Australian Film Theory and Criticism
Australian Film Theory and Criticism

Author: Deane Williams

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2013-07-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1783203242

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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, personnel, and institutions across this formative period, Noel King, Constantine Verevis, and Deane Williams examine a multitude of books and journal articles published in Australia and distributed internationally though such processes as publication in overseas journals, translation, and reprinting. At the same time, they offer important insights about the origins of Australian film theory and its relationship to such related disciplines as English, and cultural studies. Ultimately, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 delineates the historical implications—and reveals the future possibilities—of establishing new directions of inquiry for film studies in Australia and internationally.

Australian Screen in the 2000s
Australian Screen in the 2000s

Author: Mark David Ryan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 3319482998

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This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films’ preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on particular genres (horror, blockbusters and comedy), Indigenous Australian film and television, women’s filmmaking, queer cinema, representations of history, Australian characters in non-Australian films and films about Australians in Asia, as well as chapters on sound in Australian cinema and the distribution of screen content. The book is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader. It will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of Anglophone film and television, as well as to anyone with an interest in Australian culture and creativity.

Science Fiction Audiences
Science Fiction Audiences

Author: Henry Jenkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-25

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1134926146

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Science Fiction Audiences considers the continuing popularity of two television `institutions' of our time through an examination of their followers and fans.

Don't Shoot Darling!
Don't Shoot Darling!

Author: Annette Blonski

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780864360588

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Australia's film industry was amongst the earliest and most innovative in the world -- and women contributed substantially to this. Over forty contributors have made this book a fascinating and definitive record of independent women's filmmaking in Australia. The book contains essays and statements by film theorists and film makers.

Film and Nationalism
Film and Nationalism

Author: Alan Larson Williams

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780813530390

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This text examines the ways in which conema has been considered an arena of conflict and interaction between nations and nationhood.

The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television
The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television

Author: Albert Moran

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0810870223

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Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how Australia has gone from being a minor and rather parochial player to being a significant part of the international scene. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television provides essential facts and information concerning the Australian radio and television industry. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, television and radio series, and television and radio stations.

Contemporary Australian cinema
Contemporary Australian cinema

Author: Jonathan Rayner

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1526125730

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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.

The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies
The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies

Author: James Donald

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008-04-16

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1446206823

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Written by a team of veteran scholars and exciting emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the field internationally, drawing out regional differences in the way that systematic intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been translated into an academic discipline. It examines the conversations between Film Studies and its contributory disciplines that not only defined a new field of discourse but also modified existing scholarly traditions. It reflects on the field′s dominant paradigms and debates and evaluates their continuing salience. Finally, it looks forward optimistically to the future of the medium of film, the institution of cinema and the discipline of Film Studies at a time when the very existence of film and cinema are being called into question by new technological, industrial and aesthetic developments.