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Call No: 633.3 (41)
Author: Hockenhull, Stella
Source: UK
Place: London, UK ; New York, NY.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: ix, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: BRITISH CINEMA; AESTHETICS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; EMOTION IN FILMS; SWEET SIXTEEN (UK/GG/SP, Kenneth Loach, 2002); LADIES IN LAVENDER (UK, Charles Dance, 2004); MISS POTTER (UK/US, Chris Noonan, 2006); LONDON TO BRIGHTON (UK, Paul Andrew Williams, 2006); WAR ZONE, THE (UK, Tim Roth, 1999); RATCATCHER (UK, Lynne Ramsey, 1999); CHILDREN OF MEN (JA/UK/US, Alfonso Cuaron, 2006); [TWENTY-EIGHT] 28 DAYS LATER (UK/US, Danny Boyle, 2002); MAGDALENE SISTERS, THE (UK, Peter Mullan, 2002); NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS (UK, Pratibha Parmar, 2006); LAST RESORT, THE (UK, Pawel Pawlikowski, 2000); MY SUMMER OF LOVE (UK, Paul Pawlikowski, 2004); QUEEN, THE (UK/IT/FR, Stephen Frears, 2006)
Summary: "The contemporary study of film is dominated by narrative theory - yet films include scenes and images which do not perform a narrative task but nevertheless provoke an emotional response.Stella Hockenhull looks at the painterly dimensions inherent in the medium of film, arguing that an aesthetic analysis enables a fuller appreciation of the visual 'spectacle' of cinema. In a reading of the formal aspects in film imagery in contemporary British films spanning social realist, melodrama and horror genres, Hockenhull demonstrates how the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature mobilise a Neo-Romantic effect. She traces the influence of Romanticism and notions of the Sublime in key British films including 'Sweet Sixteen', 'The Queen', 'Ratcatcher', 'Eden Lake', '28 Days Later', 'My Summer of Love' and 'The Last Great Wilderness'. Operating at the intersection between film theory, art theory and aesthetics, this is a vital contribution which enables a fuller, multidimensional understanding of cinematic experience." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781848859012
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014

Call No: 761 SMA
Author: Smaill, Belinda
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, England
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: vii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; CHILDREN IN FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; EMOTION IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; REALITY TV; SEX IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; THEORY; VIEWERS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; LOVELACE, LINDA; BORN INTO BROTHELS: CALCUTTA'S RED LIGHT KIDS (II/US, Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman, 2004); CORPORATION, THE (CN, Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar, 2003); DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, THE (UK, Kim Longinotto, 2002); DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (UK, Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998); ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (US, Alex Gibney, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); FIX: THE STORY OF AN ADDICTED CITY (CN, Nettie Wild, 2002); INSIDE DEEP THROAT (US, Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 2005); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); SEX: THE ANNABEL CHONG STORY (CN, Gough Lewis, 1999)
Summary: "The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture proposes that emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy or nostalgia play a powerful role in the circulation and reception of documentaries. Emotion shapes how political issues and individuals are represented and perceived in documentary and it is crucial to how we engage with the vicissitudes of the public sphere. In the past documentary has been popularly perceived in ways that align it with education, science, history and the rational realm. This frame has never been adequate for understanding the broad array of styles and themes that can be seen in the documentary genre. Focusing on the question of subjectivity, Smail analyses various different kinds of individuals that can be found in documentaries, such as the female porn star, the politically disenfranchised, children, and the documentary auteur. She envisages an interdisciplinary approach to documentary drawing on scholarship from not only film studies, but also gender studies, queer theory, cultural theories of affect, critical race studies, political theory and pyschoanalysis. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index
ISBN: 9780230237513 (hbk.)
Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- part one: documentary and pleasure -- 1: introduction: representation and documentary emotion -- 2: pleasure and disgust: desire and the female porn star -- part two: pain and the other -- 3: Injury, identity and recognition: Rize and Fix: the story of an addicted city -- 4: women, pain and the documentaries of Kim Longinotto -- part three: the labour of authorship: caring and mourning -- 5: loss and care: Asian Australian documentary -- 6: civic love and contemporary dissent documentary -- part four: past, present and future: hope and nostalgia -- 7: children, futurity and hope: Born into Brothels -- 8:nostalgia, historical time and reality television: the idol series -- epilogue -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 24 MUR
Author: Murch, Walter
CorpAuthor: Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Australian Film, Television & Radio School
PubDate: c1992
PhysDes: viii, 108 p. : 6 col. ports. ; 21 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; CONTINUITY; EDITING; EMOTION IN FILMS; FILM WORKERS; POST-PRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; MURCH, WALTER; UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE (US, Philip Kaufman, 1988)
Summary: "It was 1988 when Walter Murch first presented his fascinating lecture, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, to an audience in Sydney, Australia. His comments and insights are as relevant now as they were then, and will be in a decade's time. Included with the lecture is an equally important new chapter on changing editing technologies." [Book blurb]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0642180377 : price unknown
LON: 9030756 9030756

Author: Francis Vanoye
Subject: GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; EMOTION IN FILMS; BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); ORPHANS OF THE STORM (US, David Wark Griffith, 1921)
Summary: An attempt to analyse Griffith's use of emotion in his films, especially "Broken Blossoms", "The Birth of a Nation" and "Orphans of the Storm". In French.