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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 ; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN 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 (US/AT/DK, Phil Lord and 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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Dancing to his song : the singular cinema of Rolf de Heer / by Jane Freebury Straberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press, 2015.
Call No: 81DEH FREAuthor: Freebury, Jane Source: ATPlace: Straberry Hills, NSWPublisher: Currency PressPubDate: 2015PhysDes: 351 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cmSubject: DE HEER, ROLF ; TAIL OF THE TIGER (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1984) ; INCIDENT AT RAVEN'S GATE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1988) ; DINGO (AT/FR, Rolf de Heer, 1991) ; BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993) ; EPSILON (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1995) ; QUIET ROOM, THE (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1996) ; DANCE ME TO MY SONG (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1998) ; OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE STORIES (AT/SP/FR/NL, Rolf de Heer, 2000) ; TRACKER (AT, Tina Dalton & Gary Steer, 1996) ; ALEXANDRA'S PROJECT (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2003) ; TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006) ; [DOCTOR] DR PLONK (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2007) ; KING IS DEAD, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2012) ; CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2013) Summary: Dancing to His Song, is the first comprehensive review of the work of Rolf de Heer, Australia's most prolific auteur, an idiosyncratic filmmaker famed for never repeating himself. Film by film, Jane Freebury searches for the sources of de Heer's inspiration and finds the secret to his success in an ethic of hard work, flexibility and self-reliance that meets challenges and obstacles with in genuity without ever losing sight of his vision. His remarkable career as an independent filmmaker has much to teach young producers and directors. [Taken from the back of the book]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-348)ISBN: 9781925005585Contents: Introducing Rolf de Heer -- Tail of a Tiger: under the radar -- Incident at Raven's Gate: encounters with critics -- Dingo: jamming in the wilderness -- Bad Boy Bubby: do or die -- Epsilon: African Queen with a cosmic lean? -- The Quiet Room -- through the eyes of a child -- Dance Me To My Song: taking it to the audience -- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: overseas partners -- The Tracker: how the West was lost -- Alexandra's Project: unhappily ever after -- Ten Canoes: the Ramo Mob, indigenous partners -- Dr. Plonk: seriously comedy -- The King is Dead! Ah'ma tha one! -- Charlie's Country: between two worlds -- The wrap
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