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Australian Genre Film

Author : Kelly McWilliam

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 30,20 MB

Release : 2021-04-26

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 042988981X

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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 Horror Films, 1973-2010

Author : Peter Shelley

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 20,52 MB

Release : 2012-09-13

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0786461675

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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.



Australian National Cinema

Author : Tom O'Regan

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 10,46 MB

Release : 2005-08-10

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1134933487

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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.



Johnno

Author : David Malouf

Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 10,52 MB

Release : 2015-11-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0702258032

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"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

Page : 110 pages

File Size : 17,25 MB

Release : 2018-04-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 373266676X

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Reproduction of the original: On Our Selection by Steele Rudd



Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Author : Doris Pilkington

Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press

Page : 155 pages

File Size : 34,39 MB

Release : 2013-05-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0702252050

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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

Page : 98 pages

File Size : 40,16 MB

Release : 1982

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0642992517

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Book Description

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.



Oscar and Lucinda

Author : Peter Carey

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 545 pages

File Size : 47,65 MB

Release : 2010-12-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0571267130

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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.





Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

Author : Ben Goldsmith

Publisher : Intellect Books

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 25,86 MB

Release : 2010-12-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1841503428

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This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections, their film industries remain distinct, marked by differences of scale, level of government involvement and funding and relations with other countries and national cinemas. Through essays about prominent genres and themes, profiles of directors and comprehensive reviews of significant titles, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films from Australia and New Zealand from Whale Rider to The Piano to Wolf Creek.