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book		Art history for filmmakers : the art of visual storytelling / Gillian McIver London: Bloomsbury, c2016. Call No: 61:75 MCI Author: McIver, Gillian Source: US/UK Place: London Publisher: Bloomsbury PubDate: c2016 PhysDes: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm Subject: THEORY; ART IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; HEROS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA Summary: "Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its close relationship with the visual arts. Art history for Filmmakers shows how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to demonstrate composition, color theory and lighting. It reveals how the visual culture that gave rise to cinema has itself been shaped and informed by the development of painting, the oldest of the art forms.Featuring stunning images from classic films and iconic artwork, this book will build your appreciation of the history of art, enrich your understanding of the visual language of film, and help to feed that understanding into your own original filmmaking" -- BACK COVER BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781472580658 Donation: Senses of Cinema Contents: Introduction. How does art history relate to cinema history? -- A brief linear (traditional) history of art - -Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Visual culture and storytelling. Narrative and storytelling in art -- Color and narrative -- Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema -- Perspective and composition -- Light -- Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism. What is realism? - -What is representation? -- Art after photography: modern conceptions of realism in art -- Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism. Fantasy worlds in cinema and art -- Oneiric: the world of dreams -- Surrealism -- Going beyond the real -- Case study: The Archers -- Sex and violence. Sex in art and cinema -- Violence in art and cinema -- Sex and violence -- Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror. Religious horror -- Supernatural horror -- Body horror -- Monsters -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape. Why landscape? -- Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? -- The American landscape and the American West -- Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts. History painting; victory, virtue, and the hero - -Heroism and the Western -- Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements. Culture or mass culture? -- expressionism -- Abstraction -- Abstract expressionism -- Minimalism -- Going "Beyond the West" -- Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion. How can we use art history in filmmaking? Case studies -- More info
book		Crisis cinema : the apocalyptic idea in postmodern narrative film / edited by Christopher Sharrett Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1993. Call No: 64POS CRI Author: Sharrett, Christopher Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Maisonneuve Press PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DISASTERS IN FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; REPO MAN (US, Alex Cox, 1984); RUMBLE FISH (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983); CASANOVA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1976); BRAZIL (UK, Terry Gilliam, 1985); TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese, 1976); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0944624189 (cloth); 0944624197 (paper) LON: 9605442 More info
book		The entertainment machine : American show business in the twentieth century / Robert C. Toll Oxford [Oxfordshire] New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Call No: 401(73) TOL Author: Toll, Robert C Place: Oxford [Oxfordshire] New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: xii, 284 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: MEDIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF TV; WESTERNS; COMEDIES; MUSICALS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CRIME FILMS; CRIME ON TV Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 245-253 ISBN: 0195032322 (pbk.); 0195030818 (hard) LON: 2111496 More info
book		Exploring attitudes towards film, TV and video classifications : a marketing research report / prepared for the Office of Film and Literature Classication and Australian Broadcasting Tribunal by Frank Small & Associates [Sydney?: Frank Small & Associates], 1992. Call No: 414(94) EXP Place: [Sydney? Publisher: Frank Small & Associates] PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 109 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; LANGUAGE AND TV; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX ON TV; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: A study attempting to understand the underlying attitudes held by members of the community to the depiction of sex, nudity, language, and violence on film, television and video. Survey was done with members of the public from Sydney and Dubbo, and includes questions regarding the context and viewing environment and classifications of films and tv shows and videos More info
book		Fantasy and the cinema / edited by James Donald London: BFI Pub., 1989. Call No: 735 FAN Author: Donald, James Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: FANTASTIC FILMS; FETISHISM IN FILMS; GERMANY. 1895-1930; SLASHER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; BARTHES, ROLAND; SVANKMAJER, JAN; CONDIT, CECELIA; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; BORDWELL, DAVID; DURAS, MARGUERITE; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); BENEATH THE SKIN (US, Cecelia Condit, 1981); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975); PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984); TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974); VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and indexes ISBN: 0851702287; 0851702295 (pbk.) LON: 6190057 More info
book		Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! / by Dean J. Defino London: Wallflower Press, copyright 2014. Call No: 79FAS DEF Author: DeFino, Dean J. Source: US/UK Place: London Publisher: Wallflower Press PubDate: copyright 2014 PhysDes: 106 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm Series: Cultographies Subject: CULT FILMS; CRITICISM; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; MEYER, RUSS; FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (US, Russ Meyer, 1966) Summary: "Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was a box-office failure on its release in 1965. It has since been embraced by art-house audiences and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story cliche´s lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies, the film has the coherence of a dream and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. This book considers the production and critical reception of the film, its place within the culture of the 1960s, its representations of gender and sexuality, and the specific ways it meets cult film criteria." -- BOOK BACK COVER Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780231167390 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Russ Meyer and Me -- 1 The Pussycats Gear Up -- 2 The Pussycats Find Their Audience -- 3 Seeing America First -- 4 Pussycats and Satyrs -- 5 A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron -- notes -- bibliography -- index -- 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		Media matrix : sexing the new reality / Barbara Creed Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2003. Call No: 403 CRE Author: Creed, Barbara Source: AT Place: Crows Nest, NSW Publisher: Allen and Unwin PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: vii, 216 p. ; 21 cm Subject: SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND TV; REALITY "SHOWS"; REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA; REALITY TV; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND TV; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND TV; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND TV; Sprinkle, Annie; SEX AND THE CITY [TV] (US, 1998) Summary: An examination of popular culture, film and old and new media in relation to a matrix where ideas and forms of sexuality, identity and the self are formed and performed. ISBN: 1865089265 More info
book		The monstrous-feminine : film, feminism, psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed London New York: Routledge, 1993. Call No: 626:396 CRE Author: Creed, Barbara Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: viii, 182 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Popular fiction series Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973); CARRIE (US, Brian De Palma, 1976); BROOD, THE (CN, David Cronenberg, 1979); HUNGER, THE (US, Tony Scott, 1983) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and index ISBN: 0415052599 (pbk.); 0415052580 LON: 93000445; 9905552 More info
journal article		Pornofilms: Filmo's Porn in Melbourne Film Bulletin (July 1968) iss.4 p.34-35 Author: Baldock, Avril PhysDes: Article Subject: SJOMAN, VILGOT; SEX FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA Summary: Article compares the complex issues of sexuality in the films "My Sister My Love" and "Night Games". More info
book		Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 744 HOO Author: Hooks, Bell Place: New York, NY Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cm Subject: RACE AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; BLACKS IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; LOOK IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA; DEATH IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; Tarantino, Quentin; LEE, SPIKE; DASH, JULIE; CLARK, LARRY; JAFFA, ARTHUR; BURNETT, CHARLES; BILLOPS, CAMILLE; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE; WANG, WAYNE; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978); GIRL 6 (US, Spike Lee, 1996); CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994); WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995); LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995); EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994); ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991); KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover) LON: 96026474; 12664107 More info
book		Screening sex / Linda Williams Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Call No: 749 WIL Author: Williams, Linda Source: US Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: x, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series: A John Hope Franklin Center book Subject: SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO; FONDA, JANE; BREILLAT, CATHERINE; FLESH AND THE DEVIL (US, Clarence Brown, 1926); SHORTBUS (US, John Cameron Mitchell, 2006); INTIMACY (FR, Patrice Chereau, 2001); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); DEEP THROAT (US, Jerry Gerard, 1972); BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); AI NO CORRIDA (JA/FR, Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Summary: "For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations." "Combining stories of her own coming of age as a moviegoer with film history, cultural history, and readings of significant films, Williams presents a fascinating history of the on-screen kiss, a look at the shift from adolescent kisses to more grown-up displays of sex, and a comparison of the "tasteful" Hollywood sexual interlude with sexuality as represented in sexploitation, Blaxploitation, and avant-garde films. By understanding screening sex as both revelation and concealment, Williams has written the definitive study of sex at the movies."--BOOK JACKET. Notes: Formerly CIP.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-395) and index. ISBN: 9780822342854 Contents: Of kisses and ellipses : the long adolescence of American movies (1896/1963) -- Going all the way : carnal knowledge on American screens (1961/1971) -- Going further : Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971/1972) -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968/1978) -- Hard-core eroticism : In the realm of the senses -- Primal scenes on American screens (1986/2005) -- Philosophy in the bedroom : hard-core art since the 1990s -- Conclusion: now playing on a small screen near you! More info
subject clippings file		SEX AND THE CINEMA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SEX AND THE CINEMA More info
book		Sex, art and American culture : essays / Camille Paglia London: Penguin Books, 1993. Call No: 45:176 PAG Author: Paglia, Camille Source: US Place: London Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xiii, 337 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: ENTERTAINMENT; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; USA; BRANDO, MARLON; MADONNA; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH Summary: " In sexual Personae Camille Paglia transformed our understanding of Western culture. Now, in this sensational new collection of essay, full of fresh insights into familiar themes, she brings together her view on everything from Rousseau to the rolling Stones, from Protestants to prostitution. " BOOK BLURB Notes: Originally published: New York: Vintage, 1992; Bibliography: p. [315]-325; Includes index ISBN: 0140172092 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010 Contents: -- Introduction -- Madonna 1: animality and artifice -- Madonna 2: venus of the radio waves -- Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's pagan queen -- rock as art -- homosexuality at the fin de siecle -- the joy of presbyterian sex -- the beautiful decadence of Robert Mapplethorpe: a response to Rochelle Gurstein -- the strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- rape and modern sex war -- the rape debate, continued -- Cleopatra sold down the river: Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Cleopatra -- Alice in muscle land: Samuel Wilson Fussell's: Muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder -- the critic at grateful ease: Wendy Lesser's His other half: Men looking at Women through art -- The big udder: Suzanne Gordon's Prisoners of Men's dreams -- Brando flashing: Richard Schickel's: Brando: A life in our times -- What a drag Marjorie Garber's: Vested: Cross-dressing and cultural anxiety -- Sexual personae: the cancelled preface -- Milton kessler: a memoir -- East and West: an experiment in multiculturism -- Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf -- the M.I.T lecture: crisis in the American universities -- appendices-- a media history -- cartoon personae -- profiles, interviews, debates, exotica -- index -- More info
book		Sexual politics and narrative film : Hollywood and beyond / Robin Wood New York: Columbia University Press, c1998. Call No: 632 WOO; Misplaced - Aug 10 2009 Author: Wood, Robin, 1931 Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: c1998 PhysDes: x, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Film and culture Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; ROMANTIC FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; RIVETTE, JACQUES; MCCAREY, LEO; Mizoguchi Kenji; OZU YASUJIRO; MANDINGO (US, Richard Fleischer, 1975); GASLIGHT (UK, Thorold Dickinson, 1940); GASLIGHT (US, George Cukor, 1944); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); LIFE CLASSES (CN, William D. MacGillivray, 1987); BEFORE SUNRISE (US, Richard Linklater, 1995); DOOM GENERATION, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1995); CELINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1974); AMOUR FOU, L` (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1968) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0231076053 (paper : alk. paper); 0231076045 (cloth : alk. paper) LON: 13757049 ID2: 291 More info
book		Talking pictures / Barry Norman London: BBC Books, Hodder and Stoughton, 1987. Call No: 70 NOR Author: Norman, Barry Source: UK Place: London Publisher: BBC Books; Hodder and Stoughton PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 344 p. : ill.(some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HOLLYWOOD; SOUND; STUDIO SYSTEM; SEX AND THE CINEMA; WAR AND THE CINEMA; CRIME FILMS. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; B-MOVIES; WESTERNS; ACTORS. USA Summary: The book deals with the history of film making from the silent movies to the present day Notes: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood. Cinema Industries,. 1927-1986 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index ISBN: 0563205628 (BBC Books); 0340389168 (Hodder & Stoughton) Levy Rating: 5 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Teaching Film Censorship and Controversy London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 53 (035): 44 REA Author: Readman Mark CorpAuthor: BFI Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 24 cm ; 88 pp Series: BFI Teaching Film and Media Studies Subject: CENSORSHIP; BANNED FILMS; TEACHING MATERIALS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA Summary: This incisive guide provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy. Always a potentially problematic curriculum area, given the nature of the material under examination, the guide offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological importance of, censorship and classification. In addition there are proposed strategies for discussing 'problem films', analysing texts and debating the nature of effects. Contents include: Introduction - assessment contexts, why teach film censorship?, approaches to teaching; background - the historical context, institutions and regulation, controversial issues; case studies - violence, sexual violence, language, press controversy, a debate in action. [Taken from back cover] ISBN: 1844570797 More info
book		Women and their sexuality in the new film / by Joan Mellen London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. Call No: 451-02 MEL Author: Mellen, Joan Place: London Publisher: Davis-Poynter PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 255 p. : ports ; 24 cm Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; BERGMAN, INGMAR; ROHMER, ERIC; WEST, MAE; W R MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makavejev, 1971); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); TRISTANA (SP/IT/FR, Luis Bunuel, 1970); MORTE A VENEZIA (IT/FR, Luchino Visconti, 1971); FOX, THE (US, Mark Rydell, 1968); UP THE SANDBOX (US, Irvin Kershner, 1972) ISBN: 0706701534 : ª3.50 LON: 75312480; 266398 More info

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