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Attack of the leading ladies : gender, sexuality, and spectatorship in classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Call No: 735.2 BERAuthor: Berenstein, Rhona J Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Film and cultureSubject: SPECTATORSHIP ; HORROR FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; GAZE IN FILMS Summary: "From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes straining and mouth open wide as she emitted an ear-piercing scream, the damsel in distress awaited rescue from the monster's horrible attentions. Or so it semmed.
The first book to explore the gender dynamics of classic horror film, 'Attack of the leading ladies' addresses the roles of women both on- and off-screen. Combining close textual analysis with the study of advertising campaigns, reviews, fan magazines and censorship materials, Rhona J. Berenstein presents an in-depth look at such films as 'Bride of Frankenstein', 'Dr. X', 'Dracula', 'King Kong', 'Mad Love', 'Svengali', and 'White Zombie'."-- BOOK COVERNotes: Filmography: p. [237]-246; Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and indexISBN: 0231084633 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0231084625 (cloth : alk. paper)LON: 11723761Contents: Introduction: horror of classic horrors -- Spectatorship-as-drag: re-dressing classic horror cinema -- Horror for sale: the marketing and reception of classic horror cinema -- Looks could kill: the powers of the gaze in hypnosis films -- The interpretation of screams: female fear, homosocial desire, and mad-doctor movies -- White skin, white masks: Race, gender, and monstrosity in jungle-horror cinema
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The best American movie writing 1999 / edited by Peter Bogdanovich New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
Call No: 67(04) BESPlace: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin'sPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 280 p.Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; BOORMAN, JOHN ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; SINATRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; THOMPSON, KAY ; OZU YASUJIRO ; MANGOLD, JAMES ; RISKIN, ROBERT ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; MCCAREY, LEO ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDAL, GORE ; DOVE, BILLIE ; GRANT, CARY ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) ; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998) ; RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998) ; STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) ISBN: 0312244832ID2: 291
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Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000.
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Cinema of obsession : erotic fixation and love gone wrong in the movies / written by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini New York: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Call No: 747.6 MAIAuthor: Mainon, Dominique ; Ursini, James Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Limelight EditionsPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xv, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GAZE IN FILMS ; LOVE IN FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; ROMANTIC FILMS Summary: "Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, The Killers, Wild at Heart, Last Tango in Paris, Vertigo - the names alone evoke dark images of peverse passion and erotic fixation, heartbreak, deception, and love gone terribly wrong. In Cinema of Obsession, noted film scribes Dominique Mainon and James Ursini tackle stories of love and its many dark permutations - the male domination of Phantom of the Opera and The Collector, the star-crossed love stories of Romeo and Juliet and Bonnie and Clyde, the violent female obsession of Mulholland Drive and Fatal Attraction - all of these and dozens more are discussed in depth, analyzed, and dissected. In addition to plot description, character analysis, and commentary, Mainon and Ursini offer psychological profiles of cinema's most infamous and tortured characters. No stone is left unturned in this, the first-ever comprehensive guide to the twisted side of romantic cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes filmography: p. 367-387; Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-389) and indexISBN: 9780879103477Contents: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inverted Desire and Obsessive Love -- 1. Obsessive Love in the Cinema: The Seminal Films -- 2. Amour Fou: Postwar Sexual/Romantic Implosion -- 3. Love on the Run: The Fugitive Couple -- 4. A Voyeur's Tale: The Male Gaze -- 5. The Tables Turned: The Female Gaze -- Appendix: The Literary, Philosophical, and Psychological Roots of Obsession and Mad Love -- Filmography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of titles --
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Femmes fatales : feminism, film theory, psychoanalysis / Mary Ann Doane New York: Routledge, 1991.
Call No: 626:396 DOAAuthor: Doane, Mary Ann Place: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1991PhysDes: viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; STAR SYSTEM ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929) ; ADYNATA : MURDER IS NOT A STORY (US, Leslie Thornton, 1983) ; SIGNORA DI TUTTI, LA (IT, Max Ophuls, 1934) Summary: In this major new work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference and knowledge in cinematic, theoretical, and psychoanalytic discourses. Femmes Fatales examines Freud, the female spectator, the meaning of the close-up, and the nature of stardom. Duane's analyses of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda trace the thematics and mechanics of maskes, masquerade, and veiling, with specific attention to the form and technology of the cinema. Working through and against the intellectual frameworks of post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, Doane interrogates cinematic and theoretical claims to truth about women which rely on judgements about vision and its stability or instability. Reflecting the shift in conceptual priorities within feminist film theory over the last decade, Femmes Fatales addresses debates over female spectatorhsip, essentialism and anti-essentialism, the tensions between psychoanalysis and history, and the relations between racial and sexual difference. Doane's nuanced and original readings of the femme fatale in cinema demonstrates that confrontations between feminism, film theory and psychoanalysis can be productively destabilizing for each discipline. -- PUBLISHERNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-300) and indexISBN: 041590319X; 0415903203 (pbk.)LON: 91003659; 8050789
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It looks at you : the returned gaze of cinema / Wheeler Winston Dixon Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Call No: 632.53 DIXAuthor: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950 Place: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: SUNY series in postmodern cultureSubject: GAZE IN FILMS ; UTOPIA IN FILMS ; INTERACTIVE CINEMA ; WARHOL, ANDY ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE ; VINYL (US, Andy Warhol, 1965?) Summary: This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the "returned gaze" from the screen in which the audience is actually surveilled by the film being projected on the screen. Rather than the usual process of watching a film, in those films which return the gaze of the viewer, the film looks at us, confronting our voyeur's embrace of the spectacle it presents. The book cites examples as diverse as Andy Warhol's Vinyl, Laurel and Hardy two-reel comedies, the films of Jean-Marie Straub, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, and Wesley E. Barry's Creation of The Humanoids. It also discusses the history of the returned gaze in video, pornography, surveillance systems, and the related plastic artsNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and indexISBN: 0791423409 (pbk.); 0791423395LON: 10868713
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The mystical gaze of the cinema : the films of Peter Weir / by Richard Leonard Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2009.
Call No: 81WEI LEOAuthor: Leonard, Richard Source: ATPlace: Carlton, VictoriaPublisher: Melbourne University PressPubDate: 2009PhysDes: ix, 300 p. ; 29 cmSeries: MUP academic monographsSubject: AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM ; THEORY ; GAZE IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; RELIGION IN FILMS ; WEIR, PETER ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; WITNESS (US, Peter Weir, 1985) Summary: "The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema is a meticulous and accessible book that uses a psychoanalytic approach incorporating the insights of Jung, film theory and theology to break new ground in what continues to be a hot topic in cinema studies: the spectator-screen relationship. Leonard provides a fresh, innovative and provocative perspective on what happens when we behold a film." -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes index; Derived from author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2003; Bibliography: p. 261-292; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.mup.edu.auISBN: 9780522856620Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- 1 the mystical gaze -- 2 the unseen gaze -- 3 defining the codes within the mystical gaze -- 4 an apprehension of mysticism: Peter Weir -- 5 Picnic at Hanging Rock -- 6 Gallipoli -- 7 Witness -- conclusions -- notes -- filmography -- bibliography -- index --
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New vocabularies in film semiotics : structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond / Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis London New York: Routledge, 1992.
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On Michael Haneke / edited by Brian Price and John David Rhodes Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2010.
Call No: 81HAN MICAuthor: Price, Brian (ed.) ; Rhodes, John David (ed.) Source: USPlace: DetroitPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: vii, 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and television seriesSubject: GAZE IN FILMS ; THEORY ; HANEKE, MICHAEL ; CACHE (FR/AU/GG/IT, Michael Haneke, 2005) ; HIDDEN (FR/AU/GG/IT, Michael Haneke, 2005)
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PIANISTE, LA ; PIANISTE, LA (AU/FR, Michael Haneke, 2001) Summary: "Michael Haneke is one of the most important film directors working today. This collection offers a full spectrum of responses to his work, ranging from detailed formal analyses of his films to broad considerations of the philosophical and political issues that these films raise. On Michael Haneke is indispensable, both as a guide to the filmmaker's artistry and as a commentary on the malaise in Western civilization that his films reveal" -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayn State University -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780814334058Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction / Brian Price and John David Rhodes -- Violence and Play. Games Haneke Plays: Reality and Performance / Brigitte Peucker -- Pain and the Limits of Representation / Brian Price -- Haneke's "Funny" Games with the Audience (Revisited) / Tarja Laine -- Haneke's Stable: The Death of an Animal and the Figuration of the Human / Michael Lawrence -- Style and Medium. The Spectacle of Skepticism: Haneke's Long Takes / John David Rhodes -- "Comment ca, rien?": Screening the Gaze in Cache / Hugh S. Manon -- The Key to Voyeurism: Haneke's Adaptation of Jelinek's The Piano Teacher / Fatima Naqvi and Christophe Kone -- The Message and the Medium: Haneke's Film Theory and Digital Praxis / Mattias Frey -- Death, with Television / Meghan Sutherland -- Haneke's Early Work for Television / Bert Rebhandl -- Culture and Conflict. Haneke and the Discontents of European Culture / Christopher Sharrett -- The Functionary of Mankind: Haneke and Europe / Rosalind Galt -- Codes Unknown: Haneke's Serial Realism / Scott Durham -- When Forgetting is Remembering: Haneke's Cache and the Events of October 17, 1961 / Patrick Crowley -- contributors -- index --
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Re-vision : essays in feminist film criticism / edited by Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, and Linda Williams Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.
Call No: 626:396 REVCopy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2Author: Doane, Mary Ann ; Mellencamp, Patricia ; Williams, Linda, 1946 Place: Frederick, MDPublisher: University Publications of AmericaPubDate: 1984PhysDes: xi, 169 p. ; 24 cmSeries: American Film Institute monograph series ; v. 3Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; GAZE IN FILMS ; MADCHEN OHNE GRENZEN (DK, Geza Radvanyi, 1958) ; BAD TIMING (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1980) Notes: Includes bibliographiesISBN: 0890935858; 0890935866 (pbk.)LON: 83023366; 2976768Contents: Feminist film criticism: an introduction -- Developments in feminist film criticism -- The woman at the keyhole: women's cinema and feminist criticism -- The 'woman's film': possession and address -- When the woman looks -- From repressive tolerance to erotic liberation: 'Madchen in uniform' -- Dis-embodying the female voice -- Now and nowhere: Roeg's 'Bad timing'
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Representing reality : issues and concepts in documentary / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Call No: 761NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BODY IN FILMS ; COMMENTARY ; DEATH IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIEWERS Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 91002637; 8905992Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude
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Technologies of gender : essays on theory, film, and fiction / by Teresa de Lauretis Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Call No: 626:396 DELAuthor: De Lauretis, Teresa Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1987PhysDes: xi, 151 p. ; 25 cmSeries: Theories of representation and differenceSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GAZE IN FILMS ; SEMIOLOGY ; THEORY ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0253358531; 0253204410 (pbk.)LON: 86046317; 5123996Contents: The technology of gender -- The violence of rhetoric: considerations on representation and gender -- Gaudy rose: Eco and narcissism -- Calvino and the Amazons: reading the (post)modern text -- Gramsci notwithstanding, or, the left hand of history -- Fellini's 9 1/2 -- Strategies of coherence: narrative cinema, feminist poetics, and Yvonne Rainer -- Rethinking women's cinem: aesthetics and feminist theory
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The woman at the keyhole : feminism and women's cinema / Judith Mayne Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Call No: 626:396 MAYAuthor: Mayne, Judith Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1990PhysDes: x, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Theories of representation and differenceSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GAZE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS Summary: This book examines how contemporary women filmmakers working in North America, Europe, and Australia have attempted to reinvent cinema as a narrative and visual form. It analyzes 'women's films' within the context of film histories, genres, theories and feminist thinking through study of the techniques, themes and images of both mainstream and avant-garde filmmaking.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-253) and indexISBN: 0253337194 (alk. paper); 0253206065 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 90034125; 7165246Contents: I. Spectacle and narrative -- Spectacle, narrative and screen -- Screen tests -- II. Female authorship -- Female authorship reconsidered -- Mistresses of discrepancy -- III. Early cinema and women's films -- "Primitive narration" -- Revising the "primative"
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