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Call No: 753.1(73) SLE
Author: Slethaug, Gordon E.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: vi, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM; USA; THEORY; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (US, Fred Schepisi, 1993); SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); GANGS OF NEW YORK (GG/IT/US, Martin Scorsese, 2002); GREAT GATSBY, THE (US/AT, Baz Luhrmann, 2013); SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998); SMOKE (US, Wayne Wang, 1995); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); BROKEN FLOWERS (US, Jim Jarmusch, 2005); SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (US, Rupert Sanders, 2012); SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937)
Summary: "Exploring Hollywood feature films as well as small studio productions, Adaptation Theory and Criticism provides the reader with an informative background on adaptation theory and postmodern methodology and includes eight case studies on more than a dozen American films, some of which have been used before (Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, The Great Gatsby, and Do the Right Thing) and some that have received less consideration (Six Degrees of Seperation, Smoke, Smoke Signals, Broken Flowers, and various Snow White narratives including Enchanted, Mirrir Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman. Useful for both film and literary studies, Gordon Slethaug's Adaptation theory and criticism cogently combines existing scholarship with new theories and insights, encouraging readers to think about intertextual connections between literature and film in the USA." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index
ISBN: 9781623564407
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- introduction -- 1.Modernism/postmodernism and origin/intertextual play in adaptation theory -- Modernism: High culture, poetic genius, and influence -- Postmodernism: Textuality, intertextuality, pastiche/bricolage, freeplay, and interculturalism -- 2.Adaptation, surplus value, and supplementation in Six Degrees of Separation and Short Cuts -- Surplus, supplementation, and transformation in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation -- E Pluribus Unum: Raymond Carver's fiction and Robert Altman's Short Cuts -- 3.Intertextual doubling in The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, and The Great Gatsby -- Tribalization as intertextual symptom: Scorcese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York -- Ironized intertextuality: The Age of Innocence and The Great Gatsby -- 4.Freeplay, citation, and ethnocriticism: Single and multiple sources in Smoke Signals, SMOKE, and Do the Right Thing -- -- Ethnocriticism and adaptation: Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals -- From Lee to Auster and Wang: Postmodern indeterminacy and racial relations in Do the Right Thing and SMOKE -- Beyond Auster's short story: Do the Right Thing and SMOKE -- 5.Palimpsests and bricolage: Playful and serious citation in Broken Flowers and Snow White's offspring -- Palimpsest, play, and the myth of filiation in Broken Flowers: Clues, signs, and referential mania -- Snow White's offspring: The hyper-palimpsest -- 6.Conclusion -- works cited -- index --

Call No: 62 HUY
Author: Huyssen, Andreas
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: xii, 244 p. ; 25 cm
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [222]-240
ISBN: 0253203996 (pbk.); 0253100577
LON: 85046010; 4510030
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Call No: 735.1 KUH
Author: Kuhn, Annette
Source: UK/US
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231)
ISBN: 0860912787; 0860919935 (pbk.)
LON: 6923144
Contents: -- Introduction : cultural theory and science fiction cinema / Annette Kuhn -- Visions of the future in science fiction films from 1970 to 1982 / H. Bruce Franklin -- The alien messiah / Hugh Ruppersberg -- Commodity futures / Thomas B. Byers -- Technophobia / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner -- Making culture into nature / Michael Stern -- Feminism, humanism and science in Alien / James H. Kavanagh -- Feminism and anxiety in Alien / Judith Newton -- Primal conditions and conventions : the genre of science fiction / Daniel Dervin -- The virginity of astronauts : sex and the science fiction film / Vivian Sobchack -- Time travel, primal scene and the critical dystopia / Constance Penley -- Alien and the monstrous-feminine / Barbara Creed -- The doubles of fantasy and the space of desire / J.P. Telotte -- 'You've got to be fucking kidding!' : knowledge, belief and judgement in science fiction / Steve Neale -- Cataract surgery : cinema in the year 2000 / Paul Virilio -- Ramble city : postmodernism and Blade runner / Giuliana Bruno -- Who programs you? : the science fiction of the spectacle / Scott Bukatman -- Gynesis, postmodernism and the science fiction horror film / Barbara Creed -- Feminist futures : a generic study / Anne Cranny-Francis

Call No: 735.1 KUH
Author: Kuhn, Annette
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 308 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Subject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; CITIES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; UTOPIA IN FILMS; FANS; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ADAPTATIONS. WELLS, H.G.; VAN DAMME, JEAN-CLAUDE; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; CREED, BARBARA; TRUMBULL, DOUGLAS; JOHNNY MNEMONIC (US, Robert Longo, 1995); THINGS TO COME (UK, William Cameron Menzies, 1936); STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-99); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); DEMOLITION MAN (US, Marco Brambilla, 1993); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); TOTAL RECALL (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1990); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Notes: Filmography: p. [276]-284; Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index
ISBN: 1859842593 (paper); 1859847463 (cloth)
LON: 20466609

Call No: 620 BAU GAN
Author: Gane, Mike
Place: London New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 243 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: Baudrillard, Jean; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and indexes
ISBN: 0415037743; 0415037751 (pbk.)
LON: 7630732

Call No: 744.9 HAR
Author: Harris, Geraldine
Source: US
Place: Manchester ; New York
Publisher: Manchester University Press, distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 210 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: DRAMAS; REALISM ON TV; AESTHETICS; RACE AND TV; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND TV; GLOBALISATION; ALLY MCBEAL [TV] (US, 1997-); BILL, THE [TV] (UK, 1984-); STAR TREK [TV] [...] (US, 1966-69, 1987-); QUEER AS FOLK [TV] (UK, 1999-2000); ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996); BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004); DOCTOR WHO [TV] (UK, 1963-1989, 2005-); DYNASTY [TV] (AT, Frank Arnold & Brian Bell, 1970); PRIME SUSPECT 3 [TV] (UK, David Drury, 1993); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999); TIPPING THE VELVET [TV] (UK, Geoffrey Sax, 2002); WILL & GRACE[TV] (US, 1998-); XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-)
Summary: Beyond representation, poses the question, as to whether over the last 30 years, there have been signs of progress/progressiveness, in the representation of marginalised or subaltern identity categories, within television drama, in Britain, and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity, that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period. [Taken from the back cover]
Notes: Bibliography: p.191-20; Includes index
ISBN: 0719074584 (hdbk)
Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009

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: 64POS SHA
Author: Shaviro, Steven
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: x, 276 p. ; 26 cm
Series: Theory out of bounds ; v. 2
Subject: AESTHETICS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PERCEPTION; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; WARHOL, ANDY; ROMERO, GEORGE; LEWIS, JERRY; CRONENBERG, DAVID; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; GUATTARI, FELIX; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index
ISBN: 0816622949 (PB : acid-free paper)
LON: 9656941

Call No: 756.1-25 SAY
Author: Sayyad, Nezar Al
Source: UK/US
Place: New York : London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; CITIES IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977); BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988); NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); END OF VIOLENCE, THE (US/FR, Wim Wenders, 1997); FALLING DOWN (US, Joel Schumacher, 1993); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MANHATTAN (US, Wody Allan, 1979); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MON ONCLE (FR/IT, Jacques Tati, 1958); MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985); PLAYTIME (FR, Jacques Tati, 1967); PLEASANTVILLE (US, Gary Ross, 1998); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); SLIVER (US, Phillip Noyce, 1993); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); TRUMAN SHOW, THE (US, Peter Weir, 1998)
Summary: "Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema while arguing that urbanism cannot be understood outside the space of the celluloid city." "Nezar AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and reel through time and space via a series of films that represent different modernities. He contrasts the 'rational' European city of early twentieth-century industrial modernity as portrayed by Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (1927) with its American counterpart in Modern Times (1936). He illustrates the different forms of small town life and an urbanizing modernity across the Atlantic as exemplified by Cinema Paradiso (1989) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Using Metropolis (1927) and Brazil (1985), he shows how utopian ideals harbour within them their dystopian realities, while Jacques Tati's nostalgia for tradition in Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) reveals a cynical modernity and a rebelling against its idealism." "AlSayyad argues that the postmodern city of Blade Runner (1982) and Falling Down (1993) illustrates some of the urban outcomes of a globalizing economy. Turning to spectacle and surveillance, he examines Rear Window (1954), Sliver (1993), and The End of Violence (1997) as a voyeuristic modernity. To understand the city experienced by individuals of different social backgrounds, he takes Manhattan (1979), Annie Hall (1977), and Taxi Driver (1976), while Do the Right Thing (1989) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) are used to explore a modernity of race and ethnicity. Finally, he uses Pleasantville (1998) and The Truman Show (1998) to unpack the hyperreality of exurban postmodernity and to demonstrate how today the real and the reel have become mutually constitutive." "By considering how the real city and the reel city reference each other in an act of mutual representation and definition, this book advances the discussion on cinematic space and theories of the city."--BOOK BLURB.
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0415700493
Contents: -- about the author -- preface -- Introduction : the cinematic city and the quest for the modern -- 1. Industrial modernity : the flaneur and the tramp in the early twentieth century city -- 2. Urbanizing modernity : the traditional cinematic small town -- 3. Orwellian modernity : utopia/dystopia and the city of the future past -- 4. Cynical modernity, or the modernity of cynicism -- 5. From postmodern condition to cinematic city -- 6. Voyeuristic modernity : the lens, the screen and the city -- 7. The modernity of the sophisticate and the misfit : the city through different eyes -- 8. An alternative modernity : race, ethnicity and the urban experience -- 9. Exurban postmodernity : utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality -- epilogue -- illustration credits and sources -- selected bibliography -- index --

Call No: 64POS CRI
Author: Sharrett, Christopher
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Maisonneuve Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DISASTERS IN FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; REPO MAN (US, Alex Cox, 1984); RUMBLE FISH (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983); CASANOVA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1976); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0944624189 (cloth); 0944624197 (paper)
LON: 9605442

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: 64POS SHA
Author: Shaviro, Steven
Place: London
Publisher: High Risk Books
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 192 p
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DISNEY, WALT; CRONENBERG, DAVID; WARHOL, ANDY; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON; SHERMAN, CINDY; MARTIN, DEAN
ISBN: 1852424303
LON: 13253165

Call No: 735.1 SPR
Author: Springer, Claudia
Source: US
Place: Austin, TX
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: c1996
PhysDes: x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS IN FILMS; COMPUTERS AND TV; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND TELEVISION; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ROBOTS IN FILMS; ROBOTS ON TV; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND TV; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY ON TV; VIRTUAL REALITY; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); EVE OF DESTRUCTION (US, Duncan Gibbins, 1991); LAWNMOWER MAN, THE (US, Brett Leonard, 1992); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984)
Summary: "The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfilment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0292776977
Donation: M.S. Counihan

Call No: 626:396 HUM
Author: Humm, Maggie
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: x, 246 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; BLACKS IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; CRONENBERG, DAVID; MULVEY, LAURA; KUHN, ANNETTE; KAPLAN, E. ANN; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; ROSE, JACQUELINE; WOOLF, VIRGINIA; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991); DEAD RINGERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1988); KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982)
ISBN: 0748609008
Order Received: 1998
LON: abn97233530; 13317515

Call No: 408 TUR
Author: Graeme Turner (ed.)
Place: London; New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 524 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; AESTHETICS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SOUND; THEORY; CREED, BARBARA; KUHN, ANNETTE; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; HONG KONG; HOLLYWOOD; GLOBALISATION; USA; MONROE, MARILYN; SEX IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; ACTION FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; THRILLERS; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDUSTRY, FILM
Summary: This companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon. Key features of the reader include: thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor; a general introduction by Graeme Turner; sections on understanding film, film technology, film industries, meanings and pleasures, identities, audiences and consumption.
ISBN: 0415252822

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: 81GOD STE
Author: Sterritt, David
Source: UK/US
Place: Cambridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Cambridge film classics
Subject: CRITICISM; AESTHETICS; NOUVELLE VAGUE; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959); MY LIFE TO LIVE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) SEE VIVRE SAVIE; VIVRE SAVIE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); NUMERO DEUX (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1975); HAIL, MARY (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) SEE JE VOUS SALUE MARIE; JE VOUS SALUE MARIE (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1985); NOUVELLE VAGUE (Fr, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990)
Summary: "The films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's revolutionary New Wave movement in the early 1960s, through a period of drastic political experimentation in the late 1960s and 1970s, to a current introspective period in which he explores issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, Godard's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. He then traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films: Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numero deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague. Also included is a concise analysis of his work in video, television, and mixed-media formats. Linking works by Godard to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Filmography: p. 281-290 Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280) and index
ISBN: 0521589711
Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Breathless -- 3. My Life to Live -- 4. Weekend -- 5. Numero deux -- 6. Hail Mary -- 7. Nouvelle Vague -- 8. Video and Television -- notes -- select bibliography -- filmography -- index --

Call No: 626:396 HEK
Author: Hekman, Susan J
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Polity
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: vi, 212 p. : 26 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; DERRIDA, JACQUES; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; LACAN, JACQUES; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [191]-209
ISBN: 0745606539; 074561048X (pbk.)
LON: 6794166

Call No: 62 JAM
Author: Jameson, Fredric
Place: Bloomington London
Publisher: Indiana University Press BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xvi, 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; CONSPIRACY FILMS; AESTHETICS; MEDIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; THIRD WORLD; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; RENOIR, JEAN; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; TAHIMIK, KIDLAT; GIDE, ANDRE; ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1976); BLOWOUT (US, Brian De Palma, 1981); PARALLAX VIEW, THE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1974); PASSION (FR/SZ, Jean-Luc Godard, 1982); SALVADOR (US, Oliver Stone, 1986); VIDEODROME (CN, David Cronenberg, 1983); K'UNG-PU FEN-TZU (TZ/HK, Edward Yang [pseud. of Yang Teh-Chang], 1986); UNDER FIRE (US, Roger Spottiswoode, 1983)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0253330939 (U.S.); 0851703119 (England)
LON: 8458641

Call No: 64POS DEN
Author: Denzin, Norman K
Source: US
Place: Newbury Park
Publisher: Sage
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xii, 179 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; USA. 1980's; Baudrillard, Jean; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; JAMESON, FREDRIC; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987); CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (US, Woody Allen, 1989); DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989); PARIS, TEXAS (GW/US, Wim Wenders, 1984); SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989); WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . (US, Rob Reiner, 1989)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 158-174 Includes index
ISBN: 0803985150
Contents: Part 1: The postmodern -- 1. Defining the postmodern terrain -- 2. Postmodern social theory -- 3. Takes on the postmodern: Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Jameson -- 4. Learning from Mills -- Part 2: Learning from cinema -- 5. Wild about Lynch: beyond Blue velvet -- 6. Nouveau capitalists on Wall street -- 7. Crimes and misdemeanous in Manhattan -- 8. The postmodern sexual order: sex, lies, and yuppie love -- 9. Do the right thing: race in the USA -- 10. Paris, Texas: Mills and Baudrillard in America -- 11. In conclusion: the eye of the postmodern

Call No: 771:396 MEL
Author: Mellencamp, Patricia
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c1990
PhysDes: xix, 234 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 12
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; CONDIT, CECELIA; DELEUZE, GILLES; GUATTARI, FELIX; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; MULVEY, LAURA; NELSON, ROBERT; PAIK, NAM JUNE; POTTER, SALLY; RAINER, YVONNE; SNOW, MICHAEL; MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN, THE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1985); GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231) and index
ISBN: 0253337437 (alk. paper); 0253205875 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 6933865

Call No: 403 STR
Author: Strinati, Dominic
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: xviii, 301 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; AUDIENCES; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; BARTHES, ROLAND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.
Summary: Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as Adorno, Barthes, Althusser and Hebdige have grappled with the many forms of popular culture, from Jazz to the Americanization of British popular culture, from Hollywood cinema to popular television series, from teen magazines to the spy novel. Each chapter includes a guide to key texts for further reading and there is also a comprehensive bibliography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index
ISBN: 0415124697; 0415124700 (pbk.)
LON: 11258122

Call No: 734.1 NAR
Author: Naremore, James
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes
ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 13441055

Call No: 408.1(73) MOV
Author: Belton, John
Place: New Brunswick, NJ
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Rutgers depth of field series
Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; FILM NOIR. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA. USA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS. USA; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; BERKELEY, BUSBY; Lombard, Carole; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index
ISBN: 0813522277 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813522285 (pbk.)
LON: 11604013

Call No: 64POS MOR
Author: Morris, Meaghan
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: x, 287 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
Series: Questions for feminism
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; Baudrillard, Jean; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; SONTAG, SUSAN; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986)
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes; Bibliography: p. 17-23
ISBN: 0860919269 (pbk.) : $16.95; 0860912124 : $50.00
LON: 88017209; 5907285

Call No: 62(04) POL
Place: Cambridge [England]
Publisher: Polity Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SEMIOLOGY; STAR SYSTEM; COMMERCIALS, TV; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; SOAP OPERAS; MONROE, MARILYN; BARTHES, ROLAND; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; Baudrillard, Jean; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973)
Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.)
LON: bnb74561207; 10481206

Call No: 64POS DOC
Author: Docker, John
Place: Cambridge New York Melbourne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xxi, 313 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; MELODRAMA; SOAP OPERAS; DETECTIVE FILMS; GENRES; THEORY; BRERETON, LAURIE; FISKE, JOHN; KENNEDY, GRAHAM; MACCABE, COLIN; MULVEY, LAURA; JAMESON, FREDRIC; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; ADORNO, THEODOR W.; BENJAMIN, WALTER; DERRIDA, JACQUES; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 285-306
ISBN: 0521465982 (pbk.); 052146045X
LON: abn97324302; 13458960

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: 64POS JAM
Author: Jameson, Fredric
Place: London
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xxii, 438 p., [6]] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0860915379 (pbk.) : $9.95; 0860913147(cased) : $21.95
LON: bnb86091314; 7539810

Author: Dacre, Anna
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography
Subject: ROBOTS IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; JAMESON, FREDRIC; PREDATOR (US, John McTiernan, 1987); PREDATOR 2 (US, Stephen Hopkins, 1990)
Summary: Postmodernism, cyborgs and the science-fiction genre, particluarly the "Predator" film series, are explored in relation to the work of Fredric Jameson.

Call No: 756.1-25 SCR
Author: Strathausen, Carsten..[et al.]
Place: London; New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 312 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ARCHITECTURE AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Includes index: p. 303-312

Call No: 62 DOU
Author: Doughty, Ruth; Etherington-Wright, Christine
Edition: Second edition
Source: UK
Place: [England]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject: FILM; THEORY; AUTEUR THEORY; ADAPTATIONS; GENRES; FORMALISM; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; STRUCTURALISM; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; STARS; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HUNGER GAMES, THE (US, Gary Ross, 2012); RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); LOLA RENNT (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998); ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968) SEE C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST; LEGO MOVIE, THE (AT/US/DK, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014); ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); OLDBOY (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); OLDEUBOI (KO, Park Chan-wook, 2003); FROZEN (US, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013); BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (FR/BE/SP, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013); DJANGO UNCHAINED (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2012); AVATAR (US, James Cameron, 2009)
Summary: -- "Film theory has a reputation for being challenging. Often requiring time and effort to fully grasp it and seeming rather old-fashioned, it can be difficult to approach the subject with enthusiasm and appreciate its relevance to modern day. Understanding Film Theory aims to disassociate theory from these connotations and bring a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to the discipline. Now comprehensively updated in a second edition, the book’s sixteen chapters - including a new chapter on Adaptations - continue to provide an insight into the main areas of debate. Taking the application of theory as its central theme, the text incorporates a number of innovative features: ‘Reflect and Respond’ sections encourage readers to engage critically with theoretical concepts, while seminal texts are concisely summarised without oversimplifying key points. Throughout the book the authors illustrate why theory is important and demonstrate how it can be applied in a meaningful way, with relevant case studies drawn from both classic and contemporary cinema including: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Run Lola Run (1998), The Hunger Games (2012), Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) and The Lego Movie (2014). Additional case studies address key genres (the British Gangster film and the musical), film movements (Dogme 95), individual actors (Ryan Gosling, Judi Dench and Amitabh Bachchan) and directors (Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo del Toro). Understanding Film Theory is an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory. It is the ideal entry point for any student studying film, using clear definitions and explaining complex ideas succinctly. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781137528230
Contents: -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Auteur Theory Case study: Alfred Hitchcock -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro -- 2 Adaptations Case study: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) -- 3 Genre Theory -- Case study: The British Gangster Film -- Case study: The Musical -- 4 Formalism Case study: Lola Rennt/Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) -- 5 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- Case study: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) -- 6 Marxism -- Case study: The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) -- 7 Realism -- Case study: Dogme 95 -- Case study: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) -- 8 Postmodernism -- Case study: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) -- 9 Psychoanalysis -- Case study: Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003) -- 10 Feminism -- Case study: Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, 2013) -- 11 Masculinity -- Case study: Ryan Gosling -- 12 Queer Theory -- Case study: Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) -- 13 Race and Ethnicity -- Case study: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) -- 14 Postcolonial and Transnational Cinemas -- Case study: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) -- 15 Stars -- Case study: Amitabh Bachchan -- Case study: Dame Judi Dench -- 16 Audience -- Research and Reception -- Case study: Tartan Video -- Conclusion -- filmography -- Index --

Call No: 734:451-02 WOM
Author: Kaplan, E. Ann
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Publishing
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; FILM NOIR; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; FEMME FATALE; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963); BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996); CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948); KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971); MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945); BLUE GARDENIA, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1953); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0851706665 (pbk.); 0851706657 (hbk.)
LON: 14106071