATEFUL EIGHT, THE (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2015) ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) Summary: The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9789462986831Contents: PART I - LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling
PART II – SCENOGRAPHIES -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced
PART III - A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism
PART IV - THE LYRICAL IMPULSE -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions -- 13. Delirious Enchantment
PART V - GENRE GAMES -- 14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power -- 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle -- 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic -- 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema
PART VI – INTERVENTIONS -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual -- 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality
PART VII - ENVOI -- 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez Lopez
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The mystical gaze of the cinema : the films of Peter Weir / by Richard Leonard Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2009.
Call No: 81WEI LEOAuthor: Leonard, Richard Source: ATPlace: Carlton, VictoriaPublisher: Melbourne University PressPubDate: 2009PhysDes: ix, 300 p. ; 29 cmSeries: MUP academic monographsSubject: AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; GAZE IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; RELIGION IN FILMS ; WEIR, PETER ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985) Summary: "The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator-screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh, innovative and provocative perspective on what happens when we behold a film." -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes index; Derived from author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2003; Bibliography: p. 261-292; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.mup.edu.auISBN: 9780522856620Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- 1 the mystical gaze -- 2 the unseen gaze -- 3 defining the codes within the mystical gaze -- 4 an apprehension of mysticism: Peter Weir -- 5 Picnic at Hanging Rock -- 6 Gallipoli -- 7 Witness -- conclusions -- notes -- filmography -- bibliography -- index --
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The need for competent film music criticism : A pamphlet for those who care for "film as art", with a final section for those who do not. / by Hans Keller London: British Film Institute, October 1947.
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Nightmare movies : a critical history of the horror films, 1968-88 / Kim Newman London: Bloomsbury, 1988.
Call No: 735.2 NEWAuthor: Newman, Kim Edition: The new edPlace: LondonPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HORROR FILMS ; ADAMSON, AL ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ALLEN, NANCY ; ARGENTO, DARIO ; BAVA, MARIO ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CARPENTER, JOHN ; CARRADINE, JOHN ; COHEN, LARRY ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULCI, LUCIO ; HARPER, JESSICA ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOOPER, TOBE ; KING, STEPHEN ; LEE, CHRISTOPHER ; LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON ; LYNCH, RICHARD ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; Perkins, Anthony ; PLEASENCE, DONALD ; ROMERO, GEORGE ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; ALONE IN THE DARK (US, Jack Sholder, 1982) ; AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, AN (UK, John Landis, 1981) ; AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION (US, Damiano Damiani, 1982) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (US, Jean-Francois Richet, 2005) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; COMPANY OF WOLVES, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1984) ; DAY OF THE WOMAN (US, Meir Zarchi, 1978) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972) ; LOST BOYS, THE (US, Joel Schumacher, 1987) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, Tom Savini, 1990) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE (UK, Jim Sharman, 1975) ; SHIVELS (CA, David Cronenberg, 1975) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; TWILIGHT ZONE, THE [TV] (US, 1959-64, 1985-88) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217) and indexISBN: 0747502951
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On Manoel de Oliveira / guest editor Carolin Overhoff Ferreira London: Wallflower, 2008.
Call No: 81OLI ONMAuthor: Ferreira, Carolin Overhoff (ed) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2008PhysDes: viii, 146 p. : ill. ; 21cmSeries: Dekalog; 2Subject: CRITICISM ; OLIVEIRA, MANOEL DE Summary: " The Dekalog series is a new list of bi-annual publications dedicated to presenting insightful criticism on a wide range of subjects across the full spectrum of contemporary global cinema " BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 9781905674800
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On the Five Obstructions / guest editor Mette Hjort London: Wallflower, 2008.
Call No: 79FEM ONTAuthor: Hjort, Mette (ed) Source: UK/PLPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxviii, 148 p. : ill ; 21 cmSeries: Dekalog; 1Subject: CRITICISM ; LETH, JORGEN ; VON TRIER, LARS ; FEM BESPAND, DE (DE/BE/SZ/UK, Jorgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, 2003) Summary: " The Dekalog series is a new list of bi-annual publications dedicated to presenting insightful criticism on a wide range of subjects across the full spectrum of contemporary global cinema. " BOOK BLURBNotes: "dekalog1: on the five obstructions" -- Cover; "The new home for serious film criticism"--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 9781905674756Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2011Contents: Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Preface / Mette Hjort -- Romancing the Dane : ethics and observation / Susan Dwyer -- Style and creativity in the Five obstructions / Mette Hjort -- Constraint, cruelty and conversation / Hector Rodriguez -- Artistic nesting in the Five obstructions / Paisley Livingston -- Work and play : the 5-0 game / Trevor Ponech -- To calculate the moment : Leth's life as art / Peter Schrepelern -- Funny games / Murray Smith -- The Dekalog interview : Jørgen Leth -- The Dekalog re-view.
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On The Road Again in Lumiere (August 1970) vol.1 iss.3 p.35
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One-Armed Boxer in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.9
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Other people's pictures / John Hinde Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981.
Call No: 67(04) HINAuthor: Hinde, John CorpAuthor: Australian Broadcasting CommissionPlace: SydneyPublisher: Australian Broadcasting CommissionPubDate: 1981PhysDes: 150 p. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM Notes: Cinema industries. Comparative studies (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0494658)ISBN: 0642975892 : $5.95 AustLON: anb64297589; 1974454
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Our modern art : the movies / by Ernest Callenbach Chicago IL: Centre for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, 1955.
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Pedro Almodo´var / Marvin D'Lugo Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Call No: 81ALM DLUAuthor: D'Lugo, Marvin Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: x, 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSeries: Contemporary film directors / edited by James NaremoreSubject: DIRECTORS. SPAIN ; CRITICISM ; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-164) and index.
Includes filmography: p. [153]-158.ISBN: 9780252073618 (pbk.) - ISBN 13
0252073614 (pbk.) - ISBN 10
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Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / Jonathan Rosenbaum Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Call No: 67(081) PLAAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; TATI, JACQUES ; WELLES, ORSON ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; ALLEN, WOODY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; FARBER, MANNY ; TARR, BELA ; RIVETTE, JACQUES ; GERTRUD (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964) ; OHAYO (JA, Ozu Yasujiro, 1959) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; OTHELLO (MR, Orson Welles, 1951) ; MELO (FR, Alain Resnais, 1986) ; HARDLY WORKING (US, Jerry Lewis, 1980) ; AMOR DE PERDICAO (PO, Manoel de Oliveira, 1979) ; BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988) ; WHITE DOG (US, Samuel Fuller, 1982) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; SPEAKING DIRECTLY: SOME AMERICAN NOTES (US, Jon Jost, 1974) ; RAMEAU'S NEPHEW BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (CN, Michael Snow, 1974) ; MOSES UND ARON (GW/FR/IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1975) ; DEEP COVER (US, Bill Duke, 1992) ; PANAMA DECEPTION, THE (US, Barbara Trent, 1992) ; SAGA OF ANATAHAN, THE (JA, Josef von Sternberg, 1953) ; BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991) ; ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) ; KING LEAR (US/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and indexISBN: 0520086325 (alk. paper); 0520086333 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 93042954; 10612641ID2: 291
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Playing the game : writing about the movies in Practice (1999) iss.4 p.16-22
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The pleasure-dome : the collected film criticism, 1935-40, [of] Graham Greene / edited by John Russell Taylor Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Postsocialist Modernity : Chinese cinema, literature, and criticism in the market age / Jason McGrath Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Call No: 409(510) MCGAuthor: McGrath, Jason Source: USPlace: Stanford, CaliforniaPublisher: Stanford University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xii, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CHINA ; CRITICISM ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA Summary: "This book examines Chinese culture in the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by the forces of the market as China is integrated ever more closely into the world economic system. As a result, the formerly unified revolutionary culture has been changed into a pluralized state that reflects the diversity of individual experience in the reform era. New autonomous forms of culture that have arisen include avant-garde as well as commercial literature, and independent film as well as a new entertainment cinema. Chinese people find their experiences of postsocialist modernity reflected in all kinds of new cultural products as well as critical debates that often question the direction of Chinese society in the midst of comprehensive and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 978804758741Contents: 1. Worlds in Fragments: Culture and the Market Under Postsocialist Modernity -- 2. Ideologies of Popular Culture: The "Humanist Spirit" Debate -- 3. Adaptations and Ruptures: Literature in the New Culture Industry -- 4. The Cinema of Infidelity: Gender, Geography, Economics, and Fantasy -- 5. "Independent" Cinema: From Postsocialist Realism to a Transnational Aesthetic -- 6. New Year's Films: Chinese Entertainment Cinema in a Globalized Cultural Market -- 7. Conclusion: Postsocialist Modernity's Futures.
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Prime-time America : life on and behind the television screen / Robert Sklar New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Call No: 412 SKAAuthor: Sklar, Robert Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1980PhysDes: xi, 200 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: SITUATION COMEDY ; CRITICISM ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; COMMERCIALS, TV ; BLACKS AND TV ; SOCIETY ON TV ; CLASS ON TV ; SEX ON TV ; CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP ; SANDRICH, JAY ; LOU GRANT [TV] (US, 1977-82) ; SCARLETT LETTER, THE [TV] (US, Rick Hauser, 1979) ; REAL PEOPLE [TV] (US, 1979) ; ABC THEATRE: FRIENDLY FIRE [TV] (US, 1979) ; ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATION [TV] (David Wolper, 1979) ; MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1970-77?) ISBN: 0195027655 : $15.95LON: 1677348
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Profile: Director Lindsay Anderson in Australasian Cinema (16/07/1982) vol.11 iss.12 p.28
PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ANDERSON, LINDSAY ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; LOOK BACK IN ANGER (UK, Tony Richardson, 1959) ; RICHARDSON, TONY ; REISZ, KAREL ; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK ; O LUCKY MAN! (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1973) ; BRITANNIA HOSPITAL (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1982) Summary: Article on Lindsay Anderson, covering his writings for Sequence, his work with Richardson and Reisz in the 'British New Wave', his short documentaries, and his feature films.
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Re-vision : essays in feminist film criticism / edited by Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, and Linda Williams Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.
Call No: 626:396 REVCopy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2Author: Doane, Mary Ann ; Mellencamp, Patricia ; Williams, Linda, 1946 Place: Frederick, MDPublisher: University Publications of AmericaPubDate: 1984PhysDes: xi, 169 p. ; 24 cmSeries: American Film Institute monograph series ; v. 3Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; GAZE IN FILMS ; MADCHEN OHNE GRENZEN (DK, Geza Radvanyi, 1958) ; BAD TIMING (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1980) Notes: Includes bibliographiesISBN: 0890935858; 0890935866 (pbk.)LON: 83023366; 2976768Contents: Feminist film criticism: an introduction -- Developments in feminist film criticism -- The woman at the keyhole: women's cinema and feminist criticism -- The 'woman's film': possession and address -- When the woman looks -- From repressive tolerance to erotic liberation: 'Madchen in uniform' -- Dis-embodying the female voice -- Now and nowhere: Roeg's 'Bad timing'
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Realism of the senses in World cinema : the experience of physical reality / by Tiago de Luca London: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call No: 64REA DELAuthor: De Luca, Tiago Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSeries: Tauris world cinema seriesSubject: REALISM IN FILMS ; THEORY ; CRITICISM ; WORLD CINEMA ; REYGADAS, CARLOS ; TSAI, MING LIANG ; VAN SANT, GUS Summary: "Over the last decade, a realist tendency has made a resurgence on the world cinema map. What are its main aesthetic and political characteristics? How does it relate to the realist canon and world cinema history? What are the different facets of this phenomenon as expressed in diverse cinemas across the globe? Drawing on foundational realist theories and recent takes on the body and the senses, this illuminating book aims to provide in-depth answers to these questions by examining the fascinating work of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (USA), including award-winning films such "Japon", "Vive l'amour" and "Elephant". In their common allegiance to the long take, these are cinemas characterised by a sensory mode of address based on the protracted inspection of physical reality. Their hyperbolic focus on material phenomena, de Luca argues, translates into phenomenological film experiences that provide an antidote to a world saturated by simulation processes." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and indexISBN: 9781780766300Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1: Carlos Reygadas: cinema of the impossible -- 2: Tsai Ming-liang: cinema of bodies -- 3: Gus Van Sant and visionary realism -- conclusion -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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Reefer Movie Madness : the ultimate stoner film guide / by Shirley Halperin and Steve Bloom New York: Abrams Image, 2010.
Call No: 748.88 HALAuthor: Bloom, Steve ; Halperin, Shirley Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Abrams ImagePubDate: 2010PhysDes: 336 pages, illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: DRUGS AND THE CINEMA ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: "Reefer Movie Madness is the perfect follow-up to Halperin and Bloom’s big-selling Pot Culture. It’s the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful Harold and Kumar franchise and the Judd Apatow library (Pineapple Express, Superbad).
In addition to entries on more than 420 films, there are contributions from well known actors, movie directors, musicians, and celebrities, including Jason Mraz, comedian Andy Milonakis, Snoop Dogg, Doug Benson, and Cheech & Chong. Reefer Movie Madness covers it all, from pot-fueled comedies and druggy dramas to sci-fi flicks and 1960s artifacts to documentaries, musicals, and blockbusters. With its colorful, easy-to-follow format and lots of eye-grabbing photos, sidebars (“Real Pot or Not? An On-Set Exposé”), lists (“DIY Inventions by Clever Movie Stoners”), and Q&As, Reefer Movie Madness is the guidebook that bong-hitting movie buffs have been longing for."
-- WWW.ABRAMSBOOKS.COMNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780810903128Contents: -- Introduction -- comedies -- director’s take: Greg Mottola -- Will Ferrell Movies to watch stoned by Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin -- Q & A: The Big Lebowski’s Real Dude -- Q & A: Cheech & Chong -- Nathan Followill’s Stony Movie Picks -- Cisco Adler’s Stony Movie Picks -- Q & A: Danneel Harris -- Danneel Harris’s Stony Movie Picks -- Q & A: Method Man and Redman -- Shwayze’s Stony Movie Picks -- Q & A: Cypress Hill’s B-Real -- Snoop Dogg’s Stoner Movie Tips -- Director’s Take: Jay Chandrasekhar -- Q & A: Trailer Park Boys -- Andy Milonakis’s Stony Movie Picks -- Q & A: Andy Milonakis -- Joe Trohman’s Stony Movie Picks -- dramas -- Raul Malo’s Stony Movie Picks -- Q & A: Taryn Manning -- The True Story of Reefer Madness
by Keith Stroup -- Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror -- Q & A: Wayne Coyne -- Austin Winkler’s Stony Movie Picks -- Adrianne Curry’s Stony Movie Picks --
Star Wars for Stoners by Margaret Cho -- 2001: A Stoner Odyssey by P-Nut of 311 -- Film School 101 by Ray Manzarek of the Doors -- The Wizard and Me
by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips -- Action and Sports -- Jesse Hughes’s Stony Movie Picks -- Animated -- Music -- Jason Mraz’s Stony Movie Picks -- Documentaries -- Melissa Etheridge’s Stony Documentary Picks -- Q & A: Doug Benson -- Photography Credits -- Acknowledgments --
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Regarding television : critical approaches - an anthology / edited by E. Ann Kaplan Los Angeles CA: University publications of America, c1983.
Call No: 62(082) KAPAuthor: Kaplan, E. Ann Source: USPlace: Los Angeles CAPublisher: University publications of AmericaPubDate: c1983PhysDes: xxiii, 147 p. ; 23 cm.Series: American Film Institute monograph series ; v. 2Subject: CRITICISM Notes: Bibliography: p. 139-147.ISBN: 0-89093-584-XDonation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010Contents: -- contributors -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- : E. Ann Kaplan -- 1: loving a nineteen-inch motorola: American writing on television: William Boddy -- 12: the concept of live television: ontology as ideology: Jane Feuer -- 23: television news and its spectator: Robert Stam -- 44: Sport on television: replay and display: Margaret Morse -- 67: the rhythms of reception: daytime television and women's work: Tania Modleski -- 76: Crossroads: notes on soap opera: Charlotte Brunsdon -- 84: the real soap operas: tv commericals: Sandy Flitterman -- 97: On reading soaps: a semiotic primer: Robert C. Allen -- 109: The social matrix of television: invention in the United States: Jeanne Allen -- 120: television, hollywood, and the development of movies made for television: Douglas Gomery -- 130: video art: theory for a future: Maureen Turim -- 139: selected bibliography: E. Ann Kaplan --URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes filmography: p. 341-343ISBN: 0814333052
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Revenge of Dr. Death in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.9
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Reverse shots : indigenous film and media in an international context / edited by Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2015.
Call No: 451-054 (=1-81)(71):(93):(94) REVAuthor: Pearson, Wendy Gay (ed.) ; Knabe, Susan (ed.) Source: CNPlace: Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaPublisher: Wilfred Laurier University PressPubDate: c2015PhysDes: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Film and media studies series; Film + media studiesSubject: CRITICISM ; MEDIA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; INDIGENOUS ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND ; NEW ZEALAND
MAORI CINEMA ; NORWAY ; CANADA ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CINEMA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND TV ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES ON TV ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS Summary: "From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity.
The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway. "
--BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9781554583355Contents: -- pt. I dream makers -- Introduction Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media / Susan Knabe -- One: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt. II decolonizing histories -- Two: Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Three:Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- Four.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Five: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk / Colleen McGloin -- Six."Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt. III mediating practices -- Seven: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / jo smith and Sue Abel -- Eight: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- Nine: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV documentary approaches -- Ten: The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- Eleven: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew / Ute Lischke -- Twelve: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- Thirteen:"I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V other perspectives --Fourteen: Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Fifteen: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk / Davinia Thornley -- glossary -- bibliography -- index --
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Rick Trembles' motion picture purgatory / Rick Trembles Surrey: FAB Press, 2004.
Call No: 62:61[741.5] TREAuthor: Trembles, Rick Source: UKPlace: SurreyPublisher: FAB PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 191 p. : 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; CARTOONS ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997) ; POSSESSION (FR/GW, Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) ; NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955) ; URBAN LEGEND (US, Jamie Blanks, 1998) ; BIG CHILL, THE (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1983) Summary: From the pages of free weekly The Montreal Mirror comes the best of Rick Trembles’ distinctive hybrid film-review/column/comic strip Motion Picture Purgatory! A novel new form of film criticism, the medium of sequential art lends itself well to the dissection of motion pictures; frequently resembling storyboards, plotline trajectories are diagrammatically tracked via elaborate cross-sections and aerial views with an obsessive attention to detail! Trembles has developed a worldwide reputation over the years distributing his own comix and appearing in a variety of anthologies including Robert Crumb’s Weirdo, Fantagraphics’ Pictopia and Danny Hellman’s Legal Action Comix! [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 1903254302
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The rise and fall of british documentary : the story of the film movement founded by John Grierson / Elizabeth Sussex London: University of California Press, c1975.
Call No: 761(410) SUSAuthor: Sussex, Elizabeth Source: US/UKPlace: Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; LondonPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1975PhysDes: xvi, 220 p. : illus. ; 23 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK ; UNITED KINGDOM ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARIES: UNITED KINGDOM ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936) Summary: "The image of British documentary has usually been one of artistic prestige and a certain doctrinaire stuffiness. This book is an attempt to recreate the real human experience behind the myth - utilizing a kind of documentary method, intercutting the author's commentary and interview material. Elizabeth Sussex, who is a film-maker herself, talked with all the important living figures of the documentary movement about its complex conflicts, frustrations, and missed chances. Her account is tempered, critical, and knowledgeable. It not only provides a circumstantial record of the movement, but poses issues that must be confronted in any attempt to use film for social purposes. Some outstanding characters in the story - Cavalcanti and Jennings, for example - are evaluated anew, and aspects of the movement that we have known primarily through Grierson's genius for publicity receive skeptical scrutiny. Skillfully edited into a concise and dramatic chronological story, the interviews say more in their cumulative impact than any plain narrative could. The book puts all previous studies of documentary into a new perspective, and will be required reading for anyone concerned with the subject" -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Reviewed in 'The Rise and Fall of the British Documentary: Grierson and the old boys' by William Guynn (Jump Cut, no. 15, 1977, pp. 28-29)ISBN: 0520028694Donation: Donated by James SabineContents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- interviewees in order of appearance -- 1 the movement moves in -- 2 the spell of Flaherty -- 3 innovations at the Post office -- 4 Night Mail -- 5 the movement divides -- 6 war and the peak of achievement -- 7 the post war decline -- 8 reflections on past and future -- epilogue -- index --
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Robert Altman's America / Keyssar, Helene New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Call No: 81ALT KEYAuthor: Helene Keyssar Source: New YorkPlace: New York, New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 372 p ; 20 cmSubject: ALTMAN, ROBERT ; USA ; CRITICISM Summary: Robert Altman is the most quintessentially American of contemporary directors. His films cut across all genres - from Western (McCabe and Mrs Miller) and science fiction (Quintet) to detective story (The Long Goodbye) and musical (Popeye) - offering us what Vincent Carnaby onc called a "Gallery of American Portraits". [Taken from back cover].ISBN: 0195048709
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Robert Beavers / Rebekah Rutkoff (Ed.) Vienna, Austria: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen,
Call No: 81BEA ROBAuthor: Rutkoff, Rebekah CorpAuthor: O¨sterreichisches Filmmuseum --SYNEMA-Gesellschaft fu¨r Film und MedienSource: AUPlace: Vienna, AustriaPublisher: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationenPhysDes: 219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; Beavers, Robert ; WORK DONE (US, Robert Beavers, 2000) Summary: "In a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and The Suppliant (2010), intimate portraits shot in the U.S., Beavers has produced a deeply original film language framed by his use of colored filters and mattes. His investigations of the handwork of anonymous artisans complement his dialogues with Ruskin, Leonardo, and Borromini in Ruskin (1975/1997), From the Notebook of... (1971/1998), and The Hedge Theater (1986/2002). This volume contains critical investigations of Beavers' most important films and a collection of the filmmaker's own writings. Occupying a unique space between poetry and philosophy, his aphoristic meditations vivify his own work and generously illuminate the art of film." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliography and filmographyISBN: 9783901644696Language: EnglishDonation: Senses of CinemaContents: Preface / Rebekah Rutkoff -- 10th of July, 1967 / Gregory J. Markopoulos -- A note on The Count of Days, a film by Robert Beavers / Tom S. Chomont
-- Introduction to the work of Robert Beavers / Jonas Mekas -- Robert Beavers or absolute film / Rene Micha -- He made this screen: toward Robert Beavers's poetry / Rebekah Rutkoff -- In the shadow of a sound: sonic montage in the works of Robert Beavers / Luke Fowler -- A single image: two versions of Work Done (1972, 1999) / Ricardo Matos Cabo -- Masked rhythm in Ruskin / P. Adams Sitney -- Tectonics and space: architectural thought in the films of Robert Beavers / James Macgillivray -- Drowning in light: Sotiros / Kristin M. Jones -- Notes on Robert Beavers / Erik Ulman -- A master motif: aesthetic benefice in four films by Robert Beavers / Don Daniels -- The sightless measure - love, loss and eternity / Susan Oxtoby -- Conversation about The Stoas / Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers -- Of place and portraiture / Haden Guest -- Robert Beavers -- A few points -- Acnode -- Selected notes films in From the Notebook of... -- From the notebook of -- Sotiros: a sequence of notes -- The searching measure
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Sade, Fourier, Loyola. English / Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Miller New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.
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Scenes from a revolution : the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008.
Call No: 71 (73) HARAuthor: Harris Mark Place: EdinburghPublisher: CanongatePubDate: 2008PhysDes: 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: COLUMBIA PICTURES ; CRITICISM ; CRITICS ; DIRECTORS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ; ALLEN, WOODY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ASHBY, HAL ; BANCROFT, ANNE ; BEATTY, WARREN ; BENTON, ROBERT ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; BLAKE, ROBERT ; BRANDO, MARLON ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CARON, LESLIE ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; COLLINS, JOAN ; CONNERY, SEAN ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; CORMAN, ROGER ; DANIELS, WILLIAM ; DAVIS, SAMMY, Jr. ; DAY, DORIS ; DUNAWAY, FAYE ; DUVALL, ROBERT ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; FLEISCHER, RICHARD ; FONDA, JANE ; FRANKOVICH, MIKE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HARRISON, REX ; HENRY, BUCK ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; NEWMAN, DAVID ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967) ; CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) ; COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) ; DOCTOR DOLITTLE (US, Richard Fleischer, 1967) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (US, Stanley Kramer, 1967) ; KAEL, PAULINE ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) Summary: In this book, Mark Harris looks at 1967, and marks it as a pivotal moment in Hollywood's history: the shift from studio -generated epics, westerns and musicals, such as "Doctor Doolitle"to the director-centred European aesthetic seen in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "The Graduate". It was the birth of the New Hollywood. The book look at five films made in this year- "Bonnie & Clyde", "In the heat of the night", "Doctor Doolittle" "The Graduate" and "Guess who's coming to dinner" from the. first draft of the scripts to the impact of their release. The author interviews most of the actors in volved in the making of these films and presents a book about Hollywood and the United States at a critical juncture in their history. [Taken from the cover]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-438) and index.ISBN: 9781847671028ID2: 277
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Screen adaptations : Charles Dickens' Great Expectations : the relationship between text and film / by Brian McFarlane and edited by Imelda Whelehan London: Methuen Drama: A & C Black Publishers, 2008.
Call No: 79GRE MCFAuthor: McFarlane, Brian Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Methuen Drama: A & C Black PublishersPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xx, 186 p. ; 20 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES ; CRITICISM ; DICKENS, CHARLES ; GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946) ; GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, Joseph Hardy, 1975) ; GREAT EXPECTATIONS (US, Alfonso Cuaron, 1998) Summary: " Dickens has been immensely popular with filmmakers and Great Expectations has an unusual hold on the popular imagination. This book addresses in detail numerous adaptations with particular emphasis on the two television serials and four film versions including David Lean's celebrated 1946 classic and a modern re-working starring Gwyneth Paltrow. A fascinating study that is accessibly written from both a literature and film perspective. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-179) and indexISBN: 9780713679090Contents: -- introduction and acknowledgements -- filmography and credits for key films -- part one: literary contexts -- an enduringly popular novel -- part two: from text to screen -- adaptations and extrapolations across the media -- Great Expectations on television -- Great Expectations(1934) : a Hollywood studio romance -- Great Expectations(1975): a musical sans songs -- Great Expectations(1998): from estuary to gulf, to Manhattan and back -- Great Expectations(1946): something like a classic -- part three: the afterlife of Lean's film -- a film of its time - and for other times -- bibliography -- index --
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Screening Stephen King : adaptation and the horror genre in film and television / Simon Brown Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.
Call No: 753KIN BROAuthor: Brown, Simon Edition: First editionSource: USPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: 226 pages ; 23 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. KING, STEPHEN ; FILM ; TELEVISION ; CRITICISM ; KING, STEPHEN Summary: "Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His books have spawned a vast number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer’s work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media—and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of King film and television adaptations.
Simon Brown first examines the reasons for King’s literary success and then, starting with Carrie, explores how King’s themes and style have been adapted for the screen. He looks at mainstream horror adaptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV works from Salem’s Lot to Under the Dome. Through this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror genre." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index; FilmographyISBN: 9781477314920Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- mainstream horror and brand Stephen King -- Stephen King from Vietnam to Reagan : the early adaptations and the establishment of brand Stephen King on the screen -- The mainstream adaptations, 1986-2007 -- Stephen King as low-budget and straight-to-DVD horror -- Stephen King as TV horror -- Conclusion : The future is also history : the contemporary evolution of brand Stephen King -- selected TV and filmography -- references -- index --
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Sharp-shooting women pick off the bad guys in Weekend Australian [Review] (16/05/2015) p.14
Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; SPY (US, Paul Feig, 2015)Author: Romei, Stephen PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: SPY (US, Paul Feig, 2015) ; SPY FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: Review of Paul Feig's 2015 film Spy that focuses on the performances of its lead female characters and subversion of typical masculine action films.Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Shock value : how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror / by Jason Zinoman New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
Call No: 735.2 ZINAuthor: Zinoman, Jason Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Penguin BooksPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 274 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; CRITICISM Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-262) and indexISBN: 9780143121367Contents: -- introduction -- The Devil's advocate -- The problem with Psycho -- Blood brothers -- Assaulting the audience -- Shock or awe -- The monster problem -- The dance of death -- He likes to watch -- The thing in-between -- Stomaching it -- The fear sickness -- epilogue -- acknowledgments -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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A short chronology of World Cinema / by Dennis Grunes London: Sands Films Cinema Club, 2010.
Call No: 70 GRUAuthor: Grunes, Dennis Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Sands Films Cinema ClubPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 550 p. ; 22 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; WORLD CINEMA Summary: "An essential guide to the history of world cinema; this book provides a good introduction to over a thousand important films arranged chronologically, from the birth of Cinema till now. Each film is presented and reviewed in short entries and each decade is headed by a longer article with a deeper analysis of outstanding films of that period. A comprehensive index makes this book an excellent starting point for the study of art house film history. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780955384318
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A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan New York: HarperCollinsCollegePublishers, 1994.
Call No: 67 CORAuthor: Corrigan, Timothy Edition: 2nd edPlace: New YorkPublisher: HarperCollinsCollegePublishersPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and indexISBN: 0673522997LON: 93021631; 10183435
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A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan New York: Longman, 2001.
Call No: 67 CORAuthor: Corrigan, Timothy Edition: Fourth EditionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: LongmanPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xiii, 224 p. : ill . ; 21 cmSeries: The Short guide seriesSubject: CRITICISM ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0321081145 (paperback)
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The show starts on the sidewalk : an architectural history of the movie theatre, starring S. Charles Lee / Maggie Valentine New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Call No: 38(73) VALAuthor: Valentine, Maggie, 1949 Place: New HavenPublisher: Yale University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xiv, 231 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmSubject: Lee, S. Charles Criticism and interpretation Summary: From the 1890 penny arcades and the opulence and ornate movie houses of the 1920s and 1930s to the drive-in theatres of the 1950s and the multiplex cinemas of today, movie theatres have provided an environment where millions of Americans learned about life, culture, politics, romance, and sex. This book - as entertaining and lively as its subject - documents the history of the American movie theatre, tracing its evolution and exploring its role in American culture and architecture; Maggie Valentine focuses on the career of architect S. Charles Lee, who designed more than three hundred theatres between 1920 and 1950, mostly in California, and whose buildings became prototypes for movie theatres all over the country. She vividly re-creates the sights and sounds of Lee's theatres, with their huge interiors, crystal chandeliers, Art Deco motifs, and majestic organ music. She describes the colorful terrazzo patterns that set off the theatre entrance and the marquee that formed a canopy over it, design elements exploited by Lee, who insisted that the sidewalk, indeed, was where the show started. Valentine discusses how glamorous motion picture theatres helped define and vary the skyline of America, changing the shape of commercial streets in cities and towns; Examining theatres as products and symbols of their time, she presents with dramatic flair both how they influenced and were influenced by architectural trends and the economic, social, and political forces of the era. The book, richly illustrated with period photographs, will be mandatory reading for anyone who has ever reveled, popcorn in hand, in the luxury of an old-time motion picture theatreNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and indexISBN: 0300055277 (alk. paper)LON: 93024977; 10111459
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Showstoppers : Busby Berkeley and the tradition of spectacle / Martin Rubin New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Call No: 751.1(73) RUBAuthor: Rubin, Martin, 1947 Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 1993PhysDes: ix, 249 p., [64] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 x 26 cmSeries: Film and cultureSubject: Berkeley, Busby, 1895- Criticism and interpretation Summary: The name Busby Berkeley, creator of the dances for films such as 42nd Street, Babes in Arms, and Million Dollar Mermaid, is synonymous with the spectacular musical production number. Films, television commercials, and MTV videos continue to use "Berkeleyesque" techniques long after Berkeley himself and the genre that nourished him have faded from the scene. The first major analysis of Berkeley's career on stage and screen, Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P. T. Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed this declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical; With lively prose and engaging photographs, Showstoppers explores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley, at the musical genre, and at individual films. Appropriate for both specialists and general readers, Showstoppers is an exuberant study of a figure whose career, Rubin notes, "provides an extraordinarily rich point of convergence for a wide range of cultural and artistic contexts."Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-213) and index; Filmography: p. [229]-234ISBN: 0231080549 (alk. paper)LON: 92037956; 9605126
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Sofia Coppola : the politics of visual pleasure / Anna Backman Rogers Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2019].
Call No: 81COP BACAuthor: Backman Rogers, Anna Source: USPlace: New York; OxfordPublisher: Berghahn BooksPubDate: [2019]PhysDes: 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN DIRECTORS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; USA ; COPPOLA, SOFIA ; VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000) ; BEGUILED, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2017) ; LOST IN TRANSLATION (US, Sofia Coppola, 2003) ; SOMEWHERE (US/UK/IT/JA, Sofia Coppola, 2010) ; MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006) ; BLING RING, THE (US/UK/G/FR, Sofia Coppola, 2013) Summary: "All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstrates, fundamentally misconstrues what are rich, ambiguous, meaningful films. Drawing on insights from feminist philosophy and psychology, the author here takes an original approach to Coppola, exploring vital themes from the subversion of patriarchy in The Virgin Suicides to the "female gothic" in The Beguiled. As Rogers shows, far from endorsing a facile and depoliticized postfeminism, Coppola's films instead deploy beguilement, mood, and pleasure in the service of a robustly feminist philosophy." - taken from back cover.ISBN: 9781785339752Contents: Introduction : the surface of the image is political -- Part I. Imaging absence as abjection and imaging the female gothic as rage. Chapter 1. The Virgin Suicides (1999) -- Chapter 2. The Beguiled (2017) -- Part II. Empty subjectivities and masculinity as void. Chapter 3. Lost in Translation (2003) -- Chapter 4. Somewhere (2010) -- Part III. The female body as patriarchal currency and the commodification of female identity. Chapter 5. Marie Antoinette (2006) -- Chapter 6. The Bling Ring (2013) -- Conclusion : On Beguilement.
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The Sopranos Sessions / Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall New York: Abrams Press, 2019.
Call No: 79SOP SEIAuthor: Seitz, Matt Zoller ; Sepinwall, Alan Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Abrams PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 471 pages ; 24 cmSubject: VILLAINS IN FILMS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; MAFIA IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; Chase, David ; GANDOLFINI, JAMES ; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999) ; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999-) Summary: "A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office ... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the show's debut, they reunite to produce a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode, as well as new interviews with series creator David Chase. They explore the show's artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connection to other cinematic and television classics.
On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, New Jersey's The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's debut, Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce The Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors' archival writing on the series, The Sopranos Sessions explores the show's artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connections to other cinematic and television classics. The Sopranos Sessions has three main sections: essays on each episode; seven new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, covering all seven seasons of The Sopranos; and selections from Seitz and Sepinwall's archival Star-Ledger pieces, including Sepinwall's post-finale interview with Chase, Seitz's profile of James Gandolfini, and Chase's eulogy for the series' star. Whether you're watching The Sopranos for the first time or revisiting it like an old friend, The Sopranos Sessions will give each episode--and the entire series--new insight and context, illuminating, alongside its creator, what it was like to make this show, and making vivid again the memorable moments--Tony grabbing a pillow on the way to see his mother, or Christopher and Paulie Walnuts shivering in the snowy Pine Barrens, or Carmela playing 'American Girl' for Tony in a hospital room--that transformed television."--Libraries AustraliaNotes: Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 9781419734946Contents: -- the foreword -- you get what you pay for -- introduction: it goes on and on and on and on -- Recaps -- season one -- season two -- season three -- season four -- season five -- season six --- season seven -- the debate: Don't stop believin' you know exactly what happened at the end of The Sopranos -- The David Chase Sessions -- The morgue -- The eulogies -- acknowledgments --
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Soul of the documentary : framing, expression, ethics / by Ilona Hongisto Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2015.
Call No: 761 HONAuthor: Hongisto, Ilona Source: NEPlace: AmsterdamPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPubDate: c2015PhysDes: 178p. ; 30cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ETHICS IN FILMS ; CRITICISM Summary: "Soul of the Documentary offers a groundbreaking new approach to understanding documentary cinema. Working against current thinking, Ilona Hongisto argues that the documentary does more than merely represent whatis-by capturing actual people, places, and events-but also expresses realities to come. She makes a case for the form as one that is not bound by predetermined ideas or rules, and through close readings of a heterogeneous body of films, she imbues the tradition with a new sense of urgency and vitality. "
-- BOOKTOPIA.COM.AUISBN: 9789089647559Contents: -- acknowledgments -- prologue -- Imagination: Relational documents -- 1: Frames of the photograph -- 2 a documentary fable -- Fabulation: Documentary visions -- 3: Making up legends -- 4: Acts of resistance -- Affection: Documenting the potential -- 5: Moments of affection -- 6: The primacy of feeling -- epilogue: ethics of sustainability -- notes -- works cited -- index --
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The sound of pictures : listening to the movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity / by Andrew Ford Collingwood, Victoria: Black Inc., c2010.
Call No: 634.6 FORAuthor: Ford, Andrew Source: ATPlace: Collingwood, VictoriaPublisher: Black Inc.PubDate: c2010PhysDes: v, 312 pages. ; 24 cmSubject: MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; MUSIC, FILM ; FILM ; CRITICISM ; SOUND ; SOUND TRACKS ; SOUND EFFECTS ; SOUNDTRACKS Summary: "The sound of pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Sweeping or sparse, classical or pop, music can play a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices."--BACK COVERNotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781863955102Contents: -- Introduction -- The role of music -- Five composers -- Ennio Morricone -- Richard Rodney Bennett -- Dick Hyman -- Lalo Schifrin -- Howard Shore -- Listening to the movies -- classical music in films -- pop goes the score -- pictures of sound -- listening for clues in Hitchcock -- the sound of voices -- the sounds of silence (and bumps in the night) -- Five directors -- Bruce Beresford -- Sally Potter -- Wim Wenders -- Peter Greenaway -- Peter Weir -- Epilogue: The shared experience of sound -- some further reading & acknowledgments -- films mentioned in this book -- index --
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A splurch in the kisser : the movies of Blake Edwards / Sam Wasson Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
Call No: 81EDW WASAuthor: Wasson, Sam Source: USPlace: Middletown, ConnecticutPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPubDate: 2009PhysDes: xii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: EDWARDS, BLAKE ; CRITICISM ; HOLLYWOOD ; BLIND DATE (US, Blake Edwards, 1987) ; BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (US, Blake Edwards, 1961) ; CAREY TREATMENT, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1972) ; CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER (US, Blake Edwards, 1983) ; FINE MESS, A (US, Blake Edwards, 1986) ; GREAT RACE, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1965) ; MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1983) ; MICKI AND MAUDE (US, Blake Edwards, 1984) ; PARTY, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1968) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (UK, Blake Edwards, 1978) ; SHOT IN THE DARK, A (UK, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SKIN DEEP (US, Blake Edwards, 1989) ; S.O.B. (US, Blake Edwards, 1981) ; SON OF THE PINK PANTHER (US, Blake Edwards, 1993) ; SUNSET (US, Blake Edwards, 1988) ; SWITCH (US, Blake Edwards, 1991) ; TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; VICTOR/VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) Summary: "With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, it's about time for Blake Edwards, a director of raving chutzpuh, to take hist seat at the table of greats. His rambunctious filmography remains an artistic force on par with Hollywood's greatest comic directors: Chaplin, Lubitsch, Sturges, and Wilder. Like Wilder, Edward's propensity for hilarity is double-helixed with pain, and in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, and even days of Wine and Roses, we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark. And yet, despite those enormous successes, he was at one time considered a Hollywood villain. After his marriage to Julie Andrews, Edwards's Darling Lili nearly sunk both of them and brought Paramount Pictures to its knees. Almost overnight, Blake became an industry pariah, which ironically fortified his sense of satire, and allowed him to simultaneously fight the Hollywood tide as he rode it. Employing keen visual analysis, meticulous research, and troves of interviews and production files, Sam Wasson delivers the first complete account of one of the maddest figures Hollywood has ever known." - BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes filmography.; Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780819569158Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: Prologue: Breaking in, 1922-1955 -- Blake begins, 1955-1959 -- Blake builds, 1959-1962 -- Blake blossoms, 1963-1968 -- Blake burns, 1968-1974 -- Panther pictures (Blake banks) -- Blake booms, 1979-1982 -- Blake breaks, 1983-1988 -- Blake bows, 1988-1991 -- Epilogue: Making out, October 24, 1993.
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Star studies : a critical guide / Martin Shingler London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012.
Call No: 465.1 SHIAuthor: Shingler, Martin Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film InstitutePubDate: 2012PhysDes: vi, 233 p. : ill. ; 19 cmSeries: BFI book published by Palgrave MacmillanSubject: STAR SYSTEM ; STARS ; ACTORS ; FANS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; CRITICISM ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; DYER, RICHARD Summary: Star Studies: A Critical Guide provides a lively introduction to the major approaches and key developments within this key area of film studies. It identifies a number of dominant themes, explains major theories, concepts and methodologies, and explores the diversity of approaches that have helped shape the international study of stars and stardom. Comparing the stars and star systems of Hollywood, Bollywood, China and many European countries, from the early-twentieth to the first decade of the twenty-first century, Martin Shingler considers the multiple functions of stars: as an elite workforce within the film industry, as actors and performers, as role models and cultural representatives, as icons and images, as transnational and national symbols, and as commodities. The scope of star studies is wide, historically and geographically, but this book helpfully focuses on salient features of the discipline, providing a cogent overview of star studies, while suggesting some useful avenues for further research. Published in the BFI Film Stars series, Star Studies provides an essential theoretical and historical companion to the individual star volumes in the seriesNotes: "A BFI book." -- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-219) and indexISBN: 9781844574902Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Star Studies: Mapping Out the Field of Star Scholarship Within Film Studies -- 2.Methods: Ways of Analysing Screen Performance -- 3.Star Quality: In Search of the Prerequisites For Stardom -- 4.Star Systems: The Mechanics of Star Production -- 5.Star Identities: From Image to Persona and Publicity to Gossip -- 6.Unstable Symbols: On the Representativeness of Film Star
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State of the art / by Pauline Kael New York: Dutton, 1985.
Call No: 67(04) KAEAuthor: Kael, Pauline Edition: 1st edPlace: New YorkPublisher: DuttonPubDate: 1985PhysDes: xi, 404 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM Summary: A collection of film reviews from between June 1983 and July 1985.Notes: "A William Abrahams book."; Includes indexISBN: 0525243690; 0525481869 (pbk.)LON: 85010368; 3889117Contents: --The Man With Two Brains --Octopussy --Flashdance --Superman III --Trading Places --Betrayal --The Survivors --Twilight Zone-The Movie --Zelig --The Grey Fox --The Draughtsman's Contract --Staying Alive --Pauline At The Beach --Risky Business --Daniel --The Moon In The Gutter --The Leopard --Cross Creek --Lonely Hearts --The Right Stuff --The Big Chill --Under Fire --Heart Like A Wheel --Educating Rita --Yentl --Star 80 --Terms Of Endearment --Never Cry Wolf --Scarface --Silkwood --To Be Or Not To Be --The Dresser --Uncommon Valor --Sudden Impact --Broadway Danny Rose --Basileus Quartet --The Lonely Guy --El Norte --Blame It On Rio --Entre Nous --Footloose --Splash --Against All Odds --Greystroke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes --Racing With The Moon --Unfaithfully Yours --Moscow On The Hudson --Iceman --Romancing The Stone --Swing Shift --The Natural --Sixteen Candles --Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom --Erendira --The Bounty --Gremlins --Ghostbusters --The 4th Man --Star Trek III: The Search For Spock --Under The Volcano --The Pope Of Greenwich Village --The Bostonians --Repo Man --Purple Rain --The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai --All Of Me --Sheena --First Name: Carmen --Dreamscape --Country --Swann In Love --Tightrope --Utu --Places In The Heart --Amadeus --Bizet's Carmen --The Little Drummer Girl --Stranger Than Paradise --Body Double --Stop Making Sense --Comfort And Joy --A Soldier's Story --The Killing Fields --Falling In Love --Independence Day --Dune --Beverly Hills Cop --Choose Me --Mrs. Soffel --The Cotton Club --A Passage To India --Micki & Maude --Starman --The Flamingo Kid --The Falcon And The Snowman --Birdy --Witness --Blood Simple --The Makioka Sisters --The Return Of The Soldier --The Mean Season --The Purple Rose Of Cairo --A Private Function --Lost In America --The Breakfast Club --Heartbreakers --Desperately Seeking Susan --Ladyhawke --Once Upon A Time In America --What Have I Done To Deserve This? --Dangerous Moves --A View To A Kill --Stick --The Shooting Party --Rambo: First Blood Part II --Prizzi's Honor --The Home And The World
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CRITICISMAuthor: Byrnes, Paul PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: CRITICISM Summary: Paul Byrnes questions what makes a good film and discusses the difference between verbal and non-verbal films and the rise (and fall) of visual film making.
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Stranded objects : mourning, memory, and film in postwar Germany / Eric L. Santner Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.
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Strange Vengeance of Rosalie in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.8
Subject: FILM ; CRITICISM Summary: Review of Strange Vengeance of Rosalie
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Summertime Killer in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.8
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Taking it all in / Pauline Kael London: Arena, 1987.
Call No: 67(04) KAEAuthor: Kael, Pauline Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: ArenaPubDate: 1987PhysDes: xiii, 527 p. ; 21 cmSubject: KAEL, PAULINE ; CRITICISM Notes: All material in this book originally appeared in The New Yorker; Includes indexISBN: 0099481707; 0714528412LON: 7377824
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Tales That Witness Madness in Australasian Cinema (Thursday, 17/10/1974) vol.2 iss.20 p.8
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Teen film : a critical introduction / by Catherine Driscoll Oxford: Berg, 2011.
Call No: 451-053.6 DRIAuthor: Driscoll, Catherine Edition: EnglishSource: UK/USPlace: OxfordPublisher: BergPubDate: 2011PhysDes: ix, 198 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cmSeries: Film GenresSubject: YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR ; CRITICISM ; TEEN FILMS Summary: "What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant? Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing American teenager, highlighting the institutions of high school and the nuclear family and experiments in sexual development and identity formation. But not every film featuring these components is a teen film and not every teen film is American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a citizen and a subject, Teen Film presents a new history of the genre, surveys the existing body of scholarship, and introduces key critical tools for discussing teen film. Surveying a wide range of films including The Wild One, Heathers, Akira and Donnie Darko, the book's central focus is on what kind of adolescence teen film represents, and on teen film's capacity to produce new and influential images of adolescence"-- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192), filmography (p. 177-182) and indexISBN: 9781847886866Donation: Donated by Alex Gionfriddo, 2013Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- introduction: the adolescent industry: 'teen' and 'film' -- pt. I Histories -- 1.Modernism, Cinema, Adolescence -- 2.The Teenager and Teenage Film -- 3.Inventing `Teen Film' -- pt. II Film Teens -- 4.Rites of Passage -- 5.Teen Types and Stereotypes -- 6.Teenage Wasteland -- pt. III Liminal Teen Film -- 7.Classification -- 8.Adaptability -- 9.Which Teen/Film? -- notes -- annotated guide to further reading -- filmography -- bibliography -- index --ID2: 274
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Television mythologies : stars, shows & signs / edited by Len Masterman London London New York: Comedia Pub. Group/MK Media Press M. Boyars, 1984.
Call No: 62 MASAuthor: Masterman, Len Place: London London New YorkPublisher: Comedia Pub. Group/MK Media Press M. BoyarsPubDate: 1984PhysDes: 143 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Comedia series ; no. 24Subject: CRITICISM, TV. UK ; GAMES SHOWS ; OLYMPICS ON TV ; COMMERCIALS, TV ; SOAP OPERAS. UK Notes: Includes bibliographiesISBN: 0906890551; 090689056X (pbk)LON: bnb90689055; 3403037URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Terror Tracks : music, sound, and horror cinema / edited by Philip Hayward London: Equinox, 2009.
Call No: 634:735.2 TERAuthor: Hayward, Philip (ed) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: EquinoxPubDate: 2009PhysDes: x, 286 p.; 23 cmSeries: Genre, music and soundSubject: HORROR FILMS ; CRITICISM ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS Summary: "Designed to appeal to a cross-over film and music studies readership, Terror Tracks analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of horror cinema. Focusing on the post-war period, the contributors examine the role of these elements in establishing and enhancing the feelings of unease, suspense and shock that are crucial to the genre. The book covers the various patterns of use and inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and looks at how these relate to non-musical sound. Lively and accessible, Terror Tracks is an important contribution to the study of horror cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP.; Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781845532024Contents: Psycho-analysis : form and function in Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece / James Wierzbicki -- An audiovisual foreshadowing in Psycho / Scott Murphy -- Sound and music in Hammer's vampire films / Michael Hannan -- Creative soundtrack expression : Toro Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan / Kyoko Koizumi -- Prog rock, the horror film and sonic excess : Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin / Tony Mitchell -- Inflamed : synthetic folk music and paganism in the island world of The wicker man / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Rhythms of evil : exorcising sound from The exorcist / Mark Evans -- Texas chainsaws : audio effect and iconicity / Rebecca Coyle and Philip Hayward -- Incorporating monsters : music as context, character and construction in Kubrick's The shining / Jeremy Barham -- Music of the night : scoring the vampire in contemporary film / Janet K. Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser/s sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.
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Theories of film / Andrew Tudor London: Secker & Warburg, 1974.
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Time Out film guide / edited by John Pym London: Time Out Guides Limited, 2008.
Call No: 03 TIM "2009"Edition: 17th edPlace: LondonPublisher: Time Out Guides LimitedPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxiv, 1342 p. ; 28 cmSubject: CRITICISM Summary: The seventeenth edition of the Time Out Film Guide (2009), now weighs in with 18,000 reviews, all reviewed over the last 40 years by well regarded film critics. Covering every area of workd cinema: classic silent and 1930s comedies, documentaries and the avant garde, Europe and Asia and the Hollywood mainstream and B-movies horrorsDonation: from Ian McPhail 2012
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The tube has spoken : reality tv and history / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c2010.
Call No: 76:759 TUBAuthor: Dvorak, Ken (ed) ; Taddeo, Julie Anne (ed) Source: USPlace: Lexington, Ky.Publisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: c2010PhysDes: x, 275 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)Subject: REALITY TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; CRITICISM Summary: " Featuring ordinary individuals plucked from their living room couches, reality television illuminates a unique world where everyday people produce contemporary history. The draw of reality TV lies in its shock value as the participants interact, scheme, and complete challenges. The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History provides a much-needed critical anlaysis of the growing phenomenon of reality TV, its evolution as a genre, and its historic roots in American culture. The contributors inspect a wide variety of shows from the 1950s to the present, detailing little-known truths of reality TV by analyzing programs such as Candid Camera, Big Brother, Wife Swap, Kid Nation, Survivor, and The Biggest Loser. " BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780813125534Contents: Introduction / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt : surveillance as cold war entertainment / Fred Nadis -- From social experiment to postmodern jokes : big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / Lee Barron -- From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and reality cooking / James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf -- The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Cassandra L. Jones -- Class, gender, and reimaging of family life. Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : an American family and the rise of reality TV / Laurie Rupert and Sayanti Ganguly Puckett -- "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : the family and reality TV / Su Holmes -- Reality TV and the American family / Leigh H. Edwards -- Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Sarah A. Matheson -- Babes in bonanzaland : kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / Debbie Clare Olson -- Reality TV and the living history experiment. "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak -- "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Michelle Arrow -- Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony / Aurora Scheelings.
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The TV crime drama / Sue Turnbull [Edinburgh]: Edinburgh University Press, c2014.
Call No: 734 TURAuthor: Turnbull, Sue Source: UKPlace: [Edinburgh]Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: c2014PhysDes: vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSeries: TV genresSubject: ADAPTATIONS. DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; CRIME DRAMAS ; CRIME DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA ; CRIME ON TV ; CRITICISM, TV. ; DETECTIVES ON TV ; POLICE ON TV ; PROGRAMME GENRES ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TV ; RATINGS. USA ; TELEVISION ; TELEVISION. UK ; TELEVISION. USA ; WOMEN ON TV ; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [TV] (US/CA, 2000-) ; DRAGNET [TV] (US, 1951-59, 1967-70) ; HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87) ; LAW AND ORDER [TV] (US, 1990-) ; POLICE STORY: COP KILLER [TV] (US, Larry Shaw, 1988) ; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999-) Summary: "What are the characteristic features of the crime drama as a television genre? What is the relationship between crime in the real world and the representation of crime on television? What are the merits of TV crime drama as a genre? The TV Crime Drama offers a genealogical account of the television crime drama, from its origins in popular culture of the 19th and 20th century to its most recent manifestations, as a genre enjoying transnational circulation and popularity. Exploring the key features of this genre in terms of format and style, it pays particular attention to the role of the investigators, the police, the private investigators and the specialists in forensic science and psychology, as well as the debates which have circulated about the role and representation of women. Covering classic series such as The Sweeney and Dragnet as well as contemporary crime dramas including The Wire, The Killing and Luther, this book is an essential read for students and scholars in television studies." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and indexISBN: 9780748640874
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The ultimate film : the UKs 100 most popular films / Ryan Gilbey, Keith Mansfield, Ashley Western London, UK: British Film Institute, 2005.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023.5 (41) GILAuthor: Gilbey, Ryan Edition: 1st edSource: UKPlace: London, UKPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005PhysDes: 336 p ; 24cm + col, b&w ill.Subject: CINEMAS. UK ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICS ; CRITICISM ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK Summary: From the 1930s to today, this book charts the diverse tastes that make up Britain’s film favourites. Each film is looked at in turn. What did the critics think of it when it was released and, with the benefit of hindsight, were they right? Who featured in front of and behind the camera? Did popular success always go together with critical acclaim and Oscar nominations? And what was it that about these films that struck a chord with cinemagoers? [Taken from back cover].ISBN: 184457105X
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Understanding film texts / Patrick Phillips London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 512.1 PHIAuthor: Phillips, Patrick Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: xiii, 158 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; COSTUMES ; DIALOGUE ; EDITING ; EXHIBITION ; HONG KONG ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PERCEPTION ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; VIRTUAL REALITY ; DICAPRIO, LEONARDO ; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO ; AFTER LIFE (JA, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998) ; AMERICAN BEAUTY (US, Sam Mendes, 1999) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; C`EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS (BE, Remy Belvaux & Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde, 1992) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FESTEN (DK, Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998) ; MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; SECRETS & LIES (FR/UK, Mike Leigh, 1996) ; SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987) ; CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987) ; SLIDING DOORS (US, Peter Howitt, 1998) ; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) ISBN: 085170798X; 0851707998(pbk.)LON: 21445642
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Visions before midnight : television criticism from the Observer, 1972-76 / Clive James London: Picador published by Pan Books, 1981.
Call No: 67(04) JAMAuthor: James, Clive, 1939 CorpAuthor: Observer (London, England)Place: LondonPublisher: Picador published by Pan BooksPubDate: 1981PhysDes: 175 p. ; 20 cmSubject: CRITICISM, TV. ; JAMES, CLIVE ISBN: 0330264648LON: bnb33026464; 2141029
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Visual pleasures, narrative contracts : taking Hitchcock lucidly? in Hitchcock annual (1992) p.129-143
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Wagner & Cinema / edited by Jeongwon Joe & Sander L. Gilman Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 81WAG WAGAuthor: Joe, Jeongwon (ed.) ; Gilman, Sander L. (ed.) ; Palmer, Tony (foreword) Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: xiii, 487 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; OPERA IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; WAGNER, RICHARD ; NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24) ; THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, THE (US, Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks, 1951) ; DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1951) ; HUMORESQUE (US, Jean Negulesco, 1947) ; GLADIATOR (US, Ridley Scott, 2000) ; FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER, DER (GE, Joachim Herz, 1964) ; LUDWIG (IT/FR/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1973) ; BUGS BUNNY NIPS THE NIPS (US, Friz Freleng, 1944) Summary: "The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In Wagner and Cinema, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars examines Wagner's influence on cinema from the silent era to the present. The essays in this collection engage in a critical dialogue with existing studies - extending and renovating current theories related to the topic - and propose unexplored topics and new methodological perspectives. The contributors discuss films ranging from the 1913 biopic of Wagner to Ridley Scott's Gladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. 441-455), and indexISBN: 9780253221636Contents: -- foreword by Tony Palmer -- Introduction: Why Wagner and cinema? Tolkien was wrong / Jeongwon Joe -- Part 1. Wagner and the silent film. Wagnerian motives : narrative integration and the development of silent film accompaniment, 1908-1913 / James Buhler ; Underscoring drama--picturing music / Peter Franklin ; The life and works of Richard Wagner (1913) : Becce, Froelich, and Messter / Paul Fryer ; Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen / Adeline Mueller -- Part 2. Wagnerian resonance in film scoring ; The resonances of Wagnerian opera and nineteenth-century melodrama in the film scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer ; Wagner's influence on gender roles in early Hollywood film / Eva Rieger ; The penumbra of Wagner's Ombra in two science fiction films from 1951: The thing from another world and The day the earth stood still / William H. Rosar -- Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood. "Soll ich lauschen?" : love-death in Humoresque / Marcia J. Citron ; Hollywood's German fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator / Marc A. Weiner ; Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny nips the nips (1944) / Neil Lerner ; Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden earrings / Scott D. Paulin -- Part 4. Wagner in German cinema. Wagner as leitmotif: the new German cinema and beyond / Roger Hillman ; The power of emotion: Wagner and film / Jeremy Tambling ; Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holla¨nder (1964) / Joy H. Calico -- Part 5. Wagner beyond the soundtrack. Nocturnal Wagner: the cultural survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood / Elisabeth Bronfen ; Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig / Giorgio Biancorosso ; The Tristan Project: time in Wagner and Viola / Jeongwon Joe ; "The threshold of the visible world": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan / Lawrence Kramer -- Postlude: Looking for Richard: an archival search for Wagner / Warren M. Sherk -- Epilogue: Some thoughts about Wagner and cinema; opera and politics, style and reception / Sander L. Gilman -- appendix: interview with Bill Viola / Jeongwon Joe -- filmography / Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk and Scott D. Paulin -- list of contributors -- index --
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Watching films / by Vernon Sproxton London: SCM Press Ltd., 1948.
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When the lights go down / Pauline Kael New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
Call No: 67(04) KAEAuthor: Kael, Pauline Edition: 1980Place: New YorkPublisher: Holt, Rinehart and WinstonPhysDes: 592 pages ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM. USA ; KAEL, PAULINE ISBN: 9780030425110Donation: Generously donated by "Bulldog" Bill Dick
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Where Are You Gregory? in Lumiere (August 1970) vol.1 iss.3 p.34-35
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Women's experimental cinema : critical frameworks / Robin Blaetz, editor Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Available at OAPEN (open access)
Call No: 771-02 WOMAuthor: Blaetz, Robin Source: USPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: viii, 421 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; CRITICISM ; BLAETZ, ROBIN ; RAGONA, MELISSA ; ARTHUR, PAUL ; MENKEN, MARIE ; WIELAND, JOYCE ; HOLMLUND, CHRIS ; NELSON, GUNVOR ; CARROLL, NOEL ; SERRA, M.M ; RAMEY, KATHRYN ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; OSTERWEIL, ARA ; RUBIN, BARBARA ; HALLER, ROBERT ; GREENFIELD, AMY ; KLEINHANS, CHUCK ; HAMMER, BARBARA ; PRAMAGGIORE, MARIA ; STRAND, CHICK ; KELLER, MARJORIE ; DOANE, MARY ANN ; THORNTON, LESLIE ; TURIM, MAUREEN ; CHILD, ABIGAIL ; WEES, WILLIAM C ; CUTLER, JANET ; FRIEDRICH, SU ; MCHUGH, KATHLEEN ; MACDONALD, SCOTT Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780822340447Contents: Swing and sway / Melissa Ragona -- Different/same/both/neither / Paul Arthur -- Excavating visual fields, layering auditory frames / Chris Holmlund -- Moving and moving / Noel Carroll -- Eye/body / M. M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey -- 'Absently enchanted' / Ara Osterweil -- Amy Greenfield / Robert A. Haller -- Barbara Hammer / Chuck Kleinhans -- Chick Strand's experimental ethnography / Maria Pramaggiore -- Amnesis time / Robin Blaetz -- In the ruins of the image / Mary Ann Doane -- Sounds, intervals, and startling images in the films of Abigail Child / Maureen Turim -- Peggy's playhouse / William C. Wees -- Su Friedrich / Janet Cutler -- The experimental 'dunyementary' / Kathleen McHugh -- Women's experimental cinema / Scott MacDonald.URL status: URL: 'https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25768'
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Wong Kar-wai London: British Film Institute, 2005.
Call No: 81KAR TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005Series: World directorsSubject: WONG KAR-WAI ; DIRECTORS. HONG KONG ; CRITICISM ; AS TEARS GO BY (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1989) ; CHONGQING SENLIN (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) ; CHUNGKING EXPRESS (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) ; IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) ; 2046 (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2004) Summary: A study of film director Wong Kar-wai, looking at his films, advertising work, and music videos he has directed. It explores how he draws from various film and literary elements that influence his work and examines his legacy amongst Hong Kong, and world, cinema.ISBN: 1844570290ID2: 291
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The world in a frame : what we see in films / Leo Braudy Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1976.
Call No: 62 BRAAuthor: Braudy, Leo Source: USPlace: Garden City, N.Y.Publisher: Anchor PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: 274 p. ; 22 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; AESTHETICS ; THEORY ; AUTEUR THEORY ; SEMIOLOGY ; BRAUDY, LEO Summary: "After an introduction that discusses the special problems faced by film criticism, the three major sections focus in turn on the objects within a film and the visual forms they produce; the typical plots that films follow and the cinematic conventions (like those of the western or musical) which support them; and finally the ways in which movies have portrayed human nature, their methods of characterization, and the role of film-acting within American society." - taken from cover.ISBN: 0385035926URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Worth watching : thirty film reviewers on review / co-ordinator: Peter Malone Richmond, Vic: Spectrum Publications, 1994.
Call No: 670 MALAuthor: Malone, Peter (Peter R.) Source: ATPlace: Richmond, VicPublisher: Spectrum PublicationsPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xii, 102 pages : portraits ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICS. AUSTRALIA ; BLACK ROBE (CN/AT, Bruce Beresford, 1991) ; CRY FREEDOM (UK, Richard Attenborough, 1987) ; DANCES WITH WOLVES (US, Kevin Costner, 1990) ; DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989) ; EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (US, Tim Burton, 1990) ; KILLING FIELDS, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1984) Summary: An assortment of 30 Australian film reviewers offer their critiques of the films: Black Robe, Cry Freedom, Dances with Wolves, Dead Poets Society, Edward Scissorhands, and The Killing Fields. These critics offer their reviews and an insight into their own methods of reviewing filmsNotes: CIP confirmedISBN: 0867863307 (pbk.) : $14.95LON: abn93335937; 10390988Contents: Introduction -- On reviewing / Peter Malone -- Black Robe / Matthew Caterson / Jan Epstein / Neil Jillett / Peter Malone / Karl Quinn -- Cry Freedom / Daniel Batt / Keith Connolly / Andrew Cornell / Ivan Hutchinson / Gabrielle Fitzpatrick -- Dances with Wolves / Judith Gibson / Sandra Hall / Stan James / Gordon Lewis / Des Partridge -- Dead Poets Society / Clark Forbes / Larry Hunter-Stewart / Paul LePetit / Brian McFarlane / John Slavin -- Edward Scissorhands / Jane Baxter / Ray Cassin / John Conomos / Paul Harris / Adrian Martin -- The Killing Fields / Raffaele Caputo / Fred Chamberlin / Peter Gould / Della Hilton / Tom Ryan -- Suggested exercises on film reviewing / Peter Malone
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A Wrap of Molopolis in Lumiere (October 1970) vol.1 iss.5 p.19-20
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Writing national cinema : film journals and film culture in Peru / Jeffrey Middents Hanover, N.H. ; London: Dartmouth College, 2009.
Call No: 71(85) MIDAuthor: Middents, Jeffrey Source: USPlace: Hanover, N.H. ; LondonPublisher: Dartmouth CollegePubDate: 2009PhysDes: viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: PERU ; CRITICISM ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM Summary: "Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinema, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the director's use of mise-en-scene as the exclusive method of film analysis rather than thematic or star-oriented topics - hence, the title of the publication, derived from their battle cry at post-screening discussions: "Let's talk about film." Their critical authority grew with the rise of local filmmaking and the nationalist fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s.".
"When government sponsorship spurred feature filmmaking in the mid-1970s, their perspective eschewed the politically militant readings that characterized most writing and film from the rest of Latin America at the time. by the 1980s, the critics at Hablemos de cine had helped to engender a commercial, Hollywood-influenced cinematic vision - best exemplified by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi - and stimulated a unique, if isolating, national identity through the film." "The first book-length study of Peruvian film culture to appear in English, Middents's work offers a thoughtful consideration of the impact of criticism on the visual stylings of a national cinema."--BOOK JACKETISBN: 9781584657767Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012Contents: A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century
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You couldn't ignore me if you tried : the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation / by Susannah Gora New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010.
Call No: 451-053.6 GORAuthor: Gora, Susannah Edition: First Paperback editionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Three Rivers PressPubDate: 2010PhysDes: xiv, 367 pages ; 25 cmSubject: TEEN FILM ; TEEN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's ; HUGHES, JOHN (US) ; SIXTEEN CANDLES (US, John Hughes, 1984) ; BREAKFAST CLUB, THE (US, John Hughes, 1985) ; PRETTY IN PINK (US, Howard Deutch, 1986) ; FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (US, John Hughes, 1986) ; SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL (US, Howard Deutch, 1987) ; SAY ANYTHING (US, Cameron Crowe, 1989) ; ST. ELMO'S FIRE (US, Joel Schumacher, 1985) Summary: " From Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo's Fire to Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Say Anything, the films of the Brat Pack have influenced an entire generation who still want to believe life always turns out like an eighties movie. You Couldn't ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that golden age of youth cinema, telling for the first time the complete story behind how these films were made. Through original and revealing interviews with scores of key players like Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, John Cusack, Cameron Crowe, and Ally Sheedy, author Susannah Gora has crafted a sweeping tribute to a body of films that stirred an entire generation and a gripping account of the people who brought these films to life." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780307716606Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Nothing compares to Hughes: teen cinema and the man who would change it forever -- Eternal flame: Sixteen Candles lights up the screen -- Breakfast of champions: The Breakfast Club": "breaks the rules, bares their souls," and revolutionizes the teen film genre -- Not just for Breakfast anymore: inside the heat of St. Elmo's Fire -- Becoming "The Brat Pack": a magazine writer coins the term that permanently labels young Hollywood -- Sitting Pretty: Ringwald and Hughes reteam for Pretty in Pink, a rose-tinted look at teenage love -- We got the beat: behind the music of the Brat Pack films -- I love Ferris in the springtime: Ferris Bueller crafts the perfect day off before graduating from high school, and John Hughes graduates from directing teen films -- Teens in Wonderland: the drama behind Some Kind of Wonderful -- The end of the innocence: the Brat Pack makes the tough transition to adulthood, while John Hughes's power in Hollywood grows -- -- Anything, and everything: in the last of the great eighties youth films, Cameron Crowe and John Cusack Say Anything about the passion of young love -- Pack to the future: the eighties become the nineties, John Hughes becomes the creator of one of the highest-grossing comedies of all time, and the Brat Pack actors become the people they are today -- Life moves pretty fast: John Hughes's final years -- Don't you forget about me: how the Brat Pack and their films changed a generation -- When the light gets into your heart -- notes -- index --
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