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book		The Brakhage lectures: Georges Melies, David Wark Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein Chicago: The GoodLion, [1972]. Call No: 802.25 BRA Author: Brakhage, Stan CorpAuthor: Caterpillar Place: Chicago Publisher: The GoodLion PubDate: [1972] PhysDes: 106 p. illus. 24 cm Subject: MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; DREYER, CARL TH. Notes: "Lectures [given] ... at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the fall and early winter of 1970-71."; "First appeared ... in four issues of the magazine Caterpillar: 11, 13, 14, 15/16." ISBN: 0912844043 LON: 622100 More info
book		The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969]. Call No: 70 JAC Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New York Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake PubDate: [c1969] PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439 LON: 5011 ID2: 291 More info
book		Film and reality : an historical survey / Roy Armes Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1974. Call No: 62 ARM Author: Armes, Roy Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry. Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced. ISBN: 0140217010 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:28 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Film and the narrative tradition / John L. Fell Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Call No: 632.2 FEL Author: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927 Edition: 1st ed Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Previously published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. -- Includes appendices -- Bibliography: p. 258-271 -- Index: p. 273 -284 -- c1974 ISBN: 0520053680 (paper) LON: abn90010427; 6864524 Contents: Introduction -- I. VERBAL ARTS : 1. Mise en scene -- 2. Dissolves by gaslight -- 3. It is not a good book, my son -- 4. Space, time, and Victorian prose -- II. GRAPHIC ARTS : 5. Mr. Griffith, meet Winsor McCay -- 6. The picture in our heads -- 7. Art, photography, and the shape of things to come -- III. THE MOVIES : 8. Ten cent palace life -- 9. A particular phase of perception -- APPENDICES : I. Early development of American sheet music -- II. Twenty representative British and American melodramas -- III. Subliterature in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Lenses -- V. The phasmatrope -- VI. Nineteenth-century developments in printing -- VII. Winsor McCay -- VIII. Musical machines -- IX. Chronological listing in Niver In the Beginning Collection. More info
book		Focus on the science fiction film / William Johnson (ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972. Call No: 735.1 JOH Source: US Place: Englewood Cliffs, NJ Publisher: Prentice Hall PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 182 p. ; 21 cm Series: Film Focus Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; SIEGEL, DON; TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960); FRAU IM MOND, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1929); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); DR CYCLOPS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack,1940); DESTINATION MOON (US, Irving Pichel, 1950); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (US, Rudolph Maté, 1951); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956); TIME MACHINE, THE (US, George Pal, 1960); FAHRENHEIT 451 (UK, Francois Truffaut, 1966); 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ISBN: 0137951612 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Georges Melies : presentation et bio-filmographie / par Georges Sadoul Paris: Editions Seghers, 1961. Call No: 81MEL SAD Author: Sadoul, Georges Place: Paris Publisher: Editions Seghers PubDate: 1961 PhysDes: 239p : ill ; 17cm Subject: MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Includes bibliography LON: qum00132541; 12412564 More info
book		A history of narrative film / David A. Cook New York: Norton, c1981. Call No: 70 COO Author: Cook, David A Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Norton PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; EXPRESSIONISM; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; ITALY; NEOREALISM; WAR AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; THIRD WORLD; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; USSR; MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692 ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707 LON: 1583335 1583335 More info
book		The language of new media / Lev Manovich Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press, c2001. Call No: 775 MAN Author: Manovich, Lev Source: US Place: Cambridge, Mass. London Publisher: MIT Press PubDate: c2001 PhysDes: xxxix, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Leonardo Subject: DIGITAL BROADCASTING; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDIA; INTERACTIVE CINEMA; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND TV; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; LOOP FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BARTHES, ROLAND; BENJAMIN, WALTER; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0262133741 : No price LON: 21628309 More info
book		Marvellous Melies / Paul Hammond London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1974. Call No: 81MEL HAM Author: Hammond, Paul Place: London Publisher: Gordon Fraser Gallery PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 159 p. : ill., facsims., plan, ports. ; 22 cm Subject: MELIES, GEORGES Notes: Filmography: p. 134-151; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0900406380 : ª4.00. 0900406399 pbk LON: 75307567; 261955 More info
personality microfilm collection		MELIES, GEORGES Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION PhysDes: Publicity; Clippings Subject: MELIES, GEORGES More info
book		On the history of film style / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Call No: 62 BOR Author: Bordwell, David Place: Cambridge, Mass. Publisher: Harvard University Press PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: THEORY; EDITING; CAHIERS DU CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; LENSES; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MONTAGE; REALISM IN FILMS; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BURCH, NOEL; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE; BARDECHE, MAURICE; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BRASILLACH, ROBERT; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; GUNNING, TOM; KULESOV, LEV; LEENHARDT, ROGER; LUMIERE, LOUIS; WYLER, WILLIAM; MELIES, GEORGES; TOLAND, GREGG; WELLES, ORSON; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0674634284 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674634292 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 97004016; 13106257 Contents: 1. The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History -- 2. Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History -- 3. Against the Seventh Art: Andre Bazin and the Dialectical Program -- 4. The Return of Modernism: Noel Burch and the Oppositional Program -- 5. Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs -- 6. Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in Depth More info
book		Phantasmagoria : pre-cinema to virtuality : Melies, Hegedus, Iwai, Oursler Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. Call No: 911(94) PHA Author: Iwai, Toshio; Melies, Georges, 1861-1938; Oursler, Tony; Hegedus, Agnes CorpAuthor: Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.) Place: Sydney Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: iv, 51 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: MELIES, GEORGES; IWAI, SHUNJI; OURSLER, TONY; HEGEDUS, AGNES Notes: Associated with an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 27 March-30 June 1997; Includes bibliographic references ISBN: 187563245X LON: abn97232888; 13317221 More info
book		Rediscovering French film / edited by Mary Lea Bandy ; introduction by Richard Roud New York Boston: Museum of Modern Art Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown, c1983. Call No: 71(44) RED Author: Bandy, Mary Lea CorpAuthor: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Place: New York Boston Publisher: Museum of Modern Art Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown PubDate: c1983 PhysDes: 220 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: FRANCE; FRANCE. 1927-1932; CLAIR, RENE; PAGNOL, MARCEL; GREMILLON, JEAN; GABIN, JEAN; COCTEAU, JEAN; RENOIR, JEAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; LUMIERE, LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; GANCE, ABEL; FEYDER, JACQUES; BRESSON, ROBERT; BECKER, JACQUES; MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE; CARNE, MARCEL; JAUBERT, MAURICE; GUITRY, SACHA; ARLETTY; LUMIERE D'ETE (FR, Jean Gremillon, 1942); DOUCE (FR, Claude Autant-Lara, 1943) Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum, and others; Includes index; Filmography: p. 167-193; Bibliography: p. 195-210 ISBN: 0870703358 (pbk.) LON: 3145053 More info
book		The Rise of the American film : a critical history / by Lewis Jacobs New York: Teachers College Press, c1939. Call No: 71(73) JAC Author: Jacobs, Lewis Edition: 1968 Place: New York Publisher: Teachers College Press PubDate: c1939 PhysDes: xxxii, 632 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Studies in culture and communication Subject: MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DISNEY, WALT; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. USA; USA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 583-606; With an essay "experimental cinema in America 1921-1947" LON: 3904022 3904022 More info

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