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book		The aesthetics and psychology of the cinema / Jean Mitry ; translated by Christopher King Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997. Call No: 611 MIT Author: Mitry, Jean Source: US Place: Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: xv, 403 pages ; 27 cm Series: The Society for Cinema Studies translation series Subject: BAZIN, ANDRE; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; AESTHETICS; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA Summary: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema supplies the missing link between classical film theorists like Balacz and Munsterberg and the film semioticians like Metz. Mitry is the apotheosis and grand summation of the psychological and formalist views of film. This one-volume condensation of the classic Esthetique et psychologie du cinema concentrates purely on film matter." -- taken from the National Library of Australia Catalogue Record Notes: "Translated from the abridged edition ... (1990)"--T.p. verso. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-387) and index. ISBN: 0253333024 Contents: pt. 1: Preliminaries -- Cinema and creation -- Cinema and language -- Word and image -- pt. 2: The film image -- The image itself -- Structures of the image -- pt. 3: Rhythm and montage -- The beginnings of montage -- Cinematic rhythm -- The psychology of montage -- pt. 4: Rhythm and moving shots -- The liberated camera and depth-of-field -- Speech and sound -- pt. 5: Time and space of the drama -- In search of a dramatic structure -- Content and form. More info
journal article		Affective authorship : contemporary Asian Australian documentary in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.157-170 Author: Smaill, Belinda PhysDes: Article Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); CHINESE TAKEAWAY (AT, Mitzi Goldman, 2002) Summary: Documentary is a genre not widely understood through its capacity to engage the emotions. This article works to acknowledge the affective labour performed by documentary and, more specifically, the way emotions give meaning to documentary subjects. The analysis explores the production of Asian Australian subjects as documentary authors in four prominent films produced over the previous decade: Chinese Takeaway (Mitzi Goldman, 2002), Sadness: A Monologue by William Yang (Tony Ayres, 1999), The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) and Letters to Ali (Clara Law. 2004). These texts allow for a fruitful examination of the way the emotions that shape the expression of these author-subjects, such as mourning and care, might impact on the documentary representation of cultural otherness. Asian Australian subjectivity coalesces in and around these texts in a manner that is founded on the activity of mourning. Included here are not only the bereavements of loved ones, but also the losses that are bound to the movements of modernity, such as the lost fullness which is the promise of diaspora, the failure or absence of universal citizenship and the lack of safety in life lived in advanced capitalism. This article explores not only the absences suggested in these films, but also how these absences present a site of ethical encounter for the viewer that both resists reducing and assimilating the Asian Australian author to a devalued ethnic other while also addressing a community of viewers through a relation of reciprocity based in caring attachments to the social realm. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1 More info
book		Cinema and sentiment / Charles Affron Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Call No: 632.2 AFF Author: Affron, Charles Place: Chicago Publisher: University of Chicago Press PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: xi, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 187-191 ISBN: 0226008207 : $20.00 LON: 82002687; 2192178 More info
Interim book		The Cinema in education : being the report of the psychological investigation conducted by the Cinema Commission of enquiry established by the National Council of Public Morals / Edited by Sir James Marchant, K.B.E., LL.D. General Secretary London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925. Call No: 49:37 CIN Author: Merchant, Sir James Source: UK Place: London Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. PubDate: 1925 PhysDes: 159p. ; 22cm. Subject: EDUCATION AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS Notes: Includes tables and appendicies More info
journal article		Everyone was watching! : strategies of self-presentation in oral histories of cinema-going in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.3 p.261-274 Author: Huggett, Nancy PhysDes: Article Subject: AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA Summary: This article considers the different ways in which strategies of selective self-presentation on behalf of both interviewee and interviewer structure the oral history narrative, using, as an example. the ways in which embarrassment and shame function in narratives of cinema-going in Australia. The essay explores when and how embarrassment and shame feature in cinema-going narratives and also the way in which some issues, such as the recollection of segregation in rural cinemas, disrupt the easy conversational flow of a narrative and cause discomfort, bordering on embarrassment and shame for both interviewee and interviewer. Drawing on oral histories and autobiographical accounts from New South Wales cinema-goers, this article delves into the public/private and past/present functions of embarrassment and shame in order to better understand cinema-going practices and recollection strategies. It takes into account how critical oral history and cultural theory can assist cinema studies to examine how practices of cinema-going are situated within wider cultural attidudes and discourses. -- Abstract More info
poster		[Evil video traps girl : poster] [1999]. Call No: P SCR PubDate: [1999] PhysDes: 1 poster : some colour ; 60 x 41 cm Subject: SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996); PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF FILM ON Summary: Image: A hooded ghost mask with a grotesque expression. This poster was used as a newspaper display advertising in the Herald Sun Sunday newspaper on September 26, 1999 in connection with a newspaper article titled 'Horror video alarm' written by Greg Thom about a 10-year-old girl who had a severe psychological reaction to watching the movie Scream. See title clippings file SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996). Notes: Poor condition with folds, pinholes, ink marks, and a large tear in the upper edge of the poster. More info
book		Film as a subversive art / Amos Vogel New York: Random House, [1974]. Call No: 412 VOG Author: Vogel, Amos Place: New York Publisher: Random House PubDate: [1974] PhysDes: 336 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MONTAGE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 329-331 ISBN: 0394490789 : $15.00 LON: 511546 More info
book		Jungian film studies : the essential guide / Helena Bassil-Morozow / Luke Hockley London ; New York: Routledge, 2017. Call No: 626[159.964.2] MOR Author: Bassil-Morozow, Helena; Hockley,Luke Source: UK/US Place: London; London ; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm Series: Jung: the essential guides Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; FILM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; AUTEUR THEORY; GENRES Summary: "Written in a growing academic field it is the first book to bring together all the different strands, and arguments in the dicipline, and guide the reader through the various ways in which Jungian psychology can be applied to moving images." -- adapted from book blurb. Notes: includes bibliography, list of names and index ISBN: 9780415531450 Contents: Introduction -- Methods The Context of Jungian film studies; Using Jung to analyse narrative tools and concepts -- Jungian Psychology: signs and symbols -- Applications; combining different methodologies in visual narrative analysis -- The Auteur Theory: A Jungian view -- Film genres and archetypes -- Jungian vs. Freudians: gender, identity and sexuality on screen -- The body: phenomenology and cinema More info
Online resource book		Lessons in perception : the avant-garde filmmaker as practical psychologist / Paul Taberham New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, Available at OAPEN (open access) Call No: 771 TAB Author: Taberham, Paul Edition: 2018 Place: New York & Oxford Publisher: Berghahn Books PhysDes: 214 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; BREER, ROBERT; BRAKHAGE, STAN; DEREN, MAYA; BELSON, JORDAN Summary: Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental artists such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, and Jordan Belson. In illustrating how avant-garde filmmakers draw from their own mental and perceptual capacities, author Paul Taberham offers a compelling for how their works expand the range of aesthetic sensitivity and open creative vistas uncharted by commercial cinema. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781785336416 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: COGNITION --Chapter 1. The Specter of Narrative -- Chapter 2. Ghost Films of the Avant-Garde -- PART II: VISUAL PERCEPTION -- Chapter 3. Bottom Up Processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye in the Films of Stan Brakhage -- Chapter 4. Robert Breer and the Dialectic of Eye and Camera -- PART III: AUDIO-VISUAL PERCEPTION -- Chapter 5. Synaesthetic Film Reconsidered - Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Visual Music -- Conclusion -- Bibliography More info
book		Movie heaven : an anthology of new film writing from Empire [S.l.]: EMAP Metro, 1995. Call No: 67(049.32) MOV Source: UK Place: [S.l.] Publisher: EMAP Metro PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 123 p. ; 18 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS Notes: compiled and edited by Philip Thomas Contents: foreward -- Oklahoma!: the Shittums and the Henley Regal / by Tom Hibbert -- Tales of the overeducated underemployed: learning to write about films for money / by Kim Newman -- Casablanca's not Casablanca: searching for movie locations / by Gerald Kaufman -- We are the ABC minors!: Maidenhead Saturdays / by Nick Hornby -- Napalm in the morning: notes on the making of Apocalypse Now / by Eleanor Coppola -- Nimbostatus, chicken moghlai and Taxi Driver: the day movies made me sick / by Chris Heath -- Drifting into the arena of the unwell: the majesty of Withnail and I / by Mark Ellen -- Halfway to paradise / by Barry McIlheney -- Alien Heart: Close Encounters of the Third Kind / by Philip Ridley -- Big boys don't cry: (or how I stopped worrying love the Poseidon Adventure) / by Andrew Collins -- Viddy well, little brother!: A Clockwork Orange / by Tony Parsons -- Beyond belief: the shooting of Schindler's List / by David Gritten -- A matter of life and death: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger / by David Cavanagh More info
book		Multimodal film analysis : how films mean / John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt New York: Routledge, 2012. Call No: 630.1 BAT Author: Bateman, John A.; Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: Routledge studies in multimodality ; 5 Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA Summary: "In this study, the authors provide a methodologically sound and detailed account of how to analyse films within a framework based on the current state of the art in multimodal research." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415754439 Contents: Analysing film. Distinguishing the filmic contribution to meaning -- Examples of filmic "textual organisation" -- Redrawing boundaries -- Organisation of the book -- Semiotics and documents. Semiotics and its relations to film -- The nature of discourse semantics -- The film as cinematographic document -- A combined view: filmic documents for filmic discourse -- Constructing the semiotic mode of film. Semiotic multimodality -- The internal organisation of semiotic strata -- Composing and combining semiotic modes -- Materiality and "epistemological commitment" -- Christian Metz and the grande syntagmatique of the image track. The original model -- Two examples of analysis with the grande syntagmatique -- Revisions and rebuttals -- Foundations for analysis: filmic units. The basic units of film: preliminaries -- Audiovisual iconic representations -- Perception, perceptual realism and reliable measurement -- Multiplicity: from perception to discourse -- Filmic units revisited: discourse-motivated definitions -- The paradigmatic organisation of film. Beyond Metz: towards a grande paradigmatique -- Capturing discourse dependency structures in film -- The paradigmatic dimensions of projection, taxis and plane -- Two examples of paradigmatic analysis -- Summary and conclusions. More info
book		Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Call No: 62 POS Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: Madison Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cm Series: Wisconsin studies in film Subject: THEORY; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; MUSIC, FILM; NON-FICTION FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; JAPAN; DENMARK; EXHIBITION; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; AUDIENCES; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDITING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; GENRES; LOVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GIBSON, JAMES J.; COHN, HARRY; JAMESON, FREDRIC; MANDEL, ERNEST; RENOV, MICHAEL; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 95037052; 11859923 More info
subject clippings file		PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS More info
Yet to catalogue book		Psychological effects of the "Western" film / a study in television viewing by F. E. Emery and David Martin Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of Audio-Visual Aids, 1957. Call No: 412 EME Author: Emery, F. E. (Frederick Edmund), 1925; Martin, David Place: Melbourne Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of Audio-Visual Aids PubDate: 1957 PhysDes: 47 p. ; 24 cm Series: Studies in mass communication Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TV; WESTERNS LON: 2535104 More info
book		The reality of illusion : an ecological approach to cognitive film theory / Anderson, Joseph D. United States: Southern Illinois University Press, [1996]. Call No: 747.7 AND Author: Anderson, Joseph D. Source: Adrian Miles Place: United States Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press PubDate: [1996] PhysDes: xiv, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP Summary: Anderson's primary argument is that motion picture viewers mentally process the projected images and sounds of a movie according to the same perceptual rules used in response to visual and aural stimuli in the world outside the theater. To process everyday events in the world, the human mind is equipped with capacities developed through millions of years of evolution. In this context, Anderson builds a metatheory influenced by the writings of J. J. and Eleanor Gibson and employs it to explore motion picture comprehension as a subset of general human comprehension and perception, focusing his ecological approach to film on the analysis of cinema's true substance: illusion. Anderson investigates how viewers, with their mental capacities designed for survival, respond to particular aspects of filmic structure - continuity, diegesis, character development, and narrative - and examines the ways in which rules of visual and aural processing are recognized and exploited by filmmakers. He uses Orson Welles's Citizen Kane to disassemble and redefine the contemporary concept of character identification; he addresses continuity in a shot-by-shot analysis of images from Casablanca; and he uses a wide range of research studies, such as Harry F. Harlow's work with infant rhesus monkeys, to describe how motion pictures become a substitute or surrogate reality for an audience. By examining the human capacity for play and the inherent potential for illusion, Anderson considers the reasons viewers find movies so enthralling, so emotionally powerful, and so remarkably real. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index. ISBN: 0809321963 More info
book		Reinventing Hollywood : how 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling / Borwell, David Chicago: The university of Chicago press, 2017. Call No: 71(73) BOR Author: Bordwell, David Place: Chicago Publisher: The university of Chicago press PubDate: 2017 PhysDes: 572 pages ; 24 cm. Subject: ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); COVER GIRL (US, Charles Vidor, 1944); BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946); FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (US, Billy Wilder, 1943); HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HOLLYWOOD; HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (US, John Ford, 1941); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948) Summary: In the 1940s, American movies. changed. flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780226487755 Contents: Introduction: the way Hollywood told it The frenzy of five fat years; Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town Time and time again; Interlude: Kitty and Lydia, Julia and Nancy Plots: the menu; Interlude: Schema and revision, between rounds Slices, strands, and chunks; Interlude: Mankiewicz: modularity and polyphony What they didn't know was; Interlude: identity thieves and tangled networks Voices out of the dark; Interlude: Remaking middlebrow modernism Into the depths Call it psychology; Interlude: Innovation by misadventure From the Naked City to Bedford Falls I love a mystery; Interlude: Sturges, or showing the puppet strings Artifice in excelsis; Interlude: Hitchcock and Welles: The lessons of the masters Conclusion: the way Hollywood keeps telling it. More info
book		The remembered film London: Reaktion Books, 2004. Call No: 747.7 BUR Author: Burgin, Victor Place: London Publisher: Reaktion Books PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 20 cm ; 128 pages Subject: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944) ISBN: 1861892152 More info
book		Seeing into screens : eye tracking and the moving image / edited by Tessa Dwyer, Claire Perkins, Sean Redmond and Jodi Sita New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Call No: 412.5 SEE Author: Dwyer, Tessa; Perkins, Claire; Redmond, Sean; Sita, Jodi Edition: 2018 Place: New York Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic PhysDes: x, 276 pages ; illustrated : 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; SUBTITLES ISBN: 9781501329029 More info
book		They must be represented : the politics of documentary / Paula Rabinowitz London New York: Verso, 1994. Call No: 761 RAB Author: Rabinowitz, Paula Place: London New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; VOYEURISM AND THE CINEMA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; FREUD, SIGMUND; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984) Summary: "They must be represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies. Paula Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which these four media shaped truth-claims and political agency over the decades: in the 1930s about poverty, labor and popular culture during the depression; in the 1960s, about the Vietnam War, racism, work and the counterculture; and in the 1980s, about feminist and gay critiques of gender, history, narrative and cinema...Rabinowitz argues that the gendering ov vision that occurs when narratives conform to conventional genres profoundly affects the relation of documentarian to subject. She goes on to define this gendering of vision in documentary as an ethnographic process. Ultimately, this polemical study challenges the construction of the spectato in psychoanalytic film theory, and articulates a new model for theorizing power relations in culture and history." -- taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251) and index ISBN: 1859849253; 1859840256 (pbk.) LON: bnc85984925; 11201643 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:36:48 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info

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