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Australian Genre Film

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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 Film Theory and Criticism: Interviews

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Author : Noel King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Interviews written by Noel King and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy, tracing critical positions and personnel.

Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010

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Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786461675
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 written by Peter Shelley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sheep and the Australian Cinema

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Author : Deb Verhoeven
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
ISBN 13 : 0522852394
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Sheep and the Australian Cinema written by Deb Verhoeven and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly readable study of Australian cinema, Deb Verhoeven explores the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread-the repeated image of sheep. Verhoeven focuses on two key 'sheep films': The Squatter's Daughter (Hall, 1933) and Bitter Springs (Smart, 1950). Both movies are concerned with the national project, in which sheep growing and nation building are seamlessly aligned. But Verhoeven artfully demonstrates that it is precisely in their emphasis on textual re-iteration and repetition that the sheep films critique an otherwise ostensibly 'national' vision. In the process Verhoeven sheds new light on the importance and implication of discourses of originality in the Australian cinema. "Truthfully I will never see these films in quite the same way againandhellip;it is in the best sense a strangely compelling and unsettling book." Professor Tom O'Regan University of Queensland

Australian National Cinema

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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.

A Companion to Australian Cinema

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Author : Felicity Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118942523
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Australian Cinema written by Felicity Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary Australian Cinema

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Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053276
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Cinema written by Jonathan Rayner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Australian Film Book

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Author : Simon Brand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Film Book written by Simon Brand and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Cinema in the 1990s

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Author : Ian Craven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136326928
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Australian Cinema in the 1990s written by Ian Craven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Wake In Fright

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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

Australian Post-war Documentary Film

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Author : Deane Williams
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841502106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Australian Post-war Documentary Film written by Deane Williams and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topical subjects of World cinema, film remakes, and documentary film studies. This book charts the rise of a progressive film culture. It is suitable for those interested in international cinema.

National Fictions

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Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000246620
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book National Fictions written by Graeme Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture - as narratives with similar structures, functions, forms and meanings. It covers a wide range of texts, offering both close analysis and an account of their place within the system of meanings the book proposes as dominant in Australian culture. The second edition of this influential work includes a new Afterword which traces recent changes in Australian literature and film, examining the growth of women's writing and popular fiction, as well as current trends in Australian cinema. Turner asks whether these developments really mark a shift in the Australian narrative, and whether it is still possible to speak in terms of a national culture. '.a ground-clearing book. a seminal work, setting an agenda for cultural studies beyond the stockyards and croquet lawns of literary criticism.' - David Carter, Australian Literary Studies 'As a global syncretist, Turner is without peer.' - Stuart Cunningham, Media Information Australia

The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition

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Author : Andrew F Peirce
Publisher : The Curb
ISBN 13 : 0645429619
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition written by Andrew F Peirce and published by The Curb. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Film Yearbook features the work of the flourishing Australian film industry, with over one hundred Australian feature, non-fiction, and short films released to cinemas, streaming platforms, and film festivals during 2021.Discover a thriving and vital film industry that is positively buzzing with filmmakers eager to tell Australian stories, with over forty interviews and contributions that highlight the range of skill-sets and wealth of talent on show during 2021. Sharing their voice and perspectives on what it means to be a filmmaker are Australian creatives such as Costume Designer Erin Roche (High Ground), Director Sally Aitken (Playing with Sharks), Editor Rachel Grierson-Johns (Strong Female Lead), Director Matthew Walker (I'm Wanita), Composer Angela Little (Streamline), Writer/Director Thomas Wilson-White (The Greenhouse), Editor Nick Fenton (Nitram) and filmmakers Tina Fielding, Jacqueline Pelczar, and Cody Greenwood (Sparkles).From independent films through to Hollywood-backed productions, you will find critical examinations of iconic and hidden Australian films, providing a historical touchstone for where Australian cinema was during the turbulent year filled with changes and challenges - 2021.

Johnno

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Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702258032
Total Pages : 247 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 247 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.

The Avocado Plantation

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Author : David Stratton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732902506
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Avocado Plantation written by David Stratton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive analysis of the Australian cinema industry during the turbulent 1980s when heavy tax concessions promoted private investment in films. An appendix contains a detailed annotated list with full production details of the 270 films made in the 80s. The author is a noted film reviewer, consultant and presenter on SBS Television.

He Died With a Felafel in His Hand

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Author : John Birmingham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008192138
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book He Died With a Felafel in His Hand written by John Birmingham and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who’s been there. Birmingham pulls no punches: from dead rats in the kitchen to tent-dwelling lodgers in the living room, you’ll run for the safety of living alone.

Australian Film, 1900-1977: a Guide to Feature Film Production

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Author : Andrew Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789060073254
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Australian Film, 1900-1977: a Guide to Feature Film Production written by Andrew Pike and published by . This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: