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Call No: 408.3 (73/94) AME
Author: Danks, Adrian (ed.); Gaunson, Stephen (ed.); Kunze, Peter C. (ed.)
Source: SZ/AT
Place: Cham, Switzerland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; USA; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008); BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003); GREAT GATSBY, THE (US/AT, Baz Luhrman, 2013)
Summary: "This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9783319666754
Donation: Stephen Gaunson
Contents: -- 1 Where I'm Calling From: An American-Australian Cinema? / Peter C Kunze -- pt I Across the Pacific: Looking to America -- 2 Rudimentary Modernism: Ken G Hall, Rear-Projection and 1930s Hollywood / Adrian Danks -- 3 Simulated Scenery: Travel Cinema, Special Effects and For the Term of His Natural Life / Leslie DeLassus -- 4 Representations and Hybridizations in First Nation Cinema: Change and Newness by Fusion / Jane Mills -- 5 Of Mothers and Madwomen: Mining the Emotional Terrain of Toni Collette's Anti-Star Persona / Fincina Hopgood -- pt II The View From There: Australian Films in the US -- 6 Accented Relations: Mad Max on US Screens / Tessa Dwyer -- 7 Talking Trash with Tarantino: Auteurism, Aesthetics and Authority in Not Quite Hollywood / Peter C Kunze -- 8 Australian Horror Movies and the American Market / Mark David Ryan -- 9 The Terrible Terrace: Australian Gothic Reimagined and the (Inner) Suburban Horror of The Babadook / Amanda Howell -- pt III Here and There: Crossing Between Australian, US and International Cinemas -- 10 American Cartel: Block Bookings and the Paramount Plan / Stephen Gaunson -- 11 The Multiplex Era / Jock Given -- 12 "Zest to the jaded movie palate": Wallace Worsley, Scott R Dunlap and The Romance of Runnibede / Jeannette Delamoir -- 13 Defining Neverland: P J Hogan, J M Barrie and Peter Pan in Post-Mabo Australia / Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield -- 14 Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby Telling a National Iconic Story Through a Transnational Lens / Lesley Hawkes -- index --

Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: Review; Bibliography; Credits
Subject: MUSIC FOR ANIMATED FILMS
Summary: A program review that examines the relationship between music and animation since the early sound period.

Call No: 71(94) DAN
Author: Danks, Adrian; Verevis, Constantine
Edition: 2023
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PhysDes: 224 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Traditions in World Cinema
Subject: 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 site
ISBN: 9780748693061
Contents: 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.

Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: Review; Credits
Subject: CITY GIRL (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1930)

Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: Review; Credits
Subject: COCKFIGHTER (US, Monte Hellman, 1974)

Call No: 81 ALT DAN
Author: Danks, Adrian
Edition: 2015
Place: Chichester, U.K.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
PhysDes: xii, 522 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Series; 13
Subject: ALTMAN, ROBERT
Summary: A Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman’s life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman’s work. The most expansive and wide-ranging book yet published on Altman, providing a comprehensive account of Altman’s complete career Provides discussion and analysis of generally neglected aspects of Altman’s career, including the significance of his work in television and industrial film, the importance of collaboration, and the full range and import of his aesthetic innovations Includes essays by key scholars in “Altman studies”, bringing together experts in the field, emerging scholars and writers from a broad range of fields Multi-disciplinary in design and draws on a range of approaches to Altman’s work, being the first substantial publication to make use of the recently launched Robert Altman Archive at the University of Michigan Offers specific insights into particular aspects of film style and their application, industrial and aesthetic film and TV history, and particular areas such as the theorisation of space, place, authorship and gender -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781118288900
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Call No: 12(94) GOM
Author: O'Hanlon, Seamus (ed.); Luckins, Tanja (ed.); Danks, Adrian
Place: Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Circa
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 21 cm ; 284 pp
Subject: SOCIETIES, FILM. AUSTRALIA. VICTORIA
Summary: What were the 1960s really like in Melbourne? Was it just great music, brightly coloured clothes and The Pill? Or was there something deeper and perhaps more insidious happening? This fab new book takes a close look at the many cultural changes of the Sixties and how they affected the Victorian capital - and questions modern-day views about the way times actually did 'a' change'. Go! Melbourne in the Sixties covers defining moments like the visit of The Beatles, the end of the six o'clock closing, political activism, Jean Shrimpton at Flemington, as well as increases in tertiary study opportunities, dramatic population growth through migration and a baby-boom, and sets them in the context of a decade that many continue to see as a golden era. [Taken from back cover] Of particular relevance here is Adrian Danks' chapter on the Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS) entitled "Arrested Developments or from 'The Heroes are Tired' to 'The Tomb of Ligeia': Some Notes on the Place of the Melbourne University Film Society in 1960s Film Culture" which traces the origins of the film society, its contribution to Melbourne cultural life, its output (not just in exhibition but production and publishing) and its legacy.
ISBN: 0975780204

Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; WARNER BROS.; ANIMATED FILMS
Summary: The writer examines two series of animated short subjects produced by the Warner Bros. studio in the period between the late 1940s and the early 1960s featuring the iconic Australian characters Hippety Hopper and the Tasmanian Devil. He examines the ways in which these cartoons reinforce and in some respects depart from conventional representations of Australia in “international” cinema. -- Provided by publisher

Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: Festival report; Illustration(s)
Subject: FESTIVALS. MELBOURNE
Summary: Report on the 1999 Melbourne International Film Festival

Call No: 61[77] DAN
Author: Danks, Adrian
PhysDes: 233 p. ; 29 cm.
Subject: AESTHETICS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); SONG OF AIR (AT, Merilee Bennett, 1987); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); CALENDAR (CN/GG/AR, Atom Egoyan, 1993); WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (US, Stan Brakhage, 1959)
Summary: This thesis analyses the representation of 'home' photographic materials within a range of historically, aesthetically and generically diverse cinematic works. [Taken from thesis summary.]
Notes: PhD thesis