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Interim book		Film: Book 2 : films of peace and war / edited by Robert Hughes New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. Call No: 45:355 FIL Author: Hughes, Robert Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. PubDate: 1962 PhysDes: 255 p. ill. ; 21cm Subject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; HUSTON, JOHN; MCLAREN, NORMAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (FR/JA, Alain Resnias, 1959); LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) Notes: First printing More info
book		McLaren / National Film Board of Canada Montreal, Quebec: National Film Board of Canada, 1980. Call No: 81MCL MCL CorpAuthor: National Film Board of Canada Place: Montreal, Quebec Publisher: National Film Board of Canada PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 31 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm Subject: MCLAREN, NORMAN Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0772200092 LON: abn81048220; 2027446 More info
book		Movies of the forties / edited by Ann Lloyd ; consultant editor David Robinson London: Orbis Publishing, 1982. Call No: 70 MOV Author: Robinson, David, 1930; Lloyd, Ann, 1945 Place: London Publisher: Orbis Publishing PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 219 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; ENFANTS DU PARADIS, LES (FR, Marcel Carne, 1945); HAWKS, HOWARD; BERGMAN, INGRID; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; WELLES, ORSON; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); WYLER, WILLIAM; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; REED, CAROL; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); Powell, Michael; GUINNESS, ALEC; KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (UK, Robert Hamer, 1949); Lean, David; HUSTON, JOHN; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); BOGART, HUMPHREY; GARFIELD, JOHN; HAYWORTH, RITA; KELLY, GENE; DONEN, STANLEY; GARLAND, JUDY; BALCON, MICHAEL; DISNEY, WALT; MCLAREN, NORMAN; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; STURGES, PRESTON; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; WALSH, RAOUL Summary: A look at film in the 1940s with short chapters devoted to films, filmmakers, actors and genres of the period, as well as reports on non-US cinemas. Notes: Includes index. Includes filmographies. ISBN: 0856134546 More info
book		The music and sound of experimental film / edited by Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham New York: Oxford Univesity Press, Call No: 771 MUS Author: Rogers, Holly; Barham, Jeremy Edition: 2017 Place: New York Publisher: Oxford Univesity Press PhysDes: xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935); AVANT-GARDE FILMS; LYE, LEN; MCLAREN, NORMAN; BRAKHAGE, STAN; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; SMITH, JOHN; COMPILATION FILMS; CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928) Summary: This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical lenses of synchronicity and animated sound, interrelations of experimentation in image and sound, audiovisual synchresis and dissonance, experimental soundscape traditions, found-footage film, re-mediation of pre-existent music and sound, popular and queer sound cultures, and a diversity of radical technological, aesthetic, tropes in film media traversing the work of early pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann and Len Lye, through the mid-century innovations of Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, Lis Rhodes, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and studio collectives in Poland, to latter-day experimentalists John Smith and Bill Morrison, as well as the contemporary practices of Vjing. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780190469900 Contents: Preface - Jeremy Barham -- Introduction - Holly Rogers -- Chapter 1: Absolute Sounding Images: Abstract Film and Radio Drama of the 1920s as Complementary Forms of a Media Specific Art - Dieter Daniels -- Chapter 2: A Primitivism of the Senses: The Role of Music in Len Lye's Experimental Animation, -- Malcolm Cook -- Chapter 3: An Educational Avant-Garde: Sound and Music in Julien Bryan's OIAA Films on Latin America, 1942-1949 - James Tobias -- Chapter 4: bup bup bup: Aural Innovation in the Films of Norman McLaren - Terence Dobson -- Chapter 5: Sights and Sounds of the Moving Mind: The Visionary Soundtracks of Stan Brakhage - Eric Smigel -- Chapter 6: Discontinuities and Resynchronisations: The Use of Sound in Polish Experimental Cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s - Daniel Muzyczuk -- Chapter 7: Grid Intensities: Hearing Structures in Chantal Akerman's Films of the 1970s - Paul Hegarty -- Chapter 8: Meaning and Musicality: Sound-Image Relations in the Films of John Smith - Andy Birtwistle -- Chapter 9: Audiovisual Dissonance in Found-Footage Film - Holly Rogers -- Chapter 10: Rebalancing the Picture/Sound Relationship: The Audiovisual Compositions of Lis Rhodes - Aimee Mollaghan -- Chapter 11: Sounding Decay in the Digital Age: Audio-Visions of Decasia (2002) and Lyrical Nitrate (1991) - Nessa Johnston -- Chapter 12: The Sound of Queer Experimental Film - Juan A. Suárez -- Chapter 13: Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music - Carol Vernallis -- Chapter 14: The Music of Gustav Mahler in Experimental Film Contexts: Questions of Visual Music and Intermedial Theory - Jeremy Barham -- index More info
book		The new documentary in action : a casebook in film making Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Call No: 761 ROS Author: Rosenthal, Alan, 1936 Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: 287 p. illus., ports. 24 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WATKINS, PETER; KING, ALLAN; LEITERMAN, RICHARD; SILVERSTEIN, MORTON; SAARE, ARLA; BARRON, ARTHUR; MCLAREN, NORMAN; FUNT, ALLEN; STONEY, GEORGE; CAWSTON, RICHARD; BURNLEY, FRED; MARRIED COUPLE, A (CN, Allan King, 1969); PAS DE DEUX (CN, Norman McLaren, 1968); WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A NAKED LADY? (US, Allen Funt, 1969); NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966) Summary: " Several case studies of feature films projects have been published, but til now we have had no equivalent basis for the understanding of documentary. This is the first casebook to focus exclusively on the nonfiction film maker: his revolutionary techniques, his particular conceptions of his work, his unique artistic strategies, his creative and practical problems. In creating this study Alan Rosenthal has interviewed film makers whose work lies on the active growing edge of the medium: director-producers, writers, cameramen, editors- men and women who have in recent years pushed back the boundaries of cinematic convention and profoundly influenced our notions of photography, acting, and editing. Some films are covered by interviews with several members of the creative team, whose differing perspectives help to shape the final work." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Interviews with film makers ISBN: 0520018885 LON: 218982 More info
Levy Collection book		The new documentary in action : a casebook in film making / Alan Rosenthal Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972. Call No: 761 ROS Author: Rosenthal, Alan Edition: 1st pbk ed. Source: US Place: Berkeley, Calif. Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 287 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WATKINS, PETER; KING, ALLAN; LEITERMAN, RICHARD; SILVERSTEIN, MORTON; SAARE, ARLA; BARRON, ARTHUR; MCLAREN, NORMAN; FUNT, ALLEN; STONEY, GEORGE; CAWSTON, RICHARD; BURNLEY, FRED; MARRIED COUPLE, A (CN, Allan King, 1969); PAS DE DEUX (CN, Norman McLaren, 1968); WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A NAKED LADY? (US, Allen Funt, 1969); NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966) Summary: " Several case studies of feature films projects have been published, but til now we have had no equivalent basis for the understanding of documentary. This is the first casebook to focus exclusively on the nonfiction film maker: his revolutionary techniques, his particular conceptions of his work, his unique artistic strategies, his creative and practical problems. In creating this study Alan Rosenthal has interviewed film makers whose work lies on the active growing edge of the medium: director-producers, writers, cameramen, editors- men and women who have in recent years pushed back the boundaries of cinematic convention and profoundly influenced our notions of photography, acting, and editing. Some films are covered by interviews with several members of the creative team, whose differing perspectives help to shape the final work." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Interviews with film makers. ISBN: 0520022548 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- direct cinema: 1. a married couple: Allan King, producer-director, Richard Leiterman, photographer and associate director, Arla Saare, editor -- 2. High school: Frederick Wiseman, producer-director -- 3. Salesman, Albert Mayles, director-photographer, Charlotte Zwerin, editor -- Television journalism: 4. this week: Jeremy Irons, producer 5. what harvest for the reaper? Morton Silverstein, writer-producer, Laurence Solomon, editor -- 6: hard times in the country: Jack Willis, writer-producer -- 7: sixteen in the Webster Groves and the Berkeley Rebels: Arthur Barron, producer-director -- Reconstructions and reenactments: 8. the war game: Peter Watkins, writer-director -- 9: Cathy come home: Jeremy Standford, writer -- 10: the dream divided : Fred Burnley, writer-director -- Specials: 11: dont look back and monterey pop: Don Alan Pennebaker, director-photographer -- 12: royal family: Richard Cawston, producer-director, Antony Jay, commentary writer, 13: Dubrovnik festival: Jack Kuney, producer-director -- Sponsored films : 14. a cry for help: George Stoney, writer-director -- 15. the furure came yesterday: Antony Jay: writer-director -- Optical transformations: 17. neighbours and Pas de Deux, Norman McLaren, producer-director -- index -- More info
journal article		Window on Canada: An Interview with Norman McLaren, Fiddle-De-Dee, Neighbors in Montage (March 1963) vol.2 iss.1 p.5 Author: Mogg, Ken and Gillies, Max PhysDes: Review Subject: MCLAREN, NORMAN; NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952) Summary: Short reviews of two films by Norman McClaren, "Neighbors" and "Fiddle-De-Dee", and an interview film from 1956, "Window on Canada". More info

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