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Close up : great cinematic performances. Volume 1, American / edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Call No: 227.01(73) CLOPlace: UKPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2018Series: International film starsSubject: ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; STARS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GRANT, CARY ; GAYNOR, JANET ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; DAVIS, BETTE ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; SELLERS, PETER ; Stewart, James ; Lombard, Carole ; MASON, JAMES ; BURTON, RICHARD ; LEWIS, JERRY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; HACKMAN, GENE ; ROWLANDS, GENA ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; GOULD, ELLIOTT ; PACINO, AL ; GOLDBERG, WHOOPI ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; ISAAC, OSCAR ; STEWART, KRISTEN ; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (FR/SZ/GG/US/BE, Olivier Assayas, 2014) ; MOST VIOLENT YEAR, A (US, J. C. Chandor, 2014) ; BLUE JASMINE (US, Woody Allen, 2013) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DONNIE BRASCO (US, Mike Newell, 1997) ; LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980) ; CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; DANGEROUS (US, Alfred E. Green, 1935) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) Summary: "Examines the significance of women's participation in popular genres.
Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema. What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force"--Page 4 of cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781474417006Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Close-up: great American performances -- Chapter 1 Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding -- Chapter 2 Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth -- Chapter 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday -- Chapter 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Chapter 5 Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis in Dangerous -- Chapter 7 James Stewart in Vertigo -- Chapter 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be -- Chapter 9 James Mason in Lolita -- Chapter 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun -- Chapter 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.
Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther -- Chapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy -- Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night -- Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation -- Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria -- Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger -- Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye -- Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco -- Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple -- Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine -- Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year -- Chapter 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria -- Index.ID2: 362
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Hollywood and the holocaust / Henry Gonshak Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, [2015].
Call No: 744(=924)(73) GONAuthor: Gonshak, Henry Place: Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: [2015]PhysDes: x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSeries: Film and HistorySubject: WORLD WAR II FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; JEWS IN FILMS. USA ; JEWS AND THE CINEMA ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; HITLER'S CHILDREN (US, Edward Dymtryk, 1943) ; DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE (US, Geoarge Stevens, 1959) ; JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961) ; PAWNBROKER, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1964) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; ODESSA FILE, THE (UK/GW, Ronald Neame, 1974) ; MARATHON MAN (US, John Schlesinger, 1976) ; BOYS FROM BRAZIL, THE (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978) ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982) ; ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY (US, Paul Mazursky, 1989) ; TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT (US, Robert M. Young, 1989) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; MOTHER NIGHT (US, Keith Gordon, 1996) ; GREY ZONE, THE (US, Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) Summary: "Looking at a wide range of films in various genres that are representative of the evolution of Hollywood's depictions of the Jewish Holocaust and to examine the American public's perspective of the Holocaust" -- from the IntroductionNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and indexContents: Introduction: Can Hollywood get it right? -- The little tramp battles Hitler: The great dictator -- Actors versus Nazis: to be or not to be -- Hollywood fights World War II: Hitler's madman; Hitler's children; tomorrow, the world! -- Hollywood discovers the Holocaust: The diary of Anne Frank -- Hollywood judges the Germans: Judgment at Nuremberg -- Hollywood's Holocaust survivor: The pawnbroker -- The Holocaust on the horizon: Cabaret -- Hollywood Holocaust thrillers: The Odessa file; Marathon man; The boys from Brazil -- The Holocaust's non-Jewish victims: Sophie's choice -- Choiceless choice: Enemies, a love story and triumph of the spirit -- Spielberg reinvents the Holocaust: Schindler's list -- Moral ambiguity in the Holocaust: Mother night and The grey zone -- White lies: Life is beautiful and Jakob the liar -- The Nazis' successors: Apt pupil -- Mutant Holocaust survivors, or the anti-American sin of pessimism: X-men -- Kids befriending kids in the Holocaust: The boy in the striped pajamas -- Shagging Nazis and other post-war German adventures: The reader -- No sheep to the slaughter: Defiance -- Cartoon Jewish revenge: Inglourious basterds -- Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
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Indelible shadows : film and the Holocaust / Annette Insdorf Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Call No: 744(=924) INSAuthor: Insdorf, Annette Edition: 2nd edPlace: Cambridge New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xix, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; MALLE, LOUIS ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; IMHOOF, MARKUS ; JARVIK, LAURENCE ; LILIENTHAL, PETER ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; PLAYING FOR TIME [TV] (US, Daniel Mann, 1980) ; WAR AND REMEMBRANCE [TV] (US, Dan Curtis, 1988-89) ; RUE HAUTE (BE/FR, Andre Ernotte & Elliot Tiber, 1976) ; SERPENT'S EGG, THE (US/GW, Ingmar Bergman, 1977) ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982) ; HOTEL TERMINUS: KLAUS BARBIE, HIS LIFE AND TIMES (US, Marcel Ophuls, 1988) ; KAPO (IT/FR/YU, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1960) ; LACOMBE LUCIEN (FR/IT/GW, Louis Malle, 1974) ; DERNIER METRO, LE (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1980) ; LILI MARLEEN (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) ; MEMORY OF JUSTICE, THE (UK/GW/US, Marcel Ophuls, 19760 ; [MISTER] MR KLEIN [M. KLEIN] (FR/IT, Joseph Losey, 1976) ; OBCHOD NA KORZE (CS, Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos, 1965) ; PASAZERKA (PL, Andrzej Munk, 1963 [prod. 1961-63]) ; PAWNBROKER, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1964) ; SORROW AND THE PITY, THE [CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE] (FR/GW/SZ, Marcel Ophuls, 1969) ; BLECHTROMMEL, DIE (GW/FR/YU/PL, Volker Schlondorff, 1979) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; LAGERSTRASSE AUSCHWITZ [TV] (GW, Ebbo Demant, 1979) ; GUICHETS DU LOUVRE, LES (FR, Michel Mitrani, 1974) ; BOOT IST VOLL, DAS (SZ/GGW/AU, Markus Imhoof, 1981) ; CHILDREN FROM NUMBER 67, THE [KINDER AUS NO. 67, DIE] (GW, Usch Barthelmess-Weller & Werner Meyer, 1980) ; DAMNED, THE [CADUTA DEGLI DEI, LA] (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969) ; DAVID (GW, Peter Lilienthal, 1979) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. [267]-276; Bibliography: p. [277]-282ISBN: 0521372798; 0521378109 (pbk.)LON: 6081353
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To be or not to be / by Peter Barnes London: bfi Publishing, 2002.
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