Australian Genre Film

Author : Kelly McWilliam,Mark David Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429889813

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Australian Genre Film by Kelly McWilliam,Mark David Ryan Pdf

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology.

Author : Felicity Collins,Jane Landman,Susan Bye
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118942529

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A Companion to Australian Cinema by Felicity Collins,Jane Landman,Susan Bye Pdf

The first comprehensive volume of original essays on Australian screen culture in the twenty-first century. A Companion to Australian Cinema is an anthology of original essays by new and established authors on the contemporary state and future directions of a well-established national cinema. A timely intervention that challenges and expands the idea of cinema, this book brings into sharp focus those facets of Australian cinema that have endured, evolved and emerged in the twenty-first century. The essays address six thematically-organized propositions – that Australian cinema is an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an enduring auteur-genre-landscape tradition, a televisual industry and a multiplatform ecology. Offering fresh critical perspectives and extending previous scholarship, case studies range from The Lego Movie, Mad Max, and Australian stars in Hollywood, to transnational co-productions, YouTube channels, transmedia and nature-cam documentaries. New research on trends – such as the convergence of television and film, digital transformations of screen production and the shifting roles of women on and off-screen – highlight how established precedents have been influenced by new realities beyond both cinema and the national. Written in an accessible style that does not require knowledge of cinema studies or Australian studies Presents original research on Australian actors, such as Cate Blanchett and Chris Hemsworth, their training, branding, and path from Australia to Hollywood Explores the films and filmmakers of the Blak Wave and their challenge to Australian settler-colonial history and white identity Expands the critical definition of cinema to include YouTube channels, transmedia documentaries, multiplatform changescapes and cinematic remix Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies A Companion to Australian Cinema is an ideal introductory text for teachers and students in areas including film and media studies, cultural and gender studies, and Australian history and politics, as well as a valuable resource for educators and other professionals in the humanities and creative arts.

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719053277

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Contemporary Australian Cinema by Jonathan Rayner Pdf

This introduction to the new Australian film industry explores prominent directors and stars, themes, styles, and evolving genres in an analysis of key films. The evolution of genres peculiar to Australia and adaptations of conventional Hollywood forms such as the musical and the road movie are examined through readings of landmark films, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mad Max trilogy, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival--the definition, representation, and propagation of a national image--is woven through the analysis.

Author : Thomas Schatz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106011332027

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Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System by Thomas Schatz Pdf

The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.

Author : Mark David Ryan,Ben Goldsmith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319482996

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Australian Screen in the 2000s by Mark David Ryan,Ben Goldsmith Pdf

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films’ preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on particular genres (horror, blockbusters and comedy), Indigenous Australian film and television, women’s filmmaking, queer cinema, representations of history, Australian characters in non-Australian films and films about Australians in Asia, as well as chapters on sound in Australian cinema and the distribution of screen content. The book is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader. It will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of Anglophone film and television, as well as to anyone with an interest in Australian culture and creativity.

Author : Albert Moran,Errol Vieth
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810863477

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The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema by Albert Moran,Errol Vieth Pdf

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional producers, directors, writers and actors, as well as the films indicated above and many others, this reference also presents the early pioneers, the film companies and government bodies, and much more in its hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. Through a chronology that shows how far these cinemas have come in a short time and an introduction that presents them more broadly, a clear portrait of the two countries' motion pictures emerge. The bibliography is an excellent source for further reading.

Author : Albert Moran,Errol Vieth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521613279

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Film in Australia by Albert Moran,Errol Vieth Pdf

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Author : Albert Moran,Errol Vieth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521613272

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Film in Australia by Albert Moran,Errol Vieth Pdf

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Author : Brian McFarlane,Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052138768X

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New Australian Cinema by Brian McFarlane,Geoff Mayer Pdf

The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This book represents a body of thinking about Australian cinema that asks where the origins of films lie. The book begins by tracing the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood film-making, with its firm grasp of melodrama. It continues by comparing the problems faced by the 'high' British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s with those faced by Australia in the 1970s and 1980s in the attempts by both countries to establish national film industries. New Australian Cinema will increase the scope of the discussion about the revival of Australian cinema and help us to make cultural sense of the films themselves.

Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786461677

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Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 by Peter Shelley Pdf

This pioneering work provides in-depth coverage of 76 horror films produced in Australia, where serial killers, carnivorous animals, mutants, zombies, vampires and evil spirits all receive the "antipodean" cinematic treatment unique to the Land Down Under. Titles covered were released between 1973 and 2010, a period coinciding with the revival of the long-dormant Australian film industry in the early 1970s, and continuing into the second wave of genre production spurred by the international success of the 2005 chiller Wolf Creek. The Cars That Ate Paris, The Last Wave, Roadgames, Razorback, Outback Vampires, Queen of the Damned, Black Water, and The Reef are among the titles represented. Each film is covered in a chapter that includes a cast and credits list, release information, contemporary reviews and DVD availability, as well as a synopsis and in-depth notes about the story, filmmaking techniques, acting performances, recurring themes and motifs, and overall effectiveness of the film as a work of horror.

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826419089

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The Films of Peter Weir by Jonathan Rayner Pdf

This fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's acclaimed study takes an in-depth look at the career of a filmmaker who has, over the course of 30 years, put together a substantial and much-loved body of work.

Author : Ray Edmondson,Andrew Pike
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780642992512

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Australia's Lost Films by Ray Edmondson,Andrew Pike Pdf

Australia's Lost Films was published by the National Library of Australia to coincide with THE LAST FILM SEARCH, a project to find as many of these important films as possible and commit them to the care of the National Film and Sound Archive. But with its many photographs and a complete checklist of silent feature films 1896-1930, the book stands as an important record of a necessarily little known part of Australia's cinematic past.

Author : Karina Aveyard,Albert Moran,Errol Vieth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538111277

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Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema by Karina Aveyard,Albert Moran,Errol Vieth Pdf

Filmmakers have honed their skills and many have achieved critical and popular success at home and abroad, as have actors and other crew. American filmmakers and companies have found it cheaper to make films in Australia because wages and salaries are lower, tax rebates have been attractive and the expertise in most areas of filmmaking is comparable to that of anywhere in the world. At the same time, Australian audiences still enjoy watching Australian films, making some of them profitable, even if this is a small profit when considered in Hollywood terms. New Zealand filmmakers, cast and crew have shown that they are equal to the world’s best in making films with international themes, while other films have shown that the world is interested in New Zealand narratives and settings. Increased support for Maori filmmakers and stories has had a significant impact on production levels and on the diversity of stories that now reach the screen. It has also helped create more viable career paths for those who continue to be based in their home country. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on leading films as well as many directors, writers, actors and producers. It also covers early pioneers, film companies, genres and government bodies.

Author : Albert Moran,Tom O'Regan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132345633

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The Australian Screen by Albert Moran,Tom O'Regan Pdf

Author : Adrian Danks,Stephen Gaunson,Peter C. Kunze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319666761

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American–Australian Cinema by Adrian Danks,Stephen Gaunson,Peter C. Kunze Pdf

This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s.