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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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Imagined landscapes : geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell and Stephen Carleton Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Call No: 756(94) STAAuthor: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cmSeries: The spatial humanitiesSubject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA ; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NORTHERN TERRITORY ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; CRIMINALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DAWN, NORMAN ; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994) ; FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927) ; LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE, THE (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2008) ; RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011) ; SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009) ; VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (AT, Jonathon Auf Der Heide, 2009) ; WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Summary: "Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which Asutralian space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identifu patterns of represnetation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated prespective on the translation of space across narraitve forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVERISBN: 9780253018458Contents: Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries -- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography -- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone -- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time -- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land -- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown
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Pulling Focus : intersubjective experience, narrative film, and ethics / Jane Stadler New York: Continuum, 2008.
Call No: 626:17 STAAuthor: Stadler, Jane Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: ContinuumPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xiii, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: ETHICS IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; AESTHETICS Summary: " Pulling focus: Intersubjective experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum, and Wayne Booth's work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Jane Stadler shows that film specatatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an intersubjective experience, involving an affective relationship with characters and their values. Building on Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye and Carnal Thoughts, Stadler uses a phenomenological approach to analyze ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing that the camera describes experience and views screen characters with an evaluative form of perception: an ethical gaze in which spectators participate. Films discussed include Dead Man Walking, Lost Highway, Batman Begins, Nil By Mouth, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index; Includes filmography: p. 265ISBN: 9780826429735Contents: 1. Ethics in narrative form and content -- 2. Intersubjective perception: phenomenology, embodiment, and evaluation -- 3. Losing the plot: narrative structure and ethical identity -- 4. Under the influence: vice, violence and villainy -- 5. Resistance and responsiveness: emotion and character engagement -- 6. Imagination: inner sight and silent voices -- 7. Seeing in the dark: attentive engagement -- Conclusion. Ethical transformation.
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