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Call No: 71(94) BAR
Author: Barber, Susan
Edition: 2023
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 9 Feb 2023
PhysDes: 280 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; MOTHERS IN FILMS; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); HIGH TIDE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1987); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER II, THE (AT, Geoff Burrowes, 1988); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002); WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD (AT, Ned Lander, 1981)
Summary: The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study brings fresh perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches to a variety of films from a diversity of filmmakers. Areas of focus include the complex and contentious subjects of masculinity, femininity and feminism, the maternal, as well as the Indigenous road film and the protean Australian gothic. During the formative years of the revival, Australian films seemed to emerge from out of the blue in terms of global film history, with many features including Picnic at Hanging Rock (l975), Caddie (l976), The Last Wave (l977), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (l978), and My Brilliant Career (l979) receiving international distribution and enthusiastic critical acclaim with strong box office results. By the time the film revival was in full swing, not only did Australian audiences flock to theaters to see “homegrown” films, but the quantity of Australian films on overseas screens was so high that ardent critics declared this outpouring an Australian “New Wave.” The eyes of the world had turned to a compelling and largely unknown culture. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501390029
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- In Memory Of -- Introduction -- 1. The Ocker: Chauvinistic and Oedipal -- 2. Alternate Masculinities of Paul Cox and John Duigan -- 3. Historical Women and the Bush -- 4. Negligent, Runaway, and Abject Mothers -- 5. The Indigenous Road Film -- 6. Australian Gothic -- Index

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MOTHERS IN FILMS

Call No: 451-055.52 MOT
Author: Mayer, So; Columpar, Corinn
Edition: 2022
Place: Detroit, Michigan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: April 2022
PhysDes: 368 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media
Subject: BASHU, GHARIBETH KOUCHAK (IR, Bahram Beiz'i, 1986); COVID NINETEEN; DOCUMENTARIES; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; GENRES; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; MOTHERS IN FILMS; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA
Summary: Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Laborconstructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality. In four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an exciting array of approaches—including textual analysis, industry studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal reflection—Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach—from the films Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016), and A Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to the television series Top of the Lake (2013–2017) and Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), among others—as well as discussion of the creative practices, be they related to production, pedagogy, curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film and media artists and/or scholars. Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814348529
Donation: Senses of Cinema

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