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American-Australian cinema : transnational connections / edited by Adrian Danks, Stephen Gaunson and Peter C. Kunze Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 408.3 (73/94) AMEAuthor: Danks, Adrian (ed.) ; Gaunson, Stephen (ed.) ; Kunze, Peter C. (ed.) Source: SZ/ATPlace: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: c2018PhysDes: xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSubject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIA ; USA ; GLOBALISATION ; HOLLYWOOD ; 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 COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9783319666754Donation: Stephen GaunsonContents: -- 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 --
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Animated rhythm in Metro (1997) iss.111 p.57-58
Author: Danks, Adrian PhysDes: Review; Bibliography; CreditsSubject: MUSIC FOR ANIMATED FILMS Summary: A program review that examines the relationship between music and animation since the early sound period.
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City Girl in Metro (1997) iss.110 p.86-87
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Cockfighter in Metro (1997) iss.110 p.74-75
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A Companion to Robert Altman / Edited by Adrian Danks Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 81 ALT DANAuthor: Danks, Adrian Edition: 2015Place: Chichester, U.K.Publisher: John Wiley & SonsPhysDes: xii, 522 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Series; 13Subject: 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
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Go! Melbourne : Melbourne in the sixties Melbourne, Australia: Circa, 2005.
Call No: 12(94) GOMAuthor: O'Hanlon, Seamus (ed.) ; Luckins, Tanja (ed.) ; Danks, Adrian Place: Melbourne, AustraliaPublisher: CircaPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 21 cm ; 284 ppSubject: 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
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'I knew I should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque' : the Warner Bros. cartoon down under in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.3 p.267-281
Author: Danks, Adrian PhysDes: ArticleSubject: 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
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Melbourne, mavericks, memories and millennial mystification : Adrian Danks covers the Melbourne International Film Festival in Realtime (Oct-Nov 1999) iss.33 p.22
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"To become immortal and then die" : The representation of home photographic materials in cinema / Adrian Danks
Call No: 61[77] DANAuthor: 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
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