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Call No: 730.3 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonne
Source: UK
Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 414 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; STARS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; MELODRAMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; MEN IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS
Summary: Traces the history of the action genre from its silent era beginnings. Examines action’s definition and how it works as well as critical reaction to the genre. Considers the social and political context (national identity, culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity) extending beyond Hollywood to Greece, Italy and Japan. Themes include aesthetics, industry and ideology. Examines individual films and serials The Hazards of Helen, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and individual directors, including D.W. Griffith, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Katherine Bigelow.
Notes: Includes note and index.
ISBN: 0 415 23507 3
Contents: Part 1. History, criticism and style -- 'Trauma thrills': notes on early action cinema -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 -- 'Child of commerce! bastard of art!': early film melodrama -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre -- 'Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic' -- Part 2. Theorising action aesthetics -- 'Get ready for rush hour': the chronotope in action -- The colapse of reality and illusion in "The matrix" -- Guns and gas: investigating the 1970s car chase -- "Saving Private Ryan's" 'special affect' -- Part 3. Gender, stars, bodies -- Ready for action: "G.I. Jane", Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie -- Mas Macha: the new Latina action hero -- Beauty in motion: gender, spectacle and action babe cinema -- "Breakdown": what masculinity, class and US action-adventure films -- Maximus melodramaticus: masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema -- The family in action -- Part 4. Nation, ethnicity and stardom -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection: stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema -- Europeans in action! -- Greek war film as melodrama: women, female stars, and the nation as vicim -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference -- Part 5. Action, authorship and industry -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah -- "The dirty dozen": the contradictory nature of screen violence -- 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, "Star wars" and children's entertainment -- Man's favourite sport?: the action films of Kathryn Bigelow -- 'They call me "action woman": the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film.

Call No: 730.5.0(6) DOV
Author: Dovey, Lindiwe
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: xviii, 334 p. : ill.
Series: Film and culture
Subject: AFRICA IN FILMS; AFRICAN COUNTRIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; FOOLS (FR/SA/MZ/RH, Ramadan Suleman, 1996); TSOTSI (UK/SA, Gavin Hood, 2005); WALK IN THE NIGHT, A (SA, Mickey Madoda Dube, 1998); CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY (US, Darrell Roodt, 1995); KARMEN GEÏ (SG/FR, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 2001); GENESE, LA (ML/FR, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, 1999)
Summary: "Analysing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey idenitifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking - one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence." - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
ISBN: 9780231147552
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012
Contents: Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gai¨ Ramaka's Karmen gei¨ -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La gene`se

PhysDes: Article
Subject: ANIMATED FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS
Summary: A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that animated features are becoming more violent.

Call No: 412.511 HIL
Author: Hills, Janet
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: [1953?]
PhysDes: 24 p. : illus. ; 20 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA

Call No: 61:75 MCI
Author: McIver, Gillian
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm
Subject: THEORY; ART IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; HEROS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA
Summary: "Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its close relationship with the visual arts. Art history for Filmmakers shows how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to demonstrate composition, color theory and lighting. It reveals how the visual culture that gave rise to cinema has itself been shaped and informed by the development of painting, the oldest of the art forms.Featuring stunning images from classic films and iconic artwork, this book will build your appreciation of the history of art, enrich your understanding of the visual language of film, and help to feed that understanding into your own original filmmaking" -- BACK COVER BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781472580658
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction. How does art history relate to cinema history? -- A brief linear (traditional) history of art - -Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Visual culture and storytelling. Narrative and storytelling in art -- Color and narrative -- Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema -- Perspective and composition -- Light -- Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism. What is realism? - -What is representation? -- Art after photography: modern conceptions of realism in art -- Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism. Fantasy worlds in cinema and art -- Oneiric: the world of dreams -- Surrealism -- Going beyond the real -- Case study: The Archers -- Sex and violence. Sex in art and cinema -- Violence in art and cinema -- Sex and violence -- Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror. Religious horror -- Supernatural horror -- Body horror -- Monsters -- Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape. Why landscape? -- Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? -- The American landscape and the American West -- Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts. History painting; victory, virtue, and the hero - -Heroism and the Western -- Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements. Culture or mass culture? -- expressionism -- Abstraction -- Abstract expressionism -- Minimalism -- Going "Beyond the West" -- Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion. How can we use art history in filmmaking? Case studies --

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
Summary: Peter Johnson, Federal MP and Deputy President of the Australian Crime Prevention Council, wants to see Mad Max banned due to its violence

Call No: 451-01 MEL
Author: Mellen, Joan
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Pantheon Books
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394498003 : $12.95
LON: 77005189; 1007815

Call No: 408.1(46) KIN
Author: Kinder, Marsha
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: xi, 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: SPAIN; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. SPAIN; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. SPAIN; SPAIN: CATALONIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. SPAIN; DIRECTORS. USA; ERICE, VICTOR; SAURA, CARLOS; ALMODOVAR, PEDRO; BUNUEL, LUIS; SURCOS (SP, Jose Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951); MUERTE DE UN CICLISTA (SP, Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955); GOLFOS, LOS (SP, Carlos Saura, 1959); COCHECITO, EL (SP, Marco Ferreri, 1959); ESPIRITU DE LA COLMENA, EL (SP, Victor Erice, 1973); RIO ABAJO (SP, Jose Luis Borau, 1984)
Notes: "A Centennial book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-522) and index
ISBN: 0520081536 (alk. paper); 0520081579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 9293143

Author: Gardner, Geoffrey
PhysDes: Article Review
Subject: BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); PENN, ARTHUR; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1960); TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS
Summary: Essay discusses Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" in terms of how the violent aesthetic of the film affects its reception.

Author: White, Eric
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); PENN, ARTHUR; DUNAWAY, FAYE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS
Summary: Essay discusses the 'New Hollywood', influenced by young, new directors, often from overseas. Emphasis on "Bonnie and Clyde" as an example of a 'watershed picture' in that it signalled a new style in filmmaking. Adapted from Time, by Eric White.

Call No: 409 GIR
Author: Giroux, Henry A.
Source: US
Place: Malden
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 297 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WERTMULLER, LINA; CLARK, LARRY; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979); LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977); DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989); DANGEROUS MINDS (US, John N. Smith, 1995); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); ONE EIGHT SEVEN (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1997); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999)
ISBN: 0631226044
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: P SCR
PubDate: [1999]
PhysDes: 1 poster : some colour ; 60 x 41 cm
Subject: SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996); PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF FILM ON
Summary: Image: A hooded ghost mask with a grotesque expression. This poster was used as a newspaper display advertising in the Herald Sun Sunday newspaper on September 26, 1999 in connection with a newspaper article titled 'Horror video alarm' written by Greg Thom about a 10-year-old girl who had a severe psychological reaction to watching the movie Scream. See title clippings file SCREAM (US, Wes Craven, 1996).
Notes: Poor condition with folds, pinholes, ink marks, and a large tear in the upper edge of the poster.

Call No: 722.71 FRE
Author: Frey, Mattias
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, N.J.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ART CINEMA; AESTHETICS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY; SEX IN FILMS; HANEKE, MICHAEL; VON TRIER, LARS
Summary: "From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their schockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Film critics and scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary auteurs, hailing directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as heirs to a tradition of transgressive art. In this provocative new book, Mattias Frey ofers a very different perspective on these films, exposing how they are also calculated products, designed to achieve global notoriety in a competitive marketplace. Extreme Cinema includes original interviews with the programmers of several leading international film festivals and with niche distributors and exhibitors, giving readers a revealing look at how these institutions enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the 'taboo-breakers' of arthouse cinema." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780813576497
Contents: 1. Transgression and Distinction: Filmmaker Discourses -- 2. The Aesthetic Embrace and the Cynicism Criticism: Reception Discourses -- 3. The Rhetoric and Role of Film Festivals -- 4. Discourses and Modes of Distribution -- 5. The Interpretations of Regulation -- 6. The Added Value of International Distribution -- 7. Sex, Violence, and Self-Exoticization -- 8. Aesthetic Innovation and the Real: Academic Debate over Sexually Graphic Art Films -- 9. A Discursive Approach to Hardcore Art Cinema

Call No: 120 FAT
Author: Helms, Michael; Sargeant, Jack
Source: AT
Place: [Thornbury, Vic.]
Publisher: [Fatal Visions]
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 296 p: ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION, USE OF FILMS IN; JODOROWSKY, ALEXANDRO; WORST FILMS; PROPAGANDA FILMS; GERMANY; WATERS, JOHN (US); JACKSON, PETER (NZ); HENENLOTTER, FRANK; HEWITT, JON; MEXICO; RAIMI, SAM; HENRIKSEN, LANCE; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen]; FERRARA, ABEL; ASIAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN
Summary: In 2012 The LedaTape Organisation put out Fatal Visions: The Wonder Years 1988-1989, the first volume to collect some of the earliest writings to appear in Fatal Visions, the Australian zine devoted to trash film and attendant culture that became a critically well-received and internationally distributed magazine. Four years later Fatal Visions: The Golden Age 1990-1998, the second volume in the Fatal Visions series has come screaming into the world. What’s presented here is a personal selection by editor Michael Helms from the final fifteen issues of Fatal Visions. A true best-of and showcase for as many of the still highly relevant and entertaining articles, interviews and reviews from some of the most exciting writers working in trash film. - Blondes, Bockwurst & Porn – a trashfilm tour of Europe by Jack Stevenson. - Mexploitation Explained by Steve Fentone. - Cool & The Crazy – Bruce Milne’s seminal article on The Cramps. - Eyeball On Asia – watching film in Asian countries with Stefan Hammond. - Kris Gilpin interviews Charles Napier. - Other interviews include Abel Ferrara, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lance Henriksen, Peter Jackson and John Woo. - Hundreds of cinema & video reviews. - Foreword by Jack Sargeant. Profusely illustrated – with index!
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 9780994411211
ID2: 251

Call No: 120 FAT
Author: Helms, Michael (ed.)
Source: AT
Place: Thornbury, Vic.
Publisher: Fatal Visions
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 248 p: ill. ; 24 cm
Series: LedaTape S (cop a feel) series
Subject: AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "A collection of Fatal Visions, Melbourne's own infamous trash film zine, has congealed into perfect bound format. Proving that dead tree technology has not entirely slipped into a coma this compilation covers the earliest and rarest entries in FVs decade-long publication history" -- back cover.
Notes: Includes index Originally published in serial form beginning 1988 Fatal visions 1035-2740
ISBN: 9781921775666
ID2: 252

Call No: 62 LAW
Author: Lawson, John Howard, 1894
Place: New York
Publisher: Hill and Wang
PubDate: 1964
PhysDes: xx, 380 p., [16] leaves of plates ; 22 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); MAT (RU, Vsevolod I. Pudovkin, 1926)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 361-368
LON: abn83003386; 2387047
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Call No: 441.1 VAU
Author: Vaughn, Stephen
Source: US
Place: New York NY
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xvi, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: CENSORSHIP. USA; RATING FOR FILMS. USA; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; HEFFNER, RICHARD; VALENTI, JACK
Summary: Based on the private papers and oral history of Richard D. Heffner, who headed the Classification and Rating Administration from 1974-1994, this book tells the story of the motion picture rating system and the Motion Picture Association of America under Jack Valenti's leadership. [Taken from book's blurb.]
ISBN: 052167541

Call No: 81HAN SPE
Author: Speck, Oliver C.
Source: US/UK
Place: New York : London
Publisher: Continuum
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: THEORY; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; HANEKE, MICHAEL; BENNY'S VIDEO (AU/SZ, Michael Haneke, 1992); FUNNY GAMES (AT, Michael Haneke, 1997); PIANO TEACHER, THE (AU/FR, Michael Haneke, 2001) SEE PIANISTE, LA; PIANO TEACHER, THE [PIANISTE, LA] (AU/FR, Michael Haneke, 2001); TIME OF THE WOLF, THE (FR/AU/GG, Michael Hanaeke, 2003) SEE TEMPS DU LOUP, LE; TEMPS DU LOUP, LE (FR/AU/GG, Michael Hanaeke, 2003); CACHE (FR/AU/GG/IT, Michael Haneke, 2005); WHITE RIBBON, THE (AU/G/FR/IT, Michael Haneke, 2009) SEE DAS WEISSE BAND - EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE; WEISSE BAND, DAS - EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE (AU/G/FR/IT, Michael Haneke, 2009)
Summary: "Taking its cues from the cinematic innovation of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a polical thinking manifests itself in his work. Funny Frames does justice to the intelligence of Haneke films by exploring the permanent adjustment of the frame of reference in these films: the moment when the "looking at" of the viewer is suddenly revealed to be the "looking with" the perspective of a character. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Oliver C. Speck explores some of Haneke's Deleuzian traits - showing how the theoretical concepts of the virtual, of filmic space and of realism can be useful tools for unlocking the problems that Haneke formulates and solves through filmic means. In the second, Speck discusses a range of topics that appear in all of Haneke's films but that haven't, until now, been fully noticed or analyzed. These chapters demonstrate how Haneke plays the role of "diagnostician of culture," how he reads - for example - madness, suicide and childhood. Like several other contemporary European directors, Haneke addresses topics considered difficult when measures by the standards of commerical cinema: the traumatic effects of violence, racism, and alienation. Funny Frames is an incisive and original contribution to the growing scholarship on one of the most intriguing auteurs of our time. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781441192851
Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: acknowledgments -- photo credits -- Introduction: framing Haneke -- The conceptual frame of reference -- shifting frames -- the frames of narratology -- the truth of the perspective -- anti-cinema and the viewer-- a cinema of cruelty -- A movement through Haneke's oeuvre -- films for television -- Fraulein - ein deutsches Melodram / Fraulein -- Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent -- Benny's Video -- 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance -- Funny Games and Funny Games U.S -- La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher -- Le temps du loup / The Time of the Wolf -- Code inconnu: Recit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown -- Cache -- Das weibe Band: Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte / The White Ribbon -- A marriage of past and present : the overcoming of Fassbinder -- genre and self-reflexivity: dialogue with past images -- framing and re-framing -- quoting from collective memory -- virtual decisions -- Thinking the event : the virtual in Michael Haneke -- A new order: the method of madness -- Self/aggression: violence in films by Michael Haneke -- suicide and politics -- a state of exception -- auto-aggression -- the paradox of the witness -- The moral of the long take -- The funny frame -- Plot reviews -- Drei Wege zum See / Three paths to the lake -- Lemminge, Teil 1 Arkadien / Lemmings, Part 1 Arcadia and Lemminge, Teil 2 Verletzungen / Lemmings, Part 2 Injuries -- variation -- Wer war Edgar Allan ? / Who was Edgar Allan? -- Fraulein : Ein deutsches Melodram / Fraulein -- Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent -- Benny's video -- Die Rebellion / Rebellion -- 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance -- Funny Games and Funny Games U.S. -- Lumiere et compagnie / Lumiere and Company -- Das SchloB nach Franz Kafka / The Castle -- Code inconnu: Recit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown -- La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher -- Le temps du loup / The Time of the Wolf -- Cache / Hidden -- Das weiBe Band : Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte / The White Ribbon -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 81ROM PAF
Author: Paffenroth, Kim
Source: US
Place: Waco, Texas
Publisher: Baylor University Press
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 219 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: USA; HORROR FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV; SOCIAL ISSUES IN FILMS. USA; SOCIETY IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION IN FILMS. USA; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA; ROMERO, GEORGE; SNYDER, ZACK; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1978); DAY OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1985); DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, Zack Snyder, 2004); LAND OF THE DEAD (CN/FR/US, George Romero, 2005)
Summary: "For nearly forty years the zombie films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This rigorous but entertaining study shows how these films use Christian imagery from the Bible and Dante to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, while also giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America that should be heeded by Christian and humanist alike." (Taken from the back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliography, index
ISBN: 9781932792652
Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009

Call No: 730.5 GRA
Author: Atkins, Thomas R., 1939
Place: New York
Publisher: Monarch Press
PubDate: c1976
PhysDes: viii, 96 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; FISHER, TERENCE; HORROR FILMS; WESTERNS. ITALY; FILM NOIR; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Notes: Filmography: p. 95-96
ISBN: 0671081055 : $2.95
LON: 741452

Author: Rowe, David
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS
Summary: Rowe outlines the history of the screen sex and violence debate. He then attempts to distinguish between the representations that treat sex and violence and the representations that sexualise violence.

Call No: 409.5 (51) BER
Author: Berry, Michael
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: c2008
PhysDes: x, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Global Chinese culture
Subject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. CHINA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. CHINA
Summary: "The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity.In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiaso-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively reimagine past horrors and give risen to new historical narratives. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific traumas in modern Chinese history: the Musha Incident (1930), the Rape of Nanjing (1937-38); the February 28th Incident (1947); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Tiananmen Square (1989); and the Handover of Hong Kong (1997). He identifies two primary modes of restaging historical violence: centripetal trauma, or violence inflicted from the outside that inspires a reeexamination of the Chinese nation, and centrifugal trauma, which, originating from within, inspires traumatic narratives that are projected out onto a transnational vision of global dreams and, sometimes, nightmares. These modes allow Berry to connect portrayals of mass violence to ideas of modernity and the nation. He also illuminates the relationship between historical atrocity on a national scale and the pain experienced by the individual; the funtion of film and literature as historical testimony; the intersection between politics and art, history and memory, and the particular advantages of modern media, which have found new means of narrating the burden of historical violence. " -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-408) and index
ISBN: 9780231141628
Contents: Prelude. A history of pain -- 1. Musha 1930 -- 2. Nanjing 1937 -- 3. Taipei 1947 -- 4. Yunnan 1968 -- 5. Beijing 1989 -- Coda. Hong Kong 1997

Call No: 409.1(73) MED
Author: Medved, Michael
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: New York, NY [Grand Rapids, Mich.]
Publisher: HarperCollins Zondervan
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xiii, 386 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; MARRIAGE IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Summary: "Why does popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbates every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index
ISBN: 006016882X
LON: 92052604; 9162681

Call No: 410(73) IDE
Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 209 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY, FILMS FOR; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; RKO; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); JUDGE DREDD (US, Danny Cannon, 1995); MAYTIME (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1937); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990)
ISBN: 0851707386; 0851707394(pbk.)
LON: 20062600 21256904

Call No: 45:179 ILL
Author: Barker, Martin; Petley, Julian
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: x, 171 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE ON TV; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF FILM ON; HORROR FILMS; CHILD'S PLAY [...] (US, 1988-1991)
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0415146720 (hb); 0415146739 (pb)
LON: 12509259

Author: Hanson, Curtis Lee
PhysDes: Article
Subject: PENN, ARTHUR; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CHASE, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1966); LEFT-HANDED GUN, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1958); VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); DIRECTORS. USA
Summary: Interview with filmmaker Arthur Penn, where in the wake of "Bonnie and Clyde", he remarks on claims that his films are 'distinctly American', as well as his influences as a director. Reprinted from "Cinema" with kind permission of the Editor.

Author: Mills, Jane
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; RATING FOR FILMS
Summary: Concerns the debate on censorship and screen violence, and the response of the Australian government.

Author: Turnball, Sue
PhysDes: Book review; Illustration(s)
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP
Summary: A review of "Low means low: the collected papers from the low budget feature seminar", edited by Karl French.

Call No: 512 STE
Author: Stewart, Colin; Lavelle, Marc; Kowaltzke, Adam
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: x, 465 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: MEDIA; AUDIENCES; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE ON TV; MULTIMEDIA; COMPUTER GAMES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ADAPTATIONS; SOAP OPERAS; SITUATION COMEDY; CRIME DRAMAS; ADVERTISING; TALK SHOWS
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0851708439 (pbk)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
Author: -
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979)
Summary: Peter Johnson, Federal MP and Deputy President of the Australian Crime Prevention Council, wants to see Mad Max banned due to its violence

Call No: 44 MIL
Author: Mills, Jane
Source: AT
Place: Annandale, N.S.W
Publisher: Pluto Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: xxv, 255 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS
Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 237-243
ISBN: 1864031425

Call No: 734.1 NAR
Author: Naremore, James
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1998
PhysDes: xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: FILM NOIR; BLACKLISTING. USA; B-MOVIES; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; HERO IN FILMS; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; FILMS IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; DETECTIVE FILMS; SOCIAL-REALISM IN FILMS; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WAR VETERANS IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WASHINGTON, DENZEL; ALDRICH, ROBERT; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; DUNAWAY, FAYE; MUSURACA, NICHOLAS; FRANKLIN, CARL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; GREENE, GRAHAM; HAMMETT, DASHIELL; JACKSON, SAMUEL L.; LADD, ALAN; BLUE DAHLIA, THE (US, George Marshall, 1946); PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947); DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (US, Carl Franklin, 1995); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); MALTESE FALCON, THE (US, John Huston, 1941); OUT OF THE PAST (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and indexes
ISBN: 0520212932 (alk. paper); 0520212940 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 13441055

Call No: 67(04) SIM
Author: Simon, John
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Dell Publishing
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: xiii, 446 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; MUSICALS; FESTIVALS; AWARDS; ADAPTATIONS; BERGMAN, INGMAR; MARAT/SADE (UK, Peter Brook, 1967); TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (IT/US, Franco Zefferelli, 1967); ULYSSES (UK/US, Joseph Strick, 1967); FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (UK, John Schlesinger, 1967); REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (US, John Huston, 1967); VOYNA I MIR (RU, Sergei Bondarchuk, 1968); HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE (US, Robert Ellis Miller, 1968); KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, THE (US, Robert Aldrich, 1968); PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, THE (UK, Ronald Neame, 1968); JUSTINE (US, George Cukor, 1969); TROPIC OF CANCER (US, Joseph Strick, 1969); WOMEN IN LOVE (UK, Ken Russell, 1969); VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY, THE (UK, Christopher Miles, 1970); WAR IS OVER, THE [GUERRE EST FINIE, LA] (FR/SW, Alain Resnais, 1966); DUTCHMAN (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1967); COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (US, Sydney Pollack, 1969); Z (FR/AE, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969); PATTON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970); WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970); REVOLUTIONARY, THE (UK, Paul Williams, 1970); JOE (US, John G. Avildsen, 1970); GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967); ROMEO AND JULIET (UK/IT, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968); YELLOW SUBMARINE (UK, George Dunning, 1968); IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968); THREE IN THE ATTIC (US, Richard Wilson, 1968); LAST SUMMER, THE (US, Frank Perry, 1969); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); ALICE'S RESTAURANT (US, Arthur Penn, 1969); STERILE CUCKOO, THE (US, ALAN J. PAKULA, 1969); MAGIC GARDEN OF STANLEY SWEETHEART, THE (US, Leonard Horn, 1970); LET IT BE (UK, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970); FOX, THE (US, Mark Rydell, 1968); HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH (UK, Clive Donner, 1968); BELLE DE JOUR (FR/IT, Luis Bunuel, 1967); BARBARELLA (FR/IT, Roger Vadim, 1967); PRISONNIERE, LA (FR/IT, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968); TEOREMA (IT, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968); COMING APART (US, Milton Moses Ginsberg, 1970); MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (US, Mike Sarne, 1970); FREEDOM TO LOVE (IT, Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen, 1969); BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (US, Russ Meyer, 1970); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); IN COLD BLOOD (US, Richard Brooks, 1967); TRUE GRIT (US, Henry Hathaway, 1969); BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (US, George Roy Hill, 1969); TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1969); ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968); BRIDE WORE BLACK, THE [MARIEE ETAIT EN NOIR] (FR, Francios Truffaut, 1968); BAISERS VOLES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1968); HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES (FR/IT, Louis Malle & Roger Vadim & Federico Fellini, 1968); SATYRICON (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1969); ZABRISKIE POINT (US, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970); SIRENE DU MISSISSIPPI, LA (FR/IT, Francois Truffaut, 1969); PASSAGER DE LA PLUIE, LE (FR/IT, Rene Clement, 1970); PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966); VARGTIMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1967); SKAMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1968); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); BICHES, LES (FR/IT, Claude Chabrol, 1968); CHAMADE, LA (FR/IT, Alain Cavalier, 1968); FEMME INFIDELE, LA (FR/IT, Claude Chabrol, 1968); SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (UK, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); CHINA IS NEAR [CINA E VICINA, LA] (IT, Marco Bellocchio, 1967); POOR COW (UK, Kenneth Loach, 1967); TANTE ZITA (FR, Robert Enrico, 1968); BULLITT (US, Peter Yates, 1968); FACES (US, John Cassavetes, 1968); HAR HAR DU DITT LIV (SW, Jan Troell, 1966); CSILLAGOSOK, KATONAK (HU, Miklos Jancso, 1967); PUTNEY SWOPE (US, Robert Downey, 1969); DOWNHILL RACER (US, Michael Ritchie, 1969); M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman, 1969); PAINT YOUR WAGON (US, Joshua Logan, 1969); CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967); OLIVER (UK, Carol Reed, 1968); ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1970); HOW I WON THE WAR (UK, Richard Lester, 1967); MIDNIGHT COWBOY (US, John Schlesinger, 1969); PETULIA (US, Richard Lester, 1968); LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968); MAGUS, THE (US, Guy Green, 1968); CANDY (FR/IT/US, Christian Marquand, 1968); [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968); THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE (US, Norman Jewison, 1968); CATCH 22 (US, Mike Nichols, 1970); RACHEL, RACHEL (US, Paul Newman, 1968); CHARLIE BUBBLES (UK, Albert Finney, 1967)
Summary: The author critically analyses a number of films from the period 1967-1970 as a means to show the changes that occured during this time, the historical context of this period and films, and to predict future directions.
Notes: Includes index.
ISBN: 44005880295
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- adaptations -- politics and society -- the youth film -- sex -- the new violence -- declines and pratfalls of major directors -- Ingmar Bergman -- French film in eclipse -- young directors -- is Hollywood going contemporary? -- musicals -- pseudo-art -- the festival and awards game -- critical matters
ID2: 41

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CRIME FILMS. USA
Author: Cawelti, John G.
PhysDes: Article
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; CRIME FILMS. USA
Summary: Essay exploring myths of violence in American film narratives.

Call No: 630.5 STA
Author: Staiger, Janet
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: New York University Press
PubDate: c2000
PhysDes: vi, 242 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; PERCEPTION; AUDIENCES THEORY; AESTHETICS; GENRES; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE, LE (FR, Daniel Vigne, 1982)
Summary: A book on film studies, with interpretation on films using different theories. The history of film is provided and the role media plays in culture and in the world today. Different topics in films are discussed with the descpition of various films that are applied to those certain topics.
ISBN: 081478139X

Call No: 735.21 CRE
Author: Creed, Barbara
Source: AT
Place: Carlton, Vic
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
PubDate: c2005
PhysDes: xix, 232 p. : ill, ports ; 21cm
Subject: CRIMINALS IN FILMS; DRACULA IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FRANKENSTEIN; FREDDY KREUGER IN FILMS; GHOSTS IN FILMS; HORROR FILM; JACK THE RIPPER IN FILMS; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; VAMPIRE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WERWOLVES IN FILMS
Summary: In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity, through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire, mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity, and what it means to a society.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 215-224; Filmography: p.212-214; Includes index
ISBN: 052285172

Call No: 79PIA JON
Author: Jones, Gail
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission: National Film and Sound Archive
Source: Australia
Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: viii, 85 p. : ill. ; 20cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REGIONAL CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN FILMS; SPEECH; ROMANCE IN FILMS; LOVE IN FILMS; SEA IN FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; MOTHERS IN FILMS; CHILDREN IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; SILENCE IN FILMS; EROTICISM IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; JANE CAMPION; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993)
Summary: "When 'The Piano' opened in 1993 it was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece. Written and directed by Jane Campion, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win this prestigious award. It went on to win Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Campion), Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin). "In this thoughtful and perceptive critique, Gail Jones assesses the film's unearthly and controversial visions, its poetic power and its capacity to entrance and to alienate."
Notes: Includes notes, bibliography, filmography, 'The Piano' credits and synopses of other books in the 'Australian Screen Classics' series.
ISBN: 9780868197999

Author: Green, P. H.
PhysDes: Review
Subject: POINT BLANK (US, John Boorman, 1967); BOORMAN, JOHN; MARVIN, LEE; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; GANGSTER FILMS. USA; GANGSTER FILMS; CRIME FILMS; CRIME FILMS. USA; PENN, ARTHUR
Summary: Review of Boorman's "Point Blank" as a tragic gangster film in which the focus is Lee Marvin's character of Walker, as opposed to the action.

Call No: 45:32 SAR
Author: Sarris, Andrew
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP; SEMIOLOGY; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MONROE, MARILYN; MAILER, NORMAN; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; SONTAG, SUSAN; PROMISED LANDS (FR, Susan Sontag, 1974); MON ONCLE ANTOINE (CN, Claude Jutra, 1971); SACCO E VANZETTI (IT/FR, Giuliano Montaldo, 1971); MATTEI AFFAIR, THE [CASO MATTEI, IL] (IT, Francesco Rosi, 1972); DOG DAY AFTERNOON (US, Sidney Lumet, 1975); FRONT, THE (US, Martin Ritt, 1976); LENNY (US, Bob Fosse, 1974); CASO DOS IRMAOS NAVES, O (BL, Luiz Sergio Person, 1967); SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (US, George Roy Hill, 1972); MAN, THE (US, Joseph Sargent, 1972); CANDIDATE, THE (US, Michael Ritchie, 1972); GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974); ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY, THE (UK/FR/IT, Joseph Losey, 1972); ETAT DE SIEGE (FR/IT/GW, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1973); SORROW AND THE PITY, THE [CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE] (FR/GW/SZ, Marcel Ophuls, 1969); HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0231040342
LON: 1221130

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS
Author: Gubar, Susan
PhysDes: Article
Subject: PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS

Call No: 749 HEN
Author: Henry, Claire
Edition: First edition
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: x, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: CRIME IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS; LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972); LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE (US, Dennis Iliadis, 2009); I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (US, Steven R. Monroe, 2010); I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (US, Meir Zarchi, 1978); DESCENT (US, Talia Lugacy, 2007); ACOLYTES (AT, Jon Hewitt, 2007); DEATH PROOF (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2007); SLEEPERS (US, Barry Levinson, 1996); MYSTIC RIVER (US, Clint Eastwood, 2003); KATALIN VARGA (UK/RM, Peter Strickland, 2009); TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (RU, Angelina Nikonova, 2011); PORTRET V SUMERKAKH (RU, Angelina Nikonova, 2011)
Summary: "Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its responses"-- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781137414168
Contents: -- Introduction: Reapproaching Rape-Revenge -- 1. Remaking Rape-Revenge: The Last House on the Left (1972/2009) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978/2010) -- 2. The Postfeminist Trap of Vagina Dentata for the American Teen Castratrice -- 3. Rape, Racism, and Descent into the Ethical Quagmire of Revenge -- 4. The Shame of Male Acolytes: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality Through Rape-Revenge -- 5. Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River -- Conclusion: Challenging the Boundaries of Cinema's Rape-Revenge Genre in Katalin Varga and Twilight Portrait --

Call No: 45:179 SCR
Author: French, Karl
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: vi, 250 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE ON TV; SERIAL KILLERS IN FILMS; CENSORSHIP; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF FILM ON; WATERS, JOHN (US); MCCALLION, JAMES; STONE, OLIVER; EASTWOOD, CLINT; GRISHAM, JOHN; AMIS, MARTIN; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1971); CHILD'S PLAY [...] (US, 1988-1991)
ISBN: 0747525498
LON: abn96397172; 12886978

Author: Kaufman, Tina
PhysDes: Conference report
Subject: CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCES. AUSTRALIA. 1997; BLACKROCK (AT, Steven Vidler, 1997)
Summary: Report on 'Violence, Crime and the Entertainment Media' conference co-hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) focussing on the effect of the rape in "Blackrock".

Call No: 45:179(94) AUS
CorpAuthor: Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies
Place: Canberra
Publisher: {Commonwealth of Australia}
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 106 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Official Hansard Proof; Friday, 29 November 1996

Call No: 730.5 WIL
Author: Wilson, Laura
Source: UK
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke ,Hampshire -- New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SAW II (US, Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005); SAW III (US, Darren Lynn Bousman, 2006); SAW IV (US, Darren Lynn Bousman, 2007); SAW VI (CN/US/UK/AT, Kevin Greutert, 2009); SAW 3D (CN/US, Kevin Greutert, 2010); HOSTEL (US, Eli Roth, 2005); IN MY SKIN [DANS MA PEAU] (FR, Marina de Van, 2002); IRREVERSIBLE (FR, Gaspar Noe, 2002); INSIDE [A' L'INTERIEUR] (FR, Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, 2007); HUMAN CENTIPEDE II, THE: FULL SEQUENCE (US, Tom Six, 2011); HUMAN CENTIPEDE, THE: FIRST SEQUENCE (NE, Tom Six, 2009)
Summary: "Focusing on the representation of mutilation on the screen (the torture porn genre) and the physical responses this evokes - what the author defines as 'physical spectatorship' - this book is organised around the study of a series of dynamic engagements that reconfigure the film-viewer relationship; these include: corporeal mimicry and the cinematic visualisations of mutilation; generalised anxiety and experimental use of sound; and the nausea generated by audio-visual techniques that both signify and locate the filmic gut in the viewer's body. Combining close textual analyses with theoretical approaches, and traversing a number of national cinemas, Wilson draws upon psychoanalytic, phenomenological and feminist theories of film and spectatorship to explore specific aspects of this often overlooked group of films, aspects such as the assault narrative sequence, the use of extreme frequencies, and haptic sounds and images"--
ISBN: 9781137444370
Contents: List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Embodied Voyeurism -- 2. Mutilation as Spectacle -- 3. Representing the Unrepresentable: Self-Harm as Affect -- 4. Extreme Frequencies -- 5. The Gut -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Call No: 44(94) SUB
Source: AT
Place: [North Sydney
Publisher: The Tribunal]
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: 40 leaves ; 30 cm
Subject: CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEX ON TV; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION. AUSTRALIA; RATING FOR TV. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Study of the effects of sex and violence on viewers, particularly children, and the usefulness of the classification system
Contents: Introduction -- Research on the effects of violence -- Public attitudes to televised violence and sex -- Attitudes to censorship -- Summary -- discussion of issues -- comments on the terms of reference -- references

PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; VIDEO, FILMS ON; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; DISTRIBUTION
Summary: Article on new anti-violence video law in Sweden.

Call No: 53 (035): 44 REA
Author: Readman Mark
CorpAuthor: BFI
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 24 cm ; 88 pp
Series: BFI Teaching Film and Media Studies
Subject: CENSORSHIP; BANNED FILMS; TEACHING MATERIALS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; SEX AND THE CINEMA; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA
Summary: This incisive guide provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy. Always a potentially problematic curriculum area, given the nature of the material under examination, the guide offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological importance of, censorship and classification. In addition there are proposed strategies for discussing 'problem films', analysing texts and debating the nature of effects. Contents include: Introduction - assessment contexts, why teach film censorship?, approaches to teaching; background - the historical context, institutions and regulation, controversial issues; case studies - violence, sexual violence, language, press controversy, a debate in action. [Taken from back cover]
ISBN: 1844570797

Call No: 440.25(94) THI
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: The Committee
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xvii, 292 p. ; 25 cm
Series: Parliamentary paper / Parliament of Victoria ; no. 63
Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP. AUSTRALIA; CENSORSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA : VICTORIA; STATE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: A report commissioned by the Parliament of Victoria to deal with strategies against community violence following the Hoddle Street and Queen Street massacres of 1987. It includes a report by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal on the issue of violence on television, as well as investigation into the regulation of film and mass-media which contain violent themes.
ISBN: 0724172491

Call No: 737 GUY
Author: Guynn, William
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: ix, 251 pages; 23 cm
Series: Film and culture
Subject: WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR FILMS; WAR IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; KATYN (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 2007); FILM UNFINISHED, A [SHTIKAT HAARCHION] (IS, Yael Hersonski, 2010); SIBIRIADA (UR, Andrej Mihalkov-Koncalovskij, 1977); ASCENT, THE [VOSKHOZHDENIE] (UR, Larissa Shepitko, 1976); NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT [NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ] (FR/G/CL/SP/US, Patricio Guzman, 2010); S21: THE KHMER ROUGE DEATH MACHINE (CB/FR, Rithy Panh, 2003); ACT OF KILLING, THE (DK/NO/UK, Joshua Oppenheimer, (2012)
Summary: A reading of seven films that depict twentieth century atrocities and exploring the emotional resonance that adheres to traumatic eevnts and the dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched
ISBN: 9780231177962
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction: making experience speak -- Yael Hersonski's A film unfinished (2010) -- Andrzej Wajda's Katyn (2007) -- Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade (2007) -- Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent (1976) -- Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light (2010) -- Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) -- Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing (2012) -- Epilogue

Call No: 730.5(73) SLO
Author: Slocum, David J
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm
Series: AFI film readers
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; FILM NOIR. USA; WESTERNS; ACTION FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; GENOCIDE IN FILMS
Summary: This text is a "discussion of film violence old and new ... consideration of its nature, its effects, and its cinematic, cultural, and historical meaning." (from back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0415928109 (pbk.)

Call No: 412.511 NAT
CorpAuthor: National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
Place: New York
Publisher: National Council of Churches
PubDate: September 1985
PhysDes: 28 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA

Call No: 730.3(73) ALL
Author: Alloway, Lawrence
Edition: 1971
Place: New York
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: 96 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: ACTION FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; KILLERS, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1964); KILLERS, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948); KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955); IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962)
Notes: distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.
ISBN: 9780870706226
Donation: Megan McMurchy

Author: Hosford, Peter
PhysDes: Article
Subject: VIOLENCE IN FILMS; REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski, 1965); POLANSKI, ROMAN; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CHASE, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1966); PENN, ARTHUR; SIEGEL, DON; HELL IS FOR HEROES (US, Don Siegel, 1961); KILLERS, THE (US, Don Siegel, 1964); FULLER, SAMUEL; WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (US, Robert Aldrich, 1962); ALDRICH, ROBERT; KAZAN, ELIA; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); PAWNBROKER, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1964); JAMES BOND IN FILMS
Summary: Essay discusses the importance of cinematic violence in terms of four categories with reference to particular films, acknowledging that violence can be beautiful.

Call No: 620 MOR
Author: Morag, Raya
Source: US/UK
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: FILM; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; THEORY; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; WALTZ WITH BASHIR (IS/G/FR, Ari Forman, 2008)
Summary: "Waltzing with Bashir proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies - the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from the trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, Raya Morag seeks to theorize this still under-studied field thus breaking the repression of this concept and phenomenon in psychoanalysis and in cinema literature. Taking as a point of departure the distinction between testimony given by the victim and confession made by the perpetrator, this pioneering work ventures to define and analyze perpetrator trauma in scholarly, representational, literary, and societal contexts. " -- BOOK JACKET
ISBN: 9781780762647
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- list of illustrations -- preface -- introduction: from victim to perpetrator trauma -- pt. I Victim Trauma -- 1.The Body as the Battlefield -- 2.Chronic Victim Trauma and Terror -- 3.Queerness, Ethnicity, and Terror -- pt. II Perpetrator Trauma -- 4.The New Wave of Documentary Cinema: The Male Perpetrator -- 5.The New Wave of Documentary Cinema: The Female Perpetrator -- 6.The New Wave of Documentary Literature -- conclusion: the perpetrator complex -- notes -- works cited -- further reading -- filmography -- index --