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The Notion of the Grotesque in Contemporary Australian Cinema

Author : Inga von Kurnatowski
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638538338
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Notion of the Grotesque in Contemporary Australian Cinema written by Inga von Kurnatowski and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: Der Begriff „grotesk“ bezieht sich auf die Theorie des Karnival des russischen Akademikers Michail Bachtin, der mittelalterliche Volkskultur und seine Manifestationen in Literatur und Gesellschaft untersuchte. In seiner Studie Rabelais and His World (1968) argumentiert Bachtin, dass die Befreiung „from conventions and established truths“(Bachtin, in Danow, 1995, 34) während des sozialen Ereignisses des Karnival in einer Inversion der sozialen Strukturen und hegemonischen Kodes resultiert, womit eine Kritik an der existierenden sozialen Ordnung ausgedrückt wird. Diese Theorie des Grotesken ist in der Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft zur Anwendung gekommen, da es dominante Repräsentationen von sozialen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Sturkturen umkehrt und unterminiert. Innerhalb eines australischen Kontextes argumentiere ich, dass Filme wie Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989), Muriel’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1994), The Adventures of Priscilla – Queen of the Desert (Stephen Elliott, 1994), Metal Skin (Geoffrey Wright, 1995), Chopper (Andrew Domenik, 1999) oder The Castle (Robert Sitch, 1997) typisch australische Filme sind, da sie das Element des Grotesken als einen definierenden „aesthetic and thematic trend“ (Rayner, 2000, 21) verwenden und sich so von den konventionellen Normen Hollywoods absetzen. Die Figur des Grotesken ist also nicht nur ein visuelles und narratives Stilelement, sondern auch ein dominantes und definierendes Merkmal in der australischen Filmlandschaft. Die Identifikation des Grotesken als gemeinsames Merkmal populärer australischer Langfilme kann weiterführend als Beitrag zur Diskussion über ein Australian National Cinema und seine identitätsstiftende Wirkung verwendet werden.

Contemporary Australian cinema

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125730
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 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 2017-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Films and trends discussed include: the period film and Picnic at Hanging Rock; the Gothic film and the Mad Max trilogy; camp and kitsch comedy and the Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival (the definition, representation and propagation of a national image) is woven through analysis of the new Australian cinema.

Australian Cinema After Mabo

Author : Felicity Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834803
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Australian Cinema After Mabo written by Felicity Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

A Subject Index to Current Literature

Author : Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book A Subject Index to Current Literature written by Australian Public Affairs Information Service and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema

Author : Asma Sayed
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772580465
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema written by Asma Sayed and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural realities of motherhood as they are represented on screen, and explore the maternal figure as she has been glamorized and celebrated, while simultaneously subjected to public scrutiny. Collectively, this scholarly investigation provides insights into where women’s struggles converge, while also highlighting the dramatically different realities of women around the globe.

American–Australian Cinema

Author : Adrian Danks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319666762
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book American–Australian Cinema written by Adrian Danks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gender and Humor

Author : Delia Chiaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317804155
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Humor written by Delia Chiaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.

Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema

Author : Allison Craven
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783085509
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema written by Allison Craven and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Australian Cinema in the 1990s

Author : Ian Craven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136326995
Total Pages : 250 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 250 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.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films

Author : Sabine Haenni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682610
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films written by Sabine Haenni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged alphabetically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the film was produced. Ranging from Hollywood classics to international bestsellers to lesser-known representations of national cinema, this collection is deliberately broad in scope crossing decades, boundaries and genres. The encyclopedia thus provides an introduction to the historical range and scope of cinema produced throughout the world.

Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2

Author : Ben Goldsmith
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1783204818
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 written by Ben Goldsmith and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of the locations that feature prominently in the countries’ cinema. Essays by leading critics and film scholars consider the significance of the outback and the beach in films, which are evoked as a liminal space in Long Weekend and a symbol of death in Heaven’s Burning, among other films. Other contributions turn the spotlight on previously unexplored genres and key filmmakers, including Jane Campion, Rolf de Heer, Charles Chauvel and Gillian Armstrong. Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than one hundred and fifty new film reviews, complemented by film stills and significantly expanded references for further study. From The Piano to Crocodile Dundee, Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.

The Concept of the Grotesque from the Reneissance to the Twentieth Century. A Critical Study

Author : Kébir Sandy
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668201765
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of the Grotesque from the Reneissance to the Twentieth Century. A Critical Study written by Kébir Sandy and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - General, , language: English, abstract: A good understanding of the grotesque necessitates not only an account of the historical development of the word “grotesque” and its usage, but also the various concepts with which it has often been associated, and the different theories and opinions expressed about it. We begin, first of all, by giving a brief examination of the history of the term, its origin, derivation, and semantic evolution. It is widely agreed that the word “grotesque originated to describe the murals which were discovered, in the course of excavation, beneath the baths of Titus in Rome at the end of the 15th century”. These paintings present a style of art which was completely unknown at the time. It is mainly characterized by its heterogeneous nature; it combines many different and ambivalent elements: human, animal, and vegetable. In English the word “grotesque” was introduced around 1640 to replace other previous forms, which came either from the Italian, like grotesco or crotesco, or the French like, crotesque. In fact, according to the O.E.D. the French form was the first to be recorded in the language. In French, crotesque occurred in 1532 and continued to prevail until the end of the 17th century. As early as the 16th century, the word “grotesque extended in French to non artistic things and literature. In his Essai, Montaigne wrote: “Que sont ce icy aussi (Les Essais) a la vérité que crotesques et corps monstrueux”. And Rabelais used it to refer to parts of the body in "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1535), (“Couillon crotesque”). From the late 17th century, the word as an adjective knew a large usage. But in both England and Germany, it remained restricted to its early original usage until the 18th century when it got a wide application. It was associated with caricature which provoked too much emphasis on the ridiculous and a neglect of the terrible and terrifying side of the grotesque.

A Companion to Australian Cinema

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 North American Film Directors

Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364529
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary North American Film Directors written by Yoram Allon and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.

Posthuman Gothic

Author : Anya Heise-von der Lippe
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831082
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Gothic written by Anya Heise-von der Lippe and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of both Gothic and posthumanist theory, the contributors explore such varied themes as posthuman vampire and zombie narratives, genetically modified posthumans, the posthuman in video games, film and TV, the posthuman as a return to nature, the posthuman’s relation to classic monster narratives, and posthuman biohorror and theories of prometheanism and accelerationism. In its entirety, the volume offers a first attempt at addressing the various intersections of the posthuman and the Gothic in contemporary literature and media.

A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 18282017

Author : Andrew James Couzens
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088923
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 18282017 written by Andrew James Couzens and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Outlaw Nation’ is a multidisciplinary investigation into the history of cultural representations of the bushranger legend on the stage and screen, charting that history from its origins in colonial theatre works performed while bushrangers still roamed Australia’s bush to contemporary Australian cinema. It considers the influences of industrial, political and social disruptions on these representations as well as their contributions to those disruptions. The cultural history recounted in ‘Outlaw Nation’ provides not only an insight into the role of popular narrative representations of bushrangers in the development and reflection of Australian character, but also a detailed case study of the specific mechanisms at work in the symbiosis between a nation’s values and its creative production.

Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000618773
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema written by Niall Richardson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters. Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies – and engaging with the concerns voiced by gender critical feminism – this culturally oriented book critiques the representation of trans characters in a range of cinematic genres, including the musical, period costume drama, the road movie, melodrama, coming-of-age stories, and romances. The case studies address the ways in which trans identifications have been coded within the narrative and stylistic expectations of the genres. Are genre films successful in affirming trans identifications or do they reinforce trans stereotypes and anti-trans discourses? This is a timely and accessible book, which addresses Anglophonic, European and Latin American cinemas, and is ideal for students studying courses in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies or Gender Studies.