Search Catalogue

Call No: 45:32 CIN
Author: Georgakas, Dan; Rubenstein, Lenny
CorpAuthor: Cineaste
Source: US
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Lake View Press
PubDate: c1983
PhysDes: xiv, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; CANBY, VINCENT; COSTA-GAVRAS, CONSTANTIN; CRITICISM; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FONDA, JANE; GUTIERREZ ALEA, TOMAS; LITTIN, MIGUEL; MAKAVEJEV, DUSAN; PARKS, GORDON; PETRI, ELIO; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; PONTECORVO, GILLO; Ray, Satyajit; ROCHA, GLAUBER; ROSI, FRANCESCO; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; SARRIS, ANDREW; SAYLES, JOHN; SCHRADER, PAUL; SCRIPTWRITERS; SEMBENE, OUSMANE; TAVERNIER, BERTRAND; WERTMULLER, LINA; Writers Guild of America; VARDA, AGNES; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; ZANUSSI, KRZYSZTOF
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0941702022 : $25.00
LON: 2921398

Call No: 70 CAS
Author: Casty, Alan
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 425 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: EDITING; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; GENRES; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRECHT, BERTOLT; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAPRA, FRANK; CARNE, MARCEL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; COOPER, GARY; CURTIZ, MICHAEL; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DIETRICH, MARLENE; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; Fellini, Federico; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; GARBO, GRETA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HUSTON, JOHN; HAWKS, HOWARD; KINGSLEY, STANLEY; KAZAN, ELIA; LANG, FRITZ; Lean, David; LEROY, MERVYN; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCREA, JOEL; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN; MARX BROTHERS; MILESTONE, LEWIS; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM; NEWMAN, PAUL; PABST, GEORG WILHELM; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Peckinpah, Sam; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; REED, CAROL; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ROSSEN, ROBERT; Stewart, James; TOLAND, GREGG; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; VIGO, JEAN; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WAYNE, JOHN; WELLES, ORSON; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; WILDER, BILLY; WISE, ROBERT; WYLER, WILLIAM; ZOLA, EMILE; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); STRAW DOGS (UK, Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
Summary: The development of the cinemictic styles and genres in films worldwide and the important professical within the film industry.
ISBN: 0155176226

Call No: 79 DOL LEV
Author: Levy, Shawn
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xxiii, 447 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : Illustrations ; 20 cm
Subject: DOLCE VITA, LA (FR/IT, Federico Fellini, 1960); CINECITTA FILM STUDIO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; DE LAURENTIIS, DINO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; EKBERG, ANITA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; FELLINI, FEDERICO; LOREN, SOPHIA; MASTROIANNI, MARCELLO; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO
Summary: "From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, style, boldfaced libertinism and titillating journalism. It’s the heyday of fashion icons such as Pucci and Brioni, and the height of ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’, when a dizzying array of stars flock to Cinecittà, the huge movie studio on the outskirts of Rome. At the bars on Via Veneto the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor mix with blue bloods and bohemians, while behind them trail street photographers in pursuit of the most unflattering and dramatic portraits of fame. In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic narrative, Shawn Levy shows how all roads lead to Federico Fellini’s world-conquering movie La Dolce Vita, starring Marcello Mastroianni and the Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg. He recreates Rome’s stunning ascent with vivid and compelling tales of its glitterati and artists, down to every last outrageous detail of the city’s magnificent transformation." - taken from publisher's website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781474606158
Contents: 1. Buzzing Through Ruins -- 2. "An Old River Among the Great Hotels" -- 3. Made in Italy -- 4. "The Three-Sided Mirror" -- 5. "Paris Didn't Move Us Like This" -- 6. "Motion Pictures Are the Most Powerful Weapon" -- 7."Hollywood on the Tiber" -- 8. Scattini and Fumetti -- 9. A Girl on a Beach -- 10. A Nose for the Shot -- 11. The Curvy Girls -- 12. "She Will Be a Sensation" -- 13. "She's Impossible to Photograph" -- 14. "I'm a Peasant" -- 15. Signor Sigarone -- 16. "Sit Down, If You Dare" -- 17. "Florence Is a Lost Cause" -- 18. "A Fine Race Horse and a Ghost" -- 19. "A Charnel House Under a Green Marque" -- 20. "Poor Starving Devils" -- 21. "We Take Their Pictures, and They Beat Us Up" -- 22. "The Most Sinful, Transgressive Thing" -- 23. Babylon, 2000 Years After Christ -- 24. "Poor You" -- 25. "I Am Not a Sexy Pot" -- 26. "You've Done It. You've Won"-- 27. "A Ravenous Wolf Pack" -- 28. "Everybody Becomes a Roman Within Three Days" -- 29. "There's No Erotic Charge in Me" -- 30. "We Are on Stage All the Time" -- 31. "Please Stop Crying"

Call No: 71(45) FAB
Author: Apra, Adriano; Pistagnesi, Patrizia
CorpAuthor: Incontri Internazionali d'Arte Roma
Place: Milan
Publisher: Electra International
PubDate: c1979
PhysDes: 113 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ITALY; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO; CASTELLANI, RENATO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; GENINA, AUGUSTO; MATARAZZO, RAFFAELLO; MATTOLI, MARIO; PALERMI, AMLETO; POGGIOLI, FERDINANDO MARIA; ALESSANDRINI, GOFFREDO; CAMERINI, MARIO; CHIARINI, LUIGI; GALLONE, CARMINE; SOLDATI, MARIO
LON: 1570161

Call No: 62 ARM
Author: Armes, Roy
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry.
Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced.
ISBN: 0140217010
URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:28 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest)

Call No: 63 RAN
Author: Rancier, Jacques; Battista, Emiliano
Source: FR/US
Place: New York
Publisher: Berg Publishers
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AESTHETICS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SYMBOLISM IN FILMS; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; EPSTEIN, JEAN; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; LANG, FRITZ; MANN, ANTHONY; MARKER, CHRIS; MEDVEKIN, ALEXANDER; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM; OZU YASUJIRO; RAY, NICHOLAS; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VERTOV, DZIGA; AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (US, Fritz Lang, 1955)
Summary: "Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries."
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 9781845201685
ID2: 291

Call No: 626 [159.964.2] OPR
Author: O'Pray, Michael
Source: US
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xiv, 252 p. ; 23 cm
Series: Language, Discourse, Society
Subject: AESTHETICS; EXPRESSIONISM; B-MOVIES; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; MONTAGE; FORD, JOHN; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; DREYER, CARL TH.
Summary: The critical writings of Adrian Stokes, based on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's innovative theories, were enormously influential on visual art and culture during his lifetime, but have rarely been applied to film. In this first major study of Stokes, his ideas and those of the philosopher Richard Wolheim are considered in relation to two central issues in current film theory - film as representation and as expression. Stokes fundamental distinction between carving and modelling which reflects Klein's own division in mental life between paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions is explored in relation to the traditional division in film theory between montage and realism. At the core of this study is the role of the Kleinian notion of phantasy in understanding film as an art form. To this end, the carving and modelling modes are applied to the films of Ford, Hitchcock, Rossellini, Antonioni, Dreyer, Eisenstein and American B movies. [ Taken from the back of the book.]
Notes: Bibliography : p.237-245; Includes index
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009

Call No: 81ROS BON
Author: Bondanella, Peter E., 1943
Place: Cambridge [England] New York, NY
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: xiv, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge film classics
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO
Notes: Filmography: p. 152-175; Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-180) and index
ISBN: 0521392365 (hc); 0521398665 (pb)
LON: 92011012; 9007436

Call No: 802.25 GRE
Author: Dickstein, Morris; Braudy, Leo
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: xi, 778 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BRESSON, ROBERT; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAPRA, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DREYER, CARL TH.; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HAWKS, HOWARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KEATON, BUSTER; KUROSAWA AKIRA; LANG, FRITZ; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; WELLES, ORSON
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0195023129 : $7.50
LON: 952629
ID2: 291

Call No: 70 FEL
Author: Fell, John
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 588 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; CAPRA, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DE SICA, VITTORIO; COCTEAU, JEAN; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DREYER, CARL TH.; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FRANJU, GEORGES; LANG, FRITZ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; PAUL, ROBERT; PORTER, EDWIN S.; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; RENOIR, JEAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; THALBERG, IRVING; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; VIGO, JEAN; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; WELLES, ORSON; WYLER, WILLIAM; ZUKOR, ADOLPH; L'­AGE D'OR (FR, Luis Bruñell, 1930); L'ATALANTE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BALLET MÉCANIQUE (FR, Fernand Lèger && Dudley Murphy,1934); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932)
Notes: Bibliography: p.546-548 Includes index
ISBN: 0030363160
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 81BER BER
Author: Bergman, Ingrid; Burgess, Alan
Edition: Sphere ed
Source: UK
Place: Great Britain
Publisher: Sphere Books
PubDate: 1981, c1980
PhysDes: xvii, 556 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 18 cm
Subject: BERGMAN, INGRID; GRANT, CARY; MAGNANI, ANNA; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; STROMBOLI (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1949)
Summary: A winner of three Academy Awards and three New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Ingrid Bergman provides her true story of her personal life- her childhood, her marriages and her battle against cancer. A history of her films and film-making, plays and players, are described.
ISBN: 0722154488
ID2: 69

Call No: 71(45) BON
Author: Bondanella, Peter E., 1943
Place: New York
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
PubDate: c1983
PhysDes: viii, 440 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Ungar film library
Subject: ITALY; NEOREALISM; WESTERNS. ITALY; CAVANI, LILIANA; WERTMULLER, LINA; COMENCINI, LUIGI; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; Fellini, Federico; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; LEONE, SERGIO; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; FERRERI, MARCO; GERMI, PIETRO; LATTUADA, ALBERTO; MONICELLI, MARIO; PONTECORVO, GILLO; RISI, DINO; ROSI, FRANCESCO; TAVIANI, PAOLO & VITTORIO; OLMI, ERMANNO; PETRI, ELIO; BRUSATI, FRANCO; BELLOCCHIO, MARCO
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 413-421
ISBN: 0804420645 : $17.95; 0804460612 (pbk.) : $10.95
LON: 2315799 2315799

Call No: 71(45) SOR
Author: Sorlin, Pierre
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: viii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: National cinemas series
Subject: ITALY; NEOREALISM; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. ITALY; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO; PAGANO, BARTOLOMEO; NAZZARI, AMEDEO; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Fellini, Federico
Notes: Filmography: p. (181)-202; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0415116988 (pbk. : alk. paper); 041511697X (hbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 12008493

Author: Russell, Edward
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NEOREALISM; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ROMA CITTA APERTA (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1945); VISCONTI, LUCHINO; TERRA TREMA, LA (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1948); DE SICA, VITTORIO; SCIUSCIA (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1946); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949)
Summary: Essay on the beginnings of Italian Neorealism, and filmographies of the three main directors of the period: Rossellini, Visconti and De Sica.

Call No: 70 MOV
Author: Robinson, David, 1930; Lloyd, Ann, 1945
Place: London
Publisher: Orbis Publishing
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 219 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; ENFANTS DU PARADIS, LES (FR, Marcel Carne, 1945); HAWKS, HOWARD; BERGMAN, INGRID; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; DE SICA, VITTORIO; WELLES, ORSON; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); WYLER, WILLIAM; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; REED, CAROL; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); Powell, Michael; GUINNESS, ALEC; KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (UK, Robert Hamer, 1949); Lean, David; HUSTON, JOHN; MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); BOGART, HUMPHREY; GARFIELD, JOHN; HAYWORTH, RITA; KELLY, GENE; DONEN, STANLEY; GARLAND, JUDY; BALCON, MICHAEL; DISNEY, WALT; MCLAREN, NORMAN; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; STURGES, PRESTON; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; WALSH, RAOUL
Summary: A look at film in the 1940s with short chapters devoted to films, filmmakers, actors and genres of the period, as well as reports on non-US cinemas.
Notes: Includes index. Includes filmographies.
ISBN: 0856134546

Author: Williams, Ross
PhysDes: Article
Subject: VISCONTI, LUCHINO; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; NEOREALISM; INDUSTRY, FILM. ITALY
Summary: Article on the post-war, neo-realist Italian cinema of Visconti, Fellini, Rossellini, Antonioni.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV, LA (FR, Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
Summary: An extract from an article by Paul Schrader. It discusses Rossellini's method of film-making, in particular as shown in 'La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV'.

Call No: 756 ROH
Author: Rohdie, Sam, 1939
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); GIDE, ANDRE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ART AND THE CINEMA; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; ROHMER, ERIC; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0851708536(pbk.) : ¦15.99; 0851708544(cased) : ¦48.00
LON: 22645289

Call No: 81ROS BRU
Author: Brunette, Peter
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xvi, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO
Notes: Filmography: p. 413-420; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0195049896 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $14.95; 0195049888 (hard : alk. paper)
LON: 86023773; 4892073

Call No: 81ROS ROB
Author: Ranvaud, Don
Place: [London]
Publisher: BFI
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: 84 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Series: BFI dossier ; no. 8
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; ALLENDE, SALVADOR; VERDONE, MARIO; NEOREALISM
LON: abn84086525; 3148762

Call No: 81ROS GUA
Author: Guarner, Jose Luis, 1937-1993
Place: [New York]
Publisher: Praeger
PubDate: 1970]
PhysDes: 144 p. 18 cm
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO
LON: 77099497; 215970

Call No: 81ROS ROB
Author: Forgacs, David; Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey; Lutton, Sarah
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: xxii, 208 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0851707947(cased) : ¦45.00; 0851707955(pbk.) : ¦14.99; 0851707947; 0851707955 (pbk.)
LON: 21663030

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO

Call No: 741 GRI
Author: Grindon, Leger, 1949
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Temple University Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Culture and the moving image
Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; BEATTY, WARREN; GRAMSCI, ANTONIO; WANGER, WALTER; REIGN OF TERROR (US, Anthony Mann, 1949); SENSO (IT, Luchino Visconti, 1954); PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV, LA (FR, Roberto Rossellini, 1966); MARSEILLAISE, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1938); REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index
ISBN: 1566391822 (pbk.) : $18.95; 1566391814 (alk. paper) : $44.95
LON: 93033042; 10438205

Call No: 21(4) CRA
Author: Cramer, Michael
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: xxiii,276 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: TELEVISION, FILMS MADE FOR; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; WATKINS, PETER; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966); HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA (SZ/FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1997)
Summary: Television has long been a symbol of social and cultural decay, yet many in postwar Europe saw it as the medium with the greatest potential to help build a new society and create a new form of audiovisual art. Utopian Television examines works of the great filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked to television as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of its existing practices. Utopian Television illustrates how each director imagined television’s improved or “utopian” version by drawing on elements that had come to characterize it by the early 1960s. Taking advantage of the public service model of Western European broadcasting, each used television to realize works that would never have been viable in the commercial cinema. All three directors likewise seized on television’s supposed affinity for information and its status as a “useful” medium, but attempted to join this utility with aesthetic experimentation, suggesting new ways to conceive of the relationship between aesthetics and information. As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, Utopian Television turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors’ television experiments as enactments of “utopia as method.” In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium inspired and shaped hopes not only of a better future but of better moving image art as well. - publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781517900397
Contents: Contents -- Introduction. The Land beyond Cinema: Television and Utopian Method -- 1. The Promise of Television: Making Utopia Possible -- 2. Television as Enlightenment: Roberto Rossellini’s History Lessons -- 3. Inform, Educate, and Aestheticize: Peter Watkins at the BBC -- 4. Radical Communications: Jean-Luc Godard on and around Television -- 5. Utopia after Television: Media Mutations and Transplantations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
ID2: 286

PhysDes: Article Review Credits Bibliography
Subject: VANINA VANINI (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1961); ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO
Summary: Essay examines Rossellini's film "Vanina Vanini" in relation to themes of freedom and ideological discourse. This article was compiled from reviews by Paul Mayersburg (Movie 6/63) and Jean-Andre Fieschi (Cahiers du Cinema 1962, translated by Hedy Moully).