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Call No: 408.1(94) WEA
Author: Weaver, Roslyn
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, N.C.
Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc.
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: x, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 28
Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS; DISASTERS IN FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN (AT, Stuart Beattie, 2010)
Summary: "This volume explores the role of Australia in apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute's popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children's literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse undermines complacency, foretells environmental disasters, critiques colonization, and serves as a vehicle of protest for minority groups"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 978-0-7864-6051-9
Contents: 1. An apocalyptic map: new worlds and the colonization of Australia -- 2. The shield of distance: apocalypse in Australian literature after 1945 -- 3. An apocalyptic landscape: the Mad max films -- 4. Children of the apocalypse: Australian children's literature -- 5. (Re)writing the end of the world: apocalypse, race and indigenous literature -- 6. The end of the human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novels
ID2: 189

Call No: 71(94) MCF
Author: McFarlane, Brian, 1934
Place: London
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CHILDREN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Australian cinema films,. 1970-1985 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Bibliography: p. 226
ISBN: 0436270234 (cased) : ¦12.95; 0436270226 (pbk) : ¦7.95
LON: bnb43627023; 4517972

Call No: 71(94) AUS
Author: Craven, Ian
Place: London
Publisher: Frank Cass
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 239 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV; GONSKI REPORT; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SUBURBS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND TV; DINGO, ERNIE; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995); BIG STEAL, THE (AT, Nadia Tass, 1990); CASTLE, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 1997); DEATH IN BRUNSWICK (AT, John Ruane, 1991); HEARTBREAK KID, THE (AT, Michael Jenkins, 1993); HEARTLAND [TV] (AT, 1994); IDIOT BOX (AT, David Caesar, 1996); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); LOVE SERENADE (AT, Shirley Barrett, 1996); METAL SKIN (AT, Geoffrey Wright, 1994); MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982); MURIEL’S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994); STRICTLY BALLROOM (AT, Baz Luhrmann, 1992)
Notes: Includes index and bibliography
ISBN: 0714649740; 0714680346(pbk.) : ª16.50
LON: 21663632
Contents: 1. Australian cinema towards the millennium / Ian Craven -- 2. Patterns of production and policy: the Australian film industry in the 1990s / Lisa French -- 3. Unhappy endings: the heterosexual dynamic in Australian film / Nigel Spence and Leah McGirr -- 4. Vulnerable bodies: creative disabilities in contemporary Australian film / Liz Ferrier -- 5. Becoming a man in Australian film in the early 1990s: The big steal, Death in Brunswick, Strictly ballroom and The heartbreak kid / Philip Butterss -- 6. His natural whiteness: modes of ethnic presence and absence in some recent Australian films / David Callahan -- 7. All quiet on the western front? Suburban reverberations in recent Australian cinema / Ben Goldsmith -- 8. Romance and sensation in the 'glitter' cycle / Emily Rustin -- 9. A pig in space? Babe and the problem of landscape / Tara Brabazon -- 10. The castle: 1997's 'battlers' and the ir/relevance of the aesthetic / Stephen Crofts -- 11. Idiot box: television, urban myths and ethical scenarios / Kaye Ferres -- 12. Ernie Dingo: reconciliation (a love story forged against the odds?) / Alan McKee -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: filmography / Samantha Searle -- Australian cinema in the 1990s: a select bibliography / Linda Smith
ID2: 306

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: Lowe, Barry
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WALKABOUT (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1958); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972)
Summary: An analysis of the emerging aesthetics of current Australian films which, Lowe argues, is showing two main themes: mateship and the outback.

Call No: 71(94) BAC
Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2
Author: Murray, Scott, 1951
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission; UCLA Film and Television Archive; Australian Bicentennial Authority
Place: North Sydney
Publisher: Australian Film Commission
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: viii, 112 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; MILLER, GEORGE; HAYES, TERRY; KENNEDY MILLER ENTERTAINMENT; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes index; "UCLA, October 20-November 20, 1988' - Cover; Filmography: p. 108-109; Have a duplicate copy
ISBN: 0731643909
LON: 6280621
Contents: George Miller, p34-43 -- Terry Hayes, p44-51.
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Call No: 756 CIN
Source: UK/USA
Place: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 315 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY; LOCATION SHOOTING; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HERZOG, WERNER; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: Cinema and Landscape frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.
Notes: includes filmography; includes index
ISBN: 9781841503097
Contents: 1. Introduction - cinema and landscape -- Part I: The invention of the cinematic landscape : 2. Landscape and the fantasy of moving pictures: early cinema's phantom rides / Tom Gunning -- Part II: Mapping cinematic landscapes : 3. 'One foot in the air?' Landscape in the Soviet and Russian road movie / Emma Widdis -- 4. Landscape of the mind: the indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog's films / Brad Prager -- 5. Visions of Italy: the sublime, the postmodern and the apocalyptic / William Hope -- 6. Landscape in Spanish cinema / Marvin D'Lugo -- 7. Landscape and Irish cinema / Martin McLoone -- 8. The ownership of woods and water: landscapes in British cinema 1930-1960 / Sue Harper -- 9. Filming the (post-)colonial landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1998) / Susan Hayward. 10. Landscaping the revolution: the political and social geography of Cuba reflected in its cinema / Bob Britton -- 11. Landscapes of meaning in cinema: two Indian examples / Wimal Dissanayake -- 12. The geography of cinema - Zimbabwe / Martin Mhando -- 13. Crises, Economy and landscape: the modern film face of new China / Kate Taylor -- 14. Japanese cinema and landscape / Paul Spicer -- 15. A version of beauty and terror: Australian cinematic landscapes / Graham Harper -- 16. Battlefields of vision: New Zealand filmscapes / Jonathan Rayner -- 17. The landscapes of Canada's features: articulating nation and nature / Jim Leach -- 18 Science fiction/fantasy films, fairy tales and control: landscape stereotypes on a wilderness to ultra-urban continuum / Christina Kennedy, Tia´nna and Me´lisa Kennedy

Call No: 71(94) RAY
Author: Rayner, Jonathan
Source: UK
Place: Manchester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM FINANCE CORPORATION; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; SCHEPISI, FRED; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SIRENS (AT/UK, John Duigan, 1994); BETWEEN WARS (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1974); ODD ANGRY SHOT, THE (AT, Tom Jeffrey, 1979)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-199) and index
ISBN: 0719053269 (hbk.); 0719053277 (pbk.); 0719053269
LON: 22455173

Call No: 408.1(94) MIT
Author: Mitchell, Barry
PhysDes: 103 leaves ; 30 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA. 1980's; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Thesis submitted to the School of Humanities (Master of Arts in Literature and Communication Programme) -- Thesis (M.A.)--Murdoch University, 1991.-- Bibliography: p. 96-99
Contents: Abstract -- Part one: The Set Up - the cultural backprojection -- On culture -- On 'National Identity' and 'National Character' -- Part Two: The catalyst - Film as Culture -- Part Three: Character development -- Australian Cinema - '70s nationalism -- Into the 80s - 10BA and all that -- Indigenous cinema -- Part Four: Setting - Mates in the bush -- Part Five: An approach to analysis -- Part Six: Internationalists - Marketing the Image -- Occupied territory -- The Hero Fails - or does he? -- Austr-aliens abroad -- Mates at war -- Part Seven: Plot Point One -- Part Eight: Subtext - Indigenous cinema -- Rites of transition -- All in the family -- Aboriginality -- Australian dreams - Multiculture -- Part six: plot point two -- Resolution -- Bibliography -- Filmography

Call No: 71(943) CRA
Author: Craven, Allison
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: Anthem Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xii, 158 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
Subject: QUEENSLAND; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SEA IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); AGE OF CONSENT (AT, Michael Powell, 1969); NIM'S ISLAND (US, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, 2008); UNINHABITED (AT, Bill Bennett, 2010); COOLANGATTA GOLD, THE (AT, Igor Auzins, 1984); PETER PAN (US, P.J. Hogan, 2003); REMOTE AREA NURSES [TV] (AT, David Caesar/Catriona Mackenzie, 2005); STRAITS, THE [TV] (AT, 2012-); PROPOSITION, THE (AT/UK, John Hillcoat, 2005); MYSTERY ROAD (AT Ivan Sen, 2013)
Summary: This book comprises a collection of essays exploring aspects of gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the emergence of Indigenous filmmakers in the late 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia. The spectacle of Australian cinema in these essays suggests the transitional energies of a growing industry and the regional nuances of gender, place and culture. The book draws on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography in investigating Australian cinema history in the latter twentieth century, and in highlighting recent trends in promotion of Australia as a film-production destination
ISBN: 9781783085491
Contents: Introduction: regional features -- Backtracks: landscape and identity. Period features, heritage cinema: region, gender and race in The Irishman -- Heritage enigmatic: the silence of the dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman -- Silences in paradise. Tropical gothic and the music of the Cane Fields in Radiance -- Island girls friday: women, adventure and the Tropics -- Masculine dramas of the coast. The sunshine boys: Peter Pan and The iron man in the coastal cinemas of Queensland -- A Pacific parable: cave and coastal masculinities in Sanctum regional backtracks -- Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait television: RAN and The straits -- Back to the back: genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton -- Conclusion

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: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS 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: 408.1(94) ISL
Author: Foss, Paul
Place: Leichhardt, N.S.W.
Publisher: Pluto Press
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 235 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps ; 25 cm
Subject: MYTH AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CINEPHILIA; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); HERITAGE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0949138231 (pbk.)
LON: 6096440

Author: Prisk, Tracey
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA
Summary: The effects of the weather and drought on the Australian landscape and the selection of film and television locations. Broken Hill, areas in South Australia and Victoria are referenced.

Author: Huntington, Eleanor M
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ANIMALS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BABE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1995); HAPPY FEET (AT/US, George Miller, 2006); RED DOG (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2011)
Summary: In the most successful family films produced and directed by Australians in the last two decades, the Australian landscape and animals' roles in such spaces instruct young viewers how to navigate life in a postcolonial and explicitly multicultural nation. Through close textual readings of Babe, Happy Feet and Red Dog, coupled with analysis of official Australian government policy, this paper argues that the main animal characters deconstruct the paternal/ colonial Anglo - Celtic dominance through their interactions with their landscapes. [Abstract]

Call No: 626:396(94) WRI
Author: Wright, Robin, 1963
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 110 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PLAINS OF HEAVEN, THE (AT, Ian Pringle, 1982)
Summary: This thesis examins the representation of the Australian landscape in five Australian films released between 1975 and 1982. The films are 'The Man From Snowy River', 'Sunday Too Far Away', 'We of the Never Never', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and 'The Plains of Heaven'. These five texts are examined in light of feminist theories dealing with subjectivity and representation. The analysis of the place and role of femininity within the texts is conducted through the examination of symbols and metaphors associated with the landscape which operate within the film structure. The thesis concludes that the Australian landscape is constructed within these films in such a way as to support the concept of a white, masculine Australian identity..." -- taken from summary
Notes: Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Centre for Womens Studies; Summary: [unpaged] at front of text; Typescript; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-110)
LON: abn93171145; 10039377
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminist strategies -- 3. The production context -- 4. The man from Snowy River -- 5. Sunday too far away -- 6. We of the never never -- 7. Picnic at hanging rock -- 8. The plains of heaven -- 9. Ideological position and Australian identity

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 (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)

Call No: 71(94) OXF REF
Author: Mayer, Geoff; McFarlane, Brian, 1934; Bertrand, Ina, 1939
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 1 v
Subject: AUSTRALIA; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FOOD IN FILMS; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; JEWS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PERIODICALS, FILM. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA; MUSIC, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SHORT FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WAR AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MCCALLUM, JOHN; MILLER, NATALIE; NEVIN, ROBYN; RABE, PAMELA; RUSH, GEOFFREY; TINGWELL, CHARLES (BUD); WILLIAMSON, DAVID; WITHERS, GOOGIE
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography
ISBN: 0195537971
LON: 20072774

Author: Wilson, Janet
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978)
Summary: Fred Schepisi's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial oppression, has a controversial place in the Australian social imaginary. As a raw narrative of a part-Aboriginal man's axe-murders of white women, the manhunt which followed, his eventual capture and death by hanging just after Australia achieved federation in 1900, the film was apparently constrained by the limited framework of representation of race relations available in the late 1970s. Audiences were left numbed by the image of a segregated society, the overpowering murder scenes and the disempowerment and downward spiral of Jimmie and his half brother Mort. Yet it has also been valued as a major film in the Australian new wave cinema and judged as ‘underestimated and overlooked’. This article approaches the film's mixed reception by re-examining it as a screen adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel, The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), arguing that Schepisi used an expressionist cinematography to convert Keneally's ‘ironic epic’ (Hodge and Mishra 1990: 59) into a fatalistic tragedy. In reconsidering the film in terms of its era, the article shows how the Australian landscape becomes a site of problematic race relations, overturning the myth of ‘innocent settlement’ that is associated with films of the Australian Film Commission (AFC) genre, heralding post-Mabo films like Rabbit proof fence (Noyce, 2002), Ten canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) and Jindabyne (Lawrence, 2007) whose stories and mise-en-scène acknowledge earlier traumas, inducing in viewers a belated shock of recognition (Collins and Davis 2004: 92).--ABSTRACT

Author: Bullock, Emily
PhysDes: Article
Subject: FANTASTIC FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: This article examines the current cinematic attention to Tasmania and its stories, with particular attention paid to the Gothic mode. ‘Tasmanian Gothic’ has become a by-word for the unsettling combination of Tasmania's colonial histories and its harsh landscapes in literature, but its cinematic counterpart has virtually been ignored. It is suggested that Tasmania is experiencing a renaissance on the big screen and it is the Gothic that appears to be the most dominant mode through which it is pictured. The article then charts a history of local Tasmanian Gothic cinematic production, a hybrid vision that tends towards a combination of stylistic, thematic, historical and geographic elements. Tasmanian Gothic cinema refers not simply to productions by Tasmanian film-makers, but to the broader on-screen representation of the island, its culture and histories by a range of local, interstate and international crews. As this article suggests, Gothic cinematic representations of Tasmania are yoked by a number of persistent concerns that act in dialogue with the unique cultural and geographic positioning of Australia's only island state. --Abstract

Author: Grace, Helen
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LITTLE FISH (AT, Rowan Woods, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007)
Summary: :In considering three films that I link in this speculation on ‘Asian Australian cinema’, I want to argue that if, before The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003), Asian Australian stories tended to be marginal and community based, the success of Khoa Do's film (and life) has opened out migrant experience to broader empathy so that now it can be drawn upon to speak for general humanity beyond ‘Australianness’. If The Finished People and Little Fish (Rowan Wood, 2005) belong to a period of film industry decline in Australia, corresponding with a parallel social/cultural depression in Australia — the worst of the Howard years — Lucky Miles (Michael James Rowland, 2007) reworks the trauma of those years, as a new Back of Beyond (John Heyer, 1954) — globalized rather than nationalized, its references less to the subsistence aesthetics and economy of postwar nation-building and more to a globalized commodities export market and the genres of global film-making styles. So we no longer need to have quintessential ‘Australian’ battlers to demonstrate resilience; asylum seekers are now better at doing this and much more appealing than Aussie battlers (like the Heart family in Little Fish, notwithstanding the attempt to rescue them by importing global/local stars to perform their abjection) — all the more so if one of the refugees has come in search of his Australian father And if the landscape of the original Back of Beyond provided a counterpoint to the economic centrality of suburban Australia as site of commodity consumption in the 1950s, the Pilbara landscape setting of Lucky Miles is above all a key site of commodity production and export in the globalized economy which also draws the characters to export themselves into the flow of this market. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2

Call No: 71(94) TWI
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Damned Publishing
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 558 p.
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; WARD, VINCENT; HALL, KEN G.; DARK CITY (US, Alex Proyas, 1997); BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (AT, George Miller, 1998); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); FLOATING LIFE (AT, Clara Law, 1996); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); YATGO HO YAN (HK, Samo Hung, 1997); RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998); VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995)
ISBN: 1876310006
LON: 20154200
ID2: 29

Call No: 756(944) WOR
Source: UK/US
Place: Bristol -- Chicago
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: World Film Locations
Subject: AUSTRALIA; LOCATION SHOOTING. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY IN FILMS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CITIES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs, beachside communities, and green outlying exurbs, Sydney offers many intriguing possibilities to filmmakers. World Film Locations: Sydney takes readers on a virtual tour of Sydney to explore how representations in movies have both played into and influenced how we think of these spaces and those that frequent them." -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9781783203628
Contents: -- Maps/Scenes -- Scenes 1-8: 1919-1974 -- Scenes 9-16: 1975-1981 -- Scenes 17-24: 1982-1986 -- Scenes 25-32: 1992-1999 -- Scenes 33-39: 1999-2005 -- Scenes 40-46: 2006-2011 -- Essays -- Sydney: city of the imagination / Tina Kaufman -- The man from England: Brian Trenchard-Smith / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- The world behind the Coke sign / Jack Sargeant -- Life's a beach... / Deb Verhoeven -- Sojourner Sydney: looking from the outside / Jane Mills -- The phantasm of the opera: the Sydney Opera House / Gemma Blackwood -- Ubu films: Sydney's underground radical culture 1965 - 1972 / Lisa French -- resources -- contributor bios -- filmography