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Cracks in the pedestal : ideology and gender in Hollywood / Philip Green Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.
Call No: 626:396 GREAuthor: Green, Philip, 1932 Place: AmherstPublisher: University of Massachusetts PressPubDate: c1998PhysDes: viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA.USA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM NOIR. USA ; CREED, BARBARA ; MULVEY, LAURA ; STONE, SHARON ; ALIENS (US, James Cameron, 1986) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; FATAL ATTRACTION (US, Adrian Lyne, 1987) ; FURNESS, DEBORRA-LEE ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; IMPULSE (US, Sandra Locke, 1990) ; LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994) ; MS. 45 (US, Abel Ferrara, 1981) ; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; RIVER WILD, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1994) ; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988) ; SHAME [TV] (US, 1992) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; VANISHING, THE (US, George Sluizer, 1993) ; SPOORLOOS (NE/FR, George Sluizer, 1988) Summary: Distinguishing his own neo-Marxist approach from that of other media scholars, Philip Green pursues two interrelated themes. In the first part of the book, he looks at the strategies Hollywood has employed to deflect or absorb the ideological challenges posed by the feminist critique of contemporary American society. He demonstrates the ways in which mainstream movies and television programs, no matter how unconventional or "subversive" they may appear, produce and reproduce familiar images of sexuality and gender identity. In the second part, Green highlights instances in which reproduction of the dominant ideology is less successful by examining several recent cinematic genres - the female action movie, the rape-revenge cycle, and the new film noir - that portray the real ambiguities of a social order in upheaval; As a male consumer of the cultural commodities being discussed, the author offers a perspective on American films and television different from that of most other feminist criticsNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-248) and indexISBN: 1558491198 (cloth : alk. paper); 1558491201 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 13262384ID2: 290
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Landmark films : the cinema and our century / [by] William Wolf with Lillian Kramer Wolf London: Paddington Press, 1979.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 02 WOLAuthor: Wolf, William ; Wolf, Lillian Kramer Place: LondonPublisher: Paddington PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: 429 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931) ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; DUCK SOUP (US, Leo McCarey, 1933) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; THIRTY-NINE STEPS, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1935) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; ROMA CITTA APERTA (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1945) ; RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE (SZ/GW, Marcel Ophuls, 1971) ; PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955) ; ROOM AT THE TOP (UK, Jack Clayton, 1959) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; 8 1/2 (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1963) ; DR STRANGELOVE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; ULYSSES (UK/US, Joseph Strick, 1967) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) ; DEEP THROAT (US, Jerry Gerard, 1972) ; HEAVY TRAFFIC (US, Ralph Bakshi, 1973) ; SLEEPER (US, Woody Allen, 1973) ; NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975) ; PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (IT, Lina Wertmuller, 1976) ; SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) Notes: incl. indexISBN: 0709208758LON: vtb00270168; 10429365
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Recontextualizing the historical reception of Blaxploitation : articulations of class, black nationalism, and anxiety in the genre's advertisements in Velvet Light trap (2002) vol.50 p.48-61
Author: Kraszewski, Jon PhysDes: ArticleSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; BLACULA (US, William Crain, 1972) ; I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (US, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971) ; SHAFT (US, John Singleton, 2000) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) Summary: This is a study of blaxploitation advertisements and the genre, examing the complex relationship between blaxpoitaton text and spectator. The heterogeneous identity at play within blaxploitation's black spectators is examined. Class becomes important to studying blaxploitation and its audience not because it demarcates a subgenre that diverged in interest from other films concerned with violence and ultrasexuality but because class - specifically the way in functions in blaxploitation advertisements - can help reconceptualize the blackness of blaxploitation and its spectators in more dynamic ways. The genre is situated in a complex historical moment where three relatively autonomous influences on black identity operated simultaneously.
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SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG : (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
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