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Alvin Purple / Catharine Lumby Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press ., 2008.
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Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema / Monika Mehta Austin, TX: University of Texas, 2011.
Call No: 440.2(540) MEHAuthor: Mehta, Monika Edition: 1stSource: USPlace: Austin, TXPublisher: University of TexasPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. INDIA ; BOLLYWOOD ; WOMEN IN FILMS. INDIA ; DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]) ; GUPT GYAN (II, B. K. Adarsh, 1974) ; KHAL NAYAK (II, Subhash Ghai, 1993) Summary: "India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminates censorships' role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring.
Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork (personal interviews and direct observation of censorship committees). By employing this interdisciplinary methodology and mobilizing Michel Foucault's insights on micropractices, Mehta places concerns of representation, film production, film reception, and state interventions in a productive dialogue. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2001 -- Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780292726925Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: Beginning -- Revisiting the history of film censorship -- Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification -- The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum -- Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom -- An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar -- Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak -- Debates on censorship -- Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story -- From censorship to selections
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The difficulty of difference : psychoanalysis, sexual difference and film theory / D. N. Rodowick London: Routledge, 1991.
Call No: 626 [159.964.2] RODAuthor: Rodowick, David Norman Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1991PhysDes: xii, 162 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmSeries: Routledge library editions. Cinema ; 26Subject: THEORY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA Summary: "The Difficulty of Difference argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, D. N. Rodowick maintains that early film theorists and recent feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud's thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud's writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators." - taken from back coverNotes: Formerly CIP -- Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0415903327Contents: Note on Abbreviations – Preface -- Chapter 1 The Difficulty of Difference -- Chapter 2 The Return of the Exile -- Chapter 3 Reading Freud ... Differently -- Chapter 4 Metamorphoses -- Chapter 5 The Difference of Reading -- Chapter 6 Analysis Interminable – Notes -- Index
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Electronic eros : bodies and desire in the postindustrial age / by Claudia Springer Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, c1996.
Call No: 735.1 SPRAuthor: Springer, Claudia Source: USPlace: Austin, TXPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: c1996PhysDes: x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS ; BODY IN FILMS ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; COMPUTERS IN FILMS ; COMPUTERS AND TV ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND TV ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND TELEVISION ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; ROBOTS IN FILMS ; ROBOTS ON TV ; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS ; TECHNOLOGY ON TV ; VIRTUAL REALITY ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; EVE OF DESTRUCTION (US, Duncan Gibbins, 1991) ; LAWNMOWER MAN, THE (US, Brett Leonard, 1992) ; ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984) Summary: "The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfilment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes indexISBN: 0292776977Donation: M.S. Counihan
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Fear eats the soul : Angst essen seele auf / Laura Cottingham London UK: British Film Institute, 2005.
Call No: 79ANG COTAuthor: Cottingham, Laura Edition: 1st ed.Source: UKPlace: London UKPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005PhysDes: 86 p. : col, b&w, ill. ; 19 cmSeries: BFI film classicsSubject: RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; HUMAN RELATIONS IN FILMS ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; WARHOL, ANDY ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; EHE DER MARIA BRAUN, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinber, 1979) ; BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (GW/IT, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980) ; QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) ; FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) ; BITTEREN TRANEN DER PETRA VON KANT, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) ; ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) Summary: Set in Munich in the 1970s, Fear Eats the Soul melds the convention of melodrama with a radical sensibility in order to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in post-war Germany. Laura Cottingham celebrates Fassbinder’s achievement, placing Fear Eats the Soul in relation to his extraordinary prolific career in theatre, film and television. Her analysis pulls back the thin curtain that separated his work from his tumultuous life. [Taken from back cover].Notes: includes film creditsISBN: 1844570711
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Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular culture / Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer London ; New York: Routledge, 2011.
Call No: 744.7 FEMAuthor: Radner, Hilary ; Stringer, Rebecca Source: USPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2011PhysDes: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: BISEXUALITY IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; HOLLYWOOD ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN DIRECTORS ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; 13 GOING ON 30 (US, Gary Winick, 2004) ; BABY MAMA (US, Michael McCullers, 2008) ; BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002) ; BRAVE ONE, THE (US/AT, Neil Jordan, 2007) ; BRIDE WARS (US, Gary Winick, 2009) ; CASINO ROYALE (CZ/US/UK, Martin Campbell, 2006) ; ENCHANTED (US, KEVIN LIMA, 2007) ; FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN, THE (US, Judd Apatow, 2005) ; FRIENDS WITH MONEY (US, Nicole Holofcener, 2006) ; HARD CANDY (US, David Slade, 2005) ; JUNO (US/CN, Jason Reitman 2007) ; KISSING JESSICA STEIN (US, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2001) ; MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006) ; MICHAEL CLAYTON (US, Tony Gilroy, 2007) ; MISS CONGENIALITY (US, Donald Petrie, 2000) ; SECRET LIFE OF BEES (US, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008) ; SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE (US, MICHAEL PATRICK KING, 2008) ; SINGLE MAN, A (US, Tom Ford, 2009) ; SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS, THE (US, Ken Kwapis, 2005) ; WAR OF THE WORLDS (US, Steven Spielberg, 2005) Summary: "Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporaty Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of masculinity as well as femininity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of figures, bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780415895880Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements; Introduction: "Re-vision"?: Feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer; Part I: Masculinity in question -- "The first Bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger -- Queer memories and universal emotions: A Single Man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis -- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstruction of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after New Queer Cinema / Gary Needham; Part II: New feminine subjects: a space for women? -- Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism: gender, irony, and new romantic comedy / Yvonne Tasker -- Neoliberal feminism in Miss Congeniality (2000) / Yael D Sherman -- Girls' sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky -- Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner; Part III: Consuming culture(s) -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap -- Music and the woman's film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton -- Independence at what cost? Economics and desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money (2006) / Michele Schreiber -- The feminist politics of Sofia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christine Lane and Nicole Richter; Part IV: Relationships, identity and family -- "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), and the new intimacies of reproduction / JaneMaree Maher -- Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler -- "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride Wars (2009), wedding envy, and chick flicks / Heather Brook -- Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad; Part V: Gender and violence -- Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Blythwood's The Secret Life of Bees (2008) / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- From victim to vigilante: gender, violence, and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer -- "When the woman looks": Haute Tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant; Contributors -- Index
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Film and TV reviews : Space incorporated in Cinema papers (November 1986) iss.60 p.44-45
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Filmmaking by committee : John Lord interviews John B. Murray, co-producer of Libido in Lumiere (May, 1973) iss.23 p.4-7
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Gay men at the movies : cinema, memory and the history of a gay male community / by Scott McKinnon Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2016.
Call No: 451-03(94) MCKAuthor: McKinnon, Scott Source: UK/USPlace: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USAPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2016PhysDes: x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; AUSTRALIA ; BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005) ; PHILADELPHIA (US, Jonathan Demme, 1993) ; MILK (US, Gus Van Sant, 2008) Summary: "Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histories, and a striking range of films, all deployed to answer the question of understanding cinema-going as a moment of connection to community and identity how the experience of seeing these films and being part of an audience helped to build a community among the gay men of Sydney in the period." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781783205967Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- part one:Friends of Dorothy in the Emerald City -- chapter 1 The 1950s -- Censored from view for all to see -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1950s Sydney -- Regular guys and `sister boys': Tea and Sympathy -- Friends of Tom Lee: Rebel without a Cause, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Some Like it Hot -- chapter 2 The 1960s -- Undeniable -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1960s Sydney -- Poor unfortunate souls: victim and Advise and Consent -- The real lives of English youth: A Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys and If... -- chapter 3 The 1970s -- Strike up the band -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1970s Sydney -- A memory of times gone by: The Boys In the Band -- The thrill of the new: Sunday Bloody Sunday and A Very Natural Thing -- chapter 4 The 1980s - Arriving at last, leaving too soon -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1980s Sydney -- The Hollywood gaze: Fame, Partners, Cruising and Making Love -- an independent eye: Taxi Zum Klo -- chapter 5 The 1990s -- When we were cool -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1990s Sydney -- Made for them or watched by us? The Sum of Us -- To enlighten and remember: Philadelphia and Longtime Companion -- chapter 6 The 2000s -- In the shadow of the mountain -- Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 2000s Sydney -- The film that got us good: Brokeback Mountain -- Staying home or going to the festival: Another Gay Movie and Shelter -- part Two Memories of Dorothy: Memory, Movies, Gay Men -- ch. 7 Gay kids at the movies -- Movie memory and queer childhoods -- On-screen memories: Childhood -- Remembering childhood cinema-going -- chapter 8 Others like us - Movie memory and the search for community -- Movie memories at the movies: Identity -- Learning, reciting and refuting memory -- chapter 9 We were there - Movie memory and the search for a queer past -- Heroes and villains: Braveheart and Alexander -- Creating `our' history: Stonewall and Milk -- Conclusion: Gay men at the movies --
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Gender and the uncanny : in films of the Weimar Republic Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Call No: 451(430) HANAuthor: Hans, Anjeana K Source: USPlace: Detroit MIPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: 2014PhysDes: vii, 302 pages : 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and media seriesSubject: GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC ; GERMANY ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS Notes: Includes bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780814338940Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014Contents: 1.The World Turned Upside Down: Changing Society, Changing Gender Roles, Changing Medium in Weimar Germany -- 2.The Eyes of the Mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Ma^, Ernst Lubitsch, 1918): From the Monster with the "Eyes That Live" to the Passive Object of the Male Gaze -- 3.Uncanny Tales {Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919): The Many Guises of the Dangerous Woman -- 4.Warning Shadows {Schatten: Eine nachtliche Halluzination, Artur Robison, 1923): Transgression, Abjection, Projection -- 5.The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hande, Robert Wiene, 1924): War Trauma, Injury, and the Return to a Changed World -- 6.A Daughter of Destiny {Alraune, Henrik Galeen, 1928) and Daughter of Evil (Alraune, Richard Oswald, 1930): From Dangerous Hybrid to Self-Sacrificing Woman--Conclusion
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Heavenly Bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1986.
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Ken Russell / edited by Thomas R. Atkins New York: Monarch Press, 1976.
Call No: 81RUS KENAuthor: Atkins, Thomas R., 1939 Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Monarch PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: xi, 132 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. UK ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TELEVISION, FILMS MADE FOR ; ADAPTATIONS ; RUSSELL, KEN ; AMELIA AND THE ANGEL (UK, Ken Russell, 1959) ; DEVILS, THE (UK, Ken Russell, 1971) ; MUSIC LOVERS, THE (UK, Ken Russell, 1971) ; PEEP SHOW (UK, Ken Russell, 1956) ; POET'S LONDON (UK, Ken Russell, 1959) ; SAVAGE MESSIAH (UK, Ken Russell, 1972) ; TOMMY (UK, Ken Russell, 1975) ; WOMEN IN LOVE (UK, Ken Russell, 1969) ; OMNIBUS [TV](UK, 1967-2003) Summary: "The films of Britain's most famous director have been praised and condemned; Russell's intentions distorted and misunderstood. With his popularity continuously growing, serious critical consideration of him has been long overdue. Covering all of Russell's work from his early amateur efforts to his films for the BBC and his features such as WOMEN IN LOVE, THE DEVILS, THE MUSIC LOVERS, and TOMMY, this anthology is a comprehensive sourcebook on Russell's cinema, an inquiry into the personal nature of his art, and a look at his working methods. Complete with biographical information, excerpts from the films TOMMY and MAHLER, filmography, bibliography, numerous production shots and scenes from his filoms, this volume presents us with an extraordinary picture of an immense talent." [Book blurb]Notes: Bibliography: p. 131-132ISBN: 0671081020 : $2.95LON: 75023545; 741449Contents: Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface --; Ballet fantastique: scenario for an imaginary bio-pic of Ken Russell / Thomas R. Atkins -- The early films: Peep Show and Amelia and the Angel / Gene D. Phillips -- The television films: Poet's London to Dance of the Seven Veils / John Baxter -- Three masterpieces of sexuality: Women in Love, The Music Lovers, and The Devils / Jack Fisher -- Russell's methods of adaptation: Savage Messiah and Tommy / Joseph A. Gomez -- Excerpts of Russe; Excerpts from Russell's screenplays of Mahler and Tommy -- Biography -- Filmography -- Selected bibliography
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New queer cinema : the director's cut / B. Ruby Rich Durham [North Carolina]: Duke University Press, 2013.
Call No: 760-032 RICAuthor: Rich, B. Ruby Source: USPlace: Durham [North Carolina]Publisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2013PhysDes: xxx, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; BISEXUALITY IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; SAN FRANCISCO IN FILMS ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; SEX IN FILMS ; THEORY ; CHEANG, SHU-LEA ; CONDON, BILL ; DEITCH, DONNA ; DUNYE, CHERYL ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; JARMAN, DEREK ; LEE, ANG ; RIPSTEIN, ARTURO ; TECHINE, ANDRE ; VACHON, CHRISTINE ; VAN SANT, GUS ; WONG KAR WAI ; BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (UK/US, Spike Jonze, 1999) ; BOYS DON'T CRY (US, Kimberly Peirce, 1999) ; BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005) ; GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994) ; KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE (US, Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) ; MILK (US, Gus Van Sant, 2008) ; MYSTERIOUS SKIN (US/NE, Gregg Araki, 2004) ; TARNATION (US, Jonathan Caouette, 2003) ; TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, THE (US, Robert Epstein, 1984) ; WATERMELON WOMAN, THE (US, Cheryl Dunye, 1996) Summary: "B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists. As a critic, curator, journalist and scholar, Rich has been inextricably linked to the New Queer Cinema from its inception. This volume brings together the best of her writing on the NQC and features her new thoughts on the topic. Following this cinematic movement from its origins in the mid-1980s to the present, Rich presents her insights into NQC pioneers including Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien; investigates such celebrated films as Go Fish, Brokeback Mountain, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and Milk; explores less-known films and international cinemas; and documents the more recent incarnations of the NQC on screen, on the web, and in art galleries." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index -- includes filmographyISBN: 9780822354284ID2: 291
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Queer Asian Australian migration : creative film co-production and diasporic intimicy in The home song stories in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.229-243
Author: Yue, Audrey PhysDes: ArticleSubject: PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOME SONG STORIES, THE (AT, Tony Ayres, 2007) Summary: This paper examines Tony Ayres' recent film, The Home Song Stories (2007) using the framework of queer Asian Australian migration. First, queer migration is critically considered through the minor transnationalism of its co-production. Evaluating the marketing of the film in Singapore and Australia, this article shows how Chinese ethnicity is deployed as exclusive and inclusive to enable different tactics of queer mobility and how these tactics are incorporated by different film policies to fulfil competing national aims. Second, this article considers the queer mobility of diasporic intimacy. Diasporic intimacy disrupts the regulation of queer migration and shows how the private domains of memory, family and sexuality are reconstituted in the transnational Chinese diaspora. The framework of queer Asian Australian migration describes the non-normative migration of Asians to Australia, the disjunctive flows of mobility that constitute the Asian diaspora in Australia, as well as the regulation of non-normative Asian Australian migration in national symbolic and institutional economies. The framework of queer Asian Australian migration, this article argues, provides a theoretical platform to critically consider the transnationality of Asian Australian cinema. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2
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Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain / by Matthew Tinkcom New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Call No: 79:451-03BRO TINAuthor: Tinkcom, Matthew Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2017PhysDes: xi, 125 pages ; 21 cmSeries: Film Theory in PracticeSubject: THEORY ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (US, Ang Lee, 2005) Summary: "In this book the authors traces signature trajectories of queer theory, then stitches these concepts into traditions of film theory and close analysis. Merging Freud, Foucault, and Sedgwick with Bazin, Buscombe, and Mulvey, Tinkcom demonstrates a generous capacity to speak at once to well-heeled scholars, eager undergraduates, and cinephiles." -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and indexISBN: 9781501318825Contents: -- acknowledgments -- preface -- introduction -- 1 Queer theory -- 2 Queer theory and Brokeback Mountain -- conclusion -- further reading -- index --ID2: 295
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Screened out : playing gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall / Richard Barrios New York: Routledge, 2003.
Call No: 749.4 (71) BARAuthor: Barrios, Richard Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2003PhysDes: xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS Summary: "Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies." "Screened Out is a look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie-making. Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today, Richard Barrios offers a compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays, and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler - iconoclastic images that could shock and entertain simultaneously. The screen, Barrios argues, offered powerful messages about tragedy and oppression and, sometimes simultaneously, could also strike notes of freedom and compassion."
"Mining studio records, scripts, drafts and cut scenes, censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory. He also offers a pointed warning: we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world - have made since Stonewall."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 041592328X (hb : alk. paper)
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Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / Pam Cook London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Call No: 409.1 COOAuthor: Cook, Pam Source: UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2005PhysDes: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; MEN IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; WESTERNS ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; BIGELOW, KATHRYN ; HAYNES, TODD ; WONG KAR WAI ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945) ; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) ; MANDY (UK, Alexander Mackendrick, 1952) ; DANCE WITH A STRANGER (UK, Mike Newell, 1985) Summary: Exploring film culture's obsession with the past through analyses of a wide range of films, from Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and Dance With a Stranger. Examines current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for Love and Far From Heaven, with the suggestion that many films use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pp. 241-46)ISBN: 0415183758 (pbk. : alk. paper)Contents: Introduction: the past today -- Rethinking nostalgia: In the mood for love and Far from heaven -- Duplicity in Mildred Pierce -- Women and the Western -- The pleasures and perils of exploitation films -- Melodrama and the women's picture -- Mandy: daughter of transition -- Memory in British cinema: brief encounters -- Stars and politics -- The gold diggers -- No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel -- Masculinity in crisis? -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's masquerade -- The age of innocence -- Fashion and sexual display in 1950s Hollywood -- Replicating the past: memory and history in Dance with a stranger -- Fictions of identity: style, mimicry, and gender in the films of Kathryn Bigelow.
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The success and failure of WR in Lumiere (May, 1973) iss.23 p.8-12
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Teen Dreams : reading teen film from Heathers to Veronica Mars / Roz Kaveney London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, copyright 2006.
Call No: 451-053.6 KAVAuthor: Kaveney, Roz Source: US/UKPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: copyright 2006PhysDes: viii, 191 p. ; 24 cm.Subject: DRUGS IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; TEEN FILM ; TEEN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; HEATHERS (US, Michael Lehmann, 1989) ; VERONICA MARS [TV] (US, 2004) Summary: "Starting with the groundbreaking John Hughes movies of the 1980s, and with Lehman and Waters' sardonic comedy Heathers, Kaveney discusses the evolution of themes like the Mean Girl and the loss of virginity. She examines the metamorphosis of Jane Austen's novel Emma into the Beverly Hills comedy Clueless and the way the American Pie trilogy has subverted the gross-out sex comedy into a lesson in sexual manners. She looks at the link between these films and some of the most innovative teen television of the last two decades, including Popular, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the teen detective show Veronica Mars. In the process, she demonstrates how teen films and tv series deal with the tragic and comic undersides of the American dream."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes indexes.ISBN: 9781845111847Contents: Teen dreams: the critic at the prom -- John Hughes and the creation of a genre -- The friends who are bad for you: Heathers -- The heirs of Heather: Cordelia, Nicole and other mean girls -- The canon as teen dream: Clueless and others -- The trouble with boys -- On being good at things: female competence and sexuality -- Watching the teen detective: Veronica Mars.
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