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Call No: 71(73) HOB
Author: Hoberman, J.
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: The New Press
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: xxi, 383 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; USA; FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948); RIO GRANDE (US, John Ford, 1950); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); ABOVE AND BEYOND (US, Frank Melvin & Norman Panama, 1952); THEM! (US, Gordon Douglas, 1954); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Summary: " An Army of Phantoms- a major new work of film history and cultural criticism from J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing today addresses the dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture during the Cold War's first decade. Heralded by a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the years between 1946 and 1956 brought an explosion of affluence and anxiety. Along with U.S. dominance over Europe and a new war in Asia came the birth of the civil rights movement and the first stirrings of a new youth culture. The period saw the movie industry purged of its political left at the same time as the ideological action hero John Wayne reached the peak of his career. Analyzing Hollywood's cavalry Westerns, apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars, along with media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, and drawing on FBI files and studio records, Hoberman has orchestrated a colorful, sometimes surreal pageant wherein Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe. Essential reading for film and history buffs, An Army of Phantoms expands on the analysis of the 1960's found in Hoberman's critically acclaimed The Dream Life and offers a lively and astute history of film that is also, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard, about the film of history." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-366) and index
ISBN: 9781595580054
Contents: Acknowledgments -- introduction: from God's mouth to your ear -- prologue: mission for Hollywood - Stalingrad to V-J Day -- Pt. 1. Aliens among us : Hollywood, 1946-47 -- pt. 2. Fighting for the ministry of truth, justice, and the American way, 1948-50 -- pt. 3. Redskin menace from outer space : America at war, 1950-52 -- pt. 4. The PaxAmericanArama : Eisenhower power, 1953-55 -- pt. 5. Searchin' : America on the road, 1955-56 -- epilogue: the face of the crowd -- sources -- index --

Call No: FRONT DESK
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Television & Radio School. Jerzy Toeplitz Library.
PubDate: 1989
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's

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

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 --

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES
Edition: 1978
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Uban Council
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 189 p. : illus. : 26 cm
Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's
Notes: 2nd International Film Festival of Hong Kong June 26 to July 9, 1978
Language: Cantonese and English

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES
Edition: 1986
Source: UK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Urban Council
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 160 p. : illus. : 29 cm
Series: Hong Kong International Film Festival Catalogue
Subject: MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's
Notes: The Tenth Hong Kong International Film Festival March 27 - April 11, 1986
ISBN: 9627040193
Language: Cantonese and English

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

Call No: 46(794) PAU
Author: Paul, Elliot
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd.
PubDate: 1956
PhysDes: 160p. : illus. : 19cm.
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; STAR SYSTEM

Call No: 71(512.317) GLO
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Source: HK
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 300 p. ; 27 cm.
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; STUDIOS, FILM; GENRES; SINGAPORE; MALAYSIA
Summary: What made [Hong Kong studio] Kong Ngee productions fascinating was its urban touch. The company was initially formed through the tutelage of The Union Film Enterprise Limited veterans, who acted as mentors for a new generation of actors, in works like the company’s founding film The Rouge Tigress (1955), Mother’s Boy Parts One and Two (1956), Blood is Thicker (1956) etc. The company then proceeded to make films on location in Malaysia and Singapore, which led to the ‘Nanyang Trilogy’ – Blood Stains the Valley of Love (1957), China Wife (1957), Moon over Malaya (1957). These films turned newcomers Patrick Tse, Nam Hung and Kar Ling into stars, and gradually fashioned a studio style that set Kong Ngee apart from other Cantonese productions of the time. Kong Ngee made its name with modern romance, both tragic and comic. Reviewing the history of Kong Ngee, from its smooth beginning to its disappointing end, the company started out in the footsteps of the Union tradition but effortlessly moved on from the cultural milieu of the May Fourth Movement to cultivate a modern urban bourgeois sensibility. Regrettably, towards the end of the 1960s, it was thrown off course by the restless pulse of that era and has since fallen by the wayside. To this day, we have not been able to revive this urban cosmopolitan drama that was once part of Hong Kong cinema. Writers in this volume have put together their efforts for a multifaceted study on Kong Ngee, encompassing subjects from the star image to urban media, from genre development to literary adaptation, alongside comparisons between creative talents and individual companies. Last but not least the complex relations between Hong Kong cinema and its Singapore/Malaysian financiers. [Abridged from introduction].
ISBN: 9628050389

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

Call No: 70 COO
Author: Cook, David A
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Norton
PubDate: c1981
PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; EXPRESSIONISM; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; ITALY; NEOREALISM; WAR AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; THIRD WORLD; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; USSR; MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692
ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707
LON: 1583335 1583335

PhysDes: Focus Issue
Subject: 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.

Call No: 46(794) POW
Author: Powdermaker, Hortense
Source: US
Place: Boston MA
Publisher: Little Brown & Co.
PubDate: 1951
PhysDes: 342p. : 20cm.
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; STAR SYSTEM
Notes: Includes index.

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 OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 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); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976); AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (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

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

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 --

Call No: 709 MOV
CorpAuthor: Bloomsbury
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: p. 521-780 : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY
Summary: " Created from "The Movie' the most comprehensive history available of the moving picture and the people involved in this 20th century art form. A marvellous miscellany of movie information about the stars of the silver screen." COVER JACKET
Notes: This book Movie nostalgia contains chapter 27
ISBN: 0906223768
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 71(73) KIN
Author: King, Geoff
Source: USA
Place: New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 296 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; GENRES; 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; USA. 1950's; USA. 1960's; USA. 1970's
Summary: Recent Hollywood is examined from three main perspectives: film style, industry and social-historical context. Each is considered in its own right, sometimes resulting in different ways of defining New Hollywood. One of the book's central arguments is that a combination of these approaches is needed if we are to understand the latest incarnations of the cinema that continues to dominate the global market. Issues covered include: the Hollywood Renaissance from the late 1960s to the mid late 1970s; industrial factors shaping the construction of the corporate blockbuster; the role of auteur directors, genre and stardom in New Hollywood; narrative spectacle in the contemporary blockbuster and the relationship between production for the big and small screen.
Notes: Bibliography: p.274-284 Index: p.285-296
ISBN: 1860647499 (hbk.) 1860647502 (pbk.)

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

Call No: 451-01(94) BAR
Author: Barnett, Chelsea
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Victoria
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: vii, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); SMILEY (UK, Anthony Kimmins, 1956); SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957)
Summary: "Set against the shifting social and political backdrop of a nation throwing off the shackles of one war yet faced with the instability of the new world order, Reel Men probes the concept of 1950s masculinity itself, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time. Offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, the book challenges the common belief that the fifties was a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking. Reel Men engages with fourteen Australian feature films made and released between 1949 and 1962, and examines the multiple masculinities in circulation at this time. Dealing with beloved Australian films like Jedda (1955), Smiley (1956), and The Shiralee (1957), and national icons of the silver screen including Chips Rafferty, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, and Peter Finch, Reel Men delves into our cultural past to dismantle powerful assumptions about film, the fifties, and masculinity in Australia." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780522872477
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1 the Australian film industry: dead or alive? -- 2 Australian nation, Australian men -- 3 beyond the breadwinner -- 4 assimilation stories -- 5 anything for the family? -- 6 more than mates? -- conclusion -- bibliography -- index --

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 [I WAS A FIREMAN] (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