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Call No: 44 COC
Author: Cockington, James
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: ix, 246 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 JACKET
ISBN: 073331502X
Contents: 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.

Call No: 46(41) MAY
Author: Mayer, J.P.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Dennis Dobson
PubDate: 1948
PhysDes: [viii] 280 p. : illus. : 22cm.
Series: International theatre and cinema
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH; ETHICS IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Includes appendices, bibliography and index.

Call No: 409 SIN
Author: Sinnerbrink, Robert
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937); TALK TO HER (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002) SEE HABLE CON ELLA; HABLE CON ELLA (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); BIUTIFUL (MX/SP, Alejandro Inarritu, 2010)
Summary: " How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Can movies 'do ethics'? Cinema Ethics : Exploring Ethical Experiences through Film addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional engagement and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging manner, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to ethics in contemporary film theory and philosophy using detailed case studies of cinematic ethics across different genres, styles and filmic traditions. Written in a lucid and lively style that will engage both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book is ideal for use in the academic study of philosophy and film. Key features include annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and a filmography of movies useful for teaching and researching cinematic ethics. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography
ISBN: 9781138826168
Contents: -- list of figures -- preface -- overview of this book -- part I --Cinema and/as ethics -- 1: Cinematic ethics: Film as a medium of ethical experience -- part II -- Philosophical approaches to cinematic ethics -- 2: From scepticism to moral perfectionism (Cavell) -- 3: From cinematic belief to ethics and politics (Deleuze) -- 4: Cinempathy: phenomenology, cognitivism, and moving images -- part III Performing cinematic ethics -- 5: The moral melodrama (Stella Dallas, Talk to Her) -- 6: Melodrama, realism, and ethical experience (Biutiful, The Promise) -- 7.Gangster film: Cinematic ethics in The Act of Killing -- conclusion -- appendix 1 -- appendix 2 -- index --

Call No: 81EAS VAU
Author: Vaux, Sara Anson
Source: US
Place: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
PubDate: c2012
PhysDes: xvii, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS; EASTWOOD, CLINT; HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1973); OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, THE (US, Clint Eastwood, 1976); PALE RIDER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1985); UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); MYSTIC RIVER (US, Clint Eastwood, 2003); MILLION DOLLAR BABY (US, Clint Eastwood, 2004); CHANGELING (US, Clint Eastwood, 2008); FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (US, Clint Eastwood, 2006); LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (US, Clint Eastwood, 2006); GRAN TORINO (US / AT, Clint Eastwood, 2008); INVICTUS (US, Clint Eastwood, 2009)
Summary: Provides insight into Clint Eastwood's films - in particular the role of ethics
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9780802862952
Contents: -- foreword / by Robert Jewett -- preface -- introduction -- The Angel of Death (The Avenging Angel) -- High Plains Drifter -- The Outlaw Josey Wales -- Pale Rider -- Unforgiven -- II.The Mysteries of Life -- Mystic River -- Million Dollar Baby -- Changeling -- Bird -- III.Eternal War or the Dawn of Peace? -- Flags of Our Fathers -- Letters from Iwo Jima -- Gran Torino -- Invictus -- IV.Hereafter: Eastwood and the Reconciling Community -- Hereafter: Beyond a Perfect World? -- The Gathering, the Meal, and the Reconciling Community -- Another Clint -- acknowledgments -- appendix a -- appendix b -- Eastwood filmography -- Clint Eastwood: select bibliography -- index --

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS

Call No: 512.1 MAY
Author: Mayer, Geoff
Place: Milton, Qld.
Publisher: Jacaranda Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 51 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; ADAPTATIONS; ETHICS IN FILMS; CRY FREEDOM (UK, Richard Attenborough, 1987); RADIO DAYS (US, Woody Allen, 1987); ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, THE (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1988); SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); YEAR MY VOICE BROKE, THE (AT, John Duigan, 1987)
Notes: For senior secondary school students; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0701628782 (pbk.)
LON: 7685541
ID2: 290

Call No: 412.53 MAL
Author: Malone, Peter
Edition: [1979]
Place: [Melbourne]
Publisher: Chevalier Press
PubDate: [1979]
PhysDes: 192 pages ; 20 cm
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; POINT BLANK (US, John Boorman, 1967); HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE (US, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968); MIDNIGHT COWBOY (US, John Schlesinger, 1969); GOODBYE COLUMBUS (US, Larry Peerce, 1969); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969); CADUTA DEGLI DEI, LA (IT/SZ, Luchino Visconti, 1969); Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969); 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
ISBN: 0869400169
Donation: SFC Library
Contents: A study of what the author terms high quality entertainment films, which provide some ethical and moral challenges for audiences whilst also being popular. An essay from the author where he examines a number of ideas pertaining to: Christianinty, religion, Athienists, Humanism, and Future Shock preceeds the film reviews
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Call No: 626:17 STA
Author: Stadler, Jane
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Continuum
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xiii, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; AESTHETICS
Summary: " Pulling focus: Intersubjective experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum, and Wayne Booth's work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Jane Stadler shows that film specatatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an intersubjective experience, involving an affective relationship with characters and their values. Building on Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye and Carnal Thoughts, Stadler uses a phenomenological approach to analyze ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing that the camera describes experience and views screen characters with an evaluative form of perception: an ethical gaze in which spectators participate. Films discussed include Dead Man Walking, Lost Highway, Batman Begins, Nil By Mouth, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index; Includes filmography: p. 265
ISBN: 9780826429735
Contents: 1. Ethics in narrative form and content -- 2. Intersubjective perception: phenomenology, embodiment, and evaluation -- 3. Losing the plot: narrative structure and ethical identity -- 4. Under the influence: vice, violence and villainy -- 5. Resistance and responsiveness: emotion and character engagement -- 6. Imagination: inner sight and silent voices -- 7. Seeing in the dark: attentive engagement -- Conclusion. Ethical transformation.

Call No: 224 BEK
Author: Beker, Marilyn
Source: US
Place: Mahwah, N.J.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xx, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject: SCRIPTWRITING; ETHICS IN FILMS; SCRIPTS
Summary: "Author Marilyn Beker provides methods for self-assessment of values, ideas and ethical stances, and demonstrates the application of these values to the development of plot, character and dialogue. In addition, specific techniques and exercises are supplied to help screenwriters determine the difference between "good" and "evil", to write realistic and compelling characters based on this determination, and to present "messages" and write dialogue without preaching. This book also puts forth a livable work philosophy for dealing with the ethics of the screenwriting business, and presents a viable personal philosophy for surviving in the screenwriting world." Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-240) and index.
ISBN: 0805841288 (pbk.)

Call No: 45:2 MIL
Author: Miles, Margaret Ruth
Source: US
Place: Boston
Publisher: Beacon Press
PubDate: c1996
PhysDes: xvi, 254 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; ETHICS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988); JESUS DE MONTREAL (CN/FR, Denys Arcand, 1989); MISSION, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1986); ROMERO (US, John Duigan, 1989); NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (US, Brian Gilbert, 1991); CHOSEN, THE (US, Jeremy Paul Kagan, 1981); CHARIOTS OF FIRE (UK, Hugh Hudson, 1981); HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990); RAPTURE, THE (US, Michael Tolkin, 1991); LONG WALK HOME, THE (US, Richard Pearce, 1990); DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); JUNGLE FEVER (US, Spike Lee, 1991); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0807010316

Call No: 761 HON
Author: Hongisto, Ilona
Source: NE
Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: 178p. ; 30cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ETHICS IN FILMS; CRITICISM
Summary: "Soul of the Documentary offers a groundbreaking new approach to understanding documentary cinema. Working against current thinking, Ilona Hongisto argues that the documentary does more than merely represent whatis-by capturing actual people, places, and events-but also expresses realities to come. She makes a case for the form as one that is not bound by predetermined ideas or rules, and through close readings of a heterogeneous body of films, she imbues the tradition with a new sense of urgency and vitality. " -- BOOKTOPIA.COM.AU
ISBN: 9789089647559
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- prologue -- Imagination: Relational documents -- 1: Frames of the photograph -- 2 a documentary fable -- Fabulation: Documentary visions -- 3: Making up legends -- 4: Acts of resistance -- Affection: Documenting the potential -- 5: Moments of affection -- 6: The primacy of feeling -- epilogue: ethics of sustainability -- notes -- works cited -- index --

Call No: 761 NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Source: US
Place: Oakland
Publisher: California University of California Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 281 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; AUDIENCES; MUSIC IN FILMS; VOICES; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; ETHICS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS IN FILMS; LAND WITHOUT BREAD (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); RESTREPO (US, Tim Hetherington/Sebastian Junger, 2010); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012); STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE (US, Alex Gibney, 2015)
Summary: "What issues, of both form and content, shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world in which we live? Can a documentary be believed, and why or why not? How do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? In what ways can the documentary be an aesthetic experience and at the same time have political or social impact? And how can such impacts be empirically measured? Pioneering film scholar Bill Nichols investigates the ways in which documentaries strive for accuracy and truthfulness, but simultaneously fabricate a form that shapes reality. Such films may rely on re-enactment to re-create the past, storytelling to provide satisfying narratives, and rhetorical figures such as metaphor and expressive forms such as irony to make a point. In many ways documentaries are a fiction unlike any other. With clarity and passion, Nichols offers close readings of several provocative documentaries including Land without Bread, Restrepo, The Thin Blue Line, The Act of Killing, and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine as part of an authoritative examination of the layered approaches and delicate ethical balance demanded of documentary filmmakers"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject -- Letter to Lynn Sachs about her film Investigation of a flame -- Breaking the frame, gender, violation and the avant-garde -- The coming of sound -- To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary -- The sound of music -- The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film -- The terrorist event -- Remaking history : Jay Leyda, and the compilation film -- Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence -- The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine -- Documentary ethics : doing the right thing -- Irony, paradox and the documentary : double meanings and double binds -- Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse -- Perpetrators, trauma and film -- San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films -- The political documentary and the problem of impact.