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newspaper article		Athelete Rickard turns movie star p.15 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BLIND AMBITION (AT, Richard Standeven, 2000) Author: Keenan, Luke PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SPORTS FILMS; BLIND AMBITION (UK, Richard Standeven, 2000) Summary: Olympian Sam Rickard to play a vision impaired athelete in sporting film, Blind Ambition. More info
book		The best of Wide World of Sports / Greg Growden Sydney: ACP Publishing, 1997. Call No: 79 BES GRO Author: Growden, Greg (ed.) Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: ACP Publishing PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 176 p. ; 30 cm Subject: WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (AT, 1981) ISBN: 1863960635 More info
subject clippings file		E-SPORTS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: E-SPORTS More info
book		The game is up! : a story about Australian women in history, sport and physical activities ; 1896-1956 / Editor: Marilyn Dooley Canberra: National Film and Sound Archive, 1993. Call No: 796.82NAT Source: AT Place: Canberra Publisher: National Film and Sound Archive PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 73 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm Subject: SPORTS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM, AUSTRALIA Summary: follows women from the first sporting event filmed in Australia, the Melbourne Cup of 1896, through to the spectacular successes of the nation's athletes at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. ISBN: 0642193797 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The games / John Clarke and Ross Stevenson Sydney: ABC Books, 1999. Call No: 79GAM CLA Author: Clarke, John; Stevenson, Ross CorpAuthor: ABC Source: Australia Place: Sydney Publisher: ABC Books PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 232 p. : ill. ; 25cm Subject: SCRIPTS. AUSTRALIA; SPORTS; SATIRE ON TV. AUSTRALIA.; COMEDY PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; COMEDY TV.AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY-STYLE PROGRAMS. AUSTRALIA; SYDNEY; SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES; OLYMPICS; JOHN CLARKE; GINA RILEY; BRYAN DAWE; ABC TV Summary: Scripts for the 1998-2000 ABC television series, 'The Games', written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson, starring John Clarke, Gina Riley and Bryan Dawe. 'The Games' is a mock-documentary (or 'mockumentary') about the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). Episodes include: 'The Press Conference', 'Funding', 'Robbo and the 100 Metres', 'Past Sports Stars and Gender', 'Interlude', 'Dead Man', 'J'Accuse', 'A Management Course', 'A Conflict of Interest', and 'Transport'. ISBN: 073330799X More info
book		Knockout : the boxer and boxing in American cinema / Leger Grindon Jackson, Miss.: University of Mississippi, 2011. Call No: 739.683 GRI Author: Grindon, Leger Source: US Place: Jackson, Miss. Publisher: University of Mississippi PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: x, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: SPORTS AND THE CINEMA; SPORTS FILMS; BOXING FILMS; RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese, 1980) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781604739886 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013 Contents: -- acknowledments -- Why the boxing film?: the meaningful structure of the boxing film genre -- Gangsters, champions, and the history of the boxing film -- "Down for the count": critique of the success ethic in the boxing film -- "On the ropes": the conflict between assimilation and the indigenous community -- Romance and the ring: gender conflict in the boxing film -- "Hitting below the belt": violence, suffering, and male emotion -- Body and soul: the conflict between the flesh and the spirit -- Art and genre in Raging bull (1980) -- Epilogue: into the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1: cycles/clusters of the boxing film genre -- Appendix 2: boxing films cited -- works cited -- index -- More info
newspaper article		Live streaming is failing live sport in Sydney Morning Herald (16/08/2016) p.15 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; VIDEOS ON DEMAND Author: Knight, Dominic PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SPORT AND TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORTS PRESENTATION; VIDEOS ON DEMAND; OPTUS Summary: Opinion piece on the technical difficulites Australian sports fans have in watching sport via online devices. Particular mention is made of the 2016 Olympics and the English Premier League on Optus More info
newspaper article		Nine deal throws netball into prime-time television in Canberra Times (20/05/2016) p.11 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA Author: Mason, Max PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: NINE NETWORK; TELSTRA; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORTS PRESENTATION Summary: Deal between Nine Network, Telstra TV, and Netball Australia to broadcast netball matches during prime time Notes: same article in Sydney Morning Herald. same title and date. p 25 More info
book		On film in print : Forty five years on the road with cameras, skis, boats, and windsurfers / Warren Miller Colorado: Ritem and Printem, Inc., copyright 1994. Call No: 81MIL MIL Author: Miller, Warren Edition: First edition Source: US Place: Colorado Publisher: Ritem and Printem, Inc. PubDate: copyright 1994 PhysDes: 268 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: DIRECTORS. USA; SPORTS AND THE CINEMA; SPORTS FILMS; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; MILLER, WARREN Summary: "In fifty years, a lot has happened to [Warren Miller]; this is a collection of stories about a few of those happenings, stories about brief moments in time that are frozen in his memory bank while he lurched from one near disaster to the next." - BOOK BLURB ISBN: 096361441X More info
book		Sport in Australian drama / Richard Fotheringham Cambridge, England Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Call No: 739(94) FOT Author: Fotheringham, Richard, 1947 Place: Cambridge, England Melbourne Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: SPORTS FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SPORTS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COOLANGATTA GOLD, THE (AT, Igor Auzins, 1984); PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [238]-268 ISBN: 0521401569 LON: abn91222197; 8176908 More info
book		Sport on television : to siphon or not to siphon / Dr Rhonda Jolly [Canberra]: Parliamentary Library: Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament, 11 February 2010. Call No: 202(94) JOL Author: Jolly, Rhonda Place: [Canberra] Publisher: Parliamentary Library: Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament PubDate: 11 February 2010 PhysDes: 55 p. ; 30cm Subject: TV AND THE STATE. AUSTRALIA; SPORT AND TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA; SPORTS PRESENTATION ISSN: 18349854 More info
Online resource digital clippings file		SPORTS AND THE CINEMA Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SPORTS AND THE CINEMA More info
title clippings file		SPORTS CRAZY : [TV] (AT, 1987) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SPORTS CRAZY [TV] (AT, 1987) More info
Online resource digital clippings file		SPORTS FILMS Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SPORTS FILMS URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/SPORTS_FILMS._AUSTRALIA.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:03:23 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Sports in the movies / by Ronald Bergan London New York: Proteus Books, 1982. Call No: 739 BER Author: Bergan, Ronald Place: London New York Publisher: Proteus Books PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 160 p. : ill. ; 28 cm Subject: SPORTS FILMS; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; AMERICAN FOOTBALL FILMS; BOXING FILMS; BASEBALL FILMS; MOTOR SPORTS FILMS Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0862760178 (pbk.); 0862760313 : ª8.95 LON: 2833746 More info
newspaper article		Students get set for extra education in Sydney Morning Herald (28/02/2000) p.6 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BLIND AMBITION (UK, Richard Standeven, 2000) Author: Noonan, Gerard PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SPORTS FILMS; BLIND AMBITION (UK, Richard Standeven, 2000) Summary: Students at a Sydney local high school will be extras in UK production film, Blind Ambition. More info
book		Television : a history / Francis Wheen ; editorial consultant, Peter Fiddick. London: Century, 1985. Call No: 70 TEL WHE Author: Wheen, Francis. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Century PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27cm. Subject: HISTORY OF TV; BROADCASTING; SPORTS PRESENTATION; SOAP OPERAS; ALL IN THE FAMILY [TV] (US, 1971-?); AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69); BALL, LUCILLE; BERLE, MILTON; COLLINS, JOAN; FROST, DAVID; NIXON [RICHARD M.] ON TV; REAGAN RONALD; OLIVIER, LAURENCE; SCALES, PRUNELLA; BONANZA: THE NEXT GENERATION (US, Bill Claxton, 1988); BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (UK, Julian Jarrold, 2008); CHARLIE'S ANGELS [TV] (US, 1976-81); CLARKE, ARTHUR C.; DEATH OF A PRINCESS [TV] (UK/US/NZ/AT/NE, Antony Thomas, 1980); DYNASTY [TV] (AT, 1970); FORSYTE SAGA, THE [TV] (UK, 2002); GUNSMOKE [TV] (US, 1955-75); JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961); VIE SUR TERRE, LA (FR, Abderrahmare Sissako, 1998); MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS [TV] (UK, 1969-1974); OLYMPICS ON TV; ON THE BUSES (UK, Harry Booth, 1971); PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86); ROCKFORD FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1974-80); ROOTS [TV] (US, 1977); SESAME STREET [TV] (US, 1969-); THORN BIRDS, THE [TV] (US, Daryl Duke, 1983); TODAY [TV] (AT, 1982-); UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS [TV] (UK, 1970-75); YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE [TV] (US, 1973- ) Summary: This book examines the beginnings of television and the making of a televised history of the medium in all of its different manifestations, around the world, and look at a variety of programs from current affairs to comedy, documentaries, to dramas, in countries as different as Britain and Japan, or India and the United States The history is looked at from the perspective of the "Third Age of Broadcasting" - the rea of cable, video, direct broadcasting by satellite, teletext, viewdata and computers Notes: Dust jacket title: Television a world history.; Based on a documentary series by Granada Television; Includes index ISBN: 0712609296 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info

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