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book		Alien : the special effects / Don Shay and Bill Norton London: Titan Books, 1997. Call No: 236ALI SHA Author: Norton, Bill; Shay, Don Edition: First edition Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Titan Books PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 21 x 23 cm Subject: SPECIAL EFFECTS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; COSTUME DESIGNING; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIEN 3 (US, David Fincher, 1992); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986) Summary: "Discover how the amazing special effects in Alien, Aliens, and Alien3 were achieved in this inside, in-depth, look behind the scenes. All the secrets of these visually stunning and innovative blockbuster films are contained in this first, exciting, collaboration between Titan books and respected special effects magazine Cinefex. " -- BOOK BLURB Notes: "This collection comprises three articles originally published in Cinefex magazine" - t.p. verso ISBN: 1852866950 Contents: -- alien: creating an alien ambience by Don Shay -- aliens: this time it's war by Don Shay -- alien3: zealots and xenomorphs by Bill Norton --- More info
book		The atomic bomb in Japanese cinema : critical essays / edited by Matthew Edwards Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland & Company Inc, 2015. Call No: 737.34 EDW Author: Edwards, Matthew Source: US Place: Jefferson, N. C. Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: viii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Subject: NUCLEAR WARFARE IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; GODZILLA [GOJIRA] (JA/US, Inoshiro Honda & Terry Morse, 1955); HIROSHIMA (JA, Hideo Sekigawa, 1953) Summary: "This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with Go Shibata and critically acclaimed directors Roger Spottiswoode (Hiroshima) and Steven Okazaki (White Light/Black Rain) are included." -- BOOK BLURB ISBN: 9780786479122 Contents: Prologue: Hiroshima Nagasaki / Matthew Edwards -- Gojira and the bomb. The rhetorical significance of Gojira: equipment for living through trauma / Shannon Stevens -- Japan removed: Godzilla adaptations and erasure of the politics of nuclear experience / Jason C. Jones -- Atomic reaction: Godzilla as metaphor for generational attitudes toward the United States and the bomb / John Vohlidka -- Japanese atomic cinema, 1945-2014. Suppression and censorship: Japanese cinema during the occupation / Matthew Edwards -- Pica-don: Japanese and American reception and promotion of Hideo Sekigawa's Hiroshima / Mick Broderick and Junko Hatori -- The shadow of the bomb in Hiroshi Teshigahara's The face of another / Tony Pritchard -- Nuclear skin: Hiroshima and the critique of embodiment in Affairs within walls / Julia Alekseyeva -- The atomic bomb experience and the Japanese family in Keiji Nakazawa's anime Hadashi no gen (barefoot gen) / Kenji Kaneko -- Yuichi and Jizo in Black rain: Imamura's phenomenological attempt to render a Hiroshima wormhole experience among his audience / Keiko Takioto Miller -- Trauma and witness in Hideo Nakata's Ring- Tienfong ho: the fragile roots of memory / Robert McParland -- Inconceivable anxiety: representation, disease and discrimination in atomic-bomb films / Yuki Miyamoto -- Kazuo Kuroki and Hisashi Inoue's Chichi to Kuraseba: remember, protest and return to ordinary life / Yoshiko Fukushima -- Breaking the silence of the atomic bomb survivors in Japanese graphic novel Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms and the film adaptation / Senjo Nakai -- The sound of the bomb: Go Shibata's nn891102 / Johannes Schonherr -- Western perspectives. Hiroshima films: cultural contexts before, during and after the Cold War / Greg Nielsen and Margaret M. Ferrara -- Hiroshima: an interview with director Roger Spottiswoode / Matthew Edwards -- White light/Black rain: the "atomic films" of Steven Okazaki / Matthew Edwards -- A[nime] bomb: an interview with Hibakusha director Steve Nguyen / Matthew Edwards -- Hibakusha: our life to live: an interview with director David Rothauser / Matthew Edwards -- All that remains: an interview with Ian and Dominic Higgins / Matthew Edwards More info
journal article		The Bowery boys meet the monsters in Photon iss.19 p.32 Author: Borst, Ron PhysDes: Article Subject: BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS, THE (US, Edward Bernds, 1954) Summary: Credits, short description More info
newspaper article		Box-office universe expands in Herald Sun [General News] (8/04/2017) p.33 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BLOCKBUSTERS Author: Shearer, Geoff PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; WARNER BROS.; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS Summary: Looking at the trend of blockbuster Hollywood films that use storylines and characters from other films to create crossover universes. Some of the key studios undertaking this include: Marvel Entertainment, Warner Brothers DC, Legendary Pictures, and Unviersal Studios More info
book		The dead that walk / Leslie Halliwell London: Collins, 1986. Call No: 735.2 HAL Author: Halliwell, Leslie Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Collins PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 262 p. ; 24 cm Series: Halliwell's Moving Pictures Subject: HORROR FILMS; VAMPIRE FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; FRANKENSTEIN IN FILMS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS ISBN: 0246128348 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
title clippings file		GODS AND MONSTERS : (US, Bill Condon, 1998) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit Subject: GODS AND MONSTERS (US, Bill Condon, 1998) More info
title clippings file		GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS : (US/JP, Michael Dougherty, 2019) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (US/JA, Michael Dougherty, 2019) More info
book		Gospel of the living dead : George Romero's visions of hell on earth / Kim Paffenroth Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. Call No: 81ROM PAF Author: Paffenroth, Kim Source: US Place: Waco, Texas Publisher: Baylor University Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 219 p. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; HORROR FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS. USA; SOCIETY IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION IN FILMS. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; ROMERO, GEORGE; SNYDER, ZACK; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1978); DAY OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1985); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, Zack Snyder, 2004); LAND OF THE DEAD (CN/FR/US, George Romero, 2005) Summary: "For nearly forty years the zombie films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This rigorous but entertaining study shows how these films use Christian imagery from the Bible and Dante to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, while also giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America that should be heeded by Christian and humanist alike." (Taken from the back cover) Notes: Includes bibliography, index ISBN: 9781932792652 Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009 More info
book		The horror reader / edited by Ken Gelder New York, NY: Routledge, 2000. Call No: 735.2 HOR Author: Gelder, Ken, 1955 Place: New York, NY Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xiii, 414 p. ; 25 cm Subject: CANNIBALISM IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FAN MAGAZINES; FANTASTIC FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GHOST FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; HORROR FILMS. HONG KONG; HORROR FILMS. ITALY; HORROR FILMS. USA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; MONSTERS IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; SERIAL KILLERS IN FILMS; SLASHER FILMS; THEORY; VAMPIRE FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; ARGENTO, DARIO; BAVA, MARIO; CASTLE, TERRY; CHEUNG, LESLIE; CORMAN, ROGER; CRONENBERG, DAVID; TODOROV, TZVETAN; AMERICAN GOTHIC (US, John Hough, 1987); CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (UK, Terence Fisher, 1957); BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); FRIDAY THE 13TH (US, Sean S. Cunningham, 1980); HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978); HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); OPERA (IT, Dario Argento, 1987); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); SUSPIRIA (IT, Dario Argento, 1977); YANZHI KOU (HK, Stanley Kwan, 1987) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 041521355X (HB : alk. paper); 0415213568 (PB : alk. paper) LON: 21262689 More info
book		Kiss of the beast : From Paris salon to King Kong / Ted Gott (ed.) Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2005. Call No: 175 KIS Source: AT Place: Brisbane Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 127 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN CINEMATHEQUE; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ANIMALS IN FILMS; PREHISTORIC ANIMALS IN FILM; LOST WORLD, THE (US, Willis O'Brian, 1925); GRASS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1926); CHANG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper, 1927); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); BLONDE VENUS (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1932); MUMMY, THE (US, Karl Freund, 1932); ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, THE (US, Erle C. Kenton, 1932); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); TARZAN AND HIS MATE (US, Cedric Gibbons, 1934); BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE (US, James Whale, 1935); BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (US, Curt Siodmok, 1951); CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (US, Jack Arnold, 1954); HSING HSING WANG (HK, Meng-Hwa Ho, 1977) Summary: Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong explores images of gorillas, wild beasts and monsters in art, film, science, literature and popular culture from the late nineteenth century to today. It examens humanity's highly charged relationship with primates and draws connections between debates about evolution, race, aesthetics and sex - from satirical cartoons of gorillas in Punch! to HR Hopp's famous World War One recruiting poster Destroy this mad brute: enlist, which shows Kaiser Wilhelm as a large ape. Many incarnations of the Beauty and the Beast tale in art and film unfold in Kiss of the Beast - from French artist Emmanuel Fremiet's sculptures of a gorilla carrying off a woman of 1859 and 1887, to the classic 1933 image o Fay Wray in the grip of King Kong. Early short films and animations; groundbreaking expeditionary documentaries; iconic 'monster' movies from 130s to 1950s Hollywood; and some of the many versions of the Kong story from America, Japan and Hong Kong are also featured. Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong is richly illustrated with film stills from many famous big ape and monster movies - including King Kong, Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon - as well as posters, sculptures, painting, prints and rare books. This book was published in conjunction with 'Kiss of the Beast', an integrated exhibition and film program presented by the Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery. ISBN: 1876509082 Donation: Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery More info
title clippings file		LITTLE MONSTERS : (US, Richard Alan Greenberg, 1989) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LITTLE MONSTERS (US, Richard Alan Greenberg, 1989) More info
title clippings file		LITTLE MONSTERS : (AT/UK/US, Abe Forsythe, 2019) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LITTLE MONSTERS (AT/UK/US, Abe Forsythe, 2019) Notes: Simon import_190718 More info
Online resource script		Little Monsters : combined continuity and spotting list; Universal version / Abe Forsythe [AT]: 2019. Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL FILE Place: [AT] PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: 293 leaves Subject: LITTLE MONSTERS (AT/UK/US, Abe Forsythe, 2019) Notes: Unpublished script Donation: AFI/AACTA More info
book		The making of King Kong : the story behind a film classic / Orville Goldner and George E. Turner London: A.S. Barnes & Co., Tantivy Press, 1975. Call No: 79KIN GOL Author: Goldner, Orville; Turner, George E. Source: US UK Place: New Jersey; London Publisher: A.S. Barnes & Co.; Tantivy Press PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: 271 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm Subject: KING KONG; MONSTERS IN FILMS; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) Summary: An in depth look at the making of King Kong, the original movie made in 1933 ISBN: 0498015106 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
title clippings file		ME AND MY MONSTERS : [TV](UK/AT, 2010) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ME AND MY MONSTERS [TV](UK/AT, 2010) More info
newspaper article		Monster hits, super profits in Daily Telegraph (15/04/2017) p.60 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BLOCKBUSTERS. USA Author: Shearer, Geoff PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS. USA; MONSTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; ACTION FILMS Summary: Looking at the proliferation of big budget film franchises such as Marvel, DC as well as monster and supernatural series being promoted by various studios Notes: I More info
serial		The monster times New York: Monster Times, 1972-1976. Available here Call No: Issues held -- v. 1 n. 4 [March 15, 1972] -- v. 1 no. 6 [April 12, 1972] -- v. 1 n. 10 [May 31, 1972] -- v. 1 n. 21 [April 1973] -- v. 1 n. 27 [Oct. 1973] -- v. 1 n. 30 [Feb. 1974] -- v. 1 n. 31 [March 1974] Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Monster Times PubDate: 1972-1976 Subject: MONSTERS IN FILMS Summary: ‘The Monster Times’ was a horror film fan magazine which ran from 1972-1976. Published by The Monster Times Publishing Co. and designed by Larry Brill and Les Waldstein. Editors and contributors included Chuck R. McNaughton, Allen Asherman, Joe Brancatelli, Tom Rogers and Joe Kane. Printed in broadsheet format, each issue contained a feature article on a classic horror or sci-fi film, plus book reviews, news of upcoming comics and sci-fi conventions, and a wonderful color center-fold poster. Movie beasts were the main attraction of this fanzine - Godzilla, Count Dracula, King Kong, Wolf Man, The Mummy, Creature From the Black Lagoon, and Frankenstein's monster. In issue 21, also titled the All-Frankenstein issue, the 1962 novelty song "Monster Mash" is colorfully adapted to comic format.This is a great issue for Frankenstein film fans. There have been over 100 films featuring Frankenstein's monster . The first screen appearance of the monster was a sixteen minute silent film, produced by Thomas Edison's film company in 1910. MT looks at the Frankenstein Universal film series and includes a detailed interview with Glenn Strange, best remembered for playing Frankenstein's monster in three of the eight studio films. The AFI RC hold original copies of the Monster Times. Due to their fragile condition they are restricted from general reading-room access but can be viewed on special request. -- AFIRC ID2: 366 More info
title clippings file		MONSTERS : (UK, Gareth Evans, 2010) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS (UK, Gareth Evans, 2010) More info
title clippings file		MONSTERS AND MEN : (US, Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2018) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS AND MEN (US, Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2018) More info
subject clippings file		MONSTERS IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS IN FILMS More info
book		Monsters in the machine : science fiction film and the militarization of America after World War II / Steffen Hantke Jackson [Mississippi]: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Call No: 735.1(73) HAN Author: Hantke, Steffen Source: US Place: Jackson [Mississippi] Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ALIENS IN FILMS; NUCLEAR WARFARE IN FILMS; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA Summary: "With admirable scope and lucidity, Monsters in the Machine insightfully analyzes sci-fi films of the postwar period to expose the cultural politics and political ethos of an era dominated by the aura of World War II and the nuclear shadow it cast over Henry Luce's 'American Century'. Providing rich touchstones for the major tensions and contradictions that informed the groteque mechanisms of the Cold War, Monsters in the Machine should be required for any course on American Cold War culture." -- ALAN NADEL Notes: Includes bibliographical references, notes, and index ISBN: 9781496805652 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema Contents: Acknowedgments -- Introduction: A bright new future, with monsters -- Chapter One: Military stock footage -- Chapter Two: Veterans -- Chapter Three: The Southwest -- Chapter Four: Decolonization -- Conclusion: The long shadow of the Fifties -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. More info
title clippings file		MONSTERS, INC. : (US, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001) More info
Online resource digital clippings file		MONSTERS OF MAN : (AT/US, Mark Toia, 2020) Digital clippings file available Call No: DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS OF MAN (AT/US, Mark Toia, 2020) More info
title clippings file		MONSTERS UNIVERSITY : (US, Dan Scanlon, 2013) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (US, Dan Scanlon, 2013) More info
title clippings file		MONSTERS VS ALIENS : (US, Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon, 2009) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MONSTERS VS ALIENS (US, Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon, 2009) More info
title clippings file		MOSHI MONSTERS: THE MOVIE : (UK/IE, Wip Vernooij & Morgan Francis, 2013) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MOSHI MONSTERS: THE MOVIE (UK/IE, Wip Vernooij & Morgan Francis, 2013) More info
book		Movie magic : the story of special effects in cinema / John Brosnan London: Abacus, 1977. Call No: 236 BRO Author: Brosnan, John Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Abacus PubDate: 1977 PhysDes: 207 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Subject: SPECIAL EFFECTS; HORROR FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; MODEL WORK; MONSTERS IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; ANIMATION; MONSTER DESIGN; MINIATURE WORK; OPTICAL EFFECTS; MATTES; FRONT PROJECTION; CINEMATOGRAPHY; HIGH-SPEED CINEMATOGRAPHY; MAKE-UP; SPLIT SCREEN; STOP-MOTION TECHNIQUE; STUNTS; CAMERAS; TRAVELLING MATTE; EXPLOSIONS IN FILMS; HARRYHAUSEN, RAY; PAL, GEORGE; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE (US, Ronald Neame, 1972) Notes: first published in Great Britain by Macdonald and Jane's 1974; Includes: Appendix with Academy Awards winners and nominees for Engineering Effects/Special Effects from 1927-8 to 1975-6; References; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Film Titles; Index of Subjects and Techniques ISBN: 0349103682 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
journal article		The other side of the cinema in Classic Images (November 1983) iss.101 p.25 Author: O'Hara, Ashley PhysDes: Article Subject: CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS, THE (US, Phil Tucker, 1960) Summary: Selection of B-Grade and lower films with credits and synopsis More info
book		Phallic panic : film horror and the primal uncanny / Barbara Creed Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, c2005. Call No: 735.21 CRE Author: Creed, Barbara Source: AT Place: Carlton, Vic Publisher: Melbourne University Press PubDate: c2005 PhysDes: xix, 232 p. : ill, ports ; 21cm Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FRANKENSTEIN; FREDDY KREUGER IN FILMS; GHOSTS IN FILMS; HORROR FILM; JACK THE RIPPER IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; VAMPIRE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WERWOLVES IN FILMS Summary: In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity, through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire, mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity, and what it means to a society. Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-224; Filmography: p.212-214; Includes index ISBN: 052285172 More info
book		Pixar with Lacan : the hysteric's guide to animation / Lilian Munk Rosing London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing, 2017. Call No: 772 ROS Author: Rosing, Lilian Munk Edition: Paperback edition Source: US/UK Place: New York; London Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: PIXAR; ANIMATION; THEORY; LACAN, JACQUES; TOY STORY (US, John Lasseter, 1995); TOY STORY 2 (US, John Lasseter, 1999); TOY STORY 3 (US, Lee Unkrich, 2010); BUG'S LIFE, A (US, John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton, 1998); MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001); FINDING NEMO (US, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003); INCREDIBLES, THE (US, Brad Bird, 2004); CARS (US, John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, 2006); RATATOUILLE (US, Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, 2007); WALL-E (US, Andrew Stanton, 2008); UP (US, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009) Summary: The films from Pixar Animation Studios are among the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc. to Toy Story and Wall-E, Pixar's animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications of that animation? Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing pixar films while at once exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, the partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/the real/the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine). In so doing , Lilian Munk Rosing expertly examines the ideological implications of the images of human existance in Pixar films.-- BOOK BACK COVER Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781501320170 Contents: -- Introduction -- Beyond the Name of the Father: Toy Story -- Big O is Watching You: Toy Story 2 -- Sadism in the Kindergarten: Toy Story 3 -- entertainment as warfare : A Bug's Life -- There is Nothing More Toxic than a Human Child: Monsters, Inc -- Just Keep Swimming: Finding Nemo -- More than Super: The Incredibles -- the Mother Road: Cars -- Man is a Puppet, Soul is a Rat: Ratatouille -- Humanity Stuck in Vacation Hell: Wall-E -- His Master's Voice: Up -- epilogue: animation and capitalism -- references -- filmography -- index -- More info
book		Religion and film : cinema and the re-creation of the world / S. Brent Plate Chichester, U.K.: Columbia University Press, 2017. Call No: 45:2 PLA Author: Plate, S. Brent Edition: second Place: New York; Chichester, U.K. Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: xviii,207 p. : illus. ; 23cm Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE (US, Woody Allen, 1985); TIDELAND (CN/UK, Terry Gilliam, 2005); BIG FISH (US, Tim Burton, 2003); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE (US, Mel Gibson, 2004); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); CHOCOLAT (US, Lasse Hallstrom, 2000); ANTONIA'S LINE (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995) SEE ANTONIA; ANTONIA (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BARAKA (US, Ron Fricke, 1992); MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001); KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1989); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959); KING OF KINGS (US, Nicholas Ray, 1961); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); STRAIGHT STORY, THE (US/FR/UK, David Lynch, 1999) Summary: Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 978023117650 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: Worldmaking On-Screen and at the Altar Part I. Before the Show: Pulling the Curtain on the Wizard 1. Audio-Visual Mythologizing 2. Ritualizing Film in Space and Time 3. Sacred and Cinematic Spaces: Cities and Pilgrimages Part II. During the Show: Attractions and Distractions 4. Religious Cinematics: Body, Screen, and Death 5. The Face, the Close-Up, and Ethics Part III. After the Show: Re-Created Realities 6. The Footprints of Film: Cinematic After-Images in Sacred Time and Space Notes References Filmography Index ID2: 283 More info
book		The saga of special effects / Ron Fry and Pamela Fourzon London: Robert Hale & Company, 1978. Call No: 236 FRY Author: Fry, Ron; Fourzon, Pamela Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Robert Hale & Company PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 212 p. ; 29 cm Subject: ANIMATION; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MINIATURE WORK; MODEL WORK; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ROBOTS IN FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNERS; STOP-MOTION TECHNIQUE; STORMS IN FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; COOPER, MERIAN C.; FULTON, JOHN P.; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DISNEY, WALT; DUNN, LINWOOD; GILLESPIE, A. ARNOLD; O'BRIEN, WILLIS; PAL, GEORGE; EARTHQUAKE (US, Mark Robson, 1974); KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); [TWENTY THOUSAND] 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (US, Richard Fleischer, 1954) ISBN: 0709170738 Contents: 1. A definition of "special effects" -- 2. The birth of an industry: Edison, Melies, Urban, Paul, and Porter -- 3. Epics without soundtracks: Griffith, Sennett, Keaton, and Lang -- 4. The entertainment decade: Warner's sound, Dunn's optical printer, and O'Brien's King Kong -- 5. Re-creating a world at war: Gillespie, Jennings, Edouart, Hitchcock, and Disney -- 6. The creature-ridden fifties: Pal, Corman, Howard, Japan's Toho studios, Harryhausen and De Mille -- 7. The spectacular sixties, from The time machine to 2001: Vogel, Cruickshank, Danforth, Lee, and Knoth -- 8. The "disastrous" seventies: Allen, Trumbull, Abbott, Mattey, Robinson, Whitlock, and Von Buelow -- Epilogue: De Laurentis' King Kong - the present (and future) of special effects More info
title clippings file		SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED : (US, Raja Gosnell, 2004) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED (US, Raja Gosnell, 2004) More info
book		The television late night horror omnibus : great tales from TV anthology series / edited by Peter Haining London: Orion, 1993. Call No: 735.2 TEL Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Orion PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 578 p. ; 24 cm Subject: HORROR DRAMAS; MONSTERS ON TV; TWILIGHT ZONE, THE [TV] (US, 1959-64, 1985-88) Summary: 'A collection of the most terrifying and popular horror stories that have entertained and frightened television viewers around the world. A must for any horror addict [...] The late-night horror show has long been a favourite with British and American viewers. Audiences have been gripped by terrifying monsters and tels of horror that have become legends: Frankenstein and Dracula alongside the stories of Roald Dahl, Robert Bloch, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. Half a century of the best late-night horror shows is found in these pages complete with the details of the programmes they have inspired, and the actors they have made famous. Here are stories so chilling and so sinister that they will linger in your nightmares forever..." - BOOK BLURB ISBN: 1857970926 Contents: Includes short stories which were adapted to horror television shows: Appointment with Fear -- Suspense -- Lights Out -- Danger -- Tales of Tomorrow -- Alfred Hitchcock Presents -- One Step Beyond -- The Twilight Zone -- Thriller -- Out of this World -- Moment of Fear -- Tales of Mystery -- Way Out -- Great Ghost Stories -- The Outer Limits -- Out of the Unknown -- Mystery and Imagination -- Late Night Horror -- Journey to the Unknown -- Night Gallery -- Ghost Story for Christmas -- Ghost Story -- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries -- Haunted -- Beasts -- Supernatural -- Tales of the Unexpected -- Darkroom -- New Twilight Zone -- Amazing Stories -- Tales from the Darkside -- A Twist in the Tale -- Monsters More info
book		Vampires and zombies : transcultural migrations and transnational interpretations / Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Call No: 735.2 FIS Author: Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea; Mueller, Monika Edition: 2016 Place: Jackson Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: vi, 256 : illus. ; 24 cm Subject: VAMPIRE FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; MONSTERS IN FILMS; THAILAND; MEXICO; WORLD WAR Z (US/MT, Marc Forster, 2013); VAMPYR: THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF ALLEN GRAY [VAMPYR: DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY] (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932); VAMPIRO, EL (MX, Paul Nagle, 1959) Notes: The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the zeitgeist. As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Of all monsters, vampires and zombies seem to be the most trendy--the most regularly incarnate of the undead and the monsters most frequently represented in the media and pop culture. Moreover, both figures have experienced radical reinterpretations. If in the past vampires were evil, blood-sucking exploiters and zombies were brainless victims, they now have metamorphosed into kinder and gentler blood-sucking vampires and crueler, more relentless, flesh-eating zombies. Although the portrayals of both vampires and zombies can be traced back to specific regions and predate mass media, the introduction of mass distribution through film and game technologies has significantly modified their depiction over time and in new environments. Among other topics, contributors discuss zombies in Thai films, vampire novels of Mexico, and undead avatars in horror videogames. This volume--with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds--explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures. Contributions by Katarzyna Ancuta, Daniella Borgia, Timothy R. Fox, Richard J. Hand, Ewan Kirkland, Sabine Metzger, Timothy M. Robinson, Carmen Serrano, Rasmus R. Simonsen, and Johannes Weber -- publisher's blurb More info
book		Yesterday is forever : nostalgia and Pixar animation studios / by Josh Spiegel Philadelphia: The Critical Press, c2015. Call No: 772 SPI Author: Spiegel, Josh Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: The Critical Press PubDate: c2015 PhysDes: vi, 105p. ; Subject: ANIMATION; PIXAR; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; TOY STORY (US, John Lasseter, 1995); TOY STORY 2 (US, John Lasseter, 1999); TOY STORY 3 (US, Lee Unkrich, 2010); CARS (US, John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, 2006); UP (US, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009); MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (US, Dan Scanlon, 2013) Summary: " Since its first feature film in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has often been treated as a powerful, influential, and forward-thinking animation company. However, many of its films are incredibly besotted with a nostalgic longing for the past. From the Toy Story trilogy to the first Cars film, many of Pixar’s films are about chasing what used to be instead of embracing the future. In this book, published on the 20th anniversary of the original Toy Story’s release, Josh Spiegel examines some of the films from Pixar and Disney over the past 20 years that have embodied one of the most important lines of dialogue in Disney history, courtesy of theme-park narration: “Here, tomorrow is today. And yesterday is forever.” -- BOOK BACK COVER BLURB ISBN: 9781941629239 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Toy Story and Cars -- Toy Story 2 and Up -- Toy Story 3 and Monsters University -- Disney animation in the 2010s -- conclusion -- notes -- about the author -- More info

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