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journal article		After The Fox : whither film culture? in Metro (2000) iss.121/122 p.9-12 Author: Hodsdon, Barrett PhysDes: Article; Bibliography Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: Comments on the role and direction of screen culture in Australia. More info
journal article		The art of govenment : Khoa Do's The finished people and the policy reform of Community Cultural Development in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.177-193 Author: Brook, Scott PhysDes: Article Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) Summary: This article considers the production of the independent feature The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) in terms of a key factor reviewers and critics chose to play down: namely, that the director sought to capture public interest in Cabramatta (a suburb in Sydney's south west promoted as Australia's ‘most multicultural suburb’) in order to lift a Community Cultural Development (CCD) project out of the suburbs and deliver it to audiences of art-house cinema. While the film's representational strategies clearly reflect a tradition of independent Asian Australian cinema that critically negotiates the identity politics of state-sponsored multiculturalism, the film's mode of production had less to do with the avant-garde agendas reviewers compared it with, and more to do with an enduring governmental regime of pastoral pedagogy dedicated to the correction of ‘at risk’ subjects. Furthermore, the project strongly anticipated recent policy reforms to CCD initiated by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2004. Under the flexible rubric ‘Creative Communities’ these reforms seek to steer CCD workers away from cultural development as a narrow target of government intervention, and towards a more open and flexible range of policy goals and objectives. A close reading of the film's context of production reveals how such a policy shift might be expected to increase opportunities for local content to move between fields of cultural production, even as it multiplies dilemmas of formal accountability and aesthetic evaluation. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2 More info
book		Artists and the "creation" of Australia : a discussion paper with positive proposals / Arts Action Australia Inc Clayton, Vic.: Ideas for Australia 1991-1992 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, 1991. Call No: 408.1(94) ART CorpAuthor: Arts Action Australia Inc; Monash University. National Centre for Australian Studies; Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program Source: AT Place: Clayton, Vic. Publisher: Ideas for Australia 1991-1992 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 12 p. ; 30 cm Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover title ISBN: 0732602793 LON: 8395440 More info
book		Australian cultural studies : a reader / edited by John Frow and Meaghan Morris St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1993. Call No: 408.1(94) AUS Author: Frow, John, 1948; Morris, Meaghan Place: St Leonards, N.S.W. Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xxxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Series: Questions in cultural studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SERIALS. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHAMBERLAIN, AZARIA; EMBASSY [TV] (AT, Paul Moloney/Mark Callan/Karl Steinberg, 1991 -) Notes: CIP confirmed; Bibliography: p. 292-296 ISBN: 1863734996 : 439.95; 1863734147 (pbk.) : $19.95 LON: 13615766; 9721242 More info
book		Australian Film Festival : New York 1978 press digest / New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc. New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc., [1978]. Call No: 151(73) AUSTRALIAN "1978" CorpAuthor: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc. Source: AT Publisher: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc. PubDate: [1978] PhysDes: 32 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm Subject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES FILM CORPORATION; NOYCE, PHILLIP; SHARMAN, JIM; THOMPSON, JACK; CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978); STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975) Summary: A collection of clippings from US print media relating to the Australian Film Festival in 1978. More info
book		Australian national cinema / Tom O'Regan London New York: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 408.1(94) ORE Copy Management: 2 copies Author: O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cm Series: National cinemas series Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-391) and indexes ISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302 LON: 12193364 Contents: 1. Introducing Australian national cinema -- 2. Theorizing Australian cinema -- 3. A national cinema -- 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema -- 5. Formations of value -- 6. Making meaning -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Unity -- 9. Negotiating cultural transfers -- 10. A distinct place in the cinema -- 11. Problematizing the social -- 12. Problematizing gender -- 13. Problematizing nationhood -- 14. Critical dispositions. More info
book		"Australian-ness" and the film industry : between rhetorics of business and national culture / by Susan Dermody in collaboration with Elizabeth Jacka Broadway, [NSW]: News South Wales Institute of Technology, Call No: 408.1(94) DER Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth Edition: June, 1983 Place: Broadway, [NSW] Publisher: News South Wales Institute of Technology PhysDes: 22 pages ; 30 cm Series: Media Papers; No. 18 Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Occasional papers in Media Studies; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences More info
book		Australian popular culture / edited by Ian Craven with Martin Gray and Geraldine Stoneham Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press, published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association, 1994. Call No: 408.1(94) CRA Author: Craven, Ian; Gray, Martin; Stoneham, Geraldine Source: UK Place: Melbourne, Australia Publisher: Cambridge University Press, published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 228 pages, 2 folded leaves ; 24 cm Series: Australian cultural studies Subject: COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside of Australia. Australian Popular Culture is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life. The collection also explores the idea of popular culture at large. Leading authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest within the categories of 'the everyday', 'the mass media' and 'critical theory'. Chapters are devoted to the Aussie Back Yard; Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; The Lindy Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher; Domesticity, leisure and love and Postmodernism and Australian Culture." -Publisher description. Notes: 2 folded leaves inserted into back of book, entitled "Australian historical studies, style sheet for book reviewers"; Some text highlighted pages 66-76 ISBN: 0521466679 Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Popular Culture as the Everyday: 1. A brief cultural history of vegemite Robert White -- 2. The Australian back yard George Seddon -- 3. Stamp duty Xavier Pons -- 4. Australian football as secular religion Stephen Alomes -- Part II. Popular Culture and the 'Mass' Media: 5. Controlling the technology of popular culture and the introduction of television to Australia James Walter -- 6. 'Crocodile Dundee': the revival of American virtue Ruth Brown -- 7. The Boys from the Bush: television coproduction in the 1990s Ian Craven -- 8. Patterns of control in Australian crime fiction Stephen Knight -- 9. National fictions and the 'Spycatcher' trial Kevin Foster -- 10. Naturalising 'horror stories': Australian crime news as popular culture Christine Higgins -- Part III. Popular Culture and Critical Theory: 11. How to be a singer though married: domesticity, leisure and modern love Kay Ferres -- 12. The Wild Colonial Boy rides again and again: an Australian legend abroad Grahame Seal -- 13. Shaping the Plain Australian: Social analysis in the 1940s and 1950s Nicholas Brown -- 14. 'On the Beach': Apocalyptic hedonism and the origins of postmodernism Andrew Milner. More info
book		The Australian screen / edited by Albert Moran and Tom O'Regan Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1989. Call No: 71(94) AUS Author: Moran, Albert, 1942; O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: Ringwood, Vic. Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: xvi, 304 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 257-286 ISBN: 0140110240 (pbk.) : price unknown LON: anb14011024; 6171822 More info
book		The Barry McKenzie movies / Tony Moore Sydney: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission, 2005. Call No: 79BAR MOR Author: Moore, Tony Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: x, 86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Series: Australian screen classics Subject: 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: 0868197483 ISSN: 1447557X More info
book		Before the interval : Australian mythology and feature films, 1930-1960 / Bruce Molloy St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1990. Call No: 408.1(94) MOL Author: Molloy, Bruce Place: St. Lucia, Qld. Publisher: University of Queensland Press PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: xviii, 244 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; CINESOUND STUDIOS; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950); HERITAGE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940); [FORTY THOUSAND] 40,000 HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940); IT ISN'T DONE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946); RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944); SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957); SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [219]-229 ISBN: 0702222690 (pbk.) LON: 6791823 Contents: Charles Chauvel, p101-164 -- Bitter Springs, p189-194 -- Dad Rudd, p60-65 -- Forty Thousand Horsemen, p144-152 -- Heritage, p107-114 -- It isn't done, p87-92 -- Jedda, p203-208 -- On Our Selection, p48-53 -- The Overlanders, p165-171 -- The Rats of Tobruk, p152-161 -- The Shiralee, p178-181 -- Sons of Matthew, p114-124 -- The Squatter's Daughter, p65-69 More info
book		The cinema of Australia and New Zealand / edited by Geoff Mayer & Keith Beattie. London: Wallflower, 2007. 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 More info
journal article		Cinemas of value : multicultural realism in Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.141-156 Author: Khoo, Olivia PhysDes: Article Subject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; JAMMED, THE (AT, Dee McLachlan, 2007); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); RA CHOI (AT, M. Frank, 2005) Summary: This article examines the use of realist aesthetics in three Australian films, Dee McLachlan's The jammed (2007), Khoa Do's The Finished People (2003) and M. Frank's Ra Choi (2005) as a way of creating ‘value’ within the terms of an Australian national cinema. ‘These films, among other examples of an emergent Asian Australian cinema’, deploy techniques of realism to build an authenticity of experience for spectators, unfamiliar with seeing portrayals of Asian Australians on screen. This article will consider what is at stake in the accepted, and often replicated, relationship between multiculturalism and realism characterizing filmic representations of Asian Australians, and will shift the focus to explore the place of idealism in the creation of value. By examining the aesthetics of what I will call ‘multicultural realism’ I aim to consider how these stylistic strategies seek to politicize certain representations over others in the films' attempt to build an alternative vision of the Australian nation and its diasporic constituents. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1 More info
book		Creating culture : the new growth industries : conference papers, 11-12 August 1994 / Commonwealth Department of Communications and the Arts [Canberra]: Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the Arts, 1994]. Call No: 161(94) CRE AUS CorpAuthor: Creating Culture Conference (1994 : Canberra, A.C.T.); Australia. Dept. of Communications and the Arts Place: [Canberra] Publisher: Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the Arts PubDate: 1994] PhysDes: 195 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover title; "These are the edited transcripts of speeches given at the "Creating Culture - the new growth industries" conference held at Parliament House, Canberra on 11 and 12 August 1994."--P. [1]; Conference organised under the Cultural Industry Development Program of the Dept. of Communications and the Arts ISBN: 0642224307 LON: 11325570 More info
book		Cultural activities policy for the Creative Development Branch, Australian Film Commission North Sydney: The Policy Unit, Executive Branch, Australian Film Commission, 1984. Call No: 408(94) CUL CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission. Creative Development Branch; Australian Film Commission. Policy Unit Place: North Sydney Publisher: The Policy Unit, Executive Branch, Australian Film Commission PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: 10 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Spiral binding ISBN: 0642108927 : price unknown LON: 3640037 More info
book		Cultural activities review : [draft papers] / prepared by the Policy Unit, Executive Branch of the Australian Film Commission, with the contribution of consultant, Frank Maloney North Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1984. Call No: 205.1 CUL CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission Source: AT Place: North Sydney Publisher: Australian Film Commission PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: 1 volume (various pagings) ; 30 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION. CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: Collection of material pertaining to a review of the cultural activities of the Australian Film Commission and it's relationship (and funding) to various aspects of Australian film culture, including: exhibition, film education, training/production support, state libraries and archives, festivals, distribution, and Australian film publications. Lists of summaries of over 30 submissions to the 'Cultural Activities Review'. Lists a draft policy of the Australian Film Commission: Cultural Activities. -- These papers are to be 'provided in preparation for public meetings to be held in Australian capital cities' held in June 1984, with recommendations 'presented to the Commission in August for later publication and circulation' [quotes from page 6]. Contents: 1. Background / page 1 -- 2. An overview / page 10 -- 3. Summaries of submissions / page 69 -- 4. Draft cultural activities policy More info
book		A cultural history of the bushranger legend in theatres and cinemas, 1828-2017 / Andrew James Couzens London ; New York: Anthem Press, 2019. Call No: 408.1(94) COU Author: Couzens, Andrew James Edition: 2019 Place: London ; New York Publisher: Anthem Press PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: ix, 246 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Series: Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture Subject: NED KELLY IN FILMS; BUSHRANGERS IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906); GLENROWAN AFFAIR, THE (AT, Rupert Kathner, 1951); NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); RECKLESS KELLY (US, Yahoo Serious [pseud. of Greg Praed], 1993); NED (AT, Abe Forsythe, 2003); PROPOSITION, THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007) Summary: The bushranger legend is an important component of Australia’s cultural history, with names like Ned Kelly and Ben Hall still provoking strong, if ambivalent, responses. Storytellers mobilize this legend in unique and exciting ways that reflect upon both the cultural and actual history of bushrangers, as well as speaking to contemporary concerns and driving debate on the national character. ‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is a multidisciplinary investigation into the history of cultural representations of the bushranger legend on the stage and screen, charting that history from its origins in colonial theatre works performed while bushrangers still roamed Australia’s bush to contemporary Australian cinema. It considers the influences of industrial, political and social disruptions on these representations as well as their contributions to those disruptions. ‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is a comprehensive cultural history of representations of bushrangers in cinema and colonial theatre. Beginning with the bushranger legend’s establishment, it explores the formative years of the representational tradition, identifying the origins of characteristics and the social and industrial mechanisms through which they passed from history to popular theatre. Tracing the legend’s development, the book interrogates the promotion of these characteristics from a contested popular history to an officially sanctioned national outlook in the cinema. Finally, it analyzes the contemporary fragmentation of the bushranger legend, attending to the dissatisfactions and challenges that arose in response to political and social debates galvanized by the 1988 bicentenary. The cultural history recounted in ‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ provides not only an into the role of popular narrative representations of bushrangers in the development and reflection of Australian character, but also a detailed case study of the specific mechanisms at work in the symbiosis between a nation’s values and its creative production. Bushrangers have had a heightened though unstable significance in Australia due to the nation’s diverse population and historical insecurities and conflicts over colonial identity, land rights and settlement. Community often defined the bushrangers in their stage and screen appearances, and the challenges that these marginalized communities faced were absorbed into the political and social mainstream. ‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is an insight into the process through which the bushranger legend earned its cultural resonance in Australia. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781783088911 Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Defining the Bushranger Legend -- Part 1: Establishing the Legend; 1. The First Bushranger Melodrama; 2. Alfred Dampier and the Nationalistic Melodrama; 3. Wild West Shows and Wild Australia; 4. Hippodramas and Edward Irham Cole -- Part 2: Developing the Legend; 5. The Bushranger Genre from Stage to Screen; 6. The Bushranger Ban; 7. British and American Interventions in the Bushranger Legend; 8. Radical Nationalism and the Bushranger Legend -- Part 3: Fragmenting the Legend; 9. Historical Revisionism and the Bushranger Legend; 10. Diversification and Inclusiveness of the Bushranger Legend; 11. Globalization of the Bushranger Legend in Outlaw Road Movies -- Conclusion --Bibliography -- Index More info
book		Culture and counter-culture : a seminar on youth and the arts / Australian Unesco Seminar, Ursula College, Australian National University, 15-19 May, 1972 Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1974. Call No: 408 CUL CorpAuthor: Australian Unesco Seminar (1972 : Australian National University) Source: AT Place: Canberra Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 172 pages ; 30 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA; FLAUS, JOHN; WEIR, PETER; THOMS, ALBIE Donation: Henry Mayer Collection Contents: Introduction / Miss Angela Moore -- Part 1: Papers of the seminar -- Opening Lecture / Mr John English -- Youth and Theatre / Mr George Whaley -- Counter-Culture as a life style / Mr Michael Rudd, Mr Doug Anders, Mr Graeme Dunstan -- The chances of survival of music's traditional forms / Mr D. Ahern, Dr C Hill -- Is patronage a blight on experimental art? / Mr Rodney Hall, Mr John Hopkins, Mr Ron Watkins, Dr G. Pont, Mr J. Phillips -- The Visual and plastic arts - points of view / Mr Patrick McCaughey -- Public Lecture / Mr John English -- Which Culture Counter What? / Mr A. Bear -- The Electric Humanities - Film and Television / Mr J. Flaus, Mr K. Guyatt, Mr Peter Weir, Mr Albie Thoms -- Writing / Mr Frank Moorhouse, Dr Norman Talbot -- Part II: Proceedings -- Workshop Reports -- Visual Arts / Mr Edward Snell -- T.V. / Mr Peter Weir -- Drama / Mr Mike Morris -- Music / Mr David Aherd -- Part III - Appendixes -- Appendix I - Seminar Program -- Appendix II - Seminar Planning Committee -- Appendix III - List of participants More info
book		Culture, difference and the arts / edited by Sneja Gunew and Fazal Rizvi St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1994. Call No: 408.3(94) CUL Author: Gunew, Sneja; Rizvi, Fazal, 1950 Place: St Leonards, NSW, Australia Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xvi, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; SOAP OPERAS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA COUNCIL Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 1863737421 LON: 10833853 More info
book		The curse of the Lucky Country : the inaugural Donald Horne lecture / by Anne Summers Clayton, Vic.: Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University., Call No: 10857 Author: Summers, Anne Edition: 1991 Place: Clayton, Vic. Publisher: Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. PhysDes: 32 pages ; 26 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ISBN: 9780732602505 More info
journal article		Dad Rudd, M.P. and the making of a national audience in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.91-105 Author: Lamond, Julianne PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; HALL, KEN G.; DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940) Summary: This article contextualizes Ken G. Hall's 1940 film Dad Rudd, M.P. with the history of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who pervaded Australian popular culture throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the fiction, theatre, film, cartoon and radio narratives in which he appeared have been instrumental in the creation of the idea of a pupular Australian audience that can be defined in relation to a particular set of national symbols. Addressing Hall's film as well as the promotional material and public debate surrounding it, the article demonstrates that conceptualizations of an Australian national audience have been influenced by the genres and narratives of popular culture, historical circumstance and American cultural production. --Abstract More info
book		Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity / Jill Julius Matthews Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. Call No: 408.1(94) MAT Author: Matthews, Jill Julius Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency Press PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: x, 342 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: This bookpaints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In the pub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 0868197556 More info
journal article		The drover's wives and camp culture : Baz Luhrmann's preposterous national epic in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.2 p.131-143 Author: Jayamanne, Laleen PhysDes: Article Subject: AESTHETICS; CAMP; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; LUHRMANN, BAZ; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008) Summary: Article framing 'Australia' through texture of image and mode of acting, elaborating on the compositional features of the image and positing the mode of acting is a variant of burlesque performance. More info
book		The evocation of national culture through Australian feature films in the 1980s : a comparison of internationalist and indigenous product / by Barry Mitchell Call No: 408.1(94) MIT Author: Mitchell, Barry PhysDes: 103 leaves ; 30 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA. 1980's; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Thesis submitted to the School of Humanities (Master of Arts in Literature and Communication Programme) -- Thesis (M.A.)--Murdoch University, 1991.-- Bibliography: p. 96-99 Contents: Abstract -- Part one: The Set Up - the cultural backprojection -- On culture -- On 'National Identity' and 'National Character' -- Part Two: The catalyst - Film as Culture -- Part Three: Character development -- Australian Cinema - '70s nationalism -- Into the 80s - 10BA and all that -- Indigenous cinema -- Part Four: Setting - Mates in the bush -- Part Five: An approach to analysis -- Part Six: Internationalists - Marketing the Image -- Occupied territory -- The Hero Fails - or does he? -- Austr-aliens abroad -- Mates at war -- Part Seven: Plot Point One -- Part Eight: Subtext - Indigenous cinema -- Rites of transition -- All in the family -- Aboriginality -- Australian dreams - Multiculture -- Part six: plot point two -- Resolution -- Bibliography -- Filmography More info
book		Filmstruck : Australia at the movies / John Baxter Sydney: ABC Enterprises, 1986. Call No: 79FIL BAX Author: Baxter, John Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: ABC Enterprises PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 160 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: At head of title: From the ABC TV series Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		First contact / Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1988, c1987. Call No: 79FIR CON Author: Connolly, Bob; Anderson, Robin Place: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1988, c1987 PhysDes: vii, 316 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983) Notes: Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world; Bibliography: p. [313]-316 ISBN: 0140074651 (pbk.) LON: 5768908 5768908 More info
book		Framing culture : criticism and policy in Australia / Stuart Cunningham North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992. Call No: 401.1(94) CUN Author: Cunningham, Stuart Place: North Sydney Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xv, 204 p. ; 22 cm Series: Australian cultural studies Subject: NATIONAL CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIALS, TV. AUSTRALIA; PAY TV. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING TRIBUNAL Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 183-195 ISBN: 1863731725 (pbk.) LON: 11474793 More info
newspaper article		High time local movie industry reflected our culture in Sun Herald (29/10/2017) p.19 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA Author: Hornery, Andrew PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIANS OVERSEAS Summary: We have much to be proud of when it comes to the 'gumnut mafia' that has so comprehensively conquered Hollywood ever since Nicole Kidman still had freckles and frizzy hair. Today 'our Nic' is aged 50 and enjoying one of the most successful chapters of her career, but for all our Oscars, Golden Globes and success in Hollywood, the Australian film industry has lost a little more than a few freckles along the way. More info
book		Imagined landscapes : geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell and Stephen Carleton Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. Call No: 756(94) STA Author: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen Source: US Place: Bloomington Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2016 PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cm Series: The spatial humanities Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NORTHERN TERRITORY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DAWN, NORMAN; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE, THE (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2008); RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011); SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009); VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (AT, Jonathon Auf Der Heide, 2009); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Summary: "Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which Asutralian space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identifu patterns of represnetation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated prespective on the translation of space across narraitve forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER ISBN: 9780253018458 Contents: Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries -- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography -- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone -- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time -- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land -- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown More info
book		In the vernacular : a generation of Australian culture and controversy / Stuart Cunningham St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2008. Call No: 40(04)(94) CUN Author: Cunningham, Stuart Place: St Lucia, Qld Publisher: University of Queensland Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: xxxix, 294 p. ; 23 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND TV. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BAXTER, JOHN; MURDOCH, RUPERT; BODYLINE [TV] (AT, Carl Schultz & George Ogilvie & Lex Marinos & Denny Lawrence, 1984); COWRA BREAKOUT (AT, Chris Noonan & Phil Noyce, 1985); DIRTWATER DYNASTY [TV] (AT, John Power & Michael Jenkins, 1988); DISMISSAL, THE [TV] (AT, George T. Miller & others, 1983); EUREKA STOCKADE [TV] (AT, Rod Hardy, 1984); IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1933); LAST BASTION, THE (AT, Chris Thomson and Dr. George Miller, 1984); LAST FRONTIER, THE [TV] (AT, Simon Wincer, 1986); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); NEIGHBOURS [TV] (AT, 1985-); OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946); VIETNAM [TV] (AT, John Duigan & Chris Noonan, 1987) Summary: "These essays, written over a twenty year period, bring together important works from one of Australias leading cultural studies thinkers. The selected papers map the trajectory of our changing culture and the way the field of cultural, media and communication studies have adapted to accommodate these changes."--Provided by publisher Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780702236709 More info
book		An investigation of the dynamics of cultural policy formation : the state's patronage of film production in Australia 1970-1988 / by Thomas Vincent O'Donnell Melbourne: RMIT, 2005. Call No: 205 ODO Author: O'Donnell, Thomas V. Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: RMIT PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 472 leaves, bound ; 30cm. Subject: PRODUCTION; PRODUTION. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. AUSTRALIA Summary: "In Australia, the decades of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were times of a great nationalist revival and cultural self-discovery. In the visual arts, theatre, popular and classical music, and especially in cinema and television, a distinct Australian voice could be heard that was accepted as culturally valid and nationally relevant. The renaissance of local production for cinema and television was reliant on the patronage of the state, first the Commonwealth government with the establishment of the Australian Film Development Corporation and the Experimental Film and Television Fund in 1970 and, later, the Australian Film and Television School. Then from 1972 to 1978 each Australian state established a film support agency to extend that patronage and assure the state of a role in the burgeoning film industry. This thesis relates the stories of the creation and development-and in some cases demise-of those six state film agencies over the period 1970 to 1988. It identifies the influences that directed the creation of each state agency and proposes a qualitative model of the relationships between the influences. It then argues the applicability of the model to the formation of cultural policy in general in a pluralistic democratic society. It also argues that the state film agencies were more influential on national film industry policy than has hitherto been recognised." - ABSTRACT Notes: Presented as author's thesis (phd) - RMIT University Contents: -- introduction -- chapter one: locating the state -- chapter two: cinema and state --chapter three: South Australia -- chapter four: Victoria -- chapter five: Queensland -- chapter six: New South Wales -- chapter seven: Tasmania -- chapter eight: Western Australia -- chapter nine: A model of cultural policy -- chapter ten: conclusion -- bibliography -- appendices -- More info
newspaper article		Keep your Hollywood glam, we like our heroes modest in Sydney Morning Herald [Arts & Entertainment] (27/04/2017) p.20 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BEST FILMS. AUSTRALIA Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SCREEN AUSTRALIA; BEST FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HEROS IN FILMS Summary: Commentary on the report by Screen Australia into the 10 most profitable films that they funded, and why these films were successful More info
journal article		Live and dangerous? : The screen life of Steve Irwin in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.107-117 Author: Rayner, Jonathan PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IRWIN, STEVE; CROCODILE HUNTER: COLLISION COURSE, THE (US/AT, John Stainton, 2002) Summary: This article examines the star status and screen persona of the late Steve Irwin. and offers an analysis of the nature and construction of his star image, its integration within other incarnations of Australian cultural identity, and its significance in national terms.--Taken from Abstract More info
Interim book		Marketing of screen culture in Melbourne : field/case study project final report / prepared bby Bruce Copland Melbourne: Deakin University, 1999. Call No: 408(94) COP Author: Copland, Bruce Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: Deakin University PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 22 p. Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CINEMEDIA More info
book		'May you live normally ever after!' : popular film as pedagogy: Youth, Subjectivity & Australian cinema / by Kristina Gottschall 2011. Call No: 409.1(94) GOT Author: Gottschall, Kristina Source: AT PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xiv, 347 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: "This thesis is part of a move to rethink the normalising subjectivating processes that constitute the 'youth' subject. Through a conceptualisation of popular film as pedagogy and feminist and post-structuralist theories on subjectivity, popular film culture is considered as being profoundly geared towards the practices of subject formation and (self-)governmentality. As a context where we learn about the self, our culture and our place within it, popular film is understood as a profoundly pedagogical space and complex set of relationships where subjectivities are made and remade. Far from a simple act of transmission, film's knowledges and forms of address meet its audience but 'misfire' due to the indeterminate and unpredictable encounters between film/makers, audiences and cultural politics. The study begins by returning to key work on pedagogy and popular culture, by engaging in key debates between cultural studies and education. Drawing attention to pedagogy as modes of production and conditions of learning, this thesis asks how film as pedagogy might work and how such learning might occur. Reconceptualising Henry Giroux's notion of film as teaching machine through a 'post-critical' sense of pedagogy as relational, contextual and indeterminate (after Elizabeth Ellsworth and others), the dissertation mobilises a more nuanced pedagogy than is usually found in public pedagogies' scholarship from a critical theory perspective. Further, the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are drawn on to argue that popular film is a technology of the self, geared towards subjectification." (ABSTRACT, p. xi) Notes: "A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"; Thesis (PhD)--Charles Sturt University, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (p. 309 - 345) Contents: --1. Introduction -- 2. Film as teaching machine?: pedagogy, popular film & subjectivity -- 3. Questions of method or confessions of a cultural studies junkie -- 4. Larrikin Pedagogue: Ben Mendeldohn and young Aussie manhood -- 5. 'Old enough to know better': learning to become men in Idiot Box -- 6. 'On the brink' : learning lessons about becoming a woman in Caterpillar Wish, Peaches & somersault -- 7. 'You can't get clean water from a dirty tank': the 'Bad girl' of Suburban Mayhem -- 8. 'May you live normally ever after': youth-hood, generation, and pedagogy -- 9. Conclusions and (re)visions --references -- filmography -- appendix 1 - Ben Mendelsohn filmography -- appendix II -- More info
journal article		Missing - screen culture in Metro (2000) iss.121/122 p.13-16 Author: Kaufman, Tina PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: Explores the current crisis in Australian film-making production, and argues that this decline has a lot to do with the marginalisation of screen culture. More info
Online resource digital clippings file		NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/NATIONAL_CULTURE_AND_THE_CINEMA.AUSTRALIA.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:44:27 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
Online resource book		The Ned Kelly Films : a cultural history of Kelly history / by Stephen Gaunson Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2013. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 408.1 GAU Author: Gaunson, Stephen Source: UK/US Place: Bristol, UK Publisher: Intellect PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: xii, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: NED KELLY IN FILMS; BUSHRANGERS IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906); GLENROWAN AFFAIR, THE (AT, Rupert Kathner, 1951); NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); RECKLESS KELLY (US, Yahoo Serious [pseud. of Greg Praed], 1993); NED (AT, Abe Forsythe, 2003) Summary: "Immortalized in a series of onscreen productions Ned Kelly has become one of the most resilient screen presences in the history of Australian cinema. Covering all nine feature films, three miniseries, and two TV movies, this book provides a study of all Kelly films that have been made." -- LIBARIES AUSTRALIA The Kelly films: -- The Perth Fragment (1906) -- The Story of the Kelly Gang (Charles Tait 1906) -- The story of the Kelly Gang (William Gibson and Millard Johnson 1910) -- The Kelly Gang (Harry Southwell 1919) -- When the Kellys were out (Harry Southwell 1923) -- When the Kellys rode (Harry Southwell 1934) --The Glenrowan affair (Rupert Kathner 1951) -- Ned Kelly: Australian paintings by Sidney Nolan (Tim Burstall 1960) -- Ned Kelly (William Sterling 1960) -- The Stringybark Massacre (Garry Shead 1967) -- Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson 1970) -- The Trial of Ned Kelly (John Gauci 1977) -- The last outlaw (Kevin James Dobson and George Miller 1980) -- Reckless Kelly (Yahoo Serious 1993) -- Ned Kelly (Gregor Jordan 2003) -- Ned (Abe Forsythe 2003) -- Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Replacement copy accessioned 8 December 2017 ISBN: 9781841506364 Contents: -- list of figures -- foreword -- acknowledgments -- the Kelly films -- backstory -- introduction -- chapter 1: 'Bandits on the margin of the margin': 1906-1951 -- chapter 2: the Hagiographic bandit: 1960-2003 -- chapter 3: new age Ned: social banditry and Romance -- chapter 4: outlawed: Stringybark and the Jerilderie letter -- chapter 5: the noble bandit: Irish sympathy and other sympathy -- chapter 6: 'Die like a Kelly, Son': Glenrowan and trial -- conclusion -- appendix: cast and crew -- works cited -- index -- ID2: 190 URL status: URL: 'https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=1334337' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:25:46 PM Status: Moved Details: HTTP status 302 - Moved temporarily More info
book		Ned Kelly & the Movies 1906-2003 : representation, social banditry & history / by Stephen Gaunson 2010. Call No: 408.1 GAU Author: Gaunson, Stephen Source: AT PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: 278p. ; 30cm Subject: NED KELLY IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906); GLENROWAN AFFAIR, THE (AT, Rupert Kathner, 1951); NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); RECKLESS KELLY (US, Yahoo Serious [pseud. of Greg Praed], 1993); NED (AT, Abe Forsythe, 2003) Summary: "This PhD thesis investigates the fascinating subject of the Ned Kelly movies. Since the early days of Australian film production, movies on Kelly were appearing at regular intervals, and certainly, they are a significant addition to cinema studies and cultural history. Yet, beyond the movies, this thesis discusses Kelly's nineteenth century cultural industry, which played a significant role in commodifying Ned as an important figure of popular entertainment. Indeed, the performance customs and social practices established during Kelly's historic Outbreak of 1878-1880 were taken into the moving pictures in the twentieth century. Kelly's representation though has not been a fixed artefact, and by examining his twentieth and twenty-first century cinema representation, this thesis explores how the origins of his popular image have continued in popular culture. With this thesis adding to the growing field of research on celluloid bandits, it demonstrates the importance of understanding how the Kelly films shift beyond the normal parameters of cinema studies and delve into broader areas of cultural history. As it argues, the Kelly movies are significantly influenced by popular history as well as Kelly's tradition of visual imagery, folk songs and literature. " -- ABSTRACT Notes: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. Contents: -- abstract -- glossary -- abbreviations -- movies evaluated in this study -- introduction -- the social bandit -- literature review -- overview of chapters -- chapter 1: The Kelly Outbreak -- April 1878 - October 1878 -- December 1878 - June 1880 -- July 1880 - November 1880 -- chapter 2: Ned Kelly becomes a social bandit -- the early movies: 1906 - 1951 -- the later movies: 1970 - 2003 -- chapter three: Irish representation -- landscape -- dancing and singing -- the Jerilderie letter part 1 -- chapter 4: Kelly sympathy -- friends, relatives and lovers -- Ned's new chums -- Aboriginals -- chapter 5: The Victoria police -- the Jerilderie letter part 2 -- Aboriginal 'black' trackers -- chapter 6: The noble robber -- dandy Ned -- James 'Sandy' Gloster -- bail up -- chapter 7: 'Die like a Kelly, Son' -- Aaron Sherritt -- protective armour -- death -- conclusion -- appendix: cast and crew -- movies cited -- literature cited -- More info
book		Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and friends : essays in Australian cultural history / edited by Susan Dermody, John Docker, Drusilla Modjeska Malmsbury, Vic.: Kibble Books, 1982]. Call No: 403(94) NEL Author: Dermody, Susan; Docker, John, 1945; Modjeska, Drusilla Source: AT Place: Malmsbury, Vic. Publisher: Kibble Books PubDate: 1982] PhysDes: 288 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1927-1932; LONGFORD, RAYMOND; SMITH, ARTHUR; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932); PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) Notes: Australian culture. Essays (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0610070); Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0908150032 (corrected) : price unknown 09081500302; 0908150040 (pbk.) : $14.95 Aust LON: anb90815003; 2274011 ID2: 40 More info
journal article		Not quite Mad Max : Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead end drive-in in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.3 p.309-320 Author: Johinke, Rebecca PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Summary: This article suggests that Dead End Drive-In (1986), Brian Trenchard-Smith's little-known Ozploitation film, deserves reconsideration from Australasian film scholars because it offers a valuable contribution to discussions about Australian masculinity, car culture, phobic narratives and the White Australia Policy. It is argued that the drive-in as detention centre foreshadows later Australian anxieties about immigration and border protection. Clearly a phobic narrative full of white panic (Morris, 1989, 1998), it exhibits many of the anxieties about Australians and auto-immobility that Catherine Simpson (2006) discusses, and fits neatly into Tranter's (2003) discussion of cars and governance and Bode's (2006a) arguments about whiteness and Australian masculinity in crisis. -- Abstract More info
book		On with the show : a glimpse behind the scenes of entertainment in Australia / John Cain Richmond, Vic: Prowling Tiger Press, 1998. Call No: 71(94) CAI Author: Cain, John Source: AT Place: Richmond, Vic Publisher: Prowling Tiger Press PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: 210 p. : ill, ports. ; 25 cm Subject: ENTERTAINMENT. AUSTRALIA; PERSONALITIES ON TV. AUSTRALIA; RADIO AND TV. AUSTRALIA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; CASEY, RON; CRAWFORD, HECTOR; KIRBY, ROC Summary: " On with the show" gives us the memories of 5 people connected with the formation of the Australian entertainment industry: they are Kenn Brodziak, Ron Casey, Hector Crawford, Roc Kirby and Dick Lean. They played key roles in establishing theartre, radio, television and cinema. They shaped the way we are entertained. The book provides with some behind the scenes reminiscences. [ Taken from the back of the book] Notes: Bibliography: p.207; Includes index ISBN: 0958664730 Donation: donated by Alex Gionfriddo More info
journal article		Outward-looking Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.3 p.199-214 Author: Goldsmith, Ben PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Summary: The writer examines how dynamic and shifting relations between the local/national and the international have transformed the ways in which people think about what constitutes Australian cinema. Noting that over the last 20 years or so, Australian cinema's international relations in production and policy have expanded and become more complex, while those with Hollywood have been transformed, he illustrates how relations of commonality and continuity with the international called up in the new arrangements challenge the dominant articulation in policy of difference from other kinds of filmmaking as the basis of Australian cinema. -- Provided by publisher More info
journal article		Ozploitation compared to what? : A challenge to contemporary Australian film studies. in Studies in Australasian Cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.1 p.9-21 Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008) Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema. Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT More info
journal article		Period feature, heritage cinema : region, gender and race in The Irishman in Studies in Australasian cinema (2011) vol.5 iss.1 p.31-42 Author: Craven, Allison PhysDes: Article Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978) Summary: The Irishman (Crombie 1978) has long been regarded as typical of the Australian period film genre of the late 1970s, which is said to collectively exhibit the Australian Film Commission's influences on national culture. In this article, The Irishman is seen as a ‘heritage’ film for the way locations and authentic sets and decor are featured, and for the nostalgic performances of gender and race. Regional influences on the genesis and production of The Irishman in North Queensland are also considered, and its adaptation from the novel, The Irishman: A Novel of Northern Australia (Elizabeth O'Conner 1960). Heritage, it is argued, can be seen as a cinematic mode in which regional and national elements of production are synthesized. Heritage also offers a framework through which to view other Australian period films, including Australia (Luhrmann 2008), which was also shot partly in North Queensland locations. -- Abstract More info
book		The piano / Gail Jones Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press, 2007. Call No: 79PIA JON Author: Jones, Gail CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission: National Film and Sound Archive Source: Australia Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW Publisher: Currency Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: viii, 85 p. : ill. ; 20cm Series: Australian Screen Classics Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REGIONAL CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN FILMS; SPEECH; ROMANCE IN FILMS; LOVE IN FILMS; SEA IN FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; MOTHERS IN FILMS; CHILDREN IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; SILENCE IN FILMS; EROTICISM IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; JANE CAMPION; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) Summary: "When 'The Piano' opened in 1993 it was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece. Written and directed by Jane Campion, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win this prestigious award. It went on to win Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Campion), Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin). "In this thoughtful and perceptive critique, Gail Jones assesses the film's unearthly and controversial visions, its poetic power and its capacity to entrance and to alienate." Notes: Includes notes, bibliography, filmography, 'The Piano' credits and synopses of other books in the 'Australian Screen Classics' series. ISBN: 9780868197999 More info
book		Race daze : Australia in identity crisis / Jon Stratton Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 1998. Call No: 451-054(94) STR Author: Stratton, John Source: AT Place: Annandale, NSW Publisher: Pluto Press PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: 224 pages ; 22 cm Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Race Daze argues that the post-Whitlam Australian national identity remians hung up on our Anglo-centric past and takes the reader on an entertaining cruise through our films to prove his point. From 'Barry McKenzie' to 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' Race Daze shows that Australian films and television have lagged far behind our polyglot cultural reality, receycling a white Australia that no longer exists."--BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 1864030534 More info
book		Reel tracks : Australian feature film music and cultural identities / edited by Rebecca Coyle Eastleigh: John Libby Publishing, 2005. Call No: 751.0 (94)"199"COY Author: Coyle, Rebecca (ed) Edition: 1st Source: UK Place: Eastleigh Publisher: John Libby Publishing PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; MUSIC FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOUND EFFECTS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BOOTMEN (AT, Dein Perry, 2000); BLACKROCK (AT, Steven Vidler, 1997); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); MASCULINITY IN FILMS; IN A SAVAGE LAND (AT, Bill Bennett, 1999); MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); CHOPPER (AT, Andrew Dominik, 2000); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ONE NIGHT THE MOON (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2001); PARADISE ROAD (AT/US, Bruce Beresford, 1997); BANK, THE (AT/IT, Robert Connolly, 2001); BEDEVIL (AT, Tracey Moffat, 1993); FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA Summary: Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These include traditional composed screen music, pre-recorded music tracks, mixes of music and sound effects and various combinations of these. In response to this, film music scholars have developed new ways of understanding and analysing the role of film music in relation to genre, narrative and creative roles and inter-relations in film music scoring. 'Reel Tracks' provides a series of insightful analyses of recent mainstream Australian cinema. Following the editor's careful exploration of film music's relation to national cinema culture and identity, individual chapters offer stimulating and diverse accounts of music in films such as Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Lantana (2001), Chopper (2000) and Paradise Road (1997). The chapters in this volume also address broader themes such as the musical representation of sexuality in cinema and music's representation of regions, localities and ethnicity. Reel Tracks is an important contribution to both Australian film studies and the international understanding of the role of music in contemporary western cinema. This volume is targeted to both cinema studies readers and film music students, teachers and aficionados. [Book jacket] ISBN: 0861966589 Contents: Soundscapes of surf and steel : "Blackrock" and "Bootmen" / Shane Homan -- New-Age Ned : Scoring Irishness and masculinity in "Ned Kelly" / Helen O'Shea -- Hauntings : Soundtrack representations of Papua New Guinea in "To have and to hold" and "In a savage land" / Philip Hayward -- "Hei-fen" and musical subtexts in two Australian films by Clara Law / Tony Mitchell -- Lost in music : popular music, multiculturalism and Australian film / Jon Stratton -- Scoring : sexuality and Australian film music, 1990-2003 / Bruce Johnson and Gaye Poole -- "Christ kid, you're a weirdo" : aural construction of subjectivity in "Bad boy bubby" / Melissa Iocco and Anna Hickey-Moody -- The sound of redemption in "Chopper" : rediscovering ambience as affect / Mark Evans -- Sounds of Australia in "Rabbit-proof fence" / Marjorie D. Kibby -- Untangling "Lantana" : a study of film sound production / Rebecca Coyle -- Moon music : musical meanings in "One night the moon" / Kate Winchester -- Transcendent voices : choral music in "Paradise road" / Jude Magee -- Musical intertextuality in "The bank" / Michael Hannan -- Carl Vine's score in "beDevil" / Catherine Summerhayes and Roger Hillman -- The composer as alchemist : an overview of Australian feature film scores 1994-2004 / Michael Atherton. URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:13:22 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Report to the Minister on national interest program production 1989/90 / Film Australia Australia: Film Australia, 1990. Call No: 023(94) FIL Author: Film Australia Source: AT Place: Australia Publisher: Film Australia PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 38 p. ; 30 cm Subject: FILM AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Film Australia's annual report on programs produced for 1989/90 Contents: Brief project description along with festival and awards information for the following films and documentaries -- The Snowy: A Dream of Growing Up (Stephen Ramsey, 1989) -- How Wonderful (Lynn Hegarty, 1990) -- Great National Parks of Australia (Eddie Moses, 1990) -- Mortgage (Bill Bennett, 1990) -- Shearing the Rams (Martin Daley, 1990) -- Kakadu Man (Michael Balson, 1990) -- Breakthrough Series More info
book		The screening of Australia : anatomy of a national cinema / Susan Dermody, Elizabeth Jacka Sydney: Currency Press, 1987-<1988. Call No: 71(94) DER v.2 Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency Press PubDate: 1987-<1988 PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm Series: Australian screen series Subject: 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 index ISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2) LON: 5369777 More info
book		The shadowcatchers : a history of cinematography in Australia / Martha Ansara Sydney: Austcine Publishing, c2012. Call No: 802.3(94) ANS; FOLIO SECTION Author: Ansara, Martha Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Austcine Publishing PubDate: c2012 PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NEWSREELS Summary: "Contains photographs of working cinematographers from 1901 to the present, with historical text, biographies of Australian cinematographers & fascinating personal anecdotes from the film industry. Reveals little-known information about the role of cinematographers in Australian cinema, & challenges popular conceptions of our national film history." - TROVE -- The following cinematographers are included in this book: Burt Ive, the Higgins Brothers, Lacey Percival, Frank Hurley, the Burnes, J.W. (Bill) Trerise, George Heath, Damien Parer, Ross Wood, Volk Mol, Ron Windon, Neil Davis, David Brill, Russell Boyd, Don McAlpine, Peter James, Jim Frazier, David Parer, Jan Kenny, Dean Semler, John Seale, Andrew Lesnie, Pieter de Vries, Dion Beebe. Notes: Includes index; Warning to Walpiri: Please be aware that there is a photo in this book which may contain images of deceased Walpiri people ISBN: 9780987225214 More info
journal article		'Small-fry' : suburban decline and the global outback in recent Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.3 p.195-212 Author: Grace, Helen PhysDes: Article Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LITTLE FISH (AT, Rowan Woods, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007) Summary: :In considering three films that I link in this speculation on ‘Asian Australian cinema’, I want to argue that if, before The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003), Asian Australian stories tended to be marginal and community based, the success of Khoa Do's film (and life) has opened out migrant experience to broader empathy so that now it can be drawn upon to speak for general humanity beyond ‘Australianness’. If The Finished People and Little Fish (Rowan Wood, 2005) belong to a period of film industry decline in Australia, corresponding with a parallel social/cultural depression in Australia — the worst of the Howard years — Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, 2007) reworks the trauma of those years, as a new Back of Beyond (John Heyer, 1954) — globalized rather than nationalized, its references less to the subsistence aesthetics and economy of postwar nation-building and more to a globalized commodities export market and the genres of global film-making styles. So we no longer need to have quintessential ‘Australian’ battlers to demonstrate resilience; asylum seekers are now better at doing this and much more appealing than Aussie battlers (like the Heart family in Little Fish, notwithstanding the attempt to rescue them by importing global/local stars to perform their abjection) — all the more so if one of the refugees has come in search of his Australian father And if the landscape of the original Back of Beyond provided a counterpoint to the economic centrality of suburban Australia as site of commodity consumption in the 1950s, the Pilbara landscape setting of Lucky Miles is above all a key site of commodity production and export in the globalized economy which also draws the characters to export themselves into the flow of this market. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2 More info
journal article		Solving the 'problem' of the motherless indigenous child in 'Jedda' and 'Australia' : white internal desire in the Australian epic before and after 'Bringing them home'. in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.2 p.145-157 Author: Kevin, Catherine PhysDes: Article Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) Summary: Article examining the expression of national assimilation policies played out through the maternal desires of Jedda's Sarah McMann, and Australia's Sarah Ashley. More info
book		Soundtrack for the eighties : pop culture, Australia, politics, suburbia, art and other essays / Craig McGregor Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. Call No: 408.1(94) MCG Author: McGregor, Craig, 1933 Place: Sydney Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 203 p. ; 24 cm Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Bibliography: p. 203-[204] ISBN: 0340335572 (limp) : $12.95 Aust; 0340335564 (pbk.) : $5.95 Aust; 0340335580 : $24.95 Aust LON: 2471128 2471128 More info
Interim book		Straight roads and crossed lines : the quest for film culture in Australia from the 1960s? / Barrett Hodsdon ; editor: Peter Mudie Shenton Park, WA: Bernt Porridge Group, 2001. Call No: 71(94) HOD Author: Hodsdon, Barrett. Source: AT Place: Shenton Park, WA Publisher: Bernt Porridge Group PubDate: 2001 PhysDes: 205 p. : ill., 24 cm Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE Notes: Includes index. ISBN: 0957921004 More info
journal article		'Three miles of rough dirt road' : towards an audience-centred approach to cinema studies in Australia in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.3 p.245-60 Author: Bowles, Kate PhysDes: Article Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA Summary: 'Cinema studies in Australia has conventionally focused on the national production industry, the government policies that sustain and protect it, and the films that it has produced. The role of the Australian audience in shaping the market for Australian films is less well understood, and yet assumptions about audiences and the benefit offered to them in terms of cultural learning and national identity are embedded in policy rhetoric, and are necessarily invoked in the critique of content which accompanies a textually focused approach to national cinema. This article proposes that Australian cinema audiences, whatever they are watching, play a more significant role in the Australian public sphere than Australian films...' -- Taken from abstract More info
journal article		Unsettling whiteness : the slippage of race and nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.103-119 Author: Johnston, Meg PhysDes: Article Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LAW, CLARA; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004) Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’. Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- Abstract Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1 More info
newspaper article		Why we need more of our Australian stories on the big screen in Sun Herald [Editorials] (04/12/2016) p.34 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA Author: Editorial PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA; TAXES. AUSTRALIA; SCREEN AUSTRALIA Summary: Commentary on the state of Australia's film industry on the eve of the AACTA awards. Calls for easier funding conditions from Screen Australia for filmmakers willing to tell Australian stories More info

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