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Ambiguity and film criticism : reasonable doubt / Hoi Lun Law Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 26/02/2021.
Call No: 620 HOIAuthor: Law, Hoi Lun Edition: 2021Place: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 26/02/2021PhysDes: ix, 191 pages : illustratedSeries: Palgrave close readings in film and televisionSubject: CRITICISM ; LATE SPRING [BANSHUN] (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1949) ; [TEN] 10 [DIX] (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; FORCE MAJEURE [TURIST] (SW/FR/NO, Ruben Ostlund, 2014) ; BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956) Summary: This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. -- cover blurbISBN: 9783030629472Contents: Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility.
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Bogey : the films of Humphrey Bogart / by Clifford McCarty New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1979.
Call No: 81BOG MCCAuthor: McCarty, Clifford Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Citadel PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: 187 p. : ports. ; 28 cmSubject: BOGART, HUMPHREY ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; STAND-IN (US, Tay Garnett, 1937) ; ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938) ; ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939) ; HIGH SIERRA (US, Raoul Walsh, 1941) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; BEAT THE DEVIL (UK/IT/US, John Huston, 1953) ; CAINE MUTINY, THE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1954) ; SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954) ; BAREFOOT CONTESSA, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954) ; KEY LARGO (US, John Huston, 1948) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (US, John Huston, 1952) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) Summary: A list of Bogart’s films from 1930s to the 1950s, with the casts and descriptions of each film.ISBN: 0806500018
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Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Call No: 631.19 PIPAuthor: Pippin, Robert B. Source: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cmSubject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) ; TALK TO HER [HABLE CON ELLA] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) ; JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998) ; DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC Summary: "In this book, philosopher Robert B. Pippin reveals how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodovar's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and in the Dardenne brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (with an eye to cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human." - taken from back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780226672007Contents: Section I: Cinema As Reflective Form 1. Cinematic Reflection -- 2. Cinematic Self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Section II: Moral Variations 3. Devils & Angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her -- 4. Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III: Social Pathologies 5. Cinematic Tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Can "Life" Itself be "False"? -- 6. Love & Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV: Irony & Mutuality 7. Cinematic Irony: The Strange Case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- 8. Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V: Agency & Meaning 9. Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- 10. Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne BrothersID2: 343
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Humphrey Bogart / Alan Frank London: Wattle Books, 1982.
Call No: 81BOG FRAAuthor: Frank, Alan Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Wattle BooksPubDate: 1982PhysDes: 80 p. : ill. (some col) ; 29 cmSubject: BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938) ; ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939) ; HIGH SIERRA (US, Raoul Walsh, 1941) ; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE (US, John Huston, 1948) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; WE'RE NO ANGELS (US, Neil Jordan, 1989) ; BAREFOOT CONTESSA, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954) ; SABRINA (US, Billy Wilder, 1954) ; CAINE MUTINY, THE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1954) ; AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (US, John Huston, 1952) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949) ; KEY LARGO (US, John Huston, 1948) Summary: A detailed book on Bogart’s life that reveals him as a man and as an actor. Descriptions of all his films are provided, from stage to acting in films.ISBN: 0600390543
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In a lonely place / Dana Polan London: BFI Publishing, 1993.
Call No: 79INA POLAuthor: Polan, Dana Bart CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: BFI PublishingPubDate: 1993PhysDes: 72 p. : ill. ; 19 cmSeries: BFI film classicsSubject: IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72)ISBN: 0851703607 (pbk) : No price; 0851703607LON: 9913329 9913329
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Movies about the movies : Hollywood reflected / Christopher Ames Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
Call No: 750.1 AMEAuthor: Ames, Christopher, 1956 Place: Lexington, Ky.Publisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: c1997PhysDes: ix, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FILMS IN FILMS ; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS ; STAR IS BORN, A (US, William Wellman, 1937) ; STAR IS BORN, A (US, George Cukor, 1954) ; WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD (US, George Cukor, 1932) ; STAND-IN (US, Tay Garnett, 1937) ; BOY MEETS GIRL (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1938) ; STAR, THE (US, Stuart Heisler, 1952) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (US, Herbert Ross, 1981) ; PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE (US, Woody Allen, 1985) ; LAST ACTION HERO (US, John McTiernan, 1993) ; BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1952) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950) ; PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992) Summary: Hundreds of films belonging to the genre of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. This paradox - the simultaneous debunking and celebration of Hollywood - lies at the heart of the genre. Through close analysis of the best of these films. Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed (and constructs itself), particularly through such moments of explicit self-referentiality as the movie-within-a-movie and scenes set in studiosNotes: Includes filmography (p. 227); Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-244) and indexISBN: 0813120187 (cloth : alk. paper)LON: 12952826
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Violent America : the movies 1946-1964 / Lawrence Alloway New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971.
Call No: 730.3(73) ALLAuthor: Alloway, Lawrence Edition: 1971Place: New YorkPublisher: Museum of Modern ArtPubDate: 1971PhysDes: 96 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: ACTION FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA ; KILLERS, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1964) ; KILLERS, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946) ; LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) Notes: distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.ISBN: 9780870706226Donation: Megan McMurchy
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