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Adventures in the b-movie trade / Brian Trenchard-Smith [USA]:
Call No: 81 TRE TREAuthor: Trenchard-Smith, Brian Edition: 2020Place: [USA]PhysDes: 580 pages : illustrated ; 26 cmSubject: TRENCHARD-SMITH, BRIAN ; PAGE, GRANT ; LEE, BRUCE ; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975) ; DEATHCHEATERS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1976) ; STUNT ROCK (NE, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978) ; BMX BANDITS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983) ; FROG DREAMING (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1985) ; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) ; TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1981) Summary: Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," "Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings", "Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his "favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era. -- book blurbISBN: 9798985674705
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Anybody can do a stunt once in Cinema Papers (Mar 1986) vol.56 p.17-20
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DEAD-END DRIVE-IN : (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
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'Dead End Drive-In' : irony in setting in Encore (18-31 Jul 1985) vol.3 iss.11 p.20
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Dead end drive-in in Cinefantastique (Oct 1986) vol.16 iss.4/5 p.20
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[Dead-end drive in : poster] [1986].
Call No: P DEAPubDate: [1986]PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 90 X 64 cm.Subject: DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Summary: Image: Illustrated picture of a man (holding a gun) and woman holding hands with the drive-in and flames behind them and a car above them.Text: 'Getting in was easy... Getting out is hell on wheels.'Notes: General wear and tear and blu-tack stains on back corners. Slight tear on top.
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How sound can sell a movie...and a lab in Encore (5-18 June 1986) vol.4 iss.9 p.11
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The Mad Max effect : road warriors in international exploitation cinema / James Newton New York: Bloomsbury Academic,
Call No: 79 MAD NEWAuthor: Newton, James Edition: 2021Place: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPhysDes: 216 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: [TWENTY-NINETEEN] 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK [2019: DOPO LA CADUTA DI NEW YORK] (IT/FR, Sergio Martino, 1983) ; ANDERSON, WES ; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS ; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) ; DEATH RACE 2000 (US, Paul Bartel, 1975) ; DEATH RUN (UK, Michael J. Murphy, 1987) ; DEATH WISH (US, Michael Winner, 1974) ; EXPLOITATION FILMS ; EXTERMINATOR, THE (US, James Glickenhaus, 1980) ; HOME VIDEO ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85) ; MILLER, GEORGE ; MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; ZOMBIES IN FILMS AND TV Summary: The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.
The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781501342295Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Origins of the Road Warrior -- Chapter Two: The Death Race Lineage -- Chapter Three: Contextualising Mad Max -- Chapter Four: The Politics of Mad Max -- Chapter Five: MadMaxploitation! Transnational Road Warriors -- Chapter Six: Fury Road and the Imitation of Exploitation -- Chapter Seven: Mad Max and the metatext: Fan Engagement and Online Culture -- Conclusion: A Few Years From Now -- List of Films -- Reference List -- Index
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Not quite Mad Max : Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead end drive-in in Studies in Australasian cinema (2009) vol.3 iss.3 p.309-320
Author: Johinke, Rebecca PhysDes: ArticleSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Summary: This article suggests that Dead End Drive-In (1986), Brian Trenchard-Smith's little-known Ozploitation film, deserves reconsideration from Australasian film scholars because it offers a valuable contribution to discussions about Australian masculinity, car culture, phobic narratives and the White Australia Policy. It is argued that the drive-in as detention centre foreshadows later Australian anxieties about immigration and border protection. Clearly a phobic narrative full of white panic (Morris, 1989, 1998), it exhibits many of the anxieties about Australians and auto-immobility that Catherine Simpson (2006) discusses, and fits neatly into Tranter's (2003) discussion of cars and governance and Bode's (2006a) arguments about whiteness and Australian masculinity in crisis. -- Abstract
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Post Bob Hawke, pre Mad Max in Encore (10-23 Oct 1985) vol.3 iss.17 p.24-25
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