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book		Carceral fantasies : cinema and prison in early twentieth-century America / Alison Griffiths New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Call No: 386.9 GRI Author: Griffiths, Alison Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: xix, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Subject: PRISON FILMS; PRISON CINEMAS; AUDIENCES Summary: "A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, Alison Griffiths explores both the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index ISBN: 9780231161060 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema Contents: Introduction -- The carceral imaginary -- Tableaux mort: execution, cinema, and carceral fantasies -- Prison on screen: the carceral aesthetic -- The carceral spectator -- Screens and the senses in prison -- The great unseen audience: Sing Sing Prison and motion pictures -- The carceral reformer -- A different story: recreation and cinema in women's prisons and reformatories -- Cinema and prison reform -- Conclusion: the prison museum and media use in the contemporary prison More info
book		Compendium / Managing editors: Brad Haylock and Tracey O'Shaughnessy [Melbourne, Victoria]: RMIT University School of Media and Communication, [2016]. Call No: 00(082) COM Author: Haylock, Brad; O'Shaughnessy, Tracey Source: AT Place: [Melbourne, Victoria] Publisher: RMIT University School of Media and Communication PubDate: [2016] PhysDes: 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PRISON CINEMAS; PRISON DRAMAS; PRISON FILMS Summary: "This publication captures a moment of investigation; a Compendium of our output in its many forms. It is neither a journal nor a magazine; it is a collection of ideas that captures the diversity of our academics and the criticality of their scholarship."--Professor Martyn Hook. Dean, School of Media and Communication. Notes: Includes bibliographic references Contents: Introduction / by Martyn Hook. -- Community-centred innovation: co-designing for disaster preparedness / by Yoko Akama. -- Dirty talk: Terry and Liam / by Craig Batty. -- Japan's Red and White Song Contest / by Shelley Brunt. -- The cigarette seller of Addis Ababa / by David Carlin. -- Nonna to Nana / by Jessie DiBlasi. -- Women and innovation in the Australian film and television industry / by Lisa French. -- Crime at the AFI Research Colledction / by Catherine Gillam and Alex Gionfriddo. -- Media, populism and democracy: the case of the Resource Super-Profits Tax in Australia / by Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams. -- Visualising ambient play: camera phone practices and cartographies of co-presence / by Larissa Hjorth. -- Edge of the observable / by Chris Henschke. -- Locative painting / by Seth Keen. -- 'One city block at a time': researching and cultivating green transformations / by Tania Lewis. -- Affective slowness: the web films of Robert Croma / by Adrian Miles. -- We are the one per cent: rethinking national elites as protest participants / by John Postill. -- Field guide to writing a father / by Francesca Rendle-Short. -- A redacted history / by Lucinda Strahan. -- An introduction to the gameful world / by Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding. -- Narrating place / by Laurene Vaughan and Paul Ritchard. -- Arrival Platform Humlet, and 1961: lightly scored in three parts / by Jessica Wilkinson. -- Pool / by Jeremy Yuille and Marius Foley. -- 51 paintings / by Shaun Wilson. -- Overview of research in the School of Media and Communication. More info
book		Incredibly strange films / [editors V. Vale and Andrea Juno] San Francisco, Calif.: RE/Search Publications, 1986. Call No: 722.731 INC Author: Vale, V; Juno, Andrea Place: San Francisco, Calif. Publisher: RE/Search Publications PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 211, 17 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm Series: RE/Search ; 10 Subject: CULT FILMS; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS; MOTORCYCLE FILMS; BEACH MOVIES; DRUGS IN FILMS; PRISON FILMS; MONDO FILMS; SEX FILMS; ROMERO, GEORGE; LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON; WISHMAN, DORIS; WOOD, EDWARD D., JR.; HENENLOTTER, FRANK; STECKLER, RAY DENNIS; MIKELS, TED V.; MEYER, RUSS; BAKALYAN, RICHARD; SARNO, JOSEPH W.; FRIEDMAN, DAVID F.; COHEN, LARRY; YOUNG PLAYTHINGS (SW?, Joseph W. Sarno, 1972?); SPIDER BABY OR, THE MADDEST STORY EVER TOLD (US, Jack Hill, 1965); DEMENTIA [DAUGHTER OF HORROR] (US, John Parker, 1953); BLAST OF SILENCE (US, Allen Baron, 1961); GOD TOLD ME TO (US, Larry Cohen, 1976) Notes: Cover title; Includes index; Filmography: p. [212]-[213] ISBN: 0940642093 LON: 6230876 More info
Online resource digital clippings file		PRISON FILMS Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PRISON FILMS URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/PRISON_FILMS.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:45:09 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Prison movies : cinema behind bars / Kevin Kehrwald New York: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press, Call No: 734.7KEH Author: Kehrwald, Kevin Place: Chichester, U.K.; New York Publisher: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press PhysDes: vii,21p. : illustrated ; 21 cm Series: Short Cuts Subject: PRISON FILMS; I WANT TO LIVE! (US, Robert Wise, 1958); BIG HOUSE, THE (US, George W. Hill, 1930); DEFIANT ONES, THE (US, Stanley Kramer, 1958); COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967); MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (UK, Alan Parker, 1978); ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (US, Donald Siegel, 1979); SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE (US, Frank Darabont, 1994); STARRED UP (UK, David Mackenzie, 2013) Summary: Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a fall, the prison film focuses on fallen characters seeking redemption. The gangster's perverse pursuit of the American dream is irrelevant to the prisoner for whom that dream has already failed. At their core, prison films are about self-preservation at the hands of oppressive authority. Like history itself, prison films display long stretches of idleness punctuated by eruptions of violence, dangerous moments that signify liberation and the potential for change. The enclosed world of the prison is a highly effective microcosm, one that forces characters and audiences alike to confront vexing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. These portrayals of men and women behind bars have thrived because they deal with such fundamental human themes as freedom, individuality, power, justice, and mercy. -- publisher's web site Notes: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: After the Crime is Over -- 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs -- 2. Women's Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s -- 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s -- Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration -- Bibliography -- Index ISBN: 9780231181150 More info
book		Study unit 6 : Imprisonment / Notes on film material prepared by Colin McArthur London: British Film Institute, [n.d.]. Call No: 734.7 MCA Author: McArthur, Colin Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: [n.d.] PhysDes: 14 p. ; 28 cm Subject: TROU, LE (FR, Jacques Becker, 1960); CRIMINAL, THE (UK, Joseph Losey, 1960); PRISONER, THE (UK, Peter Glenville, 1955); EROICA (PL, Andrzej Munk, 1958); PRISON FILMS More info

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