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PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; NAKED UNDER CAPRICORN (AT, Rob Stewart, 1988); UMBRELLA WOMAN, THE (AT, Ken Cameron, 1986); SILVER CITY (AT, Sophia Turkiewicz, 1984); LION IN THE DOORWAY, THE (AT, John Pradhubodh Walker, 1983); LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983)
Summary: Films approved for funding by the Australian Film Commission.

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?

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Postcards; Publicity; Stills; Press kit; Study guide; Clippings
Subject: LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983)

Author: Stockbridge, Sally
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983)

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 5 photographs : b&w ; 22 x 17 cm - 26 x 21 cm
Subject: LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983)
Summary: 5 black and white photographs of Aboriginal / Indigenous woman holding baby, men whistling and men with swags, and girls with woman dressed in whiteman's clothing. Child removal. NSW government policy towards Aboriginal people.
Notes: 1 duplicate (although one has a border and one does not)

Call No: 49[930.2](93/94) MAK
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xxiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983); BUFFALO LEGENDS (AT, Desmond Kootji Raymond & Paul Roberts, 1997); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); BRA BOYS (AT, Sunny Abberton, 2007); AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); CAMERA NATURA (AT, Ross Gibson, 1986); CINEMA OF UNEASE: A PERSONAL JOURNEY BY SAM NEILL (NZ, Sam Neill & Judy Reimer, 1995); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); COWRA BREAKOUT (AT, Chris Noonan & Phil Noyce, 1985); REVEALING GALLIPOLI (AT, Wain Fimeri, 2005); SMILEY (UK, Anthony Kimmins, 1956); DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976); PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981); WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002); ONE SUMMER AGAIN [TV] (AT, Mark Callan, 1985); EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988); ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN (NZ, Jane Campion, 1990); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); HEAVENLY CREATURES (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1994); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); WITCHES AND FAGGOTS - DYKES AND POOFTERS (AT, 'One in Seven', 1980); LOVE THE BEAST (AT, Eric Bana, 2009); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT/UK, Michael Powell, 1966); ILLUSTRIOUS ENERGY (NZ, Leon Narbey, 1987); SERENADES (AT, Mojgan Khadem, 2000); PACIFIC SOLUTION (AT/NZ, James Frankham, 2005); FORGOTTEN SILVER (NZ, Peter Jackson & Costa Botes, 1996); ROSIE'S SECRET (AT, Lisa Matthews, 1994); OUTBACK HOUSE [AT] (AT, 2005-); COLONY, THE [TV] (AT/UK, Malcolm McDonald, 2005); NGATI (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987); UTU (NZ, Geoffrey Murphy, 1983); RIVER QUEEN (NZ/UK, Vincent Ward, 2005)
Summary: "Making Film and Television Histories: Australian and New Zealand considers film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical topics alive through their interplay between past and present" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
Contents: Section One Aboriginal Narratives -- Introduction / Suneeti Rekhari -- Jedda / Suneeti Rekhari -- The Making of Lousy Little Sixpence / Alec Morgan -- Buffalo Legends / Shane Motlap -- Rabbit Proof Fence / Kathy Butler -- Blood is Thicker than Water: Stains on the Land in Bra Boys / Henk Huijser -- Australia / Ann McGrath -- Section Two Maori Narratives -- Introduction / Jennifer Gauthier -- Milies in Maoriland: The Making of the First New Zealand Feature Films / Mark Derby -- Patu! / Geraldene Peters -- Ngati / Jennifer Gauthier -- Once Were Warriors / Stuart Murray -- Section Three The New Zealand Wars -- Introduction / Annabel Cooper -- `Magnificent Failure' or Subversive Triumph?: The Governor / Trisha Dunleavy -- Making Nation: Utu / Hester Joyce -- Nga Pakanga Nunui o Aotearoa/ The New Zealand Wars / Annabel Cooper -- Reconciling History in Vincent Ward's River Queen / Cherie Lacey -- Section Four Imaging the Nation -- Contents note continued: Introduction / Mark Derby -- Romantic New Zealand: 1920s and 1930s' NZ Government Publicity Office Travelogues / Alfio Leotta -- From Colony to Nation in One Hundred Crowded Years: A Narrative on Civilisation, Progress and Modernity / Lars Weckbecker -- Camera Natura / Deane Williams -- Cinema of Unease / Brenda Allen -- Seeing Bed in 1949 and 1995 / Alan Wright -- Section Five War and Society -- Introduction / Daniel Reynaud -- Breaker Morant / Craig Wilcox -- Gallipoli / Daniel Reynaud -- The Cowra Breakout / Belinda Smaill -- War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us / Gabrielle A. Fortune -- Revealing Revealing Gallipoli / Peter Stanley -- Section Six Stories of Adolescence -- Introduction / Emma Hamilton -- Smiley / Emma Hamilton -- The Devil's Playground: Coming-of-Age as National Cinema / Josephine May -- Sex and Subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues / Lisa Featherstone -- Whale Rider / Jennifer Gauthier -- Section Seven Icons, Crime and the Imagination -- Introduction / Michelle Arrow -- One Summer Again: The Dramatising of the Heidelberg School / Bill Garner -- Witnessing Innocence: Fred Schepisi's Evil Angels / Michelle Arrow -- An Angel at My Table / Fincina Hopgood -- The Piano / Harriet Margolis -- Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme Case / James E. Bennett -- Ned Kelly (2003) / Sarah Pinto -- Section Eight Explorations of Gender and Sexuality -- Introduction / Rebecca Beirne -- Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Entwhistle and Male Homosexuality / Yorick Smaal -- My Brilliant Career / Jill Roe -- Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters / Scott McKinnon -- Love the Beast / Kirsten Stevens -- Section Nine Immigrants, Refugees and Multicultural Narratives -- Introduction / Michelle Langford -- Who's the Weird Mob Anyway? Assimilation and Authenticity in They're A Weird Mob / Jessica Carniel -- Illustrious Energy / Brenda Allen -- Serenades / Michelle Langford -- Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa / Annie Goldson -- Section Ten Playing with the Past Introduction / James E. Bennett -- Forgotten Silver / Craig Hight -- Rosie's Secret / Nancy Cushing -- Revisioning the Australian Outback House of 1861 / Anthony Corones -- Living History: The Colony / Claire Lowrie