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Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 730.3 TASAuthor: Tasker, Yvonne Source: UKPlace: Abingdon, OxonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cmSubject: 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 3Contents: 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.
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Australian Melodrama : Eighty years of popular theatre / Eric Irvin Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1981.
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Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Call No: 409 NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 187 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; BODY IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES ; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; KING, RODNEY ; STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925) ; REALISM ON TV ; REALITY "SHOWS" ; REALITY TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS ON TV ; RACIAL PROBLEMS AND TV ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GULF WAR ON TV ; ETHICS AND TV Summary: "Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments where the traditional boundaries of fiction/non-fiction and truth/falsehood blur. Nichols argues that the history of social representation in film, television, and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response, and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretative frameworks offered by neoformalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process, while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation - such as project, intentionality, and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-182) and indexISBN: 0253340640 (alk. paper); 0253209005 (paper : alk. paper)LON: 10767942
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British genres : cinema and society, 1930-1960 / Marcia Landy Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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Cantonese melodrama : 1950-1969 / the Tenth Hong Kong International Film Festival Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1986.
Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVESEdition: 1986Source: UKPlace: Hong KongPublisher: Urban CouncilPubDate: 1986PhysDes: 160 p. : illus. : 29 cmSeries: Hong Kong International Film Festival CatalogueSubject: HONG KONG ; MELODRAMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's Notes: The Tenth Hong Kong International Film Festival March 27 - April 11, 1986ISBN: 9627040193Language: Cantonese and English
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A century of cinema : Australian and French connections / edited by Jane Warren, Colin Nettelbeck and Wallace Kirsop Parkville, Vic.: University of Melbourne, Department of French and Italian Studies in association with the 'Australian journal of French studies', and Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations, 1996.
Call No: 408.3(94) AUSAuthor: Warren, Jane ; Kirsop, Wallace ; Nettelbeck, Colin W Place: Parkville, Vic.Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of French and Italian Studies in association with the 'Australian journal of French studies', and Institute for the Study of French-Australian RelationsPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 117 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmSubject: CENTENARY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CENTENARY OF CINEMA. FRANCE ; MELODRAMA ; FRANCE ; AUSTRALIA ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; CAHIERS DU CINEMA ; PARTIE D'ECARTE (FR, Louis Lumiere, 1895) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; SPENCER, WALTER BALDWIN ; DEPARDIEU, GERARD ; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS Notes: "The various essays in this volume were originally presented as papers at a University of Melbourne conference entitled 'A century of cinema : Australian and French connections. The conference was held in 1995 ..." --Introduction; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0732513561LON: 12653307
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China into film : frames of reference in contemporary Chinese cinema London: Reaktion, 1999.
Call No: 71(51) SILAuthor: Silbergeld, Jerome Place: LondonPublisher: ReaktionPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmSubject: CHINA ; ALLEGORY IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. CHINA ; MELODRAMA. CHINA ; CHEN, KAIGE ; XIE, JIN ; ZHANG, YIMOU ; QIU JU DA GUANSI (CC/HK, Zhang Yimou, 1992) ; FU RONG ZHEN (CC, Xie Jin, 1986) ; HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985) ; HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1988) ; QINGCHUN JI (CC, Zhang Nuanxin, 1986) ; DAOMA ZEI (CC, Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986) ; LUN HUI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1989) ; BAWANG BIEJI (HK, Chen Kaige, 1993) ; HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; DA YUE BING (CC, Chen Kaige, 1986) ; HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988) ; JU DOU (CC/JA, Zhang Yimou, 1990) ; DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991) ISBN: 1861890508(pbk.)LON: 20259534 20259534
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The Cinema book / edited by Pam Cook London: BFI, 1985.
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The cinema book / edited by Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink London: British Film Institute, 1999.
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Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998.
Call No: 71(73) CONAuthor: Neale, Stephen ; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1998PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: USA ; HOLLYWOOD ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; DISTRIBUTION. USA ; EXHIBITION. USA ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; MEN IN FILMS. USA ; MELODRAMA ; MUSIC, FILM ; SOUND TRACKS ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. USA ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR ; ACTION FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; MIRAMAX FILMS ; NEW LINE CINEMA ; TIME WARNER ; VERHOEVEN, PAUL ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; HAMILTON, LINDA ; MCDORMAND, FRANCES ; ELFMAN, DANNY ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) ; LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and indexISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.)LON: 98005952; 13736490
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Creating Australian television drama / Susan Lever North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020.
Call No: 224(94) LEVAuthor: Lever, Susan Edition: 2020Place: North Melbourne, VictoriaPublisher: Australian Scholarly PublishingPubDate: 2020PhysDes: viii,282 pages ; 24cmSubject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS AND TV ; ADAPTATIONS ; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION ; COX, DEB ; CRAWFORD PRODUCTIONS ; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; GREEN, CLIFFORD ; HOMICIDE [TV] (AT, 1964-1975) ; HOPGOOD, ALAN ; KELLY, MARGARET ; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA ; MORPHETT, TONY ; MY NAME'S MCGOOLEY, WHAT'S YOURS? [TV] (AT, 1966-1968) ; NINE NETWORK ; POWER WITHOUT GLORY [TV] (AT, 1976) ; SEVEN NETWORK ; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE ; YELDHAM, PETER Summary: Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television—the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres—the sitcom, the police drama, the historical series, docudrama, and social drama— presenting a ‘canon’ of significant Australian television drama productions that deserve to be remembered. It offers an account of the emergence of work by Indigenous writers for television and it argues for the consideration of television drama alongside histories of Australian film and stage drama. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781925984880
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Endless night : cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories / edited by Janet Bergstrom Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.
Call No: 626:159.964.2 ENDAuthor: Bergstrom, Janet, 1946 Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1999PhysDes: 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FETISHISM IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; KINGS ROW (US, Sam Wood, 1941) ; FREUD (US, John Huston, 1962) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0520207475 (alk. paper); 0520207483 (alk. paper); 0520207475(cased) : No price; 0520207483(pbk.) : No priceLON: 13818993
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Fetishism and curiosity / Laura Mulvey Bloomington London: Indiana University Press British Film Institute, 1996.
Call No: 62 MULAuthor: Mulvey, Laura Place: Bloomington LondonPublisher: Indiana University Press British Film InstitutePubDate: 1996PhysDes: xv, 188 p. ; 25 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; FETISHISM IN FILMS ; CLOSE-UPS ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; SHERMAN, CINDY ; XALA (SG, Ousmane Sembene, 1974) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; IMITATION OF LIFE (US, Douglas Sirk, 1959) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and indexISBN: 0851705480 (British Film Institute); 0851705472 (British Film Institute : pbk.)LON: 12120800
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Film as text / Geoff Mayer Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda Press, 1991.
Call No: 512.1 MAYAuthor: Mayer, Geoff Place: Milton, Qld.Publisher: Jacaranda PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 51 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; ETHICS IN FILMS ; CRY FREEDOM (UK, Richard Attenborough, 1987) ; RADIO DAYS (US, Woody Allen, 1987) ; ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, THE (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1988) ; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988) ; YEAR MY VOICE BROKE, THE (AT, John Duigan, 1987) Notes: For senior secondary school students; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0701628782 (pbk.)LON: 7685541ID2: 290
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Film at the intersection of high and mass culture / Paul Coates Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Call No: 408 COAAuthor: Coates, Paul, 1953 Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 201 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; FILM NOIR ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; STARS ; GENRES ; HORROR FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; FRANJU, GEORGES ; STALLONE, SYLVESTER ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; LANG, FRITZ ; LEE, SPIKE ; MADONNA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; POTTER, DENNIS ; BEDROOM WINDOW, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1986) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963) ; MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962) ; AUFZEICHNUNGEN ZU KLEIDERN UND STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1989) ; OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) ; ROCKY IV (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1985) ; OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) ; SOLARIS (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) ; WESELE (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1972) ; DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) ; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-194) and indexISBN: 0521444721 (hardback)LON: 10419843
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Film genre reader / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
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Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 64GEN FILAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENRES ; WESTERNS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; DISASTER FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; CANADA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SEMIOLOGY ; STRUCTURALISM ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; FORD, JOHN ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; CHANDLER, RAYMOND ; FRYE, NORTHROP ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949) ; YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957) ; VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and indexISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11563059
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Film Genres in Wide Angle (January 1992) vol.14 iss.1 p.[whole issue]
Author: Hall, Jeanne (ed) PhysDes: ArticleSubject: GENRES ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) ; FILM NOIR ; FLY, THE (US, Kurt Neumann, 1958) ; TRANSVESTISM ; MELODRAMA ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; HORROR FILM Summary: Wide Angle issue on Genre films. Articles on Film Noir and 'Kiss Me Deadly', 'The Fly', temporary transvestitism in films, melodrama and 'That Hamilton Woman', and feminism and horror film in 'The Night of the Living Dead'.
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Gaslight melodrama : from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood / Guy Barefoot New York: Continuum, c2002.
Call No: 733 BARAuthor: Barefoot, Guy Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: ContinuumPubDate: c2002PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; CRITICISM ; GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940) ; HANGOVER SQUARE (US, John Brahm, 1945) ; BRITANNIA MEWS (UK, Jean Negulesco, 1949) ; [DOCTOR] DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (US, Victor Fleming, 1941) Summary: "In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out onto the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a "cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century." For another, it seemed that for Hollywood there was "no world of today save the world of London by gaslight." In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourses that gave rise to such films. The main focus of the book is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Hangover Square. Gaslight Melodrama also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama amid Victorian or Edwardian furnishings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century; 19th century discussions of gas-lighting in street, home, and theater; and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.ISBN: 0826453341Contents: 1. Introduction: Gaslight, Gaslight, and Gaslight Melodrama -- 2. Industrial Light and Magic: Images of Gaslight from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century -- Gaslight and the Nineteenth Century -- From Stage to Screen -- Toward the Modern City -- 3. Gothic Sources/London Discourses: The Dark Metropolis on Page and Screen -- Nineteenth-Century London at 20th Century-Fox -- Londonania -- Descent and Invention -- From the Medieval to the Suburban -- 4. Lady Isabel, Dr. Jekyll, and Other Victorians: Twentieth-Century Reception, Reaction, and Reconstruction -- Jekyll and Hyde -- America -- Britain -- Victorians, Vampires, and Piano Legs -- 5. The Furniture in the Attic: Back to the Victorian -- The Process of Historical Reconstruction -- Victoria the Great -- New Victorian and Neo-Victorianism -- Surrealism, Lost Forms, Hollywood -- Elegance, Wretchedness, and Age -- 6. The Body in the Canal: Decorum and Melodrama in the Period Film -- House by the River -- Ivy and Others.
The Suspect -- Critique and Closure -- 7. Melodrama and the Construction of the Past.ID2: 168
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Genre and Hollywood / Steve Neale London: Routledge, 2000.
Call No: 64GEN NEAAuthor: Neale, Steve Place: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2000PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cmSubject: GENRES ; FILM NOIR ; MELODRAMA ; ACTION FILMS ; ADVENTURE FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; COMEDIES ; CRIME FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; FORMALISM ; FRONTIERS IN FILMS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; USA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; THRILLERS ; WAR FILMS ; WESTERNS ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; BASINGER, JEANINE ; DOHERTY, THOMAS ; SCHATZ, THOMAS Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.Notes: Includes bibliography and indexISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)LON: 21413450
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Genre, gender, race and world cinema : an anthology / Edited by Julie F. Codell Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 62(082) GENAuthor: Codell, Julie F. Source: USPlace: Malden, MassachusettsPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cmSubject: ASIANS IN FILMS ; BOLLYWOOD ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FILM NOIR ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; WORLD CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IRAN ; MELODRAMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; KAIGE, CHEN ; NAIR, MIRA ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ; HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993) ; INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
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TODO SOBRE MI MADRE ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000) Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."ISBN: 1405132337Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements
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Global melodramas : nation, body, and history in contemporary film / Carla Marcantonio Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
Call No: 733 MARAuthor: Marcantonio, Carla Edition: 2015Place: BasingstokePublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPhysDes: xii, 190 ; 23 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; HABLE CON ELLA [TALK TO HER] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002) ; SKIN I LIVE IN, THE (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2011) ; FA YEUNG NIN WA [IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE] (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) ; 2046 (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2004) ; BUBBLE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2005) ; BABEL (US/MX, Alejandro Gonzalez Ioarritu, 2006) ; GRAVITY (US/UK, Alfonso Cuaron, 2013) ; JUVENTUDE EM MARCHA [COLOSSAL YOUTH] (PO/FR/SZ, Pedro Costa, 2006) ; SHIJIE [WORLD, THE] (CN/JP/FR, Zhangke Jia, 2004) Notes: Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization. -- publisher's blurbISBN: 9781137530615
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High theory/low culture : analysing popular television and film / Colin MacCabe, editor Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1986.
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Home is where the heart is : studies in melodrama and the woman's film / edited by Christine Gledhill London: BFI Pub., 1987.
Call No: 733 HOMAuthor: Gledhill, Christine CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1987PhysDes: 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; NOW, VOYAGER (US, Irving Rapper, 1942) ; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937) ; BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 350-356ISBN: 0851702007 (pbk.); 085170199X : ª18.00LON: bnb85170199; 5363079
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The "I" of the camera : essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics / William Rothman Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Call No: 67(04) ROTAuthor: Rothman, William Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xix, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: USA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; RENOIR, JEAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GRANT, CARY ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; GUZZETTI, ALFRED ; BACALL, LAUREN ; ASTOR, MARY ; JUDITH OF BETHULIA (US, David Wark Griffith, 1913) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; RED DUST (US, Victor Fleming, 1932) ; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; RIVER, THE (II/US, Jean Renoir, 1951) ; FAMILY PORTRAIT SITTINGS (US, Alfred Guzzetti, 1976) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; TRUE HEART SUSIE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. xviii-xixISBN: 0521368286 (pbk.); 052136048XLON: 5831391
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Issues in feminist film criticism / edited by Patricia Erens Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Call No: 626:396 EREAuthor: Erens, Patricia, 1938 Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1990PhysDes: xxvi, 450 p. : 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "Issues in Feminist Film Criticism brings together a wide variety of theoretical writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the last decade and beyond.
Among the subjects treated are images of women on the screen; questions of film realism; the notion of counter-cinema; the concept of "reading against the grain"; the use of psychoanalytic theories; concerns over female spectatorship; women's place in specific genres, especially film melodrama; and issues related to the representations of lesbians and women of color." -- BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-438) and indexISBN: 0253319641 (alk. paper); 0253206103 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 89046336; 7125665
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Jane Campion's The piano / edited by Harriet Margolis Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Living screens : melodrama and plasticity in contemporary film and television / Monique Rooney London -- Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2015.
Call No: 733 ROOAuthor: Rooney, Monique Source: UKPlace: London -- Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International LtdPubDate: 2015PhysDes: x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: DisruptionsSubject: MELODRAMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; WEINER, MATTHEW ; HAYNES, TODD ; VON TRIER, LARS ; MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; MILDRED PIERCE [TV](US, 2011) Summary: Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner s Mad Men, Lars von Trier s Melancholia and Todd Haynes s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a plastic form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediationNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188), filmography (pages 188-189), and indexISBN: 9781783480470Contents: Introduction -- Mad Men: melodrama and metamorphosis -- Turned back: advertising, televisual melodrama and metamorphosis in Mad Men -- Earth-object: melodrama and plasticity in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia -- Melodrama and plasticity in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce -- Postlude: Animated statue, melody, encore (moi!)
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The Media reader / edited by Manuel Alvarado and John O. Thompson London: BFI Pub., 1990.
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Melodrama : stage, picture, screen / edited by Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook, Christine Gledhill London: BFI Pub., 1994.
Call No: 733 MELAuthor: Bratton, J. S. (Jacqueline Susan), 1945 ; Cook, Jim ; Gledhill, Christine Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1994PhysDes: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: MELODRAMA ; MELODRAMA. GERMANY ; MELODRAMA. CHINA ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; ELSAESSER, THOMAS ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (US, Billy Woodberry, 1984) ; GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940) ; GASLIGHT (US, George Cukor, 1944) ; FU RONG ZHEN (CC, Xie Jin, 1986) ; EAST LYNNE (US, Frank Lloyd, 1931) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851704379; 0851704387 (pbk.)LON: 11032554
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Melodrama and meaning : history, culture, and the films of Douglas Sirk / Barbara Klinger Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Mexican national cinema / Andrea Noble Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 71(72) NOBAuthor: Noble, Andrea Source: UKPlace: Abingdon, Oxon, UKPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: viii, 224p. : ill. ; 23cmSubject: MEXICO ; MEXICO IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. MEXICO ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS. MEXICO ; INDUSTRY, FILM. MEXICO ; AUDIENCES. MEXICO ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; POLITICS IN FILMS. MEXICO ; POLITICAL FILMS. MEXICO ; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA. MEXICO ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. MEXICO ; MELODRAMA. MEXICO ; MUJER DEL PUERTO, LA (MX, Arcady Boytler, 1933) ; MUJER DEL PUERTO, LA (MX, Arturo Ripstein, 1991) ; MARIA CANDELARIA (MX, Emilio Fernández, 1943) ; UNE FAMILIA DE TANTAS (MX, Alejandro Galindo, 1948) ; CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA, EL (MX, Arturo Ripstein, 1972) ; CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS, EL (MX, Jorge Fons, 1995) ; QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]) ; ESPALDAS MOJADAS (MX, Alejandro Galindo, 1955) ; JARDIN DEL EDÉN, EL (MX, María Novaro, 1994) ; Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (MX, Alfonso Cuaron, 2001) Summary: Mexican National Cinema offers an account of the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the "Golden Age" of the 1940s and the Nuevo Cine of the 1960s, to the renaissance in Mexican cinema in the 1990s.
The book moves from broad historical and theoretical context, particularly theories of nation, emergent discourses of "mexicanidad" and the establishment and development of the Mexican industry, towards readings of key film texts and genres. Individual chapters discuss the relationship between Hollywood cinema and Mexican cinema, the stars of the "Golden Age," the role of foreign auteurs in the founding of Mexican cinema, tensions in the industry in the 1960s, and the national and international reception of contemporary films and film-makers. The author then examines the portrayal of Mexican nationhood through critical analysis of film genres including Revolutionary films, machismo and "mexicanidad," the prostitute, and the work of female auteurs.ISBN: 0415230101
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Movie parade / by Paul Rotha London New York: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc, [1936].
Call No: 70 ROTAuthor: Rotha, Paul Place: London New YorkPublisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, incPubDate: [1936]PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cmSubject: ADVENTURE FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; COMEDIES ; CRIME FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; FANTASTIC FILMS ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; MUSICALS ; ROMANIES IN FILM ; SATIRE IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; WESTERNS ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926) ; FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962) ; GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) ; IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924) ; LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934) ; OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931) ; SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928) ; TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931) ; TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933) ; WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927) ; WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923) Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]LON: 1376838
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Narrative mortality : death, closure, and new wave cinemas / Catherine Russell Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Call No: 747.19 RUSAuthor: Russell, Catherine, 1959 Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: NOUVELLE VAGUE ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DEATH IN FILMS ; ALLEGORY IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; LANG, FRITZ ; Wenders, Wim ; OSHIMA, NAGISA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; LYNCH, DAVID ; Peckinpah, Sam ; PENN, ARTHUR ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ; STAND DER DINGE, DER (GW/US/PO, Wim Wenders, 1982) ; PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ; NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975) ; NICK'S MOVIE (GW/US, Nicholas Ray & Wim Wenders, 1979) ; SEISUN ZANKOKU MONOGATARI (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1960) ; SHONEN (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1969) ; BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and indexISBN: 0816624852 (hbk. : acid-free paper); 0816624860 (pbk. : acid-free paper)LON: 10942855
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New Chinese cinemas : forms, identities, politics / edited by Nick Browne,etc Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Call No: 71(51) NEWAuthor: Browne, Nick Edition: New edPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: [275] p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CHINA ; HONG KONG ; TAIWAN ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; MELODRAMA. CHINA ; XIE, JIN ; HOU, HSIAO-HSIEN ; HUANG, JIANXIN ; NILOUHE NUER (TZ, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1988) ; CUO WEI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1987) ; SI SHUI LIU NIAN (HK/CC, Yim Ho, 1984) ; TIANYUNSHAN CHUANQI (CC, Xie Jin, 1980) ; SHENG GANG QI BING (HK, Johnny Mak, 1985) ; K'UNG-PU FEN-TZU (TZ/HK, Edward Yang [pseud. of Yang Teh-Chang], 1986) ; LUN HUI (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1989) ; DO MA DAN (HK, Tsui Hark, 1986) ; HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; FU RONG ZHEN (CC, Xie Jin, 1986) Notes: I. FILM IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC: 1. Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period -- 2. Society and subjectivity: on the political evonomy of Chinese melodrama -- 3. Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism -- 4. Neither one thing nor another: toward a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema of the 1980s -- II. FILM IN TAIWAN AND HONG KONG: 5. Remapping Taipei -- 6. The ideology of initiation: the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien -- 7. The return of the father: Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s -- 8. Border crossing: mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema -- 9. Two films from Hong Kong: parody and allegoryISBN: 0521448778 (pbk)LON: 11806054
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New Korean cinema / by Julian Stringer and Chi-Yun Shin Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Call No: 71(519-13) NEWAuthor: Stringer, Julian and Shin, Chi-Yun Source: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 234p. ; b+w ill. : 24cm.Subject: KOREA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. KOREA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; FESTIVALS ; GENRES ; HORROR FILMS ; COMEDIES ; MELODRAMA ; ROMANTIC FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CHUNHYANG (KO, Im Kwon-Taek, 2000) ; TEL MI SSEOMTING (KO, Chang Youn-Hyun, 2000) ; BOKSEUNEUN NAEUI GEOS (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2002) ; CHINGU (KO, Kwak Kyeong-Taek, 2001) ; GOYANGIREUL BUTAKHAE (KO, Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) ; JUYUSO SEUBGYUKSAGEUN (KO, Kim Sang-Jin, 1999) ; SARA-INNUN RYONGHONGDUL (KO, Kim Chun-song, 2001) ; YURYEONG (KO, Min Biong Hun, 1999) ; BAKHA SATANG (KO, Lee Chang-Dong, 1999) ; SAENG-HWAL-EUI BAL-GYUN (KO, Hong Sangsoo, 2002) ; YEOGO GOEDAM II (KO, Kim Tae-Yong, 2000) ; SUN AE BO (KO, E J-Young, 2001) Summary: "New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding this burgeoning cinema, the book considers the political economy of South Korea's film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, and the consumption of Korean films throughout the world. The volume also includes a glossary of key terms and a bibliography of works on Korean cinema."Notes: Includes bibliographical references, glossary, websites and indexISBN: 9780814740309Language: English
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The Oxford companion to Australian film / edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call No: 71(94) OXF REFAuthor: Mayer, Geoff ; McFarlane, Brian, 1934 ; Bertrand, Ina, 1939 Place: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 1 vSubject: AUSTRALIA ; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE ; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; FOOD IN FILMS ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; JEWS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; PERIODICALS, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA ; MUSIC, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; WAR AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MCCALLUM, JOHN ; MILLER, NATALIE ; NEVIN, ROBYN ; RABE, PAMELA ; RUSH, GEOFFREY ; TINGWELL, CHARLES (BUD) ; WILLIAMSON, DAVID ; WITHERS, GOOGIE Notes: Includes index; BibliographyISBN: 0195537971LON: 20072774
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The parade's gone by ... / Kevin Brownlow Berkeley: University of California Press, c1968.
Call No: 70"01" BROAuthor: Brownlow, Kevin Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1968PhysDes: 577 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; PICKFORD, MARY ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; DWAN, ALLAN ; BROWN, CLARENCE ; WELLMAN, WILLIAM ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; MELODRAMA ; BOOTH, MARGARET ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; MAYER, LOUIS B. ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; Keaton, Buster ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GANCE, ABEL ; ROSHER, CHARLES G. ; BLYTHE, BETTY ; THALBERG, IRVING ; DENNY, REGINALD ; HORNBECK, WILLIAM ; FARRAR, GERALDINE ; KING, HENRY ; SLOMAN, EDWARD ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925) ; ROBIN HOOD (US, Allan Dwan, 1922) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0520030680 : $9.95LON: 740138 740138
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Piano lessons : approaches to The piano / [edited by] Felicity Coombes & Suzanne Gemmell Sydney: John Libbey, c1999.
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Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Call No: 62 POSAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: MadisonPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cmSeries: Wisconsin studies in filmSubject: THEORY ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; MUSIC, FILM ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; JAPAN ; DENMARK ; EXHIBITION ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; EDITING ; PERCEPTION ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS ; GENRES ; LOVE IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; WARNER BROS. ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; GIBSON, JAMES J. ; COHN, HARRY ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; MANDEL, ERNEST ; RENOV, MICHAEL ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 95037052; 11859923
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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / John Docker Cambridge New York Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Call No: 64POS DOCAuthor: Docker, John Place: Cambridge New York MelbournePublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xxi, 313 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; MELODRAMA ; SOAP OPERAS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; GENRES ; THEORY ; BRERETON, LAURIE ; FISKE, JOHN ; KENNEDY, GRAHAM ; MACCABE, COLIN ; MULVEY, LAURA ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 285-306ISBN: 0521465982 (pbk.); 052146045XLON: abn97324302; 13458960
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Private screenings : television and the female consumer / Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Call No: 722-02 PRIAuthor: Spigel, Lynn ; Mann, Denise Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: xiii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Camera obscura bookSubject: WOMEN AND TV ; WOMEN, PROGRAMMES FOR ; CONSUMERS AND TV ; SITUATION COMEDY ; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO ; MELODRAMA ; SOAP OPERAS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES ON TV ; FAMILY ON TV ; MARRIAGE ON TV ; STARS ; BLACKS ON TV ; CLASS AND TV ; FEMINISM AND TV ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY ON TV ; GENDER AND TV ; GLESS, SHARON ; FOSTER, MEG ; DALY, TYNE ; CARROLL, DIAHANN ; KANTNER, HAL ; RAYE, MARTHA ; MARTHA RAYE SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 195?-55) ; JULIA [TV] (US, 1968-71) ; CAGNEY AND LACY [TV] (US, 1982-88) ; KATE AND ALLIE [TV] (US, 1984-88) ; GENERAL HOSPITAL [TV] (US, 1963-) ; GOLDBERGS, THE [TV] (1949-55?) ; LEAVE IT TO BEAVER [TV] (US, 1957-63) ; FATHER KNOWS BEST [TV] (US, 1954-60) ; ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET, THE [TV] (US, 1952-66) Notes: An expanded version of issue no. 16, winter 1988, of Camera obscura; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0816620520 (hc : acid-free paper); 0816620539 (pb : acid-free paper)LON: 91040919; 8544849
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Re-viewing reception : television, gender, and postmodern culture / Lynne Joyrich Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / Pam Cook London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 409.1 COOAuthor: Cook, Pam Source: UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; MEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; BIGELOW, KATHRYN ; HAYNES, TODD ; WONG KAR WAI ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945) ; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) ; MANDY (UK, Alexander Mackendrick, 1952) ; DANCE WITH A STRANGER (UK, Mike Newell, 1985) Summary: Exploring film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. Examines current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, with the suggestion that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pp. 241-46)ISBN: 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)Contents: Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.
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Traditions in world cinema / Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider (eds) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Call No: 709 TRASource: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; NEOREALISM ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; EXPRESSIONISM ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA ; BRITAIN ; DOGMA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BRAZIL ; ARGENTINA ; AFRICA IN FILMS ; ISRAEL ; IRAN ; INDIA ; CHINA ; MELODRAMA ; SONGS IN FILMS ; JAPAN ; HORROR FILMS ; USA Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas.ISBN: 0748618635
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Ugly duckling, funny butterfly : Bette Davis and Now, Voyager in Critical Inquiry (Winter 1990) vol.16 iss.2 p.213-247
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The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / by Kathleen Rowe Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 451-025 ROWAuthor: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Texas film studies seriesSubject: COMEDIENNES ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; MELODRAMA ; SITUATION COMEDY ; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE ; MISS PIGGY ; WEST, MAE ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942) ; BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ; SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935) ; GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953) Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular cultureNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and indexISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)LON: 94013656; 10900401
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Visual and other pleasures / Laura Mulvey Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Call No: 67(04) MULAuthor: Mulvey, Laura Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xvi, 201 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Theories of representation and differenceSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; PERCEPTION ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Notes: Includes bibliographiesISBN: 0253362261; 0253204941 (pbk.)LON: 88009627; 5820595Contents: I. ICONOCLASM -- 1. The spectacle is vulnerable: Miss World 1970 -- 2. Fears, fantasies and the male unconsious or 'You don't know what is happening, do you Mr. Jones?' -- 3. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema -- II. MELODRAMA -- 4. Afterthoughts on 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the sun (1946) -- 5. Notes on Sirk and melodrama -- 6. Fassbinder and Sirk -- 7. Images of women, images of sexuality: some films by J. L. Godard -- 8. Melodrama inside and outside the house -- III. ON THE MARGINS -- 9. Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- IV. Avant-Garde -- 10. Film, feminism and the avant-garde -- 11. Dialogue with spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin -- 12. 'Magnificent obsession': an introduction to the work of five photographers -- 13. Impending time: Mary Kelly's Corpus -- V. BOUNDARIES -- 14. Changes: thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- 15. The Oedipus myth: beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx
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Writing the short film / Pat Cooper and Ken Dancyger Boston: Focal Press, c2000.
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