[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library - Film and Television...Discuss!

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature Department at
Cleveland Public Library highlights several books on the
deeper meanings behind movies and television shows.
The Literature Department is located on the second
floor of the Main Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth
Street and Superior Avenue. Click on the link provided to
access the library=92s catalog to reserve any of these titles.
For more information, visit our location, call 216-623-2881,
or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94


The Cinema Effect.
Sean Cubitt.
The MIT Press, 2004.
(PN1995 .C77 2004)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0262033127
(Link includes summary and table of contents)
"It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this
highly original examination of time in film, Sean Cubitt tries
to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images
and sounds that don't quite align with reality." -- from inside front=
 cover


Law and Justice as Seen on TV.
Elayne Rapping.
New York University Press, 2003.
(PN1992.8.J87 R37 2003)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0814775616
(Link includes a table of contents)
Examines the broad implications of the social and cultural
trend of law-related television programming, both fiction
and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised
trials as major media events.=20


Plato and Popcorn: A Philosopher's Guide
to 75 Thought-Provoking Movies.
William G. Smith.
McFarland, 2004.
(PN1997.8 .S63 2004)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0786418788
"Many believe there is nothing like seeing a good movie, one
that is enjoyable both in itself and for the thought processes
it stimulates...this handbook functions as a guide to watching
and reflecting upon 75 great films."


Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Fi=
lm.
Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi.
(PN1995.9.M56 X56 2003)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0870817256
(Link includes a summary and table of contents)
" Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how v=
ideo and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction=
 that--in dialogue with other potential forms of difference--is subje=
ct to political contestation." -- from the back cover

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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org