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Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema : Resonance between realms / James Walters Chicago: Intellect, 2008.
Call No: 735.3 (73) WALAuthor: Walters, James Source: USPlace: Bristol; ChicagoPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS ; FANTASY FILMS ; DREAMS IN FILMS ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; INNOCENCE IN FILMS ; REPETITION IN FILMS ; TIME IN FILMS ; POINT-OF-VIEW ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; FLEMING, VICTOR ; LANG, FRITZ ; GONDRY, MICHEL ; CAPRA, FRANK ; RAMIS, HAROLD ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; ROSS, GARY ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1944) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; GROUNDHOG DAY (US, Harold Ramis, 1993) ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) ; PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998) ; DONNIE DARKO (US, Richard Kelly, 2001) ; BACK TO THE FUTURE [...] (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1985-90) ; ABRE LOS OJOS (SP, Alejandro Amenabar, 1997) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1942) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) Summary: "The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'Donnie Darko'. 'Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema' is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across periods, genres and history.
"Through an analysis of such landmark films as 'The Wizard of Oz', 'It's a Wonderful Life' and 'Groundhog Day', Walters reveals how unconventional worlds are crucial to each film's dramatic agenda and narrative structure. This groundbreaking volume unifies decades of divergent work by film scholars and points the way towards a new theoretical framework for understanding fantasy in the context of popular film. 'Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema' will be an essential resource for film studies scholars and movie buffs alike." (Taken from the back cover.)Notes: Includes Filmography, Bibliography and IndexISBN: 9781841502021
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND : (US, Michael Gondry, 2004)
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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Andrew M. Butler. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 79ETE BUTAuthor: Butler, Andrew M. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: 102 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm.Series: BFI film classicsSubject: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) Summary: Delving into the central themes of the film, Andrew M. Butler foregrounds its play with genre and audience expectations, its psychoanalytic underpinnings and its debt to Philip K. Dick. Also examining its production processes, Butler explores the against-type casting of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in lead roles and the intertwined careers of Kaufman and director Michel Gondry. (Extract taken from the back of the book)Notes: Published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute -- Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 9781844578351Contents: Introduction -- Actors and auteurs -- Science fiction -- The comedy of remarriage -- The puzzle film -- Mourning, melancholy and trauma -- Coda.
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In glorious technicolor : a century of film and how it has shaped us / Francine Stock with Stephen Hughes London: Pimlico, 2011.
Call No: 70 STOAuthor: Stock, Francine ; Hughes, Stephen Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: PimlicoPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 344 p. ; 25 cm.Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE (G, Robert Wiene, 1920)
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CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS ; FLESH AND THE DEVIL (US, Clarence Brown, 1926) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932) ; GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) ; BETE HUMAINE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938) ; BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942) ; SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) ; STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960) ; BANDE A PART (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976) ; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; TOP GUN (US, Tony Scott, 1986) ; WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . (US, Rob Reiner, 1989) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994) ; THREE COLOURS: RED (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
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TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE ; THREE COLOURS: RED (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
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TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE ; THREE COLOURS: WHITE (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
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TROIS COULEURS: BLANC ; TROIS COULEURS: BLANC (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) ; TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) ; TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009) ; UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (TH/UK/FR/G/SP/NE, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) Summary: Charting key films from the past hundred years, along with technological developments and historical landmarks, Francine Stock explores in compelling detail the nature of our relationship with film - from the first screenings of the Lumiere Brothers' short films, which saw audiences shrinking from oncoming trains, to the perception-altering 3-D Avatar. The twenties saw the birth of celebrity, still so influential even today. With the influence of Freud and the unconscious came film noir, anticipated by dark European classics like La Bete Humaine; Hollywood in the fifties turned ideological fears into lurid sci-fi and body-snatching horror; with the social change of the sixties came refracted ways of seeing, from Alfie to theStargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey or a compelling seventies nightmares like Carrie. Moving towards our own century, Francine Stock considers how film reflects back on itself, bending time and technology to look to the future. More than a century on from those earliest awe-inspiring images, we are still in thrall to the power of film. In this fascinating, entertaining and illuminating book Francine Stock shows how film both reflects and remakes our world.ISBN: 9781845951993
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Modular narratives in contemporary cinema / Allan Cameron BasingStoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Call No: 632.2 CAMAuthor: Cameron, Allan Source: USPlace: BasingStoke [England] ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2008PhysDes: ix, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; COMMENTARY ; FILM NOIR ; [TWENTY-ONE] 21 GRAMS (US, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2003) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; MEMENTO (US, Christopher Nolan, 2000) ; RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 199 ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Summary: Alan Cameron looks at the narrarative in the film, and its relationship to the passing of time. He looks at the relationship between change and destiny, memory and history, and the representation of simultaneous events. He looks at linear and non-linear narrative, memory and forgetting, temporal anchoring and temporal drift, simultaneity and succession, and chaos and order. He looks at the relationship between the past, present and futureNotes: Bibliography: p. 196-205; Includes indexISBN: 9780230210417
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Subjective realist cinema : from expressionism to inception / Matthew Campora New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.
Call No: 632.2 CAMAuthor: Campora, Matthew Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Berghahn BooksPubDate: 2014PhysDes: viii, 150 pages ; 24 cm.Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; EXPRESSIONISM ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; MULHOLLAND DRIVE (US, David Lynch, 2001) ; MEMENTO (US, Christopher Nolan, 2000) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) Summary: Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ "subjective realist" narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The author proposes that an understanding of the narrative structures of these films, particularly their use of mixed and multiple realities, enhances viewers' enjoyment and comprehension of such films, and that such comprehension offers a key to understanding contemporary filmmaking. -- [Extract taken from the back of book]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and indexISBN: 9781782382782Contents: Machine generated contents note: Three Periods of Narrative Experimentation -- Multiform Narratives -- Subjective Realism -- ch. 1 Complex Narratives -- The New Hollywood and the Smart Film -- New Hollywood Narration -- Fragmented Narratives -- Multi-strand Narratives -- Multiform Narratives -- Brazil -- Puzzle Films -- ch. 2 Two Trajectories of the Cinema of Attractions -- The Narrative Trajectory: Realism and Spectacle -- The Avant-Garde Trajectory: Realism and Defamiliarization -- ch. 3 Subjective Realism and Multiform Narratives -- Subjective Realism -- Vertigo -- The Fantastic -- Wild Strawberries -- ch. 4 Mulholland Drive -- Expressionism and the Uncanny in Mulholland Drive -- Three Views -- As Surrealist or Trance Film -- As Fragmented, Subjective Realist Film -- As Supernatural Film -- It Is All an Illusion -- ch. 5 Memento -- The Four Strands -- Unreliable Narration -- Disrupted Expectations -- Subjective Realism -- ch. 6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind --
Contents note continued: The Philosophy of Eternal Sunshine -- Temporal Inversions -- Subjective Realism -- Sonic Metalepsis -- The Marvelous Real.
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Thinking through cinema : film as philosophy / edited by Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 630 THIAuthor: Smith, Murray ; Wartenberg, Thomas E Source: USPlace: Malden, MAPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 222 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; LEE, SPIKE ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; BREILLAT, CATHERINE ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (US, Brian De Palma, 1996) ; BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; SERENE VELOCITY (US, Ernie Gehr, 1970) ; WITTGENSTEIN TRACTATUS (HU, Peter Foracs, 1992) Notes: "Published for The American Society for Aesthetics by Blackwell Publishing Inc."--P. [v]
"Originally published as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 64:1 (Winter 2006)"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219) and indexISBN: 9781405154116ISSN: 00218529Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg -- I. The Very Idea of Film as Philosophy -- Theses on cinema as philosophy: Paisely Livingston -- Beyond mere illustration: how films can be philosophy: Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Film art, argument, and ambiguity --
2. Popular American Film: Entertainment and Enlightenment -- Hitchcock and Cavell: Richard Allen -- The paradox of the unknown lover: a reading of letter from an unknown woman: Lester H. Hunt -- Spike Lee and the sympathetic racist: Dan Flory -- Transparency and twist in narrative fiction film: George Wilson -- The impersonation of personality: film as philosophy in Mission: Impossible: Stephan Mulhall -- On being philosophical and Being John Malkovich: Daniel Shaw --Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the morality of memory: Chrisotopher Grau -- 3. Continental Philosophy, Continental Film -- Sarte, the philosophy of nothingness, and the modern melodrama: Andras Balint Kovacs -- Cinema and subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski: Paul C. Santilli -- Is sex comedy or tragedy? Directing desire and female auteurship in the cinema of Catherine Breillat: Katherine Ince -- 4. Film As "Theory": The Avant-Garde -- Apperception on Display: Structural films and philosophy: Jinhee Choi -- Philosophizing through the moving image: the case of Serene Velocity: Noel Carroll -- The substance of cinema: Trevor Ponech -- The world is rewound: Peter Forgacs's Wittgenstein Tractus: Whitney Davis
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