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Australian film theory and criticism : volume 1 critical positions / Noel King / Constantine Verevis / Deane Williams Bristol, UK; Chicago: Intellect, 2013-.
Call No: 62(94) KIN (v. 1)Author: King, Noel ; Verevis, Constantine ; Williams, Deane Source: UK/USPlace: Bristol, UK; ChicagoPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2013-PhysDes: xii, 174 pages ; 24 cmSeries: Australian film theory and criticismSubject: CRITICISM ; THEORY. AUSTRALIA ; FILM Summary: The first part of a planned three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies. Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, people, and institutions across this influential period, contributors examine a multitude of books and journal articles published in Australia and distributed internationally. They offer important insights about the origins of Australian film theory and its relationship to the related disciplines of art history, performance art, and digital media.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and appendix.ISBN: 9781841505817 (v. 1) -- 9781783200375 (v. 2)Contents: Volume 1 -- Preface / Patrice Petro --
Introduction: Chapter one: Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams --; Part one: Institutions -- Chapter two: Film Theory Goes to Australia / Constantine Verevis -- Chapter three: Writing the Australian Film Revival / Constantine Verevis --; Part two: Personnel -- Chapter four: Cultural Mobility and Film Studies in Australia 1975-1990 / Noel King --; Part three: Criticism -- Chapter five: Shifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History / Deane Williams -- Chapter six: Australian Film Theory and Criticism and Cultural Studies / Deane Williams --; Conclusion -- Chapter seven: Contemporary Australian Film Theory and Criticism / Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams. --
Volume Two -- Introduction: Serious film studies and magpies / Noel King and Deane Williams -- Part I: Brisbane -- "From 'pictures' to formats" / Albert Moran interviewed by Noel King -- "Everyone's go their favourite periods of Cunningham's career, and it's always something before the present!" / Stuart Cunningham interiewed by Noel King -- "For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies" / Graeme Turner interviewed by Noel King -- "The circulation of ideas" / Tom O'Regan interviewed by Deane Williams -- "We just thought we were unstoppable" / Colin and Jane Crisp interviewed by Noel King -- "I loved best when really practical solutions had to be found for artistic problems" / Jonathan Dawson interviewed by Noel King -- Part II: Melbourne -- "Early on I'd been an inveterate attender of Saturday matinees" / Mick Counihan interviewed by Noel King -- "Ye, but it never entered my head that it would ever become a field as such ..." / Barbara Creed interviewed by Deane Williams -- "This is all part of the historical process" / Ina Bertrand interviewed by Deane Williams --
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Australian film theory and criticism : Volume 3 / By Verevis, Constantine and Williams, Deane United Kingdom: Intellect, 2018.
Call No: 67(94) VERAuthor: By Verevis, Constantine and Williams, Deane Place: United KingdomPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2018Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND TELEVISION FUND ; BIRTLES, FRANCIS ; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) ; GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; CHAUVEL, CHARLES ISBN: 9781783208371
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Australian National Cinema in Metro (1997) iss.111 p.81-82
Author: Williams, Deane PhysDes: Book review; Illustration(s)Subject: AUSTRALIA Summary: Review of 'Australian national cinema' by Tom O'Regan.
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Australian post-war documentary film : an arc of mirrors / Deane Williams Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2008.
Call No: 761 WILAuthor: Williams, Deane Source: UKPlace: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, USAPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 165 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA ; THREE IN ONE (AT, Cecil Holmes, 1956) ; BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953) ; MIKE AND STEPHANI (AT, Maslyn Williams, 1948-49) ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) ; VALLEY IS OURS, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1948) Summary: "This book is, at one level, a selective history of Australian documentary film in the immediate post-war years. At another level it is a sketch of an internationalist progressive film culture in the same place and period. It examines some landmark films in Australian Film History and places these important works in an international context. In this work of film history Deane Williams proposes that, while these films have been understood as inferior remakes of "overseas" written, theatrical and filmic texts, these films are evidence of an Australian film culture that was a key participant in an international network of documentary practice and criticism."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165); Includes filmography: p. [153]-156.ISBN: 9781841502106Contents: A realist film unit and association in Australia -- Cecil Holmes's folk politics : the intertextuality of Thee in one -- John Heyer's international perspective : The overlanders, The valley is ours, The back of beyond -- The neo-realism of Mike and Stefani -- Settler journeys
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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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Mapping the imaginary : Ross Gibson's Camera natura / by Deane Williams. With Camera natura : shooting script /by Ross Gibson & John Cruthers Carlton South, Vic.: Australian Teachers of Media in association with Australian Film Institute Research and Information Centre and Deakin University School of Visual, Performing and Media Arts, 1996.
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The overlanders: between nations in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.1 p.79-89
Author: Williams, Deane PhysDes: ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) Summary: This article argues that Harry Watt's The overlandrs (1946), an Ealing Studios film shot in Australia, should be understood as an international film product, one with a foot in the post-war cultural histories of both Australia and Britain. In this sense the film requires different reading strategies to those used within a national cinema framework. The article resists 'settling' the account, or justifying the film's raison d'etre with respect to only one of nationalist discourse, arguing that a reliable and truthful account of The overlanders will always be a composite one. -- Abstract
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