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Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 1)
Author: King, Noel; Verevis, Constantine; Williams, Deane
Source: UK/US
Place: Bristol, UK; Chicago
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2013-
PhysDes: xii, 174 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Australian film theory and criticism
Subject: CRITICISM; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; FILM
Summary: 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, people, and institutions across this influential period, contributors examine a multitude of books and journal articles published in Australia and distributed internationally. They offer important insights about the origins of Australian film theory and its relationship to the related disciplines of art history, performance art, and digital media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and appendix.
ISBN: 9781841505817 (v. 1) -- 9781783200375 (v. 2)
Contents: Volume 1 -- Preface / Patrice Petro -- Introduction: Chapter one: Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams --; Part one: Institutions -- Chapter two: Film Theory Goes to Australia / Constantine Verevis -- Chapter three: Writing the Australian Film Revival / Constantine Verevis --; Part two: Personnel -- Chapter four: Cultural Mobility and Film Studies in Australia 1975-1990 / Noel King --; Part three: Criticism -- Chapter five: Shifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History / Deane Williams -- Chapter six: Australian Film Theory and Criticism and Cultural Studies / Deane Williams --; Conclusion -- Chapter seven: Contemporary Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams. -- Volume Two -- Introduction: Serious film studies and magpies / Noel King and Deane Williams -- Part I: Brisbane -- "From 'pictures' to formats" / Albert Moran interviewed by Noel King -- "Everyone's go their favourite periods of Cunningham's career, and it's always something before the present!" / Stuart Cunningham interiewed by Noel King -- "For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies" / Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King -- "The circulation of ideas" / Tom O'Regan interviewed by Deane Williams -- "We just thought we were unstoppable" / Colin and Jane Crisp interviewed by Noel King -- "I loved best when really practical solutions had to be found for artistic problems" / Jonathan Dawson interviewed by Noel King -- Part II: Melbourne -- "Early on I'd been an inveterate attender of Saturday matinees" / Mick Counihan interviewed by Noel King -- "Ye, but it never entered my head that it would ever become a field as such ..." / Barbara Creed interviewed by Deane Williams -- "This is all part of the historical process" / Ina Bertrand interviewed by Deane Williams --

Author: King, Noel
PhysDes: Interview; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: WESTERNS; BUSCOMBE, ED; HAWKS, HOWARD
Summary: Ed Buscombe comments on the resurgence of critical interest in the western, and speaks about the Howard Hawks retrospective.

Author: King, Noel
PhysDes: Interview; Illustration(s)
Subject: MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MILLER, GEORGE
Summary: Interview with director George Miller, focusing on the "Mad Max" films and the announcement that there will be a "Mad Max 4".