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book		Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No: 71(73) CON Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; SPECTATORSHIP; MEN IN FILMS. USA; MELODRAMA; MUSIC, FILM; SOUND TRACKS; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BLACK CINEMA. USA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; BLOCKBUSTERS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; ACTION FILMS; AUDIENCES; MIRAMAX FILMS; NEW LINE CINEMA; TIME WARNER; VERHOEVEN, PAUL; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; HAMILTON, LINDA; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; ELFMAN, DANNY; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and index ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.) LON: 98005952; 13736490 More info
newspaper article		DVD with the lot in The Age [Green Guide] [Livewire] (26/09/2002) p.1 Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER; DVD RESEARCH FOLDER Author: Zion, Lawrie Subject: DVD, FILMS ON; WIDE-SCREEN; DISTRIBUTION. DVD; WARNER BROS.; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; COLUMBIA TRISTAR; GARRA, MICHELE; PEARL HARBOR (US, Michael Bay, 2001) Summary: Very in depth article on DVDs in Australia and how distributors release different types of DVD in Australia compared to the USA. The author questions whether there is any value in bonus discs. A debate on whether DVD should be sent to rental in a 'vanilla' version and then sold months later with extra discs. Notes: accessed from: Factiva. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC. RMIT University Library. (14 May 2007). Quotations: Too many look at here. More info
book		A history of narrative film / David A. Cook New York: Norton, c1981. Call No: 70 COO Author: Cook, David A Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Norton PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: xxiii, 721 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STAR SYSTEM; EXPRESSIONISM; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; ITALY; NEOREALISM; WAR AND THE CINEMA; FILM NOIR; NOUVELLE VAGUE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; JAPAN; THIRD WORLD; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; USSR; MELIES, GEORGES; PORTER, EDWIN S.; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; Keaton, Buster; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 671-692 ISBN: 0393090221 (pbk.); 0393013707 LON: 1583335 1583335 More info
book		Maximum vision : large-format and special-venue cinema / by Scott McQuire for the Communications Law Centre Woolloomooloo, NSW Brisbane: Australian Film Commission Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, 1999. Call No: 701 MCQ Author: McQuire, Scott CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission; Communications Law Centre (N.S.W.); Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Place: Woolloomooloo, NSW Brisbane Publisher: Australian Film Commission Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 156 p. ; 25 cm Series: Screen industry, culture and policy research series Subject: WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; IMAX; TOTAL FILM AND TELEVISION PTY LTD; GERLACH, PHIL; HARLEY, ROSS; WEILEY, JOHN; TRUMBULL, DOUGLAS Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0642487162 LON: 21421648 More info
book		On the history of film style / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Call No: 62 BOR Author: Bordwell, David Place: Cambridge, Mass. Publisher: Harvard University Press PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: THEORY; EDITING; CAHIERS DU CINEMA; LENSES; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; MONTAGE; REALISM IN FILMS; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; BAZIN, ANDRE; BURCH, NOEL; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE; BARDECHE, MAURICE; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BRASILLACH, ROBERT; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; GUNNING, TOM; KULESOV, LEV; LEENHARDT, ROGER; LUMIERE, LOUIS; WYLER, WILLIAM; MELIES, GEORGES; TOLAND, GREGG; WELLES, ORSON; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0674634284 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674634292 (pbk. : alk. paper) LON: 97004016; 13106257 Contents: 1. The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History -- 2. Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History -- 3. Against the Seventh Art: Andre Bazin and the Dialectical Program -- 4. The Return of Modernism: Noel Burch and the Oppositional Program -- 5. Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs -- 6. Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in Depth More info
journal article		Serving Processes in Montage (September 1967) p.21-28 Author: White, Eric PhysDes: Article Subject: CINERAMA; CINEMASCOPE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; CINEMAS; EXHIBITION; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; EXHIBITION. USA; CINEMAS. USA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS. AUSTRALIA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS. USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: Detailed history of the development of wide-screen systems for filming and exhibition of movies c1950s-. Includes disgrams showing how polarising filters work in 'Natural Vision'. More info
subject clippings file		WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS More info
book		Widescreen worldwide / edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale New Barnet, U.K: John Libbey, c2010. Call No: 701 WID Author: Belton, John (ed.); Hall, Sheldon (ed.); Neale, Steve (ed.) Source: UK Place: New Barnet, U.K Publisher: John Libbey PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: viii, 236 p. : ill. ; 27 cm Subject: WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; CINEMASCOPE; IMAX; PREMINGER, OTTO; Peckinpah, Sam; MANN, ANTHONY Summary: "The essays in this anthology provide a comprehensive portrait of widescreen cinema as an aesthetic and industrial phenomenon from the vantage point of twenty-first century film studies." - Book Blurb Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780861966943 Contents: -- Fox and 50mm film : John Belton -- Standing tall and wide: the selling of VistaVision : Tom Vincent -- IMAX: the Hollywood experience : Paul McDonald -- Cheap but wide: the stylistic exploitation of CinemaScope in black-and-white low-budget American films : Lisa Dombrowski -- Preminger and Peckinpah: seeing and shaping widescreen worlds : John Gibbs and Douglas Pye -- The art of the palpable: composition and staging in the widescreen films of Anthony Mann : Steve Neale -- Alternative versions in the early years of CinemaScope : Sheldon Hall -- Conspicuous consumption: the spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era : Kathrina Glitre -- The scope of their ambition: British independent film production and the widescreen formats in the 1950s : Steve Chibnall -- Before Techniscope: the penetration of foreign widescreen technology in Italy, 1953-59 : Federico Vitella -- Widescreen composition and transnational influence: early anamorphic filmmaking in Japan : Eric Crosby -- Another Shaw production: anamorphic adventures in Hong Kong : David Bordwell -- More info

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