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Cinemas of value : multicultural realism in Asian Australian cinema in Studies in Australasian cinema (2008) vol.2 iss.2 p.141-156
Author: Khoo, Olivia PhysDes: ArticleSubject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; JAMMED, THE (AT, Dee McLachlan, 2007) ; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003) ; RA CHOI (AT, M. Frank, 2005) Summary: This article examines the use of realist aesthetics in three Australian films, Dee McLachlan's The jammed (2007), Khoa Do's The Finished People (2003) and M. Frank's Ra Choi (2005) as a way of creating ‘value’ within the terms of an Australian national cinema. ‘These films, among other examples of an emergent Asian Australian cinema’, deploy techniques of realism to build an authenticity of experience for spectators, unfamiliar with seeing portrayals of Asian Australians on screen. This article will consider what is at stake in the accepted, and often replicated, relationship between multiculturalism and realism characterizing filmic representations of Asian Australians, and will shift the focus to explore the place of idealism in the creation of value. By examining the aesthetics of what I will call ‘multicultural realism’ I aim to consider how these stylistic strategies seek to politicize certain representations over others in the films' attempt to build an alternative vision of the Australian nation and its diasporic constituents. -- AbstractNotes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1
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A companion to Australian cinema / Edited by Felicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan Bye Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 71(94) COMAuthor: Collins, Felicity ; Columpar, Corinn ; Rutherford, Anne ; Ford, Felicity ; Kelada, Odette ; Clark, Maddee ; Verevis, Constantine ; Goldsmith, Ben ; French, Lisa ; David Marshall, P. ; Bennett, James ; Grace, Helen ; Khoo, Olivia ; Yue, Audrey ; Bye, Susan ; Sandars, Diana ; Stadler, Jane ; Gaunson, Stephen ; Trevisanut, Amanda Malel ; Turnbull, Sue ; McCutcheon, Marion ; Goritsas, Helen ; Tiwary, Ana ; Lambert, Anthony ; Gibson, Ross ; Cunningham, Stuart ; Swift, Adam ; Williams, Deane ; Smaill, Belinda ; Neumark, Norie Source: US/UKPlace: Hoboken, New JerseyPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPubDate: 2019PhysDes: xxii, 581 pages ; 26 cmSeries: Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemaSubject: AUSTRALIA ; FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; INDIGENOUS ; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; GENRES ; THEORY ; CAMPION, JANE ; CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2013) ; SPEAR (AT, Stephen Page, 2015) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX : FURY ROAD (AT/US, George Miller, 2015) ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; LEGO MOVIE, THE (AT/US/DK, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014) ; ROCKET, THE (AT/TH/LS, Kim Mordaunt, 2013) ; SERANGOON ROAD [TV] (AT/SI, 2013 -) ; KETTERING INCIDENT, THE [TV](AT, 2015-) ; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953) Summary: The essays assembled here address six thematically organized propositions - that Australian cinema an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an auteur-genre-landscape cinema, a televisual industry and a multiplatform ecology. Offering fresh critical perspectives and extending previous scholarship, case studies range from The Lego Movie, Mad Max and Australian stars in Hollywood, to transnational co-productions, YouTube channels, transmedia and naturecam documentaries. New research on trends such as the Blak Wave, the convergence of television and film, digital transformations of screen production and the shifting roles of women, on and off-screen, highlight how established precedents have been transformed by new realities beyond both cinema and national borders. --
Written in an accessible style that does not require knowledge of cinema studies or Australian studies. --
Presents original research on Australian actors such as Cate Blanchett and Chris Hemsworth, evaluating their training, branding and path from Australia to Hollywood. --
Explores the films and filmmakers of the Blak Wave and their challenge to Australian settler-colonial history and white identity. --
Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies. --
Felicity Collins is Reader/ Associate Professor in Screen Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia --
Jane Landman was Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia --
Susan Bye is Education Programmer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia. --Book JacketNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index -- signed by Felicity CollinsISBN: 9781118942529Contents: You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time / Felicity Collins -- Charlie's Country, Gulpilil's Body / Corinn Columpar -- Ivan Sen's Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place / Anne Rutherford
-- Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre's Spear / Felicity Ford -- Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen / Maddee Clark / Odette Kelada -- Another Green World: The Mad Max Series / Constantine Verevis -- Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry / Ben Goldsmith -- Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur / Lisa French -- Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors's; Migration to Hollywood / P. David Marshall -- Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations / James Bennett -- Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries / Helen Grace -- The Rocket: Small, Foreign-Language Cinema / Olivia Khoo -- Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism / Audrey Yue -- An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur-Producer / Susan Bye -- Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine's Journey in Four Films / Diana Sandars -- Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema / Jane Stadler -- Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook / Stephen Gaunson -- Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence / Amanda Malel Trevisanut -- Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident / Marion McCutcheon / & Sue Turnbull -- The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model / Helen Goritsas & Ana Tiwary -- Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories / Anthony Lambert -- CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night / Ross Gibson -- Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture / Adam Swift & Stuart Cunningham -- Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks / Deane Williams -- Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond / Belinda Smaill -- Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius / Norie Neumark
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Sinophone cinemas / edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo London ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 408.1-054(=951) SINAuthor: Yue, Audrey (editor) ; Khoo, Olivia (editor) Source: AUPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xvi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: CHINA IN FILMS ; COPRODUCTION ; COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA ; COPRODUCTION. CHINA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; HONG KONG ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; SHORT FILMS ; SINGAPORE ; TAIWAN ; TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; SHIH, SHU-MEI ; CHILDREN OF THE SILK ROAD, THE (AT/C/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007) ; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (HK, Ang Lee, 2000) ; FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (FR, Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2008) Summary: "Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. Showcasing a variety of new and fascinating case studies from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, and canvassing a range of formats including commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries and independent films, the book highlights the contemporary screen cultures of Chinese-language communities situated on the margins of China and Chineseness. It engages new sites of localisation, multilingualism and differences that have emerged in Chinese film studies, ones that are not easily contained by the notion of diaspora. The chapters cover a number of historical periods, geographical locations, and critical and methodological perspectives, such as the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; cinematic practices of Chinese and non-Chinese language resistance, complicity and transformation; and Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production and visual economies." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Contains list of figures and notes on Chinese names and film titles -- Includes filmography, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781137311191Contents: Part 1: Theorising Sinophone cinemas -- Framing Sinophone cinemas / Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo -- Genealogies of four critical paradigms in Chinese-language film studies / Sheldon H. Lu -- Alter-centring Sinophone cinema / Yiman Wang -- Festivals, censorship and the canon: the making of Sinophone cinemas / Yifen T. Beus -- The voice of the Sinophone / Song Hwee Lim -- Singapore, Sinaphone, nationalism: sounds of language in the films of Tan Pin Pin / Olivia Khoo; Part 2: Contemporary Sinophone cinemas -- Mandarin pop-culture meets Tokyo jazz: gender and popular youth culture in late-1960s Hong Kong musicals / Jennifer Feeley -- Sinophone libidinal economy in the age of neoliberalization and mainlandization: masculinities in Hong Kong SAR and New Wave cinema / Mirana M. Szeto -- Singlish and the Sinophone: non-standard (Chinese/English) languages in recent Singaporean cinema / Alison M. Groppe -- British Chinese short films: challenging the limits of the Sinophone / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis -- Contemporary Sinophone cinema: Australia-China coproductions / Audrey Yue
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Transnational Australian Cinema : ethics in the Asian Diasporas / by Olivia Khoo, Belinda Smaill, and Audrey Yue Lanham: Lexington Books, c2013. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 408.1(5/94) KHOAuthor: Khoo, Olivia ; Smaill, Belinda ; Yue, Audrey Source: UK/USPlace: LanhamPublisher: Lexington BooksPubDate: c2013PhysDes: vii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: "This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema's transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and indexISBN: 9780739173244Contents: -- Reframing Australian cinema: transnationalism, ethics, and Asian Australian cinema -- Asian stereotypes in 1920s -- Australian cinema: the cook, the thief, the wife and lover -- Colombo plan documentary: Australia and Asia in the postwar era -- The transnationalisation of the Australian western: Japanese-Australian productions in the late 1960's -- Romance, Entrepreneurialism, and the intercultural couple -- The global back of beyond: ethics and the Asian Australian road movie -- Landscape cinema: asianness and indigeneity -- new ethics in the Asian Australian short film -- The community cultural development of action cinema -- Co-productions and new queer paradigms for mobilities and migration -- bibliography -- filmography -- index --URL status: URL: 'https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=1155203'
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