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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

Call No: 62 KOL
Author: Kolker, Robert Phillip
Source: US
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 428 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DE SICA, VITTORIO; GODARD, JEAN-LUC
Summary: " Most filmmakers, especially in the United States, have chosen not to upset their audiences. But since World War 2, an alternative cinema has emerged on a significant scale, particularly in Europe and Latin America- a cinema that challenges rather than soothes, that questions assumptions rather than reinforces them. This kind of film - "made in a spirit of resistance, rebellion, and refusal" - is the focus of this important and stimulating study. Investigating many movements and styles, Robert Phillip Kolker illuminates both their diversity and their common threads. He starts with the seminal achievements of the Italian neo-realists (Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti), examining the filmmakers who influenced them and their influence in turn on later filmmakers in Engalnd, Brazil, India and Europe. He looks at the modernist experiments of Resnais and Antonioni and pays special attention to the directors of the French New Wave (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette), who broke down the remaining traditions of cinematic storytelling and invented new ones. With deftness and clarity, Kolker discusses the New Wave's influence on such older directors as Bresson and Bunuel, as well as on younger ones, such as Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, and Jean-Marie Straub. He investigates the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog, filmmakers who have furthered the effort to make cinema a tool of enquiry and visual invention. He concludes with a look at specific political and psychological elements in contemporary film, particularly in the work of revolutionary Latin American filmmakers, the Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, as well as Godard, Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Losey, and Bunuel." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 405-415
ISBN: 0195033027
Contents: -- introduction -- one: the vaildity of image -- two: the substance of form -- three: politics, psychology, and memory -- notes -- bibliography -- index --
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Call No: 45:93 MCG
Author: McGee, Patrick
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 209 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (US/G, Quentin Tarantino, 2009); GANGS OF NEW YORK (GG/IT/US, Martin Scorsese, 2002); TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997)
Summary: "In his latest book, Patrick McGee argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds. Through philosophical and historical contextualization, he reveals the logic of what appears on the screen, a logic that shows how these films both represent and distort the historical record in order to articulate a truth that challenges conventional history as a discipline. Counterdisciplinary in its method, this exciting work asserts that no movie can ever be reduced to the absolutely authentic or the absolutely inauthentic." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780230116511
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: truth, history, and counterdisciplinary practices in film studies -- 1: Terrible beauties: messianic time and the image of social redemption in James Cameron's Titanic. -- 2: Infinite history: Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and the production of the inexistent -- 3: "No dreaming, no story, nothing": Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the cinematic common, and postcolonial discourse-- Conclusion: the glorious truth about inglorious history in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds -- works cited -- index --

Call No: 71(540) BOL
Author: KIshore, Vikrant (ed.); Patra, Parichay (ed.); Sarwal, Amit (ed.)
Source: US/UK/AT
Place: Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: INDIA; INDIA IN FILMS; BOLLYWOOD; INDIAN CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; THEORY; DIASPORIC CINEMA; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS
Summary: "How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Is it still an 'other' industry in a world dominated by American Cinemas? Bollywood and Its Other(s) aims to compensate for the lack of scholarly literature on Bollywood studies by opening up hitherto unexplored sites or sites that are in formation. One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood so far, it focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other, Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity, alternative reading strategies/research methods, marginal genres (sci-fi, horror), marginal characters (flaneuse, vamps), marginal gender (non-normative sexualities), marginal cinema (Hindi avant-garde), marginal language (Hinglish), and marginal regions (the Kashmir valley). It intends to address film scholars, South Asian studies researchers, cinephiles and lay readers alike.- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781137426499
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- list of figures -- notes on contributors -- introduction: Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra -- Section I Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy -- 1.Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence / Dibyakusum Ray -- 2.Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect / Parichay Patra -- Section II Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood -- 3.Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable / Sarah A. Joshi -- 4.A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood / Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh -- Section III The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s) -- 5.Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Performances and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya / Madhuja Mukherjee -- 6.'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms / Vikrant Kishore -- 7.The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India / Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis and Vikrant Kishore -- Section IV Bollywood's Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness -- 8.Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s--1970s / Suneeti Rekhari -- 9.Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema / Aneeta Rajendran -- 10.Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West / Amit Sarwal -- 11.The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza / Mithuraaj Dhusiya -- 12.Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films / Sami Ahmad Khan -- Section V Bollywood's Other, India's Other -- 13.Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir: In Conversation with the Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati / Kaushik Bhaumik -- afterword: Anupam Sharma -- index --

Call No: 633 CUB
Author: Cubitt, Sean
Source: US
Place: Cambridge, MA
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 456 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; MOTION CONTROL
Summary: It has been said that all cinema is an effect. In this highly original examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don’t quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital audience. [Taken from inside book jacket].
ISBN: 0262033127

Call No: 62 ROM
Author: Rombes, Nicholas
Edition: Revised edition
Place: London; New York
Publisher: New York Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: 22 b& w illustrations
Subject: DIGITAL CINEMA; NOSTALGIA; FILMMAKING; DISTRIBUTION; DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; EDITING; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; VIDEO FORMATS; PARANORMAL ACTIVITY : THE MARKED ONES ( US, Christopher Landon, 2014); THEORY; SPECTATORSHIP; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); APPLE; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FORMATS; CINEMATOGRAPHY
Summary: Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution. Nicholas Rombes considers Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), and The Ring (2002), among others. Haunted by their analogue pasts, these films are interested not in digital purity but rather in imperfection and mistakes-blurry or pixilated images, shaky camera work, and other elements that remind viewers of the human behind the camera.With a new introduction and new material, this updated edition takes a fresh look at the historical and contemporary state of digital cinema. It pays special attention to the ways in which nostalgia for the look and feel of analogue disrupts the aesthetics of the digital image, as well as how recent films such as The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)-both shot digitally-have disguised and erased their digital foundations. The book also explores new possibilities for writing about and theorizing film, such as randomization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780231167550
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Accelerationism 2.The Adorno Paradox 3.Against Method 4.Analog/ Digital Splice 5.Blood, Simple 6.Boredom and Analog Nostalgia 7.The Digital Spectacular 8.Disposable Aesthetics 9.DV Humanism 10.Filmless Films 11.Frame Dragging 12.The Ideology of the Long Take 13.Image/ Text 14.Incompleteness 15.Interfaces 16.iPod Experiment 17.Ironic Mode 18.Looking at Yourself Looking 19.The Lost Underground 20.Love in the Time of Fragments 21.Media as Its Own Theory 22.Mobile Viewing 23.Moving Space in the Frame, and a Note on Film Theory 24.Natural Time 25.Nonlinear 26.Paranormal Activity 2 27.Pausing 28.Punk 29.Realism 30.Real Time 31.The Real You 32.The Reality Industrial Complex 33.Remainders 34.Sampling 35.Secondary Becomes Primary 36.Self-Deconstructing Narratives 37.Shaky Camera 38.Shoot! 39.Simultaneous Cinema 40.Small Screens Contents note continued: 41.Target Video 42.Time, Memory 43.Time-Shifting 44.Tmesis: Skimming and Skipping 45.Undirected Films 46.Viewer Participation 47.Virtual Humanism: Part 1 48.Virtual Humanism: Part 2 49.Visible Language, Spring 1977 50.Interpreting Film Images Through Randomized Constraint: The Blue Velvet Project

Call No: 620 DER
Author: Lippit, Akira Mizuta
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 70 pages ; 18 cm.
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
Subject: DERRIDA, JACQUES; SPECTATORSHIP; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida's reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined. Following Derrida's interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida's philosophy."
ISBN: 9781517900045
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Anniverse -- Plus Surplus Love -- Eye-Line -- Ultrasound Light -- [& #x2665;] -- A Stranger Cinema -- Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift -- On the Disappearance of Narcissus and the Reappearance of Narcissism -- Postscript (PS): Exverse

Call No: 409 SIN
Author: Sinnerbrink, Robert
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: ETHICS IN FILMS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937); TALK TO HER (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002) SEE HABLE CON ELLA; HABLE CON ELLA (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); BIUTIFUL (MX/SP, Alejandro Inarritu, 2010)
Summary: " How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Can movies 'do ethics'? Cinema Ethics : Exploring Ethical Experiences through Film addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional engagement and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging manner, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to ethics in contemporary film theory and philosophy using detailed case studies of cinematic ethics across different genres, styles and filmic traditions. Written in a lucid and lively style that will engage both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book is ideal for use in the academic study of philosophy and film. Key features include annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and a filmography of movies useful for teaching and researching cinematic ethics. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography
ISBN: 9781138826168
Contents: -- list of figures -- preface -- overview of this book -- part I --Cinema and/as ethics -- 1: Cinematic ethics: Film as a medium of ethical experience -- part II -- Philosophical approaches to cinematic ethics -- 2: From scepticism to moral perfectionism (Cavell) -- 3: From cinematic belief to ethics and politics (Deleuze) -- 4: Cinempathy: phenomenology, cognitivism, and moving images -- part III Performing cinematic ethics -- 5: The moral melodrama (Stella Dallas, Talk to Her) -- 6: Melodrama, realism, and ethical experience (Biutiful, The Promise) -- 7.Gangster film: Cinematic ethics in The Act of Killing -- conclusion -- appendix 1 -- appendix 2 -- index --

Call No: 409 KEA
Author: Keathley, Christian
Source: US
Place: Bloomington IN
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xiv, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: CINEPHILIA; CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; CAHIERS DU CINEMA
Summary: "Cinephiles have regularily fetishized contingent, marginal details in the motion picture image: the gesture of a hand, the wind in the trees. Christian Keathley demonstrates that the spectatorial tendency that produces such cinematic encounters - a viewing practice marked by a drift in visual attention away from the primary visual elements on display - in fact has clear links to the origins of film as described by Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, and others. Keathley explores the implications of this ontology and proposes the "cinephiliac anecdote" as a new type of criticism, a method of historical writing that both imitates and extends the experience of these fugitive moments" - taken from back cover
Contents: 1. The desire for cinema -- 2. The cinephiliac moment and panoramic perception -- 3. Andre´ Bazin and the revelatory potential of cinema -- 4. Cahiers du cine´ma and the way of looking -- 5. Film and the limits of history -- 6. A cinephiliac history -- 7. Five cinephiliac anecdotes.

Call No: 630 TRA
Author: Trahair, Lisa
Source: US
Place: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: SUNY series, insinuations--philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
Subject: COMEDIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; BATAILLE, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND
Summary: "The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations of their work. Trahair explores the shift from the excessive physical slapstick of the Mack Sennett era to the so-called structural comedy of the 1920s, and also offers a new perspective on the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of film by focusing on the implications of Freud's theory of the unconscious for our understanding of visuality."--BOOK JACKET.
ISBN: 9780791472477
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010
Contents: 1. The Philosophy of Laughter: Bataille, Hegel, and Derrida -- 2. Restricted and General Economy: Narrative, Gag, and Slapstick in One Week -- 3. The Machine of Comedy: Gunning, Deleuze, and Buster Keaton -- 4. Fool's Gold: Metamorphoses in Sherlock Jr. -- 5. Jokes and Their Relation to ... -- 6. The Comic: Degradation and Refinement in 1920's Cinematic Slapstick -- 7. From Words to Images (Gagging) -- 8. Figural Vision: Freud, Lyotard, and City Lights -- 9. Preposterous Figurality: Comic Cinema and Bad Metaphor.

Call No: 62(04) CRI
Source: US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: THEORY; AESTHETICS; SEMIOLOGY; SPECTATORSHIP; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; RANCIERE, JACQUES; SCRIPTWRITING; AUTHORSHIP
Summary: Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world's leading writers on nonfiction film, this volume features contributions by such prominent authors as Noel Burch, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Brian Winston and Patrick Fuery. Seminal filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway and Mike Figgis also contribute to the debate, making this book a critical text for students, academics and independent filmmakers as well as for any reader interested in new perspectives on culture and film. -- taken from the back of the book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781906660369
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Theoretical Practice: Diegesis Is Not a Code of Cinema / Clive Myer -- 2.Cinema, Theory, Women / Clive Myer -- 3.Theory and Practice / Noel Burch -- 4.Passing Time: Reflections on the Old and the New / Peter Wollen -- 5.Sublime Acts: The Fate of Resistance between Film Theory and Practice / Laura Mulvey -- 6.Rancie`re and the Persistence of Film Theory / Patrick Fuery -- 7.Behind the Mask of the Screenplay: The Screen Idea / Nico Baumbach -- 8.The Theory-Practice Interface in Film Education: Observational Documentary in India / Ian W. MacDonald -- 9.The Student Author, Lacanian Discourse Theory and La nuit ame´ricaine / Aparna Sharma -- 10.Just Because You Have Eyes Does Not Mean You Can See / Coral Houtman -- 11.Theory for Practice: Ceci n'est pas l'e´piste´mologie / Peter Greenaway -- 12.Film and Philosophy: An Interview with Mike Figgis / Brian Winston -- 13.Playing with New Toys: An Interview with Peter Greenaway / Clive Myer -- Contents note continued: 14.An Interview with Noel Burch: Playing with Toys by the Wayside / Clive Myer.

Call No: 620 DEL COL
Author: Colebrook, Claire
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Continuum
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 178 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; HISTORY OF CINEMA; DELEUZE, GILLES
Summary: "Gilles Deleuze is undoubtedly one of the seminal figures in modern Continental thought. However, his philosophy makes considerable demands on the student; his major works make for challenging reading and require engagement with some difficult concepts and complex systems of thought. 'Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed' is the ideal text for anyone who needs to get to grips with Deleuzian thought, offering a thorough yet approachable account of the central themes in his work. The text is organised around major themes in Deleuze's oeuvre: sense; univocity; intuition; singularity; difference. His ideas related to language, politics, ethics and consciousness are explored in detail and clarified. The book also locates Deleuze in the context of his philosophical influences and antecedents and highlights the implications of his ideas for a range of disciplines from politics to film theory. Throughout, close attention is paid to Deleuze's most influential publications, including the landmark texts, 'The Logic of Sense' and 'Difference and Repetition'." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0826478301
Language: English
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: 1 Cinema, thought and time -- Deleuze's cinema books -- Technology -- Essences -- Space and time -- Bergson, time, and life -- 2 The movement-image -- The history of time and space and the history of cinema -- movement-image and semiotics -- styles of sign -- whole of movement -- Image and life -- Becoming-inhuman, becoming imperceptible -- The deduction of the movement-image -- 3 Art and time -- Destruction of the sensory motor apparatus and the spiritual automaton -- Time and money -- 4 Art and history -- Monument -- Framing, territorialization, and the plane of composition -- 5 Politics and the origin of meaning -- Transcending life and the genesis of sense -- Beyond symbolic and imaginary -- Shit and money -- Exchange, gift, and theft -- The fiction of mind -- Collective investment and group fantasy -- The time of man -- The intense germinal influx --

Call No: 620 DEL KEN
Author: Kennedy, Barbara M.
Source: UK
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 229 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; THEORY; CRITICISM; DELEUZE, GILLES; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); ENGLISH PATIENT, THE (US, Anthony Minghella, 1996); WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996); LEON (FR, Luc Besson, 1994)
Summary: "Through discussions of Orlando, The English Patient, Romeo and Juliet, Strange Days and Leon this subtle and powerful book reintroduces debates about film as an art form and the place of film theory within our aesthetic sensibilities." - taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. -- Filmography: pages 223-224.
ISBN: 0748617264
Contents: Introduction: Discovering the beautiful stranger ... -- From micro-politics to aesthetics -- From Oedipal myths ... to new interventions -- From abstract machines to Deleuzian becomings -- Constituting bodies : from subjectivity and affect to the becoming-woman of the cinematic -- Towards an aesthetics of sensation -- Orlando : Deleuzian landscapes of immanence -- The English patient : Deleuzian landscapes of immanence -- Romeo and Juliet : Deleuzian sensations -- Strange days : Deleuzian sensations -- Reconfiguring love ... a Deleuzian travesty? Leon and a molecular politics via the girl and the child.

Call No: 630 THO
Author: Thomas, Allan James
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Plateaus
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; THEORY; VIEWERS; DELEUZE, GILLES
Summary: Examination of how philosopher Gilles Deleuze addressed philosophical issues by using cinema. Looks at the types of philosophical issues that Deleuze turned to cinema to answer, and why he chose cinema to tackle these issues rather than just use philosophy alone
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-262) and index.
ISBN: 9781474432795
Contents: 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema -- 2 The Interval as Disaster -- 3 Movement, Duration and Difference -- 4 What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? -- 5 Genesis and Deduction -- 6 The Thought of the World -- 7 The Night, the Rain -- 8 Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy -- References; Index.

Call No: 630:761 WAH
Author: Wahlberg, Malin
Source: US
Place: Minneopolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: c2008
PhysDes: xvii, 170 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Series: Visible evidence ; v. 21
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; WARHOL, ANDY; DELEUZE, GILLES; BAZIN, ANDRE; MITRY, JEAN
Summary: The book attempts to look at the idea of time for both the maker of documentaries, and the viewer of such works; it attempts to bring together the philosophy of time and the ideas of documentary making [Taken from the back of the book]
Notes: Bibliography: p.151-164; Includes index
ISBN: 9780816649686

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

Call No: 81BRA BRA
Author: Brakhage, Stan; McPherson, Bruce R
Source: US
Place: Kingston, New York
Publisher: McPherson and Company
PubDate: c2001
PhysDes: 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; FILMMAKING; BRAKHAGE, STAN
Summary: "Essential Brakhage gathers twenty-one manifestos, screening lectures, Q&A sessions, drawings, poems, shooting scenarios, stills, narrative scripts, and theoretical essays on the art of filmmaking written over the last five decades by one of the acknowledged masters of independent American cinema. Film annotations and a current bibliography are included." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-232); "Selected film annotations": p. 212-229
ISBN: 092970164X
Contents: -- foreword -- selections from metaphors on vision -- metaphors on vision -- the camera eye -- my eye -- his story -- notes of anticipation -- margin alien -- selections from Brakhage scrapbook -- make place for the artist -- Film and music -- a moving picture giving and taking book -- eight questions -- with love -- film : dance -- the stars are beautiful -- angels -- in defence of amateur -- manifest -- the seen -- poetry and film -- recent writings -- Gertrude Stein -- manifesto -- inspirations -- selected film annotations -- selected bibliography --

Call No: 62 BEN
Author: Ben-Shaul, Nitzan
Source: UK
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Berg
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: viii, 158 p. ; 21 cm
Series: The key concepts
Subject: THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "Film: the key concepts presents a coherent, clear, and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions anf guides to further reading are also provided." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781845203665
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010
Contents: 1. From the photogenic to the simulacrum. Realist approaches; Formalist approaches to art; Film as simulacrum -- 2. Film constructs. Saussure, semiology, structuralism and film constructs; Poststructuralism and film constructs; Cognitivist film constructs; Neo-Marxist and psychoanalytic critiques of cognitivism -- 3. Dialectic film montage. Constructivist dialectic film montage in the context of Marxism; Deconstructive dialectic film montage in the context of Neo-Marxism; Reconstructive dialectic film montage in the context of anti-colonialism; Decentred dialectic film montage: postmodernism, post-Marxism, postcolonialism -- 4. Imaginary signifiers/voyeuristic pleasures. Psychoanalysis and film; Varying voyeuristic pleasures.

Call No: 753 COH
Author: Cohen, Keith
Source: US
Place: New Haven
Publisher: Yale University Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; AESTHETICS; ART CINEMA; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TIME IN FILMS
Summary: This book considers not only the narrative exchange that occurs when a novel is adapted to film, but the stylistic exchange between cinema and the written word that has occurred throughout the twentireth century. Cohen argues that as cinema has become a more dominant media, the novel itself has adapted to take on more cinematic qualities and vice versa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0300023669 : $12.50
LON: 79064073; 1425482

Call No: 626:165.62 CAS
Author: Casebier, Allan
Place: Cambridge New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: vii, 165 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: HUSSERL, EDMUND; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; BORDWELL, DAVID; BAZIN, ANDRE; MARKER, CHRIS; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LACAN, JACQUES; METZ, CHRISTIAN; OSHIMA NAGISA; OZU YASUJIRO; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 159-160; Filmography: p. 161-162
ISBN: 0521411327 (hardback)
LON: 7950801

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: Frey, Mattias (ed.); Sayad, Cecilia
Source: US/UK
Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: vi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "In Film criticism in the Digital Age ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book's contributors find many signs of the film critic's declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics--whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers--have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture." -- BACK COVER BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780813570723
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction: critical questions / Mattias Frey -- part I the critic and the audience -- 1 Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Postvanguard World / Greg Taylor -- 2 Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense of a Crisis / Cecilia Sayad -- 3 "The Last Honest Film Critic in America": Armond White and the Children of James Baldwin / Daniel McNeil -- part II new forms and activities -- 4 The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDb / Mattias Frey -- 5 The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in Italy / Giacomo Manzoli and Paolo Noto -- 6 Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical Counterpublics / Maria San Filippo -- 7 Elevating the "Amateur": Nollywood Critics and the Politics of Diasporic Film Criticism / Noah Tsika -- part III insitutions and the profession -- 8 American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet Era / Anne Hurault-Paupe -- 9 Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital Age / Outi Hakola -- 10 The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have (to Have) a Soul? / Thomas Elsaesser -- part IV critics speak -- 11 The Critic Is Dead... / Jasmina Kallay -- 12 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Movies / Armond White -- 13 Who Needs Critics? / Nick James -- 14 Excerpts from Cineaste's "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium" / Theodoros Panayides, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, the self-styled siren (Farran Smith Nehme), and Stephanie Zacharek -- afterword / Cecilia Sayad -- selected bibliography -- notes on contributors -- index --

Call No: 63 RAN
Author: Rancier, Jacques; Battista, Emiliano
Source: FR/US
Place: New York
Publisher: Berg Publishers
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AESTHETICS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SYMBOLISM IN FILMS; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; EPSTEIN, JEAN; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; LANG, FRITZ; MANN, ANTHONY; MARKER, CHRIS; MEDVEKIN, ALEXANDER; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM; OZU YASUJIRO; RAY, NICHOLAS; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VERTOV, DZIGA; AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (US, Fritz Lang, 1955)
Summary: "Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries."
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 9781845201685
ID2: 291

Call No: 64GEN FIL
Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: GENRES; WESTERNS; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; DISASTER FILMS; EPIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; MELODRAMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; MUSICALS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CANADA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; MICHEAUX, OSCAR; CRONENBERG, DAVID; FORD, JOHN; PENN, ARTHUR; SIRK, DOUGLAS; CAVELL, STANLEY; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; FRYE, NORTHROP; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951); [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957); VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and index
ISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11563059

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: MacKenzie, Scott (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Berkeley London
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xxi, 651 p. ; 26 cm
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CONSTRUCTIVISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; WORLD CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; AESTHETICS; HOLLYWOOD; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM
Summary: Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture. -- extract taken from the back of the book
Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISSN: 9780520276741
Contents: Introduction. “An Invention without a Future” -- 1. The Avant-Garde(s) -- The Futurist Cinema (Italy, 1916) F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. -- Lenin Decree (USSR, 1919) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The ABCs of Cinema (France, 1917–1921) Blaise Cendrars -- WE: Variant of a Manifesto (USSR, 1922) Dziga Vertov -- The Method of Making Workers’ Films (USSR, 1925) Sergei Eisenstein -- Constructivism in the Cinema (USSR, 1928) Alexei Gan -- Preface: Un chien Andalou (France, 1928) Luis Buñuel -- Manifesto of the Surrealists Concerning L’Age d’or (France, 193) The Surrealist Group -- Manifesto on “Que Viva Mexico” (USA, 1933) The Editors of Experimental Film -- Spirit of Truth (France, 1933) Le Corbusier -- An Open Letter to the Film Industry and to All Who Are Interested in the Evolution of the Good Film (Hungary, 1934) László Moholy-Nagy -- Light*Form*Movement*Sound (USA, 1935) Mary Ellen Bute -- Prolegomena for All Future Cinema (France, 1952) Guy Debord -- No More Flat Feet! (France, 1952) Lettriste International -- The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952) Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gabriel Pomerand -- The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953) Jim Davis -- A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961) Maya Deren -- The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961) New American Cinema Group -- Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962) Ron Rice -- From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963) Stan Brakhage -- Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964) George Kuchar -- Film Andepandan [Independents] Manifesto (Japan, 1964) Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. -- Discontinuous Films (Canada, 1967) Keewatin Dewdney -- Hand-Made Films Manifesto (Australia, 1968) Ubu Films, Thoms -- Cinema Manifesto (Australia, 1971) Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill -- For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses (USA, 1971) Hollis Frampton -- Elements of the Void (Greece, 1972) Gregory Markopoulos -- Small Gauge Manifesto (USA, 1980) JoAnn Elam and Chuck Kleinhans -- Cinema of Transgression Manifesto (USA, 1985) Nick Zedd -- Modern, All Too Modern (USA, 1988) Keith Sanborn -- Open Letter to the Experimental Film Congress: Let’s Set the Record Straight (Canada, 1989) Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. -- Anti-1 Years of Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1996) Jonas Mekas -- The Decalogue (Czech Republic, 1999) Jan Švankmajer -- Your Film Farm Manifesto on Process Cinema (Canada, 212) Philip Hoffman -- 2. National and Transnational Cinemas -- From “The Glass Eye” (Italy, 1933) Leo Longanesi -- The Archers’ Manifesto (UK, 1942) Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- What Is Wrong with Indian Films? (India, 1948) Satyajit Ray -- Buñuel the Poet (Mexico, 1951) Octavio Paz -- French Cinema Is Over (France, 1952) Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. -- Some Ideas on the Cinema (Italy, 1953) Cesare Zavattini -- A Certain Tendency in French Cinema (France, 1954) François Truffaut -- Salamanca Manifesto & Conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca (Spain, 1955) Juan Antonio Bardem -- Free Cinema Manifestos (UK, 1956–1959) Committee for Free Cinema -- The Oberhausen Manifesto (West Germany, 1962) Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. -- Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] (West Germany, 1965) Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. -- The Mannheim Declaration (West Germany, 1967) Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. -- Sitges Manifesto (Spain, 1967) Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jordà, and Julián Marcos -- How to Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Guy Glover -- How to Not Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Claude Jutra -- From “The Estates General of the French Cinema, May 1968” (France, 1968) Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement (India, 1968) Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen -- What Is to Be Done? (France, 1970) Jean-Luc Godard -- The Winnipeg Manifesto (Canada, 1974) Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. -- Hamburg Declaration of German Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. -- Manifesto I (Denmark, 1984) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto II (Denmark, 1987) Lars von Trier -- Manifesto III: I Confess! (Denmark, 199) Lars von Trier -- The Cinema We Need (Canada, 1985) R. Bruce Elder -- Pathways to the Establishment of a Nigerian Film Industry (Nigeria, 1985) Ola Balogun -- Manifesto of 1988 (German Democratic Republic, 1988) Young DEFA Filmmakers -- In Praise of a Poor Cinema (Scotland, 1993) Colin McArthur -- Dogme ’95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity (Denmark, 1995) Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg -- I Sinema Manifesto (Indonesia, 1999) Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. -- 3. Third Cinemas, Colonialism, Decolonization, and Postcolonialism -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Group (Mexico, 1961) El grupo nuevo cine -- Cinema and Underdevelopment (Argentina, 1962) Fernando Birri -- The Aesthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965) Glauber Rocha -- For an Imperfect Cinema (Cuba, 1969) -- Julio García Espinosa Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World (Argentina, 1969) Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino -- Film Makers and the Popular Government Political Manifesto (Chile, 1970) Comité de cine de la unidad popular -- Consciousness of a Need (Uruguay, 1970) Mario Handler -- Militant Cinema: An Internal Category of Third Cinema (Argentina, 1971) Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas -- For Colombia 1971: Militancy and Cinema (Colombia, 1971) Carlos Alvarez -- The Cinema: Another Face of Colonised Québec (Canada, 1971) Association professionnelle des cinéastes du Québec -- 8 Millimeters versus 8 Millions (Mexico, 1972) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. -- Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group (Palestine, 1973) Palestinian Cinema Group -- Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting (Algeria, 1973) Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembene, Jorge Silva, et al. -- The Luz e Ação Manifesto (Brazil, 1973) Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. -- Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema (Bolivia, 1976) Jorge Sanjinés -- Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers (Mexico, 1975) Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. -- The Algiers Charter on African Cinema (Algeria, 1975) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Declaration of Principles and Goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema (Nicaragua, 1979) Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema -- What Is the Cinema for Us? (Mauritania, 1979) Med Hondo -- Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers (Niger, 1982) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective (UK, 1983) John Akomfrah -- From Birth Certificate of the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, Nicknamed the School of Three Worlds (Cuba, 1986) Fernando Birri -- FeCAViP Manifesto (France, 1990) Federation of Caribbean Audiovisual Professionals -- Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop (Zimbabwe, 1990) SADCC (South African Development Coordination Conference) -- Pocha Manifesto #1 (USA, 1994) Sandra Peña-Sarmiento -- Poor Cinema Manifesto (Cuba, 24) Humberto Solás -- Jollywood Manifesto (Haiti, 28) Ciné Institute -- The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation (Canada, 29) John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. -- 4. Gender, Feminist, Queer, Sexuality, and Porn Manifestos -- Woman’s Place in Photoplay Production (USA, 1914) Alice Guy-Blaché -- Hands Off Love (France, 1927) Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. -- The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez (USA, 1962) Jack Smith -- On Film No. 4 (In Taking the Bottoms of 365 Saints of Our Time) (UK, 1967) Yoko Ono -- Statement (USA, 1969) Kenneth Anger -- Wet Dream Film Festival Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1970) S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) -- Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (UK, 1973) Claire Johnston -- Manifesto for a Non-sexist Cinema (Canada, 1974) FECIP (Fédération européenne du cinéma progressiste) -- Womanifesto (USA, 1975) Feminists in the Media -- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (UK, 1975) Laura Mulvey -- An Egret in the Porno Swamp: Notes of Sex in the Cinema (Sweden, 1977) Vilgot Sjöman -- For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman (France, 1978) Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef -- Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen -- Wimmin’s Fire Brigade Communiqué (Canada, 1982) Wimmin’s Fire Brigade -- Thoughts on Women’s Cinema: Eating Words, Voicing Struggles (USA, 1986) Yvonne Rainer -- The Post Porn Modernist Manifesto (USA, 1989) Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. -- Statement of African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video (Burkina Faso, 1991) FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Puzzy Power Manifesto: Thoughts on Women and Pornography (Denmark, 1998) Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Børglum, et al. -- Cinema with Tits (Spain, 1998) Icíar Bollaín -- My Porn Manifesto (France, 22) Ovidie -- No More Mr. Nice Gay: A Manifesto (USA, 29) Todd Verow -- Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto (UK, 29) Sally Potter -- Dirty Diaries Manifesto (Sweden, 29) Mia Engberg -- 5. Militating Hollywood -- Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) (USA, 193) Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America -- Red Films: Soviets Spreading Doctrine in U.S. Theatres (USA, 1935) William Randolph Hearst -- Statement of Principles (USA, 1944) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals -- Screen Guide for Americans (USA, 1947) Ayn Rand -- White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art (USA, 1962) Manny Farber -- Super Fly: A Summary of Objections by the Kuumba Workshop (USA, 1972) Kuumba Workshop -- The World Is Changing: Some Thoughts on Our Business (USA, 1991) Jeffrey Katzenberg -- Full Frontal Manifesto (USA, 21) Steven Soderbergh -- 6. The Creative Treatment of Actuality-- Towards a Social Cinema (France, 1930) Jean Vigo -- From “First Principles of Documentary” (UK, 1932) John Grierson -- Manifesto on the Documentary Film (UK, 1933) Oswell Blakeston -- Declaration of the Group of Thirty (France, 1953) Jean Painlevé, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. -- Initial Statement of the Newsreel (USA, 1967) New York Newsreel -- Nowsreel, or the Potentialities of a Political Cinema (USA, 1970) Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel -- Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case (Poland, 1971) Bohdan Kosinski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Tomasz Zygadlo -- The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagata YIDFF Manifesto (Japan, 1989) Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. -- Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema (Germany, 1999) Werner Herzog -- Defocus Manifesto (Denmark, 2) Lars von Trier -- Kill the Documentary as We Know It (USA, 22) Jill Godmilow -- Ethnographic Cinema (EC): A Manifesto{ths}/{ths}A Provocation (USA, 23) Jay Ruby -- Reality Cinema Manifesto (Russia, 25) Vitaly Manskiy -- Documentary Manifesto (USA, 28) Albert Maysles -- China Independent Film Festival Manifesto: Shamans * Animals (People’s Republic of China, 211) By several documentary filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival -- 7. States, Dictatorships, the Comintern, and Theocracies -- Capture the Film! Hints on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda (USA, 1925) Willi Münzenberg -- The Legion of Decency Pledge (USA, 1938) Archbishop John McNicholas -- Creative Film (Germany, 1935) Joseph Goebbels -- Vigilanti Cura: On Motion Pictures (Vatican City, 1936) Pope Pius XI -- Four Cardinal Points of A Revolução de Maio (Portugal, 1937) António Lopes Ribeiro -- From On the Art of Cinema (North Korea, 1973) Kim Jong-il -- 8. Archives, Museums, Festivals, and Cinematheques -- A New Source of History: The Creation of a Depository for Historical Cinematography (Poland/France, 1898) Boleslaw Matuszewski -- The Film Prayer (USA, c. 192) A. P. Hollis -- The Film Society (UK, 1925) Iris Barry -- Filmliga Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1927) Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, Men’no Ter Bbaak, et al. -- Statement of Purposes (USA, 1948) Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 -- The Importance of Film Archives (UK, 1948) Ernest Lindgren -- A Plea for a Canadian Film Archive (Canada, 1949) Hye Bossin -- Open Letter to Film-Makers of the World (USA, 1966) Jonas Mekas -- A Declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française (France, 1968) Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française -- Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art (USA, 1969) Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow -- Anthology Film Archives Manifesto (USA, 1970) P. Adams Sitney -- Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive (USA, 1971) Alan Lomax -- Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1998) Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick -- Don’t Throw Film Away: The FIAF 7th Anniversary Manifesto (France, 28) Hisashi Okajima and La fédération internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group -- The Lindgren Manifesto: The Film Curator of the Future (Italy, 21) Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (UK, 212) Mark Cousins -- 9. Sounds and Silence -- A Statement on Sound (USSR, 1928) Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov -- A Rejection of the Talkies (USA, 1931) Charlie Chaplin -- A Dialogue on Sound: A Manifesto (UK, 1934) Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun -- Amalfi Manifesto (Italy, 1967) Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. -- 10. The Digital Revolution -- Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto (USA, 1966) Stan VanDerBeek -- The Digital Revolution and the Future Cinema (Iran, 2) Samira Makhmalbaf -- The Pluginmanifesto (UK, 21) Ana Kronschnabl -- Digital Dekalogo: A Manifesto for a Filmless Philippines (The Philippines, 23) Khavn de la Cruz -- 11. Aesthetics and the Futures of the Cinema -- The Birth of the Sixth Art (France, 1911) Ricciotto Canudo -- Memo from Walt Disney to Don Graham (USA, 1935) Walt Disney -- The Birth of a New Avant Garde: La caméra-stylo (France, 1948) Alexandre Astruc -- From Preface to Film (UK, 1954) Raymond Williams -- The Snakeskin (Sweden, 1965) Ingmar Bergman -- Manifesto (Italy, 1965) Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. -- Manifesto on the Release of La Chinoise (France, 1967) Jean-Luc Godard -- Direct Action Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1985) Rob Nilsson -- Remodernist Film Manifesto (USA, 28) Jesse Richards -- The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return (People’s Republic of China, 21) Jia Zhangke --

Call No: 626 DOU
Author: Douglas, Ian, 1943-1983; Ruthrof, Horst
CorpAuthor: Film and Television Institute (W.A.)
Place: Murdoch, W.A.
Publisher: Continuum Publications and Film & Television Institute (WA)
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Bibliography: p. [287]-293
ISBN: 0869051237
LON: 6040181

Call No: 62 STA
Author: Stam, Robert
Source: US/UK/AT
Place: Malden, MA ; Oxford
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: x, 381 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: " Film Theory: An Introduction offers a comprehensive history of film theory during the "century of cinema." The book moves all the way from silent-era theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Hugo Munsterberg through to the latest developments in film theory and cultural studies (cognitive theory, Deleuze, queer theory, postcolonial theory, digital theory), international in scope, the volume ranges over developments in such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, trying always to stress the links between these developments. The book also contextualizes film theory within larger historical and philosophical currents.Written in sophisticated yet accessible language, Film Theory: An Introduction provides a lucid and coherent introduction to a rich and variegated field. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780631206545
Contents: -- preface -- introduction -- The antecedents of film theory -- Film and film theory : the beginnings -- Early silent film theory -- The essence of cinema -- The Soviet montage-theorists -- Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School -- The historical avant-gardes -- The debate after sound -- The Frankfurt School -- The phenomenology of realism -- The cult of the auteur -- The Americanization of auteur theory -- Third world film and theory -- The advent of structuralism -- The question of film language -- Cinematic specificity revisited -- Interrogating authorship and genre -- 1968 and the leftist turn -- The classic realist text -- The presence of Brecht -- The politics of reflexitivity -- The search for alternative aesthetics -- From linguistics to psychoanalysis -- From feminist intervention -- The postsructuralist mutation -- Textual analysis -- Interpretation and its discontents -- From text to intertext -- The amplification of sound -- The rise of cultural studies -- The birth of the spectator -- Cognitive and analytic theory -- Semiotics revisited -- Just in time : the impact of Deleuze -- The coming out of queer theory -- Multiculturalism, race, and representation -- Third cinema revisited -- Film and the postcolonial -- The poetics and politics of postmodernism -- The social valence of mass-culture -- Post-cinema : digital theory and the new media -- The pluralization of film theory -- notes -- select bibliography -- index --

Call No: 631.19 PIP
Author: Pippin, Robert B.
Source: US
Place: Chicago
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); HABLE CON ELLA [TALK TO HER] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998); DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC
Summary: "In this book, philosopher Robert B. Pippin reveals how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodovar's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and in the Dardenne brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (with an eye to cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human." - taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780226672007
Contents: Section I: Cinema As Reflective Form 1. Cinematic Reflection -- 2. Cinematic Self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Section II: Moral Variations 3. Devils & Angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her -- 4. Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III: Social Pathologies 5. Cinematic Tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Can "Life" Itself be "False"? -- 6. Love & Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV: Irony & Mutuality 7. Cinematic Irony: The Strange Case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- 8. Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V: Agency & Meaning 9. Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- 10. Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers
ID2: 343

Call No: 631 MAT
Author: Matich, Rosemary L
Source: US
Place: Ann Arbor Mich.
Publisher: UMI
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: 357 pages. : 22cm.
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; ROSE, PETER; STRANGER THAN PARADISE (US/GW, Jim Jarmusch, 1984); BRITISH SOUNDS (UK, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger, 1969); SLOW MOVES (US, Jon Jost, 1984)
Summary: "This dissertation confronts problems in involving translation of the primary philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- the temporal nature of consciousness and the spatiality of perception -- into film theory. It describes qualities of aesthetic experience according to technique, intentionaliy and consciousness/flux" - taken from abstract
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.) - Northwestern University, 1989. Inlcudes bibliography and references
Donation: donated from the estate of Adrian Miles
Contents: Chapter I: Creative consciousness and the brain image -- Chapter II: Temporality and theoretical perspectives -- Chapter III: Spatiality and theoretical perspectives -- Chapter IV: Space/time, practice -- Chapter V: Analogies: studies in the movement of time -- Chapter VI: Stranger than paradise -- Chapter VII: Slow moves -- Chapter VIII: See you at the Mao
ID2: 343

Call No: 409.1 HOM
Author: Naficy, Hamid (ed)
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: xii, 248 p. ; 23 cm
Series: AFI film readers.
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND TV
Summary: " Global changes in capital, power, technology, and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by internationally accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly globalized world. Ranging from intensely personal to highly theoretical, the contributors explore our complex negotiation of 'home' and 'homeland' in a postmodern world." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0415919479
Contents: preface: arrivals and departures / Homi K. Bhabha. 1. framing exile: from homeland to homepage / Hamid Naficy -- pt. 1. traveling concepts. 2. exile, nomadism, and diaspora: the stakes of mobility in the western canon / John Durham Peters -- pt. 2. synesthetic homing. 3. "is any body home?": embodied imagination and visible evictions / Vivian Sobchack. 4. home: smell, taste, posture, gleam / Margaret Morse. 5. the intolerable gift: residues and traces of a journey / Teshome H. Gabriel. 6. the key to the house / Patricia Seed -- pt. 3. cinematic modes of production. 7. ethnicity, authenticity, and exile: a counterfeit trade? german filmmakers and hollywood / Thomas Elsaesser. 8. between rocks and hard places: the interstitial mode of production in exilic cinema / Hamid Naficy -- pt. 4. mediated collective formations. 9. bounded realms: household, family, community, and nation / David Morley. 10. recycling colonialist fantasies on the texas borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso. 11. "home is where the hatred is": work, music, and the transnational economy / George Lipsitz. 12. by the bitstream of babylon: cyberfrontiers and diasporic vistas / Ella Shohat.

Call No: 62 NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Source: US
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: xv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; AESTHETICS; SEMIOLOGY; NON-FICTION FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; BLONDE VENUS (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1932); BIRDS, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Summary: "To what degree, Nichols asks, does ideology inform images in films, advertising, and other media? Does the cinema or any other sign system librerate or manipulate us? How can we as spectators know when the media are subtly perpetuating a specific set of values? To address these issues, the author draws from a variety of approaches - Marxism, psychoanalysis, communication theory, semiotics, structuralism, the psychology of perception. Working with two interrelated theories - ideology and systems of visual representation, and ideology and principles of textual criticism - Nichols shows how and why we make emotional investments in sign systems within an ideological context." -- BACK COVER
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 304-313
ISBN: 0253182875; 0253202566 (pbk.)
LON: 80007684; 1763485
Contents: Introduction: Picking up the trail -- 1. Art and the perceptual process -- 2. The analysis of representational images -- 3. The cinema: movement, narrative, and paradox -- 4. Blonde venus: playing with performance -- 5. For The birds -- 6. The documentary film and principles of exposition -- 7. Frederick Wiseman's documentaries: theory and structure -- 8. Documentary, criticism, and the ethnographic film -- Conclusion

Call No: 630 EPS
Author: Epstein, Jean; Wall-Romana, Christophe (translator)
Edition: First Edition
Source: US/FR
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: Univocal
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: xi, 111 p. ; 20 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; FILM; MOTION PICTURES - FRANCE; EPSTEIN, JEAN
Notes: "Translated from the French by Christophe Wall-Romana as The intelligence of a machine." -- T.p. verso
ISBN: 9781937561185
Contents: -- The philosophy of cinema -- Signs -- The interchangeability of continuity and discontinuity -- Non-temporal time -- Neither spirit nor matter -- The randomness of determinism and the determinism of randomness -- The wrong side equals the right side -- Photo-electric psychoanalysis -- Mechanical philosophy -- Quantity mother of quality -- The relativity of logic -- The law of laws -- Irrealism --

Call No: 670 INV GRI
Author: Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee
Source: UK
Place: Durham
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: American Film Institute; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; CRITICISM; FILM ART MEDIA; FILM CULTURE; FILM NOIR; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; FILMOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK]; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETIES, FILM; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; BACHMANN, GIDEON; BARRY, IRIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; BERGSTROM, JANET; BORDWELL, DAVID; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BURGESS, ERNEST; BUSCOMBE, ED; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COOK, PAM; DEREN, MAYA; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FULLER, SAMUEL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; HAWKS, HOWARD; HAYS, WILL; HEATH, STEPHEN; HUFF, THEODORE; MACCABE, COLIN; METZ, CHRISTIAN; PARK, ROBERT; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR; PENLEY, CONSTANCE; RAINER, YVONNE; RAMSAYE, TERRY; RICHTER, HANS; ROTHA, PAUL; SARRIS, ANDREW; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SELDES, GILBERT; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H; STERN, SEYMOUR; THRASHER, FREDRICK; VOGEL, AMOS; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WEINBERG, HERMAN G; WHANNEL, PADDY; WOLLEN, PETER
Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780822342892
Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson -- Making Cinema Knowable -- Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan -- Making Cinema Educational -- Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen -- Making Cinema Legible -- Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis Little Books / Mark Betz -- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies -- Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick

Call No: 732 PAL
Author: Palmer, Jerry
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; COMEDY PROGRAMMES; HUMOUR IN FILMS; HUMOUR ON TV; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; FAWLTY TOWERS [TV] (UK, 1975; 1979)
Summary: "What is comedy? We all know what entertains us and makes us laugh, but rarely stop to ask why. To answer this question, Jerry Palmer looks at examples culled from a variety of comic forms, ranging from Bob Hope to Laurel and Hardy slapstick to Dr Strangelove to Fawlty Towers, and examines how their humour works."--BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 085170204X; 0851702058 (pbk.)
LON: 5413120
Donation: Donated by Mike Counihan

Call No: 62 AND
Author: Andrew, Dudley, 1945
Place: London New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: x, 278 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; MUNSTERBERG, HUGO; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; BALAZS, BELA; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; BAZIN, ANDRE; MITRY, JEAN; METZ, CHRISTIAN
Summary: "The major film theories is designed for anyone with a serious interest in the art of film. It is both a history film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important and influential writers on the subject - Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry and Metz. Andrew sets these major theorists one against the other forcing them to speak to common issues, thereby making them reveal the bases of their thought. He compares the formative tradition with that of the realist to illustrate the development of both theories." The final secion of the book deals with contemporary French film theory which is still in the process of develping. Andrew locates these film theories in the contect of larger intellectual movements, including Gestalt psychology, Russian formalism, Neo-Kantianism and Existentialism." -- Back cover
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 261-272
ISBN: 0195019911 : $3.95 (U.S.)
LON: 75025465; 741859
Contents: Introduction -- Part 1 : The formative tradition -- Hugo Munsterberg. Matter and means ; Form and function -- Rudolf Arnheim. Material ; The creative use of the medium ; Film form ; The purpose of film -- Sergei Eisenstein. The raw material of film ; Cinematic means : creation through montage ; Film form ; The final purpose of film -- Be´la Bala´zs and the tradition of formalism. A summary of formative film theory ; Russian formalism ; Be´la Bala´zs ; The raw material of film art ; The creative potential of film technique ; Cinematic shape or form ; Cinematic functions -- Part 2 : Realist film theory -- Siegfried Kracauer. Matter and means ; Compositional forms ; The purpose of cinema ; Rebuttals -- Andre´ Bazin. The raw material ; Cinematic means and form ; The function of cinema -- Part 3 : Contemporary French film theory -- Jean Mitry. The raw material ; Creative potential in film ; The form and purpose of cinema -- Christian Metz and the semiology of the cinema. The raw material ; The means of signification in cinema ; The forms and possibilities of film ; Semiology and the purposes of film -- The challenge of phenomenology : Ame´de´e Ayfre and Henri Agel
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Call No: 62(082) MOV v.2
Author: Nichols, Bill (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: xii, 753 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; GENRES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; SEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; BAZIN, ANDRE; WALSH, RAOUL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; DAUGHTER RITE (US, Michelle Citron, 1979); JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE/FR, Chantal Akerman, 1975); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939)
Summary: "The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field. Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: This is volume II
ISBN: 0520054091
Contents: -- historical criticism -- genre criticism -- feminist criticism -- structuralist semiotics -- psychoanalytic semiotics -- countercurrents --

Call No: 626:335.8 STO
Author: Stoehr, Kevin L.
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, North Carolina
Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc.
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; JORDAN, NEIL; FORD, JOHN; KUBRICK, STANLEY; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999); WAKING LIFE (US, Ricahrd Linklater, 2001); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Summary: "This book explores the idea of nihilism through its appearance in modern popular culture. The author defines and reflects upon nihilism, then explores its manifestation in films and television shows... Finally, the author considers nihilism in terms of the decay of traditional values in the genre of westersm mostly through works of filmmaker John Ford." -- BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index
ISBN: 0786425474
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: Preface : when nothing matters -- 1. Nietzsche, nihilism, and existentialism -- 2. The nihilistic vision of film noir and The Sopranos -- 3. "The on-going wow" : tuning in to dreams of Waking life -- 4. The ambiguity of horizons : on the nihilism and perspectivism of Citizen Kane -- 5. Through the glass wall : welcoming the stranger in Neil Jordan's The crying game -- 6. When the legends die : John Ford and the fading of traditions and heroes -- 7. Kubrick's nihilistic clockwork -- 8. Nihilism as detached existence

Call No: 630 SCH
Author: Schefer, Jean Louise
Source: US
Place: Los Angeles
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 223 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the cinema offers us: the film as a work projected without memory, viewed by (and thereby lived by) a subject scarred and shaped by memory. The Ordinary Man of Cinema delineates the phenomenology of movie-going and the fleeting, impalpable zone in which an individuals personal memory confronts the cinemas ideological images to create a new way of thinking. It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaksfigures that are fundamental to Schefers conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body. Fear and pleasure breed monsters, and such are what Schefers emblematic "ordinary man" seeks and encounters when engaging in the disordering of the ordinary that the movie theater offers him. Among other things, Schefer considers "The Gods" in 31 brief essays on film stills and "The Criminal Life" with reflections on spectatorship and autobiography. While Schefers book has long been standard reading in French film scholarship, until now it has been something of a missing link to the field (and more broadly, French theory) in English. It is one of the building blocks of more widely known and read translations of Gilles Deleuze (who cited this book as an influence on his own cinema books) and Jacques Rancie`re."-- from back cover
Notes: Translated from the French -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221)
ISBN: 9781584351856
Contents: Machine generated contents note: The Gods -- Devil Dolls -- The Mummy -- The Jealousy of Freaks -- Lost Horizons -- The Inhuman Woman -- The Maid on the Telephone -- Occupation: Bouvard and Pecuchet -- Laurel and Hardy: Brother and Sister -- The Clown of Heraclitus -- The White Orgy -- The Black Orgy (The Slaves and the Painting) -- The Object -- The Shroud -- The Sausage -- Chickens -- The Likeness -- The Burlesque Body -- The Death of Nero -- The Death of Nero with a Character -- The Phonograph -- The ideal being can only be seen through the eyes of a criminal -- From the Book of Satan -- Burlesque 2 -- The Chubby One at the Theater -- The Road Map -- Nana -- The Smoke -- Shadows -- In Front of the House -- The Room -- The Carriage, the Veins -- The Criminal Life (The Film) -- The Criminal Life -- The Lesson of Darkness -- The Wheel of Images -- The Wheel -- The Human Face

Call No: 62(04) CRE
Author: Creed, Barbara
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xi, 144 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: Brings together a collection of classic essays on the important topic of contemporary film theory from the influence of feminism to queer theory and the reasons for the powerful effect of horror films.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Feminist Film Theory: history and debates -- 2: The monstrous-feminine: horror, theory, film -- 3: Me Jane: you Tarzan! race and gender in the jungle -- 4: Dream Screen: film and psychoanalytic theory -- 5: From here to modernity: feminist and postmodern theory -- 6: In the pink: queer theory, queer cinema -- Index

Call No: 626 PHI
Author: Freeland, Cynthia A; Wartenberg, Thomas E
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: 258 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; HORROR FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; LEE, SPIKE; SEA OF LOVE (US, Harold Becker, 1989); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); GHOST (US, Jerry Zucker, 1990); WHITE PALACE (US, Luis Mandoki, 1990); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); EUROPA, EUROPA (FR/GW, Agnieszka Holland, 1990); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0415909201; 041590921X (pbk.)
LON: 11213335

Call No: 626 FAL
Author: Falzon, Christopher
Edition: third edition
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 330p. : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; A NOUS, LA LIBERTE! (FR, Rene Clair, 1931); ADDICTION, THE (US, Abel Ferrara, 1995); AGNES OF GOD (US, Norman Jewison, 1985); AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); ALL OF ME (US, Carl Reiner, 1984); ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965); AMADEUS (US, Milos Forman, 1984); AMATEUR (US, Hal Hartley, 1994); ANGEL HEART (US, Alan Parker, 1987); ANTZ (US, Eric Darnell, Lawrence Guterman & Tim Johnson II, 1998); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA (US, Mike Judge, 1996); BEDAZZLED (US, Stanely Donen, 1967); BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999); BEING THERE (US, Hal Ashby, 1979); BIG (US, Penny Marshall, 1988); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLAISE PASCAL (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1972); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); BOB ROBERTS (US, Tim Robbins, 1992); BRAZIL; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); CASPER (US, Brad Silberling, 1995); CHANCES ARE (US, Emile Ardolino, 1989); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CINEMA PLUS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); COLOSSUS: FORBIN PROJECT (US, Joseph Sargent, 1970); CONFORMISTA, IL (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970); COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (US, Woody Allen, 1989); CRIMES OF PASSION (US, Ken Russell, 1984); CRUCIBLE, THE (US, Nicholas Hytner, 1996); CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); DANGEROUS LIAISONS (US, Stephen Frears, 1988); DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997); DARK STAR (US, John Carpenter, 1974); DEAD AGAIN (US, Kenneth Branagh, 1991); DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976); DRACULA (US, Tod Browning, 1931); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); EDUCATING RITA (UK, Lewis Gilbert, 1983); ELEPHANT MAN, THE (US, David Lynch, 1980); ENEMY OF THE STATE (US, Tony Scott, 1998); JEDER FUR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE (GW, Werner Herzog, 1974); FACE/OFF (US, John Woo [pseud. of Wu Yusen], 1997); FAHRENHEIT 451 (UK, Francois Truffaut, 1966); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); FIVE EASY PIECES (US, Bob Rafelson, 1970); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); FORTRESS (AT/US, Stuart Gordon, 1993); FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931); FRIGHTENERS, THE (NZ/US, Peter Jackson, 1996); FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987); GATTACA (US, Andrew Niccol, 1997); GHOST (US, Jerry Zucker, 1990); GHOSTS. . . OF THE CIVIL DEAD (AT, John Hillcoat, 1988); ANGST DES TORMANNS BEIM ELFMETER, DIE (GW/AU, Wim Wenders, 1972); GROUNDHOG DAY (US, Harold Ramis, 1993); HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990); HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (US, Woody Allen, 1986); HE SAID, SHE SAID (US, Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver, 1991); HIGH HOPES (UK, Mike Leigh, 1988); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HILARY AND JACKIE (UK, Anand Tucker, 1998); MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (UK, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1974); IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968); INHERIT THE WIND (US, Stanley Kramer, 1960); INTERIORS (US, Woody Allen, 1978); INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (US, Neil Jordan, 1994); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956); ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, THE (US, Erle C. Kenton, 1932); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); KOYAANISQATSI (US, Godfrey Reggio, 1982); LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1994); ULTIMA CENA, LA (CU, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1976); MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (UK, Terry Jones, 1979); LOVE AND DEATH (US, Woody Allen, 1975); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962); MATEWAN (US, John Sayles, 1987); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (UK, Terry Jones, 1983); MEPHISTO (HU/GW, Istvan Szabo, 1981); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); MISSION, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1986); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958); MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (UK, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1974); MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS[TV] (UK, 1969-1974); MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964); NAME DER ROSE, DER (GW/IT/FR, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986); NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE (US, Jerry Lewis, 1963); O LUCKY MAN! (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1973); OKTIABR [OCTOBER] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1928); OLIVIER, OLIVIER (FR, Agnieszka Holland, 1992); ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (US, Milos Forman, 1975); PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT, THE (US, Milos Forman, 1996); PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); PRINCESS BRIDE, THE (US, Rob Reiner, 1987); PURA FORMALITA, UNA (IT/FR, Guiseppe Tornatore, 1994); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); QUIZ SHOW (US, Robert Redford, 1994); RAIN (US, Louis Milestone, 1932); RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988); RAPTURE, THE (US, Michael Tolkin, 1991); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955); RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE, LE (FR, Daniel Vigne, 1982); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (UK, Tom Stoppard, 1990); SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954); SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (US, Steven Spielberg, 1998); SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993); SEA OF LOVE (US, Harold Becker, 1989); SEVEN [SE7EN] (US, David Fincher, 1995); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); SHOCKER (US, Wes Craven, 1989); SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); SIMON DEL DESIERTO (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1965); SLEEPER (US, Woody Allen, 1973); SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982); STAGE FRIGHT (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1950); STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1982); STAR TREK; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); SUTURE (US, Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 1993); SWITCH (US, Blake Edwards, 1991); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR CORDELIER, LE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1961); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (FR, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993); THREE FACES OF EVE (US, Nunnally Johnson, 1957); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998); USUAL SUSPECTS, THE (US, Bryan Singer, 1995); VICE VERSA (US, Brian Gilbert, 1988); JUNGFRUKALLAN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1960); WAG THE DOG (US, Barry Levinson, 1997); WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987); WILD ONE, THE (US, Laslo Benedek, 1953); WITTGENSTEIN (UK, Derek Jarman, 1993); YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937)
Summary: Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight, Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the approach that made the two earlier editions so successful. Drawing on many popular and some lesser known films from around the world, Christopher Falzon introduces students to key areas in philosophy, like: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, The Theory of Knowledge, The Self and Personal Identity, Critical Thinking. Perfect for beginners, this book guides the reader through philosophy using illuminating cinematic works, like Avatar, Inception, Fight Club, Wings of Desire, Run Lola Run, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Dirty Harry and many other films. The fully revised and updated Third Edition features: an expanded introduction that provides a new discussion of the relationship between film and philosophy; new material on notable philosophers such as Aristotle, Merleau-Ponty and Rawls; and coverage of new topics like virtue ethics and what Socrates offers for critical thinking. An updated glossary, references and bibliography, and a filmography, are also included in the Third Edition. -- publisher's web site
Notes: Includes glossary
ISBN: 9780415538169
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1 - Plato’s Picture Show - the theory of knowledge -- 2 - All of Me - the self and personal identity -- 3 - Crimes and Misdemeanors - moral philosophy -- 4 - Antz - social and political philosophy -- 5 - Modern Times - society, science, and technology -- 6 - The Holy Grail - critical thinking -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Call No: 81LEE PHI
Author: Arp, Robert; Barkman, Adam; McRae, James
Source: US
Place: Lexington: Kentucky
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 303 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; LEE, ANG; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); LUST, CAUTION (US/CC/TZ/HK, Ang Lee, 2007); SE, JEI (US/CC/TZ/HK, Ang Lee, 2007); SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995); TAKING WOODSTOCK (US, Ang Lee, 2009); ICE STORM (US, Ang Lee, 1997); RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (US, Ang Lee, 1999); BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005)
Summary: The Philosophy of Ang Lee draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions to examine the director’s works. The first section focuses on Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist themes in his Chinese-language films, and the second examines Western philosophies in his English-language films; but the volume ultimately explores how Lee negotiates all of these traditions, strategically selecting from each in order to creatively address key issues. With interest in this filmmaker and his work increasing around the release of his 3-D magical adventure The Life of Pi (2012), The Philosophy of Ang Lee serves as a timely investigation of the groundbreaking auteur and the many complex philosophical themes that he explores through the medium of motion pictures. [Taken from the publishers website]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780813141664
Contents: Conquering the self: Daoism, Confucianism, and the price of freedom in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon / James McRae -- What do you know of my heart? The role of sense and sensibility in Ang Lee's Sense and sensibility and Crouching tiger, hidden dragon / Rene´e Ko¨hler-Ryan and Sydney Palmer -- The Confucian cowboy aesthetic / Michael Thompson -- East meets western: the eastern philosophy of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain / Jeff Bush -- Landscape and gender in Ang Lee's Sense and sensibility and Brokeback Mountain / Misty Jameson and Patricia Brace -- Can't get no satisfaction: desires, rituals, and the search for harmony in Eat drink man woman / Carl J. Dull -- Paternalism, virtue ethics, and Ang Lee: does father really know best? / Ronda Lee Roberts -- Lust, caution: a case for perception, unimpeded / Basileios Kroustallis -- The power to go beyond God's boundaries? Hulk, human nature, and some ethical concerns thereof / Adam Barkman -- Displacement, deception, and disorder: Ang Lee's discourse of identity / Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy -- Subverting heroic violence: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Hulk as antiwar narratives / David Zietsma -- Homo migrans: desexualization in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock / Nancy Kang -- Because of the molecules: The ice storm and the philosophy of love and recognition / Susanne Schmetkamp -- It's existential: negative space and nothingness in The ice storm / David Koepsell -- The ice storm: what is impending? / George T. Hole -- All's fair in love and war? Machiavelli and Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / James Edwin Mahon.

Call No: 630 LIT
Author: Litch, Mary M.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 242 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: An introduction to basic questions of philosophy utilizing film as the means of investigation and elucidation. Each chapter takes a commercial feature film to examine one topic – from free will and skepticism to personal identity and artificial intelligence – connecting philosophical questions to settings of popular culture.
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0415938767 (pbk.)

Call No: 62 ROD
Author: Rodowick, D.N.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: xviii, 276 p., 24cm.
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Subject: DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS
Notes: Notes p. 235-257; Includes bibliography and index.
ISBN: 0822327228

Call No: 761NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; COMMENTARY; DEATH IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; VIEWERS
Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304
ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 91002637; 8905992
Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude

Call No: 62 ROU
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xl, 526 pages ; 26 cm
Subject: THEORY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: 'The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth centry to the beginning of the twenty-first. Over 50 scholars from around the globe have been commissioned to address the difficult formulations and propositions in each theory by reducing these forumlations to straightforward propositions. The result is a highly accessible volume that clearly defines, and analyses step by step, many of the fundamental concepts in film theory ranging from the familiar such as apparatus, gaze, genre, and identification to less well-known ad understood but equally important, concepts such as Alain Badiou's inaestheics, Gilles Deleuze's time-image, and Jean-Luc Nancy's evidence
Notes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781138849150
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction 1, the rationale behind the encyclopedia -- Introduction 2, concept and theory -- Theories: -- Affect, film and -- Anglo-American film theory -- Apparatus theory (Baudry) -- Apparatus theory (Plato) -- Art, film as -- Attention -- Attraction -- Auteur theory -- Blending and film theory -- Brecht and film -- Camera -- Cinematic movement -- Classic realist text -- Close-up -- Cognitive film theory -- Concept -- Contemporary film theory -- Counter-cinema -- Depth of field -- Dialogism -- Diegesis -- Digital Cinema -- Documentary theory -- Emotion, film and -- Enunciation, film and -- Ethics -- European film theory -- Evidence (Nancy) -- Excess, cinematic -- Fantasy and spectatorship -- Feminist film theory, core concepts -- Feminist film theory, history of -- Film fable (Ranciere) -- Film-philosophy -- Formalist theories of film -- Gaming and film theory -- Gaze theory -- Genre theory -- Identification, theory of -- Ideology, cinema and -- Illusion -- Imaginary signifier -- Imagined observer hypothesis -- Inaesthetics -- Interface -- Long take -- Memory and film -- Mimetic innervation -- Minor cinema -- Mise en scene -- Modernism versus realism -- Montage theory 1 (Hollywood continuity) -- Montage theory 2 (Soviet avant-garde) -- Movement-image -- Narration -- Ontologuy of the photographic image -- 'Ordinary man of cinema' (Schefer) -- Perspective versus realism -- Phenomenology and film -- Pixel/cut/vector -- Poetic cinema -- Point of view -- Postmodern cinema -- Queer theory/queer cinema -- Reception theory -- Redemption (Kracauer) -- Representation -- Rhetoric, film and -- Scepticism -- Seeing/perceiving -- Semiotics of film -- Sound theory -- Specificity, medium 1 -- Specificity, medium 2 -- Structural/materialist film -- Suture -- Symbol and analogon (Mitry) -- Symptomatic reading -- Third World cinema -- Time-image -- Trauma and cinema -- Voice -- Epilogue: death in (and of?) theory

Call No: 81(049.3)EIS NES
Author: Nesbet, Anne
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B Taurus
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: U.S.S.R IN FILMS; RUSSIANS IN FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; LENIN [V.I.] IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CIRCUS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIJ; BABEL, ISAAK; BRETON, ANDRE; DISNEY, WALT; FREUD, SIGMUND; HEGEL, GEORG, WILHELM, FRIEDRICH; SHKLOVSKY, VICTOR; SHUMIATSKII, BORIS; SINCLAIR, UPTON; SONTAG, SUSAN; TISSE, EDUARD; TOLSTOY, LEV; TROTSKY, LEON; VERTOV, DZIGA; WELLS, H.G; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); STRUCTURALISM; RUSSIA; THEORY
Summary: Based on extensive research in the archives of legendary Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein, this book explores his wide ranging consumption of high and low culture and his wide ranging experience in ‘thinking in pictures’. Savage Junctures plays close attention to the multiple contexts within which Eisenstein’s films evolved. Eisenstein was particularly interested in the possibilities of visual thinking and, in this spirit; each chapter addresses the question of his image based philosophy from a different perspective. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 1850433305

Call No: 81REN DAV
Author: Davis, Colin
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: vii, 159 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; CRIME IN FILMS; RENOIR, JEAN; CAVELL, STANLEY; DELEUZE, GILLES; ZIZEK, SLAVOJ; CHIENNE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1931); CRIME DE M. LANGE, LE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1936); BETE HUMAINE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939)
Summary: "This book examines Jean Renoir's films from the 1930s in the light of recent developments in philosophical film criticism. With reference to thinkers such as Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida and Cavell, it argues that Renoir's work engages with and elucidates some of the great philosophical questions. In particular the films are shown to reflect on the natures of murder and its links with desire, communitiy, ethics and the mystery of other minds." - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
ISBN: 9781905674633
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012
Contents: Film as philosophy: Cavell, Deleuze, Z iz ek and Renoir -- Scepticism and the mystery of other minds: La chienne -- Murderous desires: Le crime de Monsieur Lange and La be^te humaine -- Friendship, fraternity and community: La grande illusion -- Making and breaking rules: La re`gle du jeu -- Conclusion: intimations of otherness.

Call No: 62 DIE
Author: Dienst, Richard
Place: Durham, N.C.
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xvi, 207 pages ; 23 cm
Series: Post-contemporary interventions
Subject: ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA; DERRIDA, JACQUES; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN; VIDEO RECORDERS
Summary: "Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it." -- publisher's advertisement
Notes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0822314665
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Part I: Televisual Flows -- The Outbreak of Television -- Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory -- Part II: Commercial Breaks -- History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story -- Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna -- "Appetite and satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and commerce in Twin Peaks -- Part III: Theoretical images -- The dangers of being in a televisual world: Heidegger and the ontotechnological question -- From post cards to smart bombs (and back again): derrida and the televisual textual system -- Ineluctable modalities of the televisual

Call No: 630 THI
Author: Smith, Murray; Wartenberg, Thomas E
Source: US
Place: Malden, MA
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 222 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; LEE, SPIKE; CAVELL, STANLEY; BREILLAT, CATHERINE; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (US, Brian De Palma, 1996); BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999); ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004); SERENE VELOCITY (US, Ernie Gehr, 1970); WITTGENSTEIN TRACTATUS (HU, Peter Foracs, 1992)
Notes: "Published for The American Society for Aesthetics by Blackwell Publishing Inc."--P. [v] "Originally published as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 64:1 (Winter 2006)"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219) and index
ISBN: 9781405154116
ISSN: 00218529
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg -- I. The Very Idea of Film as Philosophy -- Theses on cinema as philosophy: Paisely Livingston -- Beyond mere illustration: how films can be philosophy: Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Film art, argument, and ambiguity -- 2. Popular American Film: Entertainment and Enlightenment -- Hitchcock and Cavell: Richard Allen -- The paradox of the unknown lover: a reading of letter from an unknown woman: Lester H. Hunt -- Spike Lee and the sympathetic racist: Dan Flory -- Transparency and twist in narrative fiction film: George Wilson -- The impersonation of personality: film as philosophy in Mission: Impossible: Stephan Mulhall -- On being philosophical and Being John Malkovich: Daniel Shaw --Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the morality of memory: Chrisotopher Grau -- 3. Continental Philosophy, Continental Film -- Sarte, the philosophy of nothingness, and the modern melodrama: Andras Balint Kovacs -- Cinema and subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski: Paul C. Santilli -- Is sex comedy or tragedy? Directing desire and female auteurship in the cinema of Catherine Breillat: Katherine Ince -- 4. Film As "Theory": The Avant-Garde -- Apperception on Display: Structural films and philosophy: Jinhee Choi -- Philosophizing through the moving image: the case of Serene Velocity: Noel Carroll -- The substance of cinema: Trevor Ponech -- The world is rewound: Peter Forgacs's Wittgenstein Tractus: Whitney Davis

Call No: 761.2 ISS
Author: Issari, M. Ali (Mohammad Ali); Paul, Doris A. (Doris Atkinson) joint author
Place: Metuchen, N.J.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: vi, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; NOUVELLE VAGUE; VERTOV, DZIGA; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; ROUCH, JEAN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; RUSPOLI, MARIO; ROZIER, JACQUES; MARKER, CHRIS; MAYSLES, ALBERT; JERSEY, WILLIAM C.
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 179-185; Bibliography: p. 186-198
ISBN: 0810812533
LON: 79020110; 1491302 1830040