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Call No: 71(94) (=1-81) ABO
Source: AT
Place: Canberra
Publisher: Awareness Through Films Group
PubDate: c1988
PhysDes: 56 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; AUSTRALIAN SUMMER, AN (AT, Megan Simpson, 1987); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA
Summary: Listing of films and documentaries about Aboriginals. The listings include for each production: key crew, running time, format, year of creation, distribution, and synopsis and commentary
Notes: Includes index -- "Distributed by Community Aid Abroad Offices and Awareness Through Films Group" -- inside front cover.
ISBN: 0958779139

Call No: 71-053.6 HER
Author: Herche, Victoria
Edition: 2021
Place: Heidelberg
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: 252 pages : illustrated; 26 cm
Series: Anglistische Forschungen; 465
Subject: YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; TEEN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; TOOMELAH (AT, Ivan Sen, 2011); BENEATH CLOUDS (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001); STONE BROS. (AT, Richard Frankland, 2009); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007); MOTHER FISH (AT, Khoa Do, 2010); TWO HANDS (AT, Gregor Jordan, 1999); AUSTRALIAN RULES (AT, Paul Goldman, 2002); DROWN (AT, Dean Francis, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); SOMERSAULT (AT, Cate Shortland, 2004); ADORATION (AT/FR, Anne Fontaine, 2013); SAPPHIRES, THE (AT, Wayne Blair, 2012); BRAN NUE DAE (AT, Rachel Perkins 2009)
Summary: Deeply rooted in Australia’s construction as a young nation, ‘coming of age’ has been the defining narrative of Australia’s national cinema. This book provides the first study which systematically explores the ‘coming of age’ theme in Australian feature films produced since the turn of the millennium, foregrounding how films use a range of diverse (his)stories to respond to the centrality of this theme. Rather than focussing on ‘coming of age’ mainly in its portrayal of a (successful) maturation process, this study explores the possibilities inherent in what is conceived of as a ‘permanently’ transitional ‘coming of age’ process, providing a crucial starting point for the re-definition of national fictions. A range of cinematic genres, including the road movie, crime film, sport film, romance and musical, is used to challenge and (to varying degrees) destabilise the national myth of Australia as a youthful, egalitarian society with a chance and ‘fair go’ for everyone. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9783825369187

PhysDes: Interview; Illustration(s)
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION. INDIGENOUS BRANCH; FRANKLAND, RICHARD; SEN, IVAN; HARRY'S WAR (AT, Richard Frankland, 1999); WIND (AT, Ivan Sen, 1998)
Summary: The discussion provides a snapshot history of indigenous film-making in Australia, as well as a perspective of the films and the processes involved in their creation.

Author: Johnston, Lawrence, Birmingham, Catherine & others
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; LITERATURE, FILM. AUSTRALIA; SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS
Summary: A number of filmmakers, inlcuding Lawrence Johnston and Catherine Birmingham, respond to the Australian Film Institute's downgrading of the non-feature awards with a list of vital issues for discussion at a public meeting scheduled for July 18.
Notes: Others

Call No: 71(94) COL
Author: Collins, F.; Davis, T.
Place: Port Melbourne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: vii, 204 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MABO: LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN (AT, Trevor Graham, 1997); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); DISH, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 2000); LANTANA (AT, Ray Lawrence, 2001); AUSTRALIAN RULES (AT, Paul Goldman, 2002); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; WALKING ON WATER (AT, Tony Ayres, 2001); HEAVEN'S BURNING (AT, Craig Lahiff, 1997); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); HOLY SMOKE (US, Jane Campion, 1999); SERENADES (AT, Mojgan Khadem, 2000); YOLNGU BOY (AT, Stephen Johnson, 2001); MISSING, THE (AT, Manuela Alberti, 1999); HEARTLAND [TV] (AT, 1994); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; CUNNAMULLA (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 2000); MESSAGE FROM MOREE (AT, Judy Rymer, 2003); CASTLE, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 1997); VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995); STRANGE PLANET (AT, Emma-Kate Croghan, 1999); RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI (AT, Kate Woods, 2000); HEAD ON (AT, Ana Kokkinos, 1998); BENEATH CLOUDS (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001); JAPANESE STORY (AT, Sue Brooks, 2003); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002)
Summary: “Drawing on concepts of shock, memory and national maturity, ‘Australian Cinema after Mabo’ asks what part Australian cinema plays in reviewing our colonial past. It looks at how the 1992 Mabo decision, which overruled the nation’s founding myth of terra nullius, has changed the meaning of landscape and identity in Australian films, including The Tracker, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Moulin Rouge, The Castle, Cunnamulla, Looking for Alibrandi and Japanese Story amongst many others.” (back cover)
Notes: Index: p.200-204; Bibliography
ISBN: 0521834805 : 0521542561 (pbk.)
Contents: Part 1: Australian Cinema and the History Wars -- Backtracking after Mabo -- Homeand Abroad in Moulin Rouge, The Dish and Lantana -- Elites and Battlers in Australian Rules and Walking on Water -- Mediating Memory in Mabo Life as an Island Man --; Part 2: Landscape and Belonging after Mabo -- Aftershock and the Desert Landscape in Heavens Burning, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Holy Smoke, Serenades, Yolngu Boy, The Missing -- Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree -- Coming from the City in The Castle, Vacant Possession, Strange Planet and Radiance; Part 3: Grief, Trauma and Coming of Age -- Lost, Stolen and Found in Rabbit-Proof Fence -- Escaping History and Shame in Looking for Alibrandi, Head On and Beneath Clouds -- Sustaining Grief in Japanese Story and Dreaming in Motion.
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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DESERT PEOPLE (AT, Ian Dunlop, 1967)
Author: -
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; DUNLOP, IAN; DESERT PEOPLE (AT, Ian Dunlop, 1967)
Summary: In depth report on the success of the documentary 'Desert People' in screenings in major European cities. The article reproduces a glowing review by Italian film critic Carlo Laurenzi
Notes: old clips pile from June 2015

Author: Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LUHRMANN, BAZ; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Short editorial discussion summarising critical and academic response to Baz Luhrmann's film Australia

Call No: 024.3(=1-81)(94) COR
Author: Corroboree Films
Source: AT
Place: Randwick, NSW
Publisher: Corroboree Films
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 46 pages ; 31 cm
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EORA CORROBOREE (AT, Michael le Moignan & Yuri Sokol, 1985)
Summary: Details of "BLACK FUTURES" series of which 'Eora' is the first. "In the past, many films on Aboriginal themes have painted a pathetic picture of a race and culture on the brink of extinction. The six films in BLACK FUTURES do not whitewash the past, but reflect the new mood of Aboriginal people in the nineteen eighties and the positive forces for change in Aboriginal life." - INTERIOR BLURB
Contents: Listing of the six films in the Black Futures series; Eora Corroboree, Building Dreams, Getting Better, Still Time, Reflections on Silver Screens, The Land Owns Us -- Post production script for Eora Corroboree

Call No: 71(94)(=1-81) BLA
Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2
CorpAuthor: Screen Australia
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Screen Australia
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 267 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 15 x 21 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; INDIGENOUS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "Produced by Screen Australia's Strategy & Research Unit, The Black List is an important addition to reference material on Indigenous filmmaking in Australia, cataloguing the work of 257 Indigenous Australians with credits as producer, director, writer, or director of photography on a total of 674 screen productions. It provides descriptive listings of drama and documentary titles where Indigenous Australians have been credited in the key creative roles. Listings go back as far as 1970 for feature films and telemovies, to 1980 for documentaries and mini-series, and to 1988 for shorts and series. Titles are indexed by year and by filmmaker, and the book also features a statistical summary and timeline of key titles and events."--Screen Australia web site.
Notes: "June 2010"--Cover verso; Includes indices; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as at 19/12/11: http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/news_and_events/Media-Release-documents/2010/mr_100923_BlackList.pdf
ISBN: 9781920998110
Contents: -- introduction -- chronology of Indigenous film & tv -- key statistics -- titles by year -- features -- tv drama -- documentaries: long -- documentaries: short -- short drama -- title listings -- features -- tv drama -- documentaries: long -- documentaries: short -- short drama -- indexes -- by key creatives -- by titles (A-Z) --

Author: Quinnell, Ken
PhysDes: Article
Subject: HOLMES, CECIL; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Interview with filmmaker Cecil Homes on the process of making films, his previous films, and the upcoming MAN ALONE.

Call No: 451-054(=1-8) DIA
Author: Shoesmith, Brian
Place: Freemantle, W.A. : Film and Television Institute, 1984
PhysDes: 12 leaves ; 30 cm
Series: Dialogues on Film
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; FRAME ON DREAMING (AT, Josko Petkovic, 1984)
Notes: Dialogues on Film: No. 1
ISBN: 094914701X
LON: 5296321

Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(94)-54 (=1-81) AUS
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission
Source: AT
Place: Sydney, NSW
Publisher: Australian Film Commission
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: 72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 x 24 cm + 1 DVD (12 cm.)
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV
Summary: "Dreaming in motion celebrates the achievements over more than a decade of Australia's Indigenous filmmakers and the role played in their collective success by the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission. Filmmaker entries include personal statements, biographies, filmographies, lists of festival screenings and awards, and accounts of acclaimed films."--From section of folded front cover.
Notes: Includes index.; Region 4 DVD.; "Produced by RealTime for the Industry and Cultural Development Division and the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission."--Verso of title-page.; DVD in plastic envelope in section of folded front cover. It is divided into 2 sections: Filmmakers, and, Films.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also available in electronic format via the Internet. Address as at 22/06/2007: http://www.afc.gov.au/profile/pubs/indig.aspx.
ISBN: 19020998039

Author: McKee, Alan
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV. AUSTRALIA; GRANT, STAN; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); BLACKFELLAS (AT, James Ricketson, 1992); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); REAL LIFE [TV] (AT, 1988)
Summary: The article suggests that while the medium of film has tended to search for an Aboriginality which looks 'right', television allows the racial identity of indigenous Australians to be understood in other ways.

Call No: 71(943) CRA
Author: Craven, Allison
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Anthem Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xii, 158 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
Subject: QUEENSLAND; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SEA IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); AGE OF CONSENT (AT, Michael Powell, 1969); NIM'S ISLAND (US, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, 2008); UNINHABITED (AT, Bill Bennett, 2010); COOLANGATTA GOLD, THE (AT, Igor Auzins, 1984); PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003); REMOTE AREA NURSES [TV] (AT, David Caesar/Catriona Mackenzie, 2005); STRAITS, THE [TV] (AT, 2012-); PROPOSITION, THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005); MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013)
Summary: This book comprises a collection of essays exploring aspects of gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the emergence of Indigenous filmmakers in the late 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia. The spectacle of Australian cinema in these essays suggests the transitional energies of a growing industry and the regional nuances of gender, place and culture. The book draws on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography in investigating Australian cinema history in the latter twentieth century, and in highlighting recent trends in promotion of Australia as a film-production destination
ISBN: 9781783085491
Contents: Introduction: regional features -- Backtracks: landscape and identity. Period features, heritage cinema: region, gender and race in The Irishman -- Heritage enigmatic: the silence of the dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman -- Silences in paradise. Tropical gothic and the music of the Cane Fields in Radiance -- Island girls friday: women, adventure and the Tropics -- Masculine dramas of the coast. The sunshine boys: Peter Pan and The iron man in the coastal cinemas of Queensland -- A Pacific parable: cave and coastal masculinities in Sanctum regional backtracks -- Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait television: RAN and The straits -- Back to the back: genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton -- Conclusion

Author: Hurley, Andrew W
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; GERMANY; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; URAN GEHOERT DER REGENBOGENSCHLANGE, DAS (GW, Nina Gladitz, 1978); WO DIE GRUNEN AMEISEN TRAUMEN (GW, Werner Herzog, 1984); BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT (GG/FR/AT, Wim Wenders, 1991)
Summary: This article examines some aspects of the West German reception of a series of Australian films about Aborigines including Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977), Phillip Noyce's Backroads (1977) and Michael Edols' Lalai and Floating (1973 and 1975) which were shown in Germany and elsewhere in Europe in 1978 and 1979. It explains how these films came to be shown in Europe, how and why they caught the imagination of German reviewers and film-makers at the time, and how they themselves contributed to the begetting of several German films on Aboriginal themes including Nina Gladitz's documentary Das Uran gehrt der Regenbogenschlange (The Uranium Belongs to the Rainbow Serpent) (1979), Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) and Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World (1991).

Call No: 451-054(=1-81) BOS
Author: Bostock, Lester
Edition: 1st
Place: [Sydney]
Publisher: Special Broadcasting Service
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: vi, 58 pages
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA
ISBN: 9780644091527
Donation: Megan McMurchy

Call No: 756(94) STA
Author: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen
Source: US
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Series: The spatial humanities
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS 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 COVER
ISBN: 9780253018458
Contents: 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

Author: Conor, Liz
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Examines the influence of Xavier Herbert's novel 'Poor fellow my country' on Baz Lurhmann's film Australia, reflecting on the use of the 'creamy' Aboriginal child as a redemptive emplem of reconciliation in cultural imaginings.
Notes: Illustrated

Author: Spunner, Suzanne
PhysDes: Festival report; Illustration(s)
Subject: WIND (AT, Ivan Sen, 1998); NO WAY TO FORGET (AT, Richard Frankland, 1996); HARRY'S WAR (AT, Richard Frankland, 1999); WEEKS, FILM. AFI. 1999; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA
Summary: Three short films by Australian Aboriginal filmmakers are showcased in the We Iri We Homeborn Arts Festival in Melbourne, Australia in July, 1999.

Author: Craven, Allison
PhysDes: Article
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978)
Summary: The Irishman (Crombie 1978) has long been regarded as typical of the Australian period film genre of the late 1970s, which is said to collectively exhibit the Australian Film Commission's influences on national culture. In this article, The Irishman is seen as a ‘heritage’ film for the way locations and authentic sets and decor are featured, and for the nostalgic performances of gender and race. Regional influences on the genesis and production of The Irishman in North Queensland are also considered, and its adaptation from the novel, The Irishman: A Novel of Northern Australia (Elizabeth O'Conner 1960). Heritage, it is argued, can be seen as a cinematic mode in which regional and national elements of production are synthesized. Heritage also offers a framework through which to view other Australian period films, including Australia (Luhrmann 2008), which was also shot partly in North Queensland locations. -- Abstract

Author: Healy, Chris
PhysDes: Book review
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: A review of Marcia Langton's book, 'Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television...An essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking by and about Aboriginal people and things'.

Author: Douglas, Malcolm
PhysDes: Article
Subject: DOUGLAS, MALCOLM; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; FOLLOW THE SUN (AT, David Oldmeadow, 1979); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION COSTS
Summary: Article by documentarian Malcolm Douglas on documentary filmmaking, including the process of getting a documentary marketed and distributed.

Author: Wilson, Janet
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
Summary: Fred Schepisi's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial oppression, has a controversial place in the Australian social imaginary. As a raw narrative of a part-Aboriginal man's axe-murders of white women, the manhunt which followed, his eventual capture and death by hanging just after Australia achieved federation in 1900, the film was apparently constrained by the limited framework of representation of race relations available in the late 1970s. Audiences were left numbed by the image of a segregated society, the overpowering murder scenes and the disempowerment and downward spiral of Jimmie and his half brother Mort. Yet it has also been valued as a major film in the Australian new wave cinema and judged as ‘underestimated and overlooked’. This article approaches the film's mixed reception by re-examining it as a screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel, The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), arguing that Schepisi used an expressionist cinematography to convert Keneally's ‘ironic epic’ (Hodge and Mishra 1990: 59) into a fatalistic tragedy. In reconsidering the film in terms of its era, the article shows how the Australian landscape becomes a site of problematic race relations, overturning the myth of ‘innocent settlement’ that is associated with films of the Australian Film Commission (AFC) genre, heralding post-Mabo films like Rabbit proof fence (Noyce, 2002), Ten canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) and Jindabyne (Lawrence, 2007) whose stories and mise-en-scène acknowledge earlier traumas, inducing in viewers a belated shock of recognition (Collins and Davis 2004: 92).--ABSTRACT

Author: Chane, Queenie Monica
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DOYLE, CHRISTOPHER; RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: Indigenous Australian and Asian Australian dialogues are still emerging in Australian cinema. This article will examine how Asian Australian cultural politics offer alternative accounts of indigenous-settler relations that are not reduced to a black and white discourse. A politics of cultural hybridity disrupts dominant modes of representation by revealing the fluidity and artifice of prevailing cultural boundaries. I expand on the critical framework of a ‘third space’ through Christopher Doyle's Rabbit-Proof Fence photo collages. While his subject matter is taken from the film's mode of production through his role as cinematographer, Doyle's interaction through collage and his Asian film background enables a hybrid engagement with indigenous cultural representations. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1.

Author: Morton, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Baz Luhrmann's film Australia is considered as a meditation on the problem of national legitimacy, particularly in relation to the Stolen Generations narrative.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS [INTERNSHIP]
Author: Bodey, Michael
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS [INTERNSHIP]
Summary: Submissions for a Village Roadshow Entertainment Group/Animal Logic internship named Australians In Film and valued at $20,000 is now open

Author: Davis, Therese
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GULPILIL, DAVID; DE HEER, ROLF; TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: In 2000, maverick Australian director Rolf de Heer began a collaboration with Australian Aboriginal screen legend David Gulpilil to make a film set in Gulpilil's traditional lands in North Eastern Arnhem Land. The result of the collaboration is the new feature Ten canoes (2006). For Culpilil the project represented an opportunity to launch careers in film for members of his community including his son Jamie Gulpilil (who plays the lead role). He has also stated that ' the film will allow people from the community and around the world to know how our ancestors lived and to understand them'. In order to try to achieve this, de Heer took on the challenging task he describes as 'fusing two very different storytelling traditions'. Drawing on the documentary Balanda and the bark canoes (2006) (also known as Making ten canoes) and other sources this article goes behind the scenes to examine processes of cross-cultural collaboration and intercultural fusion. It argues the film shows that while stories have different forms and functions in different societies, one story can be made to serve two different cultural requirements and, further, in doing so can expand possibilities for both cross-cultural recognition and cinema.-- Abstract

Call No: 451-054 (=1-81)(71):(93):(94) REV
Author: Pearson, Wendy Gay (ed.); Knabe, Susan (ed.)
Source: CN
Place: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Film and media studies series; Film + media studies
Subject: CRITICISM; MEDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. CANADA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; INDIGENOUS; AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND MAORI CINEMA; NORWAY; CANADA; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS
Summary: "From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity. The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway. " --BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9781554583355
Contents: -- pt. I dream makers -- Introduction Globalizing Indigenous Film and Media / Susan Knabe -- One: He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film / Michael Greyeyes -- pt. II decolonizing histories -- Two: Speakin' Out Blak: New and Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices / Ernie Blackmore -- Three:Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt / Susan Knabe -- Four.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema / Kerstin Knopf -- Five: Australian Indigenous Short Film as a Pedagogical Device: Introducing Wayne Blair's The Djarn Djarns and Black Talk / Colleen McGloin -- Six."Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas, and 10 Canoes / Wendy Gay Pearson -- pt. III mediating practices -- Seven: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand / jo smith and Sue Abel -- Eight: Superhighway across the Sky ... Aboriginal New Media Arts in Australia: A Remix and Email Conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser / Jenny Fraser and Adam Szymanski -- Nine: On Collectivity and the Limits of Collaboration: Caching Igloolik Video in the South / Erin Morton and Taryn Sirove -- pt. IV documentary approaches -- Ten: The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary / Stephen Foster and Mike Evans -- Eleven: "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour and Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew / Ute Lischke -- Twelve: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin and Shelley Niro / Maeghan Pirie -- Thirteen:"I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History / Gail Vanstone -- pt. V other perspectives --Fourteen: Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater / Tanis MacDonald -- Fifteen: Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk / Davinia Thornley -- glossary -- bibliography -- index --

Author: Gibbs, Ed
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; DALE, DARREN; PERKINS, RACHEL; PURCELL, LEAH; MCKENZIE, CATRIONA; BLAIR, WAYNE; KRAWITZ, TONY; SAPPHIRES, THE (AT, Wayne Blair, 2012); SATELLITE BOY (AT, Catriona McKenzie, 2012); REDFERN NOW [TV] (AT, 2012); MABO [TV] (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2012); TALL MAN, THE (AT, Tony Krawitz, 2011); BRAN NUE DAE (AT, Rachel Perkins 2009)
Summary: Through a series of interviews and research, Ed Gibbs looks at the overall industry of filmmaking in Australia and explores how Indigenous filmmakers are fitting into this.

Author: Kevin, Catherine
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955)
Summary: Article examining the expression of national assimilation policies played out through the maternal desires of Jedda's Sarah McMann, and Australia's Sarah Ashley.

Author: McDonald, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; BRADBURY, DAVID; STATE OF SHOCK (AT, David Bradbury, 1989)
Summary: David Bradbury interviewed about his documentary 'State of shock', following the life of an Aboriginal man, Alwyn Peter, his family and the problems associated with alcoholism, domestic violence, and being uprooted from their territory.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS [INTERNSHIP]
Author: Rawthorne, Sally -- Sharp, Annette -- Moran, Jonathon -- Halliwell, Elle -- Domjen, Briana
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS [INTERNSHIP]; HEATH LEDGER SCHOLARSHIP; LEDGER, HEATH; LEDGER, KATE
Summary: Snippet on Kate Ledger joining the organisation Australian In Film, which awards the Heath Ledger Scholarship

Author: Tynan, Alice
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; BRIGGS, TONY; THOMPSON, KEITH; SAPPHIRES, THE (AT, Wayne Blair, 2012)
Summary: An interview with the collaborative screenwriting pair behind adapting the stage play The Sapphires to screen.

Call No: P EXH
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 71 X 23 cm.
Subject: EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. AFI; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA. CHAUVEL
Summary: Image: Illustrations of representations of indigenous people. Text: '40,000/200/80 years'.
Notes: Programme on the reverse side

Author: Burns, Tim; Trees, Kathryn
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; DEAD HEART (AT, Nick Parsons, 1996)
Summary: Detailed review of "Dead heart", focusing on racism, cultural difference and the representation of Aboriginal people.

Author: Hurley, Andrew
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; HERZOG, WERNER; WO DIE GRUNEN AMEISEN TRAUMEN (GW, Werner Herzog, 1984)
Summary: In 1983, the German film-maker Werner Hrezog realized a decade-ling ambition to create a film thematizing the struggles of Aboriginal groups against mining companies in Northern Australia. Where the green ants dream (1984) was ultimately reviled by Australian pundits and also disappointed international critics. However, the film and the story behing its making raise important issues, not only about the creative appropriation of Aboriginal mythology, and the filmic representation of Aboriginality and of the struggle for Aboriginal land rights, but also about the intricacies of cross-cultural collaboration. This article reveals how Herzig relied upon the first land rights court case (Milirrpum v Nabalco) in writing his film script. In doing so, he came up with a hybrid ambigyously sitated between documentary and feature film, something which proved uncomfortable for the lead Aboriginal actors Wandjuk and Roy Marika, who had both been players i Milirrpum v Nabalco. This article analyses Herzog's mix of documentary and fiction, examines the film's reception - both by white Australian critics and by Aboriginal Australians - and argues that, while the film may be flawed, it is valuable becaue it threw (and continues to throw) light on the processes and pitfalls of cross-cultural collaboration. -- ABSTRACT