| Description |
vii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Reframing Australian cinema: transnationalism, ethics, and Asian Australian cinema -- Part A. Reframing national cinema history -- Asian stereotypes in 1920s -- Australian cinema: the cook, the thief, the wife and lover -- Colombo plan documentary: Australia and Asia in the postwar era -- The transnationalisation of the Australian western: Japanese-Australian productions in the late 1960's -- Part B. Australia's film renaissance and beyond: uneasy cinematic encounters -- Romance, entrepreneurialism and the intercultural couple -- The global back of beyond: ethics and the Asian Australian road movie -- Landscape cinema: asianness and indigeneity -- Part C. Networks and technologies: contemporary Asian Australian cinema -- new ethics in the Asian Australian short film -- The community cultural development of action cinema -- Co-productions and new queer paradigms for mobilities and migration -- Endnotes |
| Summary |
This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema's transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Subject |
Asian Australians
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Motion pictures -- Australia -- Asian influences.
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Motion pictures -- Australia -- Foreign influences.
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Asians -- Australia.
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Motion pictures -- Australia -- History.
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| Author |
Smaill, Belinda.
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Yue, Audrey.
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| ISBN |
0739173243 (hbk.) |
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9780739173244 (hbk.) |
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