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Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard

Brody,R Brody,R. Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard. [0-8050-6886-4]

Endless night [electronic resource] : cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories / edited by Janet Bergstrom.

. Endless night [electronic resource] : cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories / edited by Janet Bergstrom. 0585266905 (electronic bk.) series Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Call#: Penn Library Web - Endless night [electronic resource]

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/326115

Hollywood studio system : a history / Douglas Gomery.

Gomery, Douglas. . Hollywood studio system : a history / Douglas Gomery. [New ed.]. 1844570649 (pbk.) series London : BFI, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 G585 2005
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 G585 2005

Douglas Gomery divides his book into three historical parts. The first is concerned with ‘The Rise of the Studio System 1915-30' and shows how these businesses were formed and consolidated - during this period the studios ranked thus:

Paramount
Loew's/MGM
Fox
Warner Bros
RKO and the Minors: Universal, Columbia and United Artists.

The second part goes on to cover ‘The Classic Studio Era 1931-51' when the studios were at their apogee producing hundreds of films every year before the threat of declining audiences (because of urbanisation and competition from TV etc). Although the ranking was virtually the same (except that Gomery couples Disney with its distributor RKO and to the minors, and he adds the B-film factories like Republic and Mongram [noted for churning out westerns and serials etc]), this period also saw the sorry demise of RKO- Radio, destroyed by the mismanagement and regrettable taste of the reclusive Howard Hughes who considered the studio to be his play toy.

The last section covers ‘The Modern Hollywood Studio System' and how the studios were taken over by big business including Rupert Murdoch (Twentieth Century Fox) and huge multi-media conglomerates such as Time Warner AOL (Warner Bros) - these businesses even embracing major TV networks. The ranking now being:

Universal
Paramount
Warners
Twentieth Century Fox
Disney
Columbia and Sony Pictures

There are also sections on the Hays Office and the Academy and unions and agents and a chapter on the rise of Lew Wasserman the Hollywood agent who took Universal into the major league of studios and reinvented the studio system.

Film language, a semiotics of the cinema. / Christian Metz

Metz, Christian. . Film language, a semiotics of the cinema. / Translated by Michael Taylor. New York, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995 .M4513

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Meeting movies / Norman N. Holland.

Holland, Norman Norwood, 1927- . Meeting movies / Norman N. Holland. [0838640990 (alk. paper) ] Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995 .H598 2006

Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.

Irwin, John T. . Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin. [0801884357 (acid-free paper) ] Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.D4 I78 2006

Film, politics, and Gramsci / Marcia Landy ; foreword by Paul Bove.

Landy, Marcia, 1931-. Film, politics, and Gramsci / Marcia Landy ; foreword by Paul Bove. [0816623902 (alk. paper)] Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HX289.7.G73 L36 1994

Images in our souls : Cavell, psychoanalysis, and cinema / edited by Joseph H. Smith, William Kerrigan.

[0801835119 (alk. paper)] Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RC321 .P943 v.10

Psychoanalysis and cinema / Stanley Cavell -- Hitchcock's Vertigo / Stanley R. Palombo -- Vertigo / William Rothman -- Witnessing and bearing witness / Robert Winer -- Stanley Cavell and the plight of the ordinary / Timothy Gould -- The shows of violence / Irving Schneider -- Kiss of the spiderwoman / Micheline Klagsbrun Frank -- Ingmar Bergman's Cries and whispers / Bruce H. Sklarew -- Chaplin's The kid / Stephen M. Weissman -- Being doubted, being assured / Karen Hanson

Positif 50 years : selected writings from the French film journal / edited by Michel Ciment and Laurence Kardish.

Positif 50 years : selected writings from the French film journal / edited by Michel Ciment and Laurence Kardish. [0870706888(pbk.) : ] New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993 .P6725 2002

VALKYRIES OVER IRAQ (The trouble with war movies)

"VALKYRIES OVER IRAQ." Harper's [0017-789X] 311.1866 (2005). 65-.

Close up, 1927-1933 : cinema and modernism / edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg, and Laura Marcus.

Close up, 1927-1933 : cinema and modernism / edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg, and Laura Marcus. [0691004625 (hardcover : alk. paper)] Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A1 C63 1998

Close Up, a film journal published in the years between 1927 and 1933, was the first English language journal dedicated to the cinema as an 'art.' It became the vanguard model for a certain type of writing about cinema. Close Up was the site of a range of speculations about film technology (its publication envelops the transition to sound), film style (its critics advocated a variety of national cinemas), and film subject matter (its editors fought against censorship of Soviet films and had a pioneering interest in, what they called, the 'Negro viewpoint' film.) Both critical and theoretical writing in the journal show an abiding concern with the experimental film, alternate forms of exhibition made possible by the cine-club and film-society movement, cinema as an educational tool, and serious theoretical writing (including numerous translations of articles by Eisenstein.) Many of the contributors to Close Up were writers who are known for their literary careers and not for their interest in cinema. Close Up published a strong contingent of literary women writing on cinema--H. D., Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore. The journal also included pieces by a number of prominent psychoanalysts--Hanns Sachs, Barbara Low and the sexologist Havelock Ellis. POOL, the production company which published Close Up, also sponsored several film projects. H. D. and Kenneth Macpherson, the editor-in-chief, worked on at least three film projects together. The most ambitious, a feature-length film Borderline (1930), with Paul Robeson and H. D., displays the influence of Soviet montage theory, theories which Close Up had a central role in transmitting to English-speaking audiences.

Film and theory : an anthology / edited by Robert Stam and Toby Miller.

Film and theory : an anthology / edited by Robert Stam and Toby Miller. [0631206256] Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Rosengarten Reserve PN1994 .F4382 2000

Rosalind Coward "Dennis Potter and the Question of the Television Author"

Chinoise [videorecording] : ou, plutcot aa la chinoise : un film en train de se faire.

The Penn Library's copy of this DVD has English subtitles to a different fim (Henry and June) by mistake