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newspaper article		300: Rise of an empire in Sunday Herald Sun [SHS-News] (09/03/2014) p.79 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; THREE HUNDRED: RISE OF AN EMPIRE [US, Noam Murro, 2014] Author: Dent, Nick PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: [THREE HUNDRED] 300 : RISE OF AN EMPIRE (US, Noam Murro, 2014) Summary: Review of the film, THREE HUNDRED: RISE OF AN EMPIRE, based on a comic book by Frank Miller. Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars More info
title clippings file		AI NO CORRIDA : (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Stills Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) More info
title clippings file		ATLANTIS, THE LOST EMPIRE : (US, Gray Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 2001) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit Subject: ATLANTIS, THE LOST EMPIRE (US, Gray Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 2001) More info
journal article		The big rupture : David Lynch, Richard Kelly, and the new cinematic gestalt in Film Comment (Jan 2007) vol.43 iss.1 p.54-9 Author: Taubin, Amy PhysDes: Serial Subject: INLAND EMPIRE (FR/PL/US, David Lynch, 2006); SOUTHLAND TALES (US/G, Richard Kelly, 2006) Summary: Review of Inland Empire and Southland Tales More info
title clippings file		BOARDWALK EMPIRE [TV] : US, 2010-? Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: BOARDWALK EMPIRE [TV] (US, 2010-?) More info
book		The British documentary film movement, 1926-1946 / Paul Swann Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Call No: 761 SWA Author: Swann, Paul Source: UK Place: Cambridge [England] ; New York Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: x, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Cambridge studies in film Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; GPO FILM UNIT; GRIERSON, JOHN; LAW AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION. UK; ELTON, ARTHUR; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; INDEPENDENT FILMS; INDEPENDENT FILMS. UK; PROPAGANDA FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS Summary: "The most important and influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of this movement, which was characterized by actuality-based films made outside the commercial industry. Based upon new examinations of official government records, this book provides a fascinating picture of how Grierson manipulated the civil services bureaucracy both for his own ends and, in his view, for the good of his country." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index. ISBN: 0521334799 More info
book		The child in film : tears, fears and fairy tales / Karen Lury New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Call No: 747.2-053.2 Author: Lury, Karen Edition: 2010 Place: New Brunswick, N.J. Publisher: Rutgers University Press PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: 210 p. : illustrations ; 22cm Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies Subject: CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY; IVANOVO DETSTVO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962); GRUDGE, THE (US/JA, Takashi Shimizu, 2004); HONOGURAI MIZUNO SOKOKARA (JA, Hideo Nakata, 2001); LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); MAN ON FIRE (US, Tony Scott, 2004); ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975); ESPIRITU DE LA COLMENA, EL (SP, Victor Erice, 1973); EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987); PAN'S LABYRINTH (MX/SP/US, Guillermo del Toro, 2006); BELLISSIMA (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1951) Summary: Ghastly and ghostly children, "dirty little white girls," and the child as witness and as victim have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers. Yet the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience has been a neglected topic. The Child in Film examines popular films including Taxi Driver, Man on Fire, and contemporary Japanese horror, as well as "art house" productions such as Mirror, La Jeté, and Pan's Labyrinth, and questions why the figure of the child has such a significant impact on the visual aspects and storytelling potential of cinema. Karen Lury argues that the child as a liminal yet powerful agent has allowed filmmakers to play adventurously with cinema's formal conventions, with far-reaching consequences. She reveals how a child's relationship to time allows it to disturb conventional master-narratives and explores how the concern for and investment in the child actor conceals the reality of film acting and the skills of the child performer. She addresses the expression of child sexuality, and questions existing assumptions as to who children "really are." -- pulisher's web site ISBN: 9780813548968 More info
book		Connected, or What it means to live in the network society / Steven Shaviro Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Call No: 735.1 SHA Author: Shaviro, Steven Source: US Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: xiii, 289 p. ; 22 cm Series: Electronic Mediations ; v. 9 Subject: VIDEODROME (CN, David Cronenberg, 1983); NEW ROSE HOTEL (US, Abel Ferrara, 1998); ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); SPACE IS THE PLACE (US, Sun Ra,1972); MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE (UK, Nicholas Roeg, 1976); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1979); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); EMPIRE (US, Andy Warhol, 1964); BURROUGHS, WILLIAM Summary: "Shaviro argues that our strange new world is increasingly being transformed in ways, and by devices, that seem to come out of the pages of science fiction, even while the world itself is becoming a futuristic landscape. The result is that science fiction provides the most useful social theory, the only form that manages to be as radical as reality itself. Original and compelling, Connected shows how the continual experimentation of science fiction, like science and technology themselves, conjures the invisible social and economic forces that surround us." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes notes, bibliographical references, filmography and index. ISBN: 0816643636 Donation: Adrian Miles More info
book		Documentary : a history of the non-fiction film / Erik Barnouw New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Call No: 761 BAR Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908 Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: vi, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. US; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44) Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included. Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [297]-311 ISBN: 0195018354 : $10.95 LON: 74079618; 462942 More info
book		Documentary : a history of the non-fiction film / Erik Barnouw New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Call No: 761 BAR Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908 Edition: 2nd rev. ed Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44) Summary: This is the second revised edition of Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film. Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index ISBN: 0195078985 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $10.95 LON: 9430204 More info
Levy Collection book		Documentary : a history of the non-fiction film / written by Eric Barnouw New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Call No: 761 BAR Author: Barnouw, Eric Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 332 p. ; 24 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44) Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included. ISBN: 0195018354 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- 1: glimpse of wonders -- 2: images at work -- 3: sound and fury -- 4: clouded lens -- sharp focus -- afterword -- source notes -- bibliography -- index -- More info
book		Earogenous zones : sound, sexuality and cinema / edited by Bruce Johnson London: Equinox, 2010. Call No: 632.6 JOH Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Equinox PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: x, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: SOUND; SEX IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); LAST EMPEROR, THE (UK/CC, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987); SHELTERING SKY, THE (US/IT, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990); EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976); BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967); EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999) Summary: With its capacity to defamiliarize and subvert visual representation, sound is not simply a source of information supplementary to the visual in the cinematic representation of sexuality, but a site of ambiguous ideologies and power relations. -- This collection exemplifies a variety of approaches to the sonic representation of sexuality in cinema. It draws on a range of sexual scenarios from pornography to sci-fi to art-house and includes cinema from various cultures and countries. Among the topics addressed are how the deployment of sound is implicated in gender politics in the representation of sexuality and how sounds are able to radically colour and even override the visual and lexical content of a film. -- Through sonicity the film-maker can challenge the ideologies at play underneath surface stereotypes, and introduce emotional overtones which meliorate the alienation generally associated with porn. Sound and music can establish a historical period as well as spatially localize sexuality within a framework that problematizes the distinctions between porn and erotica. They can introduce into the ahistorical sextopia of porn the cultural specificity of the notion of 'pornography' and indeed can shift a film in and out of that category, even desexualizing the naked human body. -- Bruce Johnson is an adjunct professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, and Visiting Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. His many publications in popular music and literary studies include The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz. --Book Jacket. ISBN: 9781845533182 Contents: Sound decisions : interviews with Ole Ege / Bruce Johnson -- Beyond the valley of the ultra cliche´ : erotic plenitude in the films of Russ Meyer / Mark Evans with Matt Burgess -- The push/pull game : the dynamics of sound in Bertolucci's Last tango in Paris, The last emperor and The sheltering sky / Lesley Chow -- Depraved desire : sado-masochism, sexuality and sound in mid-1970s cinema / Clarice Butkus -- The peculiar "love" music in Oshima's Ai no korida / James Wierzbicki -- Lust in space : science fiction themes & sex cinema (1960-82) / Phil Hayward -- Zero gravity : science fiction themed porn cinema and its soundtracks 1990-2010 / Phil Hayward and Emil Stoichkov -- It's gotta be that new wave music : music in New wave hookers carries the joke / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Making "a mall movie about a man with a 13-inch penis?" : popular music representations of pornographic intention / Liz Giuffre -- Musical loops : eyes wide shut? ears wide open / Kevin Clifton -- Multiple positions : sound, sex and aural dominance in 9 songs / Andrea Warren -- Music, image, and orgasm : getting off on the Shortbus / Marianne Tatom Letts -- In extremis : the roots, soundscapes and significations of 21st century zombie porn / Ralph G. Marsh More info
title clippings file		EMPIRE : (US, 2005) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: EMPIRE [TV] (US, 2005) More info
title clippings file		EMPIRE DE LA PERFECTION, L' [JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION] : (FR, Julien Faraut, 2018) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION [L'EMPIRE DE LA PERFECTION] (FR, Julien Faraut, 2018) Notes: Simon import_20/06/19 More info
title clippings file		EMPIRE DES REVES, L` : (AE, Jean Pierre Lledo, 1982) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Publicity Subject: EMPIRE DES REVES, L` (AE, Jean Pierre Lledo, 1982) More info
Online resource digital clippings file		EMPIRE OF LIGHT : (UK/US, Sam Mendes, 2022) Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: EMPIRE OF LIGHT (UK/US, Sam Mendes, 2022) More info
title clippings file		EMPIRE OF THE SUN : (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Stills; Clippings; Publicity; Press kit Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987) More info
newspaper article		Empire of the Sun in The Age (16/02/2013) p.16 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987) Author: Wilson, Jake PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987) Summary: Brief review of DVD of the film Empire of the Sun', mentioning the science fiction writer J. G. Ballard Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars More info
still		[Empire of the sun : Christian Bale as Jim Graham stands looking skyward with a fighter aeroplane in the background] Warner home video, 1987. Call No: TITLE STILL INTERNATIONAL Source: AT Publisher: Warner home video PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 31 x 18 cm. Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987); BALE, CHRISTIAN Summary: Christian Bale wearing overalls stands outdoors on wooden decking whilst a us fighter plane attacks a target in the background. A man with a white coat is crouching by the railing in the mid ground Notes: Image surrounded by white border; Adhesive label attached to reverse of photograph; Donated by Tom Ryan stamped on reverse More info
still		[Empire of the sun : Christian Bale as Jim Graham stands to attention behind a bard wire fence] Warner home video, 1987. Call No: TITLE STILL INTERNATIONAL Source: AT Publisher: Warner home video PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987); BALE, CHRISTIAN Summary: Christian Bale wearing overalls stands behind a barb wire fence saluting. Beside him is a suit case and behind him is a watchtower and crane. Notes: Image surrounded by white border; Adhesive label attached to rear of photograph; Donated by Tom Ryan stamped on rear More info
still		[Empire of the sun : Christian Bale, Steven Speilberg and John Malkovich on the set of 'Empire of the Sun'] Warner home video, 1987. Call No: TITLE STILL INTERNATIONAL Source: AT Publisher: Warner home video PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987); BALE, CHRISTIAN; SPEILBERG, STEVEN; MALKOVICH, JOHN Summary: Christian Bale, Steven Speilberg and John Malkovich sit on railway tracks talking. Notes: Image surrounded by white border; Adhesive label attached to rear of photograph; Donated by Tom Ryan stamped on rear More info
Online resource digital clippings file		EMPIRE RECORDS : (US, Allan Moyle, 1995) Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: EMPIRE RECORDS (US, Allan Moyle, 1995) Cross Reference: EMPIRE RECORDS (US, Allan Moyle, 1995) More info
title clippings file		EMPIRE [TV] : (US, 2015-) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: EMPIRE [TV] (US, 2015-2020) More info
book		The epic film : myth and history / Derek Elley London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Call No: 740 ELL Author: Elley, Derek Place: London Boston Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: xv, 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Series: Cinema and society Subject: EPIC FILMS; FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE (US, Anthony Mann, 1964); SOLOMAN AND SHEBA (US, King Vidor, 1959); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982) Notes: Includes indexes; Filmography: p. 167-204; Bibliography: p. 205-206 ISBN: 0710096569; 0710099932 (pbk.) LON: 2663515 More info
title clippings file		FACES OF WAR: THE BATTLE FOR EMPIRE : (AT, Gregory Swanborough, 1995?) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: FACES OF WAR: THE BATTLE FOR EMPIRE (AT, Gregory Swanborough, 1995?) More info
title clippings file		HIJACKING CATASTROPHE: 9/11, FEAR & THE SELLING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE : (US, Jeremy Earp, Sut Jhally, 2004) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: HIJACKING CATASTROPHE: 9/11, FEAR AND THE SELLING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE; (US, Jeremy Earp, Sut Jhally, 2004) More info
Interim book		In the realm of the senses / Joan Mellen London: bfi Publishing, 2004. Call No: 79INT MEL Author: Mellen, Joan CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI FILM CLASSICS Subject: EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976); OSHIMA, NAGISA Summary: A close analysis of the controversial and sexually explicit 1970s Japanse film ‘In the Realm of the Senses’ by Ohsima Nagisa. Examines the film from within various contexts - historical, social, political, and aesthetic - exploring its immediate and consequent impact on audiences and its film culture legacy. Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p.87; Film credits ISBN: 1844570347 (pbk.) : £8.99 More info
title clippings file		INLAND EMPIRE Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: INLAND EMPIRE (FR/PL/US, David Lynch, 2006) More info
book		Inland empire / Melissa Anderson Australia: Fireflies Press, 2021. Call No: 79 INL AND Author: Anderson, Melissa Edition: 2021 Place: Australia Publisher: Fireflies Press PubDate: 2021 PhysDes: 103 pages ; 15 cm Series: Decadent Editions; 2006 Subject: INLAND EMPIRE (FR/PL/US, David Lynch, 2006) Summary: ‘Melissa Anderson’s wonderful, insightful writing changes not only how we see cinema, but feminism and politics in general. Her profound examination of actor Laura Dern’s astonishing presence in David Lynch’s late masterpiece is not only a brilliant evocation of how images work on the mind, but how powerful “acteurs” are in the creation of that waking dream also known as movies. What a marvellous book!’ Hilton Als ‘A whirling, digressive journey through time and place, cinema and storytelling, Anderson’s slim yet mighty volume is a transcendent work of queer, feminist film criticism, saturated in deep scholarship, affection and respect for Lynch and their shared muse, Laura Dern.’ Jenni Olson ‘Melissa Anderson is one of my favourite film critics of all time. In her bravura and compassionate account of Lynch’s (and Laura Dern’s) Inland Empire, Anderson gives a masterclass in how to elucidate star magic.’ Wayne Koestenbaum About the film: When a once-feted Hollywood actress is cast in a movie rumoured to be cursed, she tumbles into a dark L.A. odyssey. Reality splinters and identities multiply in Lynch’s final film, a phantasmagoric epic electrified by Laura Dern’s lead performance. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9783981918694 More info
journal article		Laura Dern's eternal return in Screen (2011) vol.52 iss.4 p.447-92 Author: Pranolo, Jennifer PhysDes: Serial Subject: INLAND EMPIRE (FR/PL/US, David Lynch, 2006) Summary: Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch's first film shot and edited exclusively with digital video technology, is arguably his most inscrutable work to date. This essay positions its analysis within the established discourse about the feminine and death in the director's work in order to trace how his experimentation with the digital perpetuates the female star's status as an already exhausted object of violence. By reading certain key vignettes in the film, it shows how the brutalized figure of ‘woman’ works in dialectical synthesis with Lynch's ongoing investigation into the ever-changing materiality of the cinematic medium. Exploiting the longstanding power of the female figure at the iconic heart of classical Hollywood cinema, her many reincarnations in Inland Empire illustrate the layered substrate of Lynch's cinematic ‘sadism’. Death in Inland Empire is a stylistic ploy imposed upon a female body that will not die (or Lynch will not let die), kept uncannily alive in a sadistic refusal of finitude. In this ‘pornography of the uncanny’, Lynch orchestrates a digital metalanguage that abstracts the cinema into a toy for his fort/da game between death and un-death in a chain of mise-en-scenes erected to showcase the mise-en-abyme of Laura Dern. More info
newspaper article		Networking in The Age [Green Guide] (13/08/2015) p.2 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA. 2015 Author: Idato, Michael PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; FREMANTLE MEDIA; NETWORK TEN; EDGE [TV] in production; SECRET CITY [TV] (AT, 2016); EMPIRE [TV] (US, 2015-2020); SECRETS AND LIES [TV](US 2015-) Summary: Snippets on the following: Ryan Kwanten and Yvone Strahovski to star in pilot for the show EDGE; John Yorke to be the international script mentor for the Fremanle Media Blue Sky Drama Initiative; Network Ten recruited Hilary Innes; Actor Jacki Weaver has joined cast of Foxtel's Australian tv drama SECRET CITY; singer Mariah Carey is to appear in the upcoming season of drama EMPIRE; a second season of US drama SECRETS AND LIES has been commissioned (the show was based on the original Australian version, also titled SECRETS AND LIES) More info
book		Questions of cinema / Stephen Heath London: Macmillan, 1981. Call No: 62 HEA Author: Heath, Stephen Place: London Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: viii, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Communications and culture (Basingstoke, England) Subject: IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURAL FILMS; EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes ISBN: 0333261224 (hardcover). - 0333195287 (papercover) LON: abn81039737; 2085540 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:38:38 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Screening sex / Linda Williams Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Call No: 749 WIL Author: Williams, Linda Source: US Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: x, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series: A John Hope Franklin Center book Subject: SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO; FONDA, JANE; BREILLAT, CATHERINE; FLESH AND THE DEVIL (US, Clarence Brown, 1926); SHORTBUS (US, John Cameron Mitchell, 2006); INTIMACY (FR, Patrice Chereau, 2001); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); DEEP THROAT (US, Jerry Gerard, 1972); BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Summary: "For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations." "Combining stories of her own coming of age as a moviegoer with film history, cultural history, and readings of significant films, Williams presents a fascinating history of the on-screen kiss, a look at the shift from adolescent kisses to more grown-up displays of sex, and a comparison of the "tasteful" Hollywood sexual interlude with sexuality as represented in sexploitation, Blaxploitation, and avant-garde films. By understanding screening sex as both revelation and concealment, Williams has written the definitive study of sex at the movies."--BOOK JACKET. Notes: Formerly CIP.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-395) and index. ISBN: 9780822342854 Contents: Of kisses and ellipses : the long adolescence of American movies (1896/1963) -- Going all the way : carnal knowledge on American screens (1961/1971) -- Going further : Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971/1972) -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968/1978) -- Hard-core eroticism : In the realm of the senses -- Primal scenes on American screens (1986/2005) -- Philosophy in the bedroom : hard-core art since the 1990s -- Conclusion: now playing on a small screen near you! More info
journal article		Sex, crime, Oshima : Ai no corrida (1976) in NFT (September/October 1983) p.2-7 Author: Ryan, Tony PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL FILM THEATRE PROGRAM; OSHIMA, NAGISA; EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Notes: Retrospective. - short credits and synopses for each film in program. - illus. More info
book		Steven Spielberg / George Perry London: Orion, 1998. Call No: 81SPI PER Author: Perry, George Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Orion PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: 144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cm Subject: SPIELBERG, STEVEN; ALWAYS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989); CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977); COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); DUEL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1972); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); EMPIRE OF THE SUN (US, Stephen Spielberg, 1987); HOOK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1991); INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989); INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (US, Steven Spielberg, 1984); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1997); [NINETEEN FORTY-ONE] 1941 (US, Steven Spielberg, 1979); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993); SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974); TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE (US, John Landis & Steven Spielberg & George Miller & Joe Dante, 1983) ISBN: 0752811940 More info
title clippings file		[THREE HUNDRED] 300 : RISE OF AN EMPIRE : (US, Noam Murro, 2014) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: [THREE HUNDRED] 300 : RISE OF AN EMPIRE (US, Noam Murro, 2014) More info
book		World cinema and the ethics of realism / Lucia Nagib New York ; London: Continuum, 2011. Call No: 64REA NAG Author: Nagib, Lucia Place: New York ; London Publisher: Continuum PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xiv, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: REALISM IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; MONTEIRO, JOAO CESAR; HERZOG, WERNER; EMPIRE OF THE SENSES [AI NO CORRIDA / EMPIRE DES SENS, L'] (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976); CRIME DELICADO (BL, Beto Brant, 2005); TERRA EM TRANSE (BL, Glauber Rocha, 1967); BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL [DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL] (BL, Glauber Rocha, 1964); ATANARJUAT, THE FAST RUNNER (CA, Zacharias Kunuk, 2001 ); YAABA (UV, Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989); [FOUR HUNDRED] 400 BLOWS, THE [; YA - CUBA (UR/CU, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) Summary: A sweeping study of world cinema, illustrating how its creative peaks stem from the urge to reveal otherwise hidden political and social dimensions of reality. ISBN: 9781441165831 Donation: donated by the author. More info

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