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Call No: 81VAR DER
Author: DeRoo, Rebecca J.
Source: US
Place: Oakland, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: FILM; CRITICISM; FEMININITY IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; FRANCE; VARDA, AGNES; POINTE COURTE, LA (FR, Agnes Varda, 1954); BONHEUR, LE (FR, Agnes Varda, 1965); ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (FR/BE, Agnes Varda, 1977); DAGUERREOTYPES (FR/G, Agnes Varda, 1978)
Summary: "Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different media, she is a figure who defies easy categorization. In this extensively researched book, Rebecca J. DeRoo demonstrates how Varda draws upon the histories of art, photography, and film to complicate the overt narratives in her works and to advance contemporary cultural politics. Based on interviews with Varda and unparalleled access to Varda's archives, this interdisciplinary study constructs new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9780520279414
Contents: -- Acknowledgments -- Reinterpreting Varda: the mother of the new wave reframes its histories -- Complicating neorealism and the new wave: La Pointe Courte -- Filmic and feminist strategies: questioning ideals of happiness in Le Bonheur -- Reconsidering contradictions: feminist politics and the musical genre in L'une Chante, L'autre Pas -- The limits of documentary: identity and urban transformation in daguerreotypes -- Melancholy and merchandise: documenting and displaying widowhood in L'iIe Et Elle -- Varda now: autobiography, memory, and retrospective -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 61:75 MCI
Author: McIver, Gillian
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm
Subject: THEORY; ART IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; HEROS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its close relationship with the visual arts. Art history for Filmmakers shows how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to demonstrate composition, color theory and lighting. It reveals how the visual culture that gave rise to cinema has itself been shaped and informed by the development of painting, the oldest of the art forms.Featuring stunning images from classic films and iconic artwork, this book will build your appreciation of the history of art, enrich your understanding of the visual language of film, and help to feed that understanding into your own original filmmaking" -- BACK COVER BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781472580658
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction. How does art history relate to cinema history? -- A brief linear (traditional) history of art - -Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Visual culture and storytelling. Narrative and storytelling in art -- Color and narrative -- Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema -- Perspective and composition -- Light -- Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism. What is realism? - -What is representation? -- Art after photography: modern conceptions of realism in art -- Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism. Fantasy worlds in cinema and art -- Oneiric: the world of dreams -- Surrealism -- Going beyond the real -- Case study: The Archers -- Sex and violence. Sex in art and cinema -- Violence in art and cinema -- Sex and violence -- Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror. Religious horror -- Supernatural horror -- Body horror -- Monsters -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape. Why landscape? -- Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? -- The American landscape and the American West -- Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts. History painting; victory, virtue, and the hero - -Heroism and the Western -- Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements. Culture or mass culture? -- expressionism -- Abstraction -- Abstract expressionism -- Minimalism -- Going "Beyond the West" -- Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion. How can we use art history in filmmaking? Case studies --

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; RACIAL ISSUES 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.

Call No: 62 STA
Author: Stam, Robert
Source: US/UK/AT
Place: Malden, MA ; Oxford
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: x, 381 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: " Film Theory: An Introduction offers a comprehensive history of film theory during the "century of cinema." The book moves all the way from silent-era theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Hugo Munsterberg through to the latest developments in film theory and cultural studies (cognitive theory, Deleuze, queer theory, postcolonial theory, digital theory), international in scope, the volume ranges over developments in such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, trying always to stress the links between these developments. The book also contextualizes film theory within larger historical and philosophical currents.Written in sophisticated yet accessible language, Film Theory: An Introduction provides a lucid and coherent introduction to a rich and variegated field. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780631206545
Contents: -- preface -- introduction -- The antecedents of film theory -- Film and film theory : the beginnings -- Early silent film theory -- The essence of cinema -- The Soviet montage-theorists -- Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School -- The historical avant-gardes -- The debate after sound -- The Frankfurt School -- The phenomenology of realism -- The cult of the auteur -- The Americanization of auteur theory -- Third world film and theory -- The advent of structuralism -- The question of film language -- Cinematic specificity revisited -- Interrogating authorship and genre -- 1968 and the leftist turn -- The classic realist text -- The presence of Brecht -- The politics of reflexitivity -- The search for alternative aesthetics -- From linguistics to psychoanalysis -- From feminist intervention -- The postsructuralist mutation -- Textual analysis -- Interpretation and its discontents -- From text to intertext -- The amplification of sound -- The rise of cultural studies -- The birth of the spectator -- Cognitive and analytic theory -- Semiotics revisited -- Just in time : the impact of Deleuze -- The coming out of queer theory -- Multiculturalism, race, and representation -- Third cinema revisited -- Film and the postcolonial -- The poetics and politics of postmodernism -- The social valence of mass-culture -- Post-cinema : digital theory and the new media -- The pluralization of film theory -- notes -- select bibliography -- index --

Call No: 64NOU FRE
Author: Vincendeau, Ginette; Graham, Peter John
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: x, 273 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Subject: CAHIERS DU CINEMA; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC
Summary: The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks is a new and expanded edition of a classic anthology of writings by critics and film-makers associated with the Nouvelle Vague. The new edition, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the New Wave, features all the articles from the first edition, including Bazin's seminal 'La Politique des Auteurs' and a brand new translation of Truffaut's 'Une certaine tendance du cinema francais' (A Certain Tendency in French Cinema). In addition, the collection includes articles by and interviews with Bazin, Godard, Chabrol and others that helped to shape contemporary debates about the history, aesthetics and practice of cinema, as well as a case study offering three different perspectives on Godard's A bout de souffle. The new edition features a preface by Peter Graham alongside his preface to the 1968 edition, and an introduction by Ginette Vincendeau that contextualises the Nouvelle Vague in the light of recent developments in film theory and history and its influence on subsequent French film-making. There is also a new and substantial bibliography of works on the New Wave in English and French, making this an indispensable point of reference for anyone interested in the movement and its long-lasting effects on the theory and practice of cinema. Contributions by: Alexandre Astruc, Andre Bazin, Robert Benayoun, Raymond Borde, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Gerard Gozlan, Luc Moullet, Georges Sadoul and Francois Truffaut.
Notes: Formerly CIP -- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index.
ISBN: 9781844572823
Contents: -- Preface to the 2009 Edition / Peter Graham -- Preface to the 1968 Edition / Peter Graham -- Introduction: Fifty Years of the French New Wave: from hysteria to nostalgia / Ginette Vincendeau -- 1 The Birth of a New Avant-Garde : La Caméra-Stylo / Alexandre Astruc -- 2 A Certain Tendency in French Cinéma / Francois Truffaut -- 3 The Evolution of Film Language / Andre Bazin -- 4 The Delights of Ambiguity: In Praise of Andre Bazin / Gerard Gozlan -- 5 La Politique des auteurs / Andre Bazin -- 6 Little Themes / Claude Chabrol -- 7 Review of Alexandre Astruc's Une vie / Jean-luc Godard -- 8 The Emperor Has No Clothes / Robert Benayoun -- 9 Interview with Francois Truffaut Cahiers du Cinema -- 10 A Case Study: Contrasting Views of A bout de souffle: -- Jean-Luc Godard / Luc Moullet -- A bout de souffle / Raymonde Borde -- Le Quai des brumes 1960: A bout de souffle by Jean-Luc Godard / Georges Sadoul -- Bibliography -- Index --

Call No: 722.81 GRI
Author: Fisher, Austin (ed.); Walker, Johnny (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 266 pages ; 25 cm
Series: Global exploitation cinemas
Subject: EXPLOITATION FILMS; BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; EROTIC FILMS; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM
Summary: "The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres. The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already understood." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781628927498
Contents: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond -- Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker -- Chapter 1 -- Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory / Glenn Ward -- Chapter 2 -- Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses / Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia / Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 / Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film / Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies / Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story / Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western / Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle / David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper / Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- index --

Call No: 71(72) NOB
Author: Noble, Andrea
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon, UK
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: viii, 224p. : ill. ; 23cm
Subject: 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); FAMILIA DE TANTAS, UNE (MX, Alejandro Galindo, 1948); CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA, EL (MX, Arturo Ripstein, 1972); MIDAQ ALLEY [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

Call No: 709 MOV
CorpAuthor: Bloomsbury
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: p. 521-780 : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY
Summary: " Created from "The Movie' the most comprehensive history available of the moving picture and the people involved in this 20th century art form. A marvellous miscellany of movie information about the stars of the silver screen." COVER JACKET
Notes: This book Movie nostalgia contains chapter 27
ISBN: 0906223768
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 67(04) WOL
Author: Wollen, Peter
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: vi, 314 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS; DIRECTORS; FILM; THEORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; BURROUGHS, WILLIAM; EGGELING, VIKING; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HAWKS, HOWARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ROUCH, JEAN; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); FREUD (US, John Huston, 1962); RULES OF THE GAME, THE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939)
Summary: "In this new collection of essays on the cinema, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of time in film and video art to a study of Riff-Raff Realism in British film. Provocative essays discuss the work both of established auteur directors such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock as well as the filmmaking careers of such experimental moviemakers as William Burroughs and Viking Eggeling, the dadaist pioneer of abstract film. The collection also includes fascinating studies of a number of film classics, such as John Huston's Freud, Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.". "Paris Hollywood suggests new approaches to thinking about film and many unexpected connections between film studies and the history of such strangely related activities as espionage, psychoanalysis, dance, architecture, anthropology, Stalinism, love of speed and digital technology. Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about the cinema but, rather, a plethora of paths leading in very different directions, each contributing to a new understanding of the 20th century's major art form."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes Includes filmography
ISBN: 1859843913
Contents: -- 1: an alphabet of Cinema -- Part 1: directors and filmmakers -- 2: guerilla conditions: the cinema of William Seward Burroughs -- 3: viking eggeling -- 4: who the hell is Howard Hawks? -- 5: hitch: a tale of two cities (London and Los Angeles) -- 6: JLG -- 7: Jean Rouch -- part 2: films and movements -- 8: Freud as adventurer -- 9: Blade Runner -- 10: spies ansd spivs: an anglo-austrian engagement -- 11: rules of the game -- 12: the last new wave -- 13: riff-raff realism -- 14: architecture and film: places and non-places -- 15: the canon -- 16: time in film and video art -- 17: mismatches (& Acousmetres) -- 18 back to the future -- 19: speed and the cinema -- notes -- film-makers/director index -- filmography -- general index --

Call No: 71(51) PER
Author: Berry, Chris
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: vii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; TAIWAN; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATED FILMS; ZHUANGZHUANG, TIAN; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIGONG, WU; WAN, LAIMING; WAN, GUCHAN; WAN, DIHUAN; WAN, CHAOCHEN; CHUSHENG, CAI; KAIGE, CHEN; HSIAO-HSIEN, HOU; MEI, HU; BAN, LU; DONGSHAN, SHI; HUA, SHUI; YU, SUN; TIANMING, WU; YIGONG, WU; JIN, XIE; YANG, EDWARD; JUNZHAO, ZHANG; YIMOU, ZHANG; JUNLI, ZHENG; LI SHUANG SHUANG (CC, Lu Ren, 1962) SEE LI SHUANGSHUANG; XI YING MEN, (CC, Zhao Huanzhang, 1982); HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1984); HONG GAOLIANG (CC, Zhang Yimou, 1987)
Notes: First published 1985; Includes bibliographical references, short biographies of major directors, chronology and indexes of names and film titles
ISBN: 0851702716; 0851702724 (pbk.)
LON: 7777062 7777062

Call No: 761(410) SUS
Author: Sussex, Elizabeth
Source: US/UK
Place: Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; London
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1975
PhysDes: xvi, 220 p. : illus. ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; UNITED KINGDOM; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARIES: UNITED KINGDOM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; HISTORY OF CINEMA; CRITICISM; GRIERSON, JOHN; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936)
Summary: "The image of British documentary has usually been one of artistic prestige and a certain doctrinaire stuffiness. This book is an attempt to recreate the real human experience behind the myth - utilizing a kind of documentary method, intercutting the author's commentary and interview material. Elizabeth Sussex, who is a film-maker herself, talked with all the important living figures of the documentary movement about its complex conflicts, frustrations, and missed chances. Her account is tempered, critical, and knowledgeable. It not only provides a circumstantial record of the movement, but poses issues that must be confronted in any attempt to use film for social purposes. Some outstanding characters in the story - Cavalcanti and Jennings, for example - are evaluated anew, and aspects of the movement that we have known primarily through Grierson's genius for publicity receive skeptical scrutiny. Skillfully edited into a concise and dramatic chronological story, the interviews say more in their cumulative impact than any plain narrative could. The book puts all previous studies of documentary into a new perspective, and will be required reading for anyone concerned with the subject" -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Reviewed in 'The Rise and Fall of the British Documentary: Grierson and the old boys' by William Guynn (Jump Cut, no. 15, 1977, pp. 28-29)
ISBN: 0520028694
Donation: Donated by James Sabine
Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- interviewees in order of appearance -- 1 the movement moves in -- 2 the spell of Flaherty -- 3 innovations at the Post office -- 4 Night Mail -- 5 the movement divides -- 6 war and the peak of achievement -- 7 the post war decline -- 8 reflections on past and future -- epilogue -- index --

Call No: 62 DOU
Author: Doughty, Ruth; Etherington-Wright, Christine
Edition: Second edition
Source: UK
Place: [England]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; ADAPTATIONS; GENRES; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; STARS; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HUNGER GAMES, THE (US, Gary Ross, 2012); RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968) SEE C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST; LEGO MOVIE, THE (US/AT/DK, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014); ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); OLDBOY (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); OLDEUBOI (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); FROZEN (US, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013); BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (FR/BE/SP, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013); DJANGO UNCHAINED (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2012); AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009)
Summary: -- "Film theory has a reputation for being challenging. Often requiring time and effort to fully grasp it and seeming rather old-fashioned, it can be difficult to approach the subject with enthusiasm and appreciate its relevance to modern day. Understanding Film Theory aims to disassociate theory from these connotations and bring a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to the discipline. Now comprehensively updated in a second edition, the book’s sixteen chapters - including a new chapter on Adaptations - continue to provide an insight into the main areas of debate. Taking the application of theory as its central theme, the text incorporates a number of innovative features: ‘Reflect and Respond’ sections encourage readers to engage critically with theoretical concepts, while seminal texts are concisely summarised without oversimplifying key points. Throughout the book the authors illustrate why theory is important and demonstrate how it can be applied in a meaningful way, with relevant case studies drawn from both classic and contemporary cinema including: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Run Lola Run (1998), The Hunger Games (2012), Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) and The Lego Movie (2014). Additional case studies address key genres (the British Gangster film and the musical), film movements (Dogme 95), individual actors (Ryan Gosling, Judi Dench and Amitabh Bachchan) and directors (Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo del Toro). Understanding Film Theory is an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory. It is the ideal entry point for any student studying film, using clear definitions and explaining complex ideas succinctly. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781137528230
Contents: -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Auteur Theory Case study: Alfred Hitchcock -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro -- 2 Adaptations Case study: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) -- 3 Genre Theory -- Case study: The British Gangster Film -- Case study: The Musical -- 4 Formalism Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) -- 5 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- 6 Marxism -- Case study: The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) -- 7 Realism -- Case study: Dogme 95 -- Case study: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) -- 8 Postmodernism -- Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) -- 9 Psychoanalysis -- Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) -- 10 Feminism -- Case study: Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) -- 11 Masculinity -- Case study: Ryan Gosling -- 12 Queer Theory -- Case study: Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) -- 13 Race and Ethnicity -- Case study: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) -- 14 Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas -- Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) -- 15 Stars -- Case study: Amitabh Bachchan -- Case study: Dame Judi Dench -- 16 Audience -- Research and Reception -- Case study: Tartan Video -- Conclusion -- filmography -- Index --