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Call No: 451-01 BIN
Author: Bingham, Dennis, 1954
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WESTERNS; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; Stewart, James; NICHOLSON, JACK; EASTWOOD, CLINT; LAST DETAIL, THE (US, Hal Ashby, 1973); BEGUILED, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1971); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971); HARVEY (US, Henry Koster, 1950); HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (US, Clint Eastwood, 1973); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); TIGHTROPE (US, Richard Tuggle, 1984); UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992); WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (US, Clint Eastwood, 1990)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index
ISBN: 0813520738; 0813520746 (pbk.)
LON: 10548892

Call No: 730.3 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow.
Notes: Includes note and index.
ISBN: 0 415 23507 3
Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film.

Call No: 735.2 BER
Author: Berenstein, Rhona J
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Film and culture
Subject: 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 COVER
Notes: Filmography: p. [237]-246; Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index
ISBN: 0231084633 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0231084625 (cloth : alk. paper)
LON: 11723761
Contents: 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

Call No: 71(94) MCF
Author: McFarlane, Brian, 1934
Place: London
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Australian cinema films,. 1970-1985 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Bibliography: p. 226
ISBN: 0436270234 (cased) : ¦12.95; 0436270226 (pbk) : ¦7.95
LON: bnb43627023; 4517972

Call No: 409 GIR
Author: Giroux, Henry A.
Source: US
Place: Malden
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 297 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WERTMULLER, LINA; CLARK, LARRY; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); DANGEROUS MINDS (US, John N. Smith, 1995); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); ONE EIGHT SEVEN (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1997); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999)
ISBN: 0631226044
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 71(51) CAT
Author: Wong Ain-ling (ed)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 414p ; 26 cm
Subject: CHINA IN FILMS; CHINA; HONG KONG; TAIWAN; GENRES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; SINGAPORE; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; SHAW BROTHERS
Summary: The productions of Cathay / MP & GI have themselves become a myth of Hong Kong cinema. What accounts for its radiance and elegance? And why was the audience broken-hearted to see its decline? The Cathay Story may offer a little clue.... 400 pages thick with 16 colour pages.
ISBN: 9628050168
Language: Chinese and English

Call No: 62 BRA
Author: Branston, Gill
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Open University Press
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: p. cm
Series: Issues in cultural and media studies
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991)
Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB)
LON: 21519736

Call No: 71(73) CON
Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: USA; HOLLYWOOD; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; SPECTATORSHIP; MEN IN FILMS. USA; MELODRAMA; MUSIC, FILM; SOUND TRACKS; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLOCKBUSTERS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; ACTION FILMS; AUDIENCES; MIRAMAX FILMS; NEW LINE CINEMA; TIME WARNER; VERHOEVEN, PAUL; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; HAMILTON, LINDA; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; ELFMAN, DANNY; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and index
ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.)
LON: 98005952; 13736490

Call No: 71(46) JOR
Author: Jordan, Barry, 1950; Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SPAIN; COMEDIES. SPAIN; THRILLERS. SPAIN; FANTASTIC FILMS. SPAIN; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. SPAIN; HORROR FILMS. SPAIN; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. SPAIN; SPAIN: CATALONIA; SPAIN: BASQUE COUNTRY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. SPAIN; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; BIGAS LUNA; GARCI, JOSE LUIS; MEDEM, JULIO; MIRO, PILAR; SAURA, CARLOS; TRUEBA, FERNANDO; COLMENA, LA (SP, Mario Camus, 1982); NADIE HABLARA DE NOSOTRAS CUANDO HAYAMOS MUERTO (SP, Agustin Diaz Yanes, 1995)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 071904412X (hbk.); 0719044138 (pbk.)
LON: abn98241412; 14031781

Call No: 626:396 GRE
Author: Green, Philip, 1932
Place: Amherst
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; FILM NOIR. USA; CREED, BARBARA; MULVEY, LAURA; STONE, SHARON; ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); FURNESS, DEBORRA-LEE; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946); IMPULSE (US, Sandra Locke, 1990); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); MS. 45 (US, Abel Ferrara, 1981); NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); RIVER WILD, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1994); SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); SHAME [TV] (US, 1992); SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); VANISHING, THE (US, George Sluizer, 1993); SPOORLOOS (NE/FR, George Sluizer, 1988)
Summary: Distinguishing his own neo-Marxist approach from that of other media scholars, Philip Green pursues two interrelated themes. In the first part of the book, he looks at the strategies Hollywood has employed to deflect or absorb the ideological challenges posed by the feminist critique of contemporary American society. He demonstrates the ways in which mainstream movies and television programs, no matter how unconventional or "subversive" they may appear, produce and reproduce familiar images of sexuality and gender identity. In the second part, Green highlights instances in which reproduction of the dominant ideology is less successful by examining several recent cinematic genres - the female action movie, the rape-revenge cycle, and the new film noir - that portray the real ambiguities of a social order in upheaval; As a male consumer of the cultural commodities being discussed, the author offers a perspective on American films and television different from that of most other feminist critics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-248) and index
ISBN: 1558491198 (cloth : alk. paper); 1558491201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 13262384
ID2: 290

Call No: 626 [159.964.2] ROD
Author: Rodowick, David Norman
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xii, 162 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Series: Routledge library editions. Cinema ; 26
Subject: THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "The Difficulty of Difference argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, D. N. Rodowick maintains that early film theorists and recent feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud's thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud's writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators." - taken from back cover
Notes: Formerly CIP -- Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0415903327
Contents: Note on Abbreviations – Preface -- Chapter 1 The Difficulty of Difference -- Chapter 2 The Return of the Exile -- Chapter 3 Reading Freud ... Differently -- Chapter 4 Metamorphoses -- Chapter 5 The Difference of Reading -- Chapter 6 Analysis Interminable – Notes -- Index

Call No: 408.3(44) DUR
Author: Durham, Carolyn A
Place: Hanover, NH
Publisher: Dartmouth University Press of New England
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Contemporary French culture and society
Subject: BIRDCAGE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1996); CAGE AUX FOLLES, LA (IT/FR, Edouard Molinaro, 1978); HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; REMAKES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.FRANCE; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); BREATHLESS (US, Jim McBride, 1983); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); COUSINS (US, Joel Schumacher, 1989); COUSIN, COUSINE (FR, Jean-Charles Tacchella, 1975); MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1983); HOMME QUI AMAIT LES FEMMES, L' (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1977); I WANT TO GO HOME (FR, Alain Resnais, 1989)
Notes: Filmography: p. 231-235; Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index
LON: 13921589

Call No: 735.2 DRE
Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xv, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Texas film studies series
Subject: HORROR FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SLASHER FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; ARGENTO, DARIO; CRONENBERG, DAVID; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); ALIEN 3 (US, David Fincher, 1992); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, Tom Savini, 1990); CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976); CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942); CAT PEOPLE (US, Paul Schrader, 1982); BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); STEPFATHER, THE (US, Joseph Ruben, 1986); LEVRES ROUGES, LES (BE/FR/GW, Harry Kumel, 1971); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-438) and index
ISBN: 0292727941 (pbk : alk. paper); 0292727933 (hc : alk. paper)
LON: 12195767

Call No: 71(48) IMR
Place: New York; London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xxvi, 259 p. ; 23 cm
Series: AFI film readers
Subject: EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA
Summary: Eastern Europe has produced rich and varied film cultures--Czech, Hungarian, and Serbian among them--whose histories have been intimately tied to the transition from Soviet domination to the complexities of post-Communist life. This latest volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents a long-overdue reassessment of East European cinemas from theoretical, psychoanalytic, and gender perspectives, moving the subject beyond the traditional "area studies" approach to the region's films. This ambitious collection, situating Eastern Europe's many cinemas within global paradigms of film study, will be an essential work for all students of cinema and for anyone interested in the relation of film to culture and society. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 041597268X

Call No: 735.1 SPR
Author: Springer, Claudia
Source: US
Place: Austin, TX
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: c1996
PhysDes: x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS IN FILMS; COMPUTERS AND TV; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND TELEVISION; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ROBOTS IN FILMS; ROBOTS ON TV; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND TV; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY ON TV; VIRTUAL REALITY; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); EVE OF DESTRUCTION (US, Duncan Gibbins, 1991); LAWNMOWER MAN, THE (US, Brett Leonard, 1992); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984)
Summary: "The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfilment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0292776977
Donation: M.S. Counihan

Call No: 735 FAN
Author: Donald, James
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FANTASTIC FILMS; FETISHISM IN FILMS; GERMANY. 1895-1930; SLASHER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; BARTHES, ROLAND; SVANKMAJER, JAN; CONDIT, CECELIA; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; BORDWELL, DAVID; DURAS, MARGUERITE; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BENEATH THE SKIN (US, Cecelia Condit, 1981); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984); TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974); VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and indexes
ISBN: 0851702287; 0851702295 (pbk.)
LON: 6190057

Call No: 79FAS DEF
Author: DeFino, Dean J.
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: copyright 2014
PhysDes: 106 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm
Series: Cultographies
Subject: CULT FILMS; CRITICISM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; MEYER, RUSS; FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (US, Russ Meyer, 1966)
Summary: "Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was a box-office failure on its release in 1965. It has since been embraced by art-house audiences and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story cliche´s lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies, the film has the coherence of a dream and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. This book considers the production and critical reception of the film, its place within the culture of the 1960s, its representations of gender and sexuality, and the specific ways it meets cult film criteria." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780231167390
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Russ Meyer and Me -- 1 The Pussycats Gear Up -- 2 The Pussycats Find Their Audience -- 3 Seeing America First -- 4 Pussycats and Satyrs -- 5 A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 626:396 MOD
Author: Modleski, Tania, 1949
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xi, 188 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; WOMEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS
Summary: Feminism Without Women examines the operation of "postfeminism" in popular culture, especially popular film, and in cultural studies. By scrutinizing a variety of feminist and poststructuralist theoretical positions and freqently juxtaposing her discussions with analyses of contemporary movies (ranging from Pee-wee's Big Adventure to Lethal Weapon and Three Men and a Baby ), Modleski offers a broad perspective on the future of feminism. In particular, she shows how women as social subjects are once again being relegated to the margins of discourse and society, only now, ironically, they are in danger of being marginalized by feminism itself . Feminism Without Women is a multifaceted response to the shift within feminist theory from "gynocritics" (a woman-centred critical practice) to an increasingly male-oriented "gender studies". This move has been accompanied by feminist/philosophical attempts to abolish the very category of "woman". A large portion of the book is devoted to analyzing the state of "male feminism" and argues that the "new masculinities" being heralded by some feminists are less revolutionary than is often claimed; that these kinder , gentler masculinit are in many ways perfectly consonant with the conservative times. Modleski situates her discussions of criticism and theory in the context of popular culture, and social issues relevant to feminism: surrogate mothering, women and war, the debates over pornography, gay representation in the era of AIDS, the controversy within feminism over lesbian S&M, and the intensification of racism in the 1980s and 1990s. -- PUBLISHER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-182) and index
ISBN: 0415904161 : $39.95; 041590417X (pbk) : $13.95
LON: bnb41590416; 7924353
Contents: Part I: Theory and methodology -- 1. Postmortem on postfeminism -- 2. Femininity as mas(s)querade -- 3. Some functions of feminist criticism; or, the scandal of the mute body -- Part II: Masculinity and male feminism -- 4. A father is being beaten: male feminism and the war films -- 5. Three men and baby m -- 6. The incredible shrinking he(r)man: male regression, the male body, and film -- Part III: Race, gender, and sexuality -- 7. Cinema and the dark continent: race and gender in popular film -- 8. Lethal bodies: thoughts on sex, gender, and representation from the mainstream to the margins
ID2: 31

Author: Wollen, Peter
PhysDes: Article
Subject: SYMBOLIC ORDER; PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE; SEMIOTICS; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980); PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977)
Summary: A lengthy essay/article by Peter Wollen on semiotics and its relationship to a dominant patriarchal symbolic order within film. He explores the problematic of filmmakers attempting to counter patriarchal discourse. Wollen notes that one cinematic path is to avoid verbal language altogether and instead focus on icons, indices, images, and traces. However, Wollen rejects this option as ineffective as he places both verbal and visual language as crucial to the composition of films, in terms of both signifier and signified. Wollen also comments that in his counter-language projects with Laura Mulvey ("Amy!", "Penthesilea", and "Riddles of the Sphinx"), films where women's voices predominate in various modes, a fractured body of language has resulted

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: MacKenzie, Scott (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Berkeley London
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xxi, 651 p. ; 26 cm
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CONSTRUCTIVISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; WORLD CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; AESTHETICS; HOLLYWOOD; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM
Summary: Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture. -- extract taken from the back of the book
Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISSN: 9780520276741
Contents: Introduction. “An Invention without a Future” -- 1. The Avant-Garde(s) -- The Futurist Cinema (Italy, 1916) F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. -- Lenin Decree (USSR, 1919) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The ABCs of Cinema (France, 1917–1921) Blaise Cendrars -- WE: Variant of a Manifesto (USSR, 1922) Dziga Vertov -- The Method of Making Workers’ Films (USSR, 1925) Sergei Eisenstein -- Constructivism in the Cinema (USSR, 1928) Alexei Gan -- Preface: Un chien Andalou (France, 1928) Luis Buñuel -- Manifesto of the Surrealists Concerning L’Age d’or (France, 193) The Surrealist Group -- Manifesto on “Que Viva Mexico” (USA, 1933) The Editors of Experimental Film -- Spirit of Truth (France, 1933) Le Corbusier -- An Open Letter to the Film Industry and to All Who Are Interested in the Evolution of the Good Film (Hungary, 1934) László Moholy-Nagy -- Light*Form*Movement*Sound (USA, 1935) Mary Ellen Bute -- Prolegomena for All Future Cinema (France, 1952) Guy Debord -- No More Flat Feet! (France, 1952) Lettriste International -- The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952) Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gabriel Pomerand -- The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953) Jim Davis -- A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961) Maya Deren -- The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961) New American Cinema Group -- Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962) Ron Rice -- From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963) Stan Brakhage -- Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964) George Kuchar -- Film Andepandan [Independents] Manifesto (Japan, 1964) Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. -- Discontinuous Films (Canada, 1967) Keewatin Dewdney -- Hand-Made Films Manifesto (Australia, 1968) Ubu Films, Thoms -- Cinema Manifesto (Australia, 1971) Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill -- For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses (USA, 1971) Hollis Frampton -- Elements of the Void (Greece, 1972) Gregory Markopoulos -- Small Gauge Manifesto (USA, 1980) JoAnn Elam and Chuck Kleinhans -- Cinema of Transgression Manifesto (USA, 1985) Nick Zedd -- Modern, All Too Modern (USA, 1988) Keith Sanborn -- Open Letter to the Experimental Film Congress: Let’s Set the Record Straight (Canada, 1989) Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. -- Anti-1 Years of Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1996) Jonas Mekas -- The Decalogue (Czech Republic, 1999) Jan Švankmajer -- Your Film Farm Manifesto on Process Cinema (Canada, 212) Philip Hoffman -- 2. National and Transnational Cinemas -- From “The Glass Eye” (Italy, 1933) Leo Longanesi -- The Archers’ Manifesto (UK, 1942) Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- What Is Wrong with Indian Films? (India, 1948) Satyajit Ray -- Buñuel the Poet (Mexico, 1951) Octavio Paz -- French Cinema Is Over (France, 1952) Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. -- Some Ideas on the Cinema (Italy, 1953) Cesare Zavattini -- A Certain Tendency in French Cinema (France, 1954) François Truffaut -- Salamanca Manifesto & Conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca (Spain, 1955) Juan Antonio Bardem -- Free Cinema Manifestos (UK, 1956–1959) Committee for Free Cinema -- The Oberhausen Manifesto (West Germany, 1962) Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. -- Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] (West Germany, 1965) Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. -- The Mannheim Declaration (West Germany, 1967) Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. -- Sitges Manifesto (Spain, 1967) Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jordà, and Julián Marcos -- How to Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Guy Glover -- How to Not Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Claude Jutra -- From “The Estates General of the French Cinema, May 1968” (France, 1968) Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement (India, 1968) Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen -- What Is to Be Done? (France, 1970) Jean-Luc Godard -- The Winnipeg Manifesto (Canada, 1974) Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. -- Hamburg Declaration of German Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. -- Manifesto I (Denmark, 1984) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto II (Denmark, 1987) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto III: I Confess! (Denmark, 199) Lars von Trier -- The Cinema We Need (Canada, 1985) R. Bruce Elder -- Pathways to the Establishment of a Nigerian Film Industry (Nigeria, 1985) Ola Balogun -- Manifesto of 1988 (German Democratic Republic, 1988) Young DEFA Filmmakers -- In Praise of a Poor Cinema (Scotland, 1993) Colin McArthur -- Dogme ’95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity (Denmark, 1995) Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg -- I Sinema Manifesto (Indonesia, 1999) Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. -- 3. Third Cinemas, Colonialism, Decolonization, and Postcolonialism -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Group (Mexico, 1961) El grupo nuevo cine -- Cinema and Underdevelopment (Argentina, 1962) Fernando Birri -- The Aesthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965) Glauber Rocha -- For an Imperfect Cinema (Cuba, 1969) -- Julio García Espinosa Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World (Argentina, 1969) Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino -- Film Makers and the Popular Government Political Manifesto (Chile, 1970) Comité de cine de la unidad popular -- Consciousness of a Need (Uruguay, 1970) Mario Handler -- Militant Cinema: An Internal Category of Third Cinema (Argentina, 1971) Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas -- For Colombia 1971: Militancy and Cinema (Colombia, 1971) Carlos Alvarez -- The Cinema: Another Face of Colonised Québec (Canada, 1971) Association professionnelle des cinéastes du Québec -- 8 Millimeters versus 8 Millions (Mexico, 1972) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. -- Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group (Palestine, 1973) Palestinian Cinema Group -- Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting (Algeria, 1973) Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembene, Jorge Silva, et al. -- The Luz e Ação Manifesto (Brazil, 1973) Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. -- Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema (Bolivia, 1976) Jorge Sanjinés -- Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers (Mexico, 1975) Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. -- The Algiers Charter on African Cinema (Algeria, 1975) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Declaration of Principles and Goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema (Nicaragua, 1979) Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema -- What Is the Cinema for Us? (Mauritania, 1979) Med Hondo -- Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers (Niger, 1982) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective (UK, 1983) John Akomfrah -- From Birth Certificate of the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, Nicknamed the School of Three Worlds (Cuba, 1986) Fernando Birri -- FeCAViP Manifesto (France, 1990) Federation of Caribbean Audiovisual Professionals -- Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop (Zimbabwe, 1990) SADCC (South African Development Coordination Conference) -- Pocha Manifesto #1 (USA, 1994) Sandra Peña-Sarmiento -- Poor Cinema Manifesto (Cuba, 24) Humberto Solás -- Jollywood Manifesto (Haiti, 28) Ciné Institute -- The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation (Canada, 29) John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. -- 4. Gender, Feminist, Queer, Sexuality, and Porn Manifestos -- Woman’s Place in Photoplay Production (USA, 1914) Alice Guy-Blaché -- Hands Off Love (France, 1927) Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. -- The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez (USA, 1962) Jack Smith -- On Film No. 4 (In Taking the Bottoms of 365 Saints of Our Time) (UK, 1967) Yoko Ono -- Statement (USA, 1969) Kenneth Anger -- Wet Dream Film Festival Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1970) S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) -- Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (UK, 1973) Claire Johnston -- Manifesto for a Non-sexist Cinema (Canada, 1974) FECIP (Fédération européenne du cinéma progressiste) -- Womanifesto (USA, 1975) Feminists in the Media -- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (UK, 1975) Laura Mulvey -- An Egret in the Porno Swamp: Notes of Sex in the Cinema (Sweden, 1977) Vilgot Sjöman -- For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman (France, 1978) Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef -- Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen -- Wimmin’s Fire Brigade Communiqué (Canada, 1982) Wimmin’s Fire Brigade -- Thoughts on Women’s Cinema: Eating Words, Voicing Struggles (USA, 1986) Yvonne Rainer -- The Post Porn Modernist Manifesto (USA, 1989) Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. -- Statement of African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video (Burkina Faso, 1991) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Puzzy Power Manifesto: Thoughts on Women and Pornography (Denmark, 1998) Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Børglum, et al. -- Cinema with Tits (Spain, 1998) Icíar Bollaín -- My Porn Manifesto (France, 22) Ovidie -- No More Mr. Nice Gay: A Manifesto (USA, 29) Todd Verow -- Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto (UK, 29) Sally Potter -- Dirty Diaries Manifesto (Sweden, 29) Mia Engberg -- 5. Militating Hollywood -- Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) (USA, 193) Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America -- Red Films: Soviets Spreading Doctrine in U.S. Theatres (USA, 1935) William Randolph Hearst -- Statement of Principles (USA, 1944) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals -- Screen Guide for Americans (USA, 1947) Ayn Rand -- White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art (USA, 1962) Manny Farber -- Super Fly: A Summary of Objections by the Kuumba Workshop (USA, 1972) Kuumba Workshop -- The World Is Changing: Some Thoughts on Our Business (USA, 1991) Jeffrey Katzenberg -- Full Frontal Manifesto (USA, 21) Steven Soderbergh -- 6. The Creative Treatment of Actuality-- Towards a Social Cinema (France, 1930) Jean Vigo -- From “First Principles of Documentary” (UK, 1932) John Grierson -- Manifesto on the Documentary Film (UK, 1933) Oswell Blakeston -- Declaration of the Group of Thirty (France, 1953) Jean Painlevé, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. -- Initial Statement of the Newsreel (USA, 1967) New York Newsreel -- Nowsreel, or the Potentialities of a Political Cinema (USA, 1970) Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel -- Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case (Poland, 1971) Bohdan Kosinski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Tomasz Zygadlo -- The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagata YIDFF Manifesto (Japan, 1989) Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. -- Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema (Germany, 1999) Werner Herzog -- Defocus Manifesto (Denmark, 2) Lars von Trier -- Kill the Documentary as We Know It (USA, 22) Jill Godmilow -- Ethnographic Cinema (EC): A Manifesto{ths}/{ths}A Provocation (USA, 23) Jay Ruby -- Reality Cinema Manifesto (Russia, 25) Vitaly Manskiy -- Documentary Manifesto (USA, 28) Albert Maysles -- China Independent Film Festival Manifesto: Shamans * Animals (People’s Republic of China, 211) By several documentary filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival -- 7. States, Dictatorships, the Comintern, and Theocracies -- Capture the Film! Hints on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda (USA, 1925) Willi Münzenberg -- The Legion of Decency Pledge (USA, 1938) Archbishop John McNicholas -- Creative Film (Germany, 1935) Joseph Goebbels -- Vigilanti Cura: On Motion Pictures (Vatican City, 1936) Pope Pius XI -- Four Cardinal Points of A Revolução de Maio (Portugal, 1937) António Lopes Ribeiro -- From On the Art of Cinema (North Korea, 1973) Kim Jong-il -- 8. Archives, Museums, Festivals, and Cinematheques -- A New Source of History: The Creation of a Depository for Historical Cinematography (Poland/France, 1898) Boleslaw Matuszewski -- The Film Prayer (USA, c. 192) A. P. Hollis -- The Film Society (UK, 1925) Iris Barry -- Filmliga Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1927) Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, Men’no Ter Bbaak, et al. -- Statement of Purposes (USA, 1948) Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 -- The Importance of Film Archives (UK, 1948) Ernest Lindgren -- A Plea for a Canadian Film Archive (Canada, 1949) Hye Bossin -- Open Letter to Film-Makers of the World (USA, 1966) Jonas Mekas -- A Declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française (France, 1968) Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française -- Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art (USA, 1969) Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow -- Anthology Film Archives Manifesto (USA, 1970) P. Adams Sitney -- Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive (USA, 1971) Alan Lomax -- Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1998) Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick -- Don’t Throw Film Away: The FIAF 7th Anniversary Manifesto (France, 28) Hisashi Okajima and La fédération internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group -- The Lindgren Manifesto: The Film Curator of the Future (Italy, 21) Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (UK, 212) Mark Cousins -- 9. Sounds and Silence -- A Statement on Sound (USSR, 1928) Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov -- A Rejection of the Talkies (USA, 1931) Charlie Chaplin -- A Dialogue on Sound: A Manifesto (UK, 1934) Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun -- Amalfi Manifesto (Italy, 1967) Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. -- 10. The Digital Revolution -- Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto (USA, 1966) Stan VanDerBeek -- The Digital Revolution and the Future Cinema (Iran, 2) Samira Makhmalbaf -- The Pluginmanifesto (UK, 21) Ana Kronschnabl -- Digital Dekalogo: A Manifesto for a Filmless Philippines (The Philippines, 23) Khavn de la Cruz -- 11. Aesthetics and the Futures of the Cinema -- The Birth of the Sixth Art (France, 1911) Ricciotto Canudo -- Memo from Walt Disney to Don Graham (USA, 1935) Walt Disney -- The Birth of a New Avant Garde: La caméra-stylo (France, 1948) Alexandre Astruc -- From Preface to Film (UK, 1954) Raymond Williams -- The Snakeskin (Sweden, 1965) Ingmar Bergman -- Manifesto (Italy, 1965) Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. -- Manifesto on the Release of La Chinoise (France, 1967) Jean-Luc Godard -- Direct Action Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1985) Rob Nilsson -- Remodernist Film Manifesto (USA, 28) Jesse Richards -- The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return (People’s Republic of China, 21) Jia Zhangke --

Call No: 465(94) GEN
Author: Taylor, Anthea; McIntyre, Joanna
Edition: 2021
Place: Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: 236 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HARRIS, ROLF; CROWE, RUSSELL; GADSBY, HANNAH; SPICER, TRACEY; CARLOTTA; SZUBANSKI, MAGDA; KEDDIE, ASHER; OFFSPRING [TV] (AT, 2010); ME TOO
Summary: This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138366220
Contents: Introduction: ‘Gendering Australian celebrity’, Anthea Taylor and Joanna McIntyre Part I - Celebrity masculinities and settler colonialism -- Chapter One: ‘From mild colonial boy to Jake the Paed: Rolf Harris and Australian celebrity masculinity in the UK’, Tanya Serisier -- Chapter Two: ‘The manly whiteness of Russell Crowe’, Sean Redmond -- Chapter Three: ‘Johnathan Thurston, Indigeneity, and technologies of masculinity in Australian sporting celebrity culture’, Holly Randell-Moon Part II - Feminist politics and celebrity feminisms -- Chapter Four: ‘Celebritised anger: Theorising feminist rage, voice, and affective injustice through Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette’, Jilly Kay Boyce -- Chapter Five: ‘Clementine Ford, online misogyny, and the labour of celebrity feminism’, Anita Brady -- Chapter Six: "Good" girl turned "bad": Tracey Spicer’s memoir, celebrity feminist journalism, and #MeToo activism in Australia’, Anthea Taylor Part III - Queer celebrity and marginalised subjectivities -- Chapter Seven: ‘Interviewing a queer national celebrity: Carlotta as an "outsider within" Australian celebrity culture’, Joanna McIntyre -- Chapter Eight: ‘"It was nice for me watching that, because [Magda Szubanski] was very calming": LGBTIQ+ Australians respond to marriage equality activism’, Lucy Watson Part IV - Self-presentation and celebrity femininities -- Chapter Nine: ‘"I can call myself Australian if I want to": Natalie Tran and Asian Australian femininity on YouTube’, Sara Tomkins -- Chapter Ten: ‘Disarming femininity: Annabel Crabb, celebrity, politics and culture’, Frances Bonner -- Chapter Eleven: ‘"Australian TV’s golden girl": Asher Keddie, Offspring, and the celebrity motherhood narrative’, Renee Middlemost

Call No: 451(430) HAN
Author: Hans, Anjeana K
Source: US
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 302 pages : 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Subject: GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; GERMANY; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780814338940
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: 1.The World Turned Upside Down: Changing Society, Changing Gender Roles, Changing Medium in Weimar Germany -- 2.The Eyes of the Mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Ma^, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918): From the Monster with the "Eyes That Live" to the Passive Object of the Male Gaze -- 3.Uncanny Tales {Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919): The Many Guises of the Dangerous Woman -- 4.Warning Shadows {Schatten: Eine nachtliche Halluzination, Artur Robison, 1923): Transgression, Abjection, Projection -- 5.The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hande, Robert Wiene, 1924): War Trauma, Injury, and the Return to a Changed World -- 6.A Daughter of Destiny {Alraune, Henrik Galeen, 1928) and Daughter of Evil (Alraune, Richard Oswald, 1930): From Dangerous Hybrid to Self-Sacrificing Woman--Conclusion

Call No: 451-02(71) GEN
Author: Armatage, Kay
Place: Toronto
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: xi, 329 p
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS. CANADA; CANADA; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY. CANADA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. CANADA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. CANADA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. CANADA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. CANADA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. CANADA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. CANADA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. CANADA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. CANADA; BODY IN FILMS. CANADA; ROZEMA, PATRICIA; POIRIER, ANNE CLAIRE; FAR SHORE, THE (CN, Joyce Wieland, 1975); LOYALTIES (CN, Anne Wheeler, 1986); MOUVEMENTS DU DESIR (CN/SZ, Lea Pool, 1994)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0802041205 (bound) : $70.00; 0802079644 (pbk.) : $21.95; 0802041205 (bound); 0802079644 (pbk.)
LON: 14526441

Call No: 64GEN NEA
Author: Neale, Steve
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: GENRES; FILM NOIR; MELODRAMA; ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FORMALISM; FRONTIERS IN FILMS; GANGSTER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; USA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; THRILLERS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BASINGER, JEANINE; DOHERTY, THOMAS; SCHATZ, THOMAS
Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index
ISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)
LON: 21413450

Call No: 62(082) GEN
Author: Codell, Julie F.
Source: US
Place: Malden, Massachusetts
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BOLLYWOOD; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; FILM NOIR; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; WORLD CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; RACE AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IRAN; MELODRAMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; KAIGE, CHEN; NAIR, MIRA; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995); SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998); ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) SEE TODO SOBRE MI MADRE; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."
ISBN: 1405132337
Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements

Call No: 622 GEN
Author: Dowd, Garin; Stevenson, Lesley; Strong, Jeremy
Source: UK
Place: Bristol, UK
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 178 p. ; 23cm
Subject: GENRES; PROGRAMME GENRES; GENDER AND TELEVISION; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; DERRIDA, JACQUES; TESS (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1979)
Summary: This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and applications of thinking about genre from Aristotle to Derrida and beyond. The essays focus on economies of expectation and competency, genre as media form, recent developments in television broadcast genres, translation and genericity, the role played by genre in film publicity, gender and genre, genre in fiction, and the problematics of classification. An introductory essay places the contributions in the context of a wide range of thinking about genre in the arts, media and humanities. [Taken from the back of the book]
Notes: Bibliography: p. 169-170; Includes index
ISBN: 1841501077
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: Introduction: Genre Matters in Theory and Criticism/ Garin Dowd -- Genre Theory: Cultural and Historical Motives Engendering Literary Genre/ Brian G Caraher -- Objectivity and Immanence in Genre Theory/ Paul Cobley -- The Genericity of Montage: Derrida and Genre Theory/ Jeff Collins -- Ohio Impromptu, Genre and Beckett on Film/ Garin Dowd -- Translating Genre/ Susan Bassnett -- Tess, Jude and the Problem of Adapting Hardy/ Jeremy Strong -- " Mixing and Matching": the Hybridising Impulse in Today's Factual Television Programming/ Richard Kilborn -- "So What Kind of Film is it?": Genre, Publicity and Critical Practice/ Mike Chopra-Gant -- Three Faces of Ruth Rendell: Feminism, Popular Fiction and the Question of Genre/ Margaret Russett -- The Historical Novel?: Novel, History and the "End of history"/ Martin Ryle -- Contributors' Details

Call No: 749.4 GRE
Author: Grevn, David
Edition: 2016
Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
PhysDes: x,306 p. : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Horizons of Cinema
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996); HALLOWEEN (US, Rob Zombie, 2007); HOSTEL (US, Eli Roth, 2005)
Notes: Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegemonic masculinity. Reframing Laura Mulvey’s and Gilles Deleuze’s paradigms and offering close readings grounded in psychoanalysis and queer theory, David Greven examines several key films and genre trends from the late 1990s forward. Movies considered range from the slasher film Scream to bromances and beta male comedies such as I Love You, Man to dramas such as Donnie Darko and 25th Hour to Rob Zombie’s remake of the horror film Halloween. Greven also traces the disturbing connections between torture porn found in such films as Hostel and gay male Internet pornography. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781438460062
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Disrecognitions 1. Ghost Faces, Genre Bodies 2. The Murderous Origins of Bromance: Genre, Queer Killers, and Scream 3. “I Love You, Brom Bones”: Beta Male Comedies, Bromances, and American Culture 4. Apparitional Men: Masculinity and the Psychoanalytic Scene 5. Trick-or-Treating Alone: Rob Zombie’s Halloween 6. Torture/Porn: Hostel, Homophobia, and Gay Male Internet Pornography Coda Notes Bibliography Index

Call No: 451-01(94) CRI
Author: Crilly, Shane
Source: AT
Place: [Adelaide]
Publisher: University of Adelaide
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: v, 245 leaves ; 30 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "The dominance of male characters in Australian films makes our national cinema a rich resource for the examination of the construction of masculinities. This thesis argues that the codes of the hegemonic masculinities in capital patriarchal societies like Australia insist on an absolute masculine position. However, according to Oedipal logic, this position always belongs to another man. Masculine yet 'feminised,' identity is fraught with anxiety but sustained by the 'dominant fiction' that equates the penis with the phallus and locates the feminine as its polar opposite. This binary relationship is inaugurated in childhood when a boy must distinguish his identity from his mother, who, significantly, is a different gender. Being masculine means not being feminine." -Thesis abstract.
Notes: Includes filmography (leaves 209-10) and bibliography (leaves 211-245)
Contents: Abstract -- Declaration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A man's world: Boys, their fathers and the reproduction of the patriarchy -- Chapter 2: Mummy's boy: Men, their mothers and absent fathers -- Chapter 3: Bad boys: Representations of men's violence in The Boys -- Chapter 4: The performance of masculinity: Larrikinism and Australian masculinities -- Chapter 5: Love, sex marriage and sentimental blokes -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography

Call No: 81ROM PAF
Author: Paffenroth, Kim
Source: US
Place: Waco, Texas
Publisher: Baylor University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 219 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: USA; HORROR FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS. USA; SOCIETY IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION IN FILMS. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; ROMERO, GEORGE; SNYDER, ZACK; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1978); DAY OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1985); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, Zack Snyder, 2004); LAND OF THE DEAD (CN/FR/US, George Romero, 2005)
Summary: "For nearly forty years the zombie films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This rigorous but entertaining study shows how these films use Christian imagery from the Bible and Dante to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, while also giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America that should be heeded by Christian and humanist alike." (Taken from the back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliography, index
ISBN: 9781932792652
Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009

Call No: 451-054(73) WIL
Author: Willis, Sharon
Place: Durham, N.C.
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 266 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: RACE AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; LEE, SPIKE; LYNCH, DAVID; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987)
Summary: In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-257) and index
ISBN: 0822320290 (cloth : acid-free paper); 082232041X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LON: 97013147; 13158378
Contents: Part 1. Battles of the sexes -- 1. Mutilated Masculinties and Their Prostheses: Die Hards and Lethal Weapons -- 2. Insides Out: Public and Private Exchanges from Fatal Attraction to Basic Instinct -- 3. Combative Femininity: Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 -- Part II. Ethnographies of the "White" Gaze -- 4. Do the Wrong Thing: David Lynch's Perverse Style -- 5. Tell the Right Story: Spike Lee and the Politics of Representative Style -- 6. Borrowed "Style": Quentin Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity

Call No: 735.2 HOR
Author: Gelder, Ken, 1955
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: xiii, 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: CANNIBALISM IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FAN MAGAZINES; FANTASTIC FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GHOST FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG; HORROR FILMS. ITALY; HORROR FILMS. USA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; MONSTERS IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; SERIAL KILLERS IN FILMS; SLASHER FILMS; THEORY; VAMPIRE FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; ARGENTO, DARIO; BAVA, MARIO; CASTLE, TERRY; CHEUNG, LESLIE; CORMAN, ROGER; CRONENBERG, DAVID; TODOROV, TZVETAN; AMERICAN GOTHIC (US, John Hough, 1987); CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (UK, Terence Fisher, 1957); BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); FRIDAY THE 13TH (US, Sean S. Cunningham, 1980); HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978); HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); OPERA (IT, Dario Argento, 1987); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); SUSPIRIA (IT, Dario Argento, 1977); YANZHI KOU (HK, Stanley Kwan, 1987)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 041521355X (HB : alk. paper); 0415213568 (PB : alk. paper)
LON: 21262689

Call No: 81NOV WIL
Author: Williams, Michael
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: vi, 193 p.: ill.; 24 cm
Subject: STARS; PERIODICALS, FILM; PRESS AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF THE CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; NOVELLO, IVOR; NOVARRO, RAMON; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1925); TRIUMPH OF THE RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1926); DOWNHILL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926)
Summary: Examines how British film magazines shaped Ivor Novello's star persona, while classical Greek imagery and myth informed his iconography. This study broadens the scops of star studies, examining Novello in relation to a number of issues, including the trauma of World War 1, gender and sexuality, and the development of British silent films.[taken from back cover]
ISBN: 0851709826

Call No: 81WIL HOF
Author: Hofler, Robert
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: US
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 468 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: HOLLYWOOD; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; AGENTS; WILLSON, HENRY; HUDSON, ROCK
Summary: "Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/ or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references -- Originally published New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.
ISBN: 9780816691296
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014

Call No: 451-01 COH
Author: Cohan, Steven
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Arts and politics of the everyday
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRANDO, MARLON; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY; CURTIS, TONY; GRANT, CARY; HOLDEN, WILLIAM; HESTON, CHARLTON; HUDSON, ROCK; PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955); PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948)
Summary: When we think of the films of the 1950s, we inevitably remember the confident swagger of John Wayne, the suave sophistication of Cary Grant, and the emotional intensity of Marlon Brando. But today's culture critics see in the decade a period when heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate the representation of American masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the 1950s represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood depicted the sexual anxieties of the domesticated breadwinner, the repudiation of wartime homoerotic male bonding, the exhibitionism of muscular bodies, the transvestic connotations of boyishness, and the playboy bachelor apartment. These presentations challenged the postwar ideal of the typical American male, that omnipresent and seemingly invisible Man in a Gray Flannel Suit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) and index; Filmography: p. [321]-322
ISBN: 0253211271 (pa : alk. paper); 0253332974 (cl : alk. paper)
LON: 12951206

Call No: 749.2 CHU
Author: Church Gibson, Pamela
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Edition: 2nd ed
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; EROTIC FILMS; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA; EROTICISM IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; KIPNIS, LAURA
Summary: Presents feminist responses to the politics and presentation of pornography. Examines how pornography relates to the critical theory of gender identity, sexuality and issues of power and cultural identity. Asserts that the study of pornography has “immense symbolic and social significance.” First published in 1993.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, notes, index and list of illustrations.
ISBN: 0 85170 939 7
LON: 10014448

Call No: 71(5) MUL
Source: US
Place: Philadelphia PA
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; GLOBALISATION; CHINA; TAIWAN; HONG KONG; JAPAN; KOREA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA; KWOK WAH LAU JENNY
Summary: Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examine popular culture – most notably cinema and television – to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, and Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collective effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1566399866

Author: Conor, Liz
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Examines the influence of Xavier Herbert's novel 'Poor fellow my country' on Baz Lurhmann's film Australia, reflecting on the use of the 'creamy' Aboriginal child as a redemptive emplem of reconciliation in cultural imaginings.
Notes: Illustrated

Call No: 751.1(73) OXF
Author: Knapp, Raymond; Morris, Mitchell; Wolf, Stacy
Edition: paperback
Source: US/UK
Place: Oxford ; New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2011, 2013
PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; AUTHORSHIP; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BOX OFFICE. USA; COMEDIES; DANCE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS. USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ANDREWS, JULIE; ASTAIRE, FRED; BERLIN, IRVING; FOSSE, BOB; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; KERN, JEROME; MERMAN, ETHEL; ROBBINS, JEROME; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002); CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985); FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971); GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955); GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994); MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964); OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951); SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961)
Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780199987368
Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp

Author: Craven, Allison
PhysDes: Article
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978)
Summary: The Irishman (Crombie 1978) has long been regarded as typical of the Australian period film genre of the late 1970s, which is said to collectively exhibit the Australian Film Commission's influences on national culture. In this article, The Irishman is seen as a ‘heritage’ film for the way locations and authentic sets and decor are featured, and for the nostalgic performances of gender and race. Regional influences on the genesis and production of The Irishman in North Queensland are also considered, and its adaptation from the novel, The Irishman: A Novel of Northern Australia (Elizabeth O'Conner 1960). Heritage, it is argued, can be seen as a cinematic mode in which regional and national elements of production are synthesized. Heritage also offers a framework through which to view other Australian period films, including Australia (Luhrmann 2008), which was also shot partly in North Queensland locations. -- Abstract

Call No: 71(51) PER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: vii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CHINA; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; TAIWAN; HONG KONG; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATED FILMS; ZHUANGZHUANG, TIAN; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIGONG, WU; WAN, LAIMING; WAN, GUCHAN; WAN, DIHUAN; WAN, CHAOCHEN; CHUSHENG, CAI; KAIGE, CHEN; HSIAO-HSIEN, HOU; MEI, HU; BAN, LU; DONGSHAN, SHI; HUA, SHUI; YU, SUN; TIANMING, WU; YIGONG, WU; JIN, XIE; YANG, EDWARD; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIMOU, ZHANG; JUNLI, ZHENG; LI SHUANG SHUANG (CC, Lu Ren, 1962) SEE LI SHUANGSHUANG; XI YING MEN, (CC, Zhao Huanzhang, 1982); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1984); HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1987)
Notes: First published 1985; Includes bibliographical references, short biographies of major directors, chronology and indexes of names and film titles
ISBN: 0851702716; 0851702724 (pbk.)
LON: 7777062 7777062

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985)
Author: Berlant, Lauren
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. US

Call No: 71(41) GLE
Author: Gledhill, Christine
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 214 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: BRITISH IN FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. UK; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA. UK; STARS; STAR SYSTEM. UK; ACTORS. UK
Summary: Early British cinema examined in the context of British cultural traditions (pictorialism, theatricality and storytelling) as distinct from American or European perspectives. Examines the illuminating role cinema plays in the understanding of British culture, class and gender identity and social change.
Notes: Includes filmography, bibliography and index.
ISBN: 0 85170 889 7

Call No: 409.1 COO
Author: Cook, Pam
Source: UK
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; WESTERNS; SCORSESE, MARTIN; BIGELOW, KATHRYN; HAYNES, TODD; WONG KAR WAI; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983); LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988); MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); MANDY (UK, Alexander Mackendrick, 1952); DANCE WITH A STRANGER (UK, Mike Newell, 1985)
Summary: Exploring film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. Examines current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, with the suggestion that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pp. 241-46)
ISBN: 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Contents: Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.

Call No: 632 WOO; Misplaced - Aug 10 2009
Author: Wood, Robin, 1931
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: x, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Film and culture
Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; ROMANTIC FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; RIVETTE, JACQUES; MCCAREY, LEO; Mizoguchi Kenji; OZU YASUJIRO; MANDINGO (US, Richard Fleischer, 1975); GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940); GASLIGHT (US, George Cukor, 1944); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); LIFE CLASSES (CN, William D. MacGillivray, 1987); BEFORE SUNRISE (US, Richard Linklater, 1995); DOOM GENERATION, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1995); CELINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1974); AMOUR FOU, L` (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1968)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0231076053 (paper : alk. paper); 0231076045 (cloth : alk. paper)
LON: 13757049
ID2: 291

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 036 -02 STR
Author: Esteban, Jose de; Thomas, Wendy
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: BFI National Library
PubDate: c2003
PhysDes: 14 p. ; 30 cm
Series: 16+ Source guides
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); OTHERS, THE (US/SP, Alejandro Amenabar, 2001); PANIC ROOM (US, David Fincher, 2002); BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002)
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009

Call No: 626:396 DEL
Author: De Lauretis, Teresa
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xi, 151 p. ; 25 cm
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GAZE IN FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; THEORY; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0253358531; 0253204410 (pbk.)
LON: 86046317; 5123996
Contents: 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

Call No: 62 CAS
Author: Casetti, Francesco
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; BARTHES, ROLAND; BAZIN, ANDRE; BORDWELL, DAVID; DELEUZE, GILLES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; LACAN, JACQUES; HORKHEIMER, MAX; MITRY, JEAN; MORAN, EDGAR; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; METZ, CHRISTIAN
Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index
ISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.)
LON: 14328673

Call No: 226.4 BRU
Author: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: xxi, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: COSTUMES; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; GANGSTER FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; FEMME FATALE; TRANSVESTISM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971); SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); TROP BELLE POUR TOI (FR, Bertrand Blier, 1989); READY TO WEAR (US, Robert Altman, 1994); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994); NEW JACK CITY (US, Mario Van Peebles, 1991); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); DISCLOSURE (US, Barry Levinson, 1994); SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1992); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); GLEN OR GLENDA - I LED TWO LIVES (US, Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1953); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MRS. DOUBTFIRE (US, Chris Columbus, 1993); BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, THE (US, Maggie Greenwald, 1993); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index; Filmography: p. 204-207
ISBN: 0415139562 (hbk : alk. paper); 0415139570 (pbk : alk. paper)
LON: 97007260; 13082009
ID2: 38

Call No: 451-02 WOM
Author: French, Lisa (ed.)
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Damned Publishing
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); MOFFATT, TRACEY
Summary: Provides an insight into the diversity and breadth of recent women's filmmaking and digital production in australia.
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 1876310014

Author: Berry, Chris
PhysDes: Book review; Bibliography
Subject: CHINESE IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA
Summary: A book review of 'Primitive passions: visuality, sexuality, ethnography and contemporary Chinese cinema', by Rey Chow.