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Audiovisual industries in Australia : a discussion paper / [Graeme Taylor, Peter Dempster] Canberra: Bureau of Industry Economics, 1994.
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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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The electronic estate : new communications media and Australia / Trevor Barr Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1985.
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Interfacing with the on-line world : pay TV, broadband, standards and access / by Ross Kelso and Mark Armstrong Melbourne VIC: Media and Telecommunications Policy Group, 1997.
Call No: 39(94) KELAuthor: Kelso, Ross ; Armstrong, Mark Source: ATPlace: Melbourne VICPublisher: Media and Telecommunications Policy GroupPubDate: 1997PhysDes: 62 pages : illustrated ; 30 cmSubject: PAY TV. AUSTRALIA ; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA ; DIGITAL BROADCASTING. AUSTRALIA ; GOVERNMENT CONTROL, TV. AUSTRALIA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV Summary: "This research report deals with some issues which are vital to the development of our communications system. Networks have been buit to deliver broadband services, and more will be built before the year 2000. The financing and growth of the networks depend on business and domestic consumers, who will use the networks to access information and entertainment or to communicate with others. The underlying question is how conveniently a user can access the on-line world from any device, be it a TV receiver, a computer or a new multimedia device; and at what price." -from the preface.Notes: Spiral boundContents: Preface; Summary -- Consumer needs: towards a universal interface -- Will the pathways to the consumer converge? -- The role of standards -- Regulation: the access regime -- Competition; The round table -- The transcript -- About the participants; The research paper -- Introduction -- The role of standards -- Government policies affecting competition and access -- Capacity limitations: bandwidth versus technology -- Broad issues -- Appreciating conditional access -- Australian policy development -- Pay TV carrier associate services -- Proposed access regime post-1997 -- Digital terrestrial television broadcasting -- Australian digital video standards for pay TV & other services -- Overseas developments -- European standards and regulations affecting access -- Regulating access in the United Kingdom -- US video dialtone and open video system policies; Figures -- Fig 1 Typical arrangement for conditional access -- Fig 2 Comparison of Optus Vision and Moco (Telstra Multimedia/Foxtel) proposals -- Fig 3 Desirable open access regime for digital terrestrial television broadcasting -- Fig 4 Illustrative compromise underpinning the European digital video broadcasting standards -- Fig 5 Chart of the relationships under the proposed framework for digital terrestrial broadcasting in the UK -- Fig 6 Possible 'level one' gateway configurations
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Living screens : melodrama and plasticity in contemporary film and television / Monique Rooney London -- Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2015.
Call No: 733 ROOAuthor: Rooney, Monique Source: UKPlace: London -- Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International LtdPubDate: 2015PhysDes: x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: DisruptionsSubject: MELODRAMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; WEINER, MATTHEW ; HAYNES, TODD ; VON TRIER, LARS ; MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; MILDRED PIERCE [TV](US, 2011) Summary: Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner s Mad Men, Lars von Trier s Melancholia and Todd Haynes s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a plastic form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediationNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188), filmography (pages 188-189), and indexISBN: 9781783480470Contents: Introduction -- Mad Men: melodrama and metamorphosis -- Turned back: advertising, televisual melodrama and metamorphosis in Mad Men -- Earth-object: melodrama and plasticity in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia -- Melodrama and plasticity in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce -- Postlude: Animated statue, melody, encore (moi!)
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The Oxford handbook of new audiovisual aesthetics / edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis New York: Oxford University Press, c2013.
Call No: 220 OXFAuthor: Richardson, John ; Gorbman, Claudia ; Vernallis, Carol Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: c2013PhysDes: Oxford University PressSubject: TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; INTERNET ; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA ; INTERNET AND TV ; YOUTUBE ; AESTHETICS ; ANIMATION ; MULTIMEDIA ; SOUND REPRODUCTION ; MEDIA ; SOUND Summary: This book offers new ways to read the audiovisual. In the media landscapes of today, conglomerates jockey for primacy and the internet increasingly places media in the hands of individuals - producing the range of phenomena from movie blockbuster to YouTube aesthetics. Media forms and genres are proliferating and interpenetrating, from movies, music and other entertainments streaming on computers and iPods to video games and wireless phones. The audiovisual environment of everyday life, too - from street to stadium to classroom - would at times be hardly recognizable to the mid-twentieth-century subject. This book provides a definitive cross-section of current ways of thinking about sound and image. Its authors - leading scholars and promising younger ones, audiovisual practitioners and non-academic writers (both mainstream and independent) - open the discussion on audiovisual aesthetics in new directions. Our contributors come from fields including film, visual arts, new media, cultural theory, and sound and music studies, and they draw variously from economic, political, institutional, psychoanalytic, genre-based, auteurist, internationalist, reception-focused, technological, and cultural approaches to questions concerning today's sound and image.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780199733866Contents: Introduction / John Richardson and Claudia Gorbman -- Theoretical pressure points -- Classical music for the posthuman condition / Lawrence Kramer -- Beyond music: mashup, multimedia mentality, and intellectual property / Nicholas Cook -- The audio-logo-visual and the sound of languages in recent film / Michel Chion -- The end of diegesis as we know it? / Anahid Kassabian -- Sounding out film / Steven Connor -- Narrative, genre, meaning: changing times, changing practices -- Audio-visual space in an era of technological convergence / Robynn J. Stilwell -- Title Sequences for contemporary television serials / Annette Davison -- No country for old music / Carter Burwell -- Cue the big theme? the sound of the superhero / Janet K. Halfyard -- Video speech in Latin America / Michael Chanan -- Animated sounds -- Pixar and the animated soundtrack / Daniel Goldmark -- Notes on sound design in contemporary animated films / Randy Thom -- Zig Zag: re-animating Len Lye as improvised theatrical performance and immersive visual music / Lisa Perrott -- Musical moments and transformations -- The mutating musical and The sound of music / Caryl Flinn -- Chinese rock 'n ' roll film and Cui Jian on screen / Ying Xiao -- The neosurrealist metamusical: Tsai's The wayward cloud / John Richardson -- Parties in your head: from the acoustic to the psycho-acoustic / Philip Brophy -- Expanded soundtracks -- Sensory aspects of contemporary cinema / Michel Chion -- The sound of intensified continuity / Jeff Smith -- Extending film aesthetics: audio beyond visuals / K.J. Donnelly -- The audiovisual construction of transgender identity in Transamerica / Susanna Va¨lima¨ki -- Soundscapes of Istanbul in Turkish film soundtracks / Meri Kyto¨ -- Audiovisual objects, multisensory people and the intensified ordinary in Hong Kong action films / Charles Kronengold -- Emerging audiovisual forms: music video and beyond -- Music video's second aesthetic / Carol Vernallis -- Aesthetics and hyperembodiment in pop videos: Rihanna's "Umbrella" / Stan Hawkins -- The emancipation of music video: YouTube and the cultural politics of supply and demand / Paula Hearsum & Ian Inglis -- Music video transformed / Mathias Bonde Korsgaard -- Video, film, and installation art -- "Betwixt and between" worlds: spatial and temporal liminality in video / Holly Rogers -- Sound events: innovation in projection and installation / Maureen Turim and Michael Walsh -- Gaming -- Contextualizing game audio aesthetics / Rob Bridget -- Implications of interactivity: What does it mean for sound to be "Interactive"? / Karen Collins -- Multi-channel gaming aesthetics of interactive surround / Mark Kerins -- Audiovisuality in performance and daily life -- Sound and vision: the audio/visual economy of musical performance / Philip Auslander -- Foreground flatland / Joseph Lanza -- Remaking the urban: the audio-visual aesthetics of ipod use / Michael Bull -- On soundscape methods and audiovisual sensibility / Helmi Ja¨rviluoma and Noora Vikman -- Leaving something to the imagination: "seeing" new places through a musical lens / Mariko Hara and Tia Denora
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Remote control / Caetlin Benson-Allott New York: New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., in association with Loyola University New Orleans, The Atlantic, Georgia Tech Center for Media Studies, 2015.
Call No: 233.933 BENAuthor: Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., in association with Loyola University New Orleans, The Atlantic, Georgia Tech Center for Media StudiesPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xx, 157 pages : illustrations ; 17 cmSeries: Object lessonsSubject: REMOTE CONTROL ; VIEWERS ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; TELEVISION Summary: "While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls reveal the deep impact electronics design has on our self-perception and world-view. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material, literary, and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them"--Notes: Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781623569976Donation: Senses of Cinema
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Time to switch up TV in Sunday Telegraph (02/10/2016) p.26
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Video through the telephone wires : the technical and social aspects of ADSL and other pay TV and interactive technologies / Robin Whittle
Call No: 39 WHIPhysDes: 30 cmSubject: PAY TV. AUSTRALIA ; DATACASTING. AUSTRALIA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV Summary: A report on how different technologies could impact on Australia's television and computing uses and habits. This includes discussion on ADSL technology as well as Pay television
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