AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 2nd March to 16th March 2018: New Books

Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Based on interviews with Varda and unparalleled access to Varda's archives, this interdisciplinary study constructs new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture.

Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. A parent is dead. Was it murder, a tragic accident ...or something else entirely?

One of the most influential directors in the history of French cinema, Robert Bresson never strayed from his iconoclastic ways. Organized chronologically, this collection of interviews and testimonials reveals the development of Bresson's thought over the course of forty years.

A great movie's first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in, setting up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. Erudite but accessible, Cinematic Overtures will lead film scholars and ardent movie fans alike to greater attentiveness to those fleeting opening moments.

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the "humanity" they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?

Christopher Nolan's previous films have reflected the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With Dunkirk, Nolan has gone back into the past and brought to life one of the momentous events of the twentieth-century - the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. The screenplay is accompanied by a conversation about the film between Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan.

House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films.

This bible for all teachers, actors, and improvisors, is a practical, hands-on feast of ideas, exercises and scene-work. Improvisation processes ignite spontaneity, develop lateral thinking, encourage team work and release the potential artist.

The films of John Waters are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to reinvigorate the experience of movie-going with his shock comedy, Waters has been willing to take the chance of offending nearly everyone.

A behind-the-scenes look at director Christopher Nolan's gripping action-thriller Dunkirk, which brings to life one of World War II's most pivotal events. The Making of Dunkirk tells the incredible story of how Nolan brought this pivotal moment in World War II to life on the screen using innovative film-making techniques that give the film a gritty, exhilarating realism rarely seen in modern cinema.

Writing with his customary wit and style, Richard Dyer argues that while pastiche can be used to describe works which contain montage or collage, it can also be used to describe works which are a kind of imitation of previous works. Dyer Investigates a wide range of cultural texts drawn from films, videos, novels, poetry, rap tracks, music and painting.

Since his explosive debut with Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. Acclaimed film scholar and screenwriter George Toles explores Anderson's diverse oeuvre, showing a filmmaker obsessed with history, workplaces, and environments but also intrigued by spaces as projections of the people who dwell within.

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water: Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times chronicles the entire filmmaking journey, from development to design to filming. Featuring interviews and commentary from key actors and members of the creative team, as well as concept art and design work created for the film.

Spike Lee wrote, directed and starred in She's Gotta Have It, the independent-film success story of 1986. Shot on a shoe-string budget of $175,000, the film was made with persistence and talent plus the help of family and friends. Spike Lee's Gotta Have It reveals how he did it, mapping out the entire creative and production processes-from early notebook jottings to film festival awards.

Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the 'hetero media gaze' and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity.

Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education.

After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement threatens to engulf the town.

We’re living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), disabled, or from other religions or classes. Writing Diverse Characters discusses issues of race, disability, sexuality and transgender people with specific reference to characterisation – not only in movies and TV, but also novel writing.