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Call No: 408.3 (73/94) AME
Author: Danks, Adrian (ed.); Gaunson, Stephen (ed.); Kunze, Peter C. (ed.)
Source: SZ/AT
Place: Cham, Switzerland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; USA; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008); BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003); GREAT GATSBY, THE (US/AT, Baz Luhrman, 2013)
Summary: "This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9783319666754
Donation: Stephen Gaunson
Contents: -- 1 Where I'm Calling From: An American-Australian Cinema? / Peter C Kunze -- pt I Across the Pacific: Looking to America -- 2 Rudimentary Modernism: Ken G Hall, Rear-Projection and 1930s Hollywood / Adrian Danks -- 3 Simulated Scenery: Travel Cinema, Special Effects and For the Term of His Natural Life / Leslie DeLassus -- 4 Representations and Hybridizations in First Nation Cinema: Change and Newness by Fusion / Jane Mills -- 5 Of Mothers and Madwomen: Mining the Emotional Terrain of Toni Collette's Anti-Star Persona / Fincina Hopgood -- pt II The View From There: Australian Films in the US -- 6 Accented Relations: Mad Max on US Screens / Tessa Dwyer -- 7 Talking Trash with Tarantino: Auteurism, Aesthetics and Authority in Not Quite Hollywood / Peter C Kunze -- 8 Australian Horror Movies and the American Market / Mark David Ryan -- 9 The Terrible Terrace: Australian Gothic Reimagined and the (Inner) Suburban Horror of The Babadook / Amanda Howell -- pt III Here and There: Crossing Between Australian, US and International Cinemas -- 10 American Cartel: Block Bookings and the Paramount Plan / Stephen Gaunson -- 11 The Multiplex Era / Jock Given -- 12 "Zest to the jaded movie palate": Wallace Worsley, Scott R Dunlap and The Romance of Runnibede / Jeannette Delamoir -- 13 Defining Neverland: P J Hogan, J M Barrie and Peter Pan in Post-Mabo Australia / Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield -- 14 Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby Telling a National Iconic Story Through a Transnational Lens / Lesley Hawkes -- index --

Call No: 744.9 HAR
Author: Harris, Geraldine
Source: US
Place: Manchester ; New York
Publisher: Manchester University Press, distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 210 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: DRAMAS; REALISM ON TV; AESTHETICS; RACIAL ISSUES AND TV; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND TV; GLOBALISATION; ALLY MCBEAL [TV] (US, 1997-); BILL, THE [TV] (UK, 1984-); STAR TREK [TV] [...] (US, 1966-69, 1987-); QUEER AS FOLK [TV] (UK, 1999-2000); ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996); BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004); [DOCTOR] DR WHO [TV] (UK, 1963-1989, 2005-); DYNASTY [TV] (AT, 1970); PRIME SUSPECT 3 [TV] (UK, David Drury, 1993); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999); TIPPING THE VELVET [TV] (UK, Geoffrey Sax, 2002); WILL & GRACE[TV] (US, 1998-); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-)
Summary: Beyond representation, poses the question, as to whether over the last 30 years, there have been signs of progress/progressiveness, in the representation of marginalised or subaltern identity categories, within television drama, in Britain, and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity, that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period. [Taken from the back cover]
Notes: Bibliography: p.191-20; Includes index
ISBN: 0719074584 (hdbk)
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009

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; 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: 201.1 (73) CON
Author: McDonald, Paul; Wasko, Janet
Source: US
Place: Malden, Massachusetts; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM; STUDIO SYSTEM; FINANCING; DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTION; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; EXHIBITION; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; VIDEODISCS; SOUNDTRACKS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; LABOUR; STATE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; COPYRIGHT; EXPORT OF FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; INDIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; VIDEO GAMES AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "The contemporary Hollywood film industry is characterized by continuity and change. While many well-established Hollywood studios continue to dominate the film business, the industry has also witnessed various changes during the past two decades. "'The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry' is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examine the US film industry as an international phenomenon, from the 1980s to the present day. It explores a host of challenges and changes facing Hollywood, and includes important discussions of the industry's labor and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations. Essays consider the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood products, corporate changes, and various new-media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery." (Taken from the back cover)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 9781405133883
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Call No: 205.1(44) BUC
Author: Buchsbaum, Jonathan
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: xxvii, 393 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
Series: Film and Culture series
Subject: FRANCE; GOVERNMENT AID; GLOBALISATION; CANAL PLUS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Summary: "In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady decline in the 1980s, France sought to strengthen support for its film industry under the new Mitterrand government. Over the following decades, the country lobbied partners in the European Economic Community to design strategies to protect the audiovisual industries and to resist cultural free-trade pressures in international trade agreements. These struggles to preserve the autonomy of national artistic prerogatives emboldened many countries to question the benefits of accelerated globalization. Led by the energetic minister of culture Jack Lang, France initiated a series of measures to support all sectors of the film industry. Lang introduced laws mandating that state and private television invest in the film industry, effectively replacing the revenue lost from a shrinking theatrical audience for French films. With the formation of the European Union in 1992, Europe passed a new treaty (Maastricht) that extended its legal purview to culture for the first time, setting up the dramatic confrontation over the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) in 1993. Pushed by France, the EU fought the United States over the idea that countries should preserve their right to regulate cultural activity as they saw fit. France and Canada then initiated a campaign to protect cultural diversity within UNESCO that led to the passage of the Convention on Cultural Diversity in 2005. As France pursued these efforts to protect cultural diversity beyond its borders, it also articulated "a certain idea of cinema" that did not simply defend a narrow vision of national cinema. France promoted both commercial cinema and art cinema, disproving announcements of the death of cinema." FROM PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE
Notes: Includes list of figures, preface and list of abbreviations -- Includes bibliography and index
ISBN: 9780231170673
Language: English
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction -- International domination by the U.S. film industry -- The Lang years -- European film policy and television without frontiers -- Gatt -- From Canal+ to Canal- -- Bilan(s) -- From cultural exception to cultural diversity -- Was the experience beneficial? -- Conclusion.

Call No: 408 TUR
Author: Graeme Turner (ed.)
Place: London; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; AESTHETICS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SOUND; THEORY; CREED, BARBARA; KUHN, ANNETTE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; USA; MONROE, MARILYN; SEX IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; ACTION FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; THRILLERS; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM
Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption.
ISBN: 0415252822

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: BOLLYWOOD; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; FILM NOIR; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; WORLD CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IRAN; MELODRAMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS 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: 203 DEV
Author: De Vany, Arthur
Source: UK/US
Place: London; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 308 p. : 23 cm.
Series: Contemporary Political Economy
Subject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; BUSINESS AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; INDUSTRY, FILM; DE VANEY, ARTHUR
Summary: Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman’s claim that “nobody knows anything” really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie’s risks and return? Do studio executives really earn their huge paychecks? These and many other questions are answered in Hollywood Economics. The book uses powerful analytical models to uncover the wild uncertainty that shapes the industry. The centerpiece of the analysis is the unpredictable and often chaotic dynamic behavior of motion picture audiences. This unique and important book will be of interest to students and researchers involved in the economics of movies, industrial economics and business studies. The book will also be a real eye-opener for film-writers, movie executives, finance and risk management professionals as well as more general movie fans. [Taken from first page of book.]
ISBN: 9780415312615

Call No: 802.27(4) JOU
CorpAuthor: BFI
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 512 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTORS; ACTORS. FRANCE; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; EXTRAS; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; CHEVALIER, MAURICE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA; NAZIS IN FILMS; GABIN, JEAN; ACTORS. UK; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS
Summary: Journeys of Desire offers for the first time a comprehensive critical guide to European Actors in American film, bringing together 15 overview chapters and a-z entries on over 900 individuals in one accessible and scholarly volume. Since the early days of the US film industry, European actors have consistently been a major force in Hollywood. Screen idols such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Antonio Banderas, as well as scores of more modest players, have profoundly shaped ‘American’ cinema. They have also contributed to the propagation of European types and stereotypes such as the ‘Russian’ and Nordic queens played by Garbo and Dietrich, the French Roues popularized by Chevalier, the fiery Latinos depicted by Banderas and the British arch-villain played by Steven Berkoff, Anthony Hopkins and Tim Roth. Films such as Casablanca (1942), Gigi (1958), Green Card (1990) and Vanilla Sky (2001), among many others, would not be the same without them. Contributions from a team of 70 international experts provide ground-breaking case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the émigrés, such as the retired Russian officers who played crowds in silent films, the stereotyping of European actresses in ‘bad women’ roles, and the ultimate irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis. Individual entries chart the careers and performances of the European actors – from Victoria Abril to Mai Zetterling – who appeared in American movies. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 1844571246

Call No: 409 ROS
Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Place: Chicago
Publisher: A Capella
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: v, 234 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DISTRIBUTION; EXHIBITION; GLOBALISATION; AUDIENCES; American Film Institute; FESTIVALS; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; FESTIVALS. CANNES; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. US; MIRAMAX FILMS; BEST FILMS; BEST FILMS. US; CRITICISM; PERIODICALS, FILM; WELLES, ORSON; DANTE, JOE; BRESSON, ROBERT; EBERT, ROGER; WEINSTEIN, HARVEY; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; MASLIN, JANET; SMALL SOLDIERS (US, Joe Dante, 1998); MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1942); STARSHIP TROOPERS (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1997); STAR WARS : EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (US, George Lucas, 1999); TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 1556524064
LON: 21468355

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; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; JAPAN; KOREA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; 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

Call No: 775 NEW
Author: Harries, Dan
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: x, 240p. : illust. (b&w , colour) : 24cm.
Subject: DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INTERACTIVE CINEMA; PIRACY; GLOBALISATION
Notes: Includes notes, further reading and index.
ISBN: 0851709257

Call No: 408.1(540) ONC
Source: CN
Place: Toronto
Publisher: Tsar
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xiv, 192 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; INDIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. INDIA; GLOBALISATION; JOLLY, GURBIR; DEWEY, SUSAN; MEHTA, MONIKA; DESAI, RADHIKA; DECKHA, NITIN; SHARPE, JENNY; KAUR, RAVINDER; ANSARI, USAMAH; BENJAMIN, SONIA; SAIDULLAH, AHMAD; DEVI, PHOOLAN; KAPUR, SHEKHAR; THOMAS, JENNIFER; KHAN, MENBOOB; RUSHDIE, SALMAN; STADTLER, FLORIAN; MONSOON WEDDING (US/II, Mira Nair, 2001); DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]); BHARAT MATA (II, Mehboob, 1957); MOOR'S LAST SIGH, THE
Summary: "Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema ("Bollywood"). The wide-ranqinq analytic strategies in the collection - including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic contextualization, and biographic study - bear witness to Hindi cinema's aesthetically elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial concerns. Together, these essays invite fresh, critically informed engagements with many of the key issues and creative tensions that continue to shape the world's most prolific film industry. For connoisseurs and critics of Hindi cinema alike, Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents stirring insights into popular culture"--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781894770408
Contents: Introduction: Globalization: The Musical / Gurbir Jolly -- Doing Bombay Darshan: The IMF, Structural Adjustment and National Identity in the Hindi Film Industry / Susan Dewey -- Globalizing Bombay Cinema: Reproducing the Indian State and Family / Monika Mehta -- Imagi Nation: The Reconfiguration of National Identity in Bombay Cinema in the 1990s / Radhika Desai -- From Artist-as-Hero to the Creative Young Man: Bollywood and the Aestheticization of Indian Masculinity / Nitin Deckha -- Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le jayenge / Jenny Sharpe -- Viewing the West Through Bollywood: A Celluloid Occident in the Making / RAVlNDER KAUR -- Tempting Sights and Seven Seas: The Diasporic Self, Bollywood and the Gendered Politics of National Longing / Usamah Ansari -- The Trials of a Faithful Brahmin Wife, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Roja / Sonia Benjamin -- Power and Representation in Modern Indian Cinema: Case Studies from the Toronto Film Festival (1994) / Ahmad Saidullah -- Phoolan Devi's Open Letter to the Director of the Toronto International Film Festival -- Statement From the Director of the Toronto International Film Festival -- Defining Truth: An Interview with Shekhar Kapur -- Bollywood's Female Fantasies of Resistance: Online Fan Discourse and Modern Indian Identity / Jennifer Thomas -- Nargis and Aurora Zogoiby: Imaging Mother and Nation in Mehboob Khan's Mother India and Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh / Florian Stadtler

Call No: 203(51) CUR
Author: Curtin, Michael
Source: US
Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: x, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; TAIWAN; SINGAPORE; GLOBALISATION
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780520251342
Contents: Introduction : media capital in Chinese film and television -- 1. The Pan-Chinese studio system and capitalist paternalism -- 2. Independent studios and the golden age of Hong Kong cinema -- 3. Hyperproduction erodes overseas circulation -- 4. Hollywood takes charge in Taiwan -- 5. The globalization of Hong Kong television -- 6. Strange bedfellows in cross-strait drama production -- 7. Market niches and expanding aspirations in Taiwan -- 8. Singapore : from state paternalism to regional media hub -- 9. Reterritorializing star TV in the PRC -- 10. Global satellites pursuing local audiences and panregional efficiencies -- 11. The promise of broadband and the problem of content -- 12. From movies to multimedia : connecting infrastructure and content -- Conclusion : structural adjustment and the future of Chinese media.

Call No: 224.6 SUB
Author: Egoyan, Atom (ed); Balfour, Ian (ed)
CorpAuthor: Alphabet City Media, Inc.
Source: Canada
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 542 p ; 22 cm x 14 cm
Series: Alphabet City
Subject: TITLING; SUBTITLES; IMPORT OF FILMS; AESTHETICS; SWEET HEREAFTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1997); EGOYAN, ATOM; ROZEMA, PATRICIA; DENIS, CLAIRE; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; RICH, B. RUBY; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; JAMESON, FREDRIC; DOANE, MARY ANN; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; GLOBALISATION; AWARDS. ACADEMY; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; BLUE (UK, Derek Jarman, 1993); MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963)
Summary: "Every film is a foreign film," Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour tell us in their introduction to Subtitles. How, then, to translate the experience of film - which, as Egoyan says, makes us "feel outside and inside at the same time"? Taking subtitles as their point of departure, the thirty-six contributors to this unique collection consider translation, foreigness and otherness in film culture. Their discussions range from the mechanics and aesthetics of subtitles to the xenophobic reaction to translation, to subtitles as a metaphor for the distance and intimacy of film. [Taken from inside cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.

Call No: 512.1 CRE
CorpAuthor: BFI
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 192 p. : 25 cm
Subject: AESTHETICS; AUTHORSHIP; FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES; PROGRAMME GENRES; NON-FICTION PROGRAMMES; AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (FR/GW Louis Malle, 1987); GLOBALISATION; CONVERGENCE; NEWS PRESENTATION; NEWS PROGRAMMES; CREEBER, GLEN
Summary: Tele-visions provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to television studies. Contributions by leading international scholars address all the major issues, debates, concepts and methodologies in the field. The discussion is illuminated throughout by case studies of key programmes and genres, selected reading guides and full bibliographies, combining to offer a complete picture of how television is produced, broadcast, consumed and critically examined. From textual analysis to audience studies; from TV drama to rolling news; from policy and regulation to globalization; from authorship to ideology; and from television’s histories to its futures, Tele-visions is an essential guide for anyone studying television and the media today. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 184457086X

Call No: 408.1 THE
Author: Vitali, Valentina; Willemen, Paul
CorpAuthor: BFI
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute, London
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 326 p. ill. : 24 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; JAPAN; KOREA; REPUBLIC OF IRELAND; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; BURCH, NOEL; RUSSIA; FRANCE; TAIWAN; PALESTINE; ARAB COUNTRIES; INDIA; ASIAN COUNTRIES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS; GLOBALISATION
Summary: Why do we think of clusters of films as a 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Theorising National Cinema is a major contribution to work on national cinemas, by many of the leading scholars in the filed. It addresses the knotty and complex relationships between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and of the films it made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation, and it goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of the nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, South Korea, Russia, France and Italy. The issue of a 'national cinema' for nation states of contested status, with disputed borders or displaced peoples, is discussed in relation to film-making in Taiwan, Ireland and Palestine. The contributors also consider the future of national cinema in an age of transnational cultural flows, exploring issues of national identity and cinema in Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East, India, Africa and Europe.
ISBN: 1844571203

Call No: 709 TRA
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; EXPRESSIONISM; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; BRITAIN; DOGMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; BRAZIL; ARGENTINA; AFRICA IN FILMS; ISRAEL; IRAN; INDIA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MELODRAMA; SONGS IN FILMS; JAPAN; HORROR FILMS; USA
Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas.
ISBN: 0748618635

Call No: 408.3 TRA
Author: Ezra, Elizabeth (ed.) Rowden, Terry (ed.)
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon, UK
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 244 pages ; 25 cm
Series: in focus: Routledge film readers
Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; DIASPORIC CINEMA; TERRORISM AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS; MIGRATION; GLOBALISATION; WORLD CINEMA
Summary: "Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader provides an overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational cinema. Bringing together seminal essays from a wide range of sources, this volume engages with films that fashion their narrative and aesthetic dynamics in relation to more than one national or cultural community. The reader is divided into four sections: From National to Transnational Cinema / Global Cinema in the Digital Age / Motion Pictures: Film, Migration and Diaspora / Tourists and Terrorists." -- PUBLISHERS WEB SITE
ISBN: 9780415371589
Contents: Introduction: What is Transnational Cinema? / Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden -- Introduction to Section I: From National to Transnational Cinema -- The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema? / Andrew Higson -- Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema / David Murphy -- Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- Bombay Boys and Girls: Transnational Gender and Sexual Politics in the New Indian Cinema in English / Jigna Desai -- Introduction to Section II: Global Cinema in the Digital Age -- The Instantaneous Worldwide Release: Coming Soon to Everyone, Everywhere / Robert E. Davis -- Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Participatory Fandom: Mapping New Congruencies Between the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture /Elana Shefrin -- Transnational Documentary: A Manifesto / John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- Introduction to Section III: Motion Pictures: Film, Migration, and Diaspora -- Situating Accented Cinema? / Hamid Naficy -- Beur Cinema and the Politics of Location: French Immigration Politics and the Naming of a Film Movement / Peter Bloom -- Diaspora and National Identity: Exporting 'China' through the Hong Kong Cinema / David Desser -- Migrancy and the Latin American Cinemascape: Towards a Post-National Critical Praxis / Ann Marie Stock -- Introduction to Section IV: Tourists and Terrorists -- Romance And/As Tourism: Heritage Whiteness and the (Inter)National Imaginary in the New Woman's Film? / Diane Negra -- Four Forms for Terrorism: Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir / John S. Nelson -- Terror and After... / Homi K. Bhabha --

Call No: 71(540) TRA
Author: Roy, Anjali Gera (ed.); Huat, Chua Beng (ed.)
Source: UK/II
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xxxi, 356 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; INDIA; INDIA IN FILMS; MUSICALS; GLOBALISATION; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (UK/US, Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008)
Summary: "This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics, and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0198075987; 9780198075981
Contents: pt. 1 Modernity, Globalization, Globality -- 1.Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity / Bill Ashcroft -- 2.Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times / Makarand Paranjape -- 3.Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory / Madhuja Mukherjee -- pt. 2 Love Across the Border -- 4.The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- 5.From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann / Nicola Mooney -- 6.Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization / Anuradha Ghosh 7. Cinematic border crossings in Two Bengals: cultural translation as communalization? / Zakir Hossain Raju -- pt.3 The other film industry -- 8. Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s / M.K Raghavendra -- 9. Modernity and Male anxieties in early Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai -- 10. Cinema in motion: tracking Tamil cinema's assemblage / Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham -- pt.4 Village in the city -- 11. Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri cinema and the 'Local in the global' / D. Parthasarathy -- 12. Welcome to Sajjan: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema / Nandi Bhatia -- pt.5 The travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA -- 13. Diasporic Bollywood: in the tracks of a twice-displaced community / Manas Ray -- 14. Marketing, Hybridity, and Media industries: Globalization and Expanding audiences for popular Hindi Cinema / Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer -- 15. 'It was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic audiences and foreign locations in Indian popular cinema / Andrew Hassam -- 16. Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero / Teresa Hubel -- 17. Bollywood films and African audiences / Gwenda Vander Steene -- 18. From Ghetto to Mainstream : Bollywood in/and South Africa / Haseenah Ebrahim --list of contributors -- index --

Call No: 408.1 WOR
Author: Durovicova, Natasa (ed.); Newman, Kathleen (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: c2010
PhysDes: xv, 368 p. : 23 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; WORLD CINEMA
Summary: "The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational". This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistance of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images. " -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9780415976541
Contents: -- Preface -- acknowledgments -- Part One: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Cinema Studies -- 1. Transnational Film Theory: Decentered Subjectivity, Decentered Capitalism / Kathleen Newman -- 2. On the Plurality of Cinematic Transnationalism / Mette Hjort -- 3. Tracking "Global Media" in the Outposts of Globalization / Bhaskar Sarkar -- 4. Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema / Dudley Andrew -- 5. Vector, Flow, Zone: Towards a History of Cinematic Translatio / Natasa Durovicova -- Part Two: Cinema as Transnational Exchange -- 6. Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies / Yingjin Zhang -- 7. A National Cinema Abroad: From Production to Viewing /Toby Miller -- 8. Aural Identity, Genealogies of Sound Technologies, and Hispanic Transnationality on Screen / Marvin D'Lugo -- 9. How Movies Move (Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage...) / Lesley Stern -- 10. New Paradoxes of Africa's Cinemas / Olivier Barlet -- 11. The Transnational Other: Street Kids in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema / Joao Luiz Vieira -- Part Three: Comparative Perspectives -- 12. Fantasy in Action / Paul Willemen -- 13. Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale / Miriam Hansen -- 14. Globalization and Hybridization / Fredric Jameson -- 15. From Playtime to The World: The Expansion and Depletion of Space Within Global Economies / Jonathan Rosenbaum --Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index --