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Call No: 408.3 (73/94) AME
Author: Danks, Adrian (ed.); Gaunson, Stephen (ed.); Kunze, Peter C. (ed.)
Source: SZ/AT
Place: Cham, Switzerland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; USA; GLOBALISATION; 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 COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9783319666754
Donation: Stephen Gaunson
Contents: -- 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 --

Call No: 735.2(94) RAY
Author: Rayner, Jonathan
Edition: 2022
Place: Cardiff
Publisher: University of Wales Press
PubDate: 2022
PhysDes: x, 294 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
Subject: HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); DYING BREED (AT, Jody Dwyer, 2008); KILLING GROUND (AT, Damien Power, 2016); LOST GULLY ROAD (AT, Donna McRae, 2017); LOVED ONES, THE (AT, Sean Byrne, 2009); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); WOLF CREEK (AT, Greg McLean, 2005); WOLF CREEK 2 (AT, Greg Mclean, 2013)
Summary: The term ‘Gothic’ has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their Gothic resemblances, characteristics and meanings. By concentrating on the occurrence of Gothic motifs, characters, landscapes and narratives, it argues for the recognition and relevance of a coherent Gothic heritage in Australian film. A plethora of Gothic representatives are considered in relation to four consistent and illuminating continuities (images of the family, ideas of monstrosity, generic hybridity and the occurrence of the sublime), and this study debates the appearance and asserts the significance of Australian Gothic films within their national, cultural, literary and cinematic traditions. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781786838896
Contents: List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Familiarity -- Monstrosity -- Hybridity -- Sublimity -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: S BAB
Author: Kent, Jennifer
Edition: Draft 6.6
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 96 leaves : 30 cm
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
Notes: Unpublished Script -- Developed at the Binger Writers Lab (Amsterdam) and with assistance from Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Waking Dream Productions and the Screen Australia Enterprise Program -- Producer Kristina Ceyton, Causeway Film c2011.
Donation: Australian Academy Cinema Television and Arts
URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/scripts/BABADOOK,_THE.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:39:08 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/T/BABADOOK,_THE.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:25:50 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest)

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE. 2015
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION ARTS; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); WATER DIVINER, THE (AT/TU, Russell Crowe, 2014)
Summary: Investigation of the voting process for the 2015 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts where the Best Film was awarded to two films, THE BABADOOK and THE WATER DIVINER

Call No: 11378
Author: Waddell, Terrie
Edition: 2019
Place: Abingdon, Oxon : New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: vii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); CHILD ABUSE; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; FRAN (AT, Glenda Hambly, 1985); LION (AT, Garth Davis, 2016); MANGANINNIE (AT, John Honey, 1980); ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (UK/AT, Jim Loach, 2011); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ROMULUS, MY FATHER (AT, Richard Roxburgh, 2007); SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE (AT, Richard Flanagan, 1998); WINFREY, OPRAH
Summary: Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations, as an element of the individual and collective psyche, historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war, and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies, or actual cases of displaced children, to focus on vulnerable children renderedlost through government and institutional practices, and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency, and films such as The Babadook, Lion, and Predestination, this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself, about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates, can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, cultural studies, screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138939691

Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
Summary: Short piece on the impending pop-up book tie-in.
Notes: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)

Author: Briefel, Aviva
PhysDes: Article
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)

Call No: 735.8 GRE
Author: Greenhill, Pauline
Edition: 2020
Place: Detroit, Michigan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: 264 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); BOXTROLLS, THE (US, Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, 2014); FANTASTIC FILMS
Summary: Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives—including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing—renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies consists of an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion, with the first section, "Studio, Director, and Writer Oeuvres," addressing how fairy-tale films engage with and challenge scientific or factual approaches to truth and reality, drawing on films from the stop-motion animation company LAIKA, the independent filmmaker Tarsem, and the storyteller and writer Fred Pellerin. The second section, "Themes and Issues from Three Fairy Tales," shows fairy-tale film magic exploring real-life issues and experiences using the stories of "Hansel and Gretel," "The Juniper Tree," and "Cinderella." The concluding section, "Moving Forward?" suggests that the key to facing the reality of contemporary issues is to invest in fairy tales as a guide, rather than a means of escape, by gathering your community and never forgetting to believe. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814342220

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AWARDS. AACTA 2015
Author: Bodey, Michael
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AWARDS. AACTA; WATER DIVINER, THE (AT/TU, Russell Crowe, 2014); BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
Summary: Garry Maddox reveals the 2015 AACTA Awards best film tie between The Water Diviner and The Babadook wasn't actually a tie. Jennifer Kent's film won with 855.5 votes to the The Water Diviner's 838.5.

Call No: 744.7 CRE
Author: Creed, Barbara
Edition: 2022
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2022
PhysDes: x, 168 pages
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); HANDMAID'S TALE, THE [TV] (US, 2017 - ); PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, A (UK/US, Emerald Fennell, 2020); REVENGE (FR, Coralie Fargeat, 2017); NIGHTINGALE, THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2017); NOMADLAND (US/GG, Chloé Zhao, 2020); CAROL (UK/US/FR, Todd Haynes, 2015); ASSISTANT, THE (US, Kitty Green, 2019); GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, A ( US, Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014); UNDER THE SKIN (UK/US/SZ, Jonathan Glazer, 2013); JENNIFER'S BODY (US, Karyn Kusama, 2009); LURE, THE [CORKI DANCINGU] (PL, Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015); THELMA (NO/FR/DK/SW, Joachim Trier, 2017); RAW [GRAVE] (FR/BE, Julia Ducournau, 2016); BEAU TRAVAIL [TROUBLE EVERY DAY] (FR/GG/JA, Claire Denis, 1999); IN MY SKIN [DANS MA PEAU] (FR, Marina de Van, 2002); SPOOR [POKOT] (PL/GG/CZ/SW/SO, Agnieszka Holland & Kasia Adamik, 2017); WOMAN AT WAR (IC/FR/UE, Benedikt Erlingsson, 2018); MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (AT/US, George Miller, 2015)
Summary: This follow-up to the classic text of The Monstrous-Feminine analyses those contemporary films which explore social justice issues such as women’s equality, violence against women, queer relationships, race and the plight of the planet and its multi-species. Examining a new movement – termed by Creed as Feminist New Wave Cinema – The Return of the Monstrous-Feminine explores a significant change that has occurred over the past two decades in the representation of the monstrous-feminine in visual discourse. The Monstrous-Feminine is a figure in revolt on a journey through the dark night of abjection. Taking particular interest in women directors who create the figure of the Monstrous-Feminine, in cinema that foregrounds everyday horrors in addition to classic horror, Creed looks at a range of diverse films including The Babadook, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Nomadland, Carol, Raw, Revenge, and the television series The Handmaid’s Tale. These films center on different forms of revolt, from inner revolt to social, supernatural and violent revolt, which appear in Feminist New Wave Cinema. These relate in the main to the emergence of a range of social protest movements that have gathered momentum in the new millennium and given voice to new theoretical and critical discourses. These include: third and fourth wave feminism, the #MeToo movement, queer theory, race theory, the critique of anthropocentrism and human animal theory. These theoretical discourses have played a key role in influencing Feminist New Wave Cinema whose films are distinctive, stylish and diverse. This is an essential companion to the original classic text and is ideal for students in Gender and Media, Gender and Horror, Gender and Film and Feminist Film theory courses. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780367478162
Contents: Introduction: The Monstrous-Feminine In Feminist New Wave Cinema -- The Monstrous Mother As Magician: The Babadook -- Unwomen: Dare To Revolt – The Handmaid’s Tale, Film & Tv Series -- #Metoo: Rape & Revolt: Promising Young Woman, Revenge, The Nightingale. -- The Monstrous-Feminine Forgets Her Manners: Nomadland, Carol, The Assistant -- Vampires, Feminism & Ethnicity: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night -- The Monstrous-Feminine As Femme Fatale, Alien & Black: Under The Skin -- Queering The Monstrous-Feminine: Jennifer’s Body, The Lure, Thelma -- Female Cannibalism & Eating The Other: Raw, Trouble Everyday, In My Skin -- Furiosa: Eco-Horror & The Woman Warrior: Spoor, Woman At War, Mad Max: Fury Road – Filmography -- Index

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS GUILD
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS GUILD; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
Summary: Snippet on winners at the Australian Directors Guild Awards, including The Babadook, Devil's Playground, and Please Like Me

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE - KENT, JENNIFER
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: KENT, JENNIFER; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); NIGHTINGALE, THE in production
Summary: Snippet on Jennifer Kent planning to make a film The Nightingale, plus some information on recently won awards for the film The Babadook

Call No: 735.2 TER
Author: Miller, Cynthia J.; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, North Carolina
Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; HORROR FILM; EVIL IN FILMS; IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (US, John Carpenter, 1995); EVIL DEAD, THE (US, Sam Raimi, 1982 [prod. 1980]); EVIL DEAD II (US, Sam Raimi, 1987); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); PROPHECY, THE (US, Gregory Widen, 1995); IT FOLLOWS (US, David Robert Mitchell, 2014); BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); HOCUS POCUS (US, Kenny Ortega, 1993); NIGHT OF THE DEMON [CURSE OF THE DEMON] (UK, Jacques Tourneur, 1957); BEYOND, THE [E TU VIVRAI NEL TERRORE L'ALDILA] (IT, Lucio Fulci, 1981)
Summary: This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore familiar American films like The Night of the Demon (1957) and The Evil Dead (1981), as well as such international films as Eric Valette's Malefique (2002) and Paco Cabeza's The Appeared (2007) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). -- book blurb
Notes: Includes introduction and index
ISBN: 9781476671307
Contents: Lovecraft and his legacy -- Monstrous writing, writing monsters: authoring manuscripts, ontological horror and human agency / Michael Fuchs -- That monstrous book: the necronomicon and Its cinematic contents / Michael E. Heyes -- Paperback necronomicon: occult authorship in John Carpenter's in the mouth of madness / Murray Leeder -- The book with a thousand faces: the evolution of the necronomicon in the evil dead universe / Martin J. Auernheimer -- Books of hope and despair -- The magic book and the magic of books in Murnau's Faust (1926) / Thomas Prasch -- Apocryphal horror: understanding evil through lost books of the Bible / Jeffrey M. Tripp -- Losing your faith for seeing too much: E^ the anti-Bible as indictment of American heroism in Gregory Widen's The Prophecy / Mark Henderson -- I(dio)t Follows: the Seashell E-Book in It Follows / Learned Foot -- Perspectives on the Babadook -- "The more you deny me, the stronger I get": "Mister Babadook" and the monstrous empowerment of children's culture / Jessica Balanzategui -- Mediating trauma in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook / Michael C. Reiff -- Bad books and fairy tales: Stigmatized Guardians in The Turn of the Screw and The Babadook / Austin Reide -- Diaries and scrapbooks -- Dreadful girl diaries and the promise of transparent girlhood / Karen J. Renner -- "Do not read the Latin": The summoning diary in horror film / Lisa Cunningham -- "That book lies!" lost texts and hidden Horrors in The Whisperer in Darkness / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Witches, demons, and curses -- Spellbound: the significance of spellbooks in the depiction of witchcraft on screen / Emily Brick -- Horror comedy by the book: Grimoire, carnival and Heteroglossia in Kenny Ortega's Hocus Pocus (1993) / Sue Matheson -- Unraveling Julian Karswell's runic curse in Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon / Michael Furlong -- International takes -- Logical Horror: Axiomatic magic and strategic murder in Death Note / Richard J. Leskosky -- Grotesque adaptations: Bodies of knowledge in Male´fique (2002) / Cynthia J. Miller -- The Appeared (2007) by Paco Cabezas: redefining the book of hidden memories and cyclical time / Graciela Tissera -- "No one who sees it lives to describe it": The Book of Eibon and power of the unseeable in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond / Philip L. Simpson.

Call No: P BAB
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 100 X 70 cm
Subject: BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
Summary: Image: dark black figure witha hat and claws. Text: If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of... the babadook. 'Official Selection 2014 Sundance film festival'
Donation: Cinema Nova