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Call No: 81LEA SIL
Author: Silver, Alain; Ursini, James; Wise, Robert (foreword)
Edition: 1st Silman-James Press edition 1992
Source: US
Place: Los Angeles
Publisher: Silman-James Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 294 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: Lean, David; IN WHICH WE SERVE (UK, David Lean and Noel Coward, 1942); THIS HAPPY BREED (UK, David Lean, 1944); BLITHE SPIRIT (UK, David Lean, 1945); BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); OLIVER TWIST (UK, David Lean, 1948); MADELEINE (UK, David Lean, 1950); BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER (UK, David Lean, 1952); SOUND BARRIER, THE (UK, David Lean, 1952); HOBSON'S CHOICE (UK, David Lean, 1954); PASSIONATE FRIENDS, THE (UK, David Lean, 1949); SUMMER MADNESS (UK/US, David Lean, 1955); SUMMERTIME (UK/US, David Lean, 1955); BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (UK/US, David Lean, 1957); LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (UK, David Lean, 1962); DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (US, David Lean, 1965); RYAN'S DAUGHTER (UK, David Lean, 1970); PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984)
Summary: "Updated and extensively revised, this first American edition of David Lean and His Films offers the reader an in-depth analysis, discussion, and critique of Lean's directorial output. In their film-by-film accounting of his work, authors Silver and Ursini uncover the themes and concerns that have been sustained throughout Lean's career." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index; Filmography: p. [241]-266
ISBN: 1879505002
Contents: -- acknowledgements -- foreword -- introduction -- 1: the early films: in which we serve (1942); this happy breed (1944); blithe spirit (1945) -- 2: brief encounter (1945) -- 3: the Dickens adaptations: great expectations (1946) and oliver twist (1948) -- 4: madeleine (1950) -- 5: the sound barrier (1952) -- 6: hobson's choice (1954) -- 7: the passionate friends (1949) and summer madness (1955) -- 8: the bridge on the river kwai (1957) -- 9: lawrence of arabia (1962) -- 10: doctor zhivago (1965) -- 11: ryan's daughter (1970) -- 12: a passage to india (1984) -- a personal afterword -- biography -- filmography -- footnotes -- selected bibliography -- index --

Call No: 753DIC ZAM
Author: Zambrano, A. L
Place: New York
Publisher: Gordon Press
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; DAVID COPPERFIELD (US, George Cukor, 1935); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, Joseph Hardy, 1975); OLIVER TWIST (UK, David Lean, 1948); SCROOGE (US, Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951); SCROOGE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1970); TALE OF TWO CITIES, A (US, Jack Conway, 1935)
Summary: This book discusses the works of Charles Dickens that has been adapted into film up until the mid 1970s. It discusses Dickens's relationship to the theatre (cinema's closest ancestor), the Victorian values of Dickens's work, the cinematic elements of Dickens's writing, and modern filmic adaptations of his work.
Notes: Includes filmography -- collection's copy is fragile, handle with care
ISBN: 0879684569
LON: 76016479; 174074

Call No: F53 PER
Author: Perkins, W. H.
Source: Australia
Place: Hobart
Publisher: Fullers Bookshop
PubDate: 1968
PhysDes: 320 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: COURSES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; WESTERNS; LAW IN FILMS; TRIALS IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; OLIVER TWIST (UK, David Lean, 1948); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); TWELVE ANGRY MEN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1957); 3.10 TO YUMA (US, Delmer Daves, 1957); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: OLIVER TWIST (UK, Clive Donner, 1983)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: OLIVER TWIST (FR/UK/CZ, Roman Polanski, 2005)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: OLIVER TWIST [TV] (UK, Renny Rye, 1999)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: OLIVER TWIST [TV] (AT, Richard Slapczynski, 1982)

Call No: 81POL MOR
Author: Morrison, James
Source: US
Place: Urbana, Ill ; Chicago
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 191 p. ; 22 cm
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
Subject: ART CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; ADAPTATIONS. HARDY, THOMAS; ADAPTATIONS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLANSKI, ROMAN; BORDWELL, DAVID; REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski, 1965); CUL-DE-SAC (UK, Roman Polanski, 1966); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968); MACBETH (UK, Roman Polanski, 1971); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); LOCATAIRE, LE (FR, Roman Polanski, 1976); TESS (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1979); BITTER MOON (FR/UK, Roman Polanski, 1992); PIANIST, THE (UK/GG/FR/PL, Roman Polanski, 2002); OLIVER TWIST (FR/UK/CZ, Roman Polanski, 2005)
ISBN: 9780252074462
Contents: Captive minds: Polanski and modernity. -- Comedy, melodrama, and gentrification in Polanski's films -- Cul-de-Sac and the 1960's art cinema -- Polanski in the new Hollywood -- Polanski and the art film's second wave -- Rendering classics: Macbeth and Tess -- Discovering the Figural in Polanski's films -- Interviews with Roman Polanski -- filmography, bibliography, index