New Australian Cinema

Author : Brian McFarlane,Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Scott Murray,Peter Beilby
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : UVA:X000575718

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The New Australian Cinema by Scott Murray,Peter Beilby Pdf

Author : Kelly McWilliam,Mark David Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : David Stratton
Publisher : Sydney : Angus & Robertson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003979146

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The Last New Wave by David Stratton Pdf

Looks at the growth of mass air tourism and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. The effects on cities such as Venice, subject to frequent flooding, and the climate of Europe and Africa could become much worse as new airline markets such as India and China continue to expand.

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Tom O'Regan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134933488

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Australian National Cinema by Tom O'Regan Pdf

Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world. O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies. Since 1970 Australian film has enjoyed a revival. This book contains detailed critiques of the key films of this period and uses them to illustrate the recent theories on the international and Australian cinema industries. Its conclusions on the nature of the nation's cinema and the discourses within it are relevant within a far wider context; film as a global phenomenon.

Author : Neil Rattigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015021870210

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Images of Australia by Neil Rattigan Pdf

Author : Felicity Collins,Therese Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521834805

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Australian Cinema After Mabo by Felicity Collins,Therese Davis Pdf

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Author : Felicity Collins,Jane Landman,Susan Bye
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Adrian Danks,Stephen Gaunson,Peter C. Kunze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

Author : Allison Craven
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783085507

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Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema by Allison Craven Pdf

'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia.

Author : Brian McFarlane,Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521383633

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New Australian Cinema by Brian McFarlane,Geoff Mayer Pdf

This book represents a new way of thinking about Australian cinema by asking where the origins of the new film lie. It begins by tracing the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood filmmaking, with its firm grasp of melodrama. Several films are studied in detail within this framework, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Blood Oath, The Empty Beach, and Shame. The book continues by comparing the problems faced by "high" British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s with those faced by Australian cinema of the 1970s and the 1980s in the attempts by both countries to establish national film industries. Many parallels are drawn between the responses of British and Australian cinema to the overall dominance of Hollywood, despite the thirty-year gap between these two periods of filmmaking.

Author : Ian Craven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136326929

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Australian Cinema in the 1990s by Ian Craven Pdf

This study is a collection of critical and scholarly analyses of the organisation of the Australian Film Industry since 1990. Particular emphasis is put on globalisation, authorship, national narrative and film aesthetics.

Author : Geoff Mayer,Keith Beattie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764967

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The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand by Geoff Mayer,Keith Beattie Pdf

From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book celebrates the commercially successful narrative feature films produced by these cultures as well as key documentaries, shorts, and independent films. It also invokes issues involving national identity, race, history, and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat of Hollywood. Chapters on well known films and directors, such as The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001), and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002), are included with less popular but equally important films and filmmakers, such as Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955), They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell, 1966), Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984), and The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law, 2000).

Author : Sandra Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 0727020102

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Critical Business by Sandra Hall Pdf