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The Australian film revival : 1970s, 1980s, and beyond / Susan Barber New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 9 Feb 2023.
Call No: 71(94) BARAuthor: Barber, Susan Edition: 2023Place: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 9 Feb 2023PhysDes: 280 pages ; 24 cmSubject: 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 siteISBN: 9781501390029Contents: 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
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Australian genre film / edited by Kelly McWilliam and Mark David Ryan New York: Routledge,
Call No: 730(94) AUSAuthor: McWilliam, Kelly ; Ryan, Mark David Edition: 2021Place: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePhysDes: 248 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Rutledge advances in film studiesSubject: AUSTRALIA ; GENRES ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA ; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; TEEN FILMS ; WAR FILMS AUSTRALIA Summary: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop.
The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western.
This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781138603141Contents: 1. Australian Film Genre Studies / Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam -- 2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema / Amanda Howell -- 3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century / Adrian Danks -- 4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International / Lesley Speed -- 5. New Australian Crime Drama / Greg Dolgopolov -- 6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies / Mark David Ryan -- 7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream / Liz Giuffre -- 8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie / Deborah Thomas -- 9. Courting the Romance / Kelly McWilliam -- 10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008 / Andrew James Couzens -- 11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film / Kelly McWilliam -- 12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers / Jonathan Rayner -- 13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia / Daniel Reynaud -- 14. Questioning the Australian Western / Grayson Cooke.
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Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction / Jonathan Rayner Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Call No: 71(94) RAYAuthor: Rayner, Jonathan Source: UKPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2000PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA ; SCHEPISI, FRED ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978) ; CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986) ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; SIRENS (AT/UK, John Duigan, 1994) ; BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974) ; ODD ANGRY SHOT, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1979) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and indexISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269LON: 22455173
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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 Mad Max Movies : Mad Max / Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome / Adrian Martin Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.: Currency Press, ScreenSound Australia, 2003.
Call No: 79 MAD MARAuthor: Martin, Adrian Source: ATPlace: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.Publisher: Currency Press; ScreenSound AustraliaPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cmSeries: Australian Screen ClassicsSubject: MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA Summary: Martin compares the three Mad Max movies, sharing his views on which works best and why. In a chapter dedicated to each film, he looks at their critical reception and their themes, examines Miller's shooting techniques and provides a shot-by-shot analysis of integral scenes.Notes: Notes: p.74-78
Bibliography: p.79-81
Filmography: p.82-83
Credits: p.84-87ISBN: 0868196703
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