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book		50 major film-makers / edited by Peter Cowie South Brunswick, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, c1975. Call No: 802.25 FIF Author: Cowie, Peter Place: South Brunswick, N.J. Publisher: A. S. Barnes PubDate: c1975 PhysDes: 287 p. : ill. ; 29 cm Subject: ANDERSON, LINDSAY; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; BONDARCUK, SERGEJ; BRESSON, ROBERT; BROOKS, RICHARD; BUNUEL, LUIS; CHABROL, CLAUDE; DEMY, JACQUES; DONNER, JORN; DONSKOJ, MARK; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FORMAN, MILOS; FRANJU, GEORGES; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; HAANSTRA, BERT; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ICHIKAWA, JUN; IVENS, JORIS; JANCSO, MIKLOS; KAZAN, ELIA; KOZINCEV, GRIGORIJ; KUBRICK, STANLEY; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LOSEY, JOSEPH; LUMET, SIDNEY; MAKAVEJEV, DUSAN; MALLE, LOUIS; MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE; NEMEC, JAN; OSHIMA NAGISA; PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO; PENN, ARTHUR; POLANSKI, ROMAN; RAY, SATYAJIT; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROHMER, ERIC; ROSI, FRANCESCO; SCHLESINGER, JOHN; SCHORM, EVALD; SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY; TATI, JACQUES; TORRE NILSSON, LEOPOLDO; TROELL, JAN; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; WELLES, ORSON; WIDERBERG, BO Notes: Includes filmographies and index ISBN: 0498012557 : $20.00 LON: 723676 ID2: 291 More info
book		Akira Kurosawa and intertextual cinema / James Goodwin Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Call No: 81KUR GOO Author: Goodwin, James, 1945 Place: Baltimore Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xi, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-253) and index ISBN: 0801846609 (acid-free paper); 0801846617 (pbk. : acid-free paper) LON: 93015618; 9986196 ID2: 291 More info
book		Cinema de la cruaute. English : from Bunuel to Hitchcock / by Andre Bazin ; edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut ; translated by Sabine d' Estree with the assistance of Tiffany Fliss New York: Seaver Books, 1982. Call No: 62 BAZ Author: Bazin, Andre, 1918-1958 Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Seaver Books PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: xvii, 204 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: CRITICISM; STROHEIN, ERICH VON; DREYER, CARL TH.; STURGES, PRESTON; BUNUEL, LUIS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Translation of: Le cinema de la cruaute ISBN: 0394178262 (pbk.) : $9.95; 039451808X : $12.95 LON: 81013545; 2065704 ID2: 291 More info
book		Contemporary Japanese film / by Mark Schilling New York: Weatherhill, 1999. Call No: 71(52) SCH Author: Schilling, Mark, 1949 Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Weatherhill PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: p. cm Subject: JAPAN; SHINODA MASAHIRO; KUROSAWA AKIRA; YAMADA YOJI; ITAMI JUZO; KITANO TAKESHI; OKUYAMA KAZUYOSHI; SAI YOICHI; ISAO TAKAHATA; IWAI SHUNJI; SUO MASAYUKI; SENTO, NAOMI; SENTO TAKENORI; SHINOZAKI MAKOTO; ICHIKAWA, JUN; KORE-EDA HIROKAZU Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0834804158 LON: 21026766 ID2: 291 More info
book		Cultures on celluloid / Keith Reader London New York: Quartet Books, 1981. Call No: 408.1REA Author: Reader, Keith Place: London New York Publisher: Quartet Books PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: 216 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. JAPAN; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. FRANCE; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. UK; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; NOUVELLE VAGUE; FILM NOIR; RENOIR, JEAN; YASUJIRO OZU; KUROSAWA AKIRA; MIZOGUCH KENJI; OSHIMA NAGISA; KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (UK, Robert Hamer, 1949); GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [200]-202; Filmography: p. [203]-209 ISBN: 0704322722 LON: 2099506 ID2: 291 More info
book		Currents in Japanese cinema : essays / by Sato Tadao ; translated by Gregory Barrett Tokyo New York: Kodansha International Kodansha International/USA distributed by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row, 1982. Call No: 71(52) SAT Author: Satso Tadao, 1930 Edition: 1st ed Place: Tokyo New York Publisher: Kodansha International Kodansha International/USA distributed by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: JAPAN; OSHIMA NAGISA; KUROSAWA AKIRA; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; YASUJIRO OZU Notes: Rev. translation of: Nihon eiga shisso shi; Includes index ISBN: 0870118153 (U.S.); 4770013159 (Japan); 0870115073 (U.S.) : $21.50 LON: 2258965 ID2: 291 More info
book		The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969]. Call No: 70 JAC Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New York Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake PubDate: [c1969] PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439 LON: 5011 ID2: 291 More info
book		Film adaptation / edited and with an introduction by James Naremore New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, c2000. Call No: 753 FIL Author: Naremore, James Source: US Place: New Brunswick, N.J Publisher: Rutgers University Press PubDate: c2000 PhysDes: x, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Rutgers depth of field series Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. DOSTOEVSKIJ, FEDOR MIHAJLOVIC; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; CENSORSHIP; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RENOIR, JEAN; AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931); CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995); DAVID COPPERFIELD (US, George Cukor, 1935); DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A [PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE] (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]); DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A [PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE] (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]); EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996); HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN (BL, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971) Summary: "The essays in this volume, most of which have never before been published, raise fundamental questions about cinema and adaptation: what is the nature of the "literary" and the "cinematic"? Why do so many of the films described as adaptations seem to derive from canonical literature rather than from other sources? How do the different media affect the ways stories are told? Film Adaptation offers fresh approaches to the art, theory, and cultural politics of movie adaptations, even challenging what is meant by the term "adaptation" itself. Contributors examine the process of adaptation in both theory and practice, discussing a wide variety of films. James Naremore's introduction provides an accessible historical overview of the field and reveals the importance of adaptation study to the many different academic disciplines now attracted to the analysis of film as commodity, document, and cultural artifact." -- BOOK BLURB (Contributors are André Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Robert B. Ray, Robert Stam, Richard Maltby, Guerric DeBona, O. M. B., Gilberto Perez, Michael Anderegg, Matthew Bernstein, Darlene J. Sadlier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Lesley Stern.) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index ISBN: 0813528135 Contents: -- introduction: film and the reign of adaptation -- adaptation, or the cinema as digest -- adaptation -- The field of "literature and film" -- The dialogics of adaptation -- "to prevent the prevalent type of book" Censorship and adaptation in Hollywood, 1924-1934 -- Dickens, the Depression and MGM's David Copperfield -- Landscape and fiction: A day in the country -- Welles/Shakespeare/film an overview -- high and low: Art cinema and pulp fiction in Yokohama -- The politics of adaptation: how tasty was my little frenchman -- Two forms of adaptation: housekeeping and naked lunch -- Emma in Los Angeles: remaking the book and the city -- annotated bibliography -- contributors -- index -- ID2: 291 More info
book		Film and phenomenology : toward a realist theory of cinematic representation / Allan Casebier Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Call No: 626:165.62 CAS Author: Casebier, Allan Place: Cambridge New York Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: vii, 165 p. ; 24 cm Series: Cambridge studies in film Subject: HUSSERL, EDMUND; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; BORDWELL, DAVID; BAZIN, ANDRE; MARKER, CHRIS; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LACAN, JACQUES; METZ, CHRISTIAN; OSHIMA NAGISA; YASUJIRO OZU; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 159-160; Filmography: p. 161-162 ISBN: 0521411327 (hardback) LON: 7950801 More info
book		Film makers on film making : Statements on their art by thirty directors / Geduld, Harry M. (editor) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. Call No: 802.25 FIL Place: Harmondsworth Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1967 PhysDes: 18 cm; 303 p. Subject: AUTHORSHIP; LUMIERE, LOUIS; PORTER, EDWIN S.; SENNETT, MACK; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; VERTOV, DZIGA; DREYER, CARL TH.; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; RICHARDSON, TONY; COCTEAU, JEAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN; BUNUEL, LUIS; BERGMAN, INGMAR; FELLINI, FEDERICO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; LANG, FRITZ; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; WELLES, ORSON; RAY, SARYAJIT; KUROSAWA AKIRA; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; LEAN, DAVID; RENOIR, JEAN; BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO; ANGER, KENNETH Summary: Does the making of films – a group activity – permit anything that can be called self-expression? Can a director, as the conductor of an orchestra of writers, actors, cameramen and technicians, stamp his personal vision on the films he makes? This and related questions are raised by this collection of statements made by famous directors about their art. Harry Geguld’s anthology of “patristic writings” runs from the days (in 1895) when Louis Lumiere filmed a train entering a station, by way of Charlie Chaplin’s knockabout ad-libbing, to the sophisticated ruminations of Antonioni and Bergman and the ideas behind the nouvelle vague. Here is D.W. Griffith’s scouting the very idea of talking pictures; Mack Sennett on custard pies; Eisenstein on three-dimensional film; Cocteau on the raw materials of illusion; Kurosawa on filming in Japan; Hitchcock on the macabre; and some other twenty leading directors on aspects of their work. In his introduction, Harry Geguld assesses the unique characteristics of motion pictures and comments refreshingly on the eternal controversy of “book into film”. [Taken from back cover.] ID2: 291 More info
book		The films of Akira Kurosawa / by Donald Richie ; with additional material by Joan Mellen Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1996. Call No: 81KUR RIC Author: Richie, Donald, 1924 Edition: 3rd ed., expanded and updated Place: Berkeley, Calif. Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 271 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Filmography: p. 244-258; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0520200268 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 12050136 ID2: 291 More info
book		The flash of capital : film and geopolitics in Japan / Eric Cazdyn Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Call No: 71(520) CAZ Author: Cazdyn, Eric Source: US Place: Durham, NC Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: JAPAN; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS. JAPAN; CRITICISM. JAPAN; ADAPTATIONS. JAPAN; YASUJIRO OZU; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; KUROSAWA AKIRA; KINUGASA TEINOSUKE; OSHII MAMORU; TSUKAMOTO SHINYA; OKUZAKI KENZO; IMAMURA, SHOHEI; OSHIMA NAGISA; YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Hara Kazuo, 1987); ROJO NO REIKON (JA, M. Murata, 1924) ISBN: 0822329395 Contents: I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation -- II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital -- III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic -- IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur -- V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History -- VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics. ID2: 291 More info
book		Great film directors : a critical anthology / edited by Leo Braudy and Morris Dickstein New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Call No: 802.25 GRE Author: Dickstein, Morris; Braudy, Leo Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: xi, 778 p. ; 23 cm Subject: ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BRESSON, ROBERT; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAPRA, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DREYER, CARL TH.; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HAWKS, HOWARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KEATON, BUSTER; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LANG, FRITZ; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; WELLES, ORSON Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0195023129 : $7.50 LON: 952629 ID2: 291 More info
Interim book		International film guide 1966 / edited by Peter Cowie London: Tantivy Press, 1965. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 058 INT "1966" Author: Cowie, Peter Place: London Publisher: Tantivy Press PubDate: 1965 PhysDes: v. Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; ROSI, FRANCESCO; DEMY, JACQUES; BROOKS, RICHARD; HAANSTRA, BERT; LEARNER, KEITH ID2: 291 More info
book		Japanese film directors / Audie Bock ; preface by Donald Richie New York: Published for the Japan Society by Kodansha International, 1978. Call No: 802.25(52) BOC Author: Bock, Audie, 1945 Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Published for the Japan Society by Kodansha International PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 370 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: DIRECTORS. JAPAN; JAPAN; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; YASUJIRO OZU; NARUSE MIKIO; KUROSAWA AKIRA; KEISUKE KINOSHITA; ICHIKAWA, JUN; KOBAYASHI MASAKI; IMAMURA, SHOHEI; OSHIMA NAGISA; SHINODA MASAHIRO Notes: Includes index; Includes filmographies; Bibliography: p. [363]-365 ISBN: 0870113046 : $14.95 LON: 1084155 ID2: 291 More info
personality microfilm collection		KUROSAWA AKIRA Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION PhysDes: Clippings Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA ID2: 291 More info
newspaper article		Kurosawa classics head for cinemas in The Age (13/04/2017) p.26 Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; KUROSAWA, AKIRA Author: [Maddox, Garry] PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE [ACMI]; KUROSAWA AKIRA Summary: A season of Akira Kurosawa films curated by David Stratton will be shown at ACMI from May to June Notes: A ID2: 291 More info
book		The martial arts film / Marilyn D. Mintz South Brunswick [N.J.]: A. S. Barnes, c1978. Call No: 736.35 MIN Author: Mintz, Marilyn D., 1950 Place: South Brunswick [N.J.] Publisher: A. S. Barnes PubDate: c1978 PhysDes: 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; LEE, BRUCE; ALFRED THE GREAT (UK, Clive Donner, 1969); ENTER THE DRAGON (US/HK, Robert Clouse, 1973); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); GOLDEN NEEDLES (US, Robert Clouse, 1974); SUGATA SANSHIRO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1943); CH'UAN CHI (HK, Chang Cheh, 1973); [FIVE] 5 FINGERS OF DEATH [SHAOLIN MARTIAL ARTS] (HK, Chang Cheh, 1974) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 231-234; Filmography: p. 220-229 ISBN: 0498017753 : $9.95 LON: 847828 ID2: 291 More info
journal article		Melbourne Film Festival Report 1971 in Melbourne Film Bulletin (September 1971) p.18-24 Author: Williams, Ross PhysDes: Article; Review Subject: JOE (US, John G. Avildsen, 1970); TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; ROHMER, ERIC; VENT D'EST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970); GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANDRADE, JOAQUIM PEDRO DE; SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY; KUROSAWA AKIRA; TRISTANA (SP/IT/FR, Luis Bunuel, 1970); BUNUEL, LUIS; FAUTE DE L'ABBE MOURET, LA (FR/IT, Georges Franju, 1970); FRANJU, GEORGES; KES (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1970); LOACH, KENNETH; SZABO, ISTVAN Summary: Review of the highlights of the 1971 Melbourne Film Festival. ID2: 291 More info
book		Mr. Smith goes to Tokyo : the Japanese cinema under the American occupation, 1945-1952 / Kyoko Hirano Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1992. Call No: 408.3(52) HIR Author: Hirano, Kyoko Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Smithsonian Institute PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xvii, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: JAPAN; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. JAPAN; OCCUPATION AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; CENSORSHIP. JAPAN; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; IWASAKI AKIRA; KUROSAWA AKIRA; KAMEI, FUMIO; SHINDO KANETO; WATANABE, TETSUZO; NIHON NO HIGEKI (JA, Fumio Kamei, 1946); AKATSUKI NO DASSO (JA, Senkichi Taniguchi, 1950); ASU O TSUKURU HITOBITO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Sekigawa & Kajiro Yamamoto, 1946); TOHO CO. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-341) and indexes ISBN: 1560981571; 1560984023 (pbk.) LON: 8875964 ID2: 291 More info
newspaper article		Portrait of a genius in The Australian (30/03/1967) p.- Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; KUROSAWA, AKIRA Author: [special correspondent] PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; AKAHIGE [RED BEARD] (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1965) Summary: Report about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and his attention to detail when filmmaking, with reference to the film Red Beard [Japanese title - Akahige] Notes: old clips pile from June 2015 ID2: 291 More info
book		Postmodernism in the cinema / edited by Cristina Degli-Esposti New York: Berghahn Books, 1998. Call No: 61 POS DEG Author: Degli-Esposti, Christina Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Berghahn Books PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. POLAND; POLAND; TRAVEL IN FILMS; FRANCE; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; ANIMATION; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; ADAPTATIONS. FORSTER, E. M.; ADAPTATIONS. GENET, JEAN; AUTEUR THEORY; DEGLI-ESPOSTI, CHRISTINA; BARON, CYNTHIA; KRAIDY, MARWAN; WEINSTEIN, DAVID; SHARY, TIMOTHY; BRUNS, JOHN; MAULE, ROSANNA; FALKOWSKA, JANINA; STRAIN, ELLEN; BOLUS-REICHERT, CHRISTINE; LAGA, BARRY; DEUTELBAUM, MARSHALL; HOLDEN-MOSES, PHILIP; WILES, MARY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; JAMESON, FREDRIC; ITAMI, JUZO; FORSTER, E. M.; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; KUROSAWA AKIRA; GREENAWAY, PETER; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992); ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992); SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-); BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (US, Stephen Herek, 1989); WAYNE'S WORLD (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1992); SINGLES (US, Cameron Crowe, 1992); REALITY BITES (US, Ben Stiller, 1994); TAMPOPO (JA, Juzo Itami, 1986); A NOS AMOURS (FR, Maurice Pialat, 1983); MESSA E FINITA, LA (IT, Nanni Moretti, 1985); QUE HE HECHO PARA MERECER ESTO!! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1984); PSY (PL, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 1993); CZLOWIEK Z ... (PL, Konrad Szolajski, 1993); WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (UK, Charles Sturridge, 1991); ROOM WITH A VIEW, A (UK, James Ivory, 1986); PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984); CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988); BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991); DREAMS (US, Akira Kurosawa, 1990); DROWNING BY NUMBERS (UK, Peter Greenaway, 1988); QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) Summary: By offering sophisticated and multi-faceted, yet highly accessible discussions on a number of key issues, Postmodernism in the Cinema presents new strategies for reading and understanding postmodernism and opens up the horizons of investigation to address the dynamic relationship between the art of moving images and complex concepts of postmodern theory. Organized according to specific themes such as auteurism, metacinema, national cinema, and the parodic, this anthology includes thirteen essays and examines films including The Player, Aladdin, Singles, Reality Bites, Wayne’s World, Tampopo, A Room with a View, Barton Fink, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, Drowning by Numbers, Coup de torchon, Querelle, and more. [Taken from back cover] Notes: Papers from a conference held in 1994 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.; Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1571811060 Contents: Introduction: Postmodernism(s) Cristina Degli-Esposti -- Chapter 1: The Player's parody of Hollywood: A different kind of suture - Cynthia Baron -- Chapter 2: Intertextual maneuvers around the subaltern: Aladdin as postmodern text - Marwan Kraidy -- Chapter 3: Of Mice and Bart: The Simpsons and the postmodern - David Weinstein -- Chapter 4: Reification and loss in postmodern puberty: The cultural logic of Fredric Jameson and American youth movies - Timothy Shary -- Chapter 5: Refiguring pleasure: Itami and the postmodern Japanese film - John Bruns -- Chapter 6: De-authorizing the auteur: postmodern politics of interpellation in contemporary European cinema - - Rosanna Maule -- Chapter 7: Postmodernist condition in post-socialist eastern European films: the case of a political pastiche and the socialist-hollywood thriller in recent films of Polish filmmakers - Janina Falkowska -- Chapter 8: E.M. Forster's anti-touristic tourism and the sightseeing gaze of cinema - Ellen Strain -- Chapter 9: Imaginary geographies: the colonial subjects in contemporary French cinema - Christine Bolus-Reichert -- Chapter 10: Decapitated spectators: Barton Fink, (Post)history, and cinematic pleasure - Barry Laga -- Chapter 11: Something like an autobiography in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - Marshall Deutelbaum -- Chapter 12: Not waving but drowning by numbers: Peter Greenaway's cautionary tale - Philip Holden-Moses -- Chapter 13: A double voice: the dual paternity of Querelle - Mary Wiles ID2: 291 More info
book		The samurai film / Alain Silver South Brunswick [N.J.]: A. S. Barnes, c1977. Call No: 736.3 SIL Author: Silver, Alain, 1947 Place: South Brunswick [N.J.] Publisher: A. S. Barnes PubDate: c1977 PhysDes: 242 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: SAMURAI FILMS; JAPAN; KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [193]-201; Filmography: p. [202]-236 ISBN: 0498013499 : $12.50 LON: 728734 728734 ID2: 291 More info
Interim book		Seven samurai / Joan Mellen London: British Film Institute, 2002. Call No: 79SHI MEL Author: Mellen, Joan Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 79 p. : ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI Film Classics Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; SHICHININ NO SAMURAI (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 085170915X(pbk.) ID2: 291 More info
book		Shakespeare on film / Jack J Jorgens Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1977. Call No: 753SHA JOR Author: Jorgens, Jack.J Source: US Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: c1977 PhysDes: xii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24cm Subject: FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; SHAKESPEARE [WILLIAM] IN FILMS; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; EDUCATION AND THE CINEMA; DIETERLE, WILLIAM; ZEFFIRELLI, FRANCO; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L.; WELLES, ORSON; OLIVIER, LAURENCE; SCHAEFER, GEORGE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; KOZINTSEV, GRIGORI; MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A (SP/UK, Celestino Coronado, 1984); TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (IT/US, Franco Zefferelli, 1967); ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968); JULIUS CAESAR (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); RICHARD III (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1955); MACBETH; KUMONOSU-JO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1957); HAMLET [GAMLET] (UR, Grigori Kozintsev, 1964); OTELLO (IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1986); KING LEAR (UK, Peter Brook, 1953) Summary: This book looks at films made of Shakespeare plays and is an evaluation of such films and focuses on what is good and interesting about them as well attemping to interpret them.It is ultimately an appreciation of the films made of Shakespeare's plays. It provides the reader with the vocabulary of film and a cinematic way of expressing Shakespeare's characters, settings, themes, structures and verbal and dramatic styles.It looks at the strenghts of the works of filmakers such as Zeffirelli, or Olivier Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0253351960 ID2: 291 More info
book		Something like an autobiography : Gama no abura. English / Akira Kurosawa ; translated by Audie E. Bock New York: Knopf Distributed by Random House, 1982. Call No: 81KUR KUR Author: Kurosawa, Akira, 1910 Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Knopf Distributed by Random House PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: xiii, 205 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Translation of: Gama no abura; Includes index ISBN: 0394509382 : $15.00 LON: 81048100; 2171996 ID2: 291 More info
book		To the distant observer : form and meaning in the Japanese cinema / Noel Burch ; rev. and edited by Annette Michelson Berkeley: University of California Press, c1979. Call No: Not available; 71(52) BUR Author: Burch, Noel, 1932; Michelson, Annette Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1979 PhysDes: 387 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: JAPAN; YASUJIRO OZU; NARUSE MIKIO; YAMANAKA SADAO; TAMIZO ISHIDA; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; KUROSAWA AKIRA; OSHIMA NAGISA; SHIMIZU HIROSHI; KINUGASA TEINOSUKE Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 365-367 ISBN: 0520036050 : $19.50 LON: 1402277 ID2: 291 More info
book		Towards a heroic cinema / Utpal Dutt Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar & Sons, 1994. Call No: 802.25 DUT Author: Datta, Utpal Place: Calcutta Publisher: M.C. Sarkar & Sons PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 91 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; RAY, SATYAJIT; DUTT, UTPAL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; SEN, MRINAL; MRIGAYAA (II, Mrinal Sen, 1977); GENESIS (II/FR/BE/SZ, Mrinal Sen, 1986) Summary: Criticisms on the work of film makers, chiefly from India; articles ISBN: 817157050X : Rs50.00 ($10.00 U.S.) LON: 95902318; 11731845 ID2: 291 More info
book		The warrior's camera : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa / Stephen Prince Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. Call No: 81KUR PRI Author: Prince, Stephen, 1955 Place: Princeton, N.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: xxii, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [329]-338; "Films directed by Akira Kurosawa: p. [327]." ISBN: 0691031606 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $39.50; 0691008590 (paper : acid-free paper) : $12.95 LON: abn91054148; 7754018 ID2: 291 More info
book		What is Japanese Cinema? : a history / Yomota Inuhik; tranlated byn Philip Kaffen New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Call No: 71(520) INU Author: Inuhik, Yomota Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xviii, 228 pages : illustrated ; 22cm Subject: JAPAN; KUROSAWA, AKIRA; MIZOGUCHI KENJI Summary: What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. He covers the history of Japanese film from the silent era to the rise of J-Horror in its historical, technological, and global contexts. Yomota shows how Japanese film has been shaped by traditonal art forms such as kabuki theater as well as foreign influences spanning Hollywood and Italian neorealism. Along the way, he considers the first golden age of Japanese film; colonial filmmaking in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan; the impact of World War II and the U.S. occupation; the Japanese film industry’s rise to international prominence during the 1950s and 1960s; and the challenges and technological shifts of recent decades. Alongside a larger thematic discussion of what defines and characterizes Japanese film, Yomota provides insightful readings of canonical directors including Kurosawa, Ozu, Suzuki, and Miyazaki as well as genre movies, documentaries, indie film, and pornography. An incisive and opinionated history, What Is Japanese Cinema? is essential reading for admirers and students of Japan’s contributions to the world of film. -- publisher's website ISBN: 9780231191630 Contents: Note on Names and Film Titles -- Preface to the English Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Motion Pictures: 1896–1918 -- 2. The Rise of Silent Film: 1917–1930 -- 3. The First Golden Age: 1927–1940 -- 4. Japanese Cinema During Wartime -- 5. Film Production in the Colonies and Occupied Lands -- 6. Japanese Cinema Under American Occupation: 1945–1952 -- 7. Toward a Second Golden Age: 1952–1960 -- 8. Upheaval Amidst Steady Decline: 1961–1970 -- 9. Decline and Torpor: 1971–1980 -- 10. The Collapse of the Studio System: 1981–1990 -- 11. The Indies Start to Flourish: 1991–2000 -- 12. Within a Production Bubble: 2001–2011 -- Notes -- Index More info

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