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The 25th Anniversary of the Bulgarian Film : El 25 aniversario del cine Bulgaro / Film Bulgaria Film Distribution State Enterprise, Sofia, 1969 (approx.).
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An accented cinema : exilic and diaspora filmmaking / Hamid Naficy Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Call No: 462-054.72 NAFAuthor: Naficy, Hamid Source: USPlace: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: v, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; EMIGRANT FILM WORKERS ; EGOYAN, ATOM ; KHLEIFI, MICHEL ; NAIR, MIRA ; SOLANAS, FERNANDO E. ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; NADERI, AMIR ; MEKAS, JONAS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; GITAI, AMOS ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0691043914
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African cinema : politics & culture / Manthia Diawara Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
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American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image / edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr New York: Ungar, c1979.
Call No: 409(73) AMEAuthor: O'Connor, John E ; Jackson, Martin A Place: New YorkPublisher: UngarPubDate: c1979PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935) ; SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920) ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943) ; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95LON: 1282547
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Another cinema for another society / Gaston Roberge Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1985.
Call No: 408.1(540) ROBAuthor: Roberge, Gaston Source: IIPlace: CalcuttaPublisher: Seagull BooksPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; RAY, SATYAJIT ; WELLES, ORSON ; BRON, PETER ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927) Summary: "Father Gaston Roberge, Director of Chitrabani, a Calcutta-based institution involved in development communication, and a media critic in his own right, with five title to his credit already, proposes, in his latest work, a militant programme... for another cinema committed to the building up of another society.' He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics, with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles, and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema" -Book blurbISBN: 0861320751Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Preface -- Part one: cinema -- Introduction: a militant programme -- What is it in cinema that makes it cinema -- Montage: the formative principle -- An anthropology of the cinema -- An exercise in film appreciation or the magnificent Andre Bazin -- Author-ity, text-uality and read-in(g) -- Part two: society -- The end of a film era -- Nine and one facts and not a few illusions -- Of many movies and some words to talk about them -- Films for social change -- Politics in film -- The politics of non-political cinema -- The cultural and social influence of foreign films -- History through films and filmed history -- Conclusion -- Film education for a new movie-man -- index
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The art of govenment : Khoa Do's The finished people and the policy reform of Community Cultural Development in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.177-193
Author: Brook, Scott PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) Summary: This article considers the production of the independent feature The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) in terms of a key factor reviewers and critics chose to play down: namely, that the director sought to capture public interest in Cabramatta (a suburb in Sydney's south west promoted as Australia's ‘most multicultural suburb’) in order to lift a Community Cultural Development (CCD) project out of the suburbs and deliver it to audiences of art-house cinema. While the film's representational strategies clearly reflect a tradition of independent Asian Australian cinema that critically negotiates the identity politics of state-sponsored multiculturalism, the film's mode of production had less to do with the avant-garde agendas reviewers compared it with, and more to do with an enduring governmental regime of pastoral pedagogy dedicated to the correction of ‘at risk’ subjects. Furthermore, the project strongly anticipated recent policy reforms to CCD initiated by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2004. Under the flexible rubric ‘Creative Communities’ these reforms seek to steer CCD workers away from cultural development as a narrow target of government intervention, and towards a more open and flexible range of policy goals and objectives. A close reading of the film's context of production reveals how such a policy shift might be expected to increase opportunities for local content to move between fields of cultural production, even as it multiplies dilemmas of formal accountability and aesthetic evaluation. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2
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Artists and the "creation" of Australia : a discussion paper with positive proposals / Arts Action Australia Inc Clayton, Vic.: Ideas for Australia 1991-1992 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, 1991.
Call No: 408.1(94) ARTCorpAuthor: Arts Action Australia Inc; Monash University. National Centre for Australian Studies; Ideas for Australia 1991-92 ProgramSource: ATPlace: Clayton, Vic.Publisher: Ideas for Australia 1991-1992 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian StudiesPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 12 p. ; 30 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover titleISBN: 0732602793LON: 8395440
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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: INDIAN CINEMA ; CHINA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; HONG KONG ; TAIWAN ; THAILAND ; SINGAPORE ; MALAYSIA ; IRAN ; BOLLYWOOD ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD CINEMA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; ANIMATION ; HORROR FILM ; GHOST FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA Summary: "This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.
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Australian Film Festival : New York 1978 press digest / New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc. New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc., [1978].
Call No: 151(73) AUSTRALIAN "1978"CorpAuthor: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc.Source: ATPublisher: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc.PubDate: [1978]PhysDes: 32 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cmSubject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NEW SOUTH WALES FILM CORPORATION ; NOYCE, PHILLIP ; SHARMAN, JIM ; THOMPSON, JACK ; CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978) ; STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) Summary: A collection of clippings from US print media relating to the Australian Film Festival in 1978.
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Australian national cinema / Tom O'Regan London New York: Routledge, 1996.
Call No: 408.1(94) ORECopy Management: 2 copiesAuthor: O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1996PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cmSeries: National cinemas seriesSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-391) and indexesISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302LON: 12193364Contents: 1. Introducing Australian national cinema -- 2. Theorizing Australian cinema -- 3. A national cinema -- 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema -- 5. Formations of value -- 6. Making meaning -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Unity -- 9. Negotiating cultural transfers -- 10. A distinct place in the cinema -- 11. Problematizing the social -- 12. Problematizing gender -- 13. Problematizing nationhood -- 14. Critical dispositions.
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The Australian screen / edited by Albert Moran and Tom O'Regan Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1989.
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The Barry McKenzie movies / Tony Moore Sydney: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission, 2005.
Call No: 79BAR MORAuthor: Moore, Tony Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Currency Press, Australian Film CommissionPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.Series: Australian screen classicsSubject: AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; EVERAGE, DAME EDNA ; BERESFORD, BRUCE ; HUMPHRIES, BARRY ; ADAMS, PHILLIP ; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) Summary: With irresponsible humour and sharp-witted insight Tony Morre explores the subversive satire of the films, their influence on his generation, and what they have to say about who we are today. Included is a glossary of Bazza-isms written by Barry Humphries.ISBN: 0868197483ISSN: 1447557X
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Basic facts about the Swedish film world : Reprinted from Chaplin 25th anniversary issue : Everything you always wanted to know about Swedish cinema / Rolf Lindfors / Bertil Wredlund / Lars Ahlander Stockholm, Sweden: The Swedish Film Institute, Svenska Filminstitutet, The Swedish Institute, [1984?].
Call No: 71(485) BASAuthor: Lindfors, Rolf ; Wredlund, Bertil ; Ahlander, Lars CorpAuthor: The Swedish Film Institute; Svenska Filminstitutet; The Swedish InstituteSource: SWPlace: Stockholm, SwedenPublisher: The Swedish Film Institute; Svenska Filminstitutet; The Swedish InstitutePubDate: [1984?]PhysDes: 6 p. : ill. ; 30cmSubject: SWEDEN ; SVENSKA FILMINSTITUTET ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Notes: Reprinted from 'Chaplin', 25 anniversay issue 1984Contents: Headings: 'The Swedish Film Institute', 'The Film and Video Agreement', 'Cinema Statistics', 'Film Festivals', 'Education and Research', 'Film Censorship', 'Video', 'Distribution'
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Before the interval : Australian mythology and feature films, 1930-1960 / Bruce Molloy St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
Call No: 408.1(94) MOLAuthor: Molloy, Bruce Place: St. Lucia, Qld.Publisher: University of Queensland PressPubDate: 1990PhysDes: xviii, 244 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM ; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MYTH AND THE CINEMA ; CINESOUND STUDIOS ; CHAUVEL, CHARLES ; BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950) ; HERITAGE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935) ; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932) ; SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933) ; DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940) ; FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940) ; IT ISN'T DONE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937) ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) ; RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944) ; SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957) ; SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [219]-229ISBN: 0702222690 (pbk.)LON: 6791823Contents: Charles Chauvel, p101-164 -- Bitter Springs, p189-194 -- Dad Rudd, p60-65 -- Forty Thousand Horsemen, p144-152 -- Heritage, p107-114 -- It isn't done, p87-92 -- Jedda, p203-208 -- On Our Selection, p48-53 -- The Overlanders, p165-171 -- The Rats of Tobruk, p152-161 -- The Shiralee, p178-181 -- Sons of Matthew, p114-124 -- The Squatter's Daughter, p65-69
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Blood cinema : the reconstruction of national identity in Spain / by Marsha Kinder Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Call No: 408.1(46) KINAuthor: Kinder, Marsha Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xi, 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: SPAIN ; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. SPAIN ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. SPAIN ; SPAIN: CATALONIA ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. SPAIN ; DIRECTORS. USA ; ERICE, VICTOR ; SAURA, CARLOS ; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; SURCOS (SP, Jose Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951) ; MUERTE DE UN CICLISTA (SP, Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955) ; GOLFOS, LOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1959) ; COCHECITO, EL (SP, Marco Ferreri, 1959) ; ESPIRITU DE LA COLMENA, EL (SP, Victor Erice, 1973) ; RIO ABAJO (SP, Jose Luis Borau, 1984) Notes: "A Centennial book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-522) and indexISBN: 0520081536 (alk. paper); 0520081579 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 9293143
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The business of understanding Japan and the United States in today's world : as seen through 'The Japanese Film' a PBS television series; produced by KQED, San Francisco / by Michael Berger Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
Call No: 71(52) BERAuthor: Berger, Michael Source: USPlace: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: Pacific Film Archive, University of California, BerkeleyPubDate: 1974PhysDes: 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: JAPAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN Summary: Based around a thriteen week series on the American Public Broadcasting System, this guide comments on the Japanese films shown in the series and the various shared themes presented by the films in a way to help American's in business with the Japanese to understand their culture better.; The films shown are: Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa), Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi), Harp of Burma (Kon Ichikawa), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda), Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Night Drum (Tadashi Imai), Ikuru (Akira Kurosawa), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse), Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi), Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita), Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa), Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu).
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Chinese national cinema / Yingjin Zhang New York: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 71(51) ZHAAuthor: Zhang, Yingjin Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 328 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CHINA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. HONG KONG ; CHINESE IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA Summary: ‘This introduction to Chinese national cinema, by a leading critic, covers three ‘Chinas’: mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It traces the formation, negotiation and problematization of the national on the Chinese screen over ninety years. Historical and comparative perspectives bring out the parallel developments in the three Chinas, while critical analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time…’ (Back cover)ISBN: 041517290Contents: 1. Introduction: National cinema and China -- 2. Cinema and national traditions, 1896-1929 -- 3. Cinema and the nation-people, 1930-49 -- 4. Cinematic reinvention of the national in Taiwan, 1896-1978 -- 5. Cinematic revival of the regional in Hong Kong, 1945-78 -- 6. Cinema and the nation-state in the PRC, 1949-78 -- 7. Cinema and national/regional cultures, 1979-89 -- 8. Cinema and the transnational imaginary, 1990-2002
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Cinema and cultural identity : reflections on films from Japan, India, and China / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.
Call No: 408.1(5) CINAuthor: Dissanayake, Wimal CorpAuthor: Institute of Culture and Communication (East-West Center)Place: Lanham, MDPublisher: University Press of AmericaPubDate: 1988PhysDes: vii, 214 p. ; 24 cmSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; INDUSTRY, FILM. CHINA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN ; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; GENRES ; SAMURAI FILMS ; RAY, SATYAJIT Notes: "Co-published by arrangement with the East-West Center, Institute of Culture and Communication"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0819169455 (alk. paper); 0819169463 (pbk.)LON: 5986435Contents: PART I. JAPAN -- 1. Viewing Japanese film: some considerations / Donald Richie -- 2. The destiny of Samurai films / Michitaro Tada -- 3. The multilayered nature of the tradition of acting in Japanese cinema / Tadao Sato -- 4. Japanese film genres / Audie Bock -- 5. Change in the image of mother in Japanese cinema and television / Tadao Sato -- PART 2. INDIA -- 6. Innovation and imitation in the Indian cinema / Mira Reym Binford -- 7. Art, vision, and culture: Satiyajit Ray's Apu trilogy revisited / Wimal Dissanayake -- 8. The woman: myth and reality in Indian cinema / Aruna Vasudev -- 9. The painted face of politics: the actor politicians of South India / Chidananda Das Gupta -- 10. Songs in Hindi films: nature and function / Teri Skillman -- PART 3. CHINA -- 11. The Chinese film in the 1980s: art and industry / Ma Qiang -- 12. The sinification of cinema: the foreignness of film in China / Paul Clark -- 13. The position of women in new Chinese cinema / Tony Rayns -- 14. Chinese films amidst the tide of reform / Shao Mujun
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Cinema and landscape / Graham Harper and Jonathan Rayner (eds) Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2010.
Call No: 756 CINSource: UK/USAPlace: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USAPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 315 p. ; 23 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HERZOG, WERNER ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; BEAU TRAVAIL (FR, Claire Denis, 1999) ; RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001) Summary: Cinema and Landscape frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.Notes: includes filmography; includes indexISBN: 9781841503097Contents: 1. Introduction - cinema and landscape -- Part I: The invention of the cinematic landscape : 2. Landscape and the fantasy of moving pictures: early cinema's phantom rides / Tom Gunning -- Part II: Mapping cinematic landscapes : 3. 'One foot in the air?' Landscape in the Soviet and Russian road movie / Emma Widdis -- 4. Landscape of the mind: the indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager -- 5. Visions of Italy: the sublime, the postmodern and the apocalyptic / William Hope -- 6. Landscape in Spanish cinema / Marvin D'Lugo -- 7. Landscape and Irish cinema / Martin McLoone -- 8. The ownership of woods and water: landscapes in British cinema 1930-1960 / Sue Harper -- 9. Filming the (post-)colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) / Susan Hayward.
10. Landscaping the revolution: the political and social geography of Cuba reflected in its cinema / Bob Britton -- 11. Landscapes of meaning in cinema: two Indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake -- 12. The geography of cinema - Zimbabwe / Martin Mhando -- 13. Crises, Economy and landscape: the modern film face of new China / Kate Taylor -- 14. Japanese cinema and landscape / Paul Spicer -- 15. A version of beauty and terror: Australian cinematic landscapes / Graham Harper -- 16. Battlefields of vision: New Zealand filmscapes / Jonathan Rayner -- 17. The landscapes of Canada's features: articulating nation and nature / Jim Leach -- 18 Science fiction/fantasy films, fairy tales and control: landscape stereotypes on a wilderness to ultra-urban continuum / Christina Kennedy, Tia´nna and Me´lisa Kennedy
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Cinema Italien d'aujourd'hui / Textes presentes par Alexandre Blasetti et Jean Louis Rondi Rome: Carlo Bestetti, [1950?].
Call No: 71(45) CINAuthor: Blasetti, Alexandre ; Rondi, Jean Louis Source: ITPlace: RomePublisher: Carlo BestettiPubDate: [1950?]PhysDes: 213 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cmSubject: ITALY ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NEOREALISM Notes: Authors: Zavattini, Cesar (preface); Carancini, Gaetan; Meccoli, Dominque; Marinucci, Vinicio; Guidi, Guidarino; Giannelli, E.; Verdone, Marius; Includes bibliography; Includes filmography of Italian films from 1945-1950; Includes indexLanguage: French
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The cinema of Australia and New Zealand / edited by Geoff Mayer & Keith Beattie. London: Wallflower, 2007.
Call No: 71(93) CINSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Series: 24 FramesSubject: AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906) ; WOMAN SUFFERS, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1918) ; DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938) ; PHANTOM STOCKMAN, THE (AT, Lee Robinson, 1953) ; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1954) ; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) ; FREE RADICALS (NZ, Len Lye, 1958) ; RUNAWAY (NZ, John O'Shea, 1964) ; THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966) ; ONE NIGHT THE MOON (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2001) ; SLEEPING DOGS (NZ, Roger Donaldson, 1977) ; VIGIL (NZ, Vincent Ward, 1984) ; IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1984) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; OSCAR AND LUCINDA (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1997) ; AFTER MABO (AT, Richard Frankland, 1997) ; CHOPPER (AT, Andrew Dominik, 2000) ; GODDESS OF 1967, THE (AT, Clara Law, 2000) ; MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001) ; LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001) ; TWO LAWS (AT, Alessandro Cavadini & Carolyn Strachan, 1981) ; RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001) Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the commercially successful narrative feature films from Australia and New Zealand, including key documentaries, shorts and independent films. This coverage also invokes issues of national identity, race, history and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat from Hollywood.Notes: Includes filmography.
Includes bibliography and index.ISBN: 9781904764960
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The Cinema of Hong Kong : history, arts, identity / edited by Poshek Fu and David Desser Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Cinema Year Book of Japan, 1938 / edited by International Cinema Association of Japan, The (Kokusai Eiga Kyokai) Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations), 1938.
Call No: 71 (52) CIN; RARE BOOK; FOLIOPlace: TokyoPublisher: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations)PubDate: 1938PhysDes: 82 p. : ill., ports. ; 32cmSubject: JAPAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; PERIODICALS, FILM ; ORGANIZATIONS ; NEWSREELS ; KOREA ; SHOCHIKU ; TOHO ; NIKKATSU ; KAZE NO NAKA NO KODOMO (JA, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937) ; KOJO NO TSUKI (JA, Keisuke Sasaki, 1937) ; HANA-KAGO NO UTA (JA, Heinosuke Gosho, 1937) ; ASAKUSA NO HI (JA, Yasujiro Shimazu, 1937) ; SOBO (JA, Hisatora Kumagai, ?) ; TABIJI (JA, Ri Keikwan, ?) ; ATARASHIKI TSUCHI (JA, Mansaku Itami, 1937) ; HADAKA NO MACHI (JA, Tomu Uchida, 1937) ; SHINSEN GUMI (JA, Sotoji Kimura, 1937) ; SHINJITSU ICHIRO (JA, Tomotaka Tasaka, 1937) ; SHUKUJO WA NANI O WASURETA KA (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1937) ; OSAKA NATSU NO JIN (JA, Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1937) ; AI EN KYO (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1937) ; WAKAI HITO (JA, Shiro Toyoda, 1937) ; KAGIRINAKI ZENSHIN (JA, Tomu Uchida, 1937)
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Cinemas of value : multicultural realism in Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.141-156
Author: Khoo, Olivia PhysDes: ArticleSubject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; JAMMED, THE (AT, Dee McLachlan, 2007) ; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) ; RA CHOI (AT, M. Frank, 2005) Summary: This article examines the use of realist aesthetics in three Australian films, Dee McLachlan's The jammed (2007), Khoa Do's The Finished People (2003) and M. Frank's Ra Choi (2005) as a way of creating ‘value’ within the terms of an Australian national cinema. ‘These films, among other examples of an emergent Asian Australian cinema’, deploy techniques of realism to build an authenticity of experience for spectators, unfamiliar with seeing portrayals of Asian Australians on screen. This article will consider what is at stake in the accepted, and often replicated, relationship between multiculturalism and realism characterizing filmic representations of Asian Australians, and will shift the focus to explore the place of idealism in the creation of value. By examining the aesthetics of what I will call ‘multicultural realism’ I aim to consider how these stylistic strategies seek to politicize certain representations over others in the films' attempt to build an alternative vision of the Australian nation and its diasporic constituents. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1
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Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan / edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Call No: 408.3(5) CINAuthor: Ehrlich, Linda C. (Linda Channah), 1952 ; Desser, David Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xii, 345 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CHINA ; JAPAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985) ; HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988) ; JU DOU (CC/JA, Zhang Yimou, 1990) ; GENROKU CHUSHINGURA (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1942) ; YUKINOJO HENGE (JA, Kon Ichikawa, 1964) Summary: China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. Noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositionaltechniques and construciton of images in thesetraditional and moderm art forms also inform filmmaking in these two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."Of interest to historians and film scholars with applications beyond the Far Eastern context. It demonstrates that while mainstream Hollywood cinema has influenced filmmaking everywhere, other national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditionsNotes: Filmography: p. 323-326; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0292720866 (alk. paper); 0292720874 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 10645466
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Cinepaternity : fathers and sons in Soviet and post-Soviet film / edited by Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 747.2(47) CINSource: USPlace: Bloomington INPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: x, 331 p. ; 23 cmSubject: CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MEN AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. RUSSIA ; RUSSIA ; RUSSIA IN FILMS ; USSR ; U.S.S.R IN FILMS Summary: "This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in a shifting political landscape." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes index.ISBN: 9780253221872Contents: Preface -- Introduction - Cinepaternity: the psyche and its heritage --; Part One: Thaw, stagnation, perestroika -- The myth of the great family in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev: Alexander Prokhorov -- Mending the rupture: the war trope and the return of the imperial father in 1970s cinema: Elena Prokhorova -- Models of male kinship in perestroika cinema: Seth Graham --; Part two: war in the post-Soviet dialogue with paternity -- The fathers' war through the sons' lens: Tatiana Smorodinskaya -- War as the family value: failing fathers and monstrous sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein: Mark Lipovetsky -- A surplus of surrogates: Mashkov's fathers: Helena Goscilo --; Part three: Reconceiving filial bonds -- Resurrected fathers and resuscitated sons: homosocial fantasies in The Return and Koktebel: Yana Hashamova -- The forces of kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch cinematic trilogy: Vlad Stukov -- Fathers, sons and brothers: redeeming patriarchal authority in The Brigade: Brian James Baer --; Four: Auteurs and the psychological/philosophical -- Fraught filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's transformations of personal trauma: Helena Goscilo -- Vision and blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son: Jose Alaniz
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Colonialism and nationalism in Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Contemporary Korean cinema : identity, culture, and politics Manchester: Manchester University Press., 2001.
Call No: 71(519) LEEAuthor: Lee Hyangjin Source: UKPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University Press.PubDate: 2001PhysDes: 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Subject: KOREA ; KOREAN WAR FILMS ; ADAPTATIONS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. KOREA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. KOREA Summary: "This book examines the role of the Korean film as a cultural text of Koreans in both the North and the South, and focuses on the conflicting self-identities of a people still strongly committed to their cultural traditions despite political divisions. The book defines the significance of film-making and film-viewing in Korean society. It covers the introduction of motion pictures in Korea inn 1903 ... up to the 1990s. It introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyses the Korean film industry in terms of film production, distribution and reception. Based on this historical analysis, the study investigates ideological constructs in seventeen films, eight from North Korea and nine South Korea."Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.): Common culture, divided nation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-234) and index.
Filmography: p. [194]-221.ISBN: 0719060087(pbk.)
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Creating culture : the new growth industries : conference papers, 11-12 August 1994 / Commonwealth Department of Communications and the Arts [Canberra]: Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the Arts, 1994].
Call No: 161(94) CRE AUSCorpAuthor: Creating Culture Conference (1994 : Canberra, A.C.T.); Australia. Dept. of Communications and the ArtsPlace: [Canberra]Publisher: Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the ArtsPubDate: 1994]PhysDes: 195 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cmSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA ; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover title; "These are the edited transcripts of speeches given at the "Creating Culture - the new growth industries" conference held at Parliament House, Canberra on 11 and 12 August 1994."--P. [1]; Conference organised under the Cultural Industry Development Program of the Dept. of Communications and the ArtsISBN: 0642224307LON: 11325570
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The curse of the Lucky Country : the inaugural Donald Horne lecture / by Anne Summers Clayton, Vic.: Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.,
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Dad Rudd, M.P. and the making of a national audience in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.91-105
Author: Lamond, Julianne PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA ; HALL, KEN G. ; DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940) Summary: This article contextualizes Ken G. Hall's 1940 film Dad Rudd, M.P. with the history of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who pervaded Australian popular culture throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the fiction, theatre, film, cartoon and radio narratives in which he appeared have been instrumental in the creation of the idea of a pupular Australian audience that can be defined in relation to a particular set of national symbols. Addressing Hall's film as well as the promotional material and public debate surrounding it, the article demonstrates that conceptualizations of an Australian national audience have been influenced by the genres and narratives of popular culture, historical circumstance and American cultural production. --Abstract
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Dance, media-entertainment and popular performance in South East Africa / David Kerr Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger, 1998.
Call No: 408.1(68) KERAuthor: Kerr, David Source: GPlace: BayreuthPublisher: Eckhard BreitingerPubDate: 1998PhysDes: 286 p. ; 21 cmSeries: Bayreuth African Studies ; 43Subject: AFRICA ; AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; BROADCASTING ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ENTERTAINMENT ; MEDIA ; NATIONAL CONTENT. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES Summary: "David Kerr examines the development of popular entertainment in Zambia and Malawi. He deals with media such as film, radio and television drama as well as with the way modernisation has transformed inidigenous forms of dance and narrative. Kerr also discusses the role of performance related research and the instrumental use of African culture for development purposes." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-275) and indexISBN: 3927510440Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- section A: Dance and oral narrative -- section B: media entertainment -- section C: drama for popular mobilisation -- appendicies --
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Do you know the Soviet cinema? / Sovexportfilm Moscow: Sovexportfilm, 1965.
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Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes / Carolyn A. Durham Hanover, NH: Dartmouth University Press of New England, c1998.
Call No: 408.3(44) DURAuthor: Durham, Carolyn A Place: Hanover, NHPublisher: Dartmouth University Press of New EnglandPubDate: c1998PhysDes: xi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Contemporary French culture and societySubject: BIRDCAGE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1996) ; CAGE AUX FOLLES, LA (IT/FR, Edouard Molinaro, 1978) ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS ; REMAKES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.FRANCE ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (US, Jim McBride, 1983) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; COUSINS (US, Joel Schumacher, 1989) ; COUSIN, COUSINE (FR, Jean-Charles Tacchella, 1975) ; MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1983) ; HOMME QUI AMAIT LES FEMMES, L' (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1977) ; I WANT TO GO HOME (FR, Alain Resnais, 1989) Notes: Filmography: p. 231-235; Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and indexLON: 13921589
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English filming, English writing / Jefferson Hunter Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 408.1(41) HUNAuthor: Hunter, Jefferson Source: USPlace: Bloomington INPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: xii, 357 p. ; 23 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES ; ADAPTATIONS. ORWELL, GEORGE ; BRITISH CINEMA ; CRIME DRAMAS ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UNITED KINGDOM ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. UK ; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945) ; CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944) ; LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942) ; LOOK BACK IN ANGER (UK, Tony Richardson, 1959) ; REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE (UK/US, James Ivory, 1993) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) Summary: "Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the twentieth century. He traces themes such as the influence of US crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present. A Canterbury Tale and the documentary Listen to Britain are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward also leads to a discussion of music and image in works including Brief Encounter and Look Back in Anger. Screen adaptation is also broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes notes and indexISBN: 9780253221773
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European cinema : an introduction / [edited by] Jill Forbes and Sarah Street Hampshire, [Eng.] New York: Palgrave, 2000.
Call No: 71(4) FORAuthor: Street, Sarah ; Forbes, Jill Place: Hampshire, [Eng.] New YorkPublisher: PalgravePubDate: 2000PhysDes: xvi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; STUDIOS, FILM. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; STARS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; GENRES. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; OSOSHIKI (JA, Juzo Itami, 1984) ; VIRIDIANA (SP/MX, Luis Bunuel, 1961) ; ALICE IN DEN STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1973) ; CARMEN (SP, Carlos Saura, 1983) ; GOOD MORNING BABILONIA (IT/FR/US, Paol Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, 1987) ; VERSPRECHEN, DAS (GG/FR, Margarethe von Trotta, 1994) ; HAINE, LA (FR, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; SIBIRSKIJ CIRJUL'NIK (RU/FR/IT/CZ, Nikita Mihalkov, 1998) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexesISBN: 0333752090; 0333752104 (pbk.); 0312237464; 0312237472 (pbk.)LON: 21467101
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The film cultures reader / Graeme Turner (ed.) New York: Routledge, 2002.
Call No: 408 TURAuthor: Graeme Turner (ed.) Place: London; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2002PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; AESTHETICS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH ; SOUND ; THEORY ; CREED, BARBARA ; KUHN, ANNETTE ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; HONG KONG ; HOLLYWOOD ; GLOBALISATION ; USA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; SEX IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; ACTION FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; THRILLERS ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; INDUSTRY, FILM Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption.ISBN: 0415252822
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Film in Finland 1986 / Erkki Astala (editor-in-chief) / Taneli Eskola (art director) / Kirsi Tykkylainen (editorial) / Satu Pusa (editorial) Helsinki, Finland: Suomen elokuvasaatio, Finnish Film Foundation, 1986.
Call No: 71(480)FILAuthor: Astala, Erkki CorpAuthor: Suomen elokuvasaatio; Finnish Film FoundationSource: FIPlace: Helsinki, FinlandPublisher: Suomen elokuvasaatio; Finnish Film FoundationPubDate: 1986PhysDes: 55 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: FINLAND ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; TRAVEL IN FILMS ; DONNER, JORN ; ENGSTROM, INGEMO ; HALLSTROM, ARTO AF ; HARTZELL, PAIVI ; HONKASALO, PIRJO ; HUMANLOJA, TIMO ; KASSILA, MATTI ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; KAURISMAKI, MIKA ; KURKVAARA, MAUNU ; KYRONSEPPA, KARI ; LEHMUSKALLIO, MARKKU ; LEHTINEN, VIRKE ; MANTTARI, ANSSI ; MOLLBERG, RAUNI ; NISKANEN, MIKKO ; NISKANEN, TUIJA-MAIJA ; PAKKASVIRTA, JAAKKO ; PARTANEN, HEIKKI ; PEIPPO, ANTTI ; PYHALA, JAAKKO ; ROSMA, JUHA ; TORHONEN, LAURI ; VAANANEN, KARI ; TUNTEMATON SOTILAS (FI, Rauni Mollberg, 1986) ; SININEN IMETTAJA (FI, Markku Lehmuskallio, 1986) ; FLUCHT IN DEN NORDEN (FI, Ingemo Engstrom, 1986) ; NYKYTAITEEN MUSEO (FI, Antti Peippo, 1986) ; MORENA (FI, Anssi Manttari, 1986) ; YLOSNOUSEMUS (FI, Anssi Manttari, 1985) ; RIISUMINEN (FI, Lauri Torhonen, 1986) ; ROSSO (FI, Mika Kaurismaki, 1985) ; HUOMENNA (FI, Juha Rosma, 1986) ; HARMAGEDON (FI, Juha Rosma, 1986) ; VALKOINEN KAAPIO (FI, Timo Humanloja, 1986) ; DA CAPO (FI, Pirjo Honkasalo, 1985) ; SUURI ILLUSIONI (FI, Tuija-Maija Niskanen, 1985) ; LAULU (FI, Arto af Hallstrom, 1986) ; PERHOSEN UNI (FI, Maunu Kurkvaara, 1986) ; NISKAVUORI (FI, Matti Kassila, 1984) ; CALAMARI UNION (FI, Aki Kaurismaki, 1985) ; PESSI JA ILLUSIA (FI, Heikki Partanen, 1983) ; En SMUTSIG HISTORIA (FI, Jorn Donner, 1984) ; KLAANI TARINA SAMMAKOITTEN SUVUSTA (FI, Mika Kaurismaki, 1984) ; JON - KERTOMUS MAAILMAN LOPUSTA (FI, Jaakko Pyhala, 1983) ; RIKOS JA RANGAISTUS (FI, Aki Kaurismaki, 1983) ; ARVOTTOMAT (FI, Mika Kaurismaki, 1982) ; SKIERRI, VAIVAISKOIVUJEN MAA (FI, Markku Lehmuskallio, 1982) ; RAKKAUSELOKUVA (FI, Anssi Manttari, 1984) ; KUNINGAS JOLLA EI OLLUT SYDANTA (FI, Paivi Hartzell, 1982) ; KOLME MIESTA (FI, Virke Lehtinen, 1984) ; LINNA (FI, Jaakko Pakkasvirta, 1986) ; KUNINGAS LAHTEE RANSKAAN (FI, Anssi Manttari, 1986) ; LUMIKUNINGATAR (FI, Paivi Hartzell, 1986) ; URSULA (FI, Jaakko Pyhala, 1986) ; JAAN KAABTOPIIRI (FI, Lauri Torhonen, 1987) ; VARJOJA PARATIISISSA (FI, Aki Kaurismaki, 1986) ; ELAMAN VONKAMIES (FI, Mikko Niskanen, 1986) ; V.Y. VIHDOINKIN YHDESSA (FI, Kari Kyronseppa, 1986) Notes: Translation: Ukka and Mark ShackletonISBN: 9519349421
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The films of Claire Denis : intimacy on the border / edited by Marjorie Vecchio ; with a foreword by Wim Wenders New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call No: 81DEN FILAuthor: Vecchio, Marjorie ; Wenders, Wim Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; DIRECTORS. FRANCE ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; TIME IN FILMS ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; BEAU TRAVAIL (FR, Claire Denis, 1999) ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; INTRUDER, THE (FR, Claire Denis, 2004)
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VENDREDI SOIR ; VENDREDI SOIR (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) ; WHITE MATERIAL (FR/CM, Claire Denis, 2009) Summary: "The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including 'Chocolat', 'Beau travail' and 'White Material' explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualising the complications of such dualities. Following a foreword by Wim Wenders, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, neo-colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers familiar with Denis's working style and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781848859548Contents: --List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Foreword: 'Klarchen'
--Part I Interviews -- 'To let the image sing': Conversations with Dickon Hinchliffe and Stuart Staples: Martine Beugnet -- Interview with Nelly Quettier: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Alex Descas: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
-- Part II Relations -- La famille Denis: Catherine Wheatley -- Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's 'I Can't Sleep': Sam Ishii-Gonzales -- Beyond the other: grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis: James S. Williams --
-- Part III Global citizenship -- Beyond postcolonialism? From 'Chocolat' to 'White Material': Cornelia Ruhe -- 'Trouble Every Day: the neo-colonialists bite back: Florence Martin -- Forgiveness and employment: a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis: Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos -- 'The Intruder' according to Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
--Part IV Within film -- Delivering: Claire Denis's opening sequences: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Rhythms of nationality: Denis and dance: Laura McMahon -- That interrupting feeling: interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's 'L'Intrus': Firoza Elavia -- Points of flight, lines of fracture: Claire Denis's uncanny landscape: Henrik Gustafsson -- Arthouse/grindhouse: Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity': Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy
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Finnish cinema / Peter Cowie Cranbury, New Jersey: Tantivy Press, A.S. Barnes & Co., 1976.
Call No: 71(480) COWAuthor: Cowie, Peter Source: UK/USPlace: London; Cranbury, New JerseyPublisher: Tantivy Press; A.S. Barnes & Co.PubDate: 1976PhysDes: 128 p. : ill., ports. ; 18cmSubject: FINLAND ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; TAPIOVAARA, NYRKI ; BLOMBERG, ERIK ; KASSILA, MATTI ; WITIKKA, JACK ; KURKVAARA, MAUNU ; DONNER, JORN ; MOLLBERG, RAUNI ; JARVA, RISTO ; KIVIKOSKI, ERKKO ; NISKANEN, MIKKO ; PAKKASVIRTA, JAAKKO ; MAKINEN, AITO ; VALKOINEN PEURA (FI, Erik Blomberg, 1953) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography, p. 126-127; Published in association with the Finnish Film Foundation, HelsinkiISBN: 0498020126 (USA); 0904208567 (UK)
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First contact / Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1988, c1987.
Call No: 79FIR CONAuthor: Connolly, Bob ; Anderson, Robin Place: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.Publisher: Penguin BooksPubDate: 1988, c1987PhysDes: vii, 316 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983) Notes: Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world; Bibliography: p. [313]-316ISBN: 0140074651 (pbk.)LON: 5768908 5768908
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The French through their films / Robin Buss London: Batsford, 1988.
Call No: 408.1(44) BUSAuthor: Buss, Robin Place: LondonPublisher: BatsfordPubDate: 1988PhysDes: 165 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; FRANCE ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; FILMOGRAPHIES. FRANCE ; HISTORICAL FILMS. FRANCE ; FAMILY IN FILMS. FRANCE ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; CHABROL, CLAUDE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; MALLE, LOUIS ; PAGNOL, MARCEL ; RENOIR, JEAN ; CARNE, MARCEL ; CLAIR, RENE ; DEMY, JACQUES ; DUVIVIER, JULIEN ; GABIN, JEAN ; GANCE, ABEL ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) ; DIMANCHE A LA CAMPAGNE, UN (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1984) Notes: French cinema films,. 1900-1985. Social aspects (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Filmography: p. 91-156ISBN: 0713453605LON: 5952835
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From Hitler to Heimat : the return of history as film / Anton Kaes Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Call No: 744(=924)(430) KAEAuthor: Kaes, Anton Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: GERMANY ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. GERMANY ; MYTH AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; HEIMAT FILMS ; GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979) ; HITLER - EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND (GW/UK/FR, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, 1977) ; PATRIOTIN, DIE (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1979) ; DEUTSCHLAND BLEICHE MUTTER (GW, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) ; HEIMAT: EINE DEUTSCHE CHRONIK [TV] (GG, Edgar Reitz, 1984) ; HEIMAT: A CHRONICAL OF GERMANY [TV] (GG, Edgar Reitz, 1984) Notes: Rev. and enl. translation of: Deutschlandbilder; Includes indexISBN: 0674324552 (alk. paper)LON: 6295319
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Genre, gender, race and world cinema : an anthology / Edited by Julie F. Codell Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 62(082) GENAuthor: Codell, Julie F. Source: USPlace: Malden, MassachusettsPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cmSubject: ASIANS IN FILMS ; BOLLYWOOD ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FILM NOIR ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; WORLD CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IRAN ; MELODRAMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; KAIGE, CHEN ; NAIR, MIRA ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ; HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993) ; INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
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TODO SOBRE MI MADRE ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000) Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."ISBN: 1405132337Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements
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Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992 / Joseph Natoli Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Call No: 409(73) NATAuthor: Natoli, Joseph, 1943 Place: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xi, 238 p. ; 24 cmSeries: SUNY series in postmodern cultureSubject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; AMERICAN INDIANS IN FILMS ; ROBIN HOOD IN FILMS ; KING, RODNEY ; PHOENIX, RIVER ; STONE, OLIVER ; CAPE FEAR (US, J. Lee Thompson, 1961) ; CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; PRINCE OF TIDES, THE (US, Barbra Streisand, 1991) ; HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1991) ; OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (US, Norman Jewison, 1991) ; ROBIN HOOD : PRINCE OF THIEVES (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1991) ; GRAND CANYON (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1991) ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT (GG/FR/AT, Wim Wenders, 1991) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991) ; WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987) ; UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; BOB ROBERTS (US, Tim Robbins, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238)ISBN: 0791421546 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 0791421538 (acid-free paper)LON: 10867366
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Hong Kong : culture and the politics of disappearance / Ackbar Abbas Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Call No: 408.1(512.317) ABBAuthor: Abbas, M. A. (M. Ackbar) Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 1997PhysDes: vii, 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Public worlds ; v. 2Subject: HONG KONG ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. HONG KONG ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. HONG KONG ; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS ; WONG KAR-WAI ; KWAN, STANLEY ; TSUI, HARK ; HUI, ANN Summary: The Culture of Hong Kong encompasses Jackie Chan and John Woo, British colonial architecture and postmodern skyscrapers. Ironically, it was not until they were faced with the imposition of Mainland power - with the signing of the Sino-British Joint Agreement in 1984 - that the denizens of the colony began the search for a Hong Kong identity. According to Abbas, Hong Kong's peculiar lack of identity is due to its status as "not so much a place as a space of transit," whose residents think of themselves as transients and migrants on their way from China to somewhere else. In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global cityNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and indexISBN: 0816629242 (hard : alk. paper); 0816629250 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 12802637 12802637ID2: 291
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Humor in Middle Eastern cinema / edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2014.
Call No: 732(5-011) HUMAuthor: Revi, Gayatri (ed.) ; Rahman, Najat (ed.) Source: USPlace: DetroitPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: c2014PhysDes: 282 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and mediaSubject: AFGHANISTAN ; ARAB COUNTRIES ; ARABS IN FILMS ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; BOLLYWOOD ; CENSORSHIP ; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US ; EGYPT ; HUMOUR IN FILMS ; INDIA ; IRAN ; IRAQ ; ISRAEL ; IRONY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; PALESTINE ; POLITICAL FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; SATIRE IN FILMS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; PAKISTAN ; CHAHINE, YOUSSEF ; DHOUIB, MONCEF ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; ZARHIN, SHEMI ; AMERIKALI (TU, Serif Gören, 1993) ; BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD (IR/FR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) ; DIVINE INTERVENTION (FR/MR/G/PA, Elia Suleiman, 2002) ; ISKANDERIJA...LIH? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; ALEXANDRIA...WHY? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; TELE ARRIVE, LA (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) ; TERE BIN LADEN (II, Abhishek Sharma, 2010) ; TV IS COMING, THE (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) Summary: "While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent—including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an “emancipatory,” “liberatory,” even “revolutionary” function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region’s masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan. This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema." -- GOOGLE BOOKSNotes: Contains bibliography and filmography -- contains index -- contains list of contributorsISBN: 9780814339374Contents: Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman -- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's TV Is Coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehran Modiri: space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic meditations: war and genre in The Outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny: humor and anti-americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta
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The Italian cinema book / edited by Peter Bondanella London: British Film Institute ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 71(45) ITAAuthor: Bondanella, Peter Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute ; Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ITALY ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCRIPTWRITING ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ITALY ; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO ; CAMERINI, MARIO ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LOLLOGRIGIDA, GINA ; MONICELLI, MARIO ; MORETTI, NANNI Summary: "The Italian Cinema Book is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections [...] Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index -- "A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan." - title page.ISBN: 9781844574049Contents: Introduction / Peter Bondanella; PART ONE THE SILENT ERA -- Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story / Giorgio Bertellini -- The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo / John P. Welle -- The Diva Film: Context, Actresses, Issues / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics and Strongmen / Jacqueline Reich; PART TWO THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA -- Fascism and Italian Cinema / David Forgacs -- Italian Matinee Idols in the Era of the Talkies / Marcia Landy -- The First Comedy, Italian Style: Blasetti, Camerini and De Sica / Vito Zagarrio -- Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present / Guido Bonsaver; PART THREE POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE – REALISM AND BEYOND -- Neorealism and Left-wing Culture / Stephen Gundle -- Cityscapes and Cinematic Space / Mark Shiel -- Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature / Torunn Haaland -- Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present / Giovanna De Luca -- Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship / Danielle Hipkins --The Maggiorata or Sweater Girl of the 1950s: Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren / Pauline Small -- Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies / Robert S. C. Gordon; PART FOUR THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA -- Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style: From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen / Reka Buckley --Italian Film Music / M. Thomas Van Order -- Production around 1960 / Christopher Wagstaff -- The Muscleman Peplum: From Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965) / Jon Solomon -- Mondo Cane and the Invention of the Shockumentary / Gino Moliterno -- Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience / Flavia Brizio-Skov -- Chronicles of a Hastened Modernisation: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all'italiana / Remi Fournier Lanzoni -- The Political Film / Gaetana Marrone -- The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film / Mikel J. Koven -- European Co-productions and Artistic Collaborations: The Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System / Jean A. Gili -- How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema / Pierre Sorlin; PART FIVE AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION -- Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini / Gianfranco Angelucci -- Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen / Dana Renga -- Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory / Millicent Marcus -- Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone / Alan O'Leary -- Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema / Catherine O'Rawe -- Women behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema / Flavia Laviosa; PART SIX NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA -- Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age / Laura Rascaroli -- Post-colonial Theory and Italy's `Multicultural' Cinema / Aine O'Healy -- Italian Film Genres and Mario Bava / Mary P. Wood -- The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema's Love Affair with Psychoanalysis / Fabio Vighi -- Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema / Peter Bondanella -- The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of Italian Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta.
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Live and dangerous? : The screen life of Steve Irwin in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.107-117
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Looks and frictions : essays in cultural studies and film theory / Paul Willemen Bloomington London: Indiana University Press British Film Institute, 1994.
Call No: 62(081) WILAuthor: Willemen, Paul CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: Bloomington LondonPublisher: Indiana University Press British Film InstitutePubDate: 1994PhysDes: 263 p. ; 25 cmSubject: THIRD CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; MULVEY, LAURA ; OSHIMA, NAGISA ; ROCHA, GLAUBER ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; OPHULS, MAX ; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN ; EPSTEIN, JEAN ; GITAI, AMOS ; KING, NOEL ; SOLANAS, FERNANDO E. ; TOKYO SENSO SENGO HIWA (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1971) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851703992 (pbk.); 0851703984LON: 10340810ID2: 346URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Mexican national cinema / Andrea Noble Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 71(72) NOBAuthor: Noble, Andrea Source: UKPlace: Abingdon, Oxon, UKPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: viii, 224p. : ill. ; 23cmSubject: MEXICO ; MEXICO IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. MEXICO ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS. MEXICO ; INDUSTRY, FILM. MEXICO ; AUDIENCES. MEXICO ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; POLITICS IN FILMS. MEXICO ; POLITICAL FILMS. MEXICO ; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA. MEXICO ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. MEXICO ; MELODRAMA. MEXICO ; MUJER DEL PUERTO, LA (MX, Arcady Boytler, 1933) ; MUJER DEL PUERTO, LA (MX, Arturo Ripstein, 1991) ; MARIA CANDELARIA (MX, Emilio Fernández, 1943) ; UNE FAMILIA DE TANTAS (MX, Alejandro Galindo, 1948) ; CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA, EL (MX, Arturo Ripstein, 1972) ; CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS, EL (MX, Jorge Fons, 1995) ; QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]) ; ESPALDAS MOJADAS (MX, Alejandro Galindo, 1955) ; JARDIN DEL EDÉN, EL (MX, María Novaro, 1994) ; Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (MX, Alfonso Cuaron, 2001) Summary: Mexican National Cinema offers an account of the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the "Golden Age" of the 1940s and the Nuevo Cine of the 1960s, to the renaissance in Mexican cinema in the 1990s.
The book moves from broad historical and theoretical context, particularly theories of nation, emergent discourses of "mexicanidad" and the establishment and development of the Mexican industry, towards readings of key film texts and genres. Individual chapters discuss the relationship between Hollywood cinema and Mexican cinema, the stars of the "Golden Age," the role of foreign auteurs in the founding of Mexican cinema, tensions in the industry in the 1960s, and the national and international reception of contemporary films and film-makers. The author then examines the portrayal of Mexican nationhood through critical analysis of film genres including Revolutionary films, machismo and "mexicanidad," the prostitute, and the work of female auteurs.ISBN: 0415230101
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Mists of regret : culture and sensibility in classic French film / Dudley Andrew Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Call No: 408.1(44) ANDAuthor: Andrew, Dudley, 1945 Place: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: xv, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FRANCE ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; POETIC REALISM ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; ALLEGRET, MARC ; BECKER, JACQUES ; BERNARD, RAYMOND ; CHENAL, PIERRE ; FEUILLADE, LOUIS ; FEYDER, JACQUES ; GREMILLON, JEAN ; MAC ORLAN, PIERRE ; MEERSON, LAZARE ; PREVERT, JACQUES ; VIGO, JEAN ; ZOLA, EMILE ; PAGNOL, MARCEL ; RENOIR, JEAN ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; CARNE, MARCEL ; CLAIR, RENE ; DUVIVIER, JULIEN ; GABIN, JEAN ; QUAI DES BRUMES, LE (FR, Marcel Carne, 1938) ; ENFANTS DU PARADIS, LES (FR, Marcel Carne, 1945) ; JOUR SE LEVE, LE (FR, Marcel Carne, 1939) ; ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934) ; BELLE EQUIPE, LA (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1936) ; PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937) ; BETE HUMAINE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938) ; CASQUE D'OR (FR, Jacques Becker, 1952) ; CHIENNE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1931) ; CRIME DE M. LANGE, LE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1936) ; MARSEILLAISE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938) ; AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-396) and indexesISBN: 0691008833 (pbk.); 0691056862 (hard)LON: 10901107
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Multiple modernities : cinemas and popular media in transcultural East Asia / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau (ed.) Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003.
Call No: 71(5) MULSource: USPlace: Philadelphia PAPublisher: Temple University PressPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 250 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ASIAN COUNTRIES ; GLOBALISATION ; CHINA ; TAIWAN ; HONG KONG ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; ORIENTAL ACTION FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA.CHINA ; KWOK WAH LAU JENNY Summary: Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examine popular culture – most notably cinema and television – to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, and Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each essay focuses on specific nations or cinemas, the collective effect of reading them is to offer a comprehensive, in-depth picture of how popular culture in East Asia operates to both generate and reflect the immense change this significant region of the world is undergoing. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 1566399866
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Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and friends : essays in Australian cultural history / edited by Susan Dermody, John Docker, Drusilla Modjeska Malmsbury, Vic.: Kibble Books, 1982].
Call No: 403(94) NELAuthor: Dermody, Susan ; Docker, John, 1945 ; Modjeska, Drusilla Source: ATPlace: Malmsbury, Vic.Publisher: Kibble BooksPubDate: 1982]PhysDes: 288 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA ; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA. 1927-1932 ; LONGFORD, RAYMOND ; SMITH, ARTHUR ; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932) ; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920) ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919) ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932) ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) Notes: Australian culture. Essays (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0610070); Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0908150032 (corrected) : price unknown 09081500302; 0908150040 (pbk.) : $14.95 AustLON: anb90815003; 2274011ID2: 40
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New Korean cinema / by Julian Stringer and Chi-Yun Shin Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Call No: 71(519-13) NEWAuthor: Stringer, Julian and Shin, Chi-Yun Source: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 234p. ; b+w ill. : 24cm.Subject: KOREA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. KOREA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; FESTIVALS ; GENRES ; HORROR FILMS ; COMEDIES ; MELODRAMA ; ROMANTIC FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CHUNHYANG (KO, Im Kwon-Taek, 2000) ; TEL MI SSEOMTING (KO, Chang Youn-Hyun, 2000) ; BOKSEUNEUN NAEUI GEOS (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2002) ; CHINGU (KO, Kwak Kyeong-Taek, 2001) ; GOYANGIREUL BUTAKHAE (KO, Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) ; JUYUSO SEUBGYUKSAGEUN (KO, Kim Sang-Jin, 1999) ; SARA-INNUN RYONGHONGDUL (KO, Kim Chun-song, 2001) ; YURYEONG (KO, Min Biong Hun, 1999) ; BAKHA SATANG (KO, Lee Chang-Dong, 1999) ; SAENG-HWAL-EUI BAL-GYUN (KO, Hong Sangsoo, 2002) ; YEOGO GOEDAM II (KO, Kim Tae-Yong, 2000) ; SUN AE BO (KO, E J-Young, 2001) Summary: "New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding this burgeoning cinema, the book considers the political economy of South Korea's film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, and the consumption of Korean films throughout the world. The volume also includes a glossary of key terms and a bibliography of works on Korean cinema."Notes: Includes bibliographical references, glossary, websites and indexISBN: 9780814740309Language: English
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Not quite Mad Max : Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead end drive-in in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.3 p.309-320
Author: Johinke, Rebecca PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Summary: This article suggests that Dead End Drive-In (1986), Brian Trenchard-Smith's little-known Ozploitation film, deserves reconsideration from Australasian film scholars because it offers a valuable contribution to discussions about Australian masculinity, car culture, phobic narratives and the White Australia Policy. It is argued that the drive-in as detention centre foreshadows later Australian anxieties about immigration and border protection. Clearly a phobic narrative full of white panic (Morris, 1989, 1998), it exhibits many of the anxieties about Australians and auto-immobility that Catherine Simpson (2006) discusses, and fits neatly into Tranter's (2003) discussion of cars and governance and Bode's (2006a) arguments about whiteness and Australian masculinity in crisis. -- Abstract
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Out from nowhere : Pakeha anxieties in Ngati (Barclay, 1987), Once were warriors (Tamahori, 1994) and Whale rider (Caro, 2002) in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.3 p.239-250
Author: Joyce, Hester PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND ; MAORI IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; NGATI (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987) ; ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994) ; WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002) Summary: This article explores the development of New Zealand cinema as one of unease, as reflective of the disintegration of the utopian dream inherent in the founding settler era. It examines three films from consecutive decades, Ngati (Barclay, 1987), Once Were Warriors (Tamahori, 1994) and Whale Rider (Caro, 2002), and compares representations of Maori as illustrative of Pakeha (white settler) anxieties about Maori/Pakeha relations. It argues that while Ngati and Once Were Warriors contain elements of postcolonial critique, Whale Rider returns to a model of segregation, invoking spirituality of Maori as nostalgia for a lost utopian past. -- Abstract
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Outward-looking Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.3 p.199-214
Author: Goldsmith, Ben PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA ; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: The writer examines how dynamic and shifting relations between the local/national and the international have transformed the ways in which people think about what constitutes Australian cinema. Noting that over the last 20 years or so, Australian cinema's international relations in production and policy have expanded and become more complex, while those with Hollywood have been transformed, he illustrates how relations of commonality and continuity with the international called up in the new arrangements challenge the dominant articulation in policy of difference from other kinds of filmmaking as the basis of Australian cinema. -- Provided by publisher
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Ozploitation compared to what? : A challenge to contemporary Australian film studies. in Studies in Australasian Cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.1 p.9-21
Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008) Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema.Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT
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Period feature, heritage cinema : region, gender and race in The Irishman in Studies in Australasian cinema (2011) vol.5 iss.1 p.31-42
Author: Craven, Allison PhysDes: ArticleSubject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978) Summary: The Irishman (Crombie 1978) has long been regarded as typical of the Australian period film genre of the late 1970s, which is said to collectively exhibit the Australian Film Commission's influences on national culture. In this article, The Irishman is seen as a ‘heritage’ film for the way locations and authentic sets and decor are featured, and for the nostalgic performances of gender and race. Regional influences on the genesis and production of The Irishman in North Queensland are also considered, and its adaptation from the novel, The Irishman: A Novel of Northern Australia (Elizabeth O'Conner 1960). Heritage, it is argued, can be seen as a cinematic mode in which regional and national elements of production are synthesized. Heritage also offers a framework through which to view other Australian period films, including Australia (Luhrmann 2008), which was also shot partly in North Queensland locations. -- Abstract
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The piano / Gail Jones Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press, 2007.
Call No: 79PIA JONAuthor: Jones, Gail CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission: National Film and Sound ArchiveSource: AustraliaPlace: Strawberry Hills, NSWPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: viii, 85 p. : ill. ; 20cmSeries: Australian Screen ClassicsSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; REGIONAL CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; REGIONAL CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS ; DISABLED IN FILMS ; SPEECH ; ROMANCE IN FILMS ; LOVE IN FILMS ; SEA IN FILMS ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND ; MOTHERS IN FILMS ; CHILDREN IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; SILENCE IN FILMS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; JANE CAMPION ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) Summary: "When 'The Piano' opened in 1993 it was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece. Written and directed by Jane Campion, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win this prestigious award. It went on to win Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Campion), Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin).
"In this thoughtful and perceptive critique, Gail Jones assesses the film's unearthly and controversial visions, its poetic power and its capacity to entrance and to alienate."Notes: Includes notes, bibliography, filmography, 'The Piano' credits and synopses of other books in the 'Australian Screen Classics' series.ISBN: 9780868197999
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Pride and panic : Russian imagination of the West in post-Soviet film / Yana Hashamova Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2007.
Call No: 71(47) "199-200" HASAuthor: Hashamova, Yana Place: Bristol, UKPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2007PhysDes: 144 p. ; 24 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. RUSSIA ; RUSSIA Summary: Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia’s anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both its creation and perception, to expose the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. Using specific film examples, the book delves into the subterranean recesses of Russian national consciousness, exposing an internal ambivalence and complex cultural reaction towards the rise of the West. These fears, fantasies and tremulous anxieties are examined through the representation of the West in films by both established and lesser-known Russian directors. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 9781841501561
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Report to the Minister on national interest program production 1989/90 / Film Australia Australia: Film Australia, 1990.
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The screening of Australia : anatomy of a national cinema / Susan Dermody, Elizabeth Jacka Sydney: Currency Press, 1987-<1988.
Call No: 71(94) DER v.2Author: Dermody, Susan ; Jacka, Elizabeth Place: SydneyPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 1987-<1988PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cmSeries: Australian screen seriesSubject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schutz, 1983) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982) ; MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965) ; ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982) ; F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977) ; HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981) ; KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979) ; PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) ; TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980) ; WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)LON: 5369777
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Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / Pam Cook London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 409.1 COOAuthor: Cook, Pam Source: UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; MEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; BIGELOW, KATHRYN ; HAYNES, TODD ; WONG KAR WAI ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945) ; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) ; MANDY (UK, Alexander Mackendrick, 1952) ; DANCE WITH A STRANGER (UK, Mike Newell, 1985) Summary: Exploring film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. Examines current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, with the suggestion that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pp. 241-46)ISBN: 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)Contents: Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.
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The shadowcatchers : a history of cinematography in Australia / Martha Ansara Sydney: Austcine Publishing, c2012.
Call No: 802.3(94) ANSAuthor: Ansara, Martha Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Austcine PublishingPubDate: c2012PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NEWSREELS Summary: "Contains photographs of working cinematographers from 1901 to the present, with historical text, biographies of Australian cinematographers & fascinating personal anecdotes from the film industry. Reveals little-known information about the role of cinematographers in Australian cinema, & challenges popular conceptions of our national film history." - TROVE -- The following cinematographers are included in this book: Burt Ive, the Higgins Brothers, Lacey Percival, Frank Hurley, the Burnes, J.W. (Bill) Trerise, George Heath, Damien Parer, Ross Wood, Volk Mol, Ron Windon, Neil Davis, David Brill, Russell Boyd, Don McAlpine, Peter James, Jim Frazier, David Parer, Jan Kenny, Dean Semler, John Seale, Andrew Lesnie, Pieter de Vries, Dion Beebe.Notes: Includes index; Warning to Walpiri: Please be aware that there is a photo in this book which may contain images of deceased Walpiri peopleISBN: 9780987225214
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'Small-fry' : suburban decline and the global outback in recent Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.195-212
Author: Grace, Helen PhysDes: ArticleSubject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LITTLE FISH (AT, Rowan Woods, 2005) ; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) ; LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007) Summary: :In considering three films that I link in this speculation on ‘Asian Australian cinema’, I want to argue that if, before The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003), Asian Australian stories tended to be marginal and community based, the success of Khoa Do's film (and life) has opened out migrant experience to broader empathy so that now it can be drawn upon to speak for general humanity beyond ‘Australianness’. If The Finished People and Little Fish (Rowan Wood, 2005) belong to a period of film industry decline in Australia, corresponding with a parallel social/cultural depression in Australia — the worst of the Howard years — Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, 2007) reworks the trauma of those years, as a new Back of Beyond (John Heyer, 1954) — globalized rather than nationalized, its references less to the subsistence aesthetics and economy of postwar nation-building and more to a globalized commodities export market and the genres of global film-making styles. So we no longer need to have quintessential ‘Australian’ battlers to demonstrate resilience; asylum seekers are now better at doing this and much more appealing than Aussie battlers (like the Heart family in Little Fish, notwithstanding the attempt to rescue them by importing global/local stars to perform their abjection) — all the more so if one of the refugees has come in search of his Australian father And if the landscape of the original Back of Beyond provided a counterpoint to the economic centrality of suburban Australia as site of commodity consumption in the 1950s, the Pilbara landscape setting of Lucky Miles is above all a key site of commodity production and export in the globalized economy which also draws the characters to export themselves into the flow of this market. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2
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Solving the 'problem' of the motherless indigenous child in 'Jedda' and 'Australia' : white internal desire in the Australian epic before and after 'Bringing them home'. in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.2 p.145-157
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Theorising national cinema / Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen (eds) London: British Film Institute, London, 2006.
Call No: 408.1 THEAuthor: Vitali, Valentina ; Willemen, Paul CorpAuthor: BFISource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute, LondonPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 326 p. ill. : 24 cmSubject: ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; BURCH, NOEL ; RUSSIA ; FRANCE ; TAIWAN ; PALESTINE ; ARAB COUNTRIES ; INDIA ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS ; GLOBALISATION Summary: Why do we think of clusters of films as a 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Theorising National Cinema is a major contribution to work on national cinemas, by many of the leading scholars in the filed. It addresses the knotty and complex relationships between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and of the films it made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation, and it goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of the nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, South Korea, Russia, France and Italy. The issue of a 'national cinema' for nation states of contested status, with disputed borders or displaced peoples, is discussed in relation to film-making in Taiwan, Ireland and Palestine. The contributors also consider the future of national cinema in an age of transnational cultural flows, exploring issues of national identity and cinema in Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East, India, Africa and Europe.ISBN: 1844571203
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'Three miles of rough dirt road' : towards an audience-centred approach to cinema studies in Australia in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.3 p.245-60
Author: Bowles, Kate PhysDes: ArticleSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA Summary: 'Cinema studies in Australia has conventionally focused on the national production industry, the government policies that sustain and protect it, and the films that it has produced. The role of the Australian audience in shaping the market for Australian films is less well understood, and yet assumptions about audiences and the benefit offered to them in terms of cultural learning and national identity are embedded in policy rhetoric, and are necessarily invoked in the critique of content which accompanies a textually focused approach to national cinema. This article proposes that Australian cinema audiences, whatever they are watching, play a more significant role in the Australian public sphere than Australian films...' -- Taken from abstract
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Trading Culture : Global traffic and local cultures in film and television / edited by Sylvia Harvey Eastleigh, Hampshire: John Libbey, 2006.
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Traditions in world cinema / Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider (eds) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Call No: 709 TRASource: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; NEOREALISM ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; EXPRESSIONISM ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA ; BRITAIN ; DOGMA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BRAZIL ; ARGENTINA ; AFRICA IN FILMS ; ISRAEL ; IRAN ; INDIA ; CHINA ; MELODRAMA ; SONGS IN FILMS ; JAPAN ; HORROR FILMS ; USA Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas.ISBN: 0748618635
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Travel, tourism and the moving image / Sue Beeton Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2015.
Call No: 408.1 BEEAuthor: Beeton, Sue Edition: 2015Place: BristolPublisher: Channel View PublicationsPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xiv, 240 pages : illustrated ; 22 cmSeries: Tourism and cultural changeSubject: TOURISM AND THE CINEMA ; TRAVEL IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; SPY FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ROAD MOVIES Summary: This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place that can affect our decision-making when we travel. It also analyses how our touristic experiences can inform our film-viewing. A range of genres and themes are studied including the significance of the western, espionage, road and gangster movies, along with further study of film studio theme parks and an introduction to the relationship between gaming and travel. This book will appeal to tourism scholars as well as film studies professionals, and is written in an accessible manner for a general audience. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781845415273
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Travels of Bollywood cinema : From Bombay to LA / edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Call No: 71(540) TRAAuthor: Roy, Anjali Gera (ed.) ; Huat, Chua Beng (ed.) Source: UK/IIPlace: New DelhiPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 2012PhysDes: xxxi, 356 pages ; 23 cmSubject: BOLLYWOOD ; INDIA ; INDIA IN FILMS ; MUSICALS ; GLOBALISATION ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (UK/US, Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008) Summary: "This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics, and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0198075987; 9780198075981Contents: pt. 1 Modernity, Globalization, Globality -- 1.Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity / Bill Ashcroft -- 2.Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times / Makarand Paranjape -- 3.Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory / Madhuja Mukherjee -- pt. 2 Love Across the Border -- 4.The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- 5.From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann / Nicola Mooney -- 6.Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization / Anuradha Ghosh 7. Cinematic border crossings in Two Bengals: cultural translation as communalization? / Zakir Hossain Raju -- pt.3 The other film industry -- 8. Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s / M.K Raghavendra -- 9. Modernity and Male anxieties in early Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai -- 10. Cinema in motion: tracking Tamil cinema's assemblage / Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham -- pt.4 Village in the city -- 11. Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri cinema and the 'Local in the global' / D. Parthasarathy -- 12. Welcome to Sajjan: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema / Nandi Bhatia -- pt.5 The travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA -- 13. Diasporic Bollywood: in the tracks of a twice-displaced community / Manas Ray -- 14. Marketing, Hybridity, and Media industries: Globalization and Expanding audiences for popular Hindi Cinema / Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer -- 15. 'It was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic audiences and foreign locations in Indian popular cinema / Andrew Hassam -- 16. Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero / Teresa Hubel -- 17. Bollywood films and African audiences / Gwenda Vander Steene -- 18. From Ghetto to Mainstream : Bollywood in/and South Africa / Haseenah Ebrahim --list of contributors -- index --
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Unsettling scores : German film, music, and ideology / Roger Hillman Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Call No: 634.6 HILAuthor: Hillman, Roger Source: USPlace: Bloomington, IndianaPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; GERMANY ; NEW GERMAN CINEMA ; CLASSICAL MUSIC IN FILMS ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY ; SYBERBERG, HANS JURGEN ; KLUGE, ALEXANDER ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; HERZOG, WERNER ; VISCONTI, LUCHINO ; HITLER - EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND (GW/UK/FR, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, 1977) ; DIE PATRIOTIN (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1979) ; LILI MARLEEN (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) ; SENSO (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1954) ; WOYZECK (GW, Werner Herzog, 1979) ; FITZCARRALDO (GW, Werner Herzog, 1982) ; LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; DIE ALLSEITIG REDUZIERTE PERSÖNLICHKEIT - REDUPERS (GW, Helke Sander, 1977) ; NOSTALGHIA (IT, Andre Tarkovsky, 1983) ; COVEK NIJE TICA (YU, Dusan Makavejev, 1965) ; STALKER (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Summary: "'Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology' examines the use of classical music in film, particularly in the New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s. By integrating the music of Beethoven, Mahler, and others into their films, directors such as Fassbinder, Kluge, and Syderberg consciously called attention to its cultural significance. Through this music their films could reference and, in some cases, explore an embedded cultural tradition that included German nationalism and the rise of Nazism, especially during a period when German films were gaining international attention for the first time since the 1920s. Classical music conditioned the responses of German audiences in the 1970s and 1980s and was, in turn, reinterpreted in new cinematic contexts. In this pioneering volume, Hillman enriches our understanding of the powerful effects of music in cinema and the aesthetic and dramatic concerns of postwar German filmmakers." (Taken from back cover)Notes: Includes selected bibliography, indexISBN: 0253217547Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009
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Unsettling whiteness : the slippage of race and nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.103-119
Author: Johnston, Meg PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LAW, CLARA ; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004) Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’.
Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1
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World cinemas, transnational perspectives / edited by Natasa Durovicova and Kathleen Newman New York: Routledge, c2010.
Call No: 408.1 WORAuthor: Durovicova, Natasa (ed.) ; Newman, Kathleen (ed.) Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: c2010PhysDes: xv, 368 p. : 23 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; WORLD CINEMA Summary: "The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational". This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistance of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images. " -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9780415976541Contents: -- Preface -- acknowledgments -- Part One: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Cinema Studies -- 1. Transnational Film Theory: Decentered Subjectivity, Decentered Capitalism / Kathleen Newman -- 2. On the Plurality of Cinematic Transnationalism / Mette Hjort -- 3. Tracking "Global Media" in the Outposts of Globalization / Bhaskar Sarkar -- 4. Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema / Dudley Andrew -- 5. Vector, Flow, Zone: Towards a History of Cinematic Translatio / Natasa Durovicova -- Part Two: Cinema as Transnational Exchange -- 6. Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies / Yingjin Zhang -- 7. A National Cinema Abroad: From Production to Viewing /Toby Miller -- 8. Aural Identity, Genealogies of Sound Technologies, and Hispanic Transnationality on Screen / Marvin D'Lugo -- 9. How Movies Move (Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage...) / Lesley Stern -- 10. New Paradoxes of Africa's Cinemas / Olivier Barlet -- 11. The Transnational Other: Street Kids in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema / Joao Luiz Vieira -- Part Three: Comparative Perspectives -- 12. Fantasy in Action / Paul Willemen -- 13. Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale / Miriam Hansen -- 14. Globalization and Hybridization / Fredric Jameson -- 15. From Playtime to The World: The Expansion and Depletion of Space Within Global Economies / Jonathan Rosenbaum --Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index --
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