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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: INDIAN CINEMA ; CHINA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; HONG KONG ; TAIWAN ; THAILAND ; SINGAPORE ; MALAYSIA ; IRAN ; BOLLYWOOD ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD CINEMA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; ANIMATION ; HORROR FILM ; GHOST FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA Summary: "This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.
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Blue movie / Terry Southern St Albans: Panther, 1974.
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Cinema Sewer : the adults only guide to history's sickest and sexiest movies! / edited by Robin Bougie Surrey, England: FAB Press, 2016.
Call No: 722.81 CINAuthor: Bougie, Robin (ed.) Edition: Fourth editionSource: UKPlace: Surrey, EnglandPublisher: FAB PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmSeries: Cinema Sewer; 1Subject: 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 COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781903254455
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Dirty looks : women, pornography, power / edited by Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson London: BFI Pub., 1993.
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The end of Japanese cinema : industrial genres, national times, and media ecologies / Alexander Zahlten Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2017.
Call No: 10647Author: Zahlten, Alexander Edition: 2017Place: Durham; LondonPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 308 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversitySubject: JAPAN ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA ; KURAIMUHANTA IKARI NO JUDAN [CRIMEHUNTER - BULLET OF FURY] (JA, Toshimichi Okawa, 1989) ; KUROI YUKI [BLACK SNOW] (JA, Tetsuji Takechi, 1965) ; FUKASAKU KINJI ; TAKECHI TETSUJI ; WAKAMATSU, KOJI Summary: In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780822369448Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Establishing Pink Film -- 2. Pink Times and Pink Spaces -- 3. Kadokawa Film -- 4. The Radicalization of Kadokawa Film -- 5. V-Cinema -- 6. Subgenres: Violence, Finances, Sex, and True Accounts -- Conclusion: Present Histories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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From the third eye : the Evergreen Review film reader / edited by Ed Halter and Barney Rosset New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018.
Call No: 115.3(73) EVEAuthor: Rosset, Barney ; Halter, Ed Edition: 2018Place: New YorkPublisher: Seven Stories PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: 334 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: VOGEL, AMOS ; ROSSET, BARNEY ; WARHOL, ANDY ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; DURAS, MARGUERITE ; KLEIN, WILLIAM ; HOPPER, DENNIS ; SJOMAN, VILGOT ; DEMY, JACQUES ; PAPATAKIS, NICO ; SEMBENE, OUSMANE ; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN ; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; CINEMA 16 ; ROCHA, GLAUBER Summary: An essential collection of groundbreaking film writing from the legendary Evergreen Review and its cutting-edge coverage of the underground, experimental, pornographic, and political mid-century film scene.
In this collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication’s important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring leading writers such as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others, and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film against the dominance of Hollywood. A new introductory essay by Ed Halter reveals the important role Evergreen Review and its publisher, Grove Press, played in advancing cinema during this period through innovations in production, distribution, and exhibition. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781609806156
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Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd street, and beyond / edited by Austin Fishers and Johnny Walker New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Call No: 722.81 GRIAuthor: Fisher, Austin (ed.) ; Walker, Johnny (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2016PhysDes: 266 pages ; 25 cmSeries: Global exploitation cinemasSubject: EXPLOITATION FILMS ; BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's ; EROTIC FILMS ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM Summary: "The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres.
The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already understood." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781628927498Contents: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond -- Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker -- Chapter 1 -- Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory / Glenn Ward -- Chapter 2 -- Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses / Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia / Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 / Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film / Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies / Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story / Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western / Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle / David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper / Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- index --
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More dirty looks : gender, pornography and power / edited by Pamela Church Gibson London: BFI Pub., 2004.
Call No: 749.2 CHUAuthor: Church Gibson, Pamela CorpAuthor: British Film InstituteEdition: 2nd edSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 2004PhysDes: 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; KIPNIS, LAURA Summary: Presents feminist responses to the politics and presentation of pornography. Examines how pornography relates to the critical theory of gender identity, sexuality and issues of power and cultural identity. Asserts that the study of pornography has “immense symbolic and social significance.” First published in 1993.Notes: Includes bibliographical references, notes, index and list of illustrations.ISBN: 0 85170 939 7LON: 10014448
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Scandinavian Blue : the erotic cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s / by Jack Stevenson Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland & Company Inc, c2010.
Call No: 749 STEAuthor: Stevenson, Jack Source: US/UKPlace: Jefferson, N. C.Publisher: McFarland & Company IncPubDate: c2010PhysDes: ix, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; PORNOGRAPHY ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS ; CENSORSHIP ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; SWEDEN ; DENMARK Summary: "This book traces the development of Scandinavian erotic cinema as it evolved in Denmark and Sweden, from the gentle Swedish naturalist films, starting with One Summer of Happiness in the 50s, to the controversial groundbreakers like I Am Curious (Yellow) of the 60s and on through to the dawn of 'Liberated Denmark,' where, in the early 70s, the abolition of censorship was celebrated in films like 24 Hours with Ilse and the production of a number of other films that were blatantly pornographic. Also considered is the influence of these films on other countries, particularly the United States, where Scandinavian erotic cinema helped to set in motion the sexual revolution and contributed to the end of film censorship" -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780786444885Contents: -- One: To 1966 : birth of a mythology -- Two: 1967-1970 : censorship's last stand -- Three: 1971 and beyond: total freedom in fact and fiction -- Four: The passing of an era -- appendices -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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The world traveller's guide to adult movies : an authoritative assessment of their quality and their superstars by the editors of Consumer Guide Sydney: Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1985, c1982.
Call No: 749(083.8) WORCorpAuthor: Consumer GuideSource: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Angus and Robertson PublishersPubDate: 1985, c1982PhysDes: 252 p. ; 22 cmSubject: EROTIC FILMS ; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS Notes: First published as: Adult movies : rating hundreds of the best films for home video & cable. New York : Beekman House, c1982.ISBN: 0207151210Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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