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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AWARDS. ACADEMY
Author: Johnson, Neala
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AWARDS. ACADEMY; HISTORICAL FILMS
Summary: Looking at how films based on fact that are nominated for Oscars are criticised for their accuracy.

Call No: 409(73) AME
Author: O'Connor, John E; Jackson, Martin A
Place: New York
Publisher: Ungar
PubDate: c1979
PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935); SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939); MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943); BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282
ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95
LON: 1282547

Call No: 45:93 MCG
Author: McGee, Patrick
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 209 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (US/G, Quentin Tarantino, 2009); GANGS OF NEW YORK (GG/IT/US, Martin Scorsese, 2002); TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997)
Summary: "In his latest book, Patrick McGee argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds. Through philosophical and historical contextualization, he reveals the logic of what appears on the screen, a logic that shows how these films both represent and distort the historical record in order to articulate a truth that challenges conventional history as a discipline. Counterdisciplinary in its method, this exciting work asserts that no movie can ever be reduced to the absolutely authentic or the absolutely inauthentic." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780230116511
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: truth, history, and counterdisciplinary practices in film studies -- 1: Terrible beauties: messianic time and the image of social redemption in James Cameron's Titanic. -- 2: Infinite history: Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and the production of the inexistent -- 3: "No dreaming, no story, nothing": Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the cinematic common, and postcolonial discourse-- Conclusion: the glorious truth about inglorious history in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds -- works cited -- index --

Author: Pearlman, Karen
PhysDes: Article
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; CAMPION, JANE; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996); BRIGHT STAR (UK/AT/FR, Jane Campion, 2009)
Summary: Recontextualising the perceived notion of 'auteur' within genre cinema using the example of Jane Campion and her period films; The piano; Portrait of a lady and, most recently, Bright star

Call No: 71(41) LAN
Author: Landy, Marcia, 1931
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 553 p. : 24 ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; HISTORICAL FILMS. UK; WAR FILMS. UK; COMEDIES. UK; HORROR FILMS. UK; WOMEN, FILMS FOR. UK; MELODRAMA. UK; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. UK
Notes: Filmography: p. [503]-520; Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-533) and index
ISBN: 0691031762 (cl); 0691008361 (pb)
LON: 7770947

Call No: 71(51) BER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xi, 313 p. ; 23 cm
Series: Film and Culture
Subject: CHINA; TAIWAN; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; HISTORICAL FILMS. CHINA; MARTIAL ARTS FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; REALISM IN FILMS. CHINA; OPERA IN FILMS; LEE, ANG; LINGYU, RUAN
Summary: Explores Chinese cinema from its beginnings to the present day in relation to how China depicts its national identity.
ISBN: 0231137079
Contents: 1. Introduction: cinema and the national -- 2. Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting -- 3. Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism -- 4. Realist Modes: Melodrama, Modernity, and Home -- 5. How Should a Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation -- 6. How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation -- 7. Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas -- 8. The National in the Transnational

Call No: 451-01 OBR
Author: O'Brien, Daniel
Source: UK/US
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; HEROS IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HERCULES (IT, Pietro Francisci, 1957); FATICHE DI ERCOLE, LE (IT, Pietro Francisci, 1957); JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (UK/US, Don Chaffey, 1963); 300 (US, Zach Snyder, 2006); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-)
Summary: "The cinema has often showcased the muscular male body, most notably in genres invoking classical Greco-Roman culture, whether peplum, epic or sword-and-sorcery. This book reassesses the classically-inflected action film as a significant cinematic form, often marginalized in media studies, that transcends such reductive labels as camp or kitsch. The focus is on the depiction of heroic masculinity, often characterized as reactionary or fascist, yet far more varied and contradictory, especially in relation to femininity and non-whiteness. These diverse representations of masculinity offer a major contribution to debates on maleness within and beyond academia that has been largely unexplored. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations is one of the most important mythopoetic figures, on a par with King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tarzan and James Bond, informing popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form"-- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index
ISBN: 9781137384706
Contents: -- Introduction -- Part I: men as men should be 1. Hercules Unchained ; 2. Hercules Reformed ; 3. Hercules Diminished ; 4. Hercules Rebooted ; 5. I'm Spartacus! -- Part II: taming the women with love or death -- 6. The Loves of Hercules ; 7. The Temptress from Beyond ; 8. Fight Like a Man -- Part III: this thing of darkness 9. White Man's Burden? ; 10. Doom's Children ; 11. This is Sparta! ; Coda -- Bibliography --Index --

Call No: 741.931 BLA
Author: Blanshard, Alastair -- Shahabudin, Kim
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: vii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: EPIC FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. GREECE; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; HISTORICAL FILMS. GREECE; HISTORICAL FILMS. ITALY; CLEOPATRA (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1934); QUO VADIS (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1951); FATICHE DI ERCOLE, LE (IT, Pietro Francisci, 1957); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960); THREE HUNDRED [300] SPARTANS, THE (US, Rudolph Mate, 1962); JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (US/UK. Don Chaffey, 1963); FELLINI-SATYRICON (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1969); MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (UK, Terry Jones, 1979); HERCULES (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1997); GLADIATOR (US, Ridley Scott, 2000)
Summary: Publishers description: 'Through analysis of ten influential films, this book examines the representation of Greece and Rome in popular and art-house cinema. Arranged by cinematic genre and theme, this book offers an accessible introduction to the depiction of antiquity in cinema. Key scenes are discussed and each film is located in its historical context
ISBN: 9780715637241
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: 1. Establishing the conventions: Cleopatra (1934) -- 2. The Roman epics of classical Hollywood: Quo Vadis (1951) -- 3. Peplum traditions: Hercules (1958) -- 4. Roman history on Screen: Spartacus (1960) -- 5. Greek history on screen: The 300 Spartans (1962) -- 6. Myth and the fantastic: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) -- 7. Art Cinema: Fellini-Satyricon (1969) -- 8. Satirising cine-antiquity: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) -- 9. The Disney version: Hercules (1997) -- 10. The return of the epic? Gladiator (2000)

Call No: 71(94) RAY
Author: Rayner, Jonathan
Source: UK
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; SCHEPISI, FRED; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SIRENS (AT/UK, John Duigan, 1994); BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974); ODD ANGRY SHOT, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1979)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and index
ISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269
LON: 22455173

Call No: 741 PID
Author: Pidduck, Julianne
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 188 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS
Notes: filmography; bibliography; index
ISBN: 1844570541

Call No: 70 CAS
Author: Casty, Alan
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 425 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: EDITING; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; GENRES; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRECHT, BERTOLT; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAPRA, FRANK; CARNE, MARCEL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; COOPER, GARY; CURTIZ, MICHAEL; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DIETRICH, MARLENE; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; Fellini, Federico; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; GARBO, GRETA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HUSTON, JOHN; HAWKS, HOWARD; KINGSLEY, STANLEY; KAZAN, ELIA; LANG, FRITZ; Lean, David; LEROY, MERVYN; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCREA, JOEL; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN; MARX BROTHERS; MILESTONE, LEWIS; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM; NEWMAN, PAUL; PABST, GEORG WILHELM; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Peckinpah, Sam; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; REED, CAROL; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ROSSEN, ROBERT; Stewart, James; TOLAND, GREGG; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; VIGO, JEAN; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WAYNE, JOHN; WELLES, ORSON; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; WILDER, BILLY; WISE, ROBERT; WYLER, WILLIAM; ZOLA, EMILE; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); STRAW DOGS (UK, Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
Summary: The development of the cinemictic styles and genres in films worldwide and the important professical within the film industry.
ISBN: 0155176226

Author: Jayamanne, Laleen
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AESTHETICS; CAMP; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; LUHRMANN, BAZ; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Article framing 'Australia' through texture of image and mode of acting, elaborating on the compositional features of the image and positing the mode of acting is a variant of burlesque performance.

Call No: 721.1(391) ROB
Author: Robinson, Felicity
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: Australia
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Murdoch Books
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 192 p. : b+w ill. ; 22cm
Series: Australian Memories
Subject: NEWSREELS; AUSTRALIA; CINESOUND STUDIOS; AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TABBERER, MAGGIE
Summary: The second title in the Australian Memories series, Fashion is a collection of film stills taken from the Cinesound and Movietone newsreels, which played in Australian cinemas from 1933 to 1975. Over the decades the newsreels covered women’s fashions in parades at nightclubs and restaurants, department stores, on the beach and in the streets. Informative captions and excerpts from the original voice-overs are accompanied by succinct and witty essays outlining the history of fashion during this period. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 1740456084

Call No: 64GEN FIL
Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: GENRES; WESTERNS; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; DISASTER FILMS; EPIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; MELODRAMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; MUSICALS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CANADA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; MICHEAUX, OSCAR; CRONENBERG, DAVID; FORD, JOHN; PENN, ARTHUR; SIRK, DOUGLAS; CAVELL, STANLEY; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; FRYE, NORTHROP; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951); [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957); VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and index
ISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11563059

Call No: 753 FIL
Author: Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 284p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. JAMES, HENRY; ADAPTATIONS. LEONARD, ELMORE; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ADAPTATIONS. THOMPSON, JIM; HISTORICAL FILMS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; BASS, RON; TARANTINO, QUENTIN; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); AMERICAN PSYCHO (US, Mary Harron, 1999); BEACH, THE (US, Danny Boyle, 1999); BELLE EPOQUE (SP/PO, Fernando Trueba, 1992); BOSSU, LE (FR, Philippe De Broca, 1997); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); CARRINGTON (UK/FR, Christopher Hampton, 1995); COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (MX, Alfonso Arau, 1992); CRASH (CN, David Cronenberg, 1996); CYRANO DE BERGERAC (FR, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990); DEAD AGAIN (US, Kenneth Branagh, 1991); EDWARD II (UK, Derek Jarman, 1991); ELIZABETH (UK, Shekhar Kapur, 1998); END OF THE AFFAIR, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1999); GERMINAL (FR, Claude Berri, 1993); GRIFTERS, THE (US, Stephen Frears, 1990); HOWARDS END (UK, James Ivory, 1992); HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT, LE (FR, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1995); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (US, Neil Jordan, 1994); L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997); LITTLE WOMEN (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1994); LOLITA (US, Adrian Lyne, 1997); MADAME BOVARY (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1991); MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, THE (US, Nicholas Hytner, 1994); MAESTRO DE ESGRIMA, EL (SP, Pedro Olea, 1992); MANSFIELD PARK (UK/US, Patricia Rozema, 1999); MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (US, Kenneth Branagh, 1994); MASK OF ZORRO (US, Martin Campbell, 1998); MISERABLES, LES (FR, Claude Lelouch, 1995); MRS. BROWN (UK, John Madden, 1997); MRS. DALLOWAY (US, Marleen Gorris, 1997); NAKED LUNCH (CN/UK, David Cronenberg, 1991); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); OUT OF SIGHT (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1998); PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996); PROSPERO'S BOOKS (UK/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1991); REINE MARGOT, LA (FR/GG/IT, Patrice Chereau, 1994); REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE (UK/US, James Ivory, 1993); RIDICULE (FR, Patrice Leconte, 1996); SECRET GARDEN, THE (US, Agnieszka Holland, 1993); SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995); SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (UK, John Madden, 1998); SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993); TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE (US, Anthony Minghella, 1999); TEA WITH MUSSOLINI (IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1997); THIS WORLD, THEN THE FIREWORKS (US, Michael Oblowitz, 1997); THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Stephen Herek, 1993); TITUS (US, Julie Taymor, 1999); TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996); WILDE (UK/US/JA/GG, Brian Gilbert, 1997); WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
Summary: "Period costume dramas are major box office commodities, exploiting the lucrative gap between the blockbuster and art film with their mixture of rich visuals, popular sensibility and literary association. But 'heritage cinema' is all too often discussed from literary (not cinematic) perspectives, and criticism of the films has long been overshadowed by the question of a film's fidelity to the original text. This volume of essays, reviews, and interviews seeks to redress this imbalance, by examining the often antagonistic relationship between literature and film - presenting both sides of the argument about whether heritage cinema's elaborate aesthetics owe more to nostalgia than to historical accuracy. In her challenging introduction to the volume, Ginette Vincendeau sketches the terms of the debate, arguing that the genre is an important, but often critically neglected, form of popular cinema. Film/Literature/Heritage, the latest in a series of 'Sight and Sound Readers', embraces a wide range of literary adaptation, from William Shakespeare to William Burroughs, covering films from Orlando to LA Confidential, and directors from Martin Scorcese to Peter Greenaway." - BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 0851708420; 0851708412(pbk.) : ¦13.99
LON: 22285912

Author: Beresford, Bruce
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COSTUME DESIGNING; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FILMMAKING, AUSTRALIA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA; BERESFORD, BRUCE; MORRISBY, TED; O'CONNELL, JOHN; WRECK OF THE BATAVIA, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1973)
Summary: Bruce Beresford discusses his experiences as director on the semi-documentary Wreck of the Batavia, about a Dutch East India Company ship wrecked off the West Australian coast in 1629

Call No: 45:93 HIS
Author: Hutton, Anne
CorpAuthor: Australian History and Film Conference (1st :, 1981 : Canberra, A.C.T.); Australian Film and Television School
Place: North Ryde, N.S.W.
Publisher: Australian Film and Television School
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 298 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; USA. 1927-32; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; PROPAGANDA FILMS; EALING STUDIOS; FILMS FROM THE RAJ (UK, 1977); UNCIVILISED (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1936); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981)
Notes: Australia. Historical sources: Films. Conference proceedings (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0633798); Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0642925402 (corrected) : price unknown 064292540
LON: 2465451

Call No: 408.1(44) BUS
Author: Buss, Robin
Place: London
Publisher: Batsford
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 165 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; FRANCE; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; FILMOGRAPHIES. FRANCE; HISTORICAL FILMS. FRANCE; FAMILY IN FILMS. FRANCE; BRESSON, ROBERT; CHABROL, CLAUDE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MALLE, LOUIS; PAGNOL, MARCEL; RENOIR, JEAN; CARNE, MARCEL; CLAIR, RENE; DEMY, JACQUES; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; GABIN, JEAN; GANCE, ABEL; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); DIMANCHE A LA CAMPAGNE, UN (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1984)
Notes: French cinema films,. 1900-1985. Social aspects (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Filmography: p. 91-156
ISBN: 0713453605
LON: 5952835

Call No: 733 BAR
Author: Barefoot, Guy
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Continuum
PubDate: c2002
PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MELODRAMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; CRITICISM; GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940); HANGOVER SQUARE (US, John Brahm, 1945); BRITANNIA MEWS (UK, Jean Negulesco, 1949); [DOCTOR] DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (US, Victor Fleming, 1941)
Summary: "In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out onto the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a "cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century." For another, it seemed that for Hollywood there was "no world of today save the world of London by gaslight." In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourses that gave rise to such films. The main focus of the book is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Hangover Square. Gaslight Melodrama also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama amid Victorian or Edwardian furnishings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century; 19th century discussions of gas-lighting in street, home, and theater; and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.
ISBN: 0826453341
Contents: 1. Introduction: Gaslight, Gaslight, and Gaslight Melodrama -- 2. Industrial Light and Magic: Images of Gaslight from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century -- Gaslight and the Nineteenth Century -- From Stage to Screen -- Toward the Modern City -- 3. Gothic Sources/London Discourses: The Dark Metropolis on Page and Screen -- Nineteenth-Century London at 20th Century-Fox -- Londonania -- Descent and Invention -- From the Medieval to the Suburban -- 4. Lady Isabel, Dr. Jekyll, and Other Victorians: Twentieth-Century Reception, Reaction, and Reconstruction -- Jekyll and Hyde -- America -- Britain -- Victorians, Vampires, and Piano Legs -- 5. The Furniture in the Attic: Back to the Victorian -- The Process of Historical Reconstruction -- Victoria the Great -- New Victorian and Neo-Victorianism -- Surrealism, Lost Forms, Hollywood -- Elegance, Wretchedness, and Age -- 6. The Body in the Canal: Decorum and Melodrama in the Period Film -- House by the River -- Ivy and Others. The Suspect -- Critique and Closure -- 7. Melodrama and the Construction of the Past.
ID2: 168

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS

Call No: 45:93 HIS
Author: O'Regan, Tom, 1956; Shoesmith, Brian
CorpAuthor: Australian History and Film Conference (3rd :, 1985 : Perth (W.A.)); History and Film Association of Australia (W.A.)
Place: Perth, [W.A.]
Publisher: History and Film Association of Australia (W.A.)
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 180 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FRANCE; INDIA; JAPAN; COMMONWEALTH FILM UNIT; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; Grierson, John; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; HEIMAT [TV] (GW, Edgar Reitz, 1984); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); SEE IT NOW (US, Edward Murrow, 1954?); ROMAN SCANDALS (US, Frank Tuttle, 1933); ASSAULT ON SALAMAUA (AT, 1943); FORTINI/CANI (IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1976)
Notes: Cover subtitle : Proceedings of the 3rd History and Film Conference, Perth, 1985
ISBN: 0729800563 (pbk.)
LON: 5567713

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 19WAR ROD
Author: Roddick, Nick
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: viii, 332 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: WARNER BROS.; CRIME FILMS; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; EPIC FILMS; LEROY, MERVYN; WALLIS, HAL B.; CURTIZ, MICHAEL; GIBNEY, SHERIDAN; CAPTAIN BLOOD (US, Michael Curtiz, 1935); CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1936); DOORWAY TO HELL, THE (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1930); MOBY DICK (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1930); ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939); SERGEANT YORK (US, Howard Hawks, 1941); ANTHONY ADVERSE (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1936); BLESSED EVENT (US, Roy del Ruth, 1932); "G" MEN (US, William Keighley, 1935); KNUTE ROCKNE - ALL AMERICAN (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1940); JUAREZ (US, William Dieterle, 1939); LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE (US, William Dieterle, 1937); MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); SEA WOLF, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1941); ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938); BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934); BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936); CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (US, Anatole Litvak, 1939); DISRAELI (US, Alfred E. Green, 1929); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 320-326
ISBN: 0851701256 : ª11.95; 0851701264 (pbk.) : ª6.95
LON: 2656181

Call No: 45:93 REV
Author: Rosenstone, Robert A
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: vi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; HITLER - EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND (GW/UK/FR, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, 1977); MISSISSIPPI BURNING (US, Alan Parker, 1988); DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (UK, Terence Davies, 1988); GHARE BAIRE (IT, Satyajit Ray, 1984); EIJANAIKA (JA, Shohei Imamura, 1981); NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO, LA (IT, Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, 1982); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (FR/JA, Alain Resnias, 1959); MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO (CU, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968); MODERNS, THE (US, Alan Rudolph, 1988); RADIO BIKINI (US, Robert Stone, 1987); POKAJANIE (UR, Tengiz Abuladze, 1986 [prod.1984]); DAL POLO ALL 'EQUATORE (GW/IT, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, 1987); WALKER (US, Alex Cox, 1987)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-241) and index
ISBN: 069108629X (acid-free paper); 0691025347 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LON: 94019563; 11000929

Call No: 81(049.3)EIS NES
Author: Nesbet, Anne
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B Taurus
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: U.S.S.R IN FILMS; RUSSIANS IN FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; LENIN [V.I.] IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CIRCUS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIJ; BABEL, ISAAK; BRETON, ANDRE; DISNEY, WALT; FREUD, SIGMUND; HEGEL, GEORG, WILHELM, FRIEDRICH; SHKLOVSKY, VICTOR; SHUMIATSKII, BORIS; SINCLAIR, UPTON; SONTAG, SUSAN; TISSE, EDUARD; TOLSTOY, LEV; TROTSKY, LEON; VERTOV, DZIGA; WELLS, H.G; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); STRUCTURALISM; RUSSIA; THEORY
Summary: Based on extensive research in the archives of legendary Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein, this book explores his wide ranging consumption of high and low culture and his wide ranging experience in ‘thinking in pictures’. Savage Junctures plays close attention to the multiple contexts within which Eisenstein’s films evolved. Eisenstein was particularly interested in the possibilities of visual thinking and, in this spirit; each chapter addresses the question of his image based philosophy from a different perspective. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 1850433305

Call No: 115 287 (430.1) GRA
Author: Gramann, Karola
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: Federal Republic of Germany
Place: Munich
Publisher: Goethe Institute
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 52 p ; 20cm + b&w ill.
Subject: SHORT FILMS; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; NON-FICTION FILMS; WORKERS IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICAL FILMS; NAZIS IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; PEWAS, PETER; WILMS, ELISABETH; KOERBER, MARTIN; TICHAWSKY, HEINRICH; NESTLER, PETER; HERZ, HORST; DOERRIES, BERNHARD; KLUGE, ALEXANDER; SCHAMONE, PETER; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; KRISTL, VLADO; THOME, RUDOLPH; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; STOCKL, ULA; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; HERBST, HELMUT; SANDERS-BRAHMS, HELMA; FAROCKI, HARUN; GIEFER, THOMAS; BERSWORDT-WALLRABE, VON, ALEXANDER; MERBACH, ROSEMARIE; SCHUBERT, DIETRICH; WINZENSTEN, FRANZ; LANG, MARIA; NOLL BRINCKMANN; JORITZ, CATHY; MIKESCH, ELFI; KLEINE CHAOS, DAS (GR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1966); MENSCHEN, STADTEN, SCHIENEN (GR,Peter Pewas, 1949); DORTMUND DAMALS (GR, Elisabeth Wilms, 1947); HERBSTBEDANKEN (GR, Peter Pewas, 1950); VELORENES BERLIN, EIN (GR,Richard Kostelanetz, Martin Koerber, 1983); NOTIZEN AUS DEM ALTMUHTAL (GR,Hans Rolf Strobel, Heinrich Tichawsky, 1961); MULHEIM/RUHR (GR, Peter Nestler, 1964); ES LOBT DEN MANN DIE ARBEIT UND DIE TAT (GR, Horst Herz, 1982); MANNEQUIN, DAS (GR, Bernhard Doerries, 1960); BRUTALITAT IN STEIN - DIE EWIGKEIT VON GESTERN (GR, Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni, 1960); MACHORKA MUFF (GR, Jean-Marie Straub, 1962); MADELEINE-MADELEINE (GR, Vlado Kristl, 1963); VERSOHNUNG, DIE (GR, Rudolf Thome, 1964/65); ANTIGONE (GR, Ula Stockl, 1964); SUPERBIA (GR, Ulrike Ottinger, 1986); SCHWARZ, WEISS, ROT (GR, Helmut Herbst, 1964); INDUSTRIELLE RESERVEARMEE, DIE, Helena Sanders-Brahms, 1970/71); NICHT LOSCHBARES FEUER (GR, Harun Farocki, 1969); TERROR AUCH IM WESTERN (GR, Thomas Giefer, 1968); ABSTECHER NACH ENKBACH, EIN (GR, Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, 1979); MAMMA HEMMERS GEHT MIT IHREM PASTOR ZUM LETZEN MAL UBER'N HEINRICHPLATZ; KREUZBERG ADIO (GR, S.M Rosi, 1979); GEHT UM MEHR ALS NUR UMS UBERLEBEN, ES (GR, Dietrich Schubert, 1982); ANPROBE, DIE - 1938 (GR, Franz Winzenstein, 1985); ANGELIKA URBAN, VERKAUFERIN, VERLOBT (GR, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1969); FAMILIENGRUFT-EIN LIEBESGEDICHT AN MEINE MUTTER (GR, Maria Lang, 1982); HALBES LEBEN, EIN (GR, Christine Noll Brinckmann, 1983); NEGATIVE MAN (GR, Cathy Joritz, 1985); EXECUTION-A STUDY OF MARY (GR, Elfi Mikesch, 1979)
Summary: This program presents a comprehensive survey of the Federal Republic of Germany’s contribution to the field of short films. Among other things it is a journey through the history of the former West Germany and the social changes it underwent, reflected in the various forms of political documentation and aesthetic innovation in the films.

Call No: 741 GRI
Author: Grindon, Leger, 1949
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Culture and the moving image
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; BEATTY, WARREN; GRAMSCI, ANTONIO; WANGER, WALTER; REIGN OF TERROR (US, Anthony Mann, 1949); SENSO (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1954); PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV, LA (FR, Roberto Rossellini, 1966); MARSEILLAISE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938); REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index
ISBN: 1566391822 (pbk.) : $18.95; 1566391814 (alk. paper) : $44.95
LON: 93033042; 10438205

Author: Kevin, Catherine
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955)
Summary: Article examining the expression of national assimilation policies played out through the maternal desires of Jedda's Sarah McMann, and Australia's Sarah Ashley.

Author: Haag, Oliver
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: Haag presents results of empirical research on the reception of 'Rabbit-proof fence' and 'Australia' within German-speaking countries, noting differences in marketing and the effects of broader discourses on their levels of success.

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023.5 (41) GIL
Author: Gilbey, Ryan
Edition: 1st ed
Source: UK
Place: London, UK
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 336 p ; 24cm + col, b&w ill.
Subject: CINEMAS. UK; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA; CRITICS; CRITICISM; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. UK
Summary: From the 1930s to today, this book charts the diverse tastes that make up Britain’s film favourites. Each film is looked at in turn. What did the critics think of it when it was released and, with the benefit of hindsight, were they right? Who featured in front of and behind the camera? Did popular success always go together with critical acclaim and Oscar nominations? And what was it that about these films that struck a chord with cinemagoers? [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 184457105X