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Call No: 769[39] GRO
Author: Groo, Katherine
Edition: 2019
Place: Minneapolis; London
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: 366 pages : illustrated ; 22 cm
Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; CAVELL, STANLEY; DANCE IN FILMS; DERRIDA, JACQUES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FILM HISTORY; FOUCAULT, MICHEL
Summary: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives Bad Film Histories is a vital work that unsettles the authority of the archive, examining the imprecisions and absences that define film history and its archives. Taking ethnographic cinema as a crucial case study, Katherine Groo challenges standard ways of thinking and writing about film history and questions widespread assumptions about what film artifacts are and what makes them meaningful. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781517900335
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction: Untimely Historiographies, Ethnographic Particularities -- 1. Of Other Archives: The Excursive Minors of La Maison Lumière and Les Archives de la Planète -- 2. Historical Figures: Dance and the Unlettered Line -- 3. Following Derrida: Ethnocinematic Animals, Death Effects, and the Supplement of Expedition Cinema -- 4. Language Games, or the World Intertitled -- 5. Ethnography Won’t Wait: New Media and Material Histories -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: DANCE IN FILMS

Call No: 61:793 BRA
Author: Brannigan, Erin
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DANCE FILMS; DANCE IN FILMS; THEORY
Summary: "Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image is a rich exploration of the choreography in cinema. It traces the history of the dancefilm form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film era, through the historic avant garde, musicals and music videos, to contemporary experimental short dancefilms. In so doing it also traverses some of the most significant collaborations between dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers. Bringing film theory and dance theory into dialogue, the book argues that the combination of dance and film produces cine-choreographic practices that are specific to the dancefilm form. As whole, the book thus presents new models of cinematic movement that are historically informed and interdisciplinary in nature. An extensive companion Web site provides key video illustrations and links to online resources." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9780195367249
Contents: -- Introduction : between dance and film -- Modern movement, dance, and the birth of cinema -- The close-up: micro-choreographies -- Gesture-dance -- Maya Deren : strategies for dancefilm -- Anarchic moves, experimental cinema -- The musical : moving into the dance -- Dancefilm as gestural exchange -- filmmography -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 802 PRE
Author: Prevots, Naima, 1935
Place: Ann Arbor, Mich.
Publisher: UMI Research Press
PubDate: c1987
PhysDes: viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Theater and dramatic studies ; no. 44
Subject: CHOREOGRAPHY; DANCE IN FILMS; GOULD, NORMA; BELCHER, ERNEST; KOSLOFF, THEODORE; OUKRAINSKY, SERGE; BOLM, ADOLPH; ITO, MICHIO; ZEMACH, BENJAMIN; HORTON, LESTER
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis--University of Southern California, 1983; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [255]-273
ISBN: 0835718255 (alk. paper)
LON: 5332146

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: 81FOS WAS
Author: Wasson, Sam
Source: US
Place: Boston ; New York
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ACADEMY AWARDS; BURLESQUE; CHOREOGRAPHY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; DANCE IN FILMS; DIRECTORS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; MUSICALS. USA; UNITED ARTISTS; FOSSE, BOB; ASTAIRE, FRED; CHAYEFSKY, PADDY; DREYFUSS, RICHARD; HEIM, ALAN; MINNELLI, LIZA; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; ALL THAT JAZZ (US, Bob Fosse, 1979); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); LENNY (US, Bob Fosse, 1974); NOTTI DI CABIRIA, LE (IT, Federico Fellini, 1957); ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1970); STAR 80 (US, Bob Fosse, 1983); SWEET CHARITY (US, Bob Fosse, 1969)
Summary: "We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce;'s moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art and earn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, but his intense relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire, and Neil Simon to Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. Through extensive interviews with collaborators and lovers and unprecedented access to Fosse's archives, Wasson also reveals the deep wounds that propelled his subject's excessive appetites--for spotlights, women, and life itself. In Fosse, Wasson's stylish, effervescent prose proves the ideal vehicle for reanimating Bob Fosse as he truly was--after hours, close up, and in vibrant color" -- FROM TROVE
Notes: Contains photos and index
ISBN: 9780547553290

Call No: 751.1(73) OXF
Author: Knapp, Raymond; Morris, Mitchell; Wolf, Stacy
Edition: paperback
Source: US/UK
Place: Oxford ; New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2011, 2013
PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; AUTHORSHIP; BLACK CINEMA. US; BOX OFFICE. USA; COMEDIES; DANCE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS. USA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ANDREWS, JULIE; ASTAIRE, FRED; BERLIN, IRVING; FOSSE, BOB; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; KERN, JEROME; MERMAN, ETHEL; ROBBINS, JEROME; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002); CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985); FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971); GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955); GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994); MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964); OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951); SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961)
Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780199987368
Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp