Search Catalogue

Call No: 761(94) FIT
Author: Fitzsimons, Trish; Laughren, Pat; Williamson, Dugald
Source: AT
Place: Port Melbourne, Vic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FILM AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; SCREEN AUSTRALIA; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE
Summary: "Drawing on interviews with leading industry sources and containing discussion of over 200 documentaries, this book brings to life over a century of documentary making and connects it to international debates in criticism, theory, history and practice." - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780521167994 (pbk.)
Contents: 1. The documentary field -- 2. Braided channels - documentary voice -- 3. Cinematic scenes of life -- 4. New waves of documentary -- 5. Australian television takes on independent documentary -- 6. Documentary and the Film Finance Corporation -- 7. Changing relations: the Australian Film Commission, Film Australia and documentary in the era of the Film Finance Corporation -- 8. Australian broadcasting cultures and documentary practice since the late 1980s -- 9. Documentary and the edge of reality -- 10. Documentary and civics -- 11. Documentary present and future.

Call No: 024.3(=1-81)(94) COR
Author: Corroboree Films
Source: AT
Place: Randwick, NSW
Publisher: Corroboree Films
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 46 pages ; 31 cm
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EORA CORROBOREE (AT, Michael le Moignan & Yuri Sokol, 1985)
Summary: Details of "BLACK FUTURES" series of which 'Eora' is the first. "In the past, many films on Aboriginal themes have painted a pathetic picture of a race and culture on the brink of extinction. The six films in BLACK FUTURES do not whitewash the past, but reflect the new mood of Aboriginal people in the nineteen eighties and the positive forces for change in Aboriginal life." - INTERIOR BLURB
Contents: Listing of the six films in the Black Futures series; Eora Corroboree, Building Dreams, Getting Better, Still Time, Reflections on Silver Screens, The Land Owns Us -- Post production script for Eora Corroboree

Call No: 71(94) (=1-81) DEB
Author: Debenham, Jennifer
Edition: 2020
Place: Oxford
Publisher: Peter Lang
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: xv, 230 pages : illustrated
Series: Documentary Film Cultures; 2
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DESERT PEOPLE (AT, Ian Dunlop, 1967); NINGLA A-NA (AT, Alessandro Cavadini, 1972); MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL (AT, Essie Coffey, 1979); LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983); LINK-UP DIARY (AT, David MacDougall, 1987); WHISPERING IN OUR HEARTS THE MOWLA BLUFF MASSACRE (AT, Mitch Torres, 2001); WE DON'T NEED A MAP (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2017)
Notes: How did Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population go from being the objectified subjects of documentary films to the directors and producers in the digital age? What prompted these changes and how and when did this decolonisation of documentary film production occur? Taking a long historical perspective, this book is based on a study of a selection of Australian documentary films produced by and about Aboriginal peoples since the early twentieth century. The films signpost significant shifts in Anglo-Australian attitudes about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and trace the growth of the Indigenous filmmaking industry in Australia. Used as a form of resistance to the imposition of colonialism, filmmaking gave Aboriginal people greater control over their depiction on documentary film and the medium has become an avenue to contest widely held assumptions about a peaceful colonial settlement. This study considers how developments in camera and film stock technologies along with filmic techniques influenced the depiction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The films are also examined within their historical context, employing them to gauge how social attitudes, access to funding and political pressures influenced their production values. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia through the decolonisation of documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781789974782
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Cultural Warning and Acknowledgement -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Aboriginalities -- Media Ecology -- The Longue Durée -- Decolonising the Documentary Film in Australia -- Stages of the Journey -- Part I Exotic Subjects, 1901–1966 -- Chapter 1 The Last of Their Kind: Aboriginal Life in Central Australia (1901) -- Chapter 2 Physical Traits: Life in Central Australia (1931) -- Chapter 3 Benign and Iconic: Aborigines of the Sea Coast (1950) -- Chapter 4 The “Last” of Their Kind, Again: Desert People (1967) -- Part II Voices for Change, 1957–1972 -- Chapter 5 Not Dying Out Quietly: Warburton Aborigines (1957) -- Chapter 6 A Discomforting Assimilation: The Change At Groote (1968) -- Chapter 7 Challenging White Indifference: Ningla-A-Na (Hungry for Our Land) (1972) -- Part III Counting the Cost, 1978–1987 -- Chapter 8 Telling My Story My Way: My Survival As An Aboriginal (1978) -- Chapter 9 On Being Stolen: Lousy Little Sixpence (1983) -- Chapter 10 Picking Up the Broken Pieces: Link-Up Diary (1987) -- Part IV Digital Directors: Decolonising Documentary Film, 2002–2017 -- Chapter 11 Setting the Records Straight: Whispering in Our Hearts: The Mowla Bluff Massacre (2002) -- Chapter 12 The Sounds of Spaces Between: Willaberta Jack (2007) -- Chapter 13 Breaking the Drought at the Sydney Film Festival: We Don’t Need a Map (2017), Occupation Native (2017), In My Own Words (2017)and Connecting to Country (2017) -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 451-054(=1=81)(71):(93):(94) THO
Author: Thornley, Davinia
Source: UK/US
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xi, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Palgrave pivot
Subject: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; DOCUMENTARIES; BEFORE TOMORROW [JOUR AVANT LE LENDEMAIN, LE](CN Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 2008); LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983); TATTOOIST, THE (NZ/SI, Peter Berger, 2007); WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002); NO. 2 (NZ, Toa Fraser, 2006); APRON STRINGS (NZ, Sima Urale, 2008)
Summary: This book is a manifesto for a developing area, one that provides a new model for reading films about indigeneity. Davinia Thornley investigates specific production partnerships in Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, using the framework of scholarly and popular criticism to draw conclusions from these collaborative case studies
Notes: Formerly CIP -- Includes bibliographical references and index -- Also issued online
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Cinematic Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Filming on an Uneven Field -- 2."An Instrument of Actual Change in the World": Engaging a New Collaborative Criticism through Isuma/Arnait Productions' Film, Before Tomorrow -- 3."My Whole Area Has Started to Be about What's Left Over": Alec Morgan, "Stolen Histories," and Critical Collaboration on the Australian Aboriginal Documentary, Lousy Little Sixpence -- 4."A Space Being Right on That Boundary": Critiquing Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema -- 5.Conclusion -- Modelling Collaborative Criticism: What Does It Mean to Collaborate Cross-Culturally in Cinema?

Author: Turk, Rachael (interviewer)
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; THORNTON, WARWICK; SHELPER, KATH; SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009); NANA [TV] (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2007); GREEN BUSH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2004)
Summary: Director Warwick Thornton and producer Kath Shelper discuss creating a distinct 'voice' in cinema projects, in particular in the feature film Samson and Delilah.

Author: Buesst, Nigel
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COME OUT FIGHTING (AT, Nigel Buesst, 1973); BUESST, NIGEL; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; BOXING FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Article by filmmaker Nigel Buesst on filming COME OUT FIGHTING. Discusses technical and thematic elements of the film.

Call No: 71(943) CRA
Author: Craven, Allison
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Anthem Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xii, 158 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
Subject: QUEENSLAND; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SEA IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); AGE OF CONSENT (AT, Michael Powell, 1969); NIM'S ISLAND (US, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, 2008); UNINHABITED (AT, Bill Bennett, 2010); COOLANGATTA GOLD, THE (AT, Igor Auzins, 1984); PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003); REMOTE AREA NURSES [TV] (AT, David Caesar/Catriona Mackenzie, 2005); STRAITS, THE [TV] (AT, 2012-); PROPOSITION, THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005); MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013)
Summary: This book comprises a collection of essays exploring aspects of gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the emergence of Indigenous filmmakers in the late 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia. The spectacle of Australian cinema in these essays suggests the transitional energies of a growing industry and the regional nuances of gender, place and culture. The book draws on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography in investigating Australian cinema history in the latter twentieth century, and in highlighting recent trends in promotion of Australia as a film-production destination
ISBN: 9781783085491
Contents: Introduction: regional features -- Backtracks: landscape and identity. Period features, heritage cinema: region, gender and race in The Irishman -- Heritage enigmatic: the silence of the dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman -- Silences in paradise. Tropical gothic and the music of the Cane Fields in Radiance -- Island girls friday: women, adventure and the Tropics -- Masculine dramas of the coast. The sunshine boys: Peter Pan and The iron man in the coastal cinemas of Queensland -- A Pacific parable: cave and coastal masculinities in Sanctum regional backtracks -- Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait television: RAN and The straits -- Back to the back: genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton -- Conclusion

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA

Call No: 435(94) (=1-81) JAN
Author: Janke, Terri
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Screen Australia
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: 123 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; LAW AND THE CINEMA, AUSTRALIA
Summary: "This practical guide is essential reading for all filmmakers shooting in Australia. Research and written by lawyer Terri Janke, Pathways & Protocols provides advice about the ethical and legal issues involved in transferring Indigenous cultural material to the screen. Whether shooting in country or city, with an Indigenous cast or not, practitioners of film, TV and digital media projects are encouraged to recognise and respect Indigenous people's images, knowledge, stories and land in the production of audiovisual material."--Back cover.
Notes: Two copies. One each in stacks and at front desk.
ISBN: 978-1-920998-09-7
Contents: Preface -- How to use this guide -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Indigenous Australians -- 1.2: Filmmaking and Indigenous culture -- 1.3: What are protocols -- 2: Principles for protocols -- 2.1: Respect for Indigenous culture and heritage -- 2.2: Respect for Indigenous individuals and communities --3:Implementing protocols within flim practice -- 3.1: Overview - protocols for documentary versus drama -- 3.2: Initial research and project development -- 3.3: Script development -- 3.4: Pre-production and production -- 3.5: Editing and post-production -- 3.6: Screening and broadcasting -- 3.7: Footage archiving -- 3.8: Summary Checklist -- 4: Communication, consultation and consent -- 4.1: Consultation and consent -- 4.2: When consent is required -- 4.3: When consent is recommended -- 4.4: Tips for successful consulatation -- 5: Film and the law -- 5.1: Copyright -- 5.2: Perfomer's rights -- 5.3: Moral rights -- 5.4: Indigenous communal moral rights -- 5.5: Contracts -- 5.6: Defamation -- 5.7: Trade practices -- 5.8: Environmental legislation and national parks -- 5.9: Western Australian Heritage Regulations 1974 -- 5.10 Where to go for more legal information -- 6: Contacts and appendices -- 6.1: Directories -- 6.2: Indigenous media associations and broadcasters -- 6.3: Remote Indigenous Media Organsiations (RIMOS) -- 6.4: Industry agencies with Indigenous components -- 6.5: Indigenous cultural advisers and script consultants-- 6.6: Land Councils -- 6.7:Permit Offices -- 6.8: National Parks -- 6.9: Libraries and archival sources -- 6.10: Media law and copyright -- 6.11: regulation --6.12: Industrial Agreements -- Appendix 1: Sample clauses -- For ICMR in a director's contract -- Screen Australia ICIP Clause in Production and Investment Agreements -- Appendix 2: Background research on other protocols

Author: Davis, Therese
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GULPILIL, DAVID; DE HEER, ROLF; TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: In 2000, maverick Australian director Rolf de Heer began a collaboration with Australian Aboriginal screen legend David Gulpilil to make a film set in Gulpilil's traditional lands in North Eastern Arnhem Land. The result of the collaboration is the new feature Ten canoes (2006). For Culpilil the project represented an opportunity to launch careers in film for members of his community including his son Jamie Gulpilil (who plays the lead role). He has also stated that ' the film will allow people from the community and around the world to know how our ancestors lived and to understand them'. In order to try to achieve this, de Heer took on the challenging task he describes as 'fusing two very different storytelling traditions'. Drawing on the documentary Balanda and the bark canoes (2006) (also known as Making ten canoes) and other sources this article goes behind the scenes to examine processes of cross-cultural collaboration and intercultural fusion. It argues the film shows that while stories have different forms and functions in different societies, one story can be made to serve two different cultural requirements and, further, in doing so can expand possibilities for both cross-cultural recognition and cinema.-- Abstract

Call No: 451-054 (=1-81)(71):(93):(94) REV
Author: Pearson, Wendy Gay (ed.); Knabe, Susan (ed.)
Source: CN
Place: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Film and media studies series; Film + media studies
Subject: CRITICISM; MEDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; INDIGENOUS; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND MAORI CINEMA; NORWAY; CANADA; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS
Summary: "From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity. The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway. " --BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9781554583355
Contents: -- pt. I dream makers -- Introduction Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media / Susan Knabe -- One: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt. II decolonizing histories -- Two: Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Three:Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- Four.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Five: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk / Colleen McGloin -- Six."Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt. III mediating practices -- Seven: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / jo smith and Sue Abel -- Eight: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- Nine: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV documentary approaches -- Ten: The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- Eleven: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew / Ute Lischke -- Twelve: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- Thirteen:"I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V other perspectives --Fourteen: Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Fifteen: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk / Davinia Thornley -- glossary -- bibliography -- index --

Author: Elliot, Bonnie
PhysDes: Article
Subject: SPEAR (AT, Stephen Page, 2015); INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ELLIOT, BONNIE
Summary: Cinematographer Bonnie Elliot talks about working on the Australian film Spear directed by Stephen Page. She talks about the unusual process of funding the film and working with a non-traditional narrative. Bangarra and dance's relationship with the film is also discussed.

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; THORNTON, WARWICK
Author: Rule, Dan
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: INDIGENOUS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; THORNTON, WARWICK
Summary: A review of indigenous filmmaker and artist, Warwick Thornton's recent exhibition (2015) in Melbourne.The exhibition includes photgraphic portraits and video.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FESTIVALS
Summary: Article on what the 'Women & Arts festival' is and deadlines for entrants. Categories include women in Aboriginal and ethnic communities, dance, film, writing, theatre, music, etc.