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book		After the great divide : modernism, mass culture, postmodernism / Andreas Huyssen Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Call No: 62 HUY Author: Huyssen, Andreas Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: xii, 244 p. ; 25 cm Series: Theories of representation and difference Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [222]-240 ISBN: 0253203996 (pbk.); 0253100577 LON: 85046010; 4510030 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:39:29 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. Call No: 62 BRA Author: Branston, Gill Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Open University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: p. cm Series: Issues in cultural and media studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB) LON: 21519736 More info
book		Cinema and modernity / edited by Murray Pomerance New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Call No: 61MOD CIN Source: US Place: New Brunswick, N.J. Publisher: Rutgers University Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: ix, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA Summary: "In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are Detour, Shock Corridor, The Last Laugh, Experiment in Terror, The Great Dictator, Leave Her to Heaven, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eyes Wide Shut, Sunrise, The Crowd, The Shape of Things to Come, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Scarlet Street, Shadow of a Doubt, Stella Dallas, The Blue Angel, Sullivan's Travels. and Catch Me If You Can" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER ISBN: 9780813538167 Contents: Dark Utopia -- "The shock of the new" : electrification, illumination, urbanization, and the cinema / Lucy Fischer -- The endless embrace of Hell: hopelessness and betrayal in film noir / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Mass Murder, Modernity, and the Alienated Gaze / Steven Alan Carr -- Modernity and the crisis in truth : Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock / Walter Metz -- Capital advances -- Performing modernity and gender in the 1930s / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster -- The capital shape of science fiction heroes to come / Rebecca Bell-Metereau / False criticism: cinema, bourgeois society, and the conservative complaint / Christopher Sharrett -- Strange personality -- Miles Davis and the Soundtrack of Modernity / Krin Gabbard -- Experiment in Terror: Dystopian Modernism, the Police Procedural, and the Space of Anxiety / William Luhr and Peter Lehman -- Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock Corridor / David Sterritt -- Nothing Sacred: Modernity and performance in Catch Me If You Can / Murray Pomerance -- On the move -- Legacies of Weimar Cinema / Patrice Petro -- Getting lost on the waterways of L'Atalante / Tom Conley -- Fast Talk: Preston Sturges and the Speed of Language / Joe McElhaney -- Modern Thoughts -- Modernity and Cinema: A Culture of Shocks and Flows / Tom Gunning -- Film, Modernity, Cavell / William Rothman ID2: 84 More info
book		Cinema by design : Art nouveau, modernism, & film history / Fischer, Lucy New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Author: Fischer, Lucy Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: xvi, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; FILM HISTORY; RACE AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA; ART AND THE CINEMA Summary: Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomon; the elite dress and decor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-sc ne of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risque works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780231175036 Contents: Introduction Art Nouveau and the age of attractions Art nouveau and American film of the 1920s: prestige, class, fantasy, and the exotic Architecture and the city: Barcelona, Gaudi´, and the cinematic imaginary Art nouveau, chambers of horror, and "the Jew in the text" Art nouveau, patrimony, and the art world Epilogue: the 1960s and the Art nouveau revival. More info
book		Cinematic urbanism : a history of the modern from reel to real / Nezar Al Sayyad New York : London: Routledge, 2006. Call No: 756.1-25 SAY Author: Sayyad, Nezar Al Source: UK/US Place: New York : London Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; CITIES IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977); BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988); NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); END OF VIOLENCE, THE (US/FR, Wim Wenders, 1997); FALLING DOWN (US, Joel Schumacher, 1993); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MANHATTAN (US, Wody Allan, 1979); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958); MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); SLIVER (US, Phillip Noyce, 1993); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998) Summary: "Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema while arguing that urbanism cannot be understood outside the space of the celluloid city." "Nezar AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and reel through time and space via a series of films that represent different modernities. He contrasts the 'rational' European city of early twentieth-century industrial modernity as portrayed by Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (1927) with its American counterpart in Modern Times (1936). He illustrates the different forms of small town life and an urbanizing modernity across the Atlantic as exemplified by Cinema Paradiso (1989) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Using Metropolis (1927) and Brazil (1985), he shows how utopian ideals harbour within them their dystopian realities, while Jacques Tati's nostalgia for tradition in Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) reveals a cynical modernity and a rebelling against its idealism." "AlSayyad argues that the postmodern city of Blade Runner (1982) and Falling Down (1993) illustrates some of the urban outcomes of a globalizing economy. Turning to spectacle and surveillance, he examines Rear Window (1954), Sliver (1993), and The End of Violence (1997) as a voyeuristic modernity. To understand the city experienced by individuals of different social backgrounds, he takes Manhattan (1979), Annie Hall (1977), and Taxi Driver (1976), while Do the Right Thing (1989) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) are used to explore a modernity of race and ethnicity. Finally, he uses Pleasantville (1998) and The Truman Show (1998) to unpack the hyperreality of exurban postmodernity and to demonstrate how today the real and the reel have become mutually constitutive." "By considering how the real city and the reel city reference each other in an act of mutual representation and definition, this book advances the discussion on cinematic space and theories of the city."--BOOK BLURB. Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0415700493 Contents: -- about the author -- preface -- Introduction : the cinematic city and the quest for the modern -- 1. Industrial modernity : the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city -- 2. Urbanizing modernity : the traditional cinematic small town -- 3. Orwellian modernity : utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past -- 4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism -- 5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city -- 6. Voyeuristic modernity : the lens, the screen and the city -- 7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit : the city through different eyes -- 8. An alternative modernity : race, ethnicity and the urban experience -- 9. Exurban postmodernity : utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality -- epilogue -- illustration credits and sources -- selected bibliography -- index -- More info
book		Fields of vision : essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography / edited by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Call No: 62 FIE Author: Devereaux, Leslie; Hillman, Roger Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: MONTAGE; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SOUND; ADAPTATIONS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HOLLYWOOD; EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979); NAME DER ROSE, DER (GW/IT/FR, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986); RIVERS OF SAND (US, Robert Gardner, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0520085248 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0520085221 (alk. paper) LON: 10726537 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		The films of Jean-Luc Godard : seeing the invisible / David Sterritt Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Call No: 81GOD STE Author: Sterritt, David Source: UK/US Place: Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Cambridge film classics Subject: CRITICISM; AESTHETICS; NOUVELLE VAGUE; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); MY LIFE TO LIVE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) SEE VIVRE SAVIE; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); HAIL, MARY (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) SEE JE VOUS SALUE MARIE; JE VOUS SALUE MARIE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985); NOUVELLE VAGUE (Fr, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990) Summary: "The films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's revolutionary New Wave movement in the early 1960s, through a period of drastic political experimentation in the late 1960s and 1970s, to a current introspective period in which he explores issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, Godard's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. He then traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films: Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numero deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague. Also included is a concise analysis of his work in video, television, and mixed-media formats. Linking works by Godard to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century. " -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Filmography: p. 281-290 Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and index ISBN: 0521589711 Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Breathless -- 3. My Life to Live -- 4. Weekend -- 5. Numero deux -- 6. Hail Mary -- 7. Nouvelle Vague -- 8. Video and Television -- notes -- select bibliography -- filmography -- index -- More info
book		Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Call No: 226 NIE Author: Nieland, Justus Edition: 2020 Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: 424 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm Subject: ART DIRECTION; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; BARTHES, ROLAND; COMMUNICATIONS; DEREN, MAYA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; VAN DER BEEK, STAN; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Happiness by Design offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers. Justus Nieland traces how Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781517902056 Contents: Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Happy Furniture: On the Media Environments of the Eames Chair -- 2. The Scale Is the World: Designer Pedagogy and Expanded Cinema -- 3. Management Cinema: Film, Communication, and Postwar World-Making in Aspen -- 4. Memories of Overdevelopment: The Vision Conferences and the Fate of Environmental Design -- 5. Designer Film Theory: Techniques of Happiness -- 6. Designer Film Theory, II: Media Pedagogy and Modernist Information Aesthetics -- Coda: The Norton Chair, Circa 1970: Trilling or Eames? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index More info
book		Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema / Janet Staiger Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Call No: 62 STA Author: Staiger, Janet Place: Princeton, N.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCES; ART CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AUTHORSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PARODY; RACE AND THE CINEMA; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; BORDWELL, DAVID; DYER, RICHARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GARLAND, JUDY; FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); ZELIG (US, Woody Allen, 1983); STAR IS BORN, A (US, George Cukor, 1954); UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index ISBN: 0691047979 (alk. paper); 0691006164 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 8200386 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:34:53 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Call No: 62 BOR Author: Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: Cambridge, Mass. Publisher: Harvard University Press PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series: Harvard film studies Subject: ALLEGORY IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SEMANTICS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; DOUCHET, JEAN; MICHELSON, ANNETTE; SARRIS, ANDREW; YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-328) ISBN: 067454336X (pbk.); 0674543351 (alk. paper) LON: 6253502 More info
book		Modernist montage : the obscurity of vision in cinema and literature / P. Adams Sitney New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Call No: 771 SIT Author: Sitney, P. Adams Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: x, 250 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; USSR; DREYER, CARL TH.; BRESSON, ROBERT; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Summary: "P. Adams Sitney's Modernist Montage traces a history of modernism in cinema and provides compelling readings of a wide range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, and Stan Brakhage. In this provocative investigation, Sitney explores various theories of vision by examining the sometimes neglected texts of Maurice Blanchot, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein and by offering a bold interpretation of the relationship between literature and film." - taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. ISBN: 0231071833 Contents: 1. The Instant of Love: Image and Title in Surrealist Cinema -- 2. Revolutionary Time: Image and Title in Soviet Cinema -- 3. Moments of Revelation: Dreyer's Anachronistic Modernity -- 4. Cinematography vs. the Cinema: Bresson's Figures -- 5. The Recit and the Figure: Blanchot's Au moment voulu -- 6. Saying "Nothing": Persona as an Allegory of Psychoanalysis -- 7. The Sentiment of Doing Nothing: Stein's Autobiographies -- 8. Out via Nothing: Olson's Genealogy of the Proper Poem -- 9. Whoever Sees God Dies: Cinematic Epiphanies -- 10. Theology vs. Psychoanalysis: Landow's Wit More info
book		More than night : film noir in its contexts / James Naremore Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998. Call No: 734.1 NAR Author: Naremore, James Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 13441055 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		The Polity reader in cultural theory Cambridge [England]: Polity Press, 1994. Call No: 62(04) POL Place: Cambridge [England] Publisher: Polity Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cm Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; STAR SYSTEM; COMMERCIALS, TV; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; SOAP OPERAS; MONROE, MARILYN; BARTHES, ROLAND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; Baudrillard, Jean; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.) LON: bnb74561207; 10481206 More info
book		Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / John Docker Cambridge New York Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Call No: 64POS DOC Author: Docker, John Place: Cambridge New York Melbourne Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xxi, 313 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: 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. 285-306 ISBN: 0521465982 (pbk.); 052146045X LON: abn97324302; 13458960 More info
book		Promised lands : cinema, geography, modernism / Sam Rohdie London: British Film Institute, 2001. Call No: 756 ROH Author: Rohdie, Sam, 1939 CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm Subject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); GIDE, ANDRE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ART AND THE CINEMA; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROHMER, ERIC; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0851708536(pbk.) : ¦15.99; 0851708544(cased) : ¦48.00 LON: 22645289 More info
book		Roman Polanski / James Morrison Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Call No: 81POL MOR Author: Morrison, James Source: US Place: Urbana, Ill ; Chicago Publisher: University of Illinois Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xi, 191 p. ; 22 cm Series: Contemporary Film Directors Subject: ART CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ADAPTATIONS. HARDY, THOMAS; ADAPTATIONS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLANSKI, ROMAN; BORDWELL, DAVID; REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski, 1965); CUL-DE-SAC (UK, Roman Polanski, 1966); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968); MACBETH (UK, Roman Polanski, 1971); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); LOCATAIRE, LE (FR, Roman Polanski, 1976); TESS (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1979); BITTER MOON (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1992); PIANIST, THE (UK/GG/FR/PL, Roman Polanski, 2002); OLIVER TWIST (FR/UK/CZ, Roman Polanski, 2005) ISBN: 9780252074462 Contents: Captive minds: Polanski and modernity. -- Comedy, melodrama, and gentrification in Polanski's films -- Cul-de-Sac and the 1960's art cinema -- Polanski in the new Hollywood -- Polanski and the art film's second wave -- Rendering classics: Macbeth and Tess -- Discovering the Figural in Polanski's films -- Interviews with Roman Polanski -- filmography, bibliography, index More info
book		Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980 / Andras Balint Kovaccs Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Call No: 709KOV Author: Kovacks, Andras Balint Source: US Place: Chicago Publisher: University of Chicago Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: xii, 428 p. ; 23 cm Subject: EUROPEAN CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Summary: Explores the 1950-1980 European post-war modernism movement in film. Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 9780226451657 Language: English More info
Interim book		Screening the City / Mark Shiel / Tony Fitzmaurice New York: Verso, 2003. Call No: 756.1-25 SCR Author: Strathausen, Carsten..[et al.] Place: London; New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 312 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes index: p. 303-312 More info
journal article		Semiology, aesthetics, and modernism : Peter Wollen revisited in Metro (2000) iss.123 p.122-124, 126-129 Author: Poague, Leland PhysDes: Book review; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: AESTHETICS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY Summary: Detailed review of Peter Wollen's 'Signs and meaning in the cinema'. More info
book		The spectacular modern woman : Feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Call No: 451 02 "192" CON Author: Conor, Liz Edition: 1st ed. Source: USA Place: Bloomington, Indiana Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 334 p. : b+w ill. ; 23 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; PROSTITUTES IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; ADVERTISING; CARTOONS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; LYELL, LOTTIE; MOTH OF MOONBI, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) Summary: In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Wetter industrial societies into visual or ‘oculacentric’ cultures with significant and complex consequences for women’s lives. With the rise of mass media, Conor shows how women’s identities were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 0253216702 More info

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