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The University of Manchester Library is home to over 10,000 books relating to Film Studies.

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Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film

Offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Significantly broadens the field of work on ageing and cinema through a temporal perspective. Interdisciplinary in focus, drawing from the fields of Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Gerontology, and Dementia Studies. Focuses on eleven case study films about dementia from across a world of cinemas, from Hollywood to Asia. Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Analysing the aesthetics of films like A Moment to Remember (2004), Memories of Tomorrow (2006) and Happy End (2017), Deng provides new insights into our understanding of how ageing is temporally produced, presented, received and interrogated in and through cinema. Bringing together Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and ideas on time, and building on scholars like Alia Al-Saji, Henri Bergson, Bliss Cua Lim, and David Martin-Jones, the book develops a conceptual framework of relational change - of temporal performances - and suggests that everyone and everything experiences time differently (Provided by Publisher).

Dr MaoHui Deng is a Lecturer in Film Studies at The University of Manchester.

 

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Beyond the Essay Film

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last twenty-five years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. 'Beyond the Essay Film' seeks to not only acknowledge the influential predecessors of this - in the view of many critics - most interesting type of contemporary filmmaking - but also to speculate about its possible transformation as we move forward into the uncharted waters of the twenty-first - digital - century. Focusing on three specific axes that underpin and shape the articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form - subjectivity, textuality and technology - this book explores how changes along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within essay film practice and its relation to other types of cinema and neighbouring art forms (Provided by Publisher).

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What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship

For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favourite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. The result is a series of responses that recast current debates about film ethics, ranging from the most personal to the most theoretical. Movie-watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of 'the good life.' Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable (Provided by Publisher).

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Guide to printed collections

The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily.

The vast majority of books relating to Film Studies and related subjects can be found in the Main Library in the Blue Area - Floor 4

 

Key Areas Classmark(s) Location
Cinema, radio and film - general 791.4 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Radio and television - general 791.41 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Television - general 791.43 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Television - subdivided geographically by country 791.434-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema, television and video - general, including screenwriting 791.44 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema, television and video - subdivided geographically by country 791.444-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema: general, including general film censorship 791.45 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema - theory 791.451 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema - encyclopaedias and dictionaries 791.453 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema - history 791.458-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinema - subdivided geographically by country 791.464-9 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Individual actors, directors, editors, etc. including film scripts - under director 791.47 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Video 791.48 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Cinematography 778.5 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Theatre and acting in general 792 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Theatre - theory 792.01 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Stagecraft 792.02 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Encyclopaedias 792.03 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
General essays 792.04 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
History of theatre and acting - subdivided geographically by country 792.09 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Music halls 792.7 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Ballet and theatrical dancing 792.8 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
 
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Theses and dissertations

Theses can be a valuable source of information for your research and are very useful points of reference for when you come to write your own thesis.

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Doctoral/Research Theses

  • Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Research Explorer, the University of Manchester’s research database.

 

Theses from other UK/International Institutions

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global)

    A searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.

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