The world of King Arthur

Introduction: Who Was Arthur? -- Arthur, Myth and Reality Sources of Evidence An Outline History Background: Britons and Romans -- Prehistoric Britain Iron Age Roman Conquest of Britain Coming of Christianity Late Roman Britain Age of Arthur (Ad 400-600) -- Tyrants and the End of Roman Britain Historical Evidence Inscriptions Archaeological Evidence Peoples of Post-Roman Britain Britons Picts Irish Saxons Chronicles of the Britons -- Patrick and Gildas Welsh Annals History of the Britons Geoffrey of Monmouth Legends of the Britons -- Pseudo-Chronicles Welsh Tradition Breton Material French Romances Perceval-Grail Tradition Tristan Tradition Arthurian Tradition and the Medieval World Late Medieval English Tradition Monarchy, Chivalry and the Return of Arthur -- Plantagenets Tudors and the Stuarts Victorian Revival Quest for Camelot -- Historical Arthur Merlin and Myrddin In Search of the Holy Grail Conclusion: An Age of Arthur -- Modern Arthurian Fiction Arthurian Films and Television Arthurian Music Once and Future King Story of Arthur -- Isle of the Mighty Birth of Arthur Arthur, Leader of Battles Knights of the Round Table Beguiling of Merlin Lancelot and Guinevere Quest for the Holy Grail Tristan and Isolde Lady of Shalott Battle of Camlann Isle of Avalon

Films that work : industrial film and the productivity of media

Film culture in transition

Film culture in transition.

Navigating the Archive -- Archives and Archaeologies: The Place of Non-Fiction Film in Contemporary Media / Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization: Industrial Organization and Film / Vernacular Archiving: An Interview with Rick Prelinger / Visuality and Efficiency -- Early Industrial Moving Pictures in Germany / Layers of Cheese: Generic Overlap in Early Non-Fiction Films on Production Processes / Images of Efficiency: The Films of Frank B. Gilbreth / "What Hollywood Is to America, the Corporate Film Is to Switzerland": Remarks on Industrial Film as Utility Film / Poussieres: Writing the Real vs. the Documentary Real / Thermodynamic Kitsch: Computing in German Industrial Films, 1928/1963 / Films and Factories -- Touring as a Cultural Technique: Visitor Films and Autostadt Wolfsburg / Corporate Films of Industrial Work: Renault (1916-1939) / Filming Work on Behalf of the Automobile Firm: The Case of Renault (1950-2002) / Eccentricity, Education and the Evolution of Corporate Speech: Jam Handy and His Organization / Centron, an Industrial/Educational Film Studio, 1947-1981: A Microhistory / Films from Beyond the Well: A Historical Overview of Shell Films 243 / See, Learn, Control -- Personnel Is Political: Voice and Citizenship in Affirmative-Action Videos in the Bell System, 1970-1984 / Behaviorism, Animation, and Effective Cinema: The McGraw-Hill INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT Film Series and the Visual Culture of Management

Cecil B. DeMille and American culture : the silent era

The Lasky Company and Highbrow Culture: Authorship versus Intertextuality -- The Consumption of Culture: Highbrow versus Lowbrow -- Texts and Intertexts: A Question of Authorship -- Geraldine Farrar: A Diva Comes to Hollywood -- Critical Discourses -- Film: The New Democratic Art -- Self-Theatricalization in Victorian Pictorial Dramaturgy: What's His Name -- Melodrama as a Middle-Class Sermon -- A Genteel Audience: Rewriting Domestic Melodrama -- Character versus Personality: What's His Name -- The Lower East Side as Spectacle: Class and Ethnicity in the Urban Landscape -- Representations of the City: Artificial or Romantic Realism -- Social Ills and Comic Relief: The Chimmie Fadden Series -- A Tour of the Lower East Side: Kindling -- Cinderella of the Slums: The Dream Girl -- The Screen as Display Window: Constructing the "New Woman" -- The "New Woman" as a Consumer -- Cinderella on the Lower East Side: The Golden Chance -- The "New Woman" versus the New Immigrant: The Cheat -- The Sentimental Heroine versus the "New Woman": The Heart of Nora Flynn -- The Historical Epic and Progressive Era Civic Pageantry: Joan the Woman -- A Usable Past: Civic Pageants as Historical Representation -- Representations and the Body Politic: Joan the Woman -- Discourse on Femininity: Joan of Are as a Symbol of Gender Conflict -- Critical Discourses: Gender and the Moral Lesson of History -- Set and Costume Design as Spectacle in a Consumer Culture: The Early Jazz Age Films -- DeMille's "Second Epoch."

New approaches to teaching folk and fairy tales

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on teaching folklore and fairy tales in higher education / Fantastic environments : mapping fairy tales, folklore, and the otherworld. Fairy tales, myth, and fantasy / Teaching fairy tales in folklore classes / At the bottom of a well : teaching the otherworld as a folktale environment / Sociopolitical and cultural approaches to teaching canonical fairy tales. The fairy-tale forest as memory site : romantic imagination, cultural construction, and a hybrid approach to teaching the Grimms' fairy tales and the environment / Grimms' fairy tales in a political context : teaching East German fairy-tale films / Teaching Charles Perrault's Histoires, ou, contes du temps passé in the literary and historical context of the Sun King's reign / Lessons from Shahrazad : teaching about cultural dialogism / Decoding fairy-tales semantics : analyses of translation issues, linguistics, and symbolisms. The significance of translation / Giambattista Basile's The tale of tales in the hands of the Brothers Grimm / Teaching Hans Christian Andersen's tales : a linguistic approach / Teaching symbolism in "Little Red Riding Hood" / Classical tales through the gendered lens : cinematic adaptations in the traditional classroom and online. Binary outlaws : queering the classical tale in François Ozon's Criminal lovers and Catherine Breillat's The sleeping beauty / Teaching "Gender in fairy tale films and cinematic folklore" online : negotiating between needs and wants / Intertextuality, creativity, and sexuality : group exercises in the fairy-tale/gender studies classroom

Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories

Remaking home movies / The human studies film achives, Smithsonian Institution / Wittgenstein tractactus : personal reflections on home movies / La filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico / Ordinary film : Péter Forgác's The maelstrom / The imperial war museum film and video archive / 90 miles : the politics and aethetics of personal documentary / The Florida moving image archive / Something strong within : a visual essay / Something strong within as historical memory / The moving image archive of the Japanese American National Museum / The home movie and the National Film Registry : The story of topaz / The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute / Home away from home : private films from the Dutch East Indies / The library of congress / Deteriorating memories : blurring fact and fiction in home movies in India / The movie queen : Northeast historic film / The WPA film library / Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta / The academy film archive / "As if by magic" : authority, aesthetics, and visions of the workplace in home movies, circa 1931-1949 / The New Zealand film archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua / Working people, topical rims, and home movies : the case of the North West Film Archive / The Oregon State Historical Society's moving image archives / Reflections on the family home movie as document : a semio-pragmatic approach / The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive / Morphing history into histories : from amateur film to the archive of the future

Women and film : both sides of the camera

The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema: Is the gaze male? -- Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936) -- Fetishism and the repression of motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932) -- The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946) -- Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- The independent feminist film: The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA -- Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972) -- Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane (The German sisters) (1981) -- The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of performers and Film about a woman who... (1972-4) -- The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971-81) -- The avant-garde theory film: three case studies from Britain and the USA: Sigmund Freud's Dora (1979), Thriller (1979), Mulvey/Wollen's Amy! (1980) -- Mothers and daughters in two recent women's films: Mulvey/Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1976) and Michelle Citron's Daughter-rite (1978) -- The woman director in the Third World: Sara Gomez's One way or another (1974) -- The future of the independent feminist film: strategies, production, exhibition, and distribution in the USA -- Motherhood and patriarchal discourse.

The couch and the silver screen : psychoanalytic reflections on European cinema

The new library of psychoanalysis ;

New library of psychoanalysis ;

Foreword / Introduction / Inner and outer worlds of the filmmaker's temporary social structure / One in the eye from Sam: Samuel Beckett's Film (1964) and his contribution to our vision in theatre, cinema and psychoanalysis / WORKING THROUGH TRAUMA -- Sons and fathers: a room of their own -- Nanni Moretti's The son's room (2001) / Witness and persecution in two short films: Miguel Sapochnik's The dreamer (2001) and Lindy Heymann's Kissing Buba (2001) / Post-postmodern Walkyrie: psychoanalytic considerations on Tom Tykwer's Run, Lola, run (1998) / Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (1998): an attempt to avoid madness through denunciation / István Szabó's Sunshine (1999): the cinematic representation of historical and familial trauma / Notes on the relevance of psychoanalytic theory to Euro-horror cinema / Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985): a psychoanalytic perspective on the 'horror film' genre and adolescent development / Freedom through re-introjection: a Kleinian perspective on Dominik Moll's Harry: he's here to help (2000) / Cinema, horror and the abominations of hell: Carl-Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1931) and Lucio Fulci's The beyond (1981) / Narratives and documentaries: an encounter with Michael Apted and his films / Cinematic dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's Wild strawberries (1957) / Film as an abreaction of totalitarianism: Vinko Brešan's Marshal Tito's spirit (1999) / Documentary directors and their protagonists: a transferential / countertransferential relationship? Timna Rosenheimer's Fortuna (2000) and Michael Aviad's Ever shot anyone? (1995) / Filming psychoanalysis: feature or documentary? Two contributions

European cinema : face to face with Hollywood

Film culture in transition

Film culture in transition.

Introduction -- European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility? [2005] -- National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions -- European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood [1994] -- ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries [2005] -- Film Festival Networks: the New Topographies of Cinema in Europe [2005] -- Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990s [2005] -- Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference -- Ingmar Berman -- Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco [1994] -- Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found [1985] -- Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse [1992] -- Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light [1996] -- The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken [2004] Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel [1992] -- Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980s [1987] -- Europe-Hollywood-Europe -- Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles [1975] -- Raoul Ruiz's Hypothese du Tableau Vole [1984] -- Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema [1984] -- "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man [2003] -- British Television in the 1980s Through The Looking Glass [1990] -- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror [2003] -- Central Europe Looking West -- Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator [1968] -- Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf [2001] -- Under Western Eyes: Who Does Zizek Want? [1995] -- Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land [2003] -- Europe Haunted by History and Empire -- Is History an Old Movie? [1986] -- Edgar Reitz' Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood [1985] -- Discourse and History: One Man's War -- An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky [1984] -- Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes [1989] -- Joseph Losey's The Go-Between [1972] -- Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen [1988] -- Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport -- Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death [1987] -- Andy Engel's Melancholia [1989] -- On the High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky's Dutch Adventure [1983] -- Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra [1972] -- Ruy Guerra's Erendira [1986] -- Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema Between Hollywood and Art Cinema [1992].

Alaska at war

Alaska at war [DVD]

Alaska classics

Alaska classics.

Alaska at war [videorecording]

After silence [videorecording]

Civil rights and the Japanese American experience