| Description |
xxii, 581 pages ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas
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| Contents |
Part I An Indigenous Screen Culture -- 1 You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time -- 2 Charlie's Country, Gulpilil's Body -- 3 Ivan Sen's Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place -- 4 Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre's Spear -- 5 Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen -- Part II An International Cinema -- 6 Another Green World: The Mad Max Series -- 7 Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry -- 8 Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur -- 9 Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors' Migration to Hollywood -- Part III A Minor Transnational Imaginary -- 10 Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations -- 11 Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries -- 12 The Rocket: Small, Foreign Language Cinema -- 13 Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism -- Part IV An Auteur?Genre?Landscape Cinema -- 14 An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur?Producer -- 15 Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine's Journey in Four Films -- 16 Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema -- 17 Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook -- Part V A Televisual Industry -- 18 Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence -- 19 Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident -- 20 The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model -- 21 Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories -- Part VI A Multiplatform Ecology -- 22 CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night -- 23 Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture -- 24 Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks -- 25 Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond -- 26 Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius -- Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictiures -- Australia -- History and criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Collins, Felicity, editor
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Landman, Jane, editor
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Bye, Susan, 1960- editor
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| LC no. |
2018046967 |
| ISBN |
9781118942529 hardcover |
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1118942523 hardcover |
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