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Call No: 753.8VER
Author: Verrone, William
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury academic
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: vi, 275 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; GREENAWAY, PETER; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MADDIN, GUY; SVANKMAJER, JAN; SCORPIO RISING (US, Kenneth Anger, 1964); FRUIT OF PARADISE [OVOCE STROMU RAJSKYCH JÍME] (CS/BE, Vera Chytilova, 1970); FRUIT OF PARADISE [OVOCE STROMU RAJSKYCH JÍME] (CS/BE, Vera Chytilova, 1970); HITLER, A FILM FROM GERMANY (GW/UK/FR, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, 1977) SEE HITLER - EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND; STREET OF CROCODILES (UK, Brothers Quay, 1986); DANTE QUARTET, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1987); ALICE (SZ/GW/UK, Jan Svankmajor, 1988) SEE NECO Z ALENKY; ALICE [NECO Z ALENKY] (SZ/GW/UK, Jan Svankmajer, 1988); PROSPERO'S BOOKS (UK/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1991); WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP (US, James Marsh, 1999); SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM (US, Craig Baldwin, 1999); DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (CN, Guy Maddin, 2002)
Summary: Adaptations have occurred regularly since the beginning of cinema, but little recognition has been given to avant-garde adaptations of literary or other texts. This compelling study corrects such omissions by detailing the theory and practice of alternative adaptation practices from major avant-garde directors. Avant-Garde films are often relegated to the margins because they challenge our traditional notions of what film form and style can accomplish. Directors who choose to adapt previous material run the risk of severe critical dismay; making films that are highly subjective interpretations or representations of existing texts takes courage and foresight. An avant-garde adaptation provokes spectators by making them re-think what they know about film itself, just as much as the previous source material.Adaptation and the Avant-Garde examines films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Jan Svankmajer and many others, offering illuminating insights and making us reconsider the nature of adaptation, appropriation, borrowing, and the re-imagining of previous sources. -- extract taken from the back of the book. --
Notes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references and index --
ISBN: 9781441163523
Contents: -- pt. I Historical and Theoretical Background -- ch. 1 Defining the Avant-Garde Film -- ch. 2 Adaptation Theory and Practice -- ch. 3 Appropriation -- ch. 4 The Exploitative Adaptation -- ch. 5 Why Avant-Garde? -- pt. II A Chronology of Avant-Garde Film Adaptation -- ch. 6 A Brief Narrative History of Avant-Garde Film Adaptation or, Some Instances of Avant-Garde Adaptation -- pt. III Case Studies -- ch. 7 The Fall of the House of Usher -- ch. 8 Scorpio Rising -- ch. 9 Fruit of Paradise -- ch. 10 Hitler: A Film from Germany -- ch. 11 Street of Crocodiles -- ch. 12 The Dante Quartet -- ch. 13 Alice -- ch. 14 Prospero's Books -- ch. 15 Wisconsin Death Trip -- ch. 16 Spectres of the Spectrum -- ch. 17 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary --

Call No: 802.25 MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott
Edition: 2005
Place: Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 410 p. ; 23 cm
Series: A critical cinema
Subject: STAN BRAKHAGE; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
Summary: A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald once again engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the network of interconnections within the community of filmmakers. A Critical Cinema 4 includes the most extensive interview with the late Stan Brakhage yet published; a conversation with P. Adams Sitney about his arrival on the New York independent film scene; a detailed discussion with Peter Kubelka about the experience of making Our African Journey; a conversation with Jill Godmilow and Harun Farocki on modern political documentary; Jim McBride's first extended published conversation in thirty years; a discussion with Abigail Child about her evolution from television documentarian to master editor; and the first extended interview with Chuck Workman. This volume also contains discussions with Chantal Akerman about her place trilogy; Lawrence Brose on his examination of Oscar Wilde's career; Hungarian Peter Forgács about his transformation of European home movies into video operas; Iranian-born Shirin Neshat on working between two cultures; and Ellen Spiro about exploring America with her video camera and her dog. Each interview is supplemented by an introductory overview of the filmmaker's contributions. A detailed filmography and a selected bibliography complete the volume. -- publisher's blurb
ISBN: 9780520242715
Contents: Introduction P. Adams Sitney Stan Brakhage Jill Godmilow (and Harun Farocki) Peter Kubelka Jim McBride Abigail Child Chuck Workman Chantl Akerman Lawrence Brose Peter Forgacs Shirin Neshat Ellen Spiro Filmography Bibliography Index

Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeanette
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 488 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; BUNUEL, LUIS; WRIGHT, BASIL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]); HURDES, LAS (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, 1939); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); MAITRES FOUS, LES (FR, Jean Rouch, 1955); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1968); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); AMERICAN FAMILY, AN [TV](US, 1973); DAISY, THE STORY OF A FACELIFT (CN, Michael Rubbo, 1982); THIS IS SPINAL TAP (US, Rob Reiner, 1984); SHERMAN'S MARCH (US, Ross McElwee, 1986 [prod. 1981]); I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE (US, Bill Viola, 1986); JOURNEY, THE (CN, Peter Watkins, 1987); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989); TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991)
Summary: Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we perceive and comprehend the world through visual media increasingly, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Together, the essays cover the significant developments in the history of the documentary, from the first commercially released feature, Nanook of the North (1922), to modern independent productions, such as An American Family (1973), Tongues Untied (1989), and Finding Christa (1991), and including important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts from the mainstream to the avant-garde. Seth Feldman places Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) within the context of constructivism and futurism; Vivian Sobchack discusses the strategies of Bunuel's Las Hurdas (Land without Bread, 1931) in relation to surrealism; and Joanne Hershfield explores Que viva Mexico! (1932) as the presentation of an exotic culture by a European director. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balancebetween theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis. --FROM PUBLISHER'S SITE
Notes: includes bibliiographic references and index
ISBN: 0814326390
Contents: Filmmaker as hunter / William Rothman -- Peace between man and machine / Seth Feldman -- Paradise regained / Joanne Hershfield -- Synthetic vision / Vivian Sobchack -- Art of national projection / William Guynn -- Mass psychology of fascist cinema / Frank P. Tomasulo -- American documentary finds its voice / Charlie Keil -- Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death / Thomas Waugh -- Poetics of propaganda / Jim Leach -- It was an atrocious film / Jeannette Sloniowski -- Dialogic imagination of Jean Rouch / Diane Scheinman -- Documenting the ineffable / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- Don't you ever just watch? / Jeanne Hall -- Ethnography in the first person / Barry Keith Grant -- Two avant-gardes / Robert Stam -- Seeing with experimental eyes / Bart Testa -- Bastard union of several forms / Jeffrey K. Ruoff -- Documentary of displaced persona / Joan Nicks -- Gender, power, and a cucumber / Carl Plantinga -- Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative / Lucy Fischer -- Subjectivity lost and found / Catherine Russell -- Filmmaker as global circumnavigator / Scott MacDonald -- Mirrors without memories / Linda Williams -- Documentaphobia and mixed modes / Matthew Bernstein -- Silence and its opposite / Sheila Petty -- Containing fire / Caryl Flinn -- Contested territory / Julia Lesage

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: GOD OF DAY HAD GONE DOWN UPON HIM, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 2000)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: JANE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1985)

Author: Bergroth, Trevor & Koller, Michael
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOG STAR MAN (US, Stan Brakhage, 1961)
Summary: Film reviews

Call No: 45:2 PLA
Author: Plate, S. Brent
Edition: second
Place: New York; Chichester, U.K.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: xviii,207 p. : illus. ; 23cm
Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE (US, Woody Allen, 1985); TIDELAND (CN/UK, Terry Gilliam, 2005); BIG FISH (US, Tim Burton, 2003); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE (US, Mel Gibson, 2004); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); CHOCOLAT (US, Lasse Hallstrom, 2000); ANTONIA'S LINE (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995) SEE ANTONIA; ANTONIA (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BARAKA (US, Ron Fricke, 1992); MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001); KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1989); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959); KING OF KINGS (US, Nicholas Ray, 1961); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); STRAIGHT STORY, THE (US/FR/UK, David Lynch, 1999)
Summary: Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 978023117650
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: Worldmaking On-Screen and at the Altar Part I. Before the Show: Pulling the Curtain on the Wizard 1. Audio-Visual Mythologizing 2. Ritualizing Film in Space and Time 3. Sacred and Cinematic Spaces: Cities and Pilgrimages Part II. During the Show: Attractions and Distractions 4. Religious Cinematics: Body, Screen, and Death 5. The Face, the Close-Up, and Ethics Part III. After the Show: Re-Created Realities 6. The Footprints of Film: Cinematic After-Images in Sacred Time and Space Notes References Filmography Index
ID2: 283

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SIRIUS REMEMBERED (US, Stan Brakhage, 1960)

Call No: 61[77] DAN
Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: 233 p. ; 29 cm.
Subject: AESTHETICS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); SONG OF AIR (AT, Merilee Bennett, 1987); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); CALENDAR (CN/GG/AR, Atom Egoyan, 1993); WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (US, Stan Brakhage, 1959)
Summary: This thesis analyses the representation of 'home' photographic materials within a range of historically, aesthetically and generically diverse cinematic works. [Taken from thesis summary.]
Notes: PhD thesis

Call No: 802.253 BET
Author: Betancourt, Jeanne
Source: US
Place: Dayton, Ohio
Publisher: Pflaum Pub.
PubDate: c1974
PhysDes: xxii, 186 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; BRAKHAGE, STAN; DEREN, MAYA; VARDA, AGNES; WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (US, Stan Brakhage, 1959); CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 [CLEO DE 5 A 7] (FR, Agnes Varda, 1962); CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 [CLEO DE 5 A 7] (FR, Agnes Varda, 1962); DIARY OF A PREGNANT WOMAN (FR, Agnes Varda, 1958); OPERA MOUFFE, L' (FR, Agnes Varda, 1958); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (US, Maya Deren, 1946); THIGH LYNE LYRE TRIANGULAR (US, Stan Brakhage, 1961); AT LAND (US, Maya Deren, 1944)
Summary: "I hope Women in focus can serve many people. By reading about and seeing films that present real women, those who have been oblivious to the stereotypes of women in film may begin to recognize them by the contrast offered in the films I suggest. " -- Introduction, Women in Focus
Notes: Reviews of films; Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 168-181
ISBN: 0827802609
LON: 74078728; 462301
Contents: -- introduction -- the films index -- the filmmakers -- the films -- thematic index -- program possibilities -- bibliography -- distributors of the films --