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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MADNESS IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; JEWS IN FILMS ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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The Oxford companion to Australian film / edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call No: 71(94) OXF REFAuthor: Mayer, Geoff ; McFarlane, Brian, 1934 ; Bertrand, Ina, 1939 Place: MelbournePublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 1 vSubject: 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; BibliographyISBN: 0195537971LON: 20072774
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Reconfiguring rusticity: feminizing Australian cinema's country towns in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.1 p.47-59
Author: Simpson, Catherine PhysDes: ArticleSubject: RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998) ; SOMERSAULT (AT, Cate Shortland, 2004) ; OYSTER FARMER, THE (AT/UK, Anna Reeves, 2004) ; LOVE SERENADE (AT, Shirley Barrett, 1996) ; ROAD TO NHILL (AT, Sue Brooks, 1997) Summary: Country towns in Australian cinema are commonly seen in opposition to a fixed, imagined urban normalcy. The first part of this paper discusses the urban/rural dialectic in the construction of rusticity. The second section examines the role women play in the rustic sphere. The last decade has seen a feminizing of the country town in films made predominantly by female directors such as Radiance (Rachel Perkins, 1998), Somersault (Cate Shortland, 2004) and The oyster farmer (Anna Reeves, 2005). The final part of this paper focuses on two break-through films from the mid-1990s, also from female creative teams, which signal a significant shift in the portrayal of women's subjectivity and agency in country towns: Love serenade (Shirley Barrett, 1996) and Road to Nhill (Sue Brooks, 1997). Although these films do not challenge the stereotype of country towns as 'irrelievably dull', their surreal lensing and black comic tone, I suggest, reconfigure rusticity. -- Abstract
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