The Screening of Australia: Anatomy of a national cinema
Author: Susan Dermody
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerned with the period 1970-1987; Dedicated to Bill Bonney, d.1985.
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Author: Susan Dermody
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerned with the period 1970-1987; Dedicated to Bill Bonney, d.1985.
Author: Susan Dermody
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780868191522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Screening of Australia: Anatomy of a Film Industry analyses the institutions of the revived Australian cinema from 1970 to the present. It traces the forces that led to the revival; the constraints under which the new Australian cinemahas operated and the government film bureaucracies and union policies. In particular, it traces the way that the patterns of subsidy and distibution have dictated the form and content of our films, and given high profile to the feature industry.
Author: Tom O'Regan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-10
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1134933495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective, offering detailed critiques of key films from 1970 onwards, and using them to illustrate the recent theories on the cinema industries.
Author: Tom O'Regan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-10
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1134933487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom 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.
Author: Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780814331019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected in horror films, whether from an artistic or a reception standpoint. Horror is one of the most studied genres in cinema, yet none of the many books on the subject focus on films or traditions outside the United States or the United Kingdom. While Italian, Japanese, Mexican, German, and Hong Kong horror films have received a modicum of critical recognition, the areas of Egyptian, Romanian, Belgian, Dutch, New Zealand, and Thai horror all still need-in fact, demand-some attention. Horror International seeks to rectify this by giving the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema its due. This groundbreaking collection of eighteen original essays examine a myriad of films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns. The production, marketing, and reception of various national cinemas are also addressed, demonstrating how these films are understood by different audiences worldwide. This in turn sheds new light on the original cultural production of many works and their subsequent "translations" and meanings in different national contexts. The diverse and highly informative essays in Horror International will engross both scholars and fans of horror films and finally illuminate the distinct multicultural factors of this exciting cinematic genre.
Author: Brian McFarlane
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1496835344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company. Unlike some directors, he derived from this experience a sure sense of the commercial aspects of filmmaking, as well as its aesthetic considerations. The volume also considers stories of his early education in a Catholic seminary, which he drew on in his semiautobiographical film, The Devil’s Playground, the success of which launched him as an exciting new feature director. The volume expands on Schepisi’s success story to chart his development as a director in demand in other countries, notably in the US and the UK, as well as continuing to make major films in Australia. Brian McFarlane argues that Schepisi’s career is symptomatic of Australian directors who have made their presences felt on the international stage. Whereas other key directors of the Australian film revival, such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford, have been the subject of book-length critical studies, Schepisi’s career has not to-date been so explored. McFarlane takes a critical account of Schepisi’s film output—including such standouts as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation, Mr. Baseball, and Last Orders—and he augments analysis with interviews with the director. By discussing the production histories and both critical and popular receptions, McFarlane’s study shines a new light on Schepisi’s work and his rise to prominence in the global film industry.
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1838718699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies. Sections address Hollywood and other World cinema histories, key genres in both fiction and non-fiction film, issues such as stars, technology and authorship, and major theoretical approaches to understanding film.
Author: Jonathan Rayner
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2022-06-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1786838915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book reads the Gothic characteristics of Australian cinema within their national, cultural context. The book relates the key motifs and concerns of Gothic literature to the styles, narratives and significance of Australian films. The book places examples of Australian Gothic film within the Australian filmmaking and film criticism, and relates these to the wider trends of international horror film.
Author: Adrian Danks
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 3319666762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Felicity Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-10-27
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521834803
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