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Author: Brook, Scott
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003)
Summary: This article considers the production of the independent feature The Finished People (Khoa Do, 2003) in terms of a key factor reviewers and critics chose to play down: namely, that the director sought to capture public interest in Cabramatta (a suburb in Sydney's south west promoted as Australia's ‘most multicultural suburb’) in order to lift a Community Cultural Development (CCD) project out of the suburbs and deliver it to audiences of art-house cinema. While the film's representational strategies clearly reflect a tradition of independent Asian Australian cinema that critically negotiates the identity politics of state-sponsored multiculturalism, the film's mode of production had less to do with the avant-garde agendas reviewers compared it with, and more to do with an enduring governmental regime of pastoral pedagogy dedicated to the correction of ‘at risk’ subjects. Furthermore, the project strongly anticipated recent policy reforms to CCD initiated by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2004. Under the flexible rubric ‘Creative Communities’ these reforms seek to steer CCD workers away from cultural development as a narrow target of government intervention, and towards a more open and flexible range of policy goals and objectives. A close reading of the film's context of production reveals how such a policy shift might be expected to increase opportunities for local content to move between fields of cultural production, even as it multiplies dilemmas of formal accountability and aesthetic evaluation. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, part 2

Call No: 408.1(94) ART
CorpAuthor: Arts Action Australia Inc; Monash University. National Centre for Australian Studies; Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program
Source: AT
Place: Clayton, Vic.
Publisher: Ideas for Australia 1991-1992 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: 12 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Cover title
ISBN: 0732602793
LON: 8395440

Call No: 151(73) AUSTRALIAN "1978"
CorpAuthor: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc.
Source: AT
Publisher: New South Wales Film Corporation Australian Films Office Inc.
PubDate: [1978]
PhysDes: 32 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm
Subject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES FILM CORPORATION; NOYCE, PHILLIP; SHARMAN, JIM; THOMPSON, JACK; CADDIE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); NIGHT THE PROWLER, THE (AT, Jim Sharman, 1978); STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975)
Summary: A collection of clippings from US print media relating to the Australian Film Festival in 1978.

Call No: 408.1(94) ORE
Copy Management: 2 copies
Author: O'Regan, Tom, 1956
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: ix, 405 p. ; 24 cm
Series: National cinemas series
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRITICISM. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-391) and indexes
ISBN: 0415057310 (pbk.); 0415057302
LON: 12193364
Contents: 1. Introducing Australian national cinema -- 2. Theorizing Australian cinema -- 3. A national cinema -- 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema -- 5. Formations of value -- 6. Making meaning -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Unity -- 9. Negotiating cultural transfers -- 10. A distinct place in the cinema -- 11. Problematizing the social -- 12. Problematizing gender -- 13. Problematizing nationhood -- 14. Critical dispositions.

Call No: 71(94) AUS
Author: Moran, Albert, 1942; O'Regan, Tom, 1956
Place: Ringwood, Vic.
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xvi, 304 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 257-286
ISBN: 0140110240 (pbk.) : price unknown
LON: anb14011024; 6171822

Call No: 79BAR MOR
Author: Moore, Tony
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press, Australian Film Commission
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: x, 86 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series: Australian screen classics
Subject: AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; EVERAGE, DAME EDNA; BERESFORD, BRUCE; HUMPHRIES, BARRY; ADAMS, PHILLIP; BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972)
Summary: With irresponsible humour and sharp-witted insight Tony Morre explores the subversive satire of the films, their influence on his generation, and what they have to say about who we are today. Included is a glossary of Bazza-isms written by Barry Humphries.
ISBN: 0868197483
ISSN: 1447557X

Call No: 408.1(94) MOL
Author: Molloy, Bruce
Place: St. Lucia, Qld.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: xviii, 244 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; FAMILY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; CINESOUND STUDIOS; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950); HERITAGE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932); SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940); FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940); IT ISN'T DONE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946); RATS OF TOBRUK, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944); SHIRALEE, THE (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957); SONS OF MATTHEW (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [219]-229
ISBN: 0702222690 (pbk.)
LON: 6791823
Contents: Charles Chauvel, p101-164 -- Bitter Springs, p189-194 -- Dad Rudd, p60-65 -- Forty Thousand Horsemen, p144-152 -- Heritage, p107-114 -- It isn't done, p87-92 -- Jedda, p203-208 -- On Our Selection, p48-53 -- The Overlanders, p165-171 -- The Rats of Tobruk, p152-161 -- The Shiralee, p178-181 -- Sons of Matthew, p114-124 -- The Squatter's Daughter, p65-69

Call No: 71(93) CIN
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: 24 Frames
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906); WOMAN SUFFERS, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1918); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); PHANTOM STOCKMAN, THE (AT, Lee Robinson, 1953); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1954); JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); FREE RADICALS (NZ, Len Lye, 1958); RUNAWAY (NZ, John O'Shea, 1964); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966); ONE NIGHT THE MOON (AT, Rachel Perkins, 2001); SLEEPING DOGS (NZ, Roger Donaldson, 1977); VIGIL (NZ, Vincent Ward, 1984); IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1984); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); OSCAR AND LUCINDA (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1997); AFTER MABO (AT, Richard Frankland, 1997); CHOPPER (AT, Andrew Dominik, 2000); GODDESS OF 1967, THE (AT, Clara Law, 2000); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001); TWO LAWS (AT, Alessandro Cavadini & Carolyn Strachan, 1981); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001)
Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the commercially successful narrative feature films from Australia and New Zealand, including key documentaries, shorts and independent films. This coverage also invokes issues of national identity, race, history and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat from Hollywood.
Notes: Includes filmography. Includes bibliography and index.
ISBN: 9781904764960

Author: Khoo, Olivia
PhysDes: Article
Subject: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ASIANS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; JAMMED, THE (AT, Dee McLachlan, 2007); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); RA CHOI (AT, M. Frank, 2005)
Summary: This article examines the use of realist aesthetics in three Australian films, Dee McLachlan's The jammed (2007), Khoa Do's The Finished People (2003) and M. Frank's Ra Choi (2005) as a way of creating ‘value’ within the terms of an Australian national cinema. ‘These films, among other examples of an emergent Asian Australian cinema’, deploy techniques of realism to build an authenticity of experience for spectators, unfamiliar with seeing portrayals of Asian Australians on screen. This article will consider what is at stake in the accepted, and often replicated, relationship between multiculturalism and realism characterizing filmic representations of Asian Australians, and will shift the focus to explore the place of idealism in the creation of value. By examining the aesthetics of what I will call ‘multicultural realism’ I aim to consider how these stylistic strategies seek to politicize certain representations over others in the films' attempt to build an alternative vision of the Australian nation and its diasporic constituents. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema. Part 1

Call No: 161(94) CRE AUS
CorpAuthor: Creating Culture Conference (1994 : Canberra, A.C.T.); Australia. Dept. of Communications and the Arts
Place: [Canberra]
Publisher: Commonwealth Dept. of Communications and the Arts
PubDate: 1994]
PhysDes: 195 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Cover title; "These are the edited transcripts of speeches given at the "Creating Culture - the new growth industries" conference held at Parliament House, Canberra on 11 and 12 August 1994."--P. [1]; Conference organised under the Cultural Industry Development Program of the Dept. of Communications and the Arts
ISBN: 0642224307
LON: 11325570

Call No: 10857
Author: Summers, Anne
Edition: 1991
Place: Clayton, Vic.
Publisher: Ideas for Australia 1991-92 Program in association with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.
PhysDes: 32 pages ; 26 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA
ISBN: 9780732602505

Author: Lamond, Julianne
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; HALL, KEN G.; DAD RUDD M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940)
Summary: This article contextualizes Ken G. Hall's 1940 film Dad Rudd, M.P. with the history of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who pervaded Australian popular culture throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the fiction, theatre, film, cartoon and radio narratives in which he appeared have been instrumental in the creation of the idea of a pupular Australian audience that can be defined in relation to a particular set of national symbols. Addressing Hall's film as well as the promotional material and public debate surrounding it, the article demonstrates that conceptualizations of an Australian national audience have been influenced by the genres and narratives of popular culture, historical circumstance and American cultural production. --Abstract

Call No: 79FIR CON
Author: Connolly, Bob; Anderson, Robin
Place: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Publisher: Penguin Books
PubDate: 1988, c1987
PhysDes: vii, 316 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; FIRST CONTACT (AT, Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson, 1983)
Notes: Subtitle on cover: New Guinea's highlanders encounter the outside world; Bibliography: p. [313]-316
ISBN: 0140074651 (pbk.)
LON: 5768908 5768908

Author: Rayner, Jonathan
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IRWIN, STEVE; CROCODILE HUNTER: COLLISION COURSE, THE (US/AT, John Stainton, 2002)
Summary: This article examines the star status and screen persona of the late Steve Irwin. and offers an analysis of the nature and construction of his star image, its integration within other incarnations of Australian cultural identity, and its significance in national terms.--Taken from Abstract

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
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Call No: 403(94) NEL
Author: Dermody, Susan; Docker, John, 1945; Modjeska, Drusilla
Source: AT
Place: Malmsbury, Vic.
Publisher: Kibble Books
PubDate: 1982]
PhysDes: 288 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; CINEMAS. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1927-1932; LONGFORD, RAYMOND; SMITH, ARTHUR; ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, F.W. Thring, 1932); PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86)
Notes: Australian culture. Essays (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0610070); Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0908150032 (corrected) : price unknown 09081500302; 0908150040 (pbk.) : $14.95 Aust
LON: anb90815003; 2274011
ID2: 40

Author: Johinke, Rebecca
PhysDes: Article
Subject: 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

Author: Goldsmith, Ben
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: The writer examines how dynamic and shifting relations between the local/national and the international have transformed the ways in which people think about what constitutes Australian cinema. Noting that over the last 20 years or so, Australian cinema's international relations in production and policy have expanded and become more complex, while those with Hollywood have been transformed, he illustrates how relations of commonality and continuity with the international called up in the new arrangements challenge the dominant articulation in policy of difference from other kinds of filmmaking as the basis of Australian cinema. -- Provided by publisher

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008)
Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema.
Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT

Author: Craven, Allison
PhysDes: Article
Subject: GENDER AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; IRISHMAN, THE (AT, Don Crombie, 1978)
Summary: The Irishman (Crombie 1978) has long been regarded as typical of the Australian period film genre of the late 1970s, which is said to collectively exhibit the Australian Film Commission's influences on national culture. In this article, The Irishman is seen as a ‘heritage’ film for the way locations and authentic sets and decor are featured, and for the nostalgic performances of gender and race. Regional influences on the genesis and production of The Irishman in North Queensland are also considered, and its adaptation from the novel, The Irishman: A Novel of Northern Australia (Elizabeth O'Conner 1960). Heritage, it is argued, can be seen as a cinematic mode in which regional and national elements of production are synthesized. Heritage also offers a framework through which to view other Australian period films, including Australia (Luhrmann 2008), which was also shot partly in North Queensland locations. -- Abstract

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

Call No: 023(94) FIL
Author: Film Australia
Source: AT
Place: Australia
Publisher: Film Australia
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: 38 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: FILM AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Film Australia's annual report on programs produced for 1989/90
Contents: Brief project description along with festival and awards information for the following films and documentaries -- The Snowy: A Dream of Growing Up (Stephen Ramsey, 1989) -- How Wonderful (Lynn Hegarty, 1990) -- Great National Parks of Australia (Eddie Moses, 1990) -- Mortgage (Bill Bennett, 1990) -- Shearing the Rams (Martin Daley, 1990) -- Kakadu Man (Michael Balson, 1990) -- Breakthrough Series

Call No: 71(94) DER v.2
Author: Dermody, Susan; Jacka, Elizabeth
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 1987-<1988
PhysDes: v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm
Series: Australian screen series
Subject: BUDDY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; THEORY. AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. AUSTRALIA; CLASS AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; POLITICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SEX IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; REALISM IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU (AT, Carl Schutz, 1983); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); MY BROTHER JACK (AT, Gil Brealey, 1965); ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); FAR EAST (AT, John Duigan, 1982); F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977); HEATWAVE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1981); KILLING OF ANGEL STREET, THE (AT, Donald Crombie, 1981); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); NEWSFRONT (AT, Phillip Noyce, 1978); PALM BEACH (AT, Albie Thoms, 1979); PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (AT, Ken Hannam, 1975); TOWN LIKE ALICE, A (AT, David Stevens, 1980); WE OF THE NEVER NEVER (AT, Igor Auzins, 1982)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0861911876 (v. 2); 0868191876 (v. 2)
LON: 5369777

Call No: 802.3(94) ANS
Author: Ansara, Martha
Source: AT
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Austcine Publishing
PubDate: c2012
PhysDes: 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NEWSREELS
Summary: "Contains photographs of working cinematographers from 1901 to the present, with historical text, biographies of Australian cinematographers & fascinating personal anecdotes from the film industry. Reveals little-known information about the role of cinematographers in Australian cinema, & challenges popular conceptions of our national film history." - TROVE -- The following cinematographers are included in this book: Burt Ive, the Higgins Brothers, Lacey Percival, Frank Hurley, the Burnes, J.W. (Bill) Trerise, George Heath, Damien Parer, Ross Wood, Volk Mol, Ron Windon, Neil Davis, David Brill, Russell Boyd, Don McAlpine, Peter James, Jim Frazier, David Parer, Jan Kenny, Dean Semler, John Seale, Andrew Lesnie, Pieter de Vries, Dion Beebe.
Notes: Includes index; Warning to Walpiri: Please be aware that there is a photo in this book which may contain images of deceased Walpiri people
ISBN: 9780987225214

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

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: Bowles, Kate
PhysDes: Article
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: 'Cinema studies in Australia has conventionally focused on the national production industry, the government policies that sustain and protect it, and the films that it has produced. The role of the Australian audience in shaping the market for Australian films is less well understood, and yet assumptions about audiences and the benefit offered to them in terms of cultural learning and national identity are embedded in policy rhetoric, and are necessarily invoked in the critique of content which accompanies a textually focused approach to national cinema. This article proposes that Australian cinema audiences, whatever they are watching, play a more significant role in the Australian public sphere than Australian films...' -- Taken from abstract

Author: Johnston, Meg
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LAW, CLARA; LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004)
Summary: This article focuses on Clara Law's Letters to Ali (2004) as a recent example of a refugee-focused documentary film that both complicates and destabilizes the essential and exclusive categories of ‘whiteness’ and ‘otherness’ that have shaped Australian identity politics through recent politics. Centrally, this article will position Letters to Ali as a subversive project in accordance with Homi Bhabha's ideas of unsettling, displacing and disturbing the authority of normative whiteness that pervades our national identity in this climate. Through positioning whiteness as neither fixed nor final due to the ‘incommensurable differences’ it must take into account, this article will discuss both formal and narrative elements of Letters to Ali as working towards destabilizing an essential and static whiteness and, instead, focusing on its ‘marked’ and constructed nature. Critiquing whiteness as an ideal, according to Bhabha, Ghassan Hage and others, this discussion will displace and disrupt its ‘invisibility’ or normativity. In doing so, whiteness will be examined as part of national strategies of dominance and subordination, rather than as an authentic or singular identity, ‘reveal[ing] within the very integuments of “whiteness” the agonistic elements that makes it the unsettled, disturbed form of authority’. Clara Law's position as Asian Australian film-maker in relation to other national others such as ‘Ali’, the refugee subject of the film, will be crucial to this disruption: Law's own story of migration, of resettlement and naturalization is foregrounded in the film's narrative and, as such, she — and partner Eddie Fong — are the national citizens against which the refugee is to be measured in this binary logic. Taking into account these ‘incommensurable differences’ of the white identity, the categories of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’; of Australians and others, are ruptured and the frameworks of national membership are opened up to more liminal, transnational notions of identity and belonging. -- Abstract
Notes: Part of Special Issue: Transnational Asian Australian Cinema: Part 1