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Author: Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LUHRMANN, BAZ; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Short editorial discussion summarising critical and academic response to Baz Luhrmann's film Australia

Call No: 722.81 (=9) KOV
Author: Koven, Mikel J
Source: UK
Place: Harpenden, Herts, UK
Publisher: Kamera Books
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 160 p., [8] p. of col. plates : col. ill., ports ; 20 cm
Subject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS
Summary: In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, R 'n' B, and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros; and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across the screen. An antidote to the sanitized "safe" images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby presented to America, these films depicted a reality about the world which African-American audiences could identify with, even if the stories themselves were pure fantasy. This guide reviews and discusses more than 60 Blaxploitation films, considering them from the perspectives of class and racial rebellion, genre, and Stickin' it to the Man. Subgenres covered include Blaxploitation horror films, kung-fu movies, westerns, and parodies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781842433348

Author: Roxburgh, Mark
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: CHINESE IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; LAW, CLARA; FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996)
Summary: Essay examines "Floating life" in relation to the discourse of Australian national identity and the Chinese immigrant experience.

Call No: 737(5-012) DIV
Source: US
Place: Honolulu
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS. JAPAN; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. CHINA; KOREAN WAR FILMS; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR FILMS; TAIWAN; MANGA; VIDEO GAMES; COMPUTER GAMES; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; ASIANS IN FILMS; [TWO THOUSAND AND NINE] 2009: LOST MEMORIES [2009 IOSEUTEU MAEMORIJEU] (KO, Si-myung Lee, 2002); BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS [NU JIZHONGYING] (HK, Kuei Chih-Hung, 1973); CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); FRIENDS (JP/KO, 2002); SCARLET ROSE: THE GODDESSES OF JINLING [XUESE MEIGUI: JINLING NUSHEN] [TV](CC, Yu Liqing, 2007)
Summary: Exploring how the years of 1931-1953 have been recreated and negotiated in cinema. This period saw conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War and events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bomibings of Hiroshina and Nagasaki. The films relating to the experiences of the countries China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and other Far East countries, as well as the United States of America are examined. - partially taken from cover
Notes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305), filmography, television and video game lists (pages 281-290) and index
ISBN: 9780824851514
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Divided Lenses / Michael Berry -- Part I : screen histories of war in East Asia -- War, history, and remembrance in Chinese cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of female spies and national heroes : a brief history of anti-Japanese films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The "division blockbuster" in South Korea: the evolution of cinematic representations of war and division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under the flag of the rising sun: imagining and reimagining the Pacific war in the Japanese cinema / David Desser -- Japanese manga and anime on the Asia-Pacific war experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity and change in Hollywood's representations of American-Asian relations in war and peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Part II : reading war trauma -- Oscillating histories : representations of comfort women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting the enemy : photographic attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War and nationalism in recent Japanese cinema : Yamato, trauma, and forgetting the postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The promise and limits of "pop culture diplomacy" in East Asia : contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History and its alternatives : war games as social form / Eric Hayot

Call No: 408 COA
Author: Coates, Paul, 1953
Place: Cambridge [England] New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xvii, 201 p. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; MELODRAMA; WESTERNS; FILM NOIR; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; STARS; GENRES; HORROR FILMS; VOICE OVER; MUSIC TELEVISION; SIRK, DOUGLAS; MARKER, CHRIS; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; FRANJU, GEORGES; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; LANG, FRITZ; LEE, SPIKE; MADONNA; MONROE, MARILYN; POTTER, DENNIS; BEDROOM WINDOW, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1986); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963); MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THE (US, John Ford, 1962); AUFZEICHNUNGEN ZU KLEIDERN UND STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1989); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947); ROCKY IV (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1985); OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986); SOLARIS (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972); WESELE (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1972); DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-194) and index
ISBN: 0521444721 (hardback)
LON: 10419843

Author: McKee, Alan
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES ON TV; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES ON TV. AUSTRALIA; GRANT, STAN; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); BLACKFELLAS (AT, James Ricketson, 1992); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); REAL LIFE [TV] (AT, 1988)
Summary: The article suggests that while the medium of film has tended to search for an Aboriginality which looks 'right', television allows the racial identity of indigenous Australians to be understood in other ways.

Call No: 62(082) GEN
Author: Codell, Julie F.
Source: US
Place: Malden, Massachusetts
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BOLLYWOOD; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; FILM NOIR; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; WORLD CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; RACE AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IRAN; MELODRAMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; WORLD CINEMA; KAIGE, CHEN; NAIR, MIRA; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999); HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993); INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995); ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992); POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995); SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998); ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) SEE TODO SOBRE MI MADRE; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."
ISBN: 1405132337
Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements

Call No: 465.1 DYE
Author: Dyer, Richard
Edition: second edition
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 210 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: SEX IN FILMS; STARS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; ROBESON, PAUL; GARLAND, JUDY
Summary: Focusing on the lives and careers of three of the biggest names in Hollywood history – Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland – Dyer details how their screen image was constructed. Through subtle readings of their films and wealth of background material, he goes on to survey the development of each star’s image in relation to particular social groups. Monroe is discussed in the context of 1950s sexuality and the image of woman; Robeson in terms of black identity and different white and black perceptions of it; and Garland as a gay icon. All three are set in the wider context of the social significance of the very idea of stardom.
ISBN: 041531027X

Call No: 465 DYE
Author: Dyer, Richard
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Macmillan Education
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 208 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; STARS; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BLACKS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; ROBESON, PAUL; GARLAND, JUDY
ISBN: 0333295404

Call No: 410 HOL
Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: 240p. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); CENSORSHIP. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; CINEPHILIA
ISBN: 0851708110; 0851708102(pbk.) : ¦15.99
LON: 21774778

Call No: 732(5-011) HUM
Author: Revi, Gayatri (ed.); Rahman, Najat (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: 282 pages ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media
Subject: AFGHANISTAN; ARAB COUNTRIES; ARABS IN FILMS; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; BOLLYWOOD; CENSORSHIP; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US; EGYPT; HUMOUR IN FILMS; INDIA; IRAN; IRAQ; ISRAEL; IRONY IN FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; SATIRE IN FILMS; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; PAKISTAN; CHAHINE, YOUSSEF; DHOUIB, MONCEF; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; ZARHIN, SHEMI; AMERIKALI (TU, Serif Gören, 1993); BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD (IR/FR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999); DIVINE INTERVENTION (FR/MR/G/PA, Elia Suleiman, 2002); ISKANDERIJA...LIH? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978); ALEXANDRIA...WHY? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978); TELE ARRIVE, LA (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006); TERE BIN LADEN (II, Abhishek Sharma, 2010); TV IS COMING, THE (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006)
Summary: "While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent—including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an “emancipatory,” “liberatory,” even “revolutionary” function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region’s masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan. This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema." -- GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Contains bibliography and filmography -- contains index -- contains list of contributors
ISBN: 9780814339374
Contents: Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman -- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's TV Is Coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehran Modiri: space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic meditations: war and genre in The Outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny: humor and anti-americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta

Call No: 451-054(=9) JER
Author: Jerome, V.J.
Edition: 1950
Place: New York
Publisher: Masses & Mainstream
PubDate: December, 1950
PhysDes: 19 cm ; 17 pages
Subject: RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS
AFIRC Location: Stacks

Call No: 71(94) OXF REF
Author: Mayer, Geoff; McFarlane, Brian, 1934; Bertrand, Ina, 1939
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 1 v
Subject: AUSTRALIA; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FOOD IN FILMS; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; JEWS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PERIODICALS, FILM. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA; MUSIC, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WAR AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MCCALLUM, JOHN; MILLER, NATALIE; NEVIN, ROBYN; RABE, PAMELA; RUSH, GEOFFREY; TINGWELL, CHARLES (BUD); WILLIAMSON, DAVID; WITHERS, GOOGIE
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography
ISBN: 0195537971
LON: 20072774

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

Call No: 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: 451-054(94) STR
Author: Stratton, John
Source: AT
Place: Annandale, NSW
Publisher: Pluto Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 224 pages ; 22 cm
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "Race Daze argues that the post-Whitlam Australian national identity remians hung up on our Anglo-centric past and takes the reader on an entertaining cruise through our films to prove his point. From 'Barry McKenzie' to 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' Race Daze shows that Australian films and television have lagged far behind our polyglot cultural reality, receycling a white Australia that no longer exists."--BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 1864030534

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS

Call No: 451-054(=95)(73) LOC
Author: Locke, Brian
Edition: First Plagrave Macmillan paperback edition
Source: US
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: ASIANS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; CRASH (US, Paul Haggis, 2004); FLASH GORDON (US/UK, Mike Hodges, 1980); LAST SAMURAI, THE (US, Edward Zwick, 2003); LETHAL WEAPON [...] (US, Richard Donner, 1987-92); LETHAL WEAPON 4 (US, Richard Donner, 1998); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); RISING SUN (US, Philip Kaufman, 1993)
Summary: "Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood's representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between US democratic ideals and white America's persistent domination over blacks." -book blurb.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexes
ISBN: 9781137029348
Contents: List of figures -- acknowledgements -- Introduction - Three's a crowd: Crash (2005) -- Strange fruit: Bataan (1943) -- White and black to the brink: China Gate (1957), Pork Chop Hill (1959), All the Young Men (1960) -- The blaxploitation buddy film -- The Orientalist buddy film in the 1980s and 1990s: Flash Gordon (1980), Lethal Weapon (1987-1998), Rising Sun (1993) -- The Orientalist buddy film and the "new niggers": Blade Runner (1982, 1992 and 2007) -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto": The Matrix (1999) and the virtual Asian -- Epilogue - Pearl Harbor eclipsed? The Last Samurai (2003) -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Film and television index -- General index

Call No: 451-054 (=1-81)(71):(93):(94) REV
Author: Pearson, Wendy Gay (ed.); Knabe, Susan (ed.)
Source: CN
Place: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Film and media studies series; Film + media studies
Subject: CRITICISM; MEDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; INDIGENOUS; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND MAORI CINEMA; NORWAY; CANADA; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND TV; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES ON TV; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS
Summary: "From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity. The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway. " --BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9781554583355
Contents: -- pt. I dream makers -- Introduction Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media / Susan Knabe -- One: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt. II decolonizing histories -- Two: Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Three:Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- Four.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Five: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk / Colleen McGloin -- Six."Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt. III mediating practices -- Seven: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / jo smith and Sue Abel -- Eight: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- Nine: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV documentary approaches -- Ten: The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- Eleven: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew / Ute Lischke -- Twelve: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- Thirteen:"I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V other perspectives --Fourteen: Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Fifteen: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk / Davinia Thornley -- glossary -- bibliography -- index --

Author: Haag, Oliver
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: Haag presents results of empirical research on the reception of 'Rabbit-proof fence' and 'Australia' within German-speaking countries, noting differences in marketing and the effects of broader discourses on their levels of success.

Call No: 626-054 VIS
Author: Berstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c1997
PhysDes: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; ASIANS IN FILMS; INDOCHINE (FR, Regis Wargnier, 1992); ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992); PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937); CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945)
Summary: "Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed include The Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and severeal films of France's 'cinema colonial'."-BOOK BLURB
Notes: includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and index
ISBN: 0813522951
Contents: Acknowledgements / Matthew Bernstein -- Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania / Antonia Lant --"Out-Salomeing Salome": Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism / Gaylyn Studlar -- The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole / Andrienne L. McLean -- The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine / Marina Heung -- A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Alladin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East / Alan Nadel -- The "Cinema colonial" of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice / Charles O'Brien -- Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic / Dudley Andrew -- In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra / Mary Homer. Reading the Letter in a Postcolonial World / Phebe Shih Chao -- Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography

Call No: 79 WAL NOW
Author: Nowra, Louis
CorpAuthor: Amanita Pty Ltd
Source: AT
Place: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.
Publisher: Currency Press; ScreenSound Australia
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 85 p.: ill. ; 19 cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971); AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AND THE CINEMA; AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ROEG, NICOLAS
Summary: This reflection of Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film Walkabout, discusses the iconic Australian Outback and explores the film's portrayal of the relationships between Australians and English. Nowra also discusses how the film came to be made and Nicholas Roeg's style of filmmaking.
Notes: Includes notes Includes bibliography Includes filmography Includes credits
ISBN: 0868197009
ISSN: 1447557x

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