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A companion to Australian cinema / Edited by Felicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan Bye Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 71(94) COMAuthor: Collins, Felicity ; Columpar, Corinn ; Rutherford, Anne ; Ford, Felicity ; Kelada, Odette ; Clark, Maddee ; Verevis, Constantine ; Goldsmith, Ben ; French, Lisa ; David Marshall, P. ; Bennett, James ; Grace, Helen ; Khoo, Olivia ; Yue, Audrey ; Bye, Susan ; Sandars, Diana ; Stadler, Jane ; Gaunson, Stephen ; Trevisanut, Amanda Malel ; Turnbull, Sue ; McCutcheon, Marion ; Goritsas, Helen ; Tiwary, Ana ; Lambert, Anthony ; Gibson, Ross ; Cunningham, Stuart ; Swift, Adam ; Williams, Deane ; Smaill, Belinda ; Neumark, Norie Source: US/UKPlace: Hoboken, New JerseyPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPubDate: 2019PhysDes: xxii, 581 pages ; 26 cmSeries: Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemaSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; INDIGENOUS ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; GENRES ; THEORY ; CAMPION, JANE ; CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2013) ; SPEAR (AT, Stephen Page, 2015) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (AT/US, George Miller, 2015) ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; LEGO MOVIE, THE (US/AT/DK, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014) ; ROCKET, THE (AT/TH/LS, Kim Mordaunt, 2013) ; SERANGOON ROAD [TV] (AT/SI, 2013 -) ; KETTERING INCIDENT, THE [TV](AT, 2015-) ; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953) Summary: The essays assembled here address six thematically organized propositions - that Australian cinema an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an auteur-genre-landscape cinema, 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 naturecam documentaries. New research on trends such as the Blak Wave, 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 transformed by new realities beyond both cinema and national borders. --
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, evaluating 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. --
Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies. --
Felicity Collins is Reader/ Associate Professor in Screen Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia --
Jane Landman was Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia --
Susan Bye is Education Programmer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia. --Book JacketNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- signed by Felicity CollinsISBN: 9781118942529Contents: You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time / Felicity Collins -- Charlie's Country, Gulpilil's Body / Corinn Columpar -- Ivan Sen's Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place / Anne Rutherford
-- Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre's Spear / Felicity Ford -- Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen / Maddee Clark / Odette Kelada -- Another Green World: The Mad Max Series / Constantine Verevis -- Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry / Ben Goldsmith -- Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur / Lisa French -- Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors's; Migration to Hollywood / P. David Marshall -- Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations / James Bennett -- Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries / Helen Grace -- The Rocket: Small, Foreign-Language Cinema / Olivia Khoo -- Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism / Audrey Yue -- An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur-Producer / Susan Bye -- Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine's Journey in Four Films / Diana Sandars -- Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema / Jane Stadler -- Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook / Stephen Gaunson -- Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence / Amanda Malel Trevisanut -- Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident / Marion McCutcheon / & Sue Turnbull -- The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model / Helen Goritsas & Ana Tiwary -- Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories / Anthony Lambert -- CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night / Ross Gibson -- Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture / Adam Swift & Stuart Cunningham -- Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks / Deane Williams -- Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond / Belinda Smaill -- Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius / Norie Neumark
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Mothers of invention : film, media, and caregiving labor / edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, April 2022.
Call No: 451-055.52 MOTAuthor: Mayer, So ; Columpar, Corinn Edition: 2022Place: Detroit, MichiganPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: April 2022PhysDes: 368 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and mediaSubject: BASHU, GHARIBETH KOUCHAK (IR, Bahram Beiz'i, 1986) ; COVID NINETEEN ; DOCUMENTARIES ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; GENRES ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; MOTHERS IN FILMS ; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA Summary: Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Laborconstructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality.
In four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an exciting array of approaches—including textual analysis, industry studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal reflection—Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach—from the films Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016), and A Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to the television series Top of the Lake (2013–2017) and Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), among others—as well as discussion of the creative practices, be they related to production, pedagogy, curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film and media artists and/or scholars.
Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780814348529Donation: Senses of Cinema
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