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Australian animation : an international history / Dan Torre & Lienors Torre Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan,
Call No: 246(94) TORAuthor: Torre, Dan ; Torre, Lienors Edition: 2018Place: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPhysDes: xii, 260 pages : illustrated ; 22 cmSubject: ANIMATED FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ANIMATION. AUSTRALIA ; FELIX THE CAT ; PORTER, ERIC ; HANNA-BARBERA ; MCLAREN ANGUS ; PETTY, BRUCE ; STITT, ALEX ; TUPICOFF, DENNIS ; MARCO POLO JUNIOR VERSUS THE RED DRAGON (AT, Eric Porter, 1972) ; DOT AND THE KANGAROO (AT, Yoram Goss, 1977) ; GRENDEL, GRENDEL, GRENDEL (AT, Alexander Stitt, 1981) ; LOST THING, THE (AT/UK, Andrew Ruhemann/Shaun Tan, 2010) Summary: This book provides the most comprehensive history and analysis of Australian animation published to date. Spanning from the 1910s to the present day, it explores a wide-range both of independent animation, and of large-scale commercial productions. Presented within a uniquely international context, it details the frequent links between Australian animation and overseas productions. New perspectives and original information are offered on a variety of international subjects such as: Felix the Cat, the Australian Hanna-Barbera studios, and the Australian Walt Disney studios. Drawing on both extensive archival research and original interviews this book illuminates, for the first time, the breadth and richness of Australia’s animation history. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9783319954912
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Cinematic canines : Dogs and their work in the fiction film / Edited by Adrienne L. McLean New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Call No: 738.66 CINAuthor: McLean, Adrienne L. (ed.) Place: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2014PhysDes: x, 272 p. ; 24 cm ;Subject: DOGS IN MOTION PICTURES ; LASSIE COME HOME (US, Fred M. Willcox, 1943) ; BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995) ; BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011) ; EIGHT BELOW (US, Frank Marshall, 2006) ; SOUTH AFRICA ; ANTARCTICA Summary: Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen cannot be separated from their increasing presence in our lives over the past century.
The representation and visualization of dogs in cinema, as of other animals, has influenced our understanding of what dogs “should” do and be, for us and with us. Adrienne L. McLean expertly shepherds these original essays into a coherent look at “real” dogs in live-action narrative films, from the stars and featured players to the character and supporting actors to those pooches that assumed bit parts or performed as extras. Who were those dogs, how were they trained, what were they made to do, how did they participate as characters in a fictional universe? These are a just a few of the many questions that she and the outstanding group of scholars in this book have addressed.
Often dogs are anthropomorphized in movies in ways that enable them to reason, sympathize, understand and even talk; and our shaping of dogs into furry humans has had profound effects on the lives of dogs off the screen. Certain breeds of dog have risen in popularity following their appearance in commercial film, often to the detriment of the dogs themselves, who rarely correspond to their idealized screen versions. In essence, the contributors in Cinematic Canines help us think about and understand the meanings of the many canines that appear in the movies and, in turn, we want to know more about those dogs due in no small part to the power of the movies themselves. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780813563558Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Wonder Dogs / Adrienne L. McLean -- Answering a Growl: Roscoe Arbuckle’s Talented Canine Co-Star, Luke / Joanna E. Rapf -- The Dogs Who Saved Hollywood: Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and Jeremy Groskopf -- Asta the Screwball Dog: Hollywood’s Canine Sidekick / Sara Ross and James Castonguay -- Promoting Lassie: The Animal Star and Constructions of “Ideal” American Heroism / Kelly Wolf -- Dogs at War: Military Dogs in Film / Aaron Skabelund -- Loaded Dogs: Dogs, Domesticity, and “the Wild” in Australian Cinema / Jane O’Sullivan -- Bullies and Curs: Overlords and Underdogs in South African Cinema / Giuliana Lund -- Things from Another World: Dogs, Aliens, and Antarctic Cinema / Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway -- Hitchcock’s Canine Uncanny / Murray Pomerance -- The Dog at the Side of the Shot: Incongruous Dog (Canisfamiliaris) Behavior in Film / Alexandra Horowitz -- Afterword: Dogs at the Digital Divide / Adrienne L. McLean -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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Film genre reader II / edited by Barry Keith Grant Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Call No: 64GEN FILAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947 Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENRES ; WESTERNS ; GANGSTER FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; DISASTER FILMS ; EPIC FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; COMEDIES ; TRANSVESTISM ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; MUSICALS ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; CANADA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SEMIOLOGY ; STRUCTURALISM ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; FORD, JOHN ; PENN, ARTHUR ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; CHANDLER, RAYMOND ; FRYE, NORTHROP ; MINNELLI, VINCENTE ; TODOROV, TZVETAN ; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949) ; YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946) ; STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939) ; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957) ; VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) ; DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and indexISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11563059
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The movie that changed my life / edited by David Rosebnberg New York: Penguin, 1993.
Call No: 67(049.32) THESource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xv, 304 p. ; 22 cmSubject: BEST FILMS ; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942) ; LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID, THE (US, James P. Hogan, 1937) ; SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) ; PREMATURE BURIAL (US, Roger Corman, 1962) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; DRACULA (US, Tod Browning, 1931) ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (US, Charles Vidor, 1955) ; BOY WITH GREEN HAIR, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1948) ; [THREE] 3 WOMEN (US, Robert Altman, 1977) ; OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES (US, Roy Rowland, 1945) ; FATAL GLASS OF BEER, THE (US, Clyde Bruckman, 1933) ; WOMEN, THE (US, George Cukor, 1939) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969) ; JOURNAL D'UN CURE DE CAMPAGNE (FR, Robert Bresson, 1951) ; BELLE ET LA BETE, LA (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1946) ; SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (US, Stanley Donen, 1954) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Summary: Exploring 23 writer's cultural experiences in relation to movies.Notes: First published : 1991 : Viking PenguinISBN: 0140169520Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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New video deal set up by Video Classics in Australasian Cinema (11/3/1983) vol.12 iss.4 p.1
PhysDes: ArticleSubject: VIDEO CLASSICS ; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA ; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA ; UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; UNIVERSAL PICTURES ; UNITED ARTISTS ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; ROCKY III (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1982) ; STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1982) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) ; SHOGUN ASSASSIN (US, Robert Huston, 1980) ; GREASE 2 (US, Patricia Birch, 1982) ; POLTERGEIST (US, Tobe Hooper, 1982) ; URBAN COWBOY (US, James Bridges, 1980) Summary: Article on deal struck between Video Classics and United International Pictures wherein Video Classics has exclusive rights to distributing numerous blockbusters on video in Australia through their VidAustralia outlet.
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THE NEXT BIG THING / NewVision Films [1998].
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Nightmare movies : a critical history of the horror films, 1968-88 / Kim Newman London: Bloomsbury, 1988.
Call No: 735.2 NEWAuthor: Newman, Kim Edition: The new edPlace: LondonPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HORROR FILMS ; ADAMSON, AL ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ALLEN, NANCY ; ARGENTO, DARIO ; BAVA, MARIO ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CARPENTER, JOHN ; CARRADINE, JOHN ; COHEN, LARRY ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULCI, LUCIO ; HARPER, JESSICA ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOOPER, TOBE ; KING, STEPHEN ; LEE, CHRISTOPHER ; LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON ; LYNCH, RICHARD ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; Perkins, Anthony ; PLEASENCE, DONALD ; ROMERO, GEORGE ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; ALONE IN THE DARK (US, Jack Sholder, 1982) ; AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, AN (UK, John Landis, 1981) ; AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION (US, Damiano Damiani, 1982) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (US, Jean-Francois Richet, 2005) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; COMPANY OF WOLVES, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1984) ; DAY OF THE WOMAN (US, Meir Zarchi, 1978) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972) ; LOST BOYS, THE (US, Joel Schumacher, 1987) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, Tom Savini, 1990) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE (UK, Jim Sharman, 1975) ; SHIVELS (CA, David Cronenberg, 1975) ; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; TWILIGHT ZONE, THE [TV] (US, 1959-64, 1985-88) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217) and indexISBN: 0747502951
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The Return of the Swamp Thing / A novel by Peter David based on a screenplay by Derek Spencer and Grant Morris New York: Jove, 1989.
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Science fiction gold : film classics of the 50s / by Dennis Saleh ; foreword by Ray Harryhausen New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
Call No: 735.1 "195" SALAuthor: Saleh, Dennis Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-HillPubDate: 1979PhysDes: 191 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SCIENCE IN FILMS ; ALIENS IN FILLMS ; ROBOTS IN FILMS ; SPACE TRAVEL IN FILMS ; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS ; UTOPIA IN FILMS ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1951) ; IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (US, Jack Arnold, 1953) ; INVADERS FROM MARS (US, Tobe Hooper, 1986) ; THEM! (US, Gordon Douglas, 1954) ; CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (US, Jack Arnold, 1954) ; FORBIDDEN PLANET (US, Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) Summary: 14 classics films from the 50s with their stories, commentary, and credits. All films are science fiction films, which include invasions, mutations, radiations. (taken from back cover)ISBN: 0070544670
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Screening Science : contexts, texts and science in fifties science fiction film / Errol Vieth London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001.
Call No: 735.1 VIEAuthor: Veith, Errol Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.PubDate: 2001PhysDes: 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: SCIENCE IN FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; DRIVE-IN CINEMAS ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Philip Kaufman, 1978) ; INVADERS FROM MARS (US, Tobe Hooper, 1986) ; THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) Summary: Inspects science fiction film, the way in which films construct that science, the end result of that construction, and the totality of the discourses of power and influence.Notes: Includes tables
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Incudes About the AuthorISBN: 0810840235
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