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book		After taste : cultural value and the moving image / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Call No: 62(04) AFT Source: K Place: Abingdon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm. Subject: B-MOVIES; CRITICISM; RECEPTION; AMATEUR FILMS; LOW BUDGET FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and unworthy films – this trend has been evident in various formats: on television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films, amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste. More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and teaching of ‘bad objects’ in the media. This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of ‘after taste’ media. Addressing global and local developments – from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western Django – the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic and political value of the moving image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415845939 Contents: 1. Introduction: after taste: cultural value and the moving image / Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis -- Part I: Critical methods and approaches. 2. `An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema / Adrian Martin -- 3. Hollywood: bad cinema's bad `other' / Jane Mills -- 4. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: towards a phenomenology of bad film / Jane Stadler -- 5. Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! through time: historicizing value judgement / Julia Vassilieva -- Part II: Taste and value. 6. Transitional tastes: teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight / Lisa Bode -- 7. `Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight / Simon Sellars -- 8. Making the commercial personal: the authorial value of Jerry Bruckheimer television / Tom Steward -- 9. Blowing chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice / Scott Wilson -- Part III: Feeling and affect. 10. Labours of love: home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship / Minette Hillyer -- 11. Dead time: cinema, Heidegger, and boredom / Richard Misek -- Part IV: Teaching bad objects forum. 12. Teaching bad objects: introduction / Jodi Brooks -- 13. The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object / Jodi Brooks -- 14. Beyond good/should/bad: teaching Australian Indigenous film and television / Therese Davis -- 15. Teaching Australian television studies / Belinda Smaill. More info
journal article		Crawl in Australian Cinematographer (March 2012) iss.53 p.36-39 Author: Breheny, Brian PhysDes: Article Subject: LOW BUDGET FILMS; BREHENY, BRIAN; CRAWL (AT, Paul China, 2011) Summary: Cinematographer Brian Breheny describes the filming process involved in shooting low-budget Australian thriller, 'Crawl' More info
book		Get close : lean team documentary filmmaking / Rustin Thomas Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Call No: 761 THO Author: Thomas, Rustin Edition: 2019 Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: viii, 204 pages : illustrated ; 26 cm Subject: PRODUCTION; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; LOW BUDGET FILMS; PRODUCTION COSTS; BROOMFIELD, NICK; HERZOG, WERNER; MAYSLES, ALBERT; MAYSLES, DAVID; SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Summary: A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time. Author and veteran filmmaker Rustin Thompson shows that by stripping away, sidestepping, or reassessing the entrenched industry hurdles-long waits for funding, the unwieldy crews, the unnecessary gear, the gauntlet of film festivals, pitch forums, and distribution networks-filmmakers can move quickly from idea to execution to finished film. Throughout the book, Thompson demystifies and de-clutters the way docs are produced today, illustrating the use of a few simple and accessible tools and techniques while still engaging with the aesthetic possibilities of the medium, its creative opportunities and its satisfying rewards of giving back to the world. Using the essential lessons in Get Close, filmmakers will learn to eliminate physical and financial barriers between themselves and their subject matter, ultimately leading them to tell more artful, illuminating stories and find the joy in documentary filmmaking. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780190909901 Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Lean Team Filmmaking Will Liberate You -- Chapter One: My Lean Team Epiphany -- The Revolution Was Televised -- Chapter Two: Get Close -- Eliminate Barriers and Plan Your Project -- Chapter Three: The Lean Team Toolkit -- Essential gear and supporting equipment -- Chapter Four: The Shoot -- Field Production in the Lean Team Style -- Chapter Five: The Edit -- Cutting as a Lean Team Filmmaker -- Chapter Six: Film Festivals and Distribution -- Keep Your Lean Team Soul and Find an Audience More info
book		How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime / by Roger Corman with Jim Jerome New York: Random House, 1990. Call No: 81COR COR Author: Corman, Roger; Jerome, Jim Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Random House PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: xiii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: LOW BUDGET FILMS; CORMAN, ROGER Summary: "How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime details Corman's rise from Twentieth Century Fox messenger to antistudio maverick and leading producer of low-budget "exploitation" films...Corman tells the stories of the often madcap making of his movies (the same actors portraying both cowboys and Indians; amusement park lagoons substituting for oceans; identical special effects shots spliced into five or six different movies) and discusses the wastefulness of Hollywood's major studios and why they spend too much for too little in return. Witty, revealing and instructive, Corman - as well as many of the celebrities he's worked with - gives us the inside story of lucrative, intelligent movie making on a wing and a prayer." -- BOOK BLURB ISBN: 0394569741 Donation: Donated by Simon Wincer More info

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