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book		Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Call No: 631.19 PIP Author: Pippin, Robert B. Source: US Place: Chicago Publisher: University of Chicago Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: 271 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); TALK TO HER [HABLE CON ELLA] (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 2002); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955); JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998); DARDENNE, JEAN-PIERRE & LUC Summary: "In this book, philosopher Robert B. Pippin reveals how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodovar's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and in the Dardenne brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (with an eye to cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780226672007 Contents: Section I: Cinema As Reflective Form 1. Cinematic Reflection -- 2. Cinematic Self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Section II: Moral Variations 3. Devils & Angels in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her -- 4. Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III: Social Pathologies 5. Cinematic Tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: Can "Life" Itself be "False"? -- 6. Love & Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV: Irony & Mutuality 7. Cinematic Irony: The Strange Case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- 8. Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V: Agency & Meaning 9. Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- 10. Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers ID2: 343 More info
Interim book		Forms of being : cinema, aesthetics, subjectivity. / Leo Bersani / Ulysse Dutoit London: British Film Institute, 2004. Call No: 62 BER Author: Bersani, Leo; Dutoit, Ulysse Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 185 p. : ill. ; 24cm. Subject: THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998); TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999); ART CINEMA; AESTHETICS; MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963) Summary: This work discusses new ways of approaching cinema as visual art via the close analysis of three films – Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Le Mepris’(1963), Pedro Almodovar’s ‘All About My Mother’ (1999) and Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’ (1998). Also attempts to redefine the ways in which subjectivity, sexuality, relationality and aesthetics can be understood and transformed. Notes: Includes index ISBN: 1844570169 (pbk.) More info
journal article		Malick adopts Animal Logic in Encore (12 Feb, 1999) vol.17 iss.2 p.37 Author: Mooney, Jacqueline PhysDes: Production report; Illustration(s) Subject: ANIMAL LOGIC; POST-PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998) Summary: Details of post-production done by Australian company, Animal Logic, for Terrence Malick's "Thin Red Line". More info
Interim book		The thin red line / Michel Chion London: bfi Publishing, 2004. Call No: 79THI CHI Author: Chion, Michel Source: UK Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 95 p. : ill. ; 19 cm Series: BFI Film Classics Subject: THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998) Notes: Includes film credits ISBN: 1844570444 More info
title clippings file		THIN RED LINE, THE : (US, Terrence Malick, 1998) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit Subject: THIN RED LINE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 1998) More info

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