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book		The address of the eye : a phenomenology of film experience / Vivian Sobchack Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Call No: 626:165.62 SOB Author: Sobchack, Vivian Carol Place: Princeton, N.J. Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xxi, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; SEMIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; EXISTENTIALISM AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index ISBN: 0691031959 (alk. paper) LON: 8114969 More info
Old collection book		Alfred Hitchcock's high vernacular : theory and practice / Stefan Sharff New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Call No: 81HIT SHA Author: Shaff, Stefan Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: vii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: PERCEPTION; AESTHETICS; SEMIOLOGY; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946); FRENZY (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972); FAMILY PLOT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1976) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0231069146 Language: English More info
book		The brain is the screen : Deleuze and the philosophy of the cinema / Gregory Flaxman, editor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Call No: 620 DEL FLA Author: Flaxman, Gregory Source: US Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: x, 395 pages ; 24 cm Subject: DELEUZE, GILLES; SPECTATORSHIP; PERCEPTION Summary: "With this collection, the first to focus solely and extensively on Deleuze's cinematic work, the nature and reach of that work finally become clear. Composed of a substantial introduction, twelve original essays produced for this volume, and a new English translation of a personal, intriguing, and little-known interview with Deleuze on his cinema books, The Brain is the Screen is a sustained engagement with Deleuze's cinematic philosophy that leads to a new view of the larger confrontation of philosophy with cinematic images." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0816634475 Contents: Introduction / Gregory Flaxman -- Approaching Images. 1. Of images and Worlds: Toward a Geology of the Cinema / Jean-Clet Martin. -- 2. Cinema Year Zero / Gregory Flaxman. -- 3. Escape from the Image: Deleuze's Image-Ontology / Martin Schwab. -- 4. The Eye of Montage: Dziga Vertov and Bergsonian Materialism / Francois Zourabichvili -- Mapping Images. -- 5. The Film History of Thought / Andras Balint Kovacs. -- 6. Into the Breach: Between The Movement-Image and The Time-Image / Angelo Restivo. -- 7. Signs of the Time: Deleuze, Peirce, and the Documentary Image / Laura U. Marks. -- 8. The Roots of the Nomadic: Gilles Deleuze and the Cinema of West Africa / Dudley Andrew -- Thinking Images. -- 9. Cinema and the Outside / Gregg Lambert. -- 10. Midday, Midnight: The Emergence of Cine-Thinking / Eric Alliez. -- 11. The Film Event: From Interval to Interstice / Tom Conley. -- 12. The Imagination of Immanence: An Ethics of Cinema / Peter Canning -- After-Image. -- 13. The Brain Is the Screen: An Interview with Gilles Deleuze. -- Contributors More info
book		Cinema and cultural modernity / Gill Branston Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. Call No: 62 BRA Author: Branston, Gill Source: US Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Open University Press PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: p. cm Series: Issues in cultural and media studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTHORSHIP; STAR SYSTEM; AUDIENCES; GLOBALISATION; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; GAZE IN FILMS; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; MULVEY, LAURA; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) Summary: "Cinema and Cultural Modernity carves a path through the complex histories and issues of film and cinema studies and vividly explores these in their social and political contexts. It focuses on selected topics such as Hollywood's histories and how authorship, stardom and globalized blockbuster cinema, its pleasures and disappointments, might be thought out. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal 'textiness' of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. She shows how such debates and histories might connect both the very real pleasures of 'consuming' cinema with the need for a critical politics to address the persistent social and cultural inequalities of modernity." -- BOOK COVER Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 033520077X (HB); 0335200761 (PB) LON: 21519736 More info
book		The cinematic body / Steven Shaviro Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Call No: 64POS SHA Author: Shaviro, Steven Place: Minneapolis Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: x, 276 p. ; 26 cm Series: Theory out of bounds ; v. 2 Subject: AESTHETICS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; WARHOL, ANDY; ROMERO, GEORGE; LEWIS, JERRY; CRONENBERG, DAVID; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; GUATTARI, FELIX; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index ISBN: 0816622949 (PB : acid-free paper) LON: 9656941 More info
Yet to catalogue book		The dream that kicks : the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain / Michael Chanan London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Call No: 71 (41) CHA Author: Chanan, Michael Source: UK Place: London Boston Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 353 p. ; 23 cm Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. UK; INDUSTRY, TV. UK; ENTERTAINMENT. UK; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK; PRE-CINEMA HISTORY. UK; PERCEPTION; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; CONSUMERISM AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC HALL Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 331-336 ISBN: 0710003196 LON: 1738702 1829453 Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: The dialectic of invention -- Part 3: Music hall and popular culture -- Part 4: Middle-class culture and its influences -- Part 5: The early years -- Part 6: The dream that kicks -- Bibliography More info
book		Eisenstein on the audiovisual : the montage of music, image and sound in cinema / Robert Robertson London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. Call No: 81EIS ROB Author: Robertson, Robert Source: UK Place: London Publisher: I.B. Tauris PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: International library of cultural studies; 5 Subject: SOUND; PERCEPTION; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; MEYERHOLD, VSEVOLOD; ALEKSANDR NEVSKI [ALEXANDER NEVSKY] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1938); QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]) Summary: "An introduction to a key area of Eisenstein's thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema (the interaction of music, sound and film)."TAKEN FROM BACK COVER ISBN: 9781848857315 Contents: -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Audiovisual Counterpoint -- Chapter 2: Organic Unity -- Chapter 3. Nonindifferent Nature -- Chapter 4. Synaesthesia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A note on the versions of Einstein's films consulted -- Index -- More info
book		Empty moments : Cinema, modernity, and drift / Leo Charney Durham, London: Duke University Press, 1998. Call No: 631 CHA Author: Charney, Leo Place: Durham, London Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: ix, 189 pages ; 25 cm Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; PERCEPTION; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNCANNY GAZE; MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD; DULAC, GERMAINE; BRETON, ANDRE; HUSSERL, EDMUND; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; EPSTEIN, JEAN Summary: "In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift" - the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the reproduction of the present. Empty Moments creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust's conception of time/ memory with Cubism's attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealism's exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserl's insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvin's laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charney's work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory." -- Blurb Notes: Includes notes, bibliography and index ISBN: 0822320908 Donation: Adrian Miles Contents: One: Drift -- Two: The present moment -- Three: Peaks and valleys -- Four: What's the use? -- Five: Boredom -- Six: The end of pleasure -- Seven: A horizontal line More info
journal article		Films for learning : the roles of visual texts within intergrated units in the early years. in Australian Screen Education (1999) iss.20/21 p.72-80 Author: Evely, Christine PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PERCEPTION Summary: Evely gives examples of visual literacy exercises for primary level students. More info
journal article		Hollywood and artistic film techniques : a unit for year 11 English students in Metro education (1998) iss.16 p.9-14 Author: Dezuanni, Michael PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s); Bibliography Subject: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (US, Tim Burton, 1990); PERCEPTION Summary: Dezuanni outlines a class structure for teaching media and popular culture within the English curriculum. More info
journal article		I-ing film in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1986) vol.12 iss.4 p.654-671 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; HISTOIRE D'O : (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1975) Author: Holland, Norman N. PhysDes: Article Subject: PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HISTOIRE D'O (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1975) ID2: 273 More info
book		Illuminating video : an essential guide to video art / edited by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer ; preface by David Bolt ; foreword by David Ross ; introduction by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer New York, N.Y.: Aperture in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition, 1990. Call No: 771 ILL Author: Hall, Doug, 1944; Fifer, Sally Jo Place: New York, N.Y. Publisher: Aperture in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 566 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: VIDEO ART; VIDEO AND TELEVISION; VIDEO INSTALLATIONS; PERCEPTION; MUSEUM REACTION PIECE, THE [MM] (US, Howard Fried?, 1978-83) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 526-556 ISBN: 0893813893 (hard); 0893813907 (pbk.) LON: 8006458 More info
book		The image / Jacques Aumont ; translated by Claire Pajackowska London: British Film Institute, 1997. Call No: 62 AUM Author: Aumont, Jacques Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Subject: PERCEPTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: "Images have become a source of knowledge and persuasion as well as pleasure every bit as powerful as the written word. And yet, the image, as it manifests itself in painting, cinema, journalism, television and photograph, remains a fascinatingly enigmatic device." - taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. -- Translated by Claire Pajackowska -- Translated from the French ISBN: 0851704107 Contents: Introduction -- Chapter One: The Role of the Eye. I. What the eye does -- II. From the visible to the visual -- III. From the visual to the imaginary -- IV. Conclusion: The eye and the image -- Chapter Two: The Role of the Spectator. I. The image and its spectator -- II. The representational illusion -- III. The spectator as desiring subject -- IV. Conclusion: The anthropology of the spectator -- Chapter Three. I. The spatial dimension of the apparatus -- II. The temporal dimension of the apparatus -- III. Apparatus, technology and ideology -- IV Conclusion: Apparatus and history -- Chapter Four: The role of the image. I. Analogy -- II. Represented space -- III. Represented time -- IV. Signification in the image -- Chapter Five: The role of art. I. The abstract image -- II. The expressive image -- III. The auratic image -- IV. A civilization of images? -- Index More info
book		Incorporating images : film and the rival arts / Brigitte Peucker Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. Call No: 62 PEU Author: Peucker, Brigitte Source: US Place: Princeton, New Jersey Publisher: Princeton University Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: Princeton paperbacks Subject: ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA; AESTHETICS; DEATH IN FILMS; GERMANY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PERCEPTION Summary: "Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body takes center stage in Peucker's innovative study, for it is through this figure that the conjunction of literary and painterly discourses persistently articulates itself. It is through the human body, too, that film's consciousness of itself as a hybrid text and as a "machine for simulation" makes itself deeply felt." -- taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213), index, and notes. ISBN: 978691002811 Donation: Adrian Miles Contents: Introduction: Bodies and Boundaries -- Movement, Fragmentation, and the Uncanny. Unnatural Conjunctions: The Heterogeneous Text. "Its Strange Mixture of the Natural and the Artificial": The Presence of Kleist. "Bits of Bodies": The Fragmented Text. Man and the Cinema Machine: Magician, Psychoanalyst, Scientist: The Case of Dr. Caligari. Fritz Lang, the Apparatus, and the Fissured Text. Magician and Surgeon. "Knife Phobia" "Doing It with Scissors": Dismemberment in Hitchcock -- Monstrous Births: The Hybrid Text. Miscegenation and the Sister Arts: Griffith's Broken Blossoms. Hitchcock's "Half-Caste" Murnau. Cinematic Vampirism. Painting and Repression. Herzog's Unassimilable Bodies. Witchcraft, Vision, and Incest: Dreyer's Day of Wrath. The Phantom of the Cinema: Body and Voice -- Incorporation: Images and the Real. Trompe l'Oeil Effects. Cinema and the Real. Body Language: Kleist's and Rohmer's Marquise. Hitchcock as Pygmalion. Wings of Desire: Reality, Text, Embodiment. Kleist, Tableau Vivant, and the Pornographic. Fassbinder's Cinema of Mixed Modes: Tableau Vivant and the Real. Incorporation in Greenaway. Painful Images -- Afterword: Ut pictura poesis More info
Online resource book		Lessons in perception : the avant-garde filmmaker as practical psychologist / Paul Taberham New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, Available at OAPEN (open access) Call No: 771 TAB Author: Taberham, Paul Edition: 2018 Place: New York & Oxford Publisher: Berghahn Books PhysDes: 214 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; BREER, ROBERT; BRAKHAGE, STAN; DEREN, MAYA; BELSON, JORDAN Summary: Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental artists such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, and Jordan Belson. In illustrating how avant-garde filmmakers draw from their own mental and perceptual capacities, author Paul Taberham offers a compelling for how their works expand the range of aesthetic sensitivity and open creative vistas uncharted by commercial cinema. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781785336416 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: COGNITION --Chapter 1. The Specter of Narrative -- Chapter 2. Ghost Films of the Avant-Garde -- PART II: VISUAL PERCEPTION -- Chapter 3. Bottom Up Processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye in the Films of Stan Brakhage -- Chapter 4. Robert Breer and the Dialectic of Eye and Camera -- PART III: AUDIO-VISUAL PERCEPTION -- Chapter 5. Synaesthetic Film Reconsidered - Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Visual Music -- Conclusion -- Bibliography More info
journal article		Media education in New York in Australian Screen Education (1999) iss.20/21 p.25-29 Author: Dezuanni, Michael PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PERCEPTION; EDUCATION, FILM. USA Summary: Dezuanni reports on his four weeks at the Media Workshop New York and the conservative approach to media studies in the US. Corporate sponsorship of media education has resuulted in the provision of technology but it does not foster critical media education. Dezuanni argues that research, experimentation and teacher development are needed in media education. More info
book		Media in mind / David Reynolds Oxford: Oxford University Press, Call No: 62 REY Author: Reynolds, David Edition: 2019 Place: Oxford Publisher: Oxford University Press PhysDes: x, 206 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; QUATRE CENTS COUPS, LES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1959); ARGENT, L' (FR, Marcel L'Herbier, 1928); NI NEI PIEN CHI TIEN (FR/TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001) Summary: Where do you end, and where do media begin? In Media in Mind, author Daniel Reynolds draws upon naturalist philosophies of the mind from John Dewey through contemporary theories of embodied and extended cognition to make the case that the lines separating media from the minds of their users are not blurry or variable so much as they never existed to begin with. Through analyses of films and video games from 1900 to the present, Media in Mind shows how media forms and technologies challenge dominant models of perception and mental representation, and how they complicate theoretical understanding of concepts like the platform and the interface. In order to do justice to the profound and literally mind-changing power of media, Reynolds argues, we need to think not so much about the relationship between media and the mind as about the roles that media play in our minds. Through this crucial distinction, Media in Mind surveys more than a century of media theory to illustrate the ways that scholars of film and digital media have situated and reconsidered a series of divisions between media, user, and world, and how these these conceptual divisions have reflected and inflected their ways of understanding the mind. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780190872526 Contents: Introduction: The Discontinuities -- 1. Transactionism: A Theory of Media in Mind -- 2. Feeling Through the World: Skilled Perception in a Changing Environment -- 3. Media and Radical Embodiment: Where is Representation? -- 4. Platforms as Emergence -- 5. Encounters at the Intraface -- 6. Designing a Game Boy --Conclusion: The Continuity -- Bibliography More info
journal article		Motivating learners in the middle years : Mighty Joe Young in Australian screen education (Autumn 2000) iss.22 p.118-123 Author: Evely, Christine PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: EDUCATION, USE OF FILMS IN; PERCEPTION; MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (US, Ron Underwood, 1998) Summary: Evely uses "Mighty Joe Young" to illustrate how film texts can be used to teach about the students' world and screen literacy. More info
book		Narration in light : Studies in cinematic point of view / George M. Wilson Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1986. Call No: 632.51 WIL Author: Wilson, M. George Source: US Place: Baltimore Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: x, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: POINT-OF-VIEW; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COMMENTARY; SPECTATORSHIP; PERCEPTION; MCCABE, COLIN; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); DEVIL IS A WOMAN, THE (IT, Josef von Sternberg, 1935); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 209-219 ISBN: 0801831377 Contents: Film, perception, and point of view -- Fritz Lang's You only live once -- Coherence and transparency in classical narrative film -- Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest -- Some modes of nonomniscience -- Max Ophuls' Letter from an unknown woman -- On narrators and narration in film -- Josef von Sternberg's The devil is a woman -- Nicholas Ray's Rebel without a cause -- Morals for method More info
subject clippings file		PERCEPTION Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PERCEPTION More info
Interim book		Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception / Janet Staiger New York: New York University Press, c2000. Call No: 630.5 STA Author: Staiger, Janet Source: US Place: New York Publisher: New York University Press PubDate: c2000 PhysDes: vi, 242 p. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; PERCEPTION; AUDIENCES THEORY; AESTHETICS; GENRES; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE, LE (FR, Daniel Vigne, 1982) Summary: A book on film studies, with interpretation on films using different theories. The history of film is provided and the role media plays in culture and in the world today. Different topics in films are discussed with the descpition of various films that are applied to those certain topics. ISBN: 081478139X More info
book		Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Call No: 62 POS Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: Madison Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cm Series: Wisconsin studies in film Subject: THEORY; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; MUSIC, FILM; NON-FICTION FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; JAPAN; DENMARK; EXHIBITION; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; AUDIENCES; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDITING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; GENRES; LOVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GIBSON, JAMES J.; COHN, HARRY; JAMESON, FREDRIC; MANDEL, ERNEST; RENOV, MICHAEL; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 95037052; 11859923 More info
journal article		Reading the images of our culture in Australian Screen Education (1999) iss.20/21 p.62-65 Author: Evely, Christine PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PERCEPTION Summary: Evely discusses various methods of teaching visual literacy. Cinemedia Screen Education's Visual Literacy short course is outlined. More info
journal article		Screen literacy and cultural morality in the digital era : the 1999 Cinemedia Grierson Lecture, presented by Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE in Australian screen education (Autumn 2000) iss.22 p.72-79 Author: Puttnam, David PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PUTTNAM, DAVID; PERCEPTION; CINEMEDIA Summary: Puttnam delivers the 1999 Cinemedia Grierson Lecture on the topic of screen literacy in the information age. He argues that screen literacy should be an integral part of any education system because information technology can create incoherence, meaninglessness and manipulation. Puttnam also warns that Australia and the United Kingdom must prevent US cultural dominance in the new Information Society. More info
journal article		Short film appraisals : Around Perception in Filmviews (Winter 1985) vol.30 iss.123 p.49 Author: Durston, Joy [compiler] PhysDes: Article Subject: AUTOUR DE LA PERCEPTION (CN, Pierre Hébert, 1968); AROUND PERCEPTION (CN, Pierre Hébert, 1968); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ANIMATION. CANADA Summary: Note that the article refers to Pierre Hebert as "Creator of animation" only and not as "Director" despite his clear directorial role for the experimental film "Around Perception" that was one of the earliest explorations of computer animated film. A number of reviewers outlined its alienating visual and auditory effects for most audiences Notes: Credits. - synopsis. - reviews. - ratings More info
journal article		Teaching media in the classroom : research and practice in Britain in Australian screen education (Autumn 2000) iss.22 p.64-70 Author: Hart, Andrew PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PERCEPTION. UK; MEDIA STUDIES. UK Summary: Although there is strong advocacy for teaching media in the United Kingdom, research shows that changes need to be made to curriculum, technology and institutions to support innovation in media education. More info
journal article		Teaching television in the primary school : Perry Kick, Year 5/6 teacher, Edithvale Primary School in Australian screen education (Autumn 2000) iss.22 p.124-126 Author: Evely, Christine PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: CHILDREN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PERCEPTION Summary: Kick teaches a primary-level screen literacy program to develop students' visual literacy and critical skills. More info
book		Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Call No: 62 CAS Author: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cm Subject: THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; SPECTATORSHIP; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; BARTHES, ROLAND; BAZIN, ANDRE; BORDWELL, DAVID; DELEUZE, GILLES; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; LACAN, JACQUES; HORKHEIMER, MAX; MITRY, JEAN; MORAN, EDGAR; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index ISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.) LON: 14328673 More info
journal article		Trucage and the film in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1977) vol.3 iss.4 Author: Metz, Christian PhysDes: Article Subject: EFFECTS IN FILMS; OPTICAL EFFECTS; PERCEPTION More info
book		Understanding film texts / Patrick Phillips London: British Film Institute, 2000. Call No: 512.1 PHI Author: Phillips, Patrick Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xiii, 158 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: AESTHETICS; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; COSTUMES; DIALOGUE; EDITING; EXHIBITION; HONG KONG; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PERCEPTION; REALISM IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; VIRTUAL REALITY; DICAPRIO, LEONARDO; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO; AFTER LIFE (JA, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998); AMERICAN BEAUTY (US, Sam Mendes, 1999); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); C`EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS (BE, Remy Belvaux & Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde, 1992); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FESTEN (DK, Thomas Vinterberg, 1998); JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997); LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); SECRETS & LIES (FR/UK, Mike Leigh, 1996); SINNUI YAUMAN (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); CHINESE GHOST STORY, A (HK, Ching Siu Tung, 1987); SLIDING DOORS (US, Peter Howitt, 1998); WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996) ISBN: 085170798X; 0851707998(pbk.) LON: 21445642 More info
book		Visual and other pleasures / Laura Mulvey Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Call No: 67(04) MUL Author: Mulvey, Laura Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: xvi, 201 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Theories of representation and difference Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; PERCEPTION; WOMEN IN FILMS; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; SIRK, DOUGLAS; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946); RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Notes: Includes bibliographies ISBN: 0253362261; 0253204941 (pbk.) LON: 88009627; 5820595 Contents: I. ICONOCLASM -- 1. The spectacle is vulnerable: Miss World 1970 -- 2. Fears, fantasies and the male unconsious or 'You don't know what is happening, do you Mr. Jones?' -- 3. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema -- II. MELODRAMA -- 4. Afterthoughts on 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the sun (1946) -- 5. Notes on Sirk and melodrama -- 6. Fassbinder and Sirk -- 7. Images of women, images of sexuality: some films by J. L. Godard -- 8. Melodrama inside and outside the house -- III. ON THE MARGINS -- 9. Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- IV. Avant-Garde -- 10. Film, feminism and the avant-garde -- 11. Dialogue with spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin -- 12. 'Magnificent obsession': an introduction to the work of five photographers -- 13. Impending time: Mary Kelly's Corpus -- V. BOUNDARIES -- 14. Changes: thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- 15. The Oedipus myth: beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx More info
journal article		Wes Walters: An Interview in Lumiere (October, 1972) iss.17 p.26-3 Author: Ellis, Rennie PhysDes: Article Subject: ADVERTISING; PERCEPTION Summary: Continue of a series of interviews of Australians working in the visual arts. Interview with Wes Walters, well-known Australian illustrator. More info
journal article		Writing the media : utlising CD-ROM technology in Metro education (1999) iss.17/18 p.24-28 Author: Tan, Anne C. PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s) Subject: PERCEPTION; KID STAKES, THE (AT, Tal Ordell, 1927) Summary: Tan discusses a project to develop CD-ROM teaching materials for Deakin University's Graduate Diploma of Children's Literature and Bachelor of Education off-campus students. The example given is storyboards for "The kid stakes". More info

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