Summer support sessions for Dissertation!

Are you second year student? Have you been given your dissertation assignment brief? Not sure where to start?

Don't worry!

The Study Zone and Library are running dissertation support sessions this summer, in July and August, to help you feel prepared to do your dissertation research project.

Book of the week - November 13th.

Surrealism, Occultism and Politics In Search of the Marvellous - Studies in Surrealism

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This week's book of the week features an essay by Plymouth College of Art Dean for Media, Judith Noble, where she discusses the work of Maya Deren. 

Examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses.

Spooky New Titles.

The library has taken stock of several spooky new titles and put on a ghoulish display to celebrate Halloween! We have also acquired some new books on witchcraft and magic.

The art of horror : an illustrated history  /  edited by Stephen Jones ; foreword by Neil Gaiman.  (2015)

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Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like The Art of Horror- a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley first became part of the public consciousness in the 19th century. It's all here: from early engravings-via dust jackets, book illustrations, pulp magazines, movie posters, comic books, and paintings-to today's artists working entirely in the digital realm. Editor Stephen Jones and his stellar team of contributors have sourced visuals from archives and private collections (including their own) worldwide, ensuring an unprecedented selection that is accessible to those discovering the genre, while also including many images that will be rare and unfamiliar to even the most committed fan. From the shockingly lurid to the hauntingly beautiful-including images of vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, demons, serial killers, alien invaders, and more-every aspect of the genre is represented in ten themed chapters. Quotes from artists/illustrators, and a selection from writers and filmmakers, are featured throughout.

The Krampus and the old, dark Christmas : roots and rebirth of the folkloric devil  by  Al Ridenour.  (2016)

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With the appearance of the demonic Christmas character Krampus in contemporary Hollywood movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards, medieval folklore has now been revisited in American culture. Krampus-related events and parades occur both in North America and Europe, and they are an ever-growing phenomenon.

Though the Krampus figure has once again become iconic, not much can be found about its history and meaning, thus calling for a book like Al Ridenour's The Krampus: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil. With Krampus's wild, graphic history, Feral House has hired the awarded designer Sean Tejaratchi to take on Ridenour's book about this ever-so-curious figure.

Al Ridenour has lectured on Krampus at the Goethe Institutes in Los Angeles. He became somewhat of an internet phenomenon himself due to the hilarious hijinks he coordinated with the controversial Cacophony Societies.

The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic  by  Christopher Dell.  (2016)

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From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism and Islam. Secret words, spells and incantations lie at the heart of every mythological tradition. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan religion in Europe and the US; ‘magic’ also evokes the cathartic rituals of Chaos magic, but stretches to include the non-spiritual, rapid-fire sleight of hand performed by slick stage magicians who fill vast arenas. 
The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic is packed with authoritative text and a huge and inspired selection of images, chosen from unusual and hidden sources. The material is presented in 100 entries, and includes some of the best-known representations of magic and the occult from around the world.

The Little Book of Witchcraft  by  Astrid Carvel.  (2017)

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Are you in need of a little magic to entice love into your life?

Maybe someone you know could benefit from a good-luck spell?

Or perhaps you want to feel more in control of your destiny?

The Little Book of Witchcraft uncovers the mysteries of this ancient art and shows you how to tap into the positive natural energies of the cosmos to release your inner power. Learn about different kinds of witchcraft and its fascinating history, its symbolism and the building blocks of Wicca, and how to perform simple spells to attract good energy, luck, love, health and happiness.

Black History Month.

To celebrate Black History Month this October, the library has put on a display of books and films.


Mandela : long walk to freedom  /  director, Justin Chadwick ; writer, William Nicholson.  (2014)

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom celebrates Nelson Mandela's extraordinary journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his election as President of South Africa. It explores the Mandela unknown to most of the world - the lover of fancy cars, a lady's man, the boxing enthusiast and playboy, the skillful lawyer and a freedom fighter. The film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon.





Moonlight

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Nominated for 8 Academy Awards and 4 BAFTA’s including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Naomie Harris, Moonlight is a timeless story of human connection and self-discovery. The film chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.



Hidden Figures
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

NEW FILMS from the Library's DVD Collection

 L'Avventura - (1960) [DVD]

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The first part of a loose trilogy by director Michelangelo Antonioni, parts two and three of which were 'La Notte' and 'L'Eclisse'. It concerns Claudia, Anna and Sandro (Sandro being the lover of Anna), who embark on a cruise on which Anna disappears. Sandro and Claudia set off in search for her and become lovers in the process. The film is a triumph of style over content and has been classed as an existentialist film that revolves around its characters being out of place from their environments.

The Magnificent Seven [DVD] [2016]

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In director Antoine Fuqua's modern vision to a classic story, the desperate townspeople of Rose Creek employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns after the town falls under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.

A taste for Film? Featuring some our new books from our Film Section - available to borrow from the Library today!

The Film Director Prepares : Everything You Need to Know Before You Shout Action!

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From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, "The Film Director Prepares" offers practical insights on film making, using real-life examples directors won't learn in school. With topics including working with actors, using the camera to tell a story, setting mood, staging, maintaining performance levels, covering shots, and directing for different mediums, "The Film Director Prepares" will leave new directors truly prepared for their careers.

Cinematography : theory and practice : image making for cinematographers and directors

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There's more to being a DP than holdng a light meter! With this book as your guide, you are on your way to learning not only about the equipment and technology, but also about the concepts and thought processes that will enable you to shoot professionally, efficiently, and with artistic mastery. A leading book in the field, Cinematography has been translated into many languages and is a staple at the world's top film schools. Lavishly produced and illustrated, it covers the entire range of the profession. The book is not just a comprehensive guide to current professional practice; it goes beyond to explain the theory behind the practice, so you understand how the rules came about and when it's appropriate to break them. In addition, directors will benefit from the book's focus on the body of knowledge they should share with their Director of Photography. Cinematography presents the basics and beyond, employing clear explanations of standard practice together with substantial illustrations and diagrams to reveal the real world of film production. Recognizing that professionals know when to break the rules and when to abide by them, this book discusses many examples of fresh ideas and experiments in cinematography. Covering the most up-to-date information on the film/digital interface, new formats, the latest cranes and camera support and other equipment, it also illustrates the classic tried and true methods.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC : 2015 release

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Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro CC choose Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2015 release) Classroom in a Book from Adobe Press. The 19 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Premiere Pro. Readers learn to take a project from beginning to end where they'll get the basics on things like organizing media, using audio, creating transitions, producing titles, and adding effects. Once they have the basics down, they'll learn how to take their projects further by sweetening and mixing sound, compositing the footage, adjusting color, compressing and exporting files, and much more. (( Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2015 release) offers many new capabilities to the editor who needs quick results and this book covers the workflows required to get the job done. Best of all, the companion DVD (also available as an online download) includes lesson files so readers can work step-by-step along with the book. The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers. And new to this release, all buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes.

The technique of film and video editing : history, theory, and practice

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The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific software program, this book focuses on the fundamentals of editing as art. Analysis of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor.

This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice. This edition includes brand new chapters covering the goals of editing, including editing for narrative clarity, subtext, aesthetics, and dramatic emphasis, all showing how to evoke specific audience responses. Some of the new films to be discussed include A History of Violence, Atonement, The Departed, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, MIchael Clayton, and more.

Cutting rhythms : intuitive film editing

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There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing. Much rarer are books on how editors think and make creative decisions.
Filled with timeless principles and thought-provoking examples from a variety of international films, the second edition of Karen Pearlman’s Cutting Rhythms offers an in-depth study of the film editor’s rhythmic creativity and intuition, the processes and tools editors use to shape rhythms, and how rhythm works to engage audiences in film. While respecting the importance of intuitive flow in the cutting room, this book offers processes for understanding what editing intuition is and how to develop it. This fully revised and updated edition contains:
New chapters on collaboration and "editing thinking";
Advice on making onscreen drafts before finalizing your story
Tips on how to create and sustain audience empathy and engagement;
Explanations of how rhythm is perceived, learned, practiced and applied in editing;
Updated discussions of intuition, structure and dynamics;
An all-new companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/pearlman) with video examples and links for expanding and illustrating the principles of key chapters in the book.

A-Z great film directors

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A striking, design-led reference book. A-Z Great Film Directors features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 directors significant for their contribution to cinema including kings of world cinema Wong Kar-Wai and Akira Kurosawa, arthouse pioneers Fritz Lang and David Lynch as well as the often under-appreciated female directors Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion.
With text by film journalist Matt Glasby, each director's entry will also have a summary of the essential things you need to know about them, why they're important, a list of their must-see films, and a surprising fact or two about them, as well as images of their key films throughout. So whether you're already a film afficionado, or looking for a helpful cheat to pass convincingly as an arthouse fan, you'll love this guide to international directors, past and present.

The Stanley Kubrick archives

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The Kubrick files from the archives of cinematic genius. In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience...I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. Now available as part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, The Stanley Kubrick Archives borrows from the director s philosophy. From the opening sequence of Killer’s Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, it allows the masterful visuals of Kubrick s complete films to impress through a sequence of compelling, mesmerizing stills. We uncover Kubrick s creative process through fascinating archival material, including set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules. Accompanying the visual material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubrick s best interviews. The result is a visual, archival, and scholarly journey through masterworks of 20th century cinema and the meticulous mind of the director behind them.

The man with the golden eye : designing the James Bond films

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Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont worked behind the scenes on 18 James Bond films, beginning with the 1960s classics starring Sean Connery and George Lazenby. From the 1980's on-wards he was the production designer of the films starring Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Along the way, he worked with director James Cameron and contributed to The Ipcress File and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, some of the other films made by Bond producers Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. The Man With the Golden Eye is a richly illustrated memoir that provides an unparalleled insight into some of the best-loved films ever made.

Documentary storytelling : creative nonfiction on screen

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Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and film goers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of narrative cinema to the world of nonfiction film and video without sacrificing the rigor and truthfulness that give documentaries their power. The book offers practical advice for producers, directors, editors, cinematographers, writers and others seeking to make ethical and effective films that merge the strengths of visual and aural media with the power of narrative storytelling. In this new, updated edition, Emmy Award-winning author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:

New strategies for analyzing documentary work.
New conversations with filmmakers including Stanley Nelson (The Black Panthers), Kazuhiro Soda (Mental), Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga), and Cara Mertes (JustFilms)
Discussions previously held with Susan Kim (Imaginary Witness), Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), and James Marsh (Man on Wire).

Esoteric Hollywood : sex, cults and symbols in film

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Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most read essays, combining philosophy, comparative religion, symbolism and geopolitics and their connections to film. Readers will watch movies with new eyes, able to decipher on their own, as the secret meanings of cinema are unveiled."

Race, gender, and sexuality in post-apocalyptic TV and film

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This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals through sociological, anthropological, historical, and feminist approaches.

If you liked "This is Now: Film and Video after Punk (1978-85) check out the books which influenced the Artists

As you may be aware, The Gallery is hosting This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), which was opened last week by exhibition curator Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scotland.

As a direct result of the exhibition, the Library has purchased a number of books which highly influenced the work of the Artists on display. The books are available to borrow from the Library.

Lexicon of the mouth:poeticsand politics of voice and the oral imaginary

"While the eyes may lead to the soul, the mouth exposes the vitality of the body. Examining the movements of the mouth, or what LaBelle terms "micro-oralities," Lexicon of the Mouth considers the relation of voice and mouth, suggesting that the importance of voicing is inextricably bound to the exertions of the oral. Laughter, whispering, singing, burping and self-talk, among many others, feature as choreographies by which to gauge the exchange of self and surrounding. LaBelle argues for a more attentive view onto voice by expanding appreciation for how whistling links us to animals, coughing ruptures all possibility for speech, and the inner voice, or "unvoice", operates as a shadow-body. Subsequently, assumptions around voice are unsettled, reminding discourses surrounding the performativity of the body, and the politics of speech, of the acts of the tongue, the lips and the glottis as primary negotiations between interior and exterior"-

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’sworld

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - social, sexual, cultural and economic - Sheila Rowbotham identifies the social conditions under which it developed, showing how the roles women take on within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas about family and sexuality.

Into the maelstrom:music, improvisation and the dream of freedom. Before 1970

In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brotzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews

This is a superb collection of interviews with some of the most significant and influential names in art, architecture, film, music, history, literature and philosophy from the 20th and 21st centuries. Since 1993, renowned curator, writer, cultural instigator, professional conversationalist - and currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London - Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting interviews with some of the most significant architects, artists, filmmakers, historians, musicians, philosophers, and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. "Interviews Volume 2" brings together 70 interviews, taken from an archive of nearly 2,000 hours of recordings that reveal an intellectual geology of the last 100 years. Encyclopaedic in scope and intimate in tone, these exchanges produce an array of biographical trajectories, cultural experiments, theoretical adventures, unrealized projects, and unknown epiphanies.

The Book of the City ofLadies

Christine de Pizan (c.1364 1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues Reason, Rectitude and Justice appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.

En abîme : listening,reading, writing : an archival fiction

En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously unexplored references to the emerging area of listening as artistic practice, adopting an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature. - poetic, incisive, grounded in politics and history yet continually pushing at the edges of what we now consider to be sound. She interrogates notions of music and the shifting experience that is silence with a freshness and coherence that is inspiring David Toop, Author of Ocean of Sound, Haunted Weather and Sinister Resonance - compulsive and fast, rushing with you through textual territories that seem spoken, direct and contemporary while being nostalgic - invoking a past that creates the present tense. Salome Voegelin, author of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

The Anti-Social Family

Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that is the dominant family form in advanced capitalist societies. This now classic book explores the personal and social needs that the family ideally meets but more often denies. Finally the authors propose a moral and political practice directed beyond the family towards more egalitarian caring alternatives.

 

Sex, or the unbearable

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair. Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia Davis's story "Break It Down" (reprinted in full here), Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither hesitates to voice disagreement. Their very discussion-punctuated with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration, and inspiration-enacts both the difficulty and the potential of encounter, the subject of this unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.

Hearing

Previously unpublished script for Robert Morris' installation "Hearing," first exhibited at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1972.

Dan Graham's Rock MyReligion

Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982--1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a historical genealogy of rock music and an ambitious thesis about the origins of North America's popular culture. Because of its passionate embrace of underground music, its low-fi aesthetics, interest in politics, and liberal approach to historiography, the video has become a landmark work in the history of contemporary moving image and art; but it has remained, possibly for the same reasons, one of Graham's least written about works--underappreciated and possibly misunderstood by the critics who otherwise celebrate him. This illustrated study of Graham's groundbreaking work fills that critical gap. Kodwo Eshun examines Rock My Religion not only in terms of contemporary art and Graham's wider body of work but also as part of the broader culture of the time. He explores the relationship between Graham and New York's underground music scene of the 1980s, connecting the artistic methods of the No Wave bands--especially their group dynamics and relationship to the audience--and Rock My Religion's treatment of working class identity and culture.

Little Labors

Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen's puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.

This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), which runs until Wednesday 26 October, also encompasses a programme of free talks and film screenings that are listed on the listed on the website. Booking for these events is recommended.

  

News from the Library and New Books with Animation and Film Students in mind

The Library has been very busy over the summer installing a New Library Management System. This has allowed the Library to re-look at some of its policies in the hope to improve its services to users.

NEW LOAN ENTITLEMENTS:

All students are now entitled to borrow up to 10 items at any one time. In addition, you can also borrow Headphones, Laptops & Visual Rulers to use in the Library.

AVOID OVERDUE FINES:

2 days prior to the item being due back to the library you will receive an email. This is to remind you about your items on loan and that you need to return the items or renew them. If you would like to keep using them, please click on the blue web-link. This will take you straight to your Library account where you can click on a renew button to renew your library loans. You can do this up to five times before you have to physically bring to item into the Library to renew. From your Library Account page you can also search the Library catalogue.  Hopefully the new e-mail alert system will help you avoid overdue Library Fines

If you need help logging into your Library account, searching the Library Catalogue or reserving books please ask at the Library counter; and we will be happy to help.  Equally if you need help in accessing the Library’s databases please just ask.

NEW LIBRARY STUDY AREAS:

The Library’s space has been slightly re-organised, in addition to the main Library there are now two quiet study rooms; one is for complete silent study and the other is for quiet study, where quiet conversation will be allowed.

THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Click HERE to explore the new look Library catalogue.

NEW LIBRARY BOOKS WITH ANIMATION & FILM IN MIND

Film And Video Budgets / By Michael Wiese AndDeke Simon.

This revised edition offers detailed budget formats and sample budgets for more than 18 different kinds of productions - from film and tape documentaries to music videos, industrials and a $5 million feature film - along with information such as a master list of line items, which lists just about everything that could possibly be put into a production. Also included is a new chapter on setting up a production company, a new chapter on pre-production which includes such subjects as clip and music clearance, crew negotiations and casting.

Viral Marketing: The Science Of Sharing/ Karen Nelson-Field

Viral Marketing: The Science of Sharing is not your typical 'how to get shared' book. It would be nice to believe that viral success is as easy as being sneezed on. Those who spend a marketing dollar relish the possibility that the brave new world has brought brave new rules and the tantalising potential for a free ride. After applying scientific method and rigorous research to the topic, Nelson-Field says, "Wake up and smell the well-branded coffee". Using original research from more than 2 years of work, 5 different data sets, around 1000 videos, 9 individual studies and a large team of researchers from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, Viral Marketing offers solid advice on the nebulous business of video sharing. Dr Nelson-Field reports new knowledge on sharing, memory and the influence of creative devices. Viral Marketing suggests that contrary to current trends, the old scientific laws of buyer behaviour and advertising still apply to social media. Marketers who have read How Brands Grow will find the key research that underpins this new work familiar. Nelson-Field's research builds on the science behind brands and buying. This is a must read book for anyone working in the social media space. Read it before you strap those roller skates onto a kitten, it might just save you some time, money and credibility. Watch Karen Nelson-Field talk about her research on how emotions drive video sharing. 

A History OfExperimental Film And Video : From The Canonical Avant-Garde To Contemporary BritishPractice / A.L. Rees.

This new edition covers the history of avante-garde film and video, ranging from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 1990s. The author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse

The ViralVideo Manifesto : Why Everything You Know Is Wrong And How To Do What ReallyWorks / By Stephen Voltz

Creating the next YouTube blockbuster is easier than you think! Includes more than 100 QR Codes linking to successful viral videos! "These guys are the viral experts, and they show you the way in clear, concise language. This is the first recipe for virality that I buy." (Kent Nichols, co-creator of viral phenomenon AskANinja.com). One Saturday morning in 2006, Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe dropped 500 Mentos mints into 100 bottles of Coke in front of a video camera. Their video went viral in a matter of hours, and before they knew it, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and NPR were calling. Since then, more than 100 million people have watched "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments". Why? Because Voltz and Grobe did everything right. Now, in "The Viral Video Manifesto", they explain how you can make a video guaranteed to pack a major punch by applying four core principles: Be True...Don't fake it. Make it real; Don't Waste My Time...Get down to business right away; Be Unforgettable...Show us something we've never seen before; and It's All About Humanity...An emotional connection is the key to sharing.

The Illusion Of Life : Disney Animation / FrankThomas And Ollie Johnston.

Traces the development of Disney animation, explains what made Disney's style unique, and features original sketches and drawings revealing the origins of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.

The IllusionOf Life II : More Essays On Animation / Edited By Alan Cholodenko.

"The Illusion of Life 2" continues the first volume's pioneering work in the theory of animation. Covering a range of key topics, including post-WWII animation in Japan and the United States, computer animation, games, flight simulation and war, as well as issues of a general theoretical nature, the sixteen essays and introduction provide an abundance of new understandings, approaches, correctives, and challenges to scholars of animation as well as film.