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Call No: 631 CHA
Author: Charney, Leo
Place: Durham, London
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: ix, 189 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; PERCEPTION; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNCANNY GAZE; MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD; DULAC, GERMAINE; BRETON, ANDRE; HUSSERL, EDMUND; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; EPSTEIN, JEAN
Summary: "In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift" - the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the reproduction of the present. Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust's conception of time/ memory with Cubism's attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealism's exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserl's insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvin's laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charney's work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory." -- Blurb
Notes: Includes notes, bibliography and index
ISBN: 0822320908
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: One: Drift -- Two: The present moment -- Three: Peaks and valleys -- Four: What's the use? -- Five: Boredom -- Six: The end of pleasure -- Seven: A horizontal line

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: FERDINAND (US, Carlos Saldanha, 2017)

Author: Koller, Michael
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ZECCA, FERDINAND
Summary: Brief career overview of film director Ferdinand Zecca.

Call No: 62 BUR
Author: Burch, Noe¨l; Brewster, Ben
Source: US
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: THEORY; BURCH, NOEL; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIOGRAPH; LUMIERE, LOUIS; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DREYER, CARL TH.; DOCUMENTARIES; DICKSON, W. K. L.; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GANCE, ABEL; GORKY, MAXIM; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE; HEPWORTH, CECIL; PATHE; PORTER, EDWIN S.; VITAGRAPH; ZECCA, FERDINAND
Summary: "Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being; and the assumption that this language was a unversal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or historical meaning in itself. His major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed - in the capitalist and imperialist west between 1892 and 1929. The book examines the chronology of the emergence of what it defines as cinema's Institutional Mode of Representation and the socio-historical circumstances in which this took place. It examines the principles of visualisation - camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene - that film-makers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special emphasis is laid on the all-important change that occurred in the imaginary placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image, implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909), to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject, completed only with the generalisation of lip-synch sound after 1929. It is the contention of this book that this imaginary centering of a sensorily isolated spectator is the keystone of the cinematic illustion of reality, still achieved today by the same means as it was sixty years ago." - taken from back cover
Notes: Revised versions of papers written 1976-1981, some of which have appeared in English and French magazines -- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index -- Filmography: p. 284-305.
ISBN: 0520071441
Contents: Introduction -- Charles Baudelaire versus Doctor Frankenstein -- Life to Those Shadows -- The Wrong Side of the Tracks -- Those Gentlemen of the Lantern and the Parade -- Business is Business: An Invisible Audience -- Passions and Chases-A Certain Linearisation -- Building a Haptic Space -- A Primitive Mode of Representation? -- The Motionless Voyage: Constitution of The Ubiquitous Subject -- Beyond the Peephole, the Logos -- Narrative, Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE (FR/BE, Emmanuel Bourdieu, 2016)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: NATE AND HAYES (NZ/US, Ferdinand Fairfax, 1983); SAVAGE ISLANDS (NZ/US, Ferdinand Fairfax, 1983)

Call No: 71(430.1) COR
Author: Corrigan, Timothy, 1951
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: xiv, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: GERMANY; BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972); STARKE FERDINAND, DER (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1976); JEDER FUR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE (GW, Werner Herzog, 1974); FANGSCHUSS, DER (GW/FR, Volker Schlondorff, 1976); IM LAUF DER ZEIT (GW, Wim Wenders, 1976)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [203]-210; Filmography: p. [197]-201
ISBN: 0292710860; 0292710879 (pbk.)
LON: 2807733 2807733

Author: Wansbone, Ernie
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND; SAVAGE ISLANDS (NZ, Ferdinand Fairfax, 1983); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); EVIL UNDER THE SUN (UK?, Guy Hamilton, 1982)
Summary: Film news from New Zealand.

Call No: 62(04) POL
Place: Cambridge [England]
Publisher: Polity Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; STAR SYSTEM; COMMERCIALS, TV; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; SOAP OPERAS; MONROE, MARILYN; BARTHES, ROLAND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; Baudrillard, Jean; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973)
Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.)
LON: bnb74561207; 10481206

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Press kit; Clippings
Subject: RESCUE, THE (US, Ferdinand Fairfax, 1988)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Stills; Synopsis
Subject: STARKE FERDINAND, DER (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1976)

Call No: 451-02 WOO
Author: Wood, Helen
Place: Urbana
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: xi, 238 p . ; 24 cm
Series: Feminist studies and media culture
Subject: FEMINISM AND TV; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; TALK SHOWS; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; MONTGOMERY, MARIAN; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1986- )
Summary: Focusing on the political and everyday nature of talk, Talking with Television explores the relationship between talk on TV, talk about TV, and, most dynamically, talk with TV. By observing and analyzing the daily viewing habits of a dozen women viewers, Helen Wood captures how television dynamically unfolds alongside the viewers' own personal opinions, experiences, and life stories. She interprets these experiences as daily rituals of self-reflexivity, focusing on the performance of gender as a doubling of place in contemporary conditions of modernity. Offering a critical analysis of the ritual communication of talk television, Wood argues for a more sustained focus on the mechanics of mediated interaction in media studies, particularly as the field attempts to theorize the characterisitcs of 'old' and 'new' media. Directly challenging the fundamental assumption that new media forms are uniquely interactive, Talking with television reveals that televisual styles, particularly talk-based TV, have always sought to encourage a participatory relationship with viewers at home. -- BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index
ISBN: 97802520763022
Contents: Talk is not so cheap -- Making talk talk in media studies -- Daytime talking -- Method : texts-in-action -- Talking about daytime talk -- Talking back : the mediated conversational floor -- Texts, subjects, and modern self-reflexivity -- Conclusions : media, mechanics, and the politics of self-reflexivity