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Call No: 761 WIL
Author: Williams, Deane
Source: UK
Place: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 165 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; THREE IN ONE (AT, Cecil Holmes, 1956); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); MIKE AND STEPHANI (AT, Maslyn Williams, 1948-49); OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946); VALLEY IS OURS, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1948)
Summary: "This book is, at one level, a selective history of Australian documentary film in the immediate post-war years. At another level it is a sketch of an internationalist progressive film culture in the same place and period. It examines some landmark films in Australian Film History and places these important works in an international context. In this work of film history Deane Williams proposes that, while these films have been understood as inferior remakes of "overseas" written, theatrical and filmic texts, these films are evidence of an Australian film culture that was a key participant in an international network of documentary practice and criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165); Includes filmography: p. [153]-156.
ISBN: 9781841502106
Contents: A realist film unit and association in Australia -- Cecil Holmes's folk politics : the intertextuality of Thee in one -- John Heyer's international perspective : The overlanders, The valley is ours, The back of beyond -- The neo-realism of Mike and Stefani -- Settler journeys

Call No: 79BAC ELS
Author: Else, Eric
Place: London
Publisher: Longmans
PubDate: 1968
PhysDes: [8], 176 p. illus., maps. 25 cm
Subject: BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); HEYER, JOHN
Notes: Bibliography: p. 174-175
LON: 78402907; 90871

Call No: 79BAC LAW
Author: Lawson, Sylvia
CorpAuthor: Australian Screen Classics
Source: AT
Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW; Canberra
Publisher: Currency Press; National Film and Sound Archive
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: viii, 76 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Series: Australian screen classics, 1447-557X
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HEYER, JOHN; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)
Summary: The Back of Beyond is a 1954 documentary celebrating the life and times of Australia's best known Royal Mail driver Tom Kruse in outback central Australia. It tells the story of how he battled isolation, heat, sand and flood to deliver mail, stores and supplies to the families along the 517 kilometre Birdsville Track. In her book, Lawson gives an in-depth and thoughtful critique of the film, giving its historical context within documentary tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography; Co-published with National Film and Sound Archive
ISBN: 9780868199757
ISSN: 1447-557X
Contents: -- Part one: Before Television,After Grierson -- Part two: 'A Carrier Called Kruse' -- Part three: On to the Track -- Part four: The Education of a Director -- Part five: Tracking Documentary -- Part six: East of Maralinga -- Part seven: The Lectern and the Water-Cart -- Part eight: A Film in Rear Vision -- Part nine: 'Poetry and Earthiness' -- Part 10: History Lessons, Scenic Flights

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)

Call No: 675.1(94) LAW
Author: Lawrence, Denny
Source: AT
Place: [North Ryde, NSW?]
Publisher: Australian Film and Television School
PubDate: [1980?]
PhysDes: 60 leaves : 30 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921); KID STAKES, THE (AT, Tal Ordell, 1927); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); [FORTY THOUSAND] 40,000 HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940); OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946); SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971); BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PURE S (AT, Bert Deling, 1976); CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976); DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (AT, Kenneth Brampton, 1920); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); THREE IN ONE (AT, Cecil Holmes, 1956); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); CASTOR AND POLLUX (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1973); MOVING ON (AT, Richard Mason, 1974); PETERSEN (AT, Tim Burstall, 1974); LEISURE (AT, Bruce Petty, 1976); STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); LOVE LETTERS FROM TERALBA ROAD (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1977); SINGER AND THE DANCER, THE (AT, Gillian Amrstrong, 1977); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); MOUTH MUSIC (NZ, Gregor Nichlas, 1981); MOUTH TO MOUTH (AT, John Duigan, 1978); LAST TASMANIAN, THE (AT, Tom Haydon, 1978); NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978); STEPPING OUT (AT, Chris Noonan, 1980); STIR (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1980); BEST FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: A list of important Australian films in two categories, films of aesthetic merit (list A), and films of historical or sociological importance (list B), with a brief synopsis of each.
Notes: Reprinted October 1980
Contents: Introduction -- Methodology -- Notes on revision -- Film acquisition -- Australian cinema history on film -- references; List - category A: The sentimental bloke (1919) -- On our selection (1920) -- A girl of the bush -- The kid stakes -- For the term of his natural life -- Forty thousand horsemen -- The overlanders -- Sons of Matthew -- Back of beyond -- Desert people -- Wake in fright -- Between wars -- Sunday too far away -- Picnic at Hanging Rock -- Pure S -- Caddie -- The Devil's playground -- Don's party -- F J Holden -- Newsfront -- Mad Max -- My brilliant career - Palm Beach - Breaker Morant; List - category B: Robbery under arms (1920) -- Dad and Dave come to town -- The Rats of Tobruk -- Jedda -- Three in one -- They're a weird mob -- The daventures of Barry McKenzie -- Where dead men lie -- Gentle strangers -- Castor and Pollux -- Moving on -- Petersen -- Leisure -- Storm boy -- All in the same boat -- The getting of wisdom -- Love letters from Teralba Road -- The singer and the dancer -- The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -- Mouth to mouth -- The last Tasmanian -- The night the prowler -- Stepping out -- Stir

Call No: 71(93) CIN
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: 24 Frames
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906); WOMAN SUFFERS, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1918); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); PHANTOM STOCKMAN, THE (AT, Lee Robinson, 1953); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1954); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); FREE RADICALS (NZ, Len Lye, 1958); RUNAWAY (NZ, John O'Shea, 1964); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966); ONE NIGHT THE MOON (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2001); SLEEPING DOGS (NZ, Roger Donaldson, 1977); VIGIL (NZ, Vincent Ward, 1984); IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1984); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); OSCAR AND LUCINDA (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1997); AFTER MABO (AT, Richard Frankland, 1997); CHOPPER (AT, Andrew Dominik, 2000); GODDESS OF 1967, THE (AT, Clara Law, 2000); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001); TWO LAWS (AT, Alessandro Cavadini & Carolyn Strachan, 1981); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the commercially successful narrative feature films from Australia and New Zealand, including key documentaries, shorts and independent films. This coverage also invokes issues of national identity, race, history and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat from Hollywood.
Notes: Includes filmography. Includes bibliography and index.
ISBN: 9781904764960

Call No: 71(94) COM
Author: 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/UK
Place: Hoboken, New Jersey
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: xxii, 581 pages ; 26 cm
Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinema
Subject: 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 Jacket
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- signed by Felicity Collins
ISBN: 9781118942529
Contents: 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

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: vi, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. US; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [297]-311
ISBN: 0195018354 : $10.95
LON: 74079618; 462942

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Edition: 2nd rev. ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: This is the second revised edition of Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film. Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index
ISBN: 0195078985 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $10.95
LON: 9430204

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Eric
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 332 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
ISBN: 0195018354
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- 1: glimpse of wonders -- 2: images at work -- 3: sound and fury -- 4: clouded lens -- sharp focus -- afterword -- source notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; HEYER, JOHN
Author: Lennon, Troy
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; HEYER, JOHN; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)
Summary: Historical profile of Australian filmmaker John Heyer

Call No: F53 PER
Author: Perkins, W. H.
Source: Australia
Place: Hobart
Publisher: Fullers Bookshop
PubDate: 1968
PhysDes: 320 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: COURSES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; WESTERNS; LAW IN FILMS; TRIALS IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; OLIVER TWIST (UK, David Lean, 1948); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); TWELVE ANGRY MEN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1957); [THREE TEN] 3:10 TO YUMA (US, Delmer Daves, 1957); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)

Call No: 761-054.721(94) KUO
Author: Kuo, Liangwen
Edition: 2010
Place: Amherst, New York
Publisher: Cambria Press
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: xvi,308 pages ; illustrated : 24 cm
Subject: MIGRATION; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)
Summary: The population in Australia was about seven million in 1945, and it almost doubled in the thirty years from the beginning of the post-war immigration scheme. Of this population increase, more than three million were born overseas. In the two World Wars, Australia experienced threats from other powers and recognized the need to absorb more people to defend its nation, gradually changing its attitude toward the acceptance of non-British immigrants. In the famous speech “How Many Australians Tomorrow?” addressed by Migration Minister Arthur Calwell in 1945, concerns about population increase and national security were raised. “Populate or perish” became the dominant theme in nation’s development issues. It goes with saying that the foundation of the modern Australian nation is based upon immigration. Migration documentary films played an important role in promoting Australian images to the outside world. Many films were made in this period to fulfill the function of migrant-recruiting and nation-building objectives. In these films, Australia was presented as a progressive and liberal nation seeking to establish her identities. The slogan “Australia for the White Man” prevailed over the entire period from 1908 to 1961. It was not until 1972 that The White Australia Policy was officially abolished. The historical meanings of these transformations are definitely worth exploring. The relationships among immigration policies, documentary films and the construction of national identities become valuable subjects for examination. This innovative book is the first in the field that comes with a systematic and comprehensive study of migration documentary films in post-war Australia. In the analysis of the sixty-seven films, this book reveals that the project for recruiting migrants to settle in Australia was not a simple matter of overseas campaigns. The terrain for media publicity was never just the emigrant countries and the target audience were both foreigners and local Australians. These migration documentary films are actually propaganda films in nature. However, visual images, narratives, and myths represented in these films were important in the self-depiction of Australian and in the formative discourse of national identity. This book shows how absences and under-representations of film images are important to examine in order to fully understand the particular, utopian visions of the post-war period. This book argues that open-door policies, coastal images, and modernization narratives gradually became a new “maritime myth” in the quest of a redefined Australian identity, and “new Australians”, the post-war immigrants, became battlers, echoing the “bush legend” existing in the Australian narrative. Themes of modernization, industrialization, Anglo-centric identity, “the Australian way of life” itself, political freedom, and democracy of the overall films were stressed. Yet, the massive immigration scheme initiated by the government in the 1950s had facilitated the metamorphosis of the Australian East coast into a new symbolic “centre.” The Red Centre, the bush, the wilderness, the country and the land gave way to the major cities and ports for their strategic positions in Australian modernization and industrial development. “Looking to the coast” with maritime prospects became a new direction of national development and identity formation perhaps pre-dating the seeking the centre’ clichés of the 1970s. These migration documentary films actually represent the most explicit state initiative to represent an ideal of what Australia was and would be. Scholars and students whose interests include documentary films, immigration, ethnicity, national identity, and propaganda would find this book to be a valuable resource. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781604976878
Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: In Search of Identities -- Chapter 2: Mobilising the Documentaries and Other Media -- Chapter 3: Narrating the Nation -- Chapter 4: Modernity in Case Study Films -- Chapter 5: Identity and Liberty in Case Study Films -- Chapter 6: Nation-Building Publicity: Australia at School -- Chapter 7: National Identity and Documentary Discourse Revisited -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Author: O'Regan, Tom
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)
Summary: Interview with Australian writer filmmaker Ross Gibson about "The Back of Beyond"

Author: Burton, Geoff
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HEYER, JOHN; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953)
Summary: Article celebrates the 60th anniversary of the famous Australian documentary film, John Heyer's The Back of Beyond (1953)