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Looking for trouble : on shopping, gender and the cinema / Suzanne Moore London: Serpent's Tail, 1991.
Call No: 67(41) MOOAuthor: Moore, Suzanne Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Serpent's TailPubDate: 1991PhysDes: ix, 305 pages ; 20 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; ALWAYS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1989) ; BIRD (US, Clint Eastwood, 1988) ; BLACK RAIN (US, Ridley Scott, 1989) ; BLUE STEEL (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1989) ; BROKEN NOSES (US, Bruce Weber, 1987) ; CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988) ; DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1988) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; FAMILY VIEWING (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1987) ; FAREWELL TO THE KING (US, John Milius, 1989) ; GHOSTS. . . OF THE CIVIL DEAD (AT, John Hillcoat, 1988) ; GOOD MOTHER, THE (US, Leonard Nimoy, 1988) ; JESUS OF MONTREAL (CN/FR, Denys Arcand, 1989) ; KAMIKAZE HEARTS (US, Juliet Bashore, 1986) ; KROTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU (PL, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988) ; LONGTIME COMPANION (US, Norman Rene, 1990) ; MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (US, Alek Keshishian, 1991) ; MARUSA NO ONNA (JA, Juzo Itami, 1987) ; PARIS BY NIGHT (UK, David Hare, 1989) ; PATTY HEARST (US, Paul Schrader, 1988) ; ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989) ; SCANDAL (UK, Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) ; SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (US, Wes Craven, 1988) ; SHE-DEVIL (US, Susan Seidelman, 1989) ; SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS (US, Sheila McLaughlin, 1987) ; SKIN DEEP (US, Blake Edwards, 1989) ; SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (US, Joesph Ruben, 1991) ; SOMETHING WILD (US, Jonathan Demme, 1986) ; STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (US, William Shatner, 1989) ; SWEETIE (AT, Jane Campion, 1989) ; TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (US, Steve Barron, 1990) ; THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988) ; THIRTYSOMETHING [TV] (US, 1987-91) ; TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1990)
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ATAME! ; TORCH SONG TRILOGY (US, Paul Bogart, 1988) ; TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990) ; TUCKER (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1988) ; TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991) ; UNHOLY, THE (US, Camilio Vila, 1988) ; WAR OF THE ROSES, THE (US, Danny DeVito, 1989) ; WIRED (US, Larry Peerce, 1989) ; WORLD APART, A (UK, Chris Menges, 1988) ; BAUDRILLARD, JEAN ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; WINDSOR, BARBARA Summary: "In her articles and essays, Suzanne Moore takes a vitriolic look at the icons of modern life - post feminism, Baudrillard, Laura Ashley, Twin Peaks, the new man, safe sex, James Bond, a green planet. In her film reviews, she dissects the 'mega' filmmakers of our time - Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Russell and David Lynch. Definitely not 'one of the boys', Suzanne Moore's attitude to the good and famous is refreshing and irreverent." -Book blurb.Notes: Contains bibliographyISBN: 1852422424Contents: Introduction -- Feminism -- Men: Men against men; Target man; The brothers grim; Toy soldiers or wicked willies; Prince; Torch Song tightrope; Here's looking at you, kid -- Women: Material girl; Hi, I'm Anneka - fly me; Green light spells danger; The odds of getting even; A call to underarms; Fatal fantasies; Happiness is a warm gun; Close-up as the cookie crumbles; Women who read too much; The great awakening; Modern romance; The merry life of Windsor -- Children: Hiding in the wardrobe; Hung-up on Father Christmas; Politics of choice; Birth and death; Maternal melodramas; Eternal childhood; Unhappy families; Heroes in a half-shell -- Fantasy -- Fear: Killjoy culture; Filming by numbers; The death of intimacy; To hell and back; Murder most foul; Electric shocks; Fag end; Soft soap -- Flesh: Good vibrations; Deviant laws; Everyday eroticism; One big act; A screw of convenience?; Missionary sex; The struggle for safe endings -- Faith: Kidnapped by the counter-culture; Sculpting in time; Playing Jesus by night; Nithing but the truth; Always a love story; Jazz junkie -- Power: Pleasure: Understimulation; And now for the news; Film slobs; The metal age; All night long; The money game; Mall-content?; Mini-politics: saying no in public; Belushi's last high; something to stay home about; Reach for the stars; Starship stories -- Politics: Political poison; Junk culture; Never really at home; A problem of identities; Brand loyalty; Sun rises in the east; You can't do the right thing all the time; Great expectations -- Populism: Postmodern paralysis; Britain's macho man; On the side of the man in the street; Against the sober grain -- Postmodernism: Politics of seduction; Getting a bit of the other - the pimps of postmodernism.ID2: 291
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Paul Schrader / George Kouvaros Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Call No: 81SCH KOUAuthor: Kouvaros, George Source: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xi, 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSeries: Contemporary Film DirectorsSubject: SCHRADER, PAUL ; TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976) ; HARDCORE (US, Paul Schrader, 1979) ; AMERICAN GIGOLO (US, Paul Schrader, 1980) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Paul Schrader, 1982) ; MISHIMA (US/JA, Paul Schrader, 1985) ; LIGHT OF DAY (US, Paul Schrader, 1987) ; PATTY HEARST (US, Paul Schrader, 1988) ; AUTO FOCUS (US, Paul Schrader, 2002) ; CORTESIE PER GLI OSPITI (IT/UK, Paul Schrader, 1990) ; LIGHT SLEEPER (US, Paul Schrader, 1992) ; AFFLICTION (US, Paul Schrader, 1997) ; FOREVER MINE (US/UK, Paul Schrader, 1999) Summary: "As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines how Schrader creates a cinema driven by issues of obsession, memory, estrangement, and the difficult nature of experience. Representative of a new generation of American writer-directors of the 1970s, Schrader's films highlight the tension between old and new ways of telling a story and between the maintenance of commercial formulas and openness to individual expression. George Kouvaros draws on a personal interview conducted with Schrader and the director's prior commentary to trace common motivations and impulses behind such well-known films as Light Sleeper, American Gigalo, Affliction, Auto Focus, Taxi Driver, and Patty Hearst. Kouvaros reads Schraders films in terms of a number of hard-to-define issues such as melancholia, trauma, and the complex linkages of violence and guilt that bind individuals to places and each other." -- BLURBISBN: 9780252075087Contents: The Teller and The Tale: The Films of Paul Schrader -- The New Hollywood -- From Grand Rapids to Hollywood -- The Lure of Negative Thought: Tax Driver -- The Psychopath's Second Coming -- From Screenwriter to Director: Blue Collar and Hardcore -- A Man and His Room: American Gigolo -- Changelings: Cat People -- The Lure of Biography: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters -- The Catastrophe of Identity: Light of Day and Patty Hearst -- The Paradox of Acting -- Strangers to Ourselves: Auto Focus -- A Director for Hire -- Stores That Tell Us: The Comfort of Strangers -- Lost Souls: Light Sleeper -- False Events: Affliction -- Logic of Betrayal -- Nocturnal Wanderers -- Prequels and Obsessive Loves: Dominion and Forever Mine -- "Give All to Love" -- Interview With Paul Schrader.
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