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American-Australian cinema : transnational connections / edited by Adrian Danks, Stephen Gaunson and Peter C. Kunze Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018.
Call No: 408.3 (73/94) AMEAuthor: Danks, Adrian (ed.) ; Gaunson, Stephen (ed.) ; Kunze, Peter C. (ed.) Source: SZ/ATPlace: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: c2018PhysDes: xvii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSubject: TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA ; TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS ; AUSTRALIA ; USA ; GLOBALISATION ; HOLLYWOOD ; 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 COVERNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9783319666754Donation: Stephen GaunsonContents: -- 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 --
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The Babadook / by Jennifer Kent 2012.
Call No: S BABAuthor: Kent, Jennifer Edition: Draft 6.6PubDate: 2012PhysDes: 96 leaves : 30 cmSubject: 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
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BABADOOK , THE : (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014)
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It's a tie ... well, not really: how two films both won in Canberra Times (1/8/2015) p.6
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The lost child complex in Australian film : Jung, story and playing beneath the past / Terrie Waddell Abingdon, Oxon : New York: Routledge, 2019.
Call No: 11378Author: Waddell, Terrie Edition: 2019Place: Abingdon, Oxon : New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2019PhysDes: vii, 162 pages ; 24 cmSubject: 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 siteISBN: 9781138939691
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More Babadook in Sydney Morning Herald [Arts & Entertainment] (11/12/2014) p.30
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Parenting through horror : Reassurance in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook in Camera Obscura (2017) vol.95 p.1 - 27
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Reel time : Schumer vows to return for stand-up in The Australian (05/08/2015) p.15
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Short cuts : Babadook again in Sydney Morning Herald (14/05/2015) p.30
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Short cuts : Kent in demand in Sydney Morning Herald (21/05/2015) p.30
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Terrifying texts : Essays on books of good and evil in horror cinema / Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc, 2018.
Call No: 735.2 TERAuthor: Miller, Cynthia J. ; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin Source: USPlace: Jefferson, North CarolinaPublisher: McFarland & Company IncPubDate: 2018PhysDes: 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) ; ...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 blurbNotes: Includes introduction and indexISBN: 9781476671307Contents: 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.
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[The Babadook : Poster]
Call No: P BABPhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 100 X 70 cmSubject: 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
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