New DVDs June/July/August/September 2013 - Part three

Amateur (1994) Dir: Hal Hartley ; starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donnovan, Elina Lowensohn and Damien Young.

A field in England (2013) Dir: Ben Wheatley ; starring Julian Barrat, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Ryan Pope, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley. - A psychedelic vision of the English Civil War.

The getaway (1972) Dir: Sam peckinpah ; starring  Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson and Sally Struthers.

The Hal Hartley Collection - Trust, Harry Fool and The girl from Monday (1990, 1997 and 2005) Dir: Hal Hartley ; starring Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, John Mackay, Edie Falco (Trust) - Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzgerald (The girl from Monday) -Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter (Henry Fool).

I spit on your grave (1978) Dir: Meir Zarchi ; Starring Camille Keaton, Ebon Taylor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nichols and Gunter Kleeman.

In the shadow of the moon (2006) Dir: David Sington ; featuring Buzz Aldrin.


Journey to the center of the earth (1959) Dir: Henry Levin ; starring Pat Boone and James Mason.

Straw dogs (1971) Dir: Sam Peckinpah ; starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.

The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) Dir: Tobe Hunter ; starring Marilyn Burns and Gunnar Hansen.

Trashed (2013) Dir: Candida Brady ; starring Jeremy Irons - documentary investigating the environmental impact of the things we throw away.

Unforgiven (1992) Dir: Clint Eastwood ; starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris

The wild bunch (1969) Dir: Sam Peckinpah ; starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine.

New DVDs June/July/August/September 2013 - Part two

The day of the Triffids (1981) Dir: Ken Hannam ; starring John Duttine, Emma Relph and Maurice Colbourne. Six episodes originally broadcast by the BBC 10 September - 15 October 1981.

Django unchained (2012) Dir: Quentin Tarantino ; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz. 

The definitive Ealing Studios collection : volumes one to four (1940/50s) Directors include: Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick and Charles Frend ; featuring Googie Withers, Michael Redgrave, Alec Guiness and many other well known British character actors.

Here's a health to the Barley Mow : a century of folk customs and ancient rural games / compiled by British Film Institute. An idiosyncratic and highly entertaining collection of 44 startling short films, poetic documentaries, long-unseen TV reports and rare silent film footage all celebrating the traditional folk customs, songs, dances and games of Great Britain. This double-disc set of newly remastered films is accompanied by an illustrated booklet including detailed notes and essays by folk historians.

Lincoln (2012) Dir: Steven Spielberg ; starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

Senna (2010) Dir: Asif Kapadia ; featuring Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

Shadows of progress : documentary film in post-war britain 1951-1977 (1950-70s) Dir: John Krish. Et al. A collection of post-war documentaries commissioned by private industry, government departments, commercial sponsors and independent charities.

The warrior (2001) Dir: Asif Kapadia ; featuring Ifffan Khan and Puru Chibber.

Zardoz (1974) Dir: John Boorman ; starring Sean Conner and Charlotte Rampling.

Themes & movements : art & ideas

New titles in the series received September 2013:

Kuenzli, Rudolf E., (ed). (2011) Dada. London: Phaidon.










Shanken, Edward A., (ed). (2009) Art and electronic media. London: Phaidon

The Film Craft series : books for budding film makers

Received September 2013:

Chang, Justin. (2012) Editing. Lewes: Ilex.

Gierson, Tim. (2013) Screenwriting. Lewes: Ilex.

Goodridge, Mike. (2012) Directing. Lewes: Ilex

Goodbridge, Mike. (2012) Cinematography. Lewes: Ilex.

Halligan, Fionnuala. (2012) Production design. Lewes: Ilex.

Macnab, Geoffrey., and Swart, Sharon. (2012) Producing. Lewes: Ilex.

Already in stock:

Landis, Deborah Nadoolman. (2012) Costume design. Lewes: Ilex.

Costume & the silver screen : dressing Hollywood

Received August/September 2013 for Costume Production students:

Finler, Joel W. (2012) Hollywood movie stills : art and technique in the golden age of the studios. London: Titan.

Head, Edith. (2009) Edith Head's Hollywood. Santa Monica: Angel City.

Marsh, June. (2013) Audrey Hepburn in hats. London: Reel Art.

Landis, Deborah Nadoolman., (ed). (2012) Hollywood costume. London: V&A.

Landis, Deborah Nadoolman. (2012) Hollywood sketchbook : a century of costume illustration. New York: Harper Design.

Young, Caroline. (2012) Classic Hollywood style. London: Frances Lincoln.

New DVDs June/July/August/September 2013 - Part one

Around the world in eighty days (1956) Dir: Michael Anderson ; starring Noel Coward, John Gielgud and Trevor Howard.

Childrens Film Foundation - The race is on: Soapbox derby / The sky-bike / Sammy's super t-shirt (1957, 1967 and 1978) Dir: Charles Frend, Darcy Conyers and Jeremy Summers ; starring, a very young, Michael Crawford

Childrens Film Foundation - London tales : The salvage gang / Operation third form / Night ferry (1958, 1966 and 1976) Dir: John Krish and David Eady ; starring Bernard Cribbins and Frazer Hines. 

Childrens Film Foundation - Weird adventures : The monster of Highgate ponds / The boy who turned yellow / A hitch in time (1961, 1972 and 1978) Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Michael Powell and Jan Darnley-Smith ; starring Patrick Troughton.

The counterfeiters (2007) Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky ; starring Karl Markovics and August Diehl.

Elephant (2003) Written and directed by Gus Van Sant ; starring Alex Frost, Eric Deulen and John Robinson.



The Lacey rituals : films by Bruce Lacey (and friends) (1951-2002) Dir: Bruce Lacey, et al ; written by and starring Bruce Lacey, et al.

Last days (2005) Written and directed by Gus Van Sant ; starring Michael Pitt and Lukas Haas.

Nathan Barley: Series 1 (2005) Dir: Christopher Morris ; written by Charlie Brooker and Christopher Morris ; starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Claire Keelan, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding.

Paranoid park (2007) Dir: Gus Van Sant ; starring Gabe Nevins and Taylor Momsen.

They live (1988) Dir: John Carpenter ; starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster.

Voyage to the bottom of the sea (1953) Dir: Irwin Allen ; starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine.

W. S. Burroughs cut-up films (1963-1973) Dir: Antony Balch ; written by William S. Burroughs ; starring William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Alexander Trocchi, and Antony Balch. - Burroughs and his friend's 'home movies' in London, Paris and Tangiers

20,000 leagues under the sea (1954) Dir: Richard Fleischer ; starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Peter Lorre.

Additional journals for Costume and Fashion students

There is one brand new title:

Theatre Notebook : a journal of the history and technique of the British theatre - "interprets theatre widely covering theatrical activities inside and outside theatre buildings, professional and amateur theatre, the business of theatre, stage design, the history of theatre buildings, acting technique, and theatre outside the British Isles that relates directly to the history and technique of British theatre." - From The Society for Theatre Research's website.






And we have also taken out new subscriptions to three old favourites:

Costume : the journal of the Costume Society - which "publishes articles that are primarily object-based, from a broad chronological period and with a worldwide remit; it maintains a balance between practice and theory and concentrates on the social significance of dress." -From the Costume Society's website.

Fashion practice : the Journal of design, creative process & the fashion industry - "is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to cover the full range of contemporary design and manufacture within the context of the fashion industry. Design processes and new technologies fuel the most vibrant areas of fashion practice and commerce today, yet they have been largely ignored by scholarship." - From the publishers website.

Fashion theory : the journal of dress, body & culture - "takes as its starting point a definition of ‘fashion’ as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses has been well established in a number of disciplines. Until Fashion Theory’s launch in 1997 the dressed body had suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing." - From the publishers website.

Remember: current issues of journals are not for loan but you can borrow back issues on a one day loan.

Documents of contemporary art - new(ish) titles in the series recently received

"The Documents of Contemporary Art are a series of anthologies co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Edited and introduced by a scholar, artist, critic or curator, each of these sourcebooks provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence to contemporary art internationally." - More information on the series is available from the Whitechapel Gallery website - to see which titles in the series we have on the shelves click here:

Farr, Ian., (ed). (2012) Memory. London : Cambridge, Mass.: Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press.

Kelly, Caleb., (ed). (2012) Sound. London : Cambridge, Mass.: Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press.

Lepecki, Andre., (ed). (2011) Dance. London : Cambridge, Mass.: Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press.

Lind, Maria., (ed). (2013) Abstraction. London : Cambridge, Mass.: Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press.

Stallabrass, Julian., (ed). (2013) Documentary. London : Cambridge, Mass.: Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press.

Newly arrived DVDs of special interest to Costume and Fashion students

Loads of costume/style ideas in:

Bright young things (2003) Dir: Stephen Fry ; starring Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Jim Carter Stockard Channing, Richard E. Grant, David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Peter O'Toole and Imelda Staunton.

Coco before Chanel (2009) Dir: Anne Fontaine ; starring Audrey Tautou.

The great Gatsby (2000) Dir: Robert Markowitz ; TV movie starring Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd.

J. Edgar (2012) Dir: Clint Eastwood ; starring Leonardo DiCaprio,
Naomi Watts and Judi Dench.

Much ado about nothing (1993) Dir: Kenneth Brannagh ; starring Richard Briers, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton and Kate Beckinsale.

The talented Mr Ripley (1999) Dir: Anthony Mighella ; starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett.

Thoroughly modern Millie (1967) Dir: George Roy Hill ; starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing.

Recent (ish) publications from the British Film Institute on society, culture and trash cinema

Over the summer we received the following new, or recent, titles published by the British Film Institute (BFI):

Balio, Tino. (2013) Hollywood in the new millenium. 
Basingstoke ; London: Palgave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute.

Duguid, Mark., et al., (ed). (2012) Ealing Revisited. Basingstoke ; London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012. 

Grainge, Paul. (2011) Ephemeral media : transitory screen culture from television to YouTube. Basingstoke ; London: Palgave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute.

Hunter, I. Q. (2013) British trash cinema. Basingstoke ; London: Palgave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute.

Utterson, Andrew. (2011) From IBM to MGM : cinema at the dawn of the digital age. Basingstoke ; London: Palgave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute.

Wood, Helen., and Skeggs, Beverley., (ed). (2011) Reality television and class. Basingstoke ; London: Palgave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute.



Also received recently: although not published by the BFI, this is a useful supplement to Hunter's British trash cinema - read both and you will become an expert on a sleazier, 'nastier' and downright sillier side of British cinema, which is often ignored by the mainstream - this isn't Ealing:

Upton, Julian., (ed). (2013) Offbeat : British cinema's curiosities, obscurities and forgotten gems. London: Headpress.