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Call No: 750.1 AME
Author: Ames, Christopher, 1956
Place: Lexington, Ky.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: ix, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FILMS IN FILMS; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS; STAR IS BORN, A (US, William Wellman, 1937); STAR IS BORN, A (US, George Cukor, 1954); WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD (US, George Cukor, 1932); STAND-IN (US, Tay Garnett, 1937); BOY MEETS GIRL (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1938); STAR, THE (US, Stuart Heisler, 1952); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (US, Herbert Ross, 1981); PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE (US, Woody Allen, 1985); LAST ACTION HERO (US, John McTiernan, 1993); BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1952); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950); PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992)
Summary: Hundreds of films belonging to the genre of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. This paradox - the simultaneous debunking and celebration of Hollywood - lies at the heart of the genre. Through close analysis of the best of these films. Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed (and constructs itself), particularly through such moments of explicit self-referentiality as the movie-within-a-movie and scenes set in studios
Notes: Includes filmography (p. 227); Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-244) and index
ISBN: 0813120187 (cloth : alk. paper)
LON: 12952826

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: S PLA
Author: Tolkin, Michael
PhysDes: 124p
Subject: PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992)
Notes: Unpublished script
Donation: donated by the Australian Writers Guild

Call No: 79PLA TOL
Author: Tolkin, Michael
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 193 p. ; 20 cm
Subject: PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992)
Notes: Originally published by The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, in 1988
ISBN: 0571168957

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Stills
Subject: PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992)

Call No: 61 POS DEG
Author: Degli-Esposti, Christina
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Berghahn Books
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. POLAND; POLAND; TRAVEL IN FILMS; FRANCE; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; ARABS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; ANIMATION; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; ADAPTATIONS. FORSTER, E. M.; ADAPTATIONS. GENET, JEAN; AUTEUR THEORY; DEGLI-ESPOSTI, CHRISTINA; BARON, CYNTHIA; KRAIDY, MARWAN; WEINSTEIN, DAVID; SHARY, TIMOTHY; BRUNS, JOHN; MAULE, ROSANNA; FALKOWSKA, JANINA; STRAIN, ELLEN; BOLUS-REICHERT, CHRISTINE; LAGA, BARRY; DEUTELBAUM, MARSHALL; HOLDEN-MOSES, PHILIP; WILES, MARY; ALTMAN, ROBERT; JAMESON, FREDRIC; ITAMI, JUZO; FORSTER, E. M.; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; KUROSAWA AKIRA; GREENAWAY, PETER; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992); ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992); SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-); BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (US, Stephen Herek, 1989); WAYNE'S WORLD (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1992); SINGLES (US, Cameron Crowe, 1992); REALITY BITES (US, Ben Stiller, 1994); TAMPOPO (JA, Juzo Itami, 1986); A NOS AMOURS (FR, Maurice Pialat, 1983); MESSA E FINITA, LA (IT, Nanni Moretti, 1985); QUE HE HECHO PARA MERECER ESTO!! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1984); PSY (PL, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 1993); CZLOWIEK Z ... (PL, Konrad Szolajski, 1993); WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (UK, Charles Sturridge, 1991); ROOM WITH A VIEW, A (UK, James Ivory, 1986); PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984); COUP DE TORCHON (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1981); VICTOIRE EN CHANTANT, LA (FR/GW, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1976); CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988); BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991); DREAMS (US, Akira Kurosawa, 1990); DROWNING BY NUMBERS (UK, Peter Greenaway, 1988); QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Summary: By offering sophisticated and multi-faceted, yet highly accessible discussions on a number of key issues, Postmodernism in the Cinema presents new strategies for reading and understanding postmodernism and opens up the horizons of investigation to address the dynamic relationship between the art of moving images and complex concepts of postmodern theory. Organized according to specific themes such as auteurism, metacinema, national cinema, and the parodic, this anthology includes thirteen essays and examines films including The Player, Aladdin, Singles, Reality Bites, Wayne’s World, Tampopo, A Room with a View, Barton Fink, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, Drowning by Numbers, Coup de torchon, Querelle, and more. [Taken from back cover]
Notes: Papers from a conference held in 1994 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1571811060
Contents: Introduction: Postmodernism(s) Cristina Degli-Esposti -- Chapter 1: The Player's parody of Hollywood: A different kind of suture - Cynthia Baron -- Chapter 2: Intertextual maneuvers around the subaltern: Aladdin as postmodern text - Marwan Kraidy -- Chapter 3: Of Mice and Bart: The Simpsons and the postmodern - David Weinstein -- Chapter 4: Reification and loss in postmodern puberty: The cultural logic of Fredric Jameson and American youth movies - Timothy Shary -- Chapter 5: Refiguring pleasure: Itami and the postmodern Japanese film - John Bruns -- Chapter 6: De-authorizing the auteur: postmodern politics of interpellation in contemporary European cinema - - Rosanna Maule -- Chapter 7: Postmodernist condition in post-socialist eastern European films: the case of a political pastiche and the socialist-hollywood thriller in recent films of Polish filmmakers - Janina Falkowska -- Chapter 8: E.M. Forster's anti-touristic tourism and the sightseeing gaze of cinema - Ellen Strain -- Chapter 9: Imaginary geographies: the colonial subjects in contemporary French cinema - Christine Bolus-Reichert -- Chapter 10: Decapitated spectators: Barton Fink, (Post)history, and cinematic pleasure - Barry Laga -- Chapter 11: Something like an autobiography in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - Marshall Deutelbaum -- Chapter 12: Not waving but drowning by numbers: Peter Greenaway's cautionary tale - Philip Holden-Moses -- Chapter 13: A double voice: the dual paternity of Querelle - Mary Wiles
ID2: 291

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TANGO PLAYER, THE [TANGOSPIELER, DER] (GW, Roland Gräf, 1991)