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Call No: 735.1 SZE
Author: Szendy, Peter; Bishop, Will; Webber, Samuel
Edition: 2015
Place: New York
Publisher: Fordham University Press
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: xx, 160 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series: French Voices
Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011); LAST MAN ON EARTH, THE (US/IT, Ubaldo Ragona, 1964); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984); 2012 [TWO THOUSAND AND TWELVE] (US/CN, Roland Emmerich, 2009); A.I: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (US, Steven Spielberg, 2001); WATCHMEN (US, Zack Snyder, 2009); SUNSHINE (UK/US, Danny Boyle, 2007); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); [TWELVE] MONKEYS (US, Terry Gilliam, 1995); ROAD, THE (US, John Hillcoat, 2009); BLOB, THE (US, Chuck Russell, 1988)
Summary: Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the same double blow, the end of the world and the end of the film. It is the consummation and the (self-)consumption of cinema, in the form of an acinema that Lyotard evoked as the nihilistic horizon of filmic economy. The innumerable countdowns, dazzling radiations, freeze-overs, and seismic cracks and crevices are but other names and pretexts for staging film itself, with its economy of time and its rewinds, its overexposed images and fades to white, its freeze-frames and digital touch-ups. The apocalyptic genre is not just one genre among others: It plays with the very conditions of possibility of cinema. And it bears witness to the fact that, every time, in each and every film, what Jean-Luc Nancy called the cine-world is exposed on the verge of disappearing. In a Postface specially written for the English edition, Szendy extends his argument into a debate with speculative materialism. Apocalypse-cinema, he argues, announces itself as cinders that question the “ultratestimonial” structure of the filmic gaze. The cine-eye, he argues, eludes the correlationism and anthropomorphic structure that speculative materialists have placed under critique, allowing only the ashes it bears to be heard. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780823264810

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); CHILDREN OF THE SILK ROAD, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: END OF THE ROAD, THE (US, Brett Meeske, 2000)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Press kit
Subject: ROAD, THE [JOL] (KA/FR/JP, Darejan Omirbaev, 2001)
Notes: Simon Strong import_191126

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LAST ROAD, THE (UK, John Wheeler, 2012)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: PEYOTE ROAD, THE (US, Gary Rhine, Fidel Moreno & Phil Cousineau, 1994)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ROAD, THE (US, John Hillcoat, 2009)

Call No: S ROA
Author: Penhall, Joe
Place: US
PhysDes: 112 pages
Subject: ROAD, THE (US, John Hillcoat, 2009)
Notes: Unpublished script

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 29 cm
Subject: SILK ROAD, THE (JA, Junya Sato, 1988) SEE DUN-HUANG
Summary: Black and white photograph of Teck Tan.

Call No: 408.1-054(=951) SIN
Author: Yue, Audrey (editor); Khoo, Olivia (editor)
Source: AU
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xvi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: CHINA IN FILMS; COPRODUCTION; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; COPRODUCTION. CHINA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HONG KONG; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; SHORT FILMS; SINGAPORE; TAIWAN; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; SHIH, SHU-MEI; CHILDREN OF THE SILK ROAD, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000); FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (FR, Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2008)
Summary: "Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism and differences that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Contains list of figures and notes on Chinese names and film titles -- Includes filmography, bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9781137311191
Contents: Part 1: Theorising Sinophone cinemas -- Framing Sinophone cinemas / Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo -- Genealogies of four critical paradigms in Chinese-language film studies / Sheldon H. Lu -- Alter-centring Sinophone cinema / Yiman Wang -- Festivals, censorship and the canon: the making of Sinophone cinemas / Yifen T. Beus -- The voice of the Sinophone / Song Hwee Lim -- Singapore, Sinaphone, nationalism: sounds of language in the films of Tan Pin Pin / Olivia Khoo; Part 2: Contemporary Sinophone cinemas -- Mandarin pop-culture meets Tokyo jazz: gender and popular youth culture in late-1960s Hong Kong musicals / Jennifer Feeley -- Sinophone libidinal economy in the age of neoliberalization and mainlandization: masculinities in Hong Kong SAR and New Wave cinema / Mirana M. Szeto -- Singlish and the Sinophone: non-standard (Chinese/English) languages in recent Singaporean cinema / Alison M. Groppe -- British Chinese short films: challenging the limits of the Sinophone / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis -- Contemporary Sinophone cinema: Australia-China coproductions / Audrey Yue