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Call No: 730.3 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow.
Notes: Includes note and index.
ISBN: 0 415 23507 3
Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film.

Call No: 735.1 KUH
Author: Kuhn, Annette
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 308 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; UTOPIA IN FILMS; FANS; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ADAPTATIONS. WELLS, H.G.; VAN DAMME, JEAN-CLAUDE; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; CREED, BARBARA; TRUMBULL, DOUGLAS; JOHNNY MNEMONIC (US, Robert Longo, 1995); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-99); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); DEMOLITION MAN (US, Marco Brambilla, 1993); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Notes: Filmography: p. [276]-284; Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index
ISBN: 1859842593 (paper); 1859847463 (cloth)
LON: 20466609

Author: Kouvaros, George
PhysDes: Book review; Bibliography
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984)
Summary: A book review of 'Once upon a time in America', by Adrian Martin.

Call No: 451-01 MEL
Author: Mellen, Joan
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Pantheon Books
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394498003 : $12.95
LON: 77005189; 1007815

Call No: 451 (-01) (-055.52) BRU
Author: Bruzzi, Stella
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 217 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS. USA; HOLLYWOOD; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955); CAPE FEAR (US, J. Lee Thompson, 1961); KRAMER VS. KRAMER (US, Robert Benton, 1979); DIE HARD (US, John McTiernan, 1988); THREE MEN AND A BABY (US, Leonard Niimoy, 1987); BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991); MAGNOLIA (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Summary: The father is one of the central figures of Hollywood narrative. Despite this, this is the first book to examine cinematic representations of the father. Brining Up Daddy offers a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad looking at important Hollywood fathers from World War II to the present and discusses films for a variety of genres. The book looks at films decade by decade and adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history. Key films include Since You Went Away, The Search, Rebel without a Cause, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Cape Fear, Kramer vs Kramer, Die Hard, Three Men and a Baby, Boyz n the Hood and Magnolia. In its treatment of the father this unique study discusses why the father is such a seminal character in so many narratives and what he has come to symbolise and represent. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 1844571106

Call No: 71(51) CAT
Author: Wong Ain-ling (ed)
CorpAuthor: Hong Kong Film Archive
Place: Hong Kong
Publisher: Hong Kong Film Archive
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 414p ; 26 cm
Subject: CHINA IN FILMS; CHINA; HONG KONG; TAIWAN; GENRES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; SINGAPORE; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; SHAW BROTHERS
Summary: The productions of Cathay / MP & GI have themselves become a myth of Hong Kong cinema. What accounts for its radiance and elegance? And why was the audience broken-hearted to see its decline? The Cathay Story may offer a little clue.... 400 pages thick with 16 colour pages.
ISBN: 9628050168
Language: Chinese and English

Call No: 71(51) BER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xi, 313 p. ; 23 cm
Series: Film and Culture
Subject: CHINA; TAIWAN; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA; HISTORICAL FILMS. CHINA; MARTIAL ARTS FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA; REALISM IN FILMS. CHINA; OPERA IN FILMS; LEE, ANG; LINGYU, RUAN
Summary: Explores Chinese cinema from its beginnings to the present day in relation to how China depicts its national identity.
ISBN: 0231137079
Contents: 1. Introduction: cinema and the national -- 2. Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting -- 3. Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism -- 4. Realist Modes: Melodrama, Modernity, and Home -- 5. How Should a Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation -- 6. How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation -- 7. Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas -- 8. The National in the Transnational

Call No: 81POW CHR
Author: Ian Christie; Andrew Moor
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 295 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS. UK; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966)
Summary: The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), among them I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them ‘the most successful experimental film-makers in the world’). In this first ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of scholars explore his film-making landscape, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating these to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance. [Taken from back of book.]
ISBN: 1844570940

Call No: 64POS SHA
Author: Shaviro, Steven
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: x, 276 p. ; 26 cm
Series: Theory out of bounds ; v. 2
Subject: AESTHETICS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; WARHOL, ANDY; ROMERO, GEORGE; LEWIS, JERRY; CRONENBERG, DAVID; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; GUATTARI, FELIX; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index
ISBN: 0816622949 (PB : acid-free paper)
LON: 9656941

Call No: 747.2(47) CIN
Source: US
Place: Bloomington IN
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c2010
PhysDes: x, 331 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. RUSSIA; RUSSIA; RUSSIA IN FILMS; USSR; U.S.S.R IN FILMS
Summary: "This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in a shifting political landscape." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index.
ISBN: 9780253221872
Contents: Preface -- Introduction - Cinepaternity: the psyche and its heritage --; Part One: Thaw, stagnation, perestroika -- The myth of the great family in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev: Alexander Prokhorov -- Mending the rupture: the war trope and the return of the imperial father in 1970s cinema: Elena Prokhorova -- Models of male kinship in perestroika cinema: Seth Graham --; Part two: war in the post-Soviet dialogue with paternity -- The fathers' war through the sons' lens: Tatiana Smorodinskaya -- War as the family value: failing fathers and monstrous sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein: Mark Lipovetsky -- A surplus of surrogates: Mashkov's fathers: Helena Goscilo --; Part three: Reconceiving filial bonds -- Resurrected fathers and resuscitated sons: homosocial fantasies in The Return and Koktebel: Yana Hashamova -- The forces of kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch cinematic trilogy: Vlad Stukov -- Fathers, sons and brothers: redeeming patriarchal authority in The Brigade: Brian James Baer --; Four: Auteurs and the psychological/philosophical -- Fraught filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's transformations of personal trauma: Helena Goscilo -- Vision and blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son: Jose Alaniz

Call No: 451-01 OBR
Author: O'Brien, Daniel
Source: UK/US
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; HEROS IN FILMS; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; ACTION FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HERCULES (IT, Pietro Francisci, 1957); FATICHE DI ERCOLE, LE (IT, Pietro Francisci, 1957); JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (UK/US, Don Chaffey, 1963); 300 (US, Zach Snyder, 2006); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-)
Summary: "The cinema has often showcased the muscular male body, most notably in genres invoking classical Greco-Roman culture, whether peplum, epic or sword-and-sorcery. This book reassesses the classically-inflected action film as a significant cinematic form, often marginalized in media studies, that transcends such reductive labels as camp or kitsch. The focus is on the depiction of heroic masculinity, often characterized as reactionary or fascist, yet far more varied and contradictory, especially in relation to femininity and non-whiteness. These diverse representations of masculinity offer a major contribution to debates on maleness within and beyond academia that has been largely unexplored. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations is one of the most important mythopoetic figures, on a par with King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tarzan and James Bond, informing popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form"-- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index
ISBN: 9781137384706
Contents: -- Introduction -- Part I: men as men should be 1. Hercules Unchained ; 2. Hercules Reformed ; 3. Hercules Diminished ; 4. Hercules Rebooted ; 5. I'm Spartacus! -- Part II: taming the women with love or death -- 6. The Loves of Hercules ; 7. The Temptress from Beyond ; 8. Fight Like a Man -- Part III: this thing of darkness 9. White Man's Burden? ; 10. Doom's Children ; 11. This is Sparta! ; Coda -- Bibliography --Index --

Call No: 71(94) RAY
Author: Rayner, Jonathan
Source: UK
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 index
ISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269
LON: 22455173

Call No: 62 ORR
Author: Orr, John, 1943
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xi,243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CANADA; CHINA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; DOUBLES IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; FILM NOIR; HONG KONG; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ALLEN, WOODY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BEATTY, WARREN; BELMONDO, JEAN-PAUL; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BINOCHE, JULIETTE; BONNAIRE, SANDRINE; BURTON, TIM; CAGE, NICOLAS; CAMPION, JANE; CHABROL, CLAUDE; CHEUNG, LESLIE; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; COSTNER, KEVIN; CRONENBERG, DAVID; DAHL, JOHN; DE NIRO, ROBERT; DE PALMA, BRIAN; DERN, LAURA; EGOYAN, ATOM; FIGGIS, MIKE; GERE, RICHARD; GONG, LI; GREENAWAY, PETER; HAUER, RUTGER; JAMESON, FREDRIC; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; LYNCH, DAVID; MALICK, TERRENCE; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SCOTT, RIDLEY; STONE, OLIVER; TRAN, ANH HUNG; WEIR, PETER; Wenders, Wim; WONG KAR-WAI; YOUNG, SEAN; ZHANG, YIMOU; ANDERSSON, BIBI; AUDRAN, STEPHANE; DUVALL, SHELLY; GIDLEY, PAMELA; JANDA, KRYSTYNA; KANESHIRO, TANESHI; LEUNG, TONY; LIN, BRIGITTE; KROTKI FILM O MILOSCI (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988); KILL ME AGAIN (US, John Dahl, 1989); AH FEI ZHENG ZHUANG (HK, Wong Kar-Wei, 1991); HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987); ADJUSTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1991); BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); DAYS OF HEAVEN (US, Terrence Malick, 1978); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994); LIEBESTRAUM (US, Mike Figgis, 1991); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); CZLOWIEK Z MARMURA (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1977); ONE FALSE MOVE (US, Carl Franklin, 1991); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980); DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980); STALKER (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); XICH LO (FR/V, Tran Anh Hung, 1995)
Summary: "'Contemporary cinema' is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new poetries. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre." Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0748608362(pbk.) : No price
LON: 13772409
ID2: 291

Call No: 71 (931) NEW
Author: Conrich, Ian (ed); Murray, Stuart(ed)
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: I.B Taruris world cinema series
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FESTIVALS. NEW ZEALAND; MAORI CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; RELIGION IN FILMS; BARCLAY, BARRY; CAMPION, JANE; CURTIS, CLIFF; DUFF, ALAN; DONALDSON, ROGER; DENNIS, JONATHAN; Grierson, John; JACKSON, PETER (NZ); LAWRENCE, BRUNO; MUNE, IAN; MURPHY, GEOFFREY; LANGE, DAVID; MACLEAN, ALISON; MITA, MERATA; MORRIESON, RONALD HUGH; MORRISON, TEMUERA; MULDOON, ROBERT; NEILL, SAM; PRESTON, GAYLENE; SARGESTON, FRANK; SARKIES, ROBERT; TAMAHORI, LEE; WARD, VINCENT; BAISE-MOI (FR, Virginie Despentes, 2000); BRAINDEAD (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1992); CAME A HOT FRIDAY (NZ, Ian Mune, 1985); CHANNELLING BABY (NZ, Christine Parker, 1999); CINEMA OF UNEASE: A PERSONAL JOURNEY BY SAM NEILL (NZ, Sam Neill & Judy Reimer, 1995); CRUSH (NZ, Alison MacLean, 1992); DESPERATE REMEDIES (NZ, Stewart Main & Peter Wells, 1993); END OF THE GOLDEN WEATHER, THE (NZ, Ian Mune, 1991); GOODBYE PORK PIE (NZ, Geoffrey Murphy, 1980); HEAVENLY CREATURES (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1994); IRREFUTABLE TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS ((NZ, Glenn Standring, 2000); JUBILEE (NZ, Michael Hurst, 2000); LORD OF THE RINGS, THE (US, PETER JACKSON, 2001); MAGIK AND ROSE (NZ, Vanessa Alexander, 1999); NGATI (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PRICE OF MILK, THE (NZ, Harry Sinclair, 2000); QUIET EARTH, THE (NZ, Geoffrey Murphy, 1985); RAIN (NZ, Christine Jeffs, 2001); SAVING GRACE (NZ, Costa Botes, 1997); SCARECROW, THE (NZ, Sam Pillsbury, 1982); SCARFIES (NZ, Robert Sarkies, 1999); SKIN DEEP (NZ, Geoff Steven, 1978); SNAKESKIN (NZ, Gillian Ashurst, 2001); SLEEPING DOGS (NZ, Roger Donaldson, 1977); SMASH PALACE (NZ, Roger Donaldson, 1981); TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES (NZ, Harry Sinclair, 1997); UTU (NZ, Geoffrey Murphy, 1983); VIGIL (NZ, Vincent Ward, 1984); WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002)
Summary: "Focusing on industrial and commercial concerns, questions of aesthetics and form, and the cultural debates surrounding nation and identity, the book surveys the full range of filmmaking in New Zealand. It displays the rich diversity of film production in the country, and in doing so highlights a number of specific contexts - Maori, documentary and short filmmaking, literary adaptations, the development of the national Film Commission and Archive, marketing and censorship, in addition to explorations into the place of bicultural relations, spirituality, masculinity and disability - that have created a cinema of global significance. Featuring critical accounts of internationally-acclaimed features like The Piano and Once Were Warriors, as well as the growth of the national infrastructure that made such films possible, Contemporary New Zealand Cinema is the most thorough study available of a vibrant filmmaking culture. The book also includes a fully comprehensive filmography detailing all New Zealand feature and television films."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Filmography: p.[239]-253 Bibliography: p. 255- 258; Includes index
ISBN: 9781845118372

Call No: 744.7 FEM
Author: Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca
Source: US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: BISEXUALITY IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; HOLLYWOOD; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; IDENTITY IN FILMS; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN DIRECTORS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; 13 GOING ON 30 (US, Gary Winick, 2004); BABY MAMA (US, Michael McCullers, 2008); BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002); BRAVE ONE, THE (US/AT, Neil Jordan, 2007); BRIDE WARS (US, Gary Winick, 2009); CASINO ROYALE (CZ/US/UK, Martin Campbell, 2006); ENCHANTED (US, KEVIN LIMA, 2007); FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN, THE (US, Judd Apatow, 2005); FRIENDS WITH MONEY (US, Nicole Holofcener, 2006); HARD CANDY (US, David Slade, 2005); JUNO (US/CN, Jason Reitman 2007); KISSING JESSICA STEIN (US, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2001); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); MICHAEL CLAYTON (US, Tony Gilroy, 2007); MISS CONGENIALITY (US, Donald Petrie, 2000); SECRET LIFE OF BEES (US, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008); SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE (US, MICHAEL PATRICK KING, 2008); SINGLE MAN, A (US, Tom Ford, 2009); SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS, THE (US, Ken Kwapis, 2005); WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005)
Summary: "Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporaty Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of masculinity as well as femininity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes list of figures, bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780415895880
Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements; Introduction: "Re-vision"?: Feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer; Part I: Masculinity in question -- "The first Bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger -- Queer memories and universal emotions: A Single Man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis -- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstruction of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after New Queer Cinema / Gary Needham; Part II: New feminine subjects: a space for women? -- Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism: gender, irony, and new romantic comedy / Yvonne Tasker -- Neoliberal feminism in Miss Congeniality (2000) / Yael D Sherman -- Girls' sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky -- Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner; Part III: Consuming culture(s) -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap -- Music and the woman's film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton -- Independence at what cost? Economics and desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money (2006) / Michele Schreiber -- The feminist politics of Sofia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christine Lane and Nicole Richter; Part IV: Relationships, identity and family -- "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), and the new intimacies of reproduction / JaneMaree Maher -- Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler -- "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride Wars (2009), wedding envy, and chick flicks / Heather Brook -- Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad; Part V: Gender and violence -- Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Blythwood's The Secret Life of Bees (2008) / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- From victim to vigilante: gender, violence, and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer -- "When the woman looks": Haute Tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant; Contributors -- Index

Call No: 67(04) FIL
Source: US
Place: Indianapolis ; New York
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: xl, 369 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; POLICE IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; POLITICS IN FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; FORD, JOHN; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); WEDDING IN WHITE (CN, William Fruet, 1972); KEBY SOM MAL PUSKU (SZ, Stefan Uher, 1971); KID BLUE (US, James Frawley & Dennis Hopper, 1973); PULP (US/UK, Mike Hodges, 1972); DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (US, Jim McBride, 1968); JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (US, Norman Jewison, 1973); GODSPELL (US, David Greene, 1973); DELICATE BALANCE, A (US/UK/CN, Tony Richardson, 1973); ICEMAN COMETH, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1980); SLITHER (US, Howard Zieff, 1973); TEN FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS (US, Max Liebman, 1973); WALKING TALL (US, Phil Karlson, 1973); LAUGHING POLICEMAN, THE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1973); BELLE FILLE COMME MOI, UNE (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1975); DOLL'S HOUSE, A (UK/US/FR, Joseph Losey, 1973); YEAR OF THE WOMAN (US, Sandra Hochman, 1973); NYBYGGARNA (SW, Jan Troell, 1972); PAYDAY (US, Daryl Duke, 1972); NUIT AMERICAINE, LA (FR/IT, Francois Truffaut, 1973); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); STRATEGIA DEL RAGNO, LA (IT, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970); SZERELEM (HU, Karoly Makk, 1971); SANMA NO AJI (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1962); O LUCKY MAN! (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1973); LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973); AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973); MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973); BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (US, John Hancock, 1973); HEAVY TRAFFIC (US, Ralph Bakshi, 1973); SISTERS (US, Brian De Palma, 1972); PAPER MOON (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973); WAY WE WERE, THE (US, Sydney Pollack. 1973); SAVE THE TIGER (US, John G. Avildsen, 1973); PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1973); MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO (CU, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968); ETAT DE SIEGE (FR/IT/GW, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1973); LAST AMERICAN HERO, THE (US, Lamont Johnson, 1973); BLUME IN LOVE (US, Paul Mazursky, 1973); DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE (UK/FR, Fred Zinnemann, 1973); I. F. STONE'S WEEKLY (US, Jerry Bruck Jr., 1974); TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972); CASO MATTEI, IL (IT, Francesco Rosi, 1972); BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972); SUMMER WISHES, WINTER DREAMS (US, Gilbert Cates, 1973); SCARECROW (US, Jerry Schatzberg, 1973); STING, THE (US, George Roy Hill, 1973); PAPILLON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973); DEEP THROAT (US, Jerry Gerard, 1972); LIVE AND LET DIE (US, Guy Hamilton, 1973); TANG SHAN DA XIONG (HK, Lo Wei, 1971); SERPICO (US, Sidney Lumet, 1973); MAGNUM FORCE (US, Ted Post, 1973); SEVEN-UPS, THE (US, Philip D'Antoni, 1973); HANDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN, DER (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972); ARANYER DIN RATRI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1970); PRATIDWANDI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1971); FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, THE (US, P. Yates, 1973); CHARLEY VARRICK (US, Donald Siegel, 1973); SLEEPER (US, Woody Allen, 1973); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); KING IN NEW YORK (US, Charles Chaplin, 1957); TOUCH OF CLASS, A (UK, Melvin Frank, 1973); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973); JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE SEAGULL (US, Hall Bartlett, 1973); DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1973)
Summary: Collection of essays of films that were released in America in 1973/1974.
Notes: Includes index.
ISBN: 0672519895
Contents: -- Day For Night / Vincent Canby, Roger Greenspun, Gary Arnold -- Last Tango In Paris / Pauline Kael, Gary Arnold, Hollis Alpert, Joseph Gelmis -- The Spider's Stratagem / Jay Cocks -- Love / Penelope Gilliatt, Vincent Canby -- An Autumn Afternoon / Robert Hatch -- O Lucky Man! / Penelope Gilliatt, Robert Hatch -- The Long Goodbye / Charles Champlin, Pauline Kael, William S. Pechter -- La Grande Bouffe / Robert Hatch, Bruce Williamson, Molly Haskell -- Don't Look Now / Jay Cocks, Pauline Kael -- American Graffiti / Jay Cocks, Roger Greenspun, William S. Pechter -- Mean Streets / Pauline Kael, Joseph Gelmis, William S. Pechter -- Bang The Drum Slowly / Richard Schickel, David Denby -- Payday / Bruce Williamson -- Heavy Traffic / Penelope Gilliatt, Andrew Sarris -- Sisters / Richard Schickel -- The New Land / Gary Arnold -- Paper Moon / Judith Crist, Gary Arnold -- The Way We Were / Joseph Gelmis, Paul D. Zimmerman -- Save The Tiger / Charles Champlin, William S. Pechter -- Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid / Jay Cocks, Michael Korda -- The Last American Hero / Roger Greenspun -- Blume In Love / Roger Ebert, William S. Pechter, Molly Haskell -- Memories Of Underdevelopment / Penelope Gilliatt -- State Of Siege / Penelope Gilliatt, Andrew Sarris -- The Day Of The Jackal / Roger Ebert -- I. F. Stone's Weekly / Vincent Canby -- Tout Va Bien / Vincent Canby -- The Mattei Affair / Andrew Sarris -- Men Without Women, Women Without Men / David Denby -- Sisterhoodwinked: The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, Year Of The Woman, The Way We Were / Molly Haskell -- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams / Judith Crist, Paul D. Zimmerman -- A Doll's House / Molly Haskell -- Such A Gorgeous Kid Like Me / Penelope Gilliatt -- Mailer On Monroe / Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell -- Scarecrow / Bruce Williamson -- The Sting / Judith Crist, Bernard Drew -- Papillon / Paul D. Zimmerman -- Deep Throat / Vincent Canby -- Live And Let Die / Joseph Gelmis -- Kung Fu Craze: Fists Of Fury / David Denby -- Movie Cops: Serpico, Magnum Force, The Laughing Policeman, The Seven-Ups / David Denby -- The Friends Of Eddie Coyle / Richard Schickel -- Walking Tall / Gary Arnold -- Charley Varrick / Andrew Sarris -- Sleeper / Pauline Kael, Molly Haskell -- Playtime / Penelope Gilliatt, Richard Schickel -- Ten From "Your Show Of Shows" / Andrew Sarris -- A King In New York / Roger Greenspun -- A Touch Of Class / Bernard Drew -- Slither / Robert Hatch -- The American Film Theatre / Hollis Alpert -- The Iceman Cometh / Molly Haskell -- The Homecoming And A Delicate Balance / Paul D. Zimmerman -- The Exorcist / Hollis Alpert, Charles Champlin, Pauline Kael -- Godspell / Bruce Williamson -- Jesus Christ Superstar / Hollis Alpert, Paul D. Zimmerman -- Jonathan Livingston Seagull / Michael Korda -- The Day Of The Dolphin / Paul D. Zimmerman -- The Merchant Of Four Seasons / Andrew Sarris -- Days And Nights In The Forest / David Denby -- The Adversary / Gary Arnold -- David Holzman's Diary / Vincent Canby -- Pulp / William S. Pechter -- Kid Blue / Jay Cocks -- If I Had A Gun / Pauline Kael -- Wedding In White / Roger Ebert -- Imaginary Movies / Paul D. Zimmerman -- Abel Green (1900-1973) / Vincent Canby -- John Ford (1895-1973) / Roger Greenspun -- John Ford: The Grapes Of Wrath / Andrew Sarris
ID2: 291

Call No: 451(430) HAN
Author: Hans, Anjeana K
Source: US
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vii, 302 pages : 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Subject: GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; GERMANY; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780814338940
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: 1.The World Turned Upside Down: Changing Society, Changing Gender Roles, Changing Medium in Weimar Germany -- 2.The Eyes of the Mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Ma^, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918): From the Monster with the "Eyes That Live" to the Passive Object of the Male Gaze -- 3.Uncanny Tales {Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919): The Many Guises of the Dangerous Woman -- 4.Warning Shadows {Schatten: Eine nachtliche Halluzination, Artur Robison, 1923): Transgression, Abjection, Projection -- 5.The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hande, Robert Wiene, 1924): War Trauma, Injury, and the Return to a Changed World -- 6.A Daughter of Destiny {Alraune, Henrik Galeen, 1928) and Daughter of Evil (Alraune, Richard Oswald, 1930): From Dangerous Hybrid to Self-Sacrificing Woman--Conclusion

Call No: 451-01(94) CRI
Author: Crilly, Shane
Source: AT
Place: [Adelaide]
Publisher: University of Adelaide
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: v, 245 leaves ; 30 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "The dominance of male characters in Australian films makes our national cinema a rich resource for the examination of the construction of masculinities. This thesis argues that the codes of the hegemonic masculinities in capital patriarchal societies like Australia insist on an absolute masculine position. However, according to Oedipal logic, this position always belongs to another man. Masculine yet 'feminised,' identity is fraught with anxiety but sustained by the 'dominant fiction' that equates the penis with the phallus and locates the feminine as its polar opposite. This binary relationship is inaugurated in childhood when a boy must distinguish his identity from his mother, who, significantly, is a different gender. Being masculine means not being feminine." -Thesis abstract.
Notes: Includes filmography (leaves 209-10) and bibliography (leaves 211-245)
Contents: Abstract -- Declaration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A man's world: Boys, their fathers and the reproduction of the patriarchy -- Chapter 2: Mummy's boy: Men, their mothers and absent fathers -- Chapter 3: Bad boys: Representations of men's violence in The Boys -- Chapter 4: The performance of masculinity: Larrikinism and Australian masculinities -- Chapter 5: Love, sex marriage and sentimental blokes -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography

Call No: 451-01(73) NYS
Author: Nystrom, Derek
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: x, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. USA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CRUISING (US, William Friedkin, 1980); DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972); FIVE EASY PIECES (US, Bob Rafelson, 1970); LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977); SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (US, John Badham, 1977)
Summary: "Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men examines a wide range of American films from the 1970s and argues that their persistent depictions of white, working-class masculinity provided a powerful class fantasy, one that spoke to middle-class anxieties provoked by the period's social and political upheavals. Drawing on iconic films from the era Nystrom presents an incisive, evocative study of labor, class, and American cinema in the wake of Vietnam, women's and gay liberation, the rise of the New Right, and other events that defined the decade" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
ISBN: 9780195336771
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012
Contents: Introduction. Making Class Visible in Film and Cultural Studies -- Pt. I. Hard Hats and Movie Brats -- 1. Class and the Youth-Cult Cycle -- Pt. II. Rednecks and Good Ole Boys: The Rise of the Southern -- 2. Deliverance, An Allegory of the Sunbelt -- 3. Keep On Truckin': The Southern Cycle and the Invention of the Good Ole Boy -- Pt. III. Macho Men and the New Nightlife Film -- 4. Saturday Night Fever and the Queering of the White, Working-Class Male Body -- 5. Extra Masculinity: Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Cruising -- Conclusion: Working-Class Solidarity and Its Others -- Afterword: Hard Hats Revisited: The Labor of 9/11.

Call No: 753AUS JAN
Author: Greenfield, Sayre N., 1956; Troost, Linda, 1957
Source: US
Place: Lexington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: 202 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; MEN IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; THOMPSON, EMMA; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996); CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995); SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1940); PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [TV] (UK/US, Simon Langton, 1995); PERSUASION (UK, Roger Michell, 1995)
Summary: "In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced - an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millenium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels." - BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index
ISBN: 0813120845 (alk. paper)
LON: 13891695
Contents: Introduction: watching ourselves watching / Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield -- Out of the drawing room, onto the lawn / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Balancing the courtship hero: masculine emotional display in film adaptation of Austen's novels / Cheryl L. Nixon -- Misrepresenting Jane Austen's ladies: revising texts (and history) to sell films / Rebecca Dickson -- Austen, class and the American market / Carol M. Dole -- Jane Austen, film, and the pitfalls of postmodern nostalgia / Amanda Collins -- "A correct taste in landscape": Pemberley as fetish and commodity / H. Elisabeth Ellington -- Mr. Darcy's body: privileging the female gaze / Lisa Hopkins -- Emma becomes Clueless / Suzanne Ferriss -- "As if!": translating Austen's ironic narrator to film / Nora Nachumi -- Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as gateway to Austen's novel / M. Casey Diana -- "Piracy is our only option": postfeminist intervention in Sense and Sensibility / Kristin Flieger Samuelian -- Feminist implications of the silver screen Austen / Devoney Looser -- Mass marketing Jane Austen: men, women, and courtship in two film adaptations / Deborah Kaplan

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS
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Call No: 451-01 COH
Author: Cohan, Steven
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Arts and politics of the everyday
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRANDO, MARLON; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY; CURTIS, TONY; GRANT, CARY; HOLDEN, WILLIAM; HESTON, CHARLTON; HUDSON, ROCK; PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955); PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948)
Summary: When we think of the films of the 1950s, we inevitably remember the confident swagger of John Wayne, the suave sophistication of Cary Grant, and the emotional intensity of Marlon Brando. But today's culture critics see in the decade a period when heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate the representation of American masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the 1950s represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood depicted the sexual anxieties of the domesticated breadwinner, the repudiation of wartime homoerotic male bonding, the exhibitionism of muscular bodies, the transvestic connotations of boyishness, and the playboy bachelor apartment. These presentations challenged the postwar ideal of the typical American male, that omnipresent and seemingly invisible Man in a Gray Flannel Suit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) and index; Filmography: p. [321]-322
ISBN: 0253211271 (pa : alk. paper); 0253332974 (cl : alk. paper)
LON: 12951206

Call No: 735.21 CRE
Author: Creed, Barbara
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Vic
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
PubDate: c2005
PhysDes: xix, 232 p. : ill, ports ; 21cm
Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FRANKENSTEIN; FREDDY KREUGER IN FILMS; GHOSTS IN FILMS; HORROR FILM; JACK THE RIPPER IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; VAMPIRE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WERWOLVES IN FILMS
Summary: In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity, through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire, mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity, and what it means to a society.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-224; Filmography: p.212-214; Includes index
ISBN: 052285172

Call No: 749.4 REA
Source: US
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media studies
Subject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY ON TV; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780814338988
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014
Contents: Machine generated contents note: I.Anticipating the Bromantic Turn -- 1.Second Bananas and Gay Chicken: Bromancing the Rom-Com in the Fifties and Now / Jenna Weinman -- 2.Grumpy Old Men: "Bros Before Hos" / Hilary Radner -- 3.Fears of a Millennial Masculinity: Scream's Queer Killers / David Greven -- II.The Contemporary Cinematic Bromance -- 4.I Love You, Hombre: Y tu mama tambien as Border-Crossing Bromance / Nick Davis -- 5.From Dostana to Bromance: Buddies in Hindi Commercial Cinema Reconsidered / Meheli Sen -- 6.From Batman to I Love You, Man: Queer Taste, Vulgarity, and the Bromance as Sensibility and Film Genre / Ken Feil -- 7.Rad Bromance (or I Love You, Man, but We Won't Be Humping on Humpday) / Peter Forster -- 8.Queerness and Futurity in Superbad / Michael DeAngelis -- III.Bromance and Television Narrative -- 9.Becoming Bromosexual: Straight Men, Gay Men, and Male Bonding on U.S. TV / Ron Becker -- 10.The Bromance Stunt in House / Murray Pomerance -- Contents note continued: 11."This ain't about your money, bro. Your boy gave you up": Bromance and Breakup in HBO's The Wire / Dominic Lennard.

Call No: 451-01(94) BAR
Author: Barnett, Chelsea
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Victoria
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: vii, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); SMILEY (UK, Anthony Kimmins, 1956); SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957)
Summary: "Set against the shifting social and political backdrop of a nation throwing off the shackles of one war yet faced with the instability of the new world order, Reel Men probes the concept of 1950s masculinity itself, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time. Offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, the book challenges the common belief that the fifties was a 'dead' era for Australian filmmaking. Reel Men engages with fourteen Australian feature films made and released between 1949 and 1962, and examines the multiple masculinities in circulation at this time. Dealing with beloved Australian films like Jedda (1955), Smiley (1956), and The Shiralee (1957), and national icons of the silver screen including Chips Rafferty, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, and Peter Finch, Reel Men delves into our cultural past to dismantle powerful assumptions about film, the fifties, and masculinity in Australia." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780522872477
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- 1 the Australian film industry: dead or alive? -- 2 Australian nation, Australian men -- 3 beyond the breadwinner -- 4 assimilation stories -- 5 anything for the family? -- 6 more than mates? -- conclusion -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 751.0 (94)"199"COY
Author: Coyle, Rebecca (ed)
Edition: 1st
Source: UK
Place: Eastleigh
Publisher: John Libby Publishing
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; MUSIC FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOUND EFFECTS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BOOTMEN (AT, Dein Perry, 2000); BLACKROCK (AT, Steven Vidler, 1997); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); MASCULINITY IN FILMS; IN A SAVAGE LAND (AT, Bill Bennett, 1999); MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); CHOPPER (AT, Andrew Dominik, 2000); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ONE NIGHT THE MOON (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2001); PARADISE ROAD (AT/US, Bruce Beresford, 1997); BANK, THE (AT/IT, Robert Connolly, 2001); BEDEVIL (AT, Tracey Moffat, 1993); FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These include traditional composed screen music, pre-recorded music tracks, mixes of music and sound effects and various combinations of these. In response to this, film music scholars have developed new ways of understanding and analysing the role of film music in relation to genre, narrative and creative roles and inter-relations in film music scoring. 'Reel Tracks' provides a series of insightful analyses of recent mainstream Australian cinema. Following the editor's careful exploration of film music's relation to national cinema culture and identity, individual chapters offer stimulating and diverse accounts of music in films such as Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Lantana (2001), Chopper (2000) and Paradise Road (1997). The chapters in this volume also address broader themes such as the musical representation of sexuality in cinema and music's representation of regions, localities and ethnicity. Reel Tracks is an important contribution to both Australian film studies and the international understanding of the role of music in contemporary western cinema. This volume is targeted to both cinema studies readers and film music students, teachers and aficionados. [Book jacket]
ISBN: 0861966589
Contents: Soundscapes of surf and steel : "Blackrock" and "Bootmen" / Shane Homan -- New-Age Ned : Scoring Irishness and masculinity in "Ned Kelly" / Helen O'Shea -- Hauntings : Soundtrack representations of Papua New Guinea in "To have and to hold" and "In a savage land" / Philip Hayward -- "Hei-fen" and musical subtexts in two Australian films by Clara Law / Tony Mitchell -- Lost in music : popular music, multiculturalism and Australian film / Jon Stratton -- Scoring : sexuality and Australian film music, 1990-2003 / Bruce Johnson and Gaye Poole -- "Christ kid, you're a weirdo" : aural construction of subjectivity in "Bad boy bubby" / Melissa Iocco and Anna Hickey-Moody -- The sound of redemption in "Chopper" : rediscovering ambience as affect / Mark Evans -- Sounds of Australia in "Rabbit-proof fence" / Marjorie D. Kibby -- Untangling "Lantana" : a study of film sound production / Rebecca Coyle -- Moon music : musical meanings in "One night the moon" / Kate Winchester -- Transcendent voices : choral music in "Paradise road" / Jude Magee -- Musical intertextuality in "The bank" / Michael Hannan -- Carl Vine's score in "beDevil" / Catherine Summerhayes and Roger Hillman -- The composer as alchemist : an overview of Australian feature film scores 1994-2004 / Michael Atherton.
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Call No: 451-01 SCR
Author: Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MUSICALS; ACTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; WHITE HEAT (US, Raoul Walsh, 1949); PLAY MISTY FOR ME (US, Clint Eastwood, 1971); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
Summary: "Screening the Male challenges the traditional understanding of the male's position in Hollywood cinema. Gathering together thirteen original essays by scholars in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as Steve Neale's ground-breaking article on the male spectacle, this collection looks beyong the seemingly unassailable monolithic understanding of the 'masculine' which has previously dominiated most film criticism. Ranging from Valentino to Schwarzeneeger, from the musical to the horror film. from close readings to 'queer' readings, the essays all differ in their critical method and historical focus. But whatever their specific interest, each essay holds a strong concern with issues that film studies has repeatedly linked to the feminine without considering how they relate as well to the masculine: spectacle, masochism, passivity, masquerade and, most of all, the body as it signifies gendered, racial, class and generational differences." -- BOOK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN: 0415077583; 0415077591 (pbk.)
LON: 92005815; 8965703

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

Call No: 451-01/02 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 195 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Comedia
Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; GENRES; RACE AND THE CINEMA; BIGELOW, KATHRYN
Notes: Filmography: p. 178-185; Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-190) and index
ISBN: 0415092248; 041509223X (hbk.)
LON: 92044020; 9902660
Contents: 1. Women warriors: gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines -- 2. Black buddies and white heroes: racial discourse in the action cinema -- 3. New Hollywood, genre and the action cinema -- 4. Tough guys and wise-guys: masculinities and star images in the action cinema -- 5. Masculinite, politics and national identity -- 6. The body in crisis or the body triumphant? -- 7. Action heroines in the 1980s: the limits of 'musculinity' -- The cinema as experience: Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle

Call No: 761 RAB
Author: Rabinowitz, Paula
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; VOYEURISM AND THE CINEMA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; FREUD, SIGMUND; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984)
Summary: "They must be represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies. Paula Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which these four media shaped truth-claims and political agency over the decades: in the 1930s about poverty, labor and popular culture during the depression; in the 1960s, about the Vietnam War, racism, work and the counterculture; and in the 1980s, about feminist and gay critiques of gender, history, narrative and cinema...Rabinowitz argues that the gendering ov vision that occurs when narratives conform to conventional genres profoundly affects the relation of documentarian to subject. She goes on to define this gendering of vision in documentary as an ethnographic process. Ultimately, this polemical study challenges the construction of the spectato in psychoanalytic film theory, and articulates a new model for theorizing power relations in culture and history." -- taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251) and index
ISBN: 1859849253; 1859840256 (pbk.)
LON: bnc85984925; 11201643
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Call No: 62 DOU
Author: Doughty, Ruth; Etherington-Wright, Christine
Edition: Second edition
Source: UK
Place: [England]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; ADAPTATIONS; GENRES; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; STARS; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HUNGER GAMES, THE (US, Gary Ross, 2012); RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968) SEE C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST; LEGO MOVIE, THE (AT/US/DK, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014); ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); OLDBOY (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); OLDEUBOI (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); FROZEN (US, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013); BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (FR/BE/SP, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013); DJANGO UNCHAINED (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2012); AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009)
Summary: -- "Film theory has a reputation for being challenging. Often requiring time and effort to fully grasp it and seeming rather old-fashioned, it can be difficult to approach the subject with enthusiasm and appreciate its relevance to modern day. Understanding Film Theory aims to disassociate theory from these connotations and bring a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to the discipline. Now comprehensively updated in a second edition, the book’s sixteen chapters - including a new chapter on Adaptations - continue to provide an insight into the main areas of debate. Taking the application of theory as its central theme, the text incorporates a number of innovative features: ‘Reflect and Respond’ sections encourage readers to engage critically with theoretical concepts, while seminal texts are concisely summarised without oversimplifying key points. Throughout the book the authors illustrate why theory is important and demonstrate how it can be applied in a meaningful way, with relevant case studies drawn from both classic and contemporary cinema including: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Run Lola Run (1998), The Hunger Games (2012), Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) and The Lego Movie (2014). Additional case studies address key genres (the British Gangster film and the musical), film movements (Dogme 95), individual actors (Ryan Gosling, Judi Dench and Amitabh Bachchan) and directors (Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo del Toro). Understanding Film Theory is an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory. It is the ideal entry point for any student studying film, using clear definitions and explaining complex ideas succinctly. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781137528230
Contents: -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Auteur Theory Case study: Alfred Hitchcock -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro -- 2 Adaptations Case study: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) -- 3 Genre Theory -- Case study: The British Gangster Film -- Case study: The Musical -- 4 Formalism Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) -- 5 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- 6 Marxism -- Case study: The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) -- 7 Realism -- Case study: Dogme 95 -- Case study: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) -- 8 Postmodernism -- Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) -- 9 Psychoanalysis -- Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) -- 10 Feminism -- Case study: Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) -- 11 Masculinity -- Case study: Ryan Gosling -- 12 Queer Theory -- Case study: Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) -- 13 Race and Ethnicity -- Case study: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) -- 14 Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas -- Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) -- 15 Stars -- Case study: Amitabh Bachchan -- Case study: Dame Judi Dench -- 16 Audience -- Research and Reception -- Case study: Tartan Video -- Conclusion -- filmography -- Index --

Call No: 451-01 PFE
Author: Pfeil, Fred
Place: London
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xxi, 269 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Haymarket series
Subject: ACTION FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "What do men - white straight men in particular - want? IN a series of witty and provcative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of what heterosexual masculinity over the last fifteen years. White Guys proves such topics as the rock'n'roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose, and the late Kurt Cobain; the 'male rampage' films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and the films of 'sensitive transpormation' that followed in their wake; and the curious yet symptomatic activities of the men's movement whose 'rituals' Pfeil has investigated firsthand. Pfeil's aim is to reveal the ambiguity and flux in a social category too often assumed to be monolithic and unchanging. White Guys invites its readers to consider the shifts in mainstream masculinity's representation, in relation to the general emergence of postmodern 'tribalisms' and in the context of changes in both contemporary feminism and the global economy." -- BOOK COVER
ISBN: 1859849377 : ¦39.95; 1859840329 (pbk.) : ¦12.99
LON: bnc85984937; 11499168
Contents: From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the Male Rampage Film -- The Year of Living Sensitively -- Rock Incorporated: Plugging in to Axl and Bruce -- Soft-Boiled Dicks -- Guerillas in the Mist: Wild Guys and New Age Tribes -- Chips off the Old Block

Call No: 79(04)XME XME
Author: Bucciferro, Claudia
Source: US
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: 241 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: THEORY; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; UTOPIA IN FILMS; FANTASY FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; X-MEN (US, Bryan Singer, 2000); X-MEN 2 (US, Bryan Singer, 2003) SEE X2; X2 (US, Bryan Singer, 2003); X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (US, Brett Ratner, 2006); X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (US/NZ/AT, Gavin Hood, 2009); X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (US, Matthew Vaughn, 2011); X-MEN : DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (US/ UK, Bryan Singer, 2014)
Summary: " In The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis, Claudia Bucciferro has assembled a collection of essays that draw from work in communication, cultural studies, and media studies. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters analyze issues that include gender, sexuality, disability, class, and race. The contributors pose intriguing questions about the franchise, such as: What do “mutants” really represent? What role do women and people of color play in the narratives? Why does it matter that Professor X is disabled? Why is Mystique often shown naked? What facilitated Wolverine’s rise to prominence? And how do topics regarding identity, trauma, and bioethics, figure in the stories? Exploring issues relevant for a multicultural world and connecting thematic elements from the films to political debates and social struggles, the book seeks to make a thoughtful contribution to the scholarship of popular culture. The X-Men Films will appeal to media scholars and students, as well as to anyone interested in the X-Men series." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781442265332
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction / Claudia Bucciferro -- part I Utopian and Immersive Experiences -- 1: Mutopia: American Utopianism and the Mutant Superhero / Matt Yockey -- 2: The Immersive Marketing Campaign for X-Men: Days of Future Past / Nicolo Gallio -- part: II Agency and Authority -- 3: Superhuman Authority: Fascism and Bioethics in the X-Men Films / Evan Hayles Gledhill -- 4: Magneto's Dilemma: The Technological Limitations of Mutant Transhumanism / Ron Von Burg and D. Stokes Piercy -- 5: PTXD: Gendered Narratives of Combat, Trauma, and the Civil-Military Divide / Christina M Knopf and Christine M Doran -- part III Women and Power -- 6: Containing the X-Women: De-powering and De-queering Female Characters / Carolyn Cocca -- 7: Shape-Shifting Identity: Mystique's Embodied Agency / Jason Zingsheim -- 8: The "Stolen" Superpowers of Marvel's Rogue / Julie Davis and Robert Westerfelhaus -- 9: The Curious Case of "Dr" Jean Grey, Mystique, and Mariko / Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pre, Loretta L Pecchioni and John H Overton -- part IV Masculinity and Race -- 10: Wolverine in Transition: Shifting Portrayals of Masculinity and Identity / Nathan Miczo -- 11: Techno-Orientalist Villains and White Masculinity in the Wolverine Movies / David C Oh -- 12: Reframing Disabled Masculinity: Xavier as Marvel's Supercrip / Jessica Benham -- 13: Mutating Minorities: White Racial Framing and Group Positioning / Jason Smith -- part V Passing and Otherness -- 14: Passing While Homo Superior / Kat Overland -- 15: Mutancy, Otherness, and Empathy in the X-Men / Claudia Bucciferro -- epilogue / Jason Zingsheim and Claudia Bucciferro -- index -- about the editor and contributors --