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Call No: 71(94) TUL
Author: Tulloch, John, 1942
Place: Sydney
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HALL, KEN G.; AUSTRALASIAN FILMS; SMITH, BEAUMONT; HOWE, W.J.; DOYLE, STUART; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; BREAKING OF THE DROUGHT, THE (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1920); HORDEN MYSTERY, THE (AT, Harry Southwell, 1920); JUNGLE WOMAN, THE (AT, Frank Hurley, 1926); LIFE STORY OF JOHN LEE - THE MAN THEY COULDN'T HANG, THE (AT, Arthur W. Sterry, 1921); HAYSEEDS, THE (AT, Beaumont Smith, 1933); MAN FROM KANGAROO, THE (AT, Wilfred Lucas, 1920); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933)
Notes: Cinema industries. Australia, ca 1920- ca 1940 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0527041); Ill. on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0868611484 (pbk.); 0868611409 : price unknown
LON: 2138387

Call No: 408.1(94) AUS
Author: Frow, John, 1948; Morris, Meaghan
Place: St Leonards, N.S.W.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: xxxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Questions in cultural studies
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SERIALS. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHAMBERLAIN, AZARIA; EMBASSY [TV] (AT, Paul Moloney/Mark Callan/Karl Steinberg, 1991 -)
Notes: CIP confirmed; Bibliography: p. 292-296
ISBN: 1863734996 : 439.95; 1863734147 (pbk.) : $19.95
LON: 13615766; 9721242

Author: Simpson, Catherine
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; NATURE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984); DARK AGE (AT/US, Arch Nicholson, 1988); ROGUE (AT, Greg Mclean, 2007); MARSUPIALS: THE HOWLING III, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1987); DYING BREED (AT, Jody Dwyer, 2008)
Summary: This article focuses on moments in a series of key films: Razorback (Mulcahy, 1984), Dark Age (Nicholson, 1987), Rogue (McLean, 2007), Howling III: the Marsupials (Mora, 1987) and Dying Breed (Dwyer 2008). Using an 'eco-postcolonial' framework, the author argues that these films extend postcolonial anxieties over settler Australian notions of belonging and challenge the notion of human mastery over nature.
Notes: We hear so much about extinction in debates around climate change. But what about those animals that go feral and then return – bigger, hungrier and angrier – to wreak revenge on humans who may have done them injustice? Using an eco-postcolonial framework, this article examines how a number of exploitation horror films have dealt with environmental topics and issues of trespass. In particular, I examine the agency of animals – crocs, pigs, thylacines and marsupial werewolves – in some key Australian eco-horror films from the last 30 years: Long Weekend (Eggleston,1978), Razorback (Mulcahy, 1984), Dark Age (Nicholson, 1987), Howling III: the Marsupials (Mora, 1987), Rogue (Greg McLean, 2007), Black Water (Nerlich & Traucki, 2007) and Dying Breed (Dwyer 2008). On the one hand, these films extend postcolonial anxieties over settler Australian notions of belonging, while on the other, they signify a cultural shift. The animals portrayed have an uncanny knack of adapting and hybridizing in order to survive, and thus they (the films and the animals) force us to acknowledge more culturally plural forms of being. In particular, these films unwittingly emphasize what Tim Low has termed the ‘new Nature’: an emerging ethic that foregrounds the complex and dynamic interrelationships of animals with humans.--Abstract

Call No: 024.3(=1-81)(94) COR
Author: Corroboree Films
Source: AT
Place: Randwick, NSW
Publisher: Corroboree Films
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 46 pages ; 31 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; EORA CORROBOREE (AT, Michael le Moignan & Yuri Sokol, 1985)
Summary: Details of "BLACK FUTURES" series of which 'Eora' is the first. "In the past, many films on Aboriginal themes have painted a pathetic picture of a race and culture on the brink of extinction. The six films in BLACK FUTURES do not whitewash the past, but reflect the new mood of Aboriginal people in the nineteen eighties and the positive forces for change in Aboriginal life." - INTERIOR BLURB
Contents: Listing of the six films in the Black Futures series; Eora Corroboree, Building Dreams, Getting Better, Still Time, Reflections on Silver Screens, The Land Owns Us -- Post production script for Eora Corroboree

Call No: 81CHA CUN
Author: Cunningham, Stuart
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: x, 214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Australian cultural studies
Subject: DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940); GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); HERITAGE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935); IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1933); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944); SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949); UNCIVILISED (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1936); WALKABOUT (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1958)
Summary: "FEATURING AUSTRALIA follows the exceptional career of Charles Chauvel and the films he made over a thirty-year span in the battling Australian film industry of the 1920s to the 1950s. Stuart Cunningham probes the work of Chauvel to examine his strange, ambitious and fascinating films and the industrial and cultural environment from which they emerged - giving an appreciation of the films which has never before been available. This book also offers new approaches to understanding Australian cinema, and show how Australian culture and society changed during the period of Chauvel's work. Running through these changes, however, are continuities based on Australia's status as an 'import culture' and the consequent frailties of its cultural identity." [Taken from book blurb]
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-196); Bibliography: p. 197-201; Filmography: p. 175-177
ISBN: 0044422547 : price unknown
LON: anb04442254; 7520705 7514911

Call No: 756(94) STA
Author: Stadler, Jane -- Mitchell, Peta -- Carleton, Stephen
Source: US
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: x, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Series: The spatial humanities
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NORTHERN TERRITORY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DAWN, NORMAN; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE, THE (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2008); RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011); SAMSON AND DELILAH (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2009); VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (AT, Jonathon Auf Der Heide, 2009); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
Summary: "Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which Asutralian space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identifu patterns of represnetation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated prespective on the translation of space across narraitve forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
ISBN: 9780253018458
Contents: Introduction : geocriticism's disciplinary boundaries -- Remediating space : adaptation and narrative geography -- Cultural topography and mythic space : Australia's North as gothic zone -- Spatial history : mapping narrative perceptions of place over time -- Mobility and travel narratives : geovisualizing the cultural politics of belonging to the land -- Terra incognita : mapping the uncertain and the unknown

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA

Author: Conor, Liz
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Examines the influence of Xavier Herbert's novel 'Poor fellow my country' on Baz Lurhmann's film Australia, reflecting on the use of the 'creamy' Aboriginal child as a redemptive emplem of reconciliation in cultural imaginings.
Notes: Illustrated

Author: Stadler, Jane; Mitchell, Peta
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AESTHETICS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)

Call No: 79PIA JON
Author: Jones, Gail
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission: National Film and Sound Archive
Source: Australia
Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: viii, 85 p. : ill. ; 20cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REGIONAL CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; NEW ZEALAND IN FILMS; DISABLED IN FILMS; SPEECH; ROMANCE IN FILMS; LOVE IN FILMS; SEA IN FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; MOTHERS IN FILMS; CHILDREN IN FILMS; MUSIC IN FILMS; SILENCE IN FILMS; EROTICISM IN FILMS; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; JANE CAMPION; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993)
Summary: "When 'The Piano' opened in 1993 it was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece. Written and directed by Jane Campion, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making her the first woman ever to win this prestigious award. It went on to win Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Campion), Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin). "In this thoughtful and perceptive critique, Gail Jones assesses the film's unearthly and controversial visions, its poetic power and its capacity to entrance and to alienate."
Notes: Includes notes, bibliography, filmography, 'The Piano' credits and synopses of other books in the 'Australian Screen Classics' series.
ISBN: 9780868197999

Author: Morton, John
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Baz Luhrmann's film Australia is considered as a meditation on the problem of national legitimacy, particularly in relation to the Stolen Generations narrative.

Author: Kevin, Catherine
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955)
Summary: Article examining the expression of national assimilation policies played out through the maternal desires of Jedda's Sarah McMann, and Australia's Sarah Ashley.

Author: Halperin, David M.
PhysDes: Book review
Subject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; GOOD WOMAN OF BANGKOK, THE (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 1991)
Summary: A book review of 'A bit on the side: east-west topographies of desire', by Chris Berry.

Author: Williams, Marise
PhysDes: Article
Subject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PROPOSITION THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005)
Summary: John Hillcoat's film The Proposition (2005), written by Nick Cave and set in a late 1880s Australian outback, is a colonial ballad of rape, murder, revenge and fratricide. The central narrative arc is concerned with relations between men, the English Captain Stanley and the Irish Burns gang representing, respectively, the law and the lawless, civilizing imperialists and wild colonials. Drawing on Richard Dyer's White, this article explores the gender-coded white racial imagery of the film and argues that the figure of the white woman signifies what is really at stake: a cultural and racial logic of whiteness as definitive of the Australian.