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Call No: 735.1 ONE
Author: Schneider ,Steven Jay (ed.)
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: ABC Books
PubDate: c2009
PhysDes: 416 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 16 cm
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: "A Quintessence book" -- Title page verso; Includes index.
ISBN: 9780733324956
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: F53 MAL
Author: Malone, Peter
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Chevalier Press
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: ca. ; 22 cm.
Subject: CRITICISM
ISBN: 869400045

Call No: 9294
Author: Kael, Pauline
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Arrow Books
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 22 cm ; 676 p.
Subject: KAEL, PAULINE; CRITICISM. USA; CRITICS. USA
ISBN: 0099335506
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 81FER BRE
Author: Brenez, Nicole
Source: US
Place: Urbana, Ill ; Chicago
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Contemporary film directors / edited by Jame Naremore
Subject: 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 0252074114 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 19

Call No: 753.1(73) SLE
Author: Slethaug, Gordon E.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 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 Luhrman, 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index
ISBN: 9781623564407
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 62(04) AFT
Source: K
Place: Abingdon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 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: 9780415845939
Contents: 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.

Call No: held no.1-12 Apr. 1970-Oct. 1985; -- IN STORAGE. OVERNIGHT RETRIEVAL
CorpAuthor: Afterimage (London, England)
Source: UK
Place: [London]
Publisher: Afterimage Pub.
PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: CRITICISM
Notes: Description based on: no. 10 (autumn 1981); title from cover
ISSN: 0261-4472
LON: 82643316; 2374042

Call No: 81VAR DER
Author: DeRoo, Rebecca J.
Source: US
Place: Oakland, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9780520279414
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 62 KOL
Author: Kolker, Robert Phillip
Source: US
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 428 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 405-415
ISBN: 0195033027
Contents: -- introduction -- one: the vaildity of image -- two: the substance of form -- three: politics, psychology, and memory -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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Call No: 620 HOI
Author: Law, Hoi Lun
Edition: 2021
Place: Cham, Switzerland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 26/02/2021
PhysDes: ix, 191 pages : illustrated
Series: Palgrave close readings in film and television
Subject: CRITICISM; LATE SPRING [BANSHUN] (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1949); [TEN] 10 [DIX] (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); FORCE MAJEURE [TURIST] (SW/FR/NO, Ruben Ostlund, 2014); BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956)
Summary: This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. -- cover blurb
ISBN: 9783030629472
Contents: Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility.

Call No: 71(73) EAG
Author: Eagan, Daniel
Source: US
Place: New York : London
Publisher: Continuum
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: xxvii, 818 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP
ISBN: 9780826429773
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- how to read the entries -- the 500 films, in chronological order -- an alphabetical list of the films -- the 500 films --

Call No: 408.1(540) ROB
Author: Roberge, Gaston
Source: II
Place: Calcutta
Publisher: Seagull Books
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cm
Subject: 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 blurb
ISBN: 0861320751
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: 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

Call No: 67(04) AGA
Author: Agate, James, 1877-1947
Place: [London]
Publisher: Home & Van Thal
PubDate: 1946
PhysDes: 280 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm
Subject: CRITICISM
Notes: Includes index
LON: abn85004132; 3672766

Call No: 67(04) AGA
Author: Agate, James, 1877-1947
Place: [London]
Publisher: Home & Van Thal
PubDate: 1948
PhysDes: 284 p., [1] leaf of plate : port. ; 21 cm
Subject: CRITICISM
Notes: Includes index
LON: abn84005629; 3013835

Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 1)
Author: King, Noel; Verevis, Constantine; Williams, Deane
Source: UK/US
Place: Bristol, UK; Chicago
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2013-
PhysDes: xii, 174 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Australian film theory and criticism
Subject: 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 --

Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 2)
Source: UK/US
Place: Bristol; Chicago
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: viii, 411 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
ISBN: 9781783200375
Contents: 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]

Call No: 408.1(94) ORE
Copy Management: 2 copies
Author: O'Regan, Tom, 1956
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cm
Series: National cinemas series
Subject: 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 indexes
ISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302
LON: 12193364
Contents: 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.

Call No: 621 WIL
Author: Williamson, Dugald
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Local Consumption Publications
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: 98 p. ; 21 cm
Series: Critical categories series ; no. 1
Subject: AUTHORSHIP; CRITICISM; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; WEIR, PETER
Notes: Previous ed.: Sydney : Local Consumption Publication, [1986?]; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 89-94
ISBN: 0949793167 (pbk.) : $10.00
LON: anb94979316; 6320460

Call No: 753.5 MSC
Author: McSweeney, Terence
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: 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/CN, 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 COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9780231186254
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: 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.

Call No: 630 PER
Author: Peretz, Eyal
Source: US
Place: Stanford, California
Publisher: Stanford University Press
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xvii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-220) and index
ISBN: 9780804756853
Contents: 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.

Author: Dennis Broe
Edition: Broe, Dennis
Source: US
Place: Detroit, Michigan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: xiii, 297 pages ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliography and index
ISBN: 9780814345269
Language: English
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Metaseriality -- 2. Serial specificity -- 3. Serial auteurs and the possibilities of industrial resistance

Call No: 71(540/41) KRA
Author: Kramer, Lucia
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 286 pages ; 24cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781501307614
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 03 MCB REF
Author: McBride, Joseph
Source: US
Place: Lincolnwood, Ill.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
PubDate: c1999
PhysDes: xii, 307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: BEST FILMS; ACTORS; WORST FILMS; CRITICISM; AWARDS. ACADEMY; ANIMATED FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; ADAPTATIONS
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0809228912
LON: 13784374

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 03 ESS BOO
Author: Essoe, Gabe
Source: US
Place: Westport, Connecticut
Publisher: Arlington House
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: xiv, 240 p. : 23 cm
Subject: BEST FILMS; CRITICISM; WORST FILMS
ISBN: 0870004964
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 70:62 MIL; FOLIO
Author: Milsome, Chris [editorial director]
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Artists House
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 240 p. ; 32 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; SOUND; PRODUCTION; APPRECIATION; CRITICISM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; FORD, JOHN; HAWKS, HOWARD; WELLES, ORSON; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BERGMAN, INGMAR; GODARD, JEAN-LUC
Notes: Includes A-Z filmmakers and actors, and glossary.
ISBN: 0861340108
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Subject: BRING ON THE NIGHT (US, Michael Apted, 1985); CRITICISM
Summary: Review of 'Bring on the Night', starring Sting

Call No: 67(44) CAH
Source: UK/US
Place: London; New York
Publisher: Routledge, British Film Institute
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: xi, 323 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Cahiers du Cinema selections
Subject: 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); 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: 0415029880
Contents: 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

Call No: T 71(41) ARL
Author: Arlen, Michael J
Place: Ringwood, Vic
Publisher: Penguin Books
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 337 p. ; 20 cm
Subject: CRITICISM, TV. USA; WALTERS, BARBARA; ROOTS [TV] (US, 1977); [SIXTY] 60 MINUTES [TV] (US, 1968-); DALLAS [TV] (US, 1978-91); NETWORK (US, Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Summary: Essays taking a critical view of the American television landscape of the 1970's and 1980's.

Call No: 62(04) SAM
Author: Samuels, Charles Thomas
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
PubDate: 1970
PhysDes: 250 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: THEORY; AESTHETICS; CRITICISM; ACTING; SCRIPTWRITERS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; GANGSTERS IN FILMS; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Call No: 62(04) CHA
Author: Allen, Robert C. (Robert Clyde), 1950
Source: US
Place: Chapel Hill
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 310 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; SEMIOLOGY; NARRATIVE IN TV; FEMINISM AND TV; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TV; PROGRAMME GENRES
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [291]-303
ISBN: 0807841765 (pbk.); 0807817325
LON: 4892693

Call No: 626:396 RIC
Author: Rich, B. Ruby
Source: US
Place: Durham, NC
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 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 BLURB
Notes: A collection of the author's essays from the 1970s and 1980s; Includes index
ISBN: 0822321211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 98012052; 13736840
Contents: 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 --

Call No: 45:32 CIN
Author: Georgakas, Dan; Rubenstein, Lenny
CorpAuthor: Cineaste
Source: US
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Lake View Press
PubDate: c1983
PhysDes: xiv, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 index
ISBN: 0941702022 : $25.00
LON: 2921398

Author: Timms, Peter
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DEMONSTRATOR (AT, Warwick Freeman, 1970); CRITICISM
Summary: Review of recent Australian film DEMONSTRATOR.

Author: Lawson, Sylvia; Rosser, Edward
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CRITICISM; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; [TWO OR THREE] 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER [DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); [TWO OR THREE] 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER [DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (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

Call No: 62(04) MAN
Author: Manvell, Roger; Neilson Baxter, R.K.
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1951
PhysDes: 224 p., [64] p. of plates ; 18 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; PERIODICALS, FILM
Notes: contains index
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 626(51) FAN
Author: Fan, Victoria
Source: US
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: 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 site
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography (253-255) and index.
ISBN: 9780816693573
Contents: 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

Call No: 62 BAZ
Author: Bazin, Andre, 1918-1958
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Seaver Books
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: xvii, 204 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; STROHEIN, ERICH VON; DREYER, CARL TH.; STURGES, PRESTON; BUNUEL, LUIS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KUROSAWA AKIRA
Notes: Translation of: Le cinema de la cruaute
ISBN: 0394178262 (pbk.) : $9.95; 039451808X : $12.95
LON: 81013545; 2065704
ID2: 291

Call No: 81JOR ZUC
Author: Zucker, Carole
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xi, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Directors' cuts
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-197) and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9781905674411
Contents: 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 --

Call No: 735 GOL
Author: Goldblatt, Burt; Steinbrunner, Chris
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Saturday Review Press
PubDate: 1972
PhysDes: 282 p. : illus. ; 26 cm
Subject: 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 JACKET
ISBN: 0841501831
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 81AND DIL
Author: Dilley, Whitney Crothers
Source: US/UK
Place: London New York
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: c2017
PhysDes: vii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Directors' cuts
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780231180696
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 722.81 CIN
Author: Bougie, Robin (ed.)
Edition: Fourth edition
Source: UK
Place: Surrey, England
Publisher: FAB Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Series: Cinema Sewer; 1
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781903254455

Call No: 409 KEA
Author: Keathley, Christian
Source: US
Place: Bloomington IN
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xiv, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: 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 cover
Contents: 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.

Call No: 806.7 BLA
Author: Blades, Joseph Dalton
Place: New York
Publisher: Arno Press
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: 227 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject: CRITICISM; CRITICS. USA; KAEL, PAULINE; SIMON, JOHN; KAUFFMANN, STANLEY; SARRIS, ANDREW; CRIST, JUDITH; CANBY, VINCENT
Summary: An analysis of the writing of six American film critics looking at their differences, and the differences between them and their predecessors, and what they contribute to an understanding of film.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 219-227.
ISBN: 0405075324

Call No: 806.7(73) ROB
Author: Roberts, Jerry
Source: US
Place: Santa Monica, CA
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
PubDate: c2010
PhysDes: 480 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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: 9781595800497
Contents: 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

Call No: 67(04) POT
Author: Jacobs, Lewis; Potamkin, Harry Alan
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Teachers College Press
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: 640p. illus. ; 24cm.
Subject: CRITICISM; CRITICS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; POTAMKIN, HARRY ALAN
Notes: Includes bibliography, general, name and film indexes.
ISBN: 080771559X

Call No: 81COE RED
Author: Redmon, Allen H.
Source: US/UK
Place: New York : London
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: xviii, 173 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160), filmography (pages 161-163) and index
ISBN: 9781442244849
Donation: Sense of cinema
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 761 CON
Author: Kara, Selmin (ed.); Marcus, Daniel (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xvii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781138849549
Contents: -- 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 --

Author: Hall, Ken G.
PhysDes: Article
Subject: MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); HALL, KEN G.; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; BOX OFFICE; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Ken G. Hall's in-depth response to 'The Man From snowy River', and his views on film criticism versus public opinion and box-office statistics.

Call No: 410(94) CRI
Author: Matthews, Carol
Source: AT
Place: [Melbourne?]
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: [106 leaves] ; 33 cm
Subject: 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

Call No: 62 KYD
Author: Kydd, Elspeth
Source: UK/US
Place: Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: xix, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: 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 AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780230229754
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CRITICISM

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA

Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CRITICISM.USA

Author: Durgnat, Raymond
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; CRITICISM; CRITICS; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; HAWKS, HOWARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED
Summary: Essay examines the emergence of auteur theory and criticises the way critics of the time in the journal 'Cahiers du cinema' discerned which directors could be labelled 'auteurs'.

Author: Pleak, Clifford
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CROMWELL (UK, Ken Hughes, 1970); CRITICISM
Summary: Review of CROMWELL.

Call No: 67(04) JAM
Author: James, Clive, 1939
CorpAuthor: The Observer
Place: London
Publisher: Picador
PubDate: 1982, c1981
PhysDes: 237 p. ; 20cm
Subject: CRITICISM, TV.; JAMES, CLIVE
Notes: Originally published: London : Cape, 1981
ISBN: 0330267450 (pbk)
LON: bnb33026745; 2430582

Call No: 408 CUL
Author: Smith, Iain Robert (ed)
Source: UK
Place: United Kingdom
Publisher: Institute of Film & TV Studies, University of Nottingham
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: 224 p. ; 30cm
Series: A Scope e-book
Subject: 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 off
ISBN: 9780956464101
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 408 CUL
CorpAuthor: Australian Unesco Seminar (1972 : Australian National University)
Source: AT
Place: Canberra
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 172 pages ; 30 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA; FLAUS, JOHN; WEIR, PETER; THOMS, ALBIE
Donation: Henry Mayer Collection
Contents: 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

Call No: 753.81 CYC
Author: Klein, Amanda Ann (ed.); Palmer, R. Barton (ed.)
Edition: First edition
Source: US
Place: Austin, TX
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: vi, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also published electronically
ISBN: 9781477308172
Donation: Senses of cinema
Contents: -- 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 --

Author: McNally, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: JOE (US, John G. Avildsen, 1970); CRITICISM
Summary: Review of JOE.

Call No: 81LYN KAL
Author: Kaleta, Kenneth C
Place: New York Toronto New York
Publisher: Twayne Maxwell Macmillan Canada Maxwell Macmillan International
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: xviii, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Twayne's filmmakers series
Subject: Lynch, David, 1946- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Filmography: p. [196]-202; Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]) and index
ISBN: 0805793178 (alk. paper); 0805793232 (pbk.)
LON: 9006519

Call No: 67(04) ROU
Author: Roud, Richard
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan of behalf of the British Film Institute
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: viii, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 indexes
ISBN: 9781844576258
Contents: 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)

Author: Murray, John C.
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CRAWFORD PRODUCTIONS; CRIME DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM, TV.; HOMICIDE [TV] (AT, 1964-1975); DIVISION FOUR [TV] (AT, 1969)
Summary: Article discusses the merits of Homicide and Division Four, two Australian crime dramas produced by Crawford Productions

Call No: 620 DEL KEN
Author: Kennedy, Barbara M.
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 229 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: 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: 0748617264
Contents: 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.

Call No: 81HER AUS
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Institute
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne, Vic.
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 36 p. ; 28 cm
Subject: 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

Call No: 761 TAR
Author: Tarrant, Patrick Anthony
Source: AT
Place: Queensland
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 157 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: 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." -- ABSTRACT
Notes: 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 copy
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 81YAN AND
Author: Anderson, John
Source: US
Place: Urbana, Ill ; Chicago
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: x, 128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Series: Contemporary film directors / edited by James Naremore
Subject: DIRECTORS.TAIWANESE; CRITICISM; YANG, EDWARD
Notes: Includes filmograghy (pp.[117]-121) Includes bibliographical references (pp.[123]-124) and index
ISBN: 0252072367 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Call No: 62 CRI
Author: Cristian, Reka M.; Dragon, Zoltan
Source: HU
Place: Szeged, Hungary
Publisher: JATEPress
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xiv, 149 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Papers in English and American studies, 14. Monograph series ; 5
Subject: 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, Mexico
Notes: Errata slip inserted: "The name of Christian Metz appears throughout the book erroneously as Cristian Metz"; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9789634828587
Contents: -- 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 --

Subject: FILM; CRITICISM
Summary: Review of The Erotic Adventures of Zoro

Call No: 81GOD BRO
Author: Brody, Richard
Edition: 1st Paperback edition
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: xv, 701 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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) SEE MEPRIS, LE; CONTEMPT [MEPRIS, LE] (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963); MARRIED WOMAN, THE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) SEE FEMME MARIEE, UNE; FEMME MARIEE, UNE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964); ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); MASCULIN-FEMININ (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966); MASCULINE FEMININE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966); TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) SEE [DEUX] 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE; [TWO OR THREE] 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER [DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); CHINOISE, LA (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) SEE JE VOUS SALUE MARIE; JE VOUS SALUE MARIE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985); DETECTIVE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985); SOIGNE TA DROITE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987); KING LEAR (US/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987); HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1997); NOUVELLE VAGUE (Fr, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990); GERMANY YEAR 90 (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1991) SEE 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 BLURB
Notes: "NBCC Award. Criticism. Nominees" -- Awards website; Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-675) and index; We have a duplicate copy of this book
ISBN: 9780805080155
Contents: -- 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 --

PhysDes: Article
Subject: CRITICISM; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Review of Roadshow distributed 'Evilspeak'.

Call No: 79FAS DEF
Author: DeFino, Dean J.
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: copyright 2014
PhysDes: 106 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm
Series: Cultographies
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780231167390
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 120 FAT
Author: Helms, Michael; Sargeant, Jack
Source: AT
Place: [Thornbury, Vic.]
Publisher: [Fatal Visions]
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 296 p: ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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; 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 index
ISBN: 9780994411211
ID2: 251

Call No: 120 FAT
Author: Helms, Michael (ed.)
Source: AT
Place: Thornbury, Vic.
Publisher: Fatal Visions
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 248 p: ill. ; 24 cm
Series: LedaTape S (cop a feel) series
Subject: 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 1035-2740
ISBN: 9781921775666
ID2: 252

Call No: 675.1 FAV
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 301 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: CRITICISM; CRITICS; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; [EIGHT AND A HALF] 8 1/2 [OTTO E MEZZO] (IT, 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); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, 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

Call No: 626:396 CHA
Author: Chaudhuri, Shohini
Source: UK
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: x, 148 p. ; 20 cm
Series: Routledge critical thinkers
Subject: 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: 9780415324335
Contents: 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.

Call No: 626[396]:79CLE NER
Author: Neroni, Hilary
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 160 pages ; 20 cm
Series: Film theory in practice
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; CRITICISM; THEORY; CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 [CLEO DE 5 A 7] (FR, Agnes Varda, 1962); CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 [CLEO DE 5 A 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP
ISBN: 9781501313691
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- Introduction -- Feminist Film Theory -- Feminism and Cleo from 5 to 7 --conclusion -- Further reading -- index --

Call No: 67(04):396 MAI
Author: Maio, Kathi, 1951
Place: Freedom, CA
Publisher: Crossing Press
PubDate: c1988
PhysDes: 223 p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 18 cm
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM
ISBN: 0895943220 (pbk.) : $7.95; 0895943239 (hard) : $23.95
LON: 5982754

Call No: 81HER AME
Author: Ames, Eric
Source: US
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: c2012
PhysDes: x,334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Visible evidence ; 27
Subject: CRITICISM; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HERZOG, WERNER; GRIZZLY MAN (CN/US, Werner Herzog, 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780816677641
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 739.683 STR
Author: Streible, Dan
Source: US
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c2008
PhysDes: xix, 396 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-367) and index; Includes filmography: p. 291-303
ISBN: 9780520250758
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: 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.

Call No: 62 SOH
Author: Sohn, David A.
Source: US
Place: Dayton
Publisher: Geo A. Pflaum
PubDate: 1970
PhysDes: xi, 176 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: SHORT FILMS; CRITICISM
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 62(04) KIR
Author: Kirschner, Allen Kirschner, Linda
Place: New York
Publisher: The Odyssey Press
PubDate: c1971
PhysDes: 315 pages : 23 cm
Subject: 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 Graduate
Notes: 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

Call No: 62 FEL
Author: Fell, John L.
Place: New York
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: xiv, 274 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; EDITING; SOUND; COLOUR; GENRES; EDITING; PRODUCTION; DIRECTION; EDITING; SPECIAL EFFECTS; CRITICISM; AUTEUR THEORY; THEORY; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM
Summary: A broad history of film that shifts from looking at its beginnings, to explaining the visual elements that make up a film, to a desciption of the ingredients of film production, and finally to a closer inspection of specific theorists and theories of film.
Notes: Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. 251-252.
ISBN: 0275509508

Call No: 62 DEN
Author: DeNitto, Dennis; Herman, William
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: xii, 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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); 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 [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 index
ISBN: 002328370X
Contents: --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 --
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Call No: 62 CAS
Author: Casebier, Allan
Place: New York
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
PubDate: c1976
PhysDes: ix, 207 p., [2] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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]-190
ISBN: 0155273701
Order Received: 2000
Order Type: Donation
LON: 746910
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Call No: 62 BOR
Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Thompson, Kristin, 1950
Edition: 2nd ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf Distributed by Random House
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: xiii, 400 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Subject: 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. 387-389
ISBN: 0394352378 (pbk.)
LON: 85018198; 4389326
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Call No: 67 (049.32) WIN
Author: Winnington, Richard
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Elek
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: 196p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Subject: CRITICISM
Notes: Includes indexes
ISBN: 023640007X

Call No: 670 MCG
Author: Lang, Peter
Source: SZ
Place: Bern, Switzerland
Publisher: Peter Lang
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.; Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
ISBN: 9783034300537
Contents: 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.

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: Frey, Mattias (ed.); Sayad, Cecilia
Source: US/UK
Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: vi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780813570723
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 62 DEN
Author: DeNitto, Dennis,
Place: New York
Publisher: Harper & Row
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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); [FOUR HUNDRED] 400 BLOWS, THE [; 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. 493-503
ISBN: 0060416297 (pbk.)
Order Received: 2000
Order Type: Donation
LON: 3664711

Call No: 622 FIL
Author: Grant, Barry K. (ed)
Source: US
Place: Metuchen, NJ
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: viii, 249 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: THEORY; CRITICISM; GENRES
Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 212-237.
ISBN: 081081059X
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 67(049.32) BER
Author: Berger, Arthur Asa
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, USA
Publisher: Transaction Books
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: 151 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Consists of reviews originally published in Society magazine.
ISBN: 0878552456
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010
Contents: 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)

Call No: 62(04) FIL
Author: Brown, Tom; Walters, James
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781844573356
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 67(04) FIL "1977"
Author: Brownstone, David; Franck, Irene
Source: US
Place: Millwood, NY
Publisher: KTO Press
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: v. ill. 27 cm.1977-1978
Series: Film Review Digest Annual
Subject: CRITICISM
Summary: A cumulation of reviews from Film review digest.
ISBN: 0527293210

Call No: 753.83 JES
Author: Jess-Cooke, Carolyn
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: viii, 166 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: SEQUELS; FILM; CRITICISM; ADAPTATIONS; 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780748626045
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 81SAU DLU
Author: D'Lugo, Marvin
Place: Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 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); HUNT, THE [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

Call No: 81DEN FIL
Author: Vecchio, Marjorie; Wenders, Wim
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: 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; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; TIME IN FILMS; WORKERS IN FILMS; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS; DENIS, CLAIRE; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988); INTRUDER, THE (FR, Claire Denis, 2004) SEE INTRUS, L'; INTRUS, L' (FR, Claire Denis, 2004); J'AI PAS SOMMEIL (FR/SZ, Claire Denis, 1994); I CAN'T SLEEP (FR/SZ, Claire Denis, 1994); NENETTE AND BONI (FR, Claire Denis, 1996) SEE NENETTE ET BONI; NENETTE ET BONI (FR, Claire Denis, 1996); BEAU TRAVAIL [TROUBLE EVERY DAY] (FR/GG/JA, Claire Denis, 1999); FRIDAY NIGHT (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) SEE 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes list of illustrations, bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9781848859548
Contents: --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 --Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 81SIR RYA
Author: Ryan, Tom
Source: US
Place: Jackson, Mississippi
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
PubDate: [2019]
PhysDes: 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: 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: 9781496822376
Contents: 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.

Call No: 81GOD STE
Author: Sterritt, David
Source: UK/US
Place: Cambridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Cambridge film classics
Subject: 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) SEE VIVRE SAVIE; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); HAIL, MARY (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) SEE 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 BLURB
Notes: Filmography: p. 281-290 Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and index
ISBN: 0521589711
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 71(520) CAZ
Author: Cazdyn, Eric
Source: US
Place: Durham, NC
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: JAPAN; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS. JAPAN; CRITICISM. JAPAN; ADAPTATIONS. JAPAN; YASUJIRO OZU; 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: 0822329395
Contents: 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