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Call No: 64POS CRI
Author: Sharrett, Christopher
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Maisonneuve Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DISASTERS IN FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; REPO MAN (US, Alex Cox, 1984); RUMBLE FISH (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983); CASANOVA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1976); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0944624189 (cloth); 0944624197 (paper)
LON: 9605442

Call No: 747.19 HAG
Source: US
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: ix, 201 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; USA. 1920's; USA. 1930's; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's
Summary: 'This highly original study is a rigorous, provocative and entertaining account of the different meanings associated with death in classical Hollywood cinema. Analyzing an impressive range of films with flair and theoretical sophistication, it shows how death becomes meaningful in art. This is an important work on Hollywood film which also helps us to understand how we incorporate the death of others into the narrative of our lives.'-Colin Davis, Professor of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK -- Characterized by a causal, linear, individual-driven narrative, and also by a flair for excessive melodramatic spectacles, Hollywood's classical films from the 1920's through the 1950's pose unique challenges and constraints for making death meaningful. Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema shows how philosophies of death can be gleaned by looking at the role death plays within the classical Hollywood narrative and in later mainstream films which cope with death in light of virtual reality, cloning, and genetic engineering. Addressing major continental thinkers like Freud, Benjamin, and Deleuze, and focusing on the melodrama, gangster film, Western, and war film, this book analyzes and challenges the ways Hollywood can offer to cope with death and to make sense of our inevitable and universal mortality. --Book Jacket.
ISBN: 9780230236226
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- The meaning of death in classical Hollywood. Practicing film theory -- Death on the line -- A politics of death -- Two Platos : death, truth, and knowledge. A rehearsal for death -- Access, authority, and tests -- The superfluity of a truth-revealing death -- The misery of truth -- Embodying the past. The killability test -- A logic of singular evil -- Melodrama and the shaping of desires to come. Sublating death -- Obstacles and goals -- Desiring death -- Impossible legacies -- Cults of the dead and powers of the false. Retaining the dead -- Westerns and falsehoods -- The forming of a cult -- A brand that sticks -- A perpetual present : death and the war film. An absurd death -- The Hollywood war machine -- The exception of state -- Conclusions : the ends of classical death. Billy Wilder and Hollywood's "Auschwitz" -- The vicissitudes of the killability test -- The virtual Frankenstein -- notes -- index --

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

Call No: 62 PEU
Author: Peucker, Brigitte
Source: US
Place: Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series: Princeton paperbacks
Subject: ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA; AESTHETICS; DEATH IN FILMS; GERMANY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PERCEPTION
Summary: "Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body takes center stage in Peucker's innovative study, for it is through this figure that the conjunction of literary and painterly discourses persistently articulates itself. It is through the human body, too, that film's consciousness of itself as a hybrid text and as a "machine for simulation" makes itself deeply felt." -- taken from back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213), index, and notes.
ISBN: 978691002811
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Introduction: Bodies and Boundaries -- Movement, Fragmentation, and the Uncanny. Unnatural Conjunctions: The Heterogeneous Text. "Its Strange Mixture of the Natural and the Artificial": The Presence of Kleist. "Bits of Bodies": The Fragmented Text. Man and the Cinema Machine: Magician, Psychoanalyst, Scientist: The Case of Dr. Caligari. Fritz Lang, the Apparatus, and the Fissured Text. Magician and Surgeon. "Knife Phobia" "Doing It with Scissors": Dismemberment in Hitchcock -- Monstrous Births: The Hybrid Text. Miscegenation and the Sister Arts: Griffith's Broken Blossoms. Hitchcock's "Half-Caste" Murnau. Cinematic Vampirism. Painting and Repression. Herzog's Unassimilable Bodies. Witchcraft, Vision, and Incest: Dreyer's Day of Wrath. The Phantom of the Cinema: Body and Voice -- Incorporation: Images and the Real. Trompe l'Oeil Effects. Cinema and the Real. Body Language: Kleist's and Rohmer's Marquise. Hitchcock as Pygmalion. Wings of Desire: Reality, Text, Embodiment. Kleist, Tableau Vivant, and the Pornographic. Fassbinder's Cinema of Mixed Modes: Tableau Vivant and the Real. Incorporation in Greenaway. Painful Images -- Afterword: Ut pictura poesis

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; HOLDING THE MAN (AT, Neil Armfield, 2015)
Author: Stratton, David
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; DISEASES IN FILMS; HOLDING THE MAN (AT, Neil Armfield, 2015)
Summary: Review of HOLDING THE MAN
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (US, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)
Author: Stratton, David
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; DISEASES IN FILMS; ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (US, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)
Summary: Review of ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Call No: 747.19 WIL
Author: Wilson, Emma
Source: UK/US
Place: Basingstoke, England
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: ix, 184 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: LOVE IN FILMS; DEATH IN FILMS; VIDEO ART
Summary: "In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study scrutinizes emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing. Its focus is on love, tenderness, and eroticism, on the undoing of the self in desire and loss, and on the pursuit of relations with a missing other. In dialogue with Judith Butler on greivability, and Giorgio Agamben on bare life, Emma Wilson traces connections between imaging of intimate losses and public acts of mourning in response to atrocity, the Shoah and Hurricane Katrina. The book lays out a series of sensitive new readings of works by Agnes Varda, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others. Attending to images of tactility, to fine details of texture, light, and affect, it re-imagines the role of the sensuous in lens-based art. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780230308398
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- plates -- introduction -- 1.Love -- 2.Mother -- 3.Child -- 4.Coma -- 5.Pieta -- 6.Touch -- 7.Home -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Moving Image Artworks -- index --

Call No: 747.19 RUS
Author: Russell, Catherine, 1959
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: NOUVELLE VAGUE; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DEATH IN FILMS; ALLEGORY IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; LANG, FRITZ; Wenders, Wim; OSHIMA, NAGISA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BENJAMIN, WALTER; LYNCH, DAVID; Peckinpah, Sam; PENN, ARTHUR; RAY, NICHOLAS; MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); STAND DER DINGE, DER (GW/US/PO, Wim Wenders, 1982); PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975); NICK'S MOVIE (GW/US, Nicholas Ray & Wim Wenders, 1979); SEISUN ZANKOKU MONOGATARI (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1960); SHONEN (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1969); BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and index
ISBN: 0816624852 (hbk. : acid-free paper); 0816624860 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LON: 10942855

Call No: 744 HOO
Author: Hooks, Bell
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: RACE AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; LOOK IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; Tarantino, Quentin; LEE, SPIKE; DASH, JULIE; CLARK, LARRY; JAFFA, ARTHUR; BURNETT, CHARLES; BILLOPS, CAMILLE; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE; WANG, WAYNE; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978); GIRL 6 (US, Spike Lee, 1996); CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995); EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994); ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991); KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover)
LON: 96026474; 12664107

Call No: 761NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; COMMENTARY; DEATH IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; VIEWERS
Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304
ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 91002637; 8905992
Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE in production; FORCE OF DESTINY in production
Author: -
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; COX, PAUL; FORCE OF DESTINY in production
Summary: Snippet on Paul Cox's upcoming film 'Force of Destiny', as well as mention of film 'Last Cab to Darwin

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DEATH IN FILMS
Author: Bailey, John
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; SNUFF FILMS
Summary: In depth article discussing how death is being recorded by bystanders with their phones, and how death has been treated in film and tv. Academics are quoted, including Australian Alexandra Heller-Nicholls