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Adventures in the b-movie trade / Brian Trenchard-Smith [USA]:
Call No: 81 TRE TREAuthor: Trenchard-Smith, Brian Edition: 2020Place: [USA]PhysDes: 580 pages : illustrated ; 26 cmSubject: TRENCHARD-SMITH, BRIAN ; PAGE, GRANT ; LEE, BRUCE ; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975) ; DEATHCHEATERS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1976) ; STUNT ROCK (NE, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978) ; BMX BANDITS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983) ; FROG DREAMING (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1985) ; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) ; TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1981) Summary: Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," "Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings", "Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his "favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era. -- book blurbISBN: 9798985674705
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Australian film opens in Paris in Filmnews (September 1976) vol.6 iss.9 p.3
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Australian international pictures (1946-1975) / Adrian Danks and Constantine Verevis Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
Call No: 71(94) DANAuthor: Danks, Adrian ; Verevis, Constantine Edition: 2023Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPhysDes: 224 pages ; 24 cmSeries: Traditions in World CinemaSubject: AUSTRALIA ; EALING STUDIOS ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) ; KANGAROO (AT, Lewis Milestone, 1952) ; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959) ; SUNDOWNERS, THE (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1960) ; KOYA NO TOSEININ (JA, Junya Sato, 1968) ; AGE OF CONSENT (AT, Michael Powell, 1969) ; COLOR ME DEAD (US/AT, Eddie Davis, 1968) ; NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970) ; WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975) Summary: Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia
- Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evaluated Australian international pictures
- Develops an understanding of international film production in the years following WWII and before the Australian film revival of the 1970s
- Corrects the perception that there was no significant feature film production in Australia after the 1930s and before the revival
- Offers background and important precedents for the more recent practices of global co-productions and ‘Hollywood Down-under’
Australian International Pictures examines the concept and definition of Australian film in relation to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although international co-production is particularly acute in the present day, this book examines the porous nature of Australian International filmmaking, and the intriguing transnational and cross-cultural formations created by globally targeted but locally focussed films made in Australia in the period 1946–75. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780748693061Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Australian International Pictures (1946–75) -- 2. The Overlanders (1946) and Ealing Down Under -- 3. Kangaroo (1952) -- 4. On the Beach (1959) -- 5. The Sundowners (1960) -- 6. The Drifting Avenger (1968) -- 7. Age of Consent (1969) -- 8. Color Me Dead (1970) -- 9. Ned Kelly (1970) -- 10. Walkabout (1971) -- 11. Wake in Fright (1971) -- 12. The Man from Hong Kong (1975) -- References.
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Critical business : the new Australian cinema in review / Sandra Hall Adelaide: Rigby, 1985.
Call No: 71(94) HALAuthor: Hall, Sandra, 1942 Place: AdelaidePublisher: RigbyPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 200 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA ; GENRES ; GENRES. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ROAD MOVIES ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972) ; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976) ; CLUB, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) ; RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1982) ; CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974) ; STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976) ; PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983) ; MAD DOG MORGAN (AT, Philippe Mora, 1976) ; SQUIZZY TAYLOR (AT, Kevin Dobson, 1982) ; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984) ISBN: 0727020102 : $16.95 AustLON: anb72702010; 3401972
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The Man From Hong Kong in Empire (Australian Ed.) (June 2002) iss.15 p.102
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MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE : (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975)
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[Man from Hong Kong, the : stills file]
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Q & A with Brian Trenchard-Smith in Empire (Australian Ed.) (June 2002) iss.15 p.103
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