Search Catalogue | AFI Research Collection

24 results out of 24

book		Adaptations in the sound era : 1927-37 / Deborah Cartmell London: UK Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015. Call No: 753.1 CAR Author: Cartmell, Deborah Source: UK Place: London Publisher: UK Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: vii, 166 pages ; 24 cm. Series: Bloomsbury adaptation histories Subject: ADAPTATIONS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Summary: There is no disputing that the coming of sound heralded a new era for adaptations. We take it for granted today that a film is enhanced by sound but it was not a view unanimously held in the early period of sound cinema. While there was a substantial degree of skepticism in the late 1920s and early 30s about the advantages of sound, what we would call technophobia today, the inclusion of speech in screen versions of literary and theatrical works, undeniably revised what it was to be an adaptation: words. Focusing on promotional materials, Adaptations in the Sound Era tracks early attempts to promote sound through the elevation of words in adaptations in the early sound period. The popular appeal of these films clearly stands in opposition to academic regard for them and the book reflects on the presence and marketing of 'words' in a variety of adaptations, from the introduction of sound in the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. This book contextualizes a range of adaptations in relation to debates about 'picturizations' of books in the early sound era, including reactions to the talking adaptation by writers such as, Irwin Panofsky, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene. Film adaptations of Shakespeare, Dickens, gothic fiction and biopics are also discussed in relation to their use and promotion of sound or, more precisely, words -- TAKEN FROM PUBLISHER'S SITE Notes: Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9781623568788 Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: `Singin in the Rain': Adapting Literature to Film, 1927--37 -- 2.Sound Shakespeare -- 3.Sound Dickens -- 4.Gothic Adaptations `Sell It for Its Horror': 1931 Gothic/Horror Adaptations and the Victory of the Shadow -- 5.Biopic Adaptations: Adapting Charles Laughton -- 6.Adaptations for Children: From Pre-Code to Post-Code Hollywood -- 7.Conclusions: Radical Adaptations. More info
book		The book of the cinema / foreword by Francois Truffaut; a Chris Milsome book London: Artists House, 1979. Call No: 70:62 MIL; FOLIO Author: Milsome, Chris [editorial director] Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Artists House PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: 240 p. ; 32 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; SOUND; PRODUCTION; APPRECIATION; CRITICISM; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; FORD, JOHN; HAWKS, HOWARD; WELLES, ORSON; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BERGMAN, INGMAR; GODARD, JEAN-LUC Notes: Includes A-Z filmmakers and actors, and glossary. ISBN: 0861340108 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The British 'B' Film / by Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane, foreword by Rona Anderson London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Call No: 730.2(41) CHI Author: Anderson, Rona (foreword); Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: x, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: B-MOVIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. UK Summary: "The British 'B' Film is the first book to provide an in-depth account of what 'B' films were like, how they came to be made, and how they were received. The careers of many notable actors, directors and oter film-makers were launched in these unpretentious but often very entertaining films that ran for roughly an hour before the cinema 'interval'. Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane's carefully researched study traces the storyof 'B' film production in Britain, from World War 2 to the late 1960s, providing a fresh perspective on the 'B' movie phenomenon , both as artefact and as industry product, as well as highlighting what such films tell us about the changing times in which they were made." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781844573196 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- foreword -- preface -- 1. Big Ships and Little Ships: The Bs at War -- 2. 'What's on with it?': The Rise and Fall of the Bs -- 3. The 'B' Factories: Companies, Studios and Producers -- 4. Behind the Scenes -- 5. On the Screen -- 6. The Men from the Yard -- 7. Britain in the Bs -- 8. The Best of the Bs -- Appendix: Revolving Bs: British Second Features on the Gaumont British, Odeon and Rank Circuits -- More info
journal article		The British Film Industry in Montage (1962) vol.1 iss.1 p.12-13 Author: W., P. PhysDes: Article Subject: BRITISH IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY Summary: Brief account of the British film industry after 1920 and its historical and cultural influences. More info
Interim book		The Compound cinema : the film writings of Harry Alan Potamkin / selected, arranged and introduced by Lewis Jacobs New York: Teachers College Press, 1977. Call No: 67(04) POT Author: Jacobs, Lewis; Potamkin, Harry Alan Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Teachers College Press PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 640p. illus. ; 24cm. Subject: CRITICISM; CRITICS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; POTAMKIN, HARRY ALAN Notes: Includes bibliography, general, name and film indexes. ISBN: 080771559X More info
book		The Documentary film in Australia / edited by Ross Lansell and Peter Beilby North Melbourne: Cinema Papers in association with Film Victoria, c1982. Call No: 761(94) DOC Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Beilby, Peter; Lansell, Ross CorpAuthor: Film Victoria Place: North Melbourne Publisher: Cinema Papers in association with Film Victoria PubDate: c1982 PhysDes: 205 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS. AUSTRALIA; FILMMAKING, AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; BAKER, SUZANNE; EDWARDS, JOHN; MCMAHON, TERENCE; BRADBURY, DAVID; NOONAN, CHRIS; HURLEY, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN Summary: Collection of essays on Australian documentary, covering the history of documentary in Australia and world-wide up until the early 1980s, documentary production, interviews with key documentary makers, information on documentary preservation and repositories, and hypotheses on the future of documentary-making in Australia. Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0959564721 : $12.95 Aust LON: 2380995 Contents: 1. What is a documentary? / John Langer; 2. A brief history of the documentary -- 1890s Australia / Chris Long -- 1900s world-wide and Australia / Ray Edmonston, Jenny Trustum -- 1910s Australia / Chris Long -- World War 1 / Phil Taylor -- 1920s world-wide and Australia / Andrew Pike -- 1930s world-wide / Jonathan Dawson -- 1930s Australia / Chris Long -- Early 1940s World War 2 / Phil Taylor -- Late 1940s world-wide / Brian McFarlane -- Late 1940s Australia / Tom Politis -- 1950s world-wide / Keith Connolly -- 1950s Australia / Anthony Buckley -- 1960s world-wide / John Pruzanski -- 1960s Australia / Ross Lansell -- 1970s world-wide and Australia / Gillian Coote -- Some issues and concerns of the 1970s / Barbara Alysen, David McDougall, Noel Purdon and Albie Thoms -- The 1980s and beyond / Ian Stocks --; 3. Documentary production today -- Government / Bruce Moir -- Specialist film units / Robert Rothols -- Television / Brian Davies -- Commerce and industry / Eve Ash and Ian McFayden -- Independent / Curtis Levy; 4. Case-histories -- Government: Suzzane Baker, John Edwards, Oliver Howes and Stephen Ramsey / Ian Stocks -- Specialist film units: Ross Campbell / Robert Rothol -- Television: Jeremy Cornford and Peter Luck / Jeremy Cornford and Nick Herd -- Commerce and industry: Terence McMahon / Eve Ash -- Independent: David Bradbury and Chris Noonan / Barbara Alysen --; 5. The marketplace / Kim Dalton --; 6. Some documentary themes -- Documentary traditions before Grierson: the case of Frank Hurley / Andrew Pike -- The Grierson tradition / Jonathan Dawson -- Propaganda then and now / John Hughes -- The television age / Tom Haydon --; 7. Preserving the past / Barbara Alysen --; 8. The documentary of the future / Fred Harden More info
Interim book		The great movie serials : their sound and fury / by Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972. Call No: 725.33 HAR Author: Glut, Donald F.; Harmon, Jim Source: US Place: Garden City, N.Y. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc. PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: xix, 384 p. : illus ; 22 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; SERIALS ISBN: 038509079X More info
book		The history of the British film 1929-1939 : film making in 1930s Britain / Rachael Low London Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Call No: 71(41) LOW Author: Low, Rachael CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Sydney Publisher: George Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: xv, 452 p. : ill. ; 25cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; CENSORSHIP. UK; QUOTA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Notes: Spine title: Film making in 1930s Britain; Published in association with the British Film Institute; Ill on lining papers; Bibliography: p282. - List of films : p287-413. - Includes index ISBN: 0047910429 LON: bnb04791042; 3712956 More info
book		Hollywood 1938 : motion pictures' greatest year / by Catherine Jurca Berkeley: University of California Press, c2012. Call No: 71(73) "1938" JUR Author: Jurca, Catherine Source: US Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c2012 PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: USA; USA. 1930's; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; FILM; HOLLYWOOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; FOUR DAUGHTERS (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938); BOYS TOWN (US, Norman Taurog, 1938); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1938) Summary: "In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars who were "poison at the box office", and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that the public was fed up with the movies. Jurca describes their desperate attempt to win back audiences by launching Motion Pictures' Greatest Year, a massive, and unsuccessful, public relations campaign conducted in theaters and newspapers across North America. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, movie-goers, and the motion pictures themselves, she analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; "Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"; Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-261), index and filmography ISBN: 9780520271807 Donation: Donated by Senses of CInema, 2013 Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hollywood looks at its audience -- The campaign -- Annus horribilis -- Goldwyn's folly -- Such a thing as bad publicity -- The moviegoing habit -- Exhibitors, the movie quiz contest, and a divided industry -- the minds of exhibitors -- The carrot and the stick -- The quiz contest on the ground -- What the contest did for me -- Independents rebel -- The campaign and the press -- The film industry speaks its mind -- Marginal moviegoers -- The gossip columnists -- The dailies have their say -- The films -- "The finest array of productions" -- Ninety-four films -- The death of glamour -- Human films -- The human side of screwball -- You can't take it with you -- Four daughters -- Boys town -- Marie Antoinette -- That's entertainment -- The fourth estate -- Conclusion: motion pictures' worst year -- appendix 1 -- appendix 2 -- notes -- index -- More info
Interim book		Hollywood by starlight / by R.J. Minney London: Chapman & Hall, 1935. Call No: 46(794) MIN Author: Minney, R.J. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Chapman & Hall PubDate: 1935 PhysDes: 264p. : illus. : 19cm. Subject: HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index. More info
journal article		The Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood 100 Years in The Hollywood Reporter (03/03/1987) vol.296 iss.10 p.S1-S140 PhysDes: Focus Issue Subject: HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; ACTORS. USA; COSTUMES; MUSIC, FILM; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; COLUMBIA PICTURES Summary: A special edition of The Hollywood Reporter dedicated to Hollywood's centenary. Magazine looks at the formation of Hollywood, silent cinema, the Studio system, noted personalities, and the current industry. Articles focus on changing attitudes, costumes, actors, the coming of sound and musical scores and industry modernisation. More info
book		In glorious technicolor : a century of film and how it has shaped us / Francine Stock with Stephen Hughes London: Pimlico, 2011. Call No: 70 STO Author: Stock, Francine; Hughes, Stephen Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Pimlico PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: 344 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's; BIRTH OF A NATION , THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Weine, 1920); CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) SEE CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS; FLESH AND THE DEVIL (US, Clarence Brown, 1926); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933); BETE HUMAINE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938); BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942); SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); BANDE A PART (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964); 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976); AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); TOP GUN (US, Tony Scott, 1986); WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . (US, Rob Reiner, 1989); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994); THREE COLOURS: RED (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) SEE TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE; THREE COLOURS: RED (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) SEE TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE; THREE COLOURS: WHITE (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) SEE TROIS COULEURS: BLANC; TROIS COULEURS: BLANC (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (FR/SZ/PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994); ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004); AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009); UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (TH/UK/FR/G/SP/NE, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) Summary: Charting key films from the past hundred years, along with technological developments and historical landmarks, Francine Stock explores in compelling detail the nature of our relationship with film - from the first screenings of the Lumiere Brothers' short films, which saw audiences shrinking from oncoming trains, to the perception-altering 3-D Avatar. The twenties saw the birth of celebrity, still so influential even today. With the influence of Freud and the unconscious came film noir, anticipated by dark European classics like La Bete Humaine; Hollywood in the fifties turned ideological fears into lurid sci-fi and body-snatching horror; with the social change of the sixties came refracted ways of seeing, from Alfie to theStargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey or a compelling seventies nightmares like Carrie. Moving towards our own century, Francine Stock considers how film reflects back on itself, bending time and technology to look to the future. More than a century on from those earliest awe-inspiring images, we are still in thrall to the power of film. In this fascinating, entertaining and illuminating book Francine Stock shows how film both reflects and remakes our world. ISBN: 9781845951993 More info
Interim book		An Innocent in Hollywood / By Clarence Winchester Illustrated by Goetz London: Cassell and Company, Limited., 1936. Call No: 46(794) WIN Author: Winchester, Clarence Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Cassell and Company, Limited. PubDate: 1936 PhysDes: xiv, 145p. : illus. : 20cm. Subject: HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; STAR SYSTEM Notes: Includes index. More info
book		Making pictures : a century of European cinematography / created by IMAGO, the Federation of European Cinematography London: Aurum, 2003. Call No: 633.3(4) MAK Author: Michael Leitch (ed.) CorpAuthor: Imago Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Aurum PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 481 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; NEOREALISM; ITALY; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUNGARY; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; NYKVIST, SVEN; ROTUNNO, GIUSEPPE; Cardiff, Jack; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; MASTROIANNI, MARCELLO; TOVOLI, LUCIANO Summary: Making Pictures is the first book systematically to examine and document the technical and creative role of the cinematographer in European cinema over the past 100 years. Individual contributions cover a wide range of themes, periods and genres and combine to provide a thorough and authoritative treatment of the subject. At the heart of the book is a section containing a film-by-film analysis of the 100 European films which, according to a jury of contemporary cinematographers, represent the very best examples of their art and demonstrate technical or creative mastery on the part of the cinematographer concerned. [Taken from inside cover] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN: 1854108891 Language: English Contents: "Coming from afar" is written by Luciano Tovoli. Chapter:"The cinematographers' view" is written by Jack Cardiff, Sven Nykist & Giuseppe Rotunno. Chapter: "The director and the cinematographer" is written by Bernado Bertolucci. Chapter: "The actor's view" is written by Marcello Mastroianni. Other chapter contributions made by Michael Leitch, Cathy Greenhalgh, Zoe Bicat & Barry Salt More info
book		Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck : the golden years at Twentieth Century Fox / selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer New York: Grove Press, c1993. Call No: 81ZAN MEM Author: Behlmer, Rudy (ed.) Edition: First edition 1993 Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Grove Press PubDate: c1993 PhysDes: xxiii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. Summary: '...A treasure trove of legend and lore, insights and nostalgia, Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck is as entertaining as it is informative, and full of secrets and surprises. Illustrated with photographs as intimate and candid as the correspondance itself, it offers a chronicle of Hollywood's most glamorous age and rich testimony to the taste, showmanship, and vision of of its most resilient, efficient and enduring producer." -- BOOK JACKET Notes: "A selection of Darryl F. Zanuck's letters and memoranda during the glory days of 20th Century-Fox (1935-1956)"--Introd; Includes index ISBN: 0802115403 Contents: -- foreword by Philip Dunne -- preface -- one: twentieth century-fox: off and running -- two: twentieth century-fox: a major force -- three: world war II: business is fine, thank you --four: semidocumentaries, films noir, literary works, and sleepers -- five: the going gets tough -- six: the going gets tougher -- seven: cinemascope and stereophonic sound to the rescue -- afterword -- about Darryl F. Zanuck -- index -- More info
Levy Collection book		The movie musical from Vitaphone to 42nd Street : as reported in a great fan magazine / edited by Miles Kreuger New York: Dover Publications, 1975. Call No: 751.1 MOV Author: Kreuger, Miles (ed.) Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Dover Publications PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: 367 pages ; 28 cm Subject: MUSICALS; MUSICALS. USA; CRITICISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) Summary: "The editor, Miles Kreuger, head of the Institute of the American Musical and the foremost authority on Hollywood musicals, has provided an introduction outlining the little-known history of sound films from the 1890's through 1928 and has written informative brief texts for each of the following years through 1933 and for a final section on Record Reviews. An ideal browsing book that will give you hours of pleasure, this unusual volume is a unique sourcebook in film history that will intrigue you for many years to come." -- BOOK BACK COVER Notes: "An anthology of selected articles and illustrations from Photoplay magazine which appeared between 1926 and 1933." -- Libraries Australia ISBN: 0486231542 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- introduction: from the beginnings through 1928 -- 1926-1928 -- 1929 -- 1930 -- 1931 -- 1932 -- 1933 -- record reviews -- index of films -- index of persons -- More info
Yet to catalogue book		Movie parade / by Paul Rotha London New York: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc, [1936]. 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 More info
book		Movies of the thirties / edited by Ann Lloyd ; consultant editor, David Robinson London: Orbis, 1983. Call No: 70 MOV Author: Robinson, David, 1930; Lloyd, Ann, 1945 Place: London Publisher: Orbis PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 225 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0856135232 : ª7.95 LON: 3101635 More info
book		The Picture Palaces of Melbourne / Trevor Walters [Mentone, Vic.]: [Trevor Walters], 2009. Call No: 38(94) WAL Author: Walters, Trevor Edition: rev. 2009 ed. Source: AT Place: [Mentone, Vic.] Publisher: [Trevor Walters] PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: 282 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. ATHENAEUM; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. CAPITOL [VIC]; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. REGENT THEATRE; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. STATE FILM THEATRE (VIC); EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Sparkling glass, gleaming gold, polished wood. Plush seats, awesome chandeliers, welcoming attendants in crisp uniforms. A mighty Wurlitzer that rose up from the bowels and burst into enchanting, entrancing chords at the hands of a musical maestro. It was Saturday night at the "flicks", and for thirty years, the Regent, State and Capitol Theatres provided the weekly entertainment for thouands of families - their awesome opulence and fastidious staff presentation as much part of the experience as the heroics of the stars on the silver screen. Then came television... Trevor Walters, steeped in the cinema industry, traces the startling rise and dramatic fall of those exciting, enchanting edifices of entertainment, the Picture Palaces of Melbourne" -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Cover title ISBN: 0975101714 Contents: -- the picture palaces of melbourne -- introduction -- capitol theatre -- state theatre -- regent theatre -- melbourne's picture theatres from silents to the present -- melbourne's picture theatres the 70mm houses -- hoyts plaza theatre the cinerama years -- they dont call them suburban picture theatres anymore -- stories from the cinema industry -- epilogue -- ID2: 257 More info
book		Romantic comedy in Hollywood : from Lubitsch to Sturges / James Harvey New York: Knopf, 1987. Call No: 732(73) HAR Author: Harvey, James, 1929 Edition: 1st ed Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Knopf PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HOLLYWOOD; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROMANTIC COMEDY; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM; ARTHUR, JEAN; ASTAIRE, FRED; BRACKEN, EDDIE; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; COOPER, GARY; DUNNE, IRENE; GABLE, CLARK; GRANT, CARY; HARLOW, JEAN; HAWKS, HOWARD; LA CAVA, GREGORY; Lombard, Carole; LOY, MYRNA; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCAREY, LEO; MCCREA, JOEL; POWELL, WILLIAM; ROGERS, GINGER; Stanwyck, Barbara; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); FIFTH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939); PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942); SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948) Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0394503392 LON: 5273661 More info
book		Sexualität und widerstand [= sexuality and resistance] : Internationale Filmkulturen / Aylin Basaran, Julia B. Köhne, Klaudija Sabo, Christina Wieder (Hg.) Berlin: Mandelbaum, 2018. Call No: 749.0 SEX Author: Basaran, Aylin ; Köhne, Julia B ; Sabo, Klaudija ; Wieder, Christina Place: Berlin Publisher: Mandelbaum PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: SEX IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS; SCIENTISTS IN FILMS; SCIENCE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; EKSTASE (CZ/A, Gustav Machaty, 1933); BERKELEY, BUSBY; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); SUNA NO ONNA (JA, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964); RANI RADOVI (YU, Zelmir Zilnik, 1969); YUGOSLAVIA; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS; TANGOS - L'EXIL DE GARDEL (FR/AG, Fernando E. Solanas, 1985); ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; BLACK PANTHER (US, Ryan Coogler, 2018) Summary: "Wie inszeniert das Medium Film das Zusammenspiel von Sexualität, Widerstand und Körperpolitiken? Welche Formen von Sexualität und erotischer Sinnlichkeit, die entweder als widerständige Handlungsweisen oder als Teil von politischem Widerstand adressiert werden können, wurden in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten in internationalen Filmkulturen visualisiert und damit hervorgehoben? Kann die Darstellung des sexualisierten Körpers oder sexuellen Akts in bestimmten Kontexten zu einer politischen Waffe werden? Welchen Raum erhalten dabei divergierende sexuelle Orientierungen und Praktiken etwa im Verbund mit homosexuellem Begehren? Der Sammelband vereint eine Mischung aus interdisziplinären und künstlerischen Zugängen zum Thema Sexualität und Widerstand und spürt seinen (audio-)visuellen Vermittlungen aus lokaler und transnationaler Perspektive nach. Das breite Spektrum an Textgenres reicht von akademischen Reflexionen über Malerei bis hin zu Dichtkunst und Bildcollagen. Fragen der Film-, Medien-, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie Geschlechterforschung und Zeitgeschichte treffen in diesem Band auf sexualwissenschaftliche und medizinhistorische Ansätze." -- FROM BLURB Notes: In German and English ISBN: 9783854768265 Language: German and English Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Sexualität und Widerstand : Internationale Filmkulturen / Aylin Basaran, Julia B. Köhne, Klaudija Sabo, Christina Wieder -- "Aufklärung? Abschreckung? in der mit Sexualität gespannten Atmosphäre des Kinos?" : Sexualität in Wiener klinischen und populärwissenschaftlichen Filmen der Moderne / Katrin Pilz -- 'Die neue Frau' oder 'die verlorene Rebellion' / Karin Moser -- Experiment : Projektionenserie / Barbara Eichinger -- From Siegfried Kracauer to Busby Berkeley : Ornamental Bodies in 1930 's film / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Eisensteins sexuelle Politiken / Peter Grabher -- Sex als Tauschmittel : Beispiele aus Mauthausen / Helga Amesberger und Brigitte Halbmayr -- "That's big talk for a little gun" : Geschlechterrollenwechsel in Nicholas Rays "Johnny Guitar" (1954) / Klaus S. Davidowicz -- Treibsand und Abgrund : Sexualität und Geschlechterkampf in Hiroshi Teshigaharas "Die Frau in den Dünen" (1964) / Gerda Klingenböck -- Erotik, Gewalt und Folklore : die Inszenierung geschlechtlicher und ethnischer Differenz im jugoslawischen Kino um 1968 / Anna Schober -- Die Revolution nach der Revolution : die jugoslawische Jugend im Aufbruch im Film "Rani Radovi" (1961 von Želimir Žilnik / Klaudija Sabo -- Absentes vergegenwärtigen : Schwangerschafisabbruch und Fötalimagologie in westlichen Filmkulturen seit den 1960er Jahren / Julia Barbara Köhne -- Ästhetische Grenzüberschreitungen und widerständige Körper in Fernando Solanas' "Tangos : El Exilio de Gardel" (1985) / Christina Wieder -- Vor der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies : Živko Nikolic' "Lepota Poroka" ["Die Schönheit der Sünde"] (1986) / Andreas Filipovic -- Sexy Zombies? : On the Improbable Possibility of Loving the Undead / Kobi Kabalek -- Goldene Zitronen : Körperpolitiken in Beyoncés "Lemonade" (2016) / Marietta Kesting -- Figurationen der Unkalkulierbarkeit : Maren Ades "Toni Erdmann" (2016) / Monika Bernold -- Wie man Körper wahrnimmt : eine Einübung nach Lukrez / Thomas Ballhausen -- What If the Revolution could be Televised? : "Black Panther" (2018) and the Utopia of Wakanda / Aylin Basaran and Justin Leggs -- Come on Baby, Light my Fire / Sonja Gassner -- Frank Stern zum 75sten / Andreas Huyssen -- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren. More info
Yet to catalogue book		Studies in documentary / [by] Alan Lovell and Jim Hillier London: Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute, 1972. Call No: 761(41) LOV Author: Lovell, Alan; Hillier, Jim, joint author Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 176 p. illus., ports. 20 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; FREE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; GRIERSON, JOHN; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; REISZ, KAREL; RICHARDSON, TONY; FIRES WERE STARTED (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1943) Summary: "If the British cinema has a central tradition, a case can be made for it to be the documentary tradition. In this volume, Alan Lovell and Jim Hillier study the three main epochs of this tradition. Alan Lovell writes about the aims and theories of the seminal producer of documentaries in the 1930s, Hohn Grierson, showing how the theory became practice and with what results. His detailed and lucid account, supplemented by a full filmography, is likely to prove invaluable to students of the period. Jim Hillier takes the narative into the '40s and writes about the work of Humphrey Jennings, whose poetic imagination and gift for character transformed the reality of wartime England into contemplative statements: Fires Were Started remains one of the few genuine works of art to come from the cinema during the war. Finally, Alan Lovell describes the origins of the Free Cinema movement of the '50s, attempting to separate the individual talents (Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson) from the shared aesthetic and political assumptions of the time, and asks the question: How far was Free Cinema a genuine cause and how far was it a means of self-promotion for a limited group? This is not a book written to win friends among the film-making establishment, and its forthright view from the 1970s is likely to arouse passion in interested quarters." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-175 ISBN: 0436099187; 0436099195 (pbk.) LON: 548482 548482 More info
book		The theatre in my time / by St. John Ervine London: Rich & Cowan, 1933. Call No: 67 ERV Author: Ervine, St. John Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Rich & Cowan PubDate: 1933 PhysDes: 253 p. ; 19 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD Summary: A history of the theatre from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century and commentary about the effect of cinema and radio on entertainment and theatre going. Includes a survey on the effect of moving pictures on children and adolescents by the Edinburgh Cinema Enquiry Committee in 1933 More info
book		Women film-makers in Australia : (1920 - 1933) / Sally Speed [Australia] : [s.n.], 1984: Call No: 462-02(94) SPE Author: Speed, Sally Place: [Australia] : [s.n.], 1984 PhysDes: 64 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; LYELL, LOTTIE; LOVELY, LOUISE; MCDONAGH, PAULETTE; MCDONAGH, ISABEL; PAVIS, YVONNE; HOWARD, KATE; MALLON, MARY; DE LA RUZE, JULIETTE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); THOSE WHO LOVE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1926); FAR PARADISE, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1928); CHEATERS, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1931); TWO MINUTES SILENCE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1933); POSSUM PADDOCK (AT, Kate Howard, 1921); BLUE MOUNTAINS MYSTERY, THE (AT, Raymond Longford & Lottie Lyell, 1921); DINKUM BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1923); FISHERS GHOST (AT, Lottie Lyell, 1924); PETER VERNON'S SILENCE (AT, Lottie Lyell, 1925); CIRCUMSTANCE (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); DAUGHTER OF AUSTRALIA (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); SUNSHINE SALLY (AT, Yvonne Pavis, 1922); JEWELLED NIGHTS (AT, Louise Lovely & Wilton Welch, 1925); CHEATERS, THE (AT, Paulette McDonagh, 1929); HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; EXHIBITION OF SILENT FILMS LON: abn98267376; 14063689 More info

Online resources

Some of our items are now available digitally. On the catalogue they are indicated with an ‘online resource’ label above the thumbnail.

Some items have direct links that you can use if you are eligible. Some items are only available to RMIT staff and students or may be otherwise limited.

Some items are not deliverable directly. Please request these items using the search results form (or contact us) and we will contact you to check eligibility and to arrange delivery. Please note that digital clippings files for films prior to 2020 may have different contents to their physical equivalents and you should check both versions if possible.

Country codes