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Special issue serial		"BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY: NEW YORK AND THE MOVIES" 1994. Call No: JOURNAL SHELVES. PREMIERE PubDate: 1994 Subject: NEW YORK IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA.NEW YORK Language: ENGLISH More info
book		The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / Scott MacDonald Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001. Call No: 738(71) MAC Author: MacDonald, Scott Place: Berkeley, California Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cm Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS; NATURE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS. USA; CITIES IN FILMS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; GOTTHEIM, LARRY; COLE, THOMAS; MURPHY, J. J.; ANGER, KENNETH; MENKEN, MARIE; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE; BRAKHAGE, STAN; KELLER, MARJORIE; ROBERTSON, ANNE CHARLOTTE; LOWDER, ROSE; MANGOLTE, BABETTE; BENNING, JAMES; STONE, OLIVER; SPIRO, ELLEN; DEBONT, JAN; KUCHAR, GEORGE; BURCKHARDT, RUDY; WEEGEE; THOMPSON, FRANCIS; MENKEN, MARIE; HARRIS, HILARY; LEE, SPIKE; STAUFFACHER, FRANK; BAILLIE, BRUCE; RUDNICK, MICHAEL; GEHR, ERNIE; O'NEILL, PAT; MARTIN, EUGENE; MEKAS, JONAS; GREAVES, WILLIAM; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; HUOT, ROBERT; DORSKY, NATHANIEL; HUTTON, PETER; DASH, JULIE; FRANKLIN, CARL; CONNER, BRUCE; HERZOG, WERNER; LANZMANN, CLAUDE; STRAND, CHICK; NOREN, ANDREW; PIERCE, LEIGHTON; GATTEN, DAVID Summary: "Explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualises his discussion with wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, painting and photography. Examining the representation of nature and landscape in particular, and location in general, MacDonald offers new readings of films under consideration as well as an expanded sense of modern film history." Notes: Includes distribution sources for films and videos (in US), notes and index ISBN: 0520227387 More info
subject clippings file		NEW YORK IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: NEW YORK IN FILMS More info
book		The press gang : writings on cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011 / edited by Jim Colvill; Godfrey Cheshire; Matt Zoller Seitz; Armond White New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. Call No: 67(049.32) PRE Author: Cheshire, Godfrey; Seitz, Matt Zoller; White, Armond Edition: 2020 Place: New York Publisher: Seven Stories Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: xxvi, 467 pages ; 26 cm Subject: CRITICISM. USA; CRITICS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; CHESHIRE, GODFREY Summary: A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time. Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices: equally accomplished, yet notably individual, perspectives on cinema. Their distinctive tastes and approaches were often positioned in direct dialogue with each other, a constant critical conversation that frequently saw each writer directly challenging his colleagues. Dialogue is important in criticism, and here you can find a healthy example of it existing under one proverbial roof. This three-way dialogue between Cheshire, Seitz and White assesses the 1990s in cinema, along with pieces on New York's vibrant repertory scene that allow us to read the authors' takes on directors such as Hitchcock, Lean, Kubrick, Welles, Fassbinder and Bresson; as well as topics such as the legacy of Star Wars, film noir, early film projection in New York City, the New York Film Critics Circle, Sundance, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the emerging cinema of Iran and Taiwan. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781609809775 More info
book		The ragman's story : an autobiography / Kirk Douglas London: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Call No: 81DOU DOU Author: Douglas, Kirk Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Simon and Schuster PubDate: 1988 PhysDes: 510 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: ACTING; DIRECTION; DIRECTORS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; ANGELI, PIER; DOUGLAS, ERIC; DOUGLAS, KIRK; DOUGLAS, MICHAEL; LANCASTER, BURT; LUST FOR LIFE (US, Vincente Minelli and George Cukor, 1956); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) Summary: "Most autobiographies by movie stars are ghost-written and bland. This one is neither. In his powerful, angry and passionate book, Kirk Douglas tells the story of his life in his own words, holding back nothing. Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragman, in Amsterdam, New York, Douglas paints a searing and unforgettable picture of an almost Dickensian childhood of brutal poverty - the background that has dominated his life as an actor, father and man, fuelling the great creative anger that has added such depth to his performances. With profound and moving insight, he shows how the determination to overcome that childhood and succeed on his own terms led him to take on roles that most stars of his magnitude would never have risked - Van Gogh, in LUST FOR LIFE; Spartacus the slave; the courageous, conscience-stricken Colonel Dax, in PATHS OF GLORY; the agonized boxer Midge, in CHAMPION, to name only a few - and to fight the studios and the Hollywood establishment for the right to control and produce his own movies, long before it was common practice for stars to do so." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0671699598; 9780671699598 Donation: Simon Wincer More info
book		Tribeca talks / [Tribeca Film Festival] Milan: Progetto Prada Arte, 2004. Call No: 162(73) TRI CorpAuthor: [Tribeca Film Festival] Edition: 2004 Place: Milan Publisher: Progetto Prada Arte PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: FESTIVALS. USA [VARIOUS]; CONFERENCES. USA; NEW YORK IN FILMS Summary: "Lauren Bacall, Martin Scorsese, Frank Rich, Richard Price, James Harvey, Isabella Rossellini and other leading actors, critics, filmmakers and scholars engage in discussions on a variety of topics that demonstrate the range and vitality of artistic dialogue that takes place at the Tribeca Film Festival. This volume provides a view into their explorations of romance in film, the crafts of acting and directing, the impact of science and war on cinema, the challenge of representing truth in non-narrative features and the role of New York as cinematic character as well as muse." -- book jacket ISBN: 9788887029307 Donation: Paul Anderson More info

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