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Film analysis : a Norton reader / edited by Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky New York : London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Call No: 66(049.3)Author: Geiger, Jeffrey ; Rutsky, R.L. Edition: 2013Place: New York : LondonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.PhysDes: 1152 pp ; 23 cmSubject: VOYAGE A PAIMPOL, LE (FR, John Berry, 1985) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; NANIWA EREJI NANIWA HIKA (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; ROMA CITTA APERTA (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1945) ; LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949) ; CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; TOKYO MONOGATARI (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) ; SHICHININ NO SAMURAI (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ; SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957) ; QUATRE CENTS COUPS, LES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1959) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) ; ULTIMA CENA, LA (CU, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1976) ; DO MA DAN (HK, Tsui Hark, 1986) ; NAMA-YE NAZDIK (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ; DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (CC/HK/TZ, Zhang Yimou, 1991) ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; FA YEUNG NIN WA (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 2000) Notes: Fifty essays on fifty films—by a who’s-who of film studies. Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films—each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping them to hone their own writing. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms. -- publisher's web site.ISBN: 9780393923247Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895-1897), Lumière Brothers / Karin Littau -- A Trip to the Moon (1902), Georges Méliès / Tom Gunning -- The Birth of a Nation (1915), D. W. Griffith / Daniel Bernardi -- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene / Paul Coates -- Nanook of the North (1922), Robert J. Flaherty / Jeffrey Geiger -- Sherlock, Jr. (1924), Buster Keaton / Hal Gladfelder -- Battleship Potemkin (1926), Sergei Eisenstein / Bill Nichols -- Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang / R. L. Rutsky -- Un chien andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí / Tom Conley -- It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra / Richard Maltby -- Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin / Charles J. Maland -- Osaka Elegy (1936), Mizoguchi Kenji / Joanne Bernardi -- Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks / S. I. Salamensky -- The Rules of the Game (1939), Jean Renoir / Christopher Faulkner -- Stagecoach (1939), John Ford / Matthew Bernstein -- Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles / James Naremore -- Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz / Dana Polan -- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid / Juan A. Suarez -- Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder / Gaylyn Studlar -- Rome Open City (1945), Roberto Rossellini / Marcia Landy -- Bicycle Thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The Red Shoes (1948), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger / Ian Christie -- Rashomon (1950), Kurosawa Akira / Aaron Kerner -- Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly / Jane Feuer -- Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro / David Desser -- Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock / Elizabeth Cowie -- Seven Samurai (1954), Kurosawa Akira / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray / Neepa Majumdar -- The Seventh Seal (1956), Ingmar Bergman / Marilyn Johns Blackwell -- The 400 Blows (1959), François Truffaut / Alastair Phillips -- Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard / Richard Neupert -- 8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick / Robert Kolker -- The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola / Jon Lewis -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Shohini Chaudhuri -- Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski / Steve Neale -- The Last Supper (1976), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Gilberto M. Blasini -- Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese / Cynthia Fuchs -- Ceddo (1977), Ousmane Sembene / Philip Rosen -- Peking Opera Blues (1986), Tsui Hark / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau -- Yeelen (1987), Souleymane Cissé / N. Frank Ukadike -- Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee / Sharon Willis -- Close-up (1989), Abbas Kiarostami / Hamid Naficy -- To Sleep with Anger (1990), Charles Burnett / Valerie Smith -- Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Zhang Yimou / Shuqin Cui -- Daughters of the Dust (1991), Julie Dash / Anna Everett -- Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino / A. J. Haynes -- All About My Mother (1999), Pedro Almodóvar / Paul Julian Smith -- In the Mood for Love (2000), Wong Kar Wai / Gina Marchetti -- Caché (Hidden) (2005), Michael Haneke / Kevin Sherman -- / Film Analysis: Approaches and Strategies -- Glossary of Critical TermsID2: 182
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Forms of being : cinema, aesthetics, subjectivity. / Leo Bersani / Ulysse Dutoit London: British Film Institute, 2004.
Call No: 62 BERAuthor: Bersani, Leo ; Dutoit, Ulysse Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 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 indexISBN: 1844570169 (pbk.)
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Genre, gender, race and world cinema : an anthology / Edited by Julie F. Codell Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 62(082) GENAuthor: Codell, Julie F. Source: USPlace: Malden, MassachusettsPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cmSubject: ASIANS IN FILMS ; BOLLYWOOD ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FILM NOIR ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; WORLD CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IRAN ; MELODRAMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; KAIGE, CHEN ; NAIR, MIRA ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ; HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993) ; INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
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TODO SOBRE MI MADRE ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000) Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."ISBN: 1405132337Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements
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Mysteries of cinema : reflections on film theory, history and culture 1982-2016 / Adrian Martin Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
Call No: 62(081) MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Edition: 2018Place: AmsterdamPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPhysDes: 424 pages ; 24 cmSeries: film culture in transitionSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; CINEPHILIA ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM HISTORY ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GARREL, PHILIPPE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; POLANSKI, ROMAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RUIZ, RAUL ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; AFTER HOURS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1985) ; AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1993) ; COTTON CLUB, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1984) ; ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961) ; ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (US, Sergio Leone, 1984) ; HATEFUL EIGHT, THE (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2015) ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) Summary: The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9789462986831Contents: PART I - LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling
PART II – SCENOGRAPHIES -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced
PART III - A CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism
PART IV - THE LYRICAL IMPULSE -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions -- 13. Delirious Enchantment
PART V - GENRE GAMES -- 14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power -- 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle -- 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic -- 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema
PART VI – INTERVENTIONS -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual -- 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality
PART VII - ENVOI -- 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina lvarez Lopez
Notes -- Sources of Texts -- Index
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Strong women London: BFI National Library, c2001.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 036-02 STRAuthor: Clarke, Nicola ; Gordon, Stephen ; Johnston, Louise ; Khan, Ayesha ; Smart, Emma Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI National LibraryPubDate: c2001PhysDes: 77 p ; 30 cmSeries: National Library 16+ guidesSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; ALLY MCBEAL [TV] (US, 1997-) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; BHAJI ON THE BEACH (UK, Gurinder Chadha, 1993) ; BOUND (AT, Serhat Caradee, 2000) ; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (US, Fran Rubel Kuzui, 1992) ; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004) ; CHARLIE'S ANGELS (US, McG, 2000) ; WO HU ZANG LONG (HK, Ang Lee, 2000) ; ELIZABETH (UK, Shekhar Kapur, 1998) ; ERIN BROKOVICH (US, Stephen Soderbergh, 2000) ; LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER (US, Simon West, 2001) ; LAST SEDUCTION, THE (US, John Dahl, 1994) ; NIKITA (FR/IT, Luc Besson, 1990) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ) ; RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 1998) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) ; WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995) ; XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS [TV] (US, 1995-) ; X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-) ; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000) Notes: This and other bfi National Library 16+ Guides available from http://www.bfi.org.uk/16+ID2: 150
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Strong women 2 / compiled by Jose de Esteban and Wendy Thomas London: BFI National Library, c2003.
Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 036 -02 STRAuthor: Esteban, Jose de ; Thomas, Wendy Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BFI National LibraryPubDate: c2003PhysDes: 14 p. ; 30 cmSeries: 16+ Source guidesSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; OTHERS, THE (US/SP, Alejandro Amenabar, 2001) ; PANIC ROOM (US, David Fincher, 2002) ; BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (UK, Gurinda Chadha, 2002) Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009
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