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book		Aesthetics of film / Jacques Aumont ... [et al.] ; translated and revised by Richard Neupert Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Call No: 62 AES Author: Aumont, J. (Jacques) CorpAuthor: EsthTtique du film. English Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: x, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Texas film studies series Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; SEMIOLOGY; AESTHETICS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; MONTAGE; REALISM IN FILMS; THEORY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; BARTHES, ROLAND; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-259) and index ISBN: 0292704372 (pbk.); 0292704283 (alk. paper) LON: 8459109 More info
book		Alfred Hitchcock's high vernacular : theory and practice / Stefan Sharff New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Call No: 81HIT SHA Author: Sharff, Stefan Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: vii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946); FRENZY (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972); FAMILY PLOT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976); LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0231069146 (acid-free paper) LON: 7477298 Contents: Notorious, p11-86 -- Frenzy, p165-233 -- Family plot, p87-164 -- More info
book		Alice doesn't : feminism, semiotics, cinema / Teresa de Lauretis Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Call No: 626:396 DEL Author: De Lauretis, Teresa Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: ix, 220 p. ; 25 cm Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; SEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0253304679; 0253203163 (pbk.) LON: 83048189; 2925665 More info
book		Cinema Babel : translating global cinema / Abe Mark Nornes Minneapolis, MA: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Call No: 632.71 NOR Author: Nornes, Abe Mark Source: US Place: Minneapolis, MA Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: ix, 285p. ;b+w ill. :23cm Subject: IMPORT OF FILMS; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; DUBBING; SUBTITLES; TITLING Summary: Examination of translation, dubbing and subtitling in the cinema. Notes: includes index ISBN: 9780816650422 Language: English More info
book		Exploring attitudes towards film, TV and video classifications : a marketing research report / prepared for the Office of Film and Literature Classication and Australian Broadcasting Tribunal by Frank Small & Associates [Sydney?: Frank Small & Associates], 1992. Call No: 414(94) EXP Place: [Sydney? Publisher: Frank Small & Associates] PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 109 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; LANGUAGE AND TV; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX ON TV; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: A study attempting to understand the underlying attitudes held by members of the community to the depiction of sex, nudity, language, and violence on film, television and video. Survey was done with members of the public from Sydney and Dubbo, and includes questions regarding the context and viewing environment and classifications of films and tv shows and videos More info
journal article		The field of language in film in October (Summer 1981) iss.17 p.53-60 Author: Wollen, Peter PhysDes: Article Subject: SYMBOLIC ORDER; PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE; SEMIOTICS; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980); PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Summary: A lengthy essay/article by Peter Wollen on semiotics and its relationship to a dominant patriarchal symbolic order within film. He explores the problematic of filmmakers attempting to counter patriarchal discourse. Wollen notes that one cinematic path is to avoid verbal language altogether and instead focus on icons, indices, images, and traces. However, Wollen rejects this option as ineffective as he places both verbal and visual language as crucial to the composition of films, in terms of both signifier and signified. Wollen also comments that in his counter-language projects with Laura Mulvey ("Amy!", "Penthesilea", and "Riddles of the Sphinx"), films where women's voices predominate in various modes, a fractured body of language has resulted More info
Online resource digital clippings file		LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/LANGUAGE_AND_THE_CINEMA.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:05:34 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Psychoanalysis and cinema : the imaginary signifier / Christian Metz ; translated by Celia Britton ... [et al.] London: Macmillan, 1982. Call No: 626:159.964.2 MET Author: Metz, Christian Place: London Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: vii, 327 p. ; 23 cm Series: Language, discourse, society Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA Notes: Published in America with title The imaginary signifier: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1982; Translation of: Le Signifiant imaginaire; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0333366409 (pbk.); 0333278054 LON: abn83037451; 2502678 3334451 More info
book		Sinophone cinemas / edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo London ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Call No: 408.1-054(=951) SIN Author: Yue, Audrey (editor); Khoo, Olivia (editor) Source: AU Place: London ; New York Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xvi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: CHINA IN FILMS; COPRODUCTION; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HONG KONG; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; SHORT FILMS; SINGAPORE; TAIWAN; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; SHIH, SHU-MEI; CHILDREN OF THE SILK ROAD, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (FR, Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2008) Summary: "Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism and differences that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Contains list of figures and notes on Chinese names and film titles -- Includes filmography, bibliographic references and index ISBN: 9781137311191 Contents: Part 1: Theorising Sinophone cinemas -- Framing Sinophone cinemas / Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo -- Genealogies of four critical paradigms in Chinese-language film studies / Sheldon H. Lu -- Alter-centring Sinophone cinema / Yiman Wang -- Festivals, censorship and the canon: the making of Sinophone cinemas / Yifen T. Beus -- The voice of the Sinophone / Song Hwee Lim -- Singapore, Sinaphone, nationalism: sounds of language in the films of Tan Pin Pin / Olivia Khoo; Part 2: Contemporary Sinophone cinemas -- Mandarin pop-culture meets Tokyo jazz: gender and popular youth culture in late-1960s Hong Kong musicals / Jennifer Feeley -- Sinophone libidinal economy in the age of neoliberalization and mainlandization: masculinities in Hong Kong SAR and New Wave cinema / Mirana M. Szeto -- Singlish and the Sinophone: non-standard (Chinese/English) languages in recent Singaporean cinema / Alison M. Groppe -- British Chinese short films: challenging the limits of the Sinophone / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis -- Contemporary Sinophone cinema: Australia-China coproductions / Audrey Yue More info
book		Study unit 15 : Jean-Luc Godard / notes compiled by Steve Crofts [London] : [s.n.], 1972: Call No: 81GOD CRO Author: Crofts, Steve Place: [London] : [s.n.], 1972 PhysDes: 80 p. ; 30 cm Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; THEORY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) LON: abn98241654; 14031909 More info
book		Teaching Film Censorship and Controversy London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 53 (035): 44 REA Author: Readman Mark CorpAuthor: BFI Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 24 cm ; 88 pp Series: BFI Teaching Film and Media Studies Subject: CENSORSHIP; BANNED FILMS; TEACHING MATERIALS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA Summary: This incisive guide provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy. Always a potentially problematic curriculum area, given the nature of the material under examination, the guide offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological importance of, censorship and classification. In addition there are proposed strategies for discussing 'problem films', analysing texts and debating the nature of effects. Contents include: Introduction - assessment contexts, why teach film censorship?, approaches to teaching; background - the historical context, institutions and regulation, controversial issues; case studies - violence, sexual violence, language, press controversy, a debate in action. [Taken from back cover] ISBN: 1844570797 More info
book		Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Call No: 62 CAS Author: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cm Subject: THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; BARTHES, ROLAND; BAZIN, ANDRE; BORDWELL, DAVID; DELEUZE, GILLES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; LACAN, JACQUES; HORKHEIMER, MAX; MITRY, JEAN; MORAN, EDGAR; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index ISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.) LON: 14328673 More info

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