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Australian comedy films of the 1930s : modernity, the urban and the international / Lesley Speed St. Kilda, Vic.: Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), c2015.
Call No: 732(94) SPEAuthor: Speed, Lesley Source: ATPlace: St. Kilda, Vic.Publisher: Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM)PubDate: c2015PhysDes: 128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Subject: COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; EFFTEE STUDIO ; CINESOUND STUDIOS ; HANNA, PAT ; WALLACE, GEORGE ; CO-RESPONDENT'S COURSE (AT, E.A. Dietrich-Derrick, 1931) ; DIGGERS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1931) ; HAUNTED BARN, THE (AT, E.A. Dietrich-Derrick, 1931) ; SHOWGIRL'S LUCK (AT, Norman Dawn, 1931) ; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932) ; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932) ; HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932) ; DIGGERS IN BLIGHTY (AT, Pat Hanna, 1933) ; HARMONY ROW (AT, F.W. Thring, 1933) ; HAYSEEDS, THE (AT, Beaumont Smith, 1933) ; TICKET IN TATTS, A (AT, F.W. Thring, 1934) ; CLARA GIBBINGS (AT, F.W. Thring, 1934) ; STRIKE ME LUCKY (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1935) ; SPLENDID FELLOWS (AT, Beaumont Smith, 1934) ; GRANDAD RUDD (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1935) ; WHITE DEATH (AT, Edwin G. Bowen, 1936) ; RANGLE RIVER (AT, Clarence G. Badger, 1936) ; IT ISN'T DONE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937) ; TALL TIMBERS (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937) ; LET GEORGE DO IT (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938) ; DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938) ; GONE TO THE GOGS (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1939) ; ANTS IN HIS PANTS (AT, William Freshman, 1939) Summary: Comedy has been a perpetual part of Australian film, in which humour reflects Australia's adaptation in times of crisis, social change and technological advances. This was never more so than in the 1930s, when Australia produced more comedy feature films than in any other decade before 1970. These films of the 1930s embraced the new technology of sound, made local vaudeville performers into movie stars, offered escape from the Depression and revealed a diverse and international Australia. In these films, Australia moved further from Empire and the bush, forged the Digger legend, responded to cultural diversity and viewed itself as a modern, urban nation. Influenced by Hollywood, Australian comedies of the 1930s adapted international styles to local points of view. Based on research at the National Film and Sound Archive, Lesley Speed's book provides new insight into Australian comedy films of the 1930s and the extraordinary period of social change in which they were produced. [taken from the back cober]ISBN: 9781876467258Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Comedy films and 1930s Australia -- Comedian comedies, Pat Hanna and George Wallace -- 'The best men in the metropolis' : Speech and language in films of Pat Hanna and George Wallace -- Strike me lucky, silly ass: Ethnicity and class difference -- From bush to the city: The Dad and Dave films -- Looking at home for 'something really ultra': Modernity, gender and the international -- Select filmography -- Select bibliography -- Notes
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Australian genre film / edited by Kelly McWilliam and Mark David Ryan New York: Routledge,
Call No: 730(94) AUSAuthor: McWilliam, Kelly ; Ryan, Mark David Edition: 2021Place: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePhysDes: 248 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Rutledge advances in film studiesSubject: AUSTRALIA ; GENRES ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; TEEN FILMS ; WAR FILMS AUSTRALIA Summary: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop.
The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western.
This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781138603141Contents: 1. Australian Film Genre Studies / Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam -- 2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema / Amanda Howell -- 3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century / Adrian Danks -- 4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International / Lesley Speed -- 5. New Australian Crime Drama / Greg Dolgopolov -- 6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies / Mark David Ryan -- 7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream / Liz Giuffre -- 8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie / Deborah Thomas -- 9. Courting the Romance / Kelly McWilliam -- 10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008 / Andrew James Couzens -- 11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film / Kelly McWilliam -- 12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers / Jonathan Rayner -- 13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia / Daniel Reynaud -- 14. Questioning the Australian Western / Grayson Cooke.
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Australian images / Barrie McMahon, Robyn Quin Marrickville, N.S.W.: Science Press, 1990.
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The Barry McKenzie movies / Tony Moore Sydney: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission, 2005.
Call No: 79BAR MORAuthor: Moore, Tony Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Currency Press, Australian Film CommissionPubDate: 2005PhysDes: x, 86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.Series: Australian screen classicsSubject: AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; EVERAGE, DAME EDNA ; BERESFORD, BRUCE ; HUMPHRIES, BARRY ; ADAMS, PHILLIP ; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) Summary: With irresponsible humour and sharp-witted insight Tony Morre explores the subversive satire of the films, their influence on his generation, and what they have to say about who we are today. Included is a glossary of Bazza-isms written by Barry Humphries.ISBN: 0868197483ISSN: 1447557X
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Boom-boom! / Rob Johnson & David Smiedt Rydalmere, N.S.W.: Hodder Headline Australia, 1999.
Call No: 732(94) JOHAuthor: Johnson, Rob, 1969 ; Smiedt, David Place: Rydalmere, N.S.W.Publisher: Hodder Headline AustraliaPubDate: 1999PhysDes: viii, 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDY PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIENNES. AUSTRALIA ; ADAMS, PHILLIP ; GLEISNER, TOM ; MCDERMOTT, PAUL ; O'DONOGHUE, RORY ; BAILEY, BERT ; BOND, GRAHAME ; BOURNE, SHANE ; BROWN, NOELINE ; CILAURO, SANTO ; CHATER, GORDON ; CREYTON, BARRY ; DENTON, ANDREW ; FAHEY, MARYANNE ; FERGUSON, TIM ; GILLIES, MAX ; GRILLS, LUCKY ; GYNGELL, KIM ; HALL, KEN G. ; HARMER, WENDY ; HOGAN, PAUL ; HUMPHRIES, BARRY ; KENNEDY, GRAHAM ; LAMOND, TONI ; MCDONALD, GARRY ; QUANTOCK, ROD ; RAYE, CAROL ; REILLY, GARY ; SITCH, ROB ; SORRENTI, VINCE ; SZUBANSKI, MAGDA ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; BIG GIG, THE [TV] (AT, Ted Robinson, 1989) ; FRONTLINE [TV] (AT, 1994- ) ; MAVIS BRAMSTON SHOW [TV] (AT, 1964-1968) ; IN MELBOURNE TONIGHT [TV] (AT, 1957-?, 1997-) ; AUNTY JACK SHOW, THE [TV] (AU, 1972-73) ; COMEDY COMPANY, THE [TV] (AT, 1988-1990) ; D-GENERATION [TV] (AT, 1986-?) ; FAST FORWARD [TV] (AT, 1988-1989?) Notes: Includes index; "An Allison Pressley book."ISBN: 0733609384 : $24.95LON: 14529909
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The chaser annual / by Charles Firth, et al. Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, 2001.
Call No: 79CHA FIRAuthor: Firth, Charles ; Knight, Dominic ; Morrow, Julian ; Reucassel, Craig ; Taylor, Chris Source: ATPlace: Melbourne, Vic.Publisher: Text PublishingPubDate: 2001PhysDes: 103 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: COMEDIES ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDY PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDY PROGRAMMES ; COMEDY TV. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDY TV.AUSTRALIA ; CHASER'S WAR ON EVERYTHING, THE [TV] (AT, Mark FitzGerald, Bradley Howard, Craig Melville, 2006) ; CHASER, THE [TV], (AT, 2001-) Notes: Vols. for 2007- cataloged as a serial in LCISBN: 1877008060Contents: -- mandatory joke about John Hopoate -- series of lame fat gags dressed up as satirical piece on Kim Beazley -- weak patch where nothing really happens -- really obvious cheap shot at some dead celebrity -- slightly boring piece about US-Sino relations -- predictable joke about Big Brother -- contrived reference to obscure government agency, to indicate we follow politics -- predictable joke about Big Brother (rerprise) --
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Comedy in the Movies: Two : Practically Funny in Melbourne Film Bulletin (September 1968) iss.5 p.10-20
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Dimboola : a wedding reception play / Jack Hibberd Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1979.
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Film in Australia : an introduction / Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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The New Australian cinema / editor: Scott Murray, associate editor: Peter Beilby West Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, 1980.
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The screening of Australia : anatomy of a national cinema / Susan Dermody, Elizabeth Jacka Sydney: Currency Press, 1987-<1988.
Call No: 71(94) DER v.2Author: Dermody, Susan ; Jacka, Elizabeth Place: SydneyPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 1987-<1988PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cmSeries: Australian screen seriesSubject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIA ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schultz, 1983) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982) ; MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965) ; ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982) ; F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977) ; HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981) ; KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978) ; PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979) ; PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) ; TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980) ; WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)LON: 5369777
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