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book		Bollywood : sociology goes to the movies / Rajinder Kumar Dudrah New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. Call No: 408.1 (54) DUD Author: Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar Source: II Place: New Delhi Publisher: Sage Publications PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 210 p. : ill. (b+w) ; 22cm. Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BOLLYWOOD Summary: Replete with memorable examples and penetrating insights, this book: Provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical engagement with Bollywood cinema and its audiences Examines the role and representations of cultural icons in Bollywood films Discusses the Bollywood film industry as it develops in the era of globalization ISBN: 0761934618 Language: English More info
book		The cinema and social science : a survey of ethnographic and sociological films Paris: Unesco, 1962. Call No: 769[39] DEH Author: de Heusch, Luc Place: Paris Publisher: Unesco PubDate: 1962 PhysDes: 27 cm ; 102 pages Subject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; ROUCH, JEAN; LAND WITHOUT BREAD (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA More info
book		Family fictions : representations of the family in 1980s Hollywood cinema. / Sarah Harwood; foreword by Janet Thumin; consultant editor Jo Camping Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamps: Macmillan, 1997. Call No: 747.4 HAR Author: Harwood, Sarah Source: UK Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamps Publisher: Macmillan PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 265p. ; 23cm Subject: FAMILY IN FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BARRYMORE, DREW; BRIDGES, LLOYD; CLOSE, GLENN; DOUGLAS, MICHAEL; GRAVES, PETER; NIELSEN, LESLIE; WILLIS, BRUCE; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987); AIRPLANE (US, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, 1980); TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (US, James L. Brooks, 1983) Summary: What do ET, Fatal Attraction and Look Whos Talking have in common? . As well as being amongst the most popular films at the UK box office of recent years all three represent dysfunctional families, families which profoundly transgressed contemporary ideological norms. The eighties were a decade in which the family occupied a pivotal position in an increasinglingly complex social and moral universe and film itself enjoyed a resurgence. Sarah Harwood argues that Hollywood cinema engaged with debates over the' crisis in the family' in intense and complex ways, both feeding and resisting dominant social mythologies In a fascinating analysis of films as diverse as 'Aiplane!' and 'Terms of Endearment' Family Fictions maps the functions, paradoxes and pleasures of familial representations in recent times. These startling analyses shed light on power and gender relations in contemporary cinema as well as on how the films themselves engaged with their broader cultural contexts Notes: Filmography : p. 248-252; Bibliography : p. 253-258; Includes index ISBN: 0333648439 (hbk); 0333648447 (pbk) More info
book		Film theory and criticism : introductory readings / [edited by] Gerald Mast, Marshall Cohen New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Call No: 62 FIL Author: Mast, Gerald, 1940; Cohen, Marshall Edition: 3rd ed Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: xxi, 852 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: SEMIOLOGY; PRODUCTION; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS; COMEDIES; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; WESTERNS; AUTEUR THEORY; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; GARBO, GRETA; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939) Notes: Bibliography: p. 846-852 ISBN: 0195035739 (pbk.) LON: 84027243; 3860012 URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:39:09 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Image and influence : studies in the sociology of film / Andrew Tudor London: Allen & Unwin, 1974. Call No: 46 TUD Author: Tudor, Andrew Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 260 p. ; 22 cm Subject: FILM CULTURE; MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; GENRES; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIOLOGY OF THE CINEMA Notes: Bibliography: p.238-250. _ Includes index Bibliography: p.[238]-250 ISBN: 0043840027 Contents: Forthcoming attractions -- patterns of communication -- movie communicators -- movie audiences -- movie languages -- patterns of culture -- cinema and society:film movements -- cinema and the society: popular genres -- patterns of change More info
book		Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Call No: 670 INV GRI Author: Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee Source: UK Place: Durham Publisher: Duke University Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: American Film Institute; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; CRITICISM; FILM ART MEDIA; FILM CULTURE; FILM NOIR; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; FILMOGRAPHIES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK]; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; SOCIETIES, FILM; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS; BACHMANN, GIDEON; BARRY, IRIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; BERGSTROM, JANET; BORDWELL, DAVID; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BURGESS, ERNEST; BUSCOMBE, ED; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COOK, PAM; DEREN, MAYA; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FULLER, SAMUEL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; HAWKS, HOWARD; HAYS, WILL; HEATH, STEPHEN; HUFF, THEODORE; MACCABE, COLIN; METZ, CHRISTIAN; PARK, ROBERT; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR; PENLEY, CONSTANCE; RAINER, YVONNE; RAMSAYE, TERRY; RICHTER, HANS; ROTHA, PAUL; SARRIS, ANDREW; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SELDES, GILBERT; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H; STERN, SEYMOUR; THRASHER, FREDRICK; VOGEL, AMOS; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; WEINBERG, HERMAN G; WHANNEL, PADDY; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher description Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780822342892 Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson -- Making Cinema Knowable -- Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan -- Making Cinema Educational -- Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen -- Making Cinema Legible -- Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis Little Books / Mark Betz -- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies -- Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick More info
book		Sociology of film : studies and documents / by J.P. Mayer London: Faber and Faber, 1946. Call No: 46 MAY Author: Mayer, J. P. (Jacob Peter), 1903-1992 Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Faber and Faber PubDate: 1946 PhysDes: 328 pages. : illustrations. ; 23 cm Subject: CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. UK; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. UK Summary: A sociological study on the effects of film on audience reactions and society more broadly. Investigates the influence that feature films have on British society Notes: "First published in Mcmxlvi." Includes bibliographical references and index Donation: donated from the estate of Adrian Miles Contents: Perspectives of a sociology of film -- On theatre [i.e., theater] and cinema ; Universal audiences ; Political philosophy -- The Elizabethan theatre and the modern cinema -- Impressions and reflections on children's cinema clubs -- Children and adolescents and the cinema -- Movies and conduct -- The content of films -- The adult and the cinema -- Conclusions. Appendixes: 1: Some observations on the drama among democratic nations -- 2: Children's cinemas and films in the Soviet Union -- 3: A modern psychologist on films -- 4: The new middle classes -- 5: Report to film research More info

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