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Aesthetics and neo-romanticism in film : landscapes in contemporary British cinema London, UK ; New York, NY.: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014.
Call No: 633.3 (41)Author: Hockenhull, Stella Source: UKPlace: London, UK ; New York, NY.Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co LtdPubDate: 2014PhysDes: ix, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Subject: BRITISH CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; ART AND THE CINEMA ; EMOTION IN FILMS ; SWEET SIXTEEN (UK/GG/SP, Kenneth Loach, 2002) ; LADIES IN LAVENDER (UK, Charles Dance, 2004) ; MISS POTTER (UK/US, Chris Noonan, 2006) ; LONDON TO BRIGHTON (UK, Paul Andrew Williams, 2006) ; WAR ZONE, THE (UK, Tim Roth, 1999) ; RATCATCHER (UK, Lynne Ramsey, 1999) ; CHILDREN OF MEN (JA/UK/US, Alfonso Cuaron, 2006) ; 28 DAYS LATER (UK/US, Danny Boyle, 2002) ; MAGDALENE SISTERS, THE (UK, Peter Mullan, 2002) ; NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS (UK, Pratibha Parmar, 2006) ; LAST RESORT, THE (UK, Pawel Pawlikowski, 2000) ; MY SUMMER OF LOVE (UK, Paul Pawlikowski, 2004) ; QUEEN, THE (UK/IT/FR, Stephen Frears, 2006) Summary: "The contemporary study of film is dominated by narrative theory - yet films include scenes and images which do not perform a narrative task but nevertheless provoke an emotional response.Stella Hockenhull looks at the painterly dimensions inherent in the medium of film, arguing that an aesthetic analysis enables a fuller appreciation of the visual 'spectacle' of cinema. In a reading of the formal aspects in film imagery in contemporary British films spanning social realist, melodrama and horror genres, Hockenhull demonstrates how the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature mobilise a Neo-Romantic effect. She traces the influence of Romanticism and notions of the Sublime in key British films including 'Sweet Sixteen', 'The Queen', 'Ratcatcher', 'Eden Lake', '28 Days Later', 'My Summer of Love' and 'The Last Great Wilderness'. Operating at the intersection between film theory, art theory and aesthetics, this is a vital contribution which enables a fuller, multidimensional understanding of cinematic experience." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781848859012Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
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Apocalypse in Australian fiction and film : a critical study / by Roslyn Weaver Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company Inc., c2011.
Call No: 408.1(94) WEAAuthor: Weaver, Roslyn Source: USPlace: Jefferson, N.C.Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc.PubDate: c2011PhysDes: x, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSeries: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 28Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS ; DISASTERS IN FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN (AT, Stuart Beattie, 2010) Summary: "This volume explores the role of Australia in apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute's popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children's literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse undermines complacency, foretells environmental disasters, critiques colonization, and serves as a vehicle of protest for minority groups"--Provided by publisherNotes: Includes bibliographic references and indexISBN: 978-0-7864-6051-9Contents: 1. An apocalyptic map: new worlds and the colonization of Australia -- 2. The shield of distance: apocalypse in Australian literature after 1945 -- 3. An apocalyptic landscape: the Mad max films -- 4. Children of the apocalypse: Australian children's literature -- 5. (Re)writing the end of the world: apocalypse, race and indigenous literature -- 6. The end of the human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novelsID2: 189
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Art history for filmmakers : the art of visual storytelling / Gillian McIver London: Bloomsbury, c2016.
Call No: 61:75 MCIAuthor: McIver, Gillian Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: c2016PhysDes: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cmSubject: THEORY ; ART IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; SEX IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; HEROS IN FILMS ; ART AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its close relationship with the visual arts. Art history for Filmmakers shows how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to demonstrate composition, color theory and lighting. It reveals how the visual culture that gave rise to cinema has itself been shaped and informed by the development of painting, the oldest of the art forms.Featuring stunning images from classic films and iconic artwork, this book will build your appreciation of the history of art, enrich your understanding of the visual language of film, and help to feed that understanding into your own original filmmaking" -- BACK COVER BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781472580658Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: Introduction. How does art history relate to cinema history? -- A brief linear (traditional) history of art - -Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Visual culture and storytelling. Narrative and storytelling in art -- Color and narrative -- Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema -- Perspective and composition -- Light -- Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism. What is realism? - -What is representation? -- Art after photography: modern conceptions of realism in art -- Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism. Fantasy worlds in cinema and art -- Oneiric: the world of dreams -- Surrealism -- Going beyond the real -- Case study: The Archers -- Sex and violence. Sex in art and cinema -- Violence in art and cinema -- Sex and violence -- Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror. Religious horror -- Supernatural horror -- Body horror -- Monsters -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape. Why landscape? -- Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? -- The American landscape and the American West -- Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts. History painting; victory, virtue, and the hero - -Heroism and the Western -- Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements. Culture or mass culture? -- expressionism -- Abstraction -- Abstract expressionism -- Minimalism -- Going "Beyond the West" -- Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion. How can we use art history in filmmaking? Case studies --
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Australian cinema 1970-1985 / by Brian McFarlane London: Secker & Warburg, 1987.
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Australian cinema in the 1990s / editor, Ian Craven London: Frank Cass, 2001.
Call No: 71(94) AUSAuthor: Craven, Ian Place: LondonPublisher: Frank CassPubDate: 2001PhysDes: 239 p. ; 22 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES ON TV ; GONSKI REPORT ; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SUBURBS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SOCIETY AND TV ; DINGO, ERNIE ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995) ; BIG STEAL, THE (AT, Nadia Tass, 1990) ; CASTLE, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 1997) ; DEATH IN BRUNSWICK (AT, John Ruane, 1991) ; HEARTBREAK KID (AT, Michael Jenkins, 1993) ; HEARTLAND [TV] (AT, 1994) ; IDIOT BOX (AT, David Caesar, 1996) ; LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992) ; LOVE SERENADE (AT, Shirley Barrett, 1996) ; METAL SKIN (AT, Geoffrey Wright, 1994) ; MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982) ; MURIEL’S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994) ; STRICTLY BALLROOM (AT, Baz Luhrmann, 1992) Notes: Includes index and bibliographyISBN: 0714649740; 0714680346(pbk.) : ª16.50LON: 21663632Contents: 1. Australian cinema towards the millennium / Ian Craven -- 2. Patterns of production and policy: the Australian film industry in the 1990s / Lisa French -- 3. Unhappy endings: the heterosexual dynamic in Australian film / Nigel Spence and Leah McGirr -- 4. Vulnerable bodies: creative disabilities in contemporary Australian film / Liz Ferrier -- 5. Becoming a man in Australian film in the early 1990s: The big steal, Death in Brunswick, Strictly ballroom and The heartbreak kid / Philip Butterss -- 6. His natural whiteness: modes of ethnic presence and absence in some recent Australian films / David Callahan -- 7. All quiet on the western front? Suburban reverberations in recent Australian cinema / Ben Goldsmith -- 8. Romance and sensation in the 'glitter' cycle / Emily Rustin -- 9. A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape / Tara Brabazon -- 10. The castle: 1997's 'battlers' and the ir/relevance of the aesthetic / Stephen Crofts -- 11. Idiot box: television, urban myths and ethical scenarios / Kaye Ferres -- 12. Ernie Dingo: reconciliation (a love story forged against the odds?) / Alan McKee -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: filmography / Samantha Searle -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: a select bibliography / Linda SmithID2: 306
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Australian cultural studies : a reader / edited by John Frow and Meaghan Morris St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1993.
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Australian film esthetics in Lumiere (March, 1974) iss.32 p.4-7
Author: Lowe, Barry PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; WALKABOUT (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1958) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) Summary: An analysis of the emerging aesthetics of current Australian films which, Lowe argues, is showing two main themes: mateship and the outback.
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Back of beyond : discovering Australian film and television / presented by the Australian Film Commission and the UCLA Film and Television Archive in association with the Australian Bicentennial Authority ; catalogue editor, Scott Murray North Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1988.
Call No: 71(94) BACCopy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2Author: Murray, Scott, 1951 CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission; UCLA Film and Television Archive; Australian Bicentennial AuthorityPlace: North SydneyPublisher: Australian Film CommissionPubDate: 1988PhysDes: viii, 112 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA ; MILLER, GEORGE ; HAYES, TERRY ; KENNEDY MILLER ENTERTAINMENT ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes index; "UCLA, October 20-November 20, 1988' - Cover; Filmography: p. 108-109; Have a duplicate copyISBN: 0731643909LON: 6280621Contents: George Miller, p34-43 -- Terry Hayes, p44-51.URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Cinema and landscape / Graham Harper and Jonathan Rayner (eds) Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2010.
Call No: 756 CINSource: UK/USAPlace: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USAPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 315 p. ; 23 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HERZOG, WERNER ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; BEAU TRAVAIL (FR, Claire Denis, 1999) ; RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001) Summary: Cinema and Landscape frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.Notes: includes filmography; includes indexISBN: 9781841503097Contents: 1. Introduction - cinema and landscape -- Part I: The invention of the cinematic landscape : 2. Landscape and the fantasy of moving pictures: early cinema's phantom rides / Tom Gunning -- Part II: Mapping cinematic landscapes : 3. 'One foot in the air?' Landscape in the Soviet and Russian road movie / Emma Widdis -- 4. Landscape of the mind: the indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager -- 5. Visions of Italy: the sublime, the postmodern and the apocalyptic / William Hope -- 6. Landscape in Spanish cinema / Marvin D'Lugo -- 7. Landscape and Irish cinema / Martin McLoone -- 8. The ownership of woods and water: landscapes in British cinema 1930-1960 / Sue Harper -- 9. Filming the (post-)colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) / Susan Hayward.
10. Landscaping the revolution: the political and social geography of Cuba reflected in its cinema / Bob Britton -- 11. Landscapes of meaning in cinema: two Indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake -- 12. The geography of cinema - Zimbabwe / Martin Mhando -- 13. Crises, Economy and landscape: the modern film face of new China / Kate Taylor -- 14. Japanese cinema and landscape / Paul Spicer -- 15. A version of beauty and terror: Australian cinematic landscapes / Graham Harper -- 16. Battlefields of vision: New Zealand filmscapes / Jonathan Rayner -- 17. The landscapes of Canada's features: articulating nation and nature / Jim Leach -- 18 Science fiction/fantasy films, fairy tales and control: landscape stereotypes on a wilderness to ultra-urban continuum / Christina Kennedy, Tia´nna and Me´lisa Kennedy
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Cityscapes I in Wide Angle (October 1997) vol.19 iss.4 p.[whole issue]
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Cityscapes II in Wide Angle (July 1998) vol.20 iss.3 p.[whole issue]
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Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction / Jonathan Rayner Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Call No: 71(94) RAYAuthor: Rayner, Jonathan Source: UKPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2000PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM ; SCHEPISI, FRED ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SIRENS (AT/UK, John Duigan, 1994) ; BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974) ; ODD ANGRY SHOT, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1979) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and indexISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269LON: 22455173
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The evocation of national culture through Australian feature films in the 1980s : a comparison of internationalist and indigenous product / by Barry Mitchell
Call No: 408.1(94) MITAuthor: Mitchell, Barry PhysDes: 103 leaves ; 30 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA. 1980's ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Thesis submitted to the School of Humanities (Master of Arts in Literature and Communication Programme) -- Thesis (M.A.)--Murdoch University, 1991.-- Bibliography: p. 96-99Contents: Abstract -- Part one: The Set Up - the cultural backprojection -- On culture -- On 'National Identity' and 'National Character' -- Part Two: The catalyst - Film as Culture -- Part Three: Character development -- Australian Cinema - '70s nationalism -- Into the 80s - 10BA and all that -- Indigenous cinema -- Part Four: Setting - Mates in the bush -- Part Five: An approach to analysis -- Part Six: Internationalists - Marketing the Image -- Occupied territory -- The Hero Fails - or does he? -- Austr-aliens abroad -- Mates at war -- Part Seven: Plot Point One -- Part Eight: Subtext - Indigenous cinema -- Rites of transition -- All in the family -- Aboriginality -- Australian dreams - Multiculture -- Part six: plot point two -- Resolution -- Bibliography -- Filmography
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The films of Claire Denis : intimacy on the border / edited by Marjorie Vecchio ; with a foreword by Wim Wenders New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call No: 81DEN FILAuthor: Vecchio, Marjorie ; Wenders, Wim Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; DIRECTORS. FRANCE ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; TIME IN FILMS ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; BEAU TRAVAIL (FR, Claire Denis, 1999) ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; INTRUDER, THE (FR, Claire Denis, 2004)
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VENDREDI SOIR ; VENDREDI SOIR (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) ; WHITE MATERIAL (FR/CM, Claire Denis, 2009) Summary: "The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including 'Chocolat', 'Beau travail' and 'White Material' explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualising the complications of such dualities. Following a foreword by Wim Wenders, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, neo-colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers familiar with Denis's working style and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781848859548Contents: --List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Foreword: 'Klarchen'
--Part I Interviews -- 'To let the image sing': Conversations with Dickon Hinchliffe and Stuart Staples: Martine Beugnet -- Interview with Nelly Quettier: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Alex Descas: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
-- Part II Relations -- La famille Denis: Catherine Wheatley -- Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's 'I Can't Sleep': Sam Ishii-Gonzales -- Beyond the other: grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis: James S. Williams --
-- Part III Global citizenship -- Beyond postcolonialism? From 'Chocolat' to 'White Material': Cornelia Ruhe -- 'Trouble Every Day: the neo-colonialists bite back: Florence Martin -- Forgiveness and employment: a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis: Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos -- 'The Intruder' according to Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
--Part IV Within film -- Delivering: Claire Denis's opening sequences: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Rhythms of nationality: Denis and dance: Laura McMahon -- That interrupting feeling: interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's 'L'Intrus': Firoza Elavia -- Points of flight, lines of fracture: Claire Denis's uncanny landscape: Henrik Gustafsson -- Arthouse/grindhouse: Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity': Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy
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Finding Queensland in Australian cinema : poetics and screen geographies / Allison Craven London ; New York: Anthem Press, 2016.
Call No: 71(943) CRAAuthor: Craven, Allison Source: UK/USPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: Anthem PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xii, 158 pages ; 24 cmSeries: Anthem studies in Australian literature and cultureSubject: QUEENSLAND ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SEA IN FILMS ; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978) ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; AGE OF CONSENT (AT, Michael Powell, 1969) ; NIM'S ISLAND (US, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, 2008) ; UNINHABITED (AT, Bill Bennett, 2010) ; COOLANGATTA GOLD, THE (AT, Igor Auzins, 1984) ; PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003) ; REMOTE AREA NURSES [TV] (AT, David Caesar/Catriona Mackenzie, 2005) ; STRAITS, THE [TV] (AT, 2012-) ; PROPOSITION, THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005) ; MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013) Summary: This book comprises a collection of essays exploring aspects of gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the emergence of Indigenous filmmakers in the late 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia. The spectacle of Australian cinema in these essays suggests the transitional energies of a growing industry and the regional nuances of gender, place and culture. The book draws on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography in investigating Australian cinema history in the latter twentieth century, and in highlighting recent trends in promotion of Australia as a film-production destinationISBN: 9781783085491Contents: Introduction: regional features -- Backtracks: landscape and identity. Period features, heritage cinema: region, gender and race in The Irishman -- Heritage enigmatic: the silence of the dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman -- Silences in paradise. Tropical gothic and the music of the Cane Fields in Radiance -- Island girls friday: women, adventure and the Tropics -- Masculine dramas of the coast. The sunshine boys: Peter Pan and The iron man in the coastal cinemas of Queensland -- A Pacific parable: cave and coastal masculinities in Sanctum regional backtracks -- Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait television: RAN and The straits -- Back to the back: genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton -- Conclusion
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Framing the beach : a tourist reading of The piano in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.2 p.229-238
Author: Leotta, Alfio PhysDes: ArticleSubject: TOURISM AND THE CINEMA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) Summary: Most of the critical commentaries about The Piano(Campion, 1993) focus on feminist, postcolonial or stylistic issues (Coombs and Gemmell 1999; Tincknell 2000; Margolis 2000; Verhoeven 2009). This article will draw from some of these works in order to present a conceptual framework for understanding the film in terms of the tourism it induced. The first section focuses on the devices used in the film to create the ideal spectator and to encourage his/her identification with both the protagonist and the camera. The second section deals with the imaginative geography constructed by the film. The article concludes with the analysis of the process through which Karekare beach, the most famous location of the film, has become a popular New Zealand icon. -- AbstractNotes: Part of a special issue on digital cinema in Australia and New Zealand
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Gendering the nation : Canadian women's cinema / edited by Kay Armatage .. . [et al.] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Call No: 451-02(71) GENAuthor: Armatage, Kay Place: TorontoPublisher: University of Toronto PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: xi, 329 pSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS. CANADA ; CANADA ; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY. CANADA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. CANADA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. CANADA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. CANADA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; BODY IN FILMS. CANADA ; ROZEMA, PATRICIA ; POIRIER, ANNE CLAIRE ; FAR SHORE, THE (CN, Joyce Wieland, 1975) ; LOYALTIES (CN, Anne Wheeler, 1986) ; MOUVEMENTS DU DESIR (CN/SZ, Lea Pool, 1994) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0802041205 (bound) : $70.00; 0802079644 (pbk.) : $21.95; 0802041205 (bound); 0802079644 (pbk.)LON: 14526441
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Hitchcock's people, places, and things / John Bruns Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern Univesity Press, 2019.
Call No: 81HIT BRUAuthor: Bruns, John Source: USPlace: Evanston, IllinoisPublisher: Northwestern Univesity PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: ix, 215 pages: illustrations; 23cmSubject: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HUMAN RELATIONS IN FILMS ; LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; BIRDS, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) ; CROWDS IN FILMS ; MARNIE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) ; I CONFESS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) ; SUPERNATURAL IN FILMS ; URBAN LIFE IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; THE CASE OF MR. PELHAM Summary: "Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock’s films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape cognitively, affectively, and politically. Yet this book does not promise that such a map can or will cohere, for Hitchcock was just as adept at misdirection as he was at direction. Bearing this in mind and true to the Hitchcock spirit, Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things anticipates that people will stumble into the wrong places at the wrong time, places will be made uncanny by things, and things exchanged between people will act as (not-so) secret agents that make up the perilous landscape of Hitchcock’s work.
This book offers new readings of well-known Hitchcock films, including The Lodger, Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, as well as insights into lesser-discussed films such as I Confess and Family Plot. Additional close readings of the original theatrical trailer for Psycho and a Hitchcock-directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents expand the Hitchcock landscape beyond conventional critical borders. In tracing the network of relations in Hitchcock’s work, Bruns brings new Hitchcockian tropes to light. For students, scholars, and serious fans, the author promises a thrilling critical navigation of the Hitchcock landscape, with frequent “mental shake-ups” that Hitchcock promised his audience." -- FROM BLURBNotes: Includes bibliography and index.ISBN: 9780810139954Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Navigating the Hitchcock Landscape -- Chapter 1. Hitchcock's Crowds -- Chapter 2. Hitchcock's Newspaper: A Thing of the Crowd -- Chapter 3. Hitchcock's Apartment Plot, or ""The Case of Mr. Pelham -- Chapter 4. Lost and Found in Hitchcock -- Chapter 5. Our Old Friend Telepathy -- Afterword: How to Keep Hitchcock Flat -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Hollywood utopia : ecology in contemporary American cinema / Pat Brereton Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2004.
Call No: 738.1 BREAuthor: Brerton, Pat Source: UKPlace: Bristol, UKPublisher: Intellect BooksPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 270 p. ; 24 cmSubject: NATURE IN FILMS ; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; WESTERNS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; ROAD MOVIES ; CONSPIRACY FILMS ; ANDROMEDA STRAIN, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1971) ; ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; DANCES WITH WOLVES (US, Kevin Costner, 1990) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper,1969) ; INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE (US, Jack Arnold, 1957) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE (US, Michael Mann, 1992) ; MEN IN BLACK (US, Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997) ; SOYLENT GREEN (US, Richard Fleischer, 1973) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997) ; YEARLING, THE (US, Clarence Brown, 1947) Summary: "Hollywood Utopia applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from 1950s to the present. Popular science fiction, westerns, nature and road movies are extensively analysed while privileging ecological moments of sublime expression often dramatized in the closing moments of these films. "Notes: Bibliography: p. 241-267
Filmography: p. 9-10ISBN: 1841501174Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009
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Imagined landscapes : geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell and Stephen Carleton Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Call No: 756(94) STAAuthor: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cmSeries: The spatial humanitiesSubject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NORTHERN TERRITORY ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CRIMINALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DAWN, NORMAN ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927) ; LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE, THE (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2008) ; RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011) ; SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009) ; VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (AT, Jonathon Auf Der Heide, 2009) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Summary: "Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which Asutralian space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identifu patterns of represnetation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated prespective on the translation of space across narraitve forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVERISBN: 9780253018458Contents: Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries -- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography -- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone -- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time -- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land -- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown
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Irish film : the emergence of a contemporary cinema / Martin McLoone London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 71(417) MCLAuthor: McLoone, Martin CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; BUTCHER BOY, THE (US, Neil Jordan, 1997) ; POLITICAL FILMS ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; HUSH-A-BYE-BABY (UK, Margo Hakin, 1990) ; IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (IE/UK/US, Jim Sheridan, 1993) ; JORDAN, NEIL ; MAEVE (UK/IE, Pat Murphy & John Davies, 1981) ; MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934) ; NOTHING PERSONAL (UK/IE, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 1995) ; OUR BOYS (IE, Cathal Black, 1981) ; PATRIOT GAMES (US, Philip Noyce, 1992) ; QUIET MAN, THE (US, John Ford, 1952) ; SHERIDAN, JIM ; THIS IS MY FATHER (US, Paul Quinn, 1998) ; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851707920(cased) : ¦45.00; 0851707939(pbk.) : ¦14.99; 0851707920; 0851707939 (pbk.); 0851707920 (cased); 0851707939 (pbk.); 0851707920 (cased) : ¦45.00; 0851707939 (pbk.) : ¦14.99LON: 21663034 21663034
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Island in the stream : myths of place in Australian culture / edited by Paul Foss Leichhardt, N.S.W.: Pluto Press, 1988.
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It doesn't rain but it pours in Encore (April 2007) vol.24 iss.4, Supplement p.5
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A land for animals, a space for children : the landscape in Australian family films in Spectator (Fall 2016) vol.36 iss.2 p.15 - 22
Author: Huntington, Eleanor M PhysDes: ArticleSubject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ANIMALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995) ; HAPPY FEET (AT/ US, George Miller, 2006) ; RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011) Summary: In the most successful family films produced and directed by Australians in the last two decades, the Australian landscape and animals' roles in such spaces instruct young viewers how to navigate life in a postcolonial and explicitly multicultural nation. Through close textual readings of Babe, Happy Feet and Red Dog, coupled with analysis of official Australian government policy, this paper argues that the main animal characters deconstruct the paternal/ colonial Anglo - Celtic dominance through their interactions with their landscapes. [Abstract]
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Landscape and film / edited by Martin Lefebvre New York ; London: Routledge, 2006.
Call No: 756 LANAuthor: Lefebvre, Martin (editor) Source: USPlace: New York ; LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2006PhysDes: xxxi, 361 p. : ill ; 24 cmSeries: AFI film readersSubject: FILMMAKING ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GREENAWAY, PETER ; MANN, ANTHONY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ZABRISKIE POINT (US, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) Summary: "Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This volume of new work will address fundamental questions: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting? How is landscape deployed in the work of such filmmakers as Greenaway, Rossellini, or Antonioni, to name just three? What are differences between the use of landscape in Western filmmaking and in the work of Middle Eastern and Asian filmmakers? How is cinematic landscape related to the idea of a national cinema and
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The first collection on the idea of landscape and film, this volume will present an impressive international cast of contributors, among them Jacques Aumont, Tom Conley, David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, Peter Rist, and Antonio Costa."Notes: Bibliography: p.333-337; Includes indexISBN: 0415975557(Softcover)Contents: The invention of place: Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub's Moses and Aaron/Jacques Aumont -Between setting and landscape in the cinema/ Martin Lefebvre- Toward a genealogy of the American landscape: notes on landscapes in D. W. Griffith (1908-1912)/ Jean Mottet- The course of the empire: sublime landscapes in the American cinema/ Laura U Marks- The inhabited view: landscape in the films of David Rimmer/ Catherine Russell- Sites of meaning: Gallipoli and other Mediterranean landscapes in amateur films (1928-1960)/ Heather Nicholson- The presence (and absence) of landscape in silent east Asian films/ Peter Rist- From flatland to vernacular relativity: the genesis of early English screenscapes/ David B Clarke and Marcus A. Doel- Landscape and archive: trips around the world as early film topic (1896-1914)/ Antonio Costa- A walk through heterotopia: Peter Greenaway's landscapes by numbers/ Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy- Landscape and perceptions on Anthony Mann/ Tom Conley- The cinematic void: desert iconographies in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point/ Mathew Gandy
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Landscape and Place in Wide Angle (December 1993) vol.15 iss.4 p.[whole issue]
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Metaphors of femininity and the landscape in Australian cinema : five 'New Wave' films / Robin Wright 1992.
Call No: 626:396(94) WRIAuthor: Wright, Robin, 1963 PubDate: 1992PhysDes: 110 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cmSubject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) ; WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; PLAINS OF HEAVEN, THE (AT, Ian Pringle, 1982) Summary: This thesis examins the representation of the Australian landscape in five Australian films released between 1975 and 1982. The films are 'The Man From Snowy River', 'Sunday Too Far Away', 'We of the Never Never', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'The Plains of Heaven'. These five texts are examined in light of feminist theories dealing with subjectivity and representation. The analysis of the place and role of femininity within the texts is conducted through the examination of symbols and metaphors associated with the landscape which operate within the film structure. The thesis concludes that the Australian landscape is constructed within these films in such a way as to support the concept of a white, masculine Australian identity..." -- taken from summaryNotes: Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Centre for Womens Studies; Summary: [unpaged] at front of text; Typescript; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-110)LON: abn93171145; 10039377Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminist strategies -- 3. The production context -- 4. The man from Snowy River -- 5. Sunday too far away -- 6. We of the never never -- 7. Picnic at hanging rock -- 8. The plains of heaven -- 9. Ideological position and Australian identity
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Monument Valley dans l'oeuvre de John Ford: un idee de reserve in Vertigo (1991) iss.6/7 p.159-163
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Never-Never Land : affective landscapes, the touristic gaze and heterotopic space in 'Australia' p.173-187
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The new European cinema : redrawing the map / Rosalind Galt New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Call No: 71(4) "198-199" GALAuthor: Galt, Rosalind Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSeries: Film and cultureSubject: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; ART CINEMA ; UNITED KINGDOM ; NEOREALISM ; REED, CAROL ; WILDER, BILLY ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; TORNATORE, GIUSEPPE ; SALVATORES, GABRIELE ; KUSTURICA, EMIR ; TRIER, LARS VON ; MEDITERRANEO (IT, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991) ; AFFAIRE DE FEMMES, UNE (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1988) ; NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) ; POSTINO, IL (IT/FR/BE, Michael Radford, 1994) ; MEDITERRANEO (IT, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991) ; UNDERGROUND (FR/GG/HU, Emir Kusturica, 1995) ; EUROPA (DK/FR/GG, Lars Von Trier, 1991) ; FOREIGN AFFAIR, A (US, Billy Wilder, 1948) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) Summary: The new European cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s [taken from back cover]Notes: Formerly CIP
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index
Filmography: p. [279]-284ISBN: 0231137176Contents: 1. Mapping European cinema in the 1990s -- 2. The dialectic of landscape in Italian popular melodrama -- 3. A conspiracy of cartographers? -- 4. Yugoslavia's impossible spaces -- 5. Back-projecting Germany -- 6. Toward a theory of European space
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On the Films of Jean-Luc Godard in Wide Angle (1976) vol.1 iss.3 p.[whole issue]
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The Oxford companion to Australian film / edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call No: 71(94) OXF REFAuthor: Mayer, Geoff ; McFarlane, Brian, 1934 ; Bertrand, Ina, 1939 Place: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 1 vSubject: AUSTRALIA ; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE ; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; FOOD IN FILMS ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; JEWS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; PERIODICALS, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA ; MUSIC, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; WAR AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MCCALLUM, JOHN ; MILLER, NATALIE ; NEVIN, ROBYN ; RABE, PAMELA ; RUSH, GEOFFREY ; TINGWELL, CHARLES (BUD) ; WILLIAMSON, DAVID ; WITHERS, GOOGIE Notes: Includes index; BibliographyISBN: 0195537971LON: 20072774
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Piano lessons : approaches to The piano / [edited by] Felicity Coombes & Suzanne Gemmell Sydney: John Libbey, c1999.
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Reconsidering Fred Schepisi's The change of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978): the screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel (1972) in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.191-207
Author: Wilson, Janet PhysDes: ArticleSubject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) Summary: Fred Schepisi's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial oppression, has a controversial place in the Australian social imaginary. As a raw narrative of a part-Aboriginal man's axe-murders of white women, the manhunt which followed, his eventual capture and death by hanging just after Australia achieved federation in 1900, the film was apparently constrained by the limited framework of representation of race relations available in the late 1970s. Audiences were left numbed by the image of a segregated society, the overpowering murder scenes and the disempowerment and downward spiral of Jimmie and his half brother Mort. Yet it has also been valued as a major film in the Australian new wave cinema and judged as ‘underestimated and overlooked’. This article approaches the film's mixed reception by re-examining it as a screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel, The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), arguing that Schepisi used an expressionist cinematography to convert Keneally's ‘ironic epic’ (Hodge and Mishra 1990: 59) into a fatalistic tragedy. In reconsidering the film in terms of its era, the article shows how the Australian landscape becomes a site of problematic race relations, overturning the myth of ‘innocent settlement’ that is associated with films of the Australian Film Commission (AFC) genre, heralding post-Mabo films like Rabbit proof fence (Noyce, 2002), Ten canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) and Jindabyne (Lawrence, 2007) whose stories and mise-en-scène acknowledge earlier traumas, inducing in viewers a belated shock of recognition (Collins and Davis 2004: 92).--ABSTRACT
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Rumblings from Australia's deep south : Tasmanian gothic on-screen in Studies in Australasian cinema (2011) vol.5 iss.1 p.71-80
Author: Bullock, Emily PhysDes: ArticleSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA ; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: This article examines the current cinematic attention to Tasmania and its stories, with particular attention paid to the Gothic mode. ‘Tasmanian Gothic’ has become a by-word for the unsettling combination of Tasmania's colonial histories and its harsh landscapes in literature, but its cinematic counterpart has virtually been ignored. It is suggested that Tasmania is experiencing a renaissance on the big screen and it is the Gothic that appears to be the most dominant mode through which it is pictured. The article then charts a history of local Tasmanian Gothic cinematic production, a hybrid vision that tends towards a combination of stylistic, thematic, historical and geographic elements. Tasmanian Gothic cinema refers not simply to productions by Tasmanian film-makers, but to the broader on-screen representation of the island, its culture and histories by a range of local, interstate and international crews. As this article suggests, Gothic cinematic representations of Tasmania are yoked by a number of persistent concerns that act in dialogue with the unique cultural and geographic positioning of Australia's only island state. --Abstract
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Scotland : global cinema : genres, modes and identities / David Martin-Jones Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
Call No: 71(411) MARAuthor: Martin-Jones, David Source: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: ix, 254 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: UNITED KINGDOM : SCOTLAND ; SCOTLAND IN FILMS ; LOCATION SHOOTING. SCOTLAND ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. SCOTLAND ; AE FOND KISS (UK, Ken Loach, 2004) ; AMERICAN COUSINS (UK, Don Coutts, 2003) ; BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (UK, Bill Eagles, 2000) ; CARLA'S SONG (UK/GG/SP, Kenneth Loach, 1996) ; DANNY THE DOG (FR/UK/US, Louis Leterrier, 2004) ; UNLEASHED (FR/UK/US, Louis Leterrier, 2004) ; DOG SOLDIERS (UK/LU, Neil Marshall, 2001) ; FESTIVAL (UK, Annie Griffin, 2005) ; GOVERNESS, THE (US, Sandra Goldbacher, 1998) ; GREGORY'S TWO GIRLS (UK/GG, Bill Forsyth, 1999) ; KANDUKONDIAN KANDUKONDAIN (II, Rajiv Menon, 2000) ; KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI (II, Karan Johar, 1998) ; LOCH NESS (UK, John Henderson, 1996) ; NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS (UK, Pratibha Parmar, 2006) ; PYAAR ISHQ AUR MOHABBAT (II, Rajiv Raj, 2001) ; RED ROAD (UK/DK, Andrea Arnold, 2006) ; SECRET OF THE LOCH, THE (UK, Milton Rosmer, 1934) ; SOFT TOP HARD SHOULDER (UK, Stefan Schwartz, 1993) ; TICKETS (UK/IT/IR, Abbas Kiarostomi/Ken Loach/Ermanno Olmi, 2005) ; WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP, THE (US/UK, Jay Russell, 2007) ; WILD COUNTRY (UK, Craig Strachan, 2005) ; WOMEN TALKING DIRTY (US, Coky Giedroyc, 1999) ; YOUNG ADAM (UK/FR, David Mackenzie, 2003) Summary: 'Scotland: Global cinema is the first book to focus on the explosion of filmmaking in Scotland in the 1990s and 2000s. It explores the various cinematic fantasies of Scotland created by contemporary filmmkers from all over the world - including Scotland, England, France, the United States, and India who braved the weather to shoot in Scotland.
This book provides analysis of ten different genres and modes prevalent in the 1990s/2000s: the comedy, road movie, Bollywood extravaganza, (Loch Ness) monster movie, horror film, costume drama, gangster flick, social realist melodrama, female friendship/US indie movie, and art cinema.' - TAKEN FROM BACK COVERISBN: 9780748633920Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: 1. Comedy: Global/Local Identities / Gregory's Two Girls (1999), Festival (2005) -- 2. Road Movie: Scotland in the World / Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (1993), Carla's Song (1996), Tickets (2005) -- 3. Bollywood: Non-Resident Indian-Scotland / Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), Pyaar Ishq aur Mohabbat (2001), Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006) -- 4. (Loch Ness) Monster Movie: A Return to Primal Scotland / The Secret of the Loch (1934), Loch Ness (1996), The Water Horse (2007) -- 5. Horror Film: History Hydes in the Highlands / Dog Soldiers (2002), Wild Country (2005) -- 6. Costume Drama: From Men in Kilts to Developing Diasporas / The Governess (1998), 7. Gangster Film: Glasgow's Transnational Identities / American Cousins (2003), Danny the Dog (2005) -- 8. Social Realist Melodrama: Middle-class Minorities and Floundering Fathers / Ae Fond Kiss (2004), On a Clear Day (2005) -- 9. Female Friendship/US Indie: Women Talking / Women Talking Dirty (1999), Beautiful Creatures (2000) -- 10. Art Cinema: The Global Limits of Cinematic Scotland / Red Road (2006), Young Adam (2003)
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Screening the City / Mark Shiel / Tony Fitzmaurice New York: Verso, 2003.
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'Small-fry' : suburban decline and the global outback in recent Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.195-212
Author: Grace, Helen PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LITTLE FISH (AT, Rowan Woods, 2005) ; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) ; LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007) Summary: :In considering three films that I link in this speculation on ‘Asian Australian cinema’, I want to argue that if, before The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003), Asian Australian stories tended to be marginal and community based, the success of Khoa Do's film (and life) has opened out migrant experience to broader empathy so that now it can be drawn upon to speak for general humanity beyond ‘Australianness’. If The Finished People and Little Fish (Rowan Wood, 2005) belong to a period of film industry decline in Australia, corresponding with a parallel social/cultural depression in Australia — the worst of the Howard years — Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, 2007) reworks the trauma of those years, as a new Back of Beyond (John Heyer, 1954) — globalized rather than nationalized, its references less to the subsistence aesthetics and economy of postwar nation-building and more to a globalized commodities export market and the genres of global film-making styles. So we no longer need to have quintessential ‘Australian’ battlers to demonstrate resilience; asylum seekers are now better at doing this and much more appealing than Aussie battlers (like the Heart family in Little Fish, notwithstanding the attempt to rescue them by importing global/local stars to perform their abjection) — all the more so if one of the refugees has come in search of his Australian father And if the landscape of the original Back of Beyond provided a counterpoint to the economic centrality of suburban Australia as site of commodity consumption in the 1950s, the Pilbara landscape setting of Lucky Miles is above all a key site of commodity production and export in the globalized economy which also draws the characters to export themselves into the flow of this market. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2
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Twin peeks : Australian and NZ feature films / Deb Verhoeven Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999.
Call No: 71(94) TWIPlace: MelbournePublisher: Damned PublishingPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 558 p.Subject: AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. NEW ZEALAND ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA ; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA. 1970's ; WARD, VINCENT ; HALL, KEN G. ; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997) ; BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998) ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919) ; SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933) ; FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959) ; YATGO HO YAN (HK, Samo Hung, 1997) ; RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998) ; VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995) ISBN: 1876310006LON: 20154200ID2: 29
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Urban cinematics : understanding urban phenomena through the moving image / edited by Franc¸ois Penz and Andong Lu Bristol: Intellect, 2011.
Call No: 756.1-25 URBAuthor: Penz, Franc¸ois ; Lu, Andong. CorpAuthor: University of Cambridge. Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and CommunicationSource: UKPlace: BristolPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject: CITIES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume." -- back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781841504285Contents: Introduction: What is urban cinematics? / Franc¸ois Penz and Andong Lu -- Part 1: City symphonies: montaged urban cinematic landscapes. Cine´-city strolls : imagery, form, language, and meaning of the city film / Helmut Weihsmann -- I am here, or, the art of getting lost : Patrick Keiller and the new city symphony / Patrik Sjo¨berg -- Get out of the car : a commentary / Thom Andersen -- Part 2: Cinematic urban archaeology. Aids to objectivity? : photography, film, and the new "science" of urbanism / Nicholas Bullock -- Which role for the cinema in a working-class city : the case of Saint-Etienne / Roger Odin -- A film of two cities : Sean Connery's Edinburgh / Murray Grigor -- Film as re-imaging the modern space / Mark Lewis -- Part 3: Geographies of the urban cinematic landscape. Mobility and global complexity in the work of Van der Keuken / Hing Tsang -- From maps of "progress" to crime maps (and back again?) : the plasticity of the aerial shot in Mexican urban film / Celia Dunne -- Night on Earth, urban wayfinding, and everyday life / Andrew Otway -- Part 4: The cinematic in the urban. Sleepwalking from New York to Miami / Alison Butler -- Film in our midst : city as cinematic archive / Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore -- Parkour vision / Layla Curtis -- Part 5: Cinematic urban design practice. Urban anagram : a bio-political reflection on cinema and city life / Maria Hellstro¨m Reimer -- Reconsidering cinematic mapping : halfway between collected subjectivity and projective mapping / Marc Boumeester -- Mapping urban space : moving image as a research tool / Wowo Ding -- The moving image of the city : expressive space/inhabitation/narrativity : intensive studio workshop on "Continuity of action in space" / Maureen Thomas -- Contributors
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World film locations : Sydney / edited by Neil Mitchell Bristol -- Chicago: Intellect Books, 2015.
Call No: 756(944) WORSource: UK/USPlace: Bristol -- ChicagoPublisher: Intellect BooksPubDate: 2015PhysDes: 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: World Film LocationsSubject: AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES ; SYDNEY IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: "The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs, beachside communities, and green outlying exurbs, Sydney offers many intriguing possibilities to filmmakers. World Film Locations: Sydney takes readers on a virtual tour of Sydney to explore how representations in movies have both played into and influenced how we think of these spaces and those that frequent them." -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9781783203628Contents: -- Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-8: 1919-1974 -- Scenes 9-16: 1975-1981 -- Scenes 17-24: 1982-1986 -- Scenes 25-32: 1992-1999 -- Scenes 33-39: 1999-2005 -- Scenes 40-46: 2006-2011 -- Essays -- Sydney: city of the imagination / Tina Kaufman -- The man from England: Brian Trenchard-Smith / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- The world behind the Coke sign / Jack Sargeant -- Life's a beach... / Deb Verhoeven -- Sojourner Sydney: looking from the outside / Jane Mills -- The phantasm of the opera: the Sydney Opera House / Gemma Blackwood -- Ubu films: Sydney's underground radical culture 1965 - 1972 / Lisa French -- resources -- contributor bios -- filmography
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World film locations : Singapore / Edited by Lorenzo Codelli Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA: Intellect Books, 2014.
Call No: 756(592.3) WORSource: UKPlace: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USAPublisher: Intellect BooksPubDate: 2014PhysDes: 122 pages ; col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cmSeries: World film locationsSubject: WORLD CINEMA ; SINGAPORE ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; CITIES IN FILMS ; LOCATION SHOOTING Summary: "A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point, and a cultural hub where goods, inventions, and ideas are shared and traded. Though Singapore was home to a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, between independence in 1965 and the early 1990s, few movies were made in Singapore. A new era for cinema in the sovereign city-state started with the international recognition of Eric Khoo's first features, followed by a New Wave comprised of graduates from local film schools. In recent years the Singapore film industry has produced commercial successful fare, such as the horror movie The Maid, as well as more artistic films like Sandcastle, the first Singaporean film to be selected for International Critic's Week at Cannes, and Ilo Ilo, which won the Camera d'or at Cannes in 2013. Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travelers to a rich, but less known, international cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes recommended further reading; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781783203611Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014Contents: Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-7 -- 1910-1958 -- Scenes 8-14 -- 1961-1966 -- Scenes 15-21 -- 1967-1990 -- Scenes 22-28 -- 1995-2002 -- Scenes 29-35 -- 2004-2009 -- Scenes 36-42 -- 2009-2013 -- Essays -- Singapore: City of the Imagination / Toh Hun Ping -- Malay Screen in a Predominantly Chinese Singapore / Yvonne Ng Uhde -- The Outsider's Singapore: A Brief History of 'Western' Film-makers' Expeditions in Singapore / Ben Slater -- A History of Saying No: Singapore International Film Festival and Censorship / Daniel Hui -- Eric Khoo / Silvia Wong -- The Cultural Materialism of Singapore in Jack Neo's Cinema / Stephen Teo -- A View of Public Housing in Singapore Cinema / Warren Sin
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