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Maximum movies - pulp fictions : film culture and the worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson / Peter Stanfield New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Call No: 408 STAAuthor: Stanfield, Peter Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xiii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS. THOMPSON, JIM ; ADAPTATIONS. SPILLANE, MICKEY ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; EXPLOITATION FILMS ; CULT FILMS ; BEST FILMS ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; THEORY ; AESTHETICS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM CULTURE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; FARBER, MANNY ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) Summary: A study on pulp movies (such as Kiss me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I Walked with a Zombie, The Lineup, Terror in a Texas Town, Ride Lonesome) impacted upon and influenced the critics, cinephiles, and filmmakers of the day (people such as Jean-Luc Godard, Manny Farber, Lawerence Alloway, Paulene Kael). The critics 'championed the cause of these movies and incited the cultural guardians of the day by attacking a rigorously policed canon of tasteful, rareified, and ossified art objects.
Against the legitimate and in the defense of the illegitimate, in an insolent and unruly manner, these critics agitated for the recognition of lurid sensational crime stories. War pictures, fast-paced Westerns, thillers, and gangster melodramas were claimed as examples of the true, the real, and the authentic in contemporary culture - the foundation upon which modern film studies sits.' - taken from Back CoverISBN: 9780813550626Contents: Introduction : yours till the boys come home -- Position papers : in defense of pulp movies -- A genealogy of pulp : Black mask to Mickey Spillane -- A world of small insanities : the critical reception of Kiss me deadly -- American primitive : Samuel Fuller's pulp politics -- Authenticating pulp : Jim Thompson adaptations and neo-noir -- Conclusion : hiding out in cinemas
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Negative space : Manny Farber on the movies / new preface by Robert Walsh New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
Call No: 67(04) FARAuthor: Farber, Manny Edition: Expanded edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Da Capo PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: xiv, 412 p. ; 21 cmSubject: FESTIVALS. NEW YORK ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HUSTON, JOHN ; LEWTON ,VAL ; AGEE, JAMES ; STURGES, PRESTON ; CAPRA, FRANK ; SIEGEL, DON ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; WALSH, RAOUL ; ROEG, NICOLAS ; HERZOG, WERNER ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; FARBER, MANNY ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; JONES, CHUCK ; Stewart, James ; FORD, JOHN ; WALSH, RAOUL ; WARHOL, ANDY ; PATTERSON, PATRICIA ; WAVELENGTH (US, Michael Snow, 1967) ; FAR COUNTRY, THE (US, Anthony Mann, 1954) ; CARABINIERS, LES (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) ; DETECTIVE STORY (US, William Wyler, 1951) ; HOME OF THE BRAVE (US, Mark Robson, 1949) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; HOW I WON THE WAR (UK, Richard Lester, 1967) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; IN COLD BLOOD (US, Richard Brooks, 1967) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) ; SKAMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1968) ; CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; BELLE DE JOUR (FR/IT, Luis Bunuel, 1967) Summary: Manny Farber, one of the most important and entertaining critics in movie history, championed the American action film - the bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegel - at a time when other critics dismissed the genre. His witty, incisive criticism later worked exacting language into an exploration of the feelings and strategies that went into low-budget and radical films as diverse as Michael Snow's Wavelength, Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana, and Shantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. Expanded with an in-depth interview and seven essays written in collaboration with his wife, artist Patricia Patterson, Negative Space gathers Farber's most influential writings, making this an indispensable collection for all lovers of filmNotes: "First Da Capo Press edition"--T.p. verso; Includes indexISBN: 0306808293 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 13667387
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Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / Jonathan Rosenbaum Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Call No: 67(081) PLAAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; TATI, JACQUES ; WELLES, ORSON ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; ALLEN, WOODY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; FARBER, MANNY ; TARR, BELA ; RIVETTE, JACQUES ; GERTRUD (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964) ; OHAYO (JA, Ozu Yasujiro, 1959) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; OTHELLO (MR, Orson Welles, 1951) ; MELO (FR, Alain Resnais, 1986) ; HARDLY WORKING (US, Jerry Lewis, 1980) ; AMOR DE PERDICAO (PO, Manoel de Oliveira, 1979) ; BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988) ; WHITE DOG (US, Samuel Fuller, 1982) ; JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE, Chantal Akerman, 1975) ; SPEAKING DIRECTLY: SOME AMERICAN NOTES (US, Jon Jost, 1974) ; RAMEAU'S NEPHEW BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (CN, Michael Snow, 1974) ; MOSES UND ARON (GW/FR/IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1975) ; DEEP COVER (US, Bill Duke, 1992) ; PANAMA DECEPTION, THE (US, Barbara Trent, 1992) ; SAGA OF ANATAHAN, THE (JA, Josef von Sternberg, 1953) ; BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991) ; ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) ; KING LEAR (US/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and indexISBN: 0520086325 (alk. paper); 0520086333 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 93042954; 10612641ID2: 291
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