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Banned : tales from the bizarre history of Australian obscenity / by James Cockington Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005.
Call No: 44 COCAuthor: Cockington, James Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting CorporationPubDate: 2005PhysDes: ix, 246 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cmSubject: PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS ; CENSORSHIP ; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHICS AND TV ; ETHICS IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIA Summary: "Banned takes a fearless look at the weird ways of Australian wowserism. It describes landmark legal cases such as the Oz trial in 1964 and the decision to allow full-frontal nudity in the rock opera Hair in 1969. It also tackles more obscure scandals such as police raids on 'immoral' pyjama parties in Surfer's Paradise in the 1950s, the bikini police, the sacking of a 'Romper Room' presenter for wearing too revealing a dress and Gra-Gra's infamous crow call, among many absurd others in the history of polite society. " -- BOOK JACKETISBN: 073331502XContents: Contents: Great moments in obscenity -- Beyond Victoriana -- Taking the waters -- W.J. Chidley's answer -- Dirty dancing and stage kissing -- Backless Betty from Bondi -- Mr Bandparts -- Inversion and perversion -- Boult--upright -- Fun in little Bohemia -- Battle of the bikinis -- Freak show -- Moral devastation -- Sex swaps -- The knight and the witch -- Pyjama parties -- Ruth, Lenny and the Lady Chatterley word -- Toplessness -- Much ado about nothing -- Naughty little boys -- Full frontal -- Grubby gra gra -- How far is too far? -- This is too far -- Morality for the new millennium.
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Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Call No: 409 NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 187 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; BODY IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES ; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; KING, RODNEY ; STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925) ; REALISM ON TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; REALITY TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS ON TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS AND TV ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GULF WAR ON TV ; ETHICS AND TV Summary: "Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments where the traditional boundaries of fiction/non-fiction and truth/falsehood blur. Nichols argues that the history of social representation in film, television, and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response, and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretative frameworks offered by neoformalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process, while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation - such as project, intentionality, and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-182) and indexISBN: 0253340640 (alk. paper); 0253209005 (paper : alk. paper)LON: 10767942
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Children's television: an analysis of programming and advertising / Francis Earle Barcus with Rachel Wolkin New York: Praeger, 1977.
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Lies, damn lies and documentaries / Brian Winston London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 761 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: iv, 186 p. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; AUDIENCES ; "REALITY" SHOWS ; LAW AND TV ; GOVERNMENT CONTROL,TV ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHICS AND TV ; CONNECTION, THE [TV] (UK, 1996) Summary: "Recent scandals surrounding faked TV documentaries have brought the whole issue of ethics to the foreground of media debate. Most good documentarists and journalists would agree that ethics lie at the heart of responsible programme-making. However, the topic awaits full exploration and top TV executives recoil at the very mention of the word.
Looking at the crises of confidence in public service broadcasting and the controversy surrounding docusoaps, Brian Winston's major new work provides a foundational study of ethics and the documentary." -- Taken from book cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851707971(pbk.); 0851707963(hbk)LON: 21663027Contents: Part 1: The state of the documentary -- Chapter one: 'Fakery' -- Chapter two: Public service -- Part 2: Regulators -- Chapter 3: Law -- Chapter 4 -- Regulation -- Part 3: Documentarists -- Chapter 5: Free expression -- Chapter 6 -- Ethics -- ConclusionURL status: URL: 'http://-'
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The philosophy of tv noir / edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble Lexington, KN: University of Kentucky Press, c2008.
Call No: 734.1 PHIAuthor: Sanders, Steven M. ; Skoble, Aeon J. Place: Lexington, KNPublisher: University of Kentucky PressPubDate: c2008PhysDes: viiii, 272 p. ; 24 cmSeries: the philosophy of popular culureSubject: AESTHETICS ; ALIENS IN FILMS ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; ETHICS AND TV ; FILM NOIR ; RELIGION AND TV ; CARTER, CHRIS ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [TV] (US/CA, 2000-) ; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997) ; D.O.A. (US, Ruldolph Mate, 1950) ; DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) ; FUGITIVE, THE (US, Andrew Davis, 1993) ; HE WALKS BY NIGHT (US, Alfred Werker, 1948) ; LEVIATHAN (US/IT, George Pan Cosmatos, 1989) ; NAKED CITY [TV] (US, 1958-1963) ; X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-) Summary: Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many emigre filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind collection, contributors from philosophy, film studies, and literature raise fundamental questions about the human predicament, giving this unique volume its moral resonance and demonstrating why television noir deserves our attention." "With this focus on the philosophical dimensions of crime, espionage, and science fiction series, The Philosophy of TV Noir draws out the full implications of film noir and establishes TV noir as an art form in its own right."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780813124490Contents: Dragnet, film noir, and postwar realism / R. Barton Palmer -- Naked city: the relativist turn in TV noir / Robert E. Fitzgibbons -- John Drake in Greeneland: noir themes in Secret agent / Sander Lee -- Action and integrity in The fugitive / Aeon J. Skoble -- Noir et blanc in color: existentialism and Miami vice / Steven M. Sanders -- 24 and the existential man of revolt / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Carniva`le knowledge: give me that old-time noir religion / Eric Bronson -- The Sopranos, film noir, and nihilism / Kevin L. Stoehr -- CSI and the art of forensic detection / Deborah Knight, George McKnight -- Detection and the logic of abduction in The X-files / Jerold J. Abrams, Elizabeth Cooke -- Kingdom of darkness: autonomy and conspiracy in The X-files and Millennium / Michael Valdez Moses -- The prisoner and self-imprisonment / Shai Biderman, William J. Devlin -- Twin Peaks, noir, and open interpretation / Jason Holt.
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TV : Behind the tube / Joseph Claro [editor], and Gene Krackehl [designer] New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1974.
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Who killed Channel 9? : the death of Kerry Packer's mighty TV dream machine / Gerald Stone Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2007.
Call No: 19NIN STOAuthor: Stone, Gerald Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Pan Macmillan AustraliaPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xi, 292 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmSubject: NINE NETWORK ; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA ; SEVEN NETWORK ; CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA ; ETHICS AND TV ; PUBLISHING AND BROADCASTING LTD ; PACKER, KERRY ; PACKER, JAMES ; ALEXANDER, JOHN ; MUNRO, MIKE ; WENDT, JANA ; LECKIE, DAVID ; MEAKIN, PETER ; GYNGELL, DAVID ; NOBLE, KRIS ; GRAEME-EVANS, POSIE ; BOWER, SUSAN ; STEPHENS, JOHN ; CRESS, JULIAN ; BARBOUR, DAVID ; CHISHOLM, SAM ; WALEY, JIM ; BOLAND, ADAM ; LLEWELLYN, MARK ; MCGUIRE, EDDIE ; LYONS, JOHN ; [SIXTY] 60 MINUTES (AT, 1979-) ; BLOCK, THE [TV] (AT, 2003-) ; CURRENT AFFAIR, A [TV] (AT, 1971- ) ; McLEOD'S DAUGHTERS [TV] (AT, 2001-) ; SUNDAY [TV] (AT, 1981-) ; SUNRISE [TV] (AT, 2003-) ; TODAY [TV] (AT, 1982-) ; TODAY TONIGHT [TV] (AT, 1995-) Summary: Gerald Stone charts the changes that Channel 9 has gone through from 2000 onwards. The book shows reveals that changes within the structure Channel 9's parent company (Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd) had a strong impact on 9's operations and business ethos.ISBN: 9781405038157
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