London: Frank Cass, 2001.
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; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES 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 (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
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