Cinema

Jonathan Walley

chailey — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:04:45 +0000

As part of the Cinema department’s Visiting Artist series, Jonathan Walley will be giving lecture on Tuesday, April 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 6. Walley is a professor of Cinema at Denison University, specializing in experimental and avant-garde film. He focuses in particular on “expanded cinema” (multi-screen works, film-based performance, film/video installation, paracinema, etc.) The Libraries own a book with contributions by Professor Walley, listed below.

Anthony McCall: the solid light films and related works, with texts by Branden W. Joseph and Jonathan Walley ; edited by Christopher Eamon. Fine Arts N6797.M335 J67 2005

Roger Ebert

chailey — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:53:52 +0000

Roger Ebert, famed film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, the television shows, Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert At the Movies, (among others), founder of the Ebertfest film festival, author of numerous books, blog writer, and co-writer of the the camp classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, died last week. Ebert had a huge impact on popular film criticism. The Libraries have many of Ebert’s works. A selection is listed below.

Life itself: a memoir, by Roger Ebert. Fine Arts PN1998.3.E327 A3 2011

Roger Ebert’s four star reviews, 1967-2007, by Roger Ebert. Special Collections Rogg Collection PN1995 .E3175 2007

Your movie sucks, by Roger Ebert. Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1995 .E319 2007

Awake in the dark: the best of Roger Ebert ; forty years of reviews, essays, and interviews, by Roger Ebert. Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1995 .E313 2006

Roger Ebert’s book of film, edited by Roger Ebert. Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1994 .R5625 1997

I hated, hated, hated this movie, by Roger Ebert. Special Collections Rogg Collection PN1995 .E317 2000

Kid With a Bike

chailey — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:39:32 +0000

The Dardenne brothers’ (Luc & Jean-Pierre) 2011 film, Kid With a Bike will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday, Nov. 9 and 11, in LH-6 as part of the Harpur Cinema film series. The Friday showing will be introduced by Professor Chantal Rodais. Inspired, in part, by the famous Italian neo-realism film The Bicycle Thieves, the plot centers around a boy searching for his stolen bicycle, who longs to find the father who abandoned him. The Libraries have several works by and about the Dardenne brothers, listed below.

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, by Joseph Mai. Library Annex Restricted Collection PN1998.3.D364 M35 2010

La promesse, by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Newcomb Reading Room(Bartle) Circulation Desk (VHS) PN1997 .P765 1998

New Cinema Books

chailey — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:54:27 +0000

De-westernizing film studies, edited by Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee. Fine Arts PN1995 .D494 2012

French cinema from the liberation to the New Wave, 1945-1958, by Andre ́Bazin ; translated and edited by Bert Cardullo. Fine Arts PN1993.5.F7 B3413 2012

Peckinpah today : new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah, edited with an introduction by Michael Bliss. Fine Arts PN1998.3.P43 P46 2012

Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy : the last masterpiece, by Raymond Foery. Fine Arts PN1997.F7442 F64 2012

Glorious catastrophe : Jack Smith, performance and visual culture, by Dominic Johnson. Fine Arts PN1998.3.S586 J6 2012

Contemporary black american cinema : race, gender and sexuality at the movies, edited by Mia Mask. Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 C59 2012

The avant-garde feature film : a critical history, by William E. B. Verrone. Fine Arts PN1995.9.E96 V48 2012

History on film/film on history, by Robert A. Rosenstone. Fine Arts Collection PN1995.2 .R667 2012

American Politics and Film

chailey — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:06:12 +0000

American film has a long history of portraying elections, Presidents, and politics in general. To inaugurate the final stages of this election season, here is a selected list of books from the Libraries’ holdings.

Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era by Douglas Kellner. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 K45 2010

Encyclopedia of politics, the media, and popular culture by Brian Cogan and Tony Kelso. Bartle P95.82.U6 C62 2009

Politics and film : the political culture of film in the United States by Daniel P. Franklin. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 F73 2006

Projecting politics : political messages in American film by Terry Christensen and Peter J. Haas. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 C47 2005

American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr edited by Philip John Davies and Paul Wells. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 A48 2002

Hollywood modernism : film and politics in the age of the New Deal by Saverio Giovacchini. Fine Arts Collection PN1993.5.U65 G552 2001

Here’s looking at you : Hollywood, film, and politics by Ernest Giglio. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 G56 2000

Politics and politicians in American film by Phillip L. Gianos. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P6 G53 1998

Chris Marker

chailey — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:19:59 +0000

Famed French filmmaker and multimedia artist Chris Marker (born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve) died this week at the age of 91. Marker’s work included La Jetee (inspiration for the film 12 Monkeys), San Soleil, and A Grin Without a Cat. His work had a huge impact on experimental film and documentaries. In addition to film, he worked with video installations, the internet, and other forms of technology. A few works by and about Chris Marker are listed below.

DVD

A Grin without a cat Newcomb Reading Room (DVD) – D849 .G75 2009

La jetée ; Sans soleil Newcomb Reading Room (DVD) PN1997 .J482 2007

Books & CD-ROM

Immemory : a cd-rom by Chris Marker. Fine Arts TR646.F72 P3345 2002

Chris Marker, La jetée by Janet Harbord. Fine Arts PN1997.J444 H37 2009

Chris Marker by Sarah Cooper. Fine Arts PN1998.3.M33887 C66 2008

Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter. Fine Arts PN1998.3.M366 A48 2006

New Cinema Books

chailey — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:17:44 +0000

Recent acquisitions

Southeast Asian independent cinema : essays, documents, interviews edited by Tilman Baumgärtel. Fine Arts PN1995.9.I457 S68 2012

Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film by Matthew Boswell. PN56.H55 B67 2012

World cinema and the visual arts edited by David Gallagher. Fine Arts PN1995.25 .W67 2012

Bollywood travels : culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema by Rajinder Dudrah. Fine Arts PN1993.5.I8 D85 2012

The film encyclopedia : the complete guide to film and the film industry by Ephraim Katz, with Ronald Dean Nolen. Bartle Library Reference PN1993.45 .K34 2012

Inception and philosophy: because it’s never just a dream edited by David Johnson. e-book

Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium : narrative analyses and gender politics by Ya-chen Chen. Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1995.9.H3 C54 2012

Ken Jacob part of Cinema’s Spring Visiting Artists Series

chailey — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:39:18 +0000

The Cinema Department will present Ken Jacobs as part of its spring visiting artists series on Tuesday, April 24. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature a film showing at 7:30 p.m. in LH-6. An informal discussion by the video artist about the film will follow each screening. Jacobs is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Cinema Department. The Libraries have a number of works both by and about Professor Jacob. A selected list is below:

DVD & VHS

New York ghetto fishmarket 1903 Newcomb Reading Room Circulation Desk (DVD) PN1995.9.E96 N496 2007

Celestial subway lines: salvaging noise Newcomb Reading Room Circulation Desk (DVD) PN1995.9.E96 C45 2005

Tom, Tom the piper’s son Newcomb Reading Room Circulation Desk (VHS) PN1995.75 .T66 2002

Books

Optic antics : the amazing cinema of Ken Jacobs edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, and Paul Arthur. Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1998.3.J2655 O58 2010

Ken Jacobs : interview by Lindley Hanlon. Special Collections Rogg Collection PN1998.3.J266 H36 1979

Wild Grass

chailey — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:20:46 +0000

Alain Resnais’ 2009 film, Wild Grass will be shown on campus April 20 & 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 6, as part of the Harpur Cinema film series. The Friday showing will be introduced by Professor Vincent Grenier of the Cinema Department. Wild Grass is the romantic story of Georges, Marguerite, and the vagaries of fate brought on by a lost wallet. It won a special award at the Cannes Film Festival. Other famed films by Resnais include the holocaust documentary, Night and Fog, Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Mon Oncle D’Amerique. The Libraries own a number of DVD and books by and about Alain Resnais. Some are listed below.

Books

Uncovering the Holocaust : the international reception of Night and fog Fine Arts PN1995.9.H53 U53 2006

Alain Resnais Fine Arts PN1998.3.R48 W55 2006

Arts of impoverishment : Beckett, Rothko, Resnais Fine Arts NX456 .B48 1993

Nuit et brouillard by Alain Resnais : on the making, reception and functions of a major documentary film Fine Arts PN1995.9.H53 R38 1987

The film narratives of Alain Resnais Fine Arts Collection PN1998.A3 R4823 1981

DVD

Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog Newcomb Reading Room(Bartle) Circulation Desk (DVD) D805.G3 N84 2003

Hiroshima mon amour Newcomb Reading Room(Bartle) Circulation Desk (DVD) PN1997 .H57 2003

L’année dernière à Marienbad = Last year at Marienbad Newcomb Reading Room(Bartle) Circulation Desk (DVD) – PN1997 .A44 1999

New Cinema Books

chailey — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:11:42 +0000

Recent acquisitions.

Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir by Gene D. Phillips. Fine Arts PN1995.9.F54 P475 2012

Science fiction film, television, and adaptation : across the screens edited by J.P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay. Fine Arts PN1997.85 .S38 2012

Picturing Tolkien : essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the rings film trilogy edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny. Fine Arts PN1995.9.L58 P53 2011

New Argentine cinema by Jens Andermann. Fine Arts PN1993.5.A7 A53 2012

Camera historica : the century in cinema by Antoine de Baecque ; translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. Fine Arts PN1995.2 .B3313 2012

Screening the unwatchable : spaces of negation in post-millennial art cinema by Asbjørn Grønstad. Fine Arts PN1995.9.P7828 G76 2012

Uneven modernity : literature, film, and intellectual discourse in postsocialist China by Haomin Gong. PL2273 .G66 2012