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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
ID2: 306

Author: Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LUHRMANN, BAZ; AUSTRALIA (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008)
Summary: Short editorial discussion summarising critical and academic response to Baz Luhrmann's film Australia

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; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; 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: 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: Bennett, James
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; STRICTLY BALLROOM (AT, Baz Luhrmann, 1992); HEAD ON (AT, Ana Kokkinos, 1998)
Summary: ...1990s Australian cinema provides a key site for the examination of Australian identity in multicultural terms. Drawing on the work of Ghassan Hage, Stuart Hall and Daniel Nourry, this article investigates how notions of Australian identity in a multicultural society are played out (and with) by Australian cinema in the 1990s. Particular attention is paid to Head on (Kokkinos, 1998) and Strictly ballroom (Lurhmann, 1992), as examples of different approaches to this issue. -- Taken from Abstract

Author: Percopo, Luisa
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI (AT, Kate Woods, 2000)
Summary: This article addresses Kate Woods' film Looking for Alibrandi (2000), its concern with the interdependence of space and subjectivity and its role in presenting alternative discourses of the Australian nation. Drawing on the spatial theorization of French anthropologist Marc Auge, I contend that the film offers new models of identity through the protagonist's subversion of the categorization of public and private spaces. I argue that Josie Alibrandi is portrayed in the film as an agent of change, and her 'acts of improvisation' result both in an active manipulation of cultural constructions grounded in these spaces, and in her claim to a multiplicity of identities.--Abstract

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: 70 (04) CHA
Author: Chapman, James and Glancy, Mark and Harper, Sue
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 256p. : 23cm.
Subject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; CRIMINALS IN FILMS; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; SCRIPTWRITERS; MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (US, Peter Weir, 2003); NOW, VOYAGER (US, Irving Rapper, 1942); GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BLACK NARCISSUS (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947); WICKER MAN, THE (UK, Robin Hardy, 1973); FONDA, JANE; BERGMAN, INGMAR
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:; Gone with the wind (1939) and the lost cause : a critical view / Melvyn Stokes; History and representation : the case of 1970s British cinema / Sue Harper 27; Gallipoli (1981) : 'a poignant search for national identity' / Mark Connelly 41; 'This ship is England' : history, politics and national identity in Master and commander : the far side of the world (2003) / James Chapman 55; Art in context : British film design of the 1940s / Laurie Ede 73; The author as author : restoring the screenwriter to British film history / Andrew Spicer 89; When 'Hanoi Jane' conquered Hollywood : Jane Fonda's films and activism, 1977-81 / Peter Kramer 104; The politics of the swashbuckler / Jeffrey Richards 119; The Stalinist musical / Richard Taylor 137; Now, voyager (1942) : melodrama then and now / Martin Shingler 152; From gangsta to gangster : the hood film's criminal allegiance with Hollywood / Jonathan Munby 166; Blackmail (1929), Hitchcock and film nationalism / Mark Glancy 185; British cinema, American reception : Black Narcissus (1947) and the legion of decency / Sarah Street 201; Studying cross-cultural marketing and reception : Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) / Ingrid Stigsdotter, and Tim Bergfelder 215; The wicker man (1973) email digest : a case study in Web ethnography / Justin Smith 229
ISBN: 9780230001695
Language: English

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.

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

Author: Delamoir, Jeannette
PhysDes: Article
Subject: AUSTRALIA. 1895-1930; AUSTRALIA. 1927-1932; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: This article looks at how the 1927 Royal commission grappled with the financial viability of the local industry in a global marketplace. It examines the relationships between government support, cultural production, cultural consumption and national indentity
Notes: The impetus for the 1927 Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry was the US film companies' `stranglehold' on the Australian film industry, the effects of which were perceived as undermining both Australian film businesses and Australian national identity. The Commissioners took evidence in seven Queensland towns, some quite small and isolated, with almost all exhibitors from these locations represented. This evidence constructs an in-depth picture of film business and consumption in regional Australia, as well as a social, cultural and economic portrait of the country on the cusp of the Great Depression. This article takes as its starting point the Commissioners' repeated comparison of the film industry and Queensland's sugar industry, and their suggestions that the film industry's problems could be solved by replicating the intervention and support given to the sugar industry by both State and Federal Governments. These references, the article argues, reveal the Commissioners' understanding of the film industry, and conjectures that these conceptualizations may still influence the way Australian films are watched today -- Abstract

Call No: 62(043) VER
Author: Verhoeven, Deb
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 278p. : ill. ; 31cm
Subject: ANIMALS IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; REPETITION IN FILMS; SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER, THE (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933); BITTER SPRINGS (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references Includes filmography