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Australian Genre Film

Author : Kelly McWilliam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042988981X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Australian Genre Film written by Kelly McWilliam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Australian National Cinema

Author : Tom O'Regan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134933487
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Australian National Cinema written by Tom O'Regan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Oscar and Lucinda

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267130
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Oscar and Lucinda written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Johnno

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702258032
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Johnno written by David Malouf and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately outrageous portrait, David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.

On Our Selection

Author : Steele Rudd
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373266676X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book On Our Selection written by Steele Rudd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: On Our Selection by Steele Rudd

The Red Tree

Author : Shaun Tan
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734411372
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Red Tree written by Shaun Tan and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to overwhelm her. 'Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to...' As she wanders around a world that is complex, puzzling and alienating, she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Just as it seems all hope is lost, the girl returns to her bedroom to find that a tiny red seedling has grown to fill the room with warm light. Astonishing Australian artist, Shaun Tan's latest creation, The Red Tree, is a book about feelings - feelings that can not always be simply expressed in words. It is a series of imaginary landscapes conjured up by the wizardry of his masterful and miraculous art. As a kind of fable, The Red Tree seeks to remind us that, though some bad feelings are inevitable, they are always tempered by hope.

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702252050
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds, and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. The girls were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to everyone.

Australia's Lost Films

Author : Ray Edmondson
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642992517
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Lost Films written by Ray Edmondson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1982 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764960
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand written by Geoff Mayer and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Australian Cinema

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231067287
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Australian Cinema written by Brian McFarlane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Author : Albert Moran
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863472
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema written by Albert Moran and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

New Australian Cinema

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521387682
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book New Australian Cinema written by Brian McFarlane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Author : Karina Aveyard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538111276
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema written by Karina Aveyard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Wake In Fright

Author : Kenneth Cook
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925410927
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Wake In Fright written by Kenneth Cook and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controller stood back. ‘Right,’ he said. ‘Spin ’em!’ The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet. There was silence. Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant’s journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. Kenneth Cook was born in Sydney. Wake in Fright, which drew on his time as a journalist in Broken Hill, was first published in 1961 when Cook was thirty-two. It was published in England and America, translated into several languages, and a prescribed text in schools. Cook wrote twenty-one books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven. ‘Wake in Fright deserves its status as a modern classic. Cook’s prose is masterful and the story is gripping from the first page to the last.’ M.J. Hyland ‘A classic novel which became a classic film. The Outback without the sentimental bulldust. Australia without the sugar coating.’ Robert Drewe ‘A true dark classic of Australian literature.’ J.M. Coetzee ‘Wake in Fright is a classic of the ugly side of Menzies’ Australia, its brutality, its drunkenness, its anxiety to crush all sensibility. All of this is harrowingly reacorded —the destruction of a young soul fresh to Australia—in Kenneth Cook’s remarkable novel.’ Thomas Keneally

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Australian Films

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Australian Films written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Movie Freak

Author : Owen Gleiberman
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316382949
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Movie Freak written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak, his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself. Gleiberman paints a bittersweet portrait of his complicated and ultimately doomed friendship with Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic who was his mentor and muse. He also offers an unprecedented inside look at what the experience of being a critic is really all about, detailing his stint at The Boston Phoenix and then, starting in 1990, at EW, where he becomes a voice of obsession battling-to a fault-to cling to his independence. Gleiberman explores the movies that shaped him, from the films that first made him want to be a critic (Nashville and Carrie), to what he hails as the sublime dark trilogy of the 1980s (Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, and Manhunter), to the scruffy humanity of Dazed and Confused, to the brilliant madness of Natural Born Killers, to the transcendence of Breaking the Waves, to the pop rapture of Moulin Rouge! He explores his partnership with Lisa Schwarzbaum and his friendships and encounters with such figures as Oliver Stone, Russell Crowe, Richard Linklater, and Ben Affleck. He also writes with confessional intimacy about his romantic relationships and how they echoed the behavior of his bullying, philandering father. And he talks about what film criticism is becoming in the digital age: a cacophony of voices threatened by an insidious new kind of groupthink. Ultimately, Movie Freak is about the primal pleasure of film and the enigmatic dynamic between critic and screen. For Gleiberman, the moving image has a talismanic power, but it also represents a kind of sweet sickness, a magnificent obsession that both consumes and propels him.

Melbourne and around (Rough Guides Snapshot Australia)

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0241313201
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Melbourne and around (Rough Guides Snapshot Australia) written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guides Snapshot Australia: Melbourne and around is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the city and surrounding region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Melbourne's laneways to Luna Park, and the Yarra Valley to the penguins on Phillip Island. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. The Rough Guides Snapshot Australia: Melbourne and around covers the city itself as well as the suburbs, the Mornington Peninsula, French Island, Phillip Island, the Yarra Valley and the Dandenongs, and the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around the city, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, visas and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Australia. The Rough Guides Snapshot Australia: Melbourne and around is equivalent to 106 printed pages.