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The adolescent nation : re-imagining youth and coming of age in contemporary Australian film / Victoria Herche Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2021.
Call No: 71-053.6 HERAuthor: Herche, Victoria Edition: 2021Place: HeidelbergPublisher: Universitatsverlag WinterPubDate: 2021PhysDes: 252 pages : illustrated; 26 cmSeries: Anglistische Forschungen; 465Subject: 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 siteISBN: 9783825369187
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Australian Cinema after Mabo Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Call No: 71(94) COLAuthor: Collins, F. ; Davis, T. Place: Port MelbournePublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: vii, 204 p. ; 24 cmSubject: 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; BibliographyISBN: 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.URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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BENEATH CLOUDS : (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001)
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BENEATH CLOUDS : Second draft / NewVision Films [1999].
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[Beneath clouds : stills file] / Mark Rogers
Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIASource: ATPhysDes: 4 photographs : col ; 13 x 18 - 18 x 13 cmSubject: BENEATH CLOUDS (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001) Summary: 4 coloured photographs of central characters, Lena and Vaughn, and police officers.
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One to watch: Danielle Hall in Empire (Australian Ed.) (July 2002) iss.16 p.16-17
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