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Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema : Resonance between realms / James Walters Chicago: Intellect, 2008.
Call No: 735.3 (73) WALAuthor: Walters, James Source: USPlace: Bristol; ChicagoPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS ; FANTASY FILMS ; DREAMS IN FILMS ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; INNOCENCE IN FILMS ; REPETITION IN FILMS ; TIME IN FILMS ; POINT-OF-VIEW ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; FLEMING, VICTOR ; LANG, FRITZ ; GONDRY, MICHEL ; CAPRA, FRANK ; RAMIS, HAROLD ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; ROSS, GARY ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1944) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; GROUNDHOG DAY (US, Harold Ramis, 1993) ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) ; PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998) ; DONNIE DARKO (US, Richard Kelly, 2001) ; BACK TO THE FUTURE [...] (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1985-90) ; ABRE LOS OJOS (SP, Alejandro Amenabar, 1997) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1942) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) Summary: "The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'Donnie Darko'. 'Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema' is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across periods, genres and history.
"Through an analysis of such landmark films as 'The Wizard of Oz', 'It's a Wonderful Life' and 'Groundhog Day', Walters reveals how unconventional worlds are crucial to each film's dramatic agenda and narrative structure. This groundbreaking volume unifies decades of divergent work by film scholars and points the way towards a new theoretical framework for understanding fantasy in the context of popular film. 'Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema' will be an essential resource for film studies scholars and movie buffs alike." (Taken from the back cover.)Notes: Includes Filmography, Bibliography and IndexISBN: 9781841502021
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Beyond document : essays on nonfiction film / edited by Charles Warren Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996.
Call No: 761(04) BEYAuthor: Warren, Charles, 1948 Place: Hanover, NHPublisher: University Press of New EnglandPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; DIRECTORS ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; NEWSREELS ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934) ; WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971) ; BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; MARKER, CHRIS ; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972) ; GARDNER, ROBERT ; MCELWEE, ROSS ; ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) Summary: "In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum on nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema verite, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who..., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss.
Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All of the books essays provide deeply felt understandings of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and indexISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11642141Contents: Words of welcome / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction, with a brief history of nonfiction film / Charles Warren -- Death and the image / Jay Cantor -- Memory's movies / Patricia Hampl -- Eternal Verites / William Rothman -- The toil of thought: on several nonfiction films by women / Helene Keyssar -- The camera people / Eliot Weinberger -- The impulse to preserve / Robert Gardner -- You are there / Maureen Howard -- Earth and beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren -- In search of the centaur: the essay film / Phillip Lopate -- Vertov's cinematic transposition of reality / Vlada Petric -- Sorting facts; or, nineteen ways of looking at marker / Susan Howe
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Crafting truth : documentary form and meaning / by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Call No: 761 SPEAuthor: Spence, Louise ; Navarro, Vinicius Source: US/UKPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: x, 281 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AUTHORSHIP ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMMENTARY ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; CONTINUITY ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EDITING ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; INTERVIEWING ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; LIGHTING ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; PALESTINE ; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOUND ; SOUND EQUIPMENT ; THEORY ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI (CM/FR/G, Jean-Marie Téno, 1992) ; GOKUSHITEKI EROSU: RENKA 1974 (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1974) ; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984) ; HALVING THE BONES (US, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, 1995) ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974) ; JOYCE AT 34 (US, Joyce Chopra, 1972) ; LESSONS OF DARKNESS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NEKAM ACHAT MISHTEY EYNAY (FR/IS, Avi Mograbi, 2005) ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936) ; PRELUDE TO WAR (US, Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak, 1942) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; TIES THAT BIND, THE (US, Su Friedrich, 1984) ; TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967) ; WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966) Summary: "Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naive concept of "reality"- for them, documentaries are sources of information. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions?
Crafting truth illuminates the way these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of those choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9780813549033Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Authenticity -- Evidence -- Authority --
Responsibility -- Argument -- Dramatic stories, poetic and essay documentaries --
Editing -- Camerawork -- The profilmic -- Sounds / coauthored with Carl Lewis --index --ID2: 90
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A history of the movies / Benjamin B. Hampton London: Noel Douglas, 1932.
Call No: 71(73) HAMAuthor: Hampton, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Bowles), 1875-1932 Place: LondonPublisher: Noel DouglasPubDate: 1932PhysDes: 456 p., 125 p. of illus. 23 cmSubject: BIOGRAPH ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HART, WILLIAM S. ; HOLLYWOOD MEMORY IN FILMS ; LAEMMLE, CARL ; LASKY, JESSE ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; PICKFORD, MARY ; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; SENNETT, MACK ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH LON: 13776404 13776404
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The memory effect : the remediation of memory in literature and film / edited by Russell J. A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2013.
Call No: 747.7 MEMSource: CNPlace: Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier UniversityPubDate: 2013PhysDes: vi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: MEMORY IN FILMS ; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; DELEUZE, GILLES Summary: "The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory - individual and collective, cultural and transcultural - in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory's representation, adaptaion, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory's irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffirmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity. The book begins with an overview of the field, with an emphasis on the question of subjectivity. In separate sections, contributors examine literature and its relation to cultural memory; autobiography and life writing, especially those lives shaped by trauma and forgotten history; cinema and its intimate and mutually constitutive relationship with memory in the context of contemporary visual texts, at the crossroads of popular and avante-garde cultures." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781554589142Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014Contents: pt. I Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges -- 1.Developments in Memory Studies and Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Film / Eleanor Ty -- 2."Joy in Repetition"; or, The Significance of Seriality in Processes of Memory and (Re-)Mediation / Sabine Sielke -- 3.Hirsch, Sebald, and the Uses and Limits of Postmemory / Kathy Behrendt -- pt. II Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing -- 4.British Propaganda and the Construction of Female Mourning in the First World War / Sarah Henstra -- 5."Rhetorical Metatarsals": Bone Memory in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries / Tanis MacDonald -- 6.Mediation and Remediation in Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo / John Dean -- pt. III Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing -- 7.Resisting Holocaust Memory: Recuperating a Compromised Life / Marlene Kadar -- 8."In Auschwitz There Is a Great House": The Location of Memory and Identity in the Roma Porrajmos (Devouring) or Holocaust / Sheelagh Russell-Brown -- 9.Autobiography and the Validation of Memory: Neil M. Gunn's The Atom of Delight / K.J. Keir -- pt. IV Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History -- 10.La Jetee and 12 Monkeys: Memory and History at Odds / Amresh Sinha -- 11.The Traces of "A Half-Remembered Dream": Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004), and the Memory Film / Anders Bergstrom -- 12."You must remember this ...": Watching Casablanca with Marc Auge / Graeme Gilloch -- 13.The Cinema of Simulation: Hyper-Histories and (Un)Popular Memory in The Good German (2006) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) / Stefan Sereda -- pt. V Multimedia Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory -- 14.The Heritage Minutes: Nostalgia, Nationalism, and Canadian Collective Memory / Erin Peters -- 15.Disaster and Trauma in Rescue Me, Saving Grace, and Treme: Commercial Television's Contributions to Ideas about Memorials / John McCullough -- 16.Creative Re-enactment in the Films and Videos of Omer Fast / Kate Warren.
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Remapping cinema, remaking history : XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand: Refereed Abstracts / edited by Catherine Fowler and Rochelle Simmons Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago - Department of Media, Film & Communication, 2008.
Call No: 45:93HISAuthor: Film and History Associationof Australia and New Zealand Conference (14th : 2008 : Dunedin, NZ) Source: NZPlace: Dunedin, NZPublisher: University of Otago - Department of Media, Film & CommunicationPubDate: 2008PhysDes: v, 223 p. ; 21 cmSubject: CONFERENCES. AUSTRALIA. FILM AND HISTORY ; HOLLYWOOD MEMORY IN FILMS ; MOTION PICTURES - EUROPEAN ; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; NEW ZEALAND ; ASHBY, HAL ; SCHLESINGER, JOHN ; HALL, CONRAD ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; NICHOLS, MIKE ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; HILL, WALTER ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; MILLER, GEORGE ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; ONE FROM THE HEART (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1982) ; DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) ; WITCHES OF EASTWICK, THE (US, George Miller, 1987) ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; STREETS OF FIRE (US, Walter Hill, 1984) ; LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974) ; KENNY (AT, Clayton Jacobson, 2006) ; SYLVIA (NZ, Michael Firth, 1985) ; RED ROAD (UK/DK, Andrea Arnold, 2006) ; THIS IS ENGLAND (UK, Shane Meadows, 2006) ; STALINGRAD (GG, Joseph Vilsmaier, 1992) ; BAND OF BROTHERS (US, David Frannel & Tom Hanks & David Leland & Richard Loncraine & David Nutter & Phil Alden Robinson & Mikael Salomon & Tony To, 2001) Summary: The film and history conference is held every two years and is an opportunity for international scholars, archivists and filmmakers to present their thoughts on recent debates and events in the fields of film history, history and film, national and transnational cinemas, film theory, film practice, and the importance of cinema to specific communitiesNotes: "27-30 November 2008"- cover includes bibliographical reference and indexISBN: 9780473138899; 9780473148867Contents: v.1 refereed abstracts/ edited by Catherine Fowler and Rochelle Simmons- v. 2 select refereed papers/ edited by Hilary Radner and Pam fosser; Part 1: Re-thinking Film History. 1. What's new about New Cinema History/ Kate Bowles and Richard Maltby--Part 2: Memory and History 2. Fixing visual memories and history: film and the Chinese Cultural Revolution/ Paul Clark-- 3. Folding History back on itself / Dirk de Bruyn -- 4. Testimony and Memory : rewriteable video memoirs / Stephen Goddard -- Part 3: Australia and New Zealand. 5. this land speaks for " Us" : the price of milk and the articulation of New Zealand's "Difficult" history/ Scott Wilson -- the location of referents: double time, atemporality and colonial heritage cinema/ Olivia Macassey -- Part 4: European Narratives. 7. Still in the shadows : reconsidering history through intertextual references in Aki Kaurismaki's European films/ Sanna Peden-- 8. Imaging/imagining a history of violence: Red Road and This is England/ Steven Allen--9. " I am not a Nazi": The past as present in portrayals of wartime German forces in Stalingrad and Band of Brothers/ Stephanie Cousineau--10. Neoliberalism and the fate of the collective in recent German cinema/ Simon Ryan-- Part 5: Music and Historical Representation-- 11. The representation of Rapanui 9 Easter Island) in feature film/ Dan Bendrups-- 12. Beating the East german blues: musical representations of freedom in Leander Haussmann's Sonnenallee and Michael Schorr's Schultze gets the Blues/ Andrew Wright Hurley--Part 6 : Historical Fictions? Documentary, Mockumentary and the Biopic--13. Getting the story crooked: Errol Morris and Narrativist Historiography/ Pam Fossen -- Kenny and Australian cinema in the Howard era/ Lisa Milner -- 15. The life of Lady Lazarus? An analysis of the film Sylvia as historical document/Bronwyn Polaschek-- Part 7: Considering Hollywood -- 16. Battling Hollywood: The 1930 Trade War between the New Zealand government and Hollywood/ David Newman -- 17. Reality and pictoriality : Hollywood style from the 1970s to the 1980s/ Paul Ramaeker
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The skin of the film : intercultural cinema, embodiment, and the senses / Laura U. Marks Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.
Call No: 756.1-77 MARAuthor: Marks, Laura U., 1963- Source: US/UKPlace: Durham and LondonPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2000PhysDes: xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: THIRD CINEMA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; AKOMFRAH, JOHN ; LUMUMBA: DEATH OF A PROPHET (FR/SZ/G, Raoul Peck, 1991) ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; JULIEN, ISAAC ; BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE ; ROUCH, JEAN ; SALLOUM, JAYCE Summary: - taken from back coverNotes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography/videography and index. -- EnglishISBN: 0822323583Donation: Adrian MilesContents: 1. The Memory of Images -- 2. The Memory of Things -- 3. The Memory of Touch -- 4. The Memory of the Senses -- Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium
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