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Call No: 71(94) BAR
Author: Barber, Susan
Edition: 2023
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 9 Feb 2023
PhysDes: 280 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; MOTHERS IN FILMS; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); GETTING OF WISDOM, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1977); HIGH TIDE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1987); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER II, THE (AT, Geoff Burrowes, 1988); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002); WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD (AT, Ned Lander, 1981)
Summary: The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study brings fresh perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches to a variety of films from a diversity of filmmakers. Areas of focus include the complex and contentious subjects of masculinity, femininity and feminism, the maternal, as well as the Indigenous road film and the protean Australian gothic. During the formative years of the revival, Australian films seemed to emerge from out of the blue in terms of global film history, with many features including Picnic at Hanging Rock (l975), Caddie (l976), The Last Wave (l977), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (l978), and My Brilliant Career (l979) receiving international distribution and enthusiastic critical acclaim with strong box office results. By the time the film revival was in full swing, not only did Australian audiences flock to theaters to see “homegrown” films, but the quantity of Australian films on overseas screens was so high that ardent critics declared this outpouring an Australian “New Wave.” The eyes of the world had turned to a compelling and largely unknown culture. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781501390029
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- In Memory Of -- Introduction -- 1. The Ocker: Chauvinistic and Oedipal -- 2. Alternate Masculinities of Paul Cox and John Duigan -- 3. Historical Women and the Bush -- 4. Negligent, Runaway, and Abject Mothers -- 5. The Indigenous Road Film -- 6. Australian Gothic -- Index

Call No: 730(94) AUS
Author: McWilliam, Kelly; Ryan, Mark David
Edition: 2021
Place: New York
Publisher: Routledge
PhysDes: 248 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Rutledge advances in film studies
Subject: AUSTRALIA; GENRES; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES. AUSTRALIA; CRIME FILMS. AUSTRALIA; HORROR FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MUSICALS. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; TEEN FILMS; WAR FILMS AUSTRALIA
Summary: Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, war, and the Western. This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, Australian studies, and sociology. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138603141
Contents: 1. Australian Film Genre Studies / Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam -- 2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema / Amanda Howell -- 3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the Twenty-First Century / Adrian Danks -- 4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International / Lesley Speed -- 5. New Australian Crime Drama / Greg Dolgopolov -- 6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies / Mark David Ryan -- 7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream / Liz Giuffre -- 8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie / Deborah Thomas -- 9. Courting the Romance / Kelly McWilliam -- 10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science Fiction Cinema since 2008 / Andrew James Couzens -- 11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film / Kelly McWilliam -- 12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers / Jonathan Rayner -- 13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia / Daniel Reynaud -- 14. Questioning the Australian Western / Grayson Cooke.

Call No: 81 WAT WAT
Author: Waters, John
Place: London
Publisher: Corsair
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 324 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: WATERS, JOHN (US); ROAD MOVIES
Summary: John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin moustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm Not Psycho', he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash? Along the way, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? Laced with subversive humour and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable ride with a wickedly funny companion - and a celebration of America's weird, astonishing, and generous citizens. -- Publisher's website
ISBN: 9781472116130

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: 71(94) HAL
Author: Hall, Sandra, 1942
Place: Adelaide
Publisher: Rigby
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: 200 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA; GENRES; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES; ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA; ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); BARRY MCKENZIE HOLDS HIS OWN (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1974); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); DON'S PARTY (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1976); CLUB, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1982); CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1978); MONKEY GRIP (AT, Ken Cameron, 1982); WAKE IN FRIGHT (AT, Ted Kotcheff, 1971); RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1982); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); STORM BOY (AT, Henri Safran, 1976); PHAR LAP (AT, Simon Wincer, 1983); MAD DOG MORGAN (AT, Philippe Mora, 1976); SQUIZZY TAYLOR (AT, Kevin Dobson, 1982); MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975); MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984)
ISBN: 0727020102 : $16.95 Aust
LON: anb72702010; 3401972

Author: Barry, Graham
PhysDes: Article
Subject: GENRES; ROAD MOVIES; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; BULLITT (US, Peter Yates, 1968); POINT BLANK (US, John Boorman, 1967)
Summary: Graham Barry discusses, and sets to define, the 'road movie' genre which is becoming a more structured presence in film, especially within American filmmaking. This is the first article in a series.

Author: Barry, Graham
PhysDes: Article
Subject: EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); GENRES; ROAD MOVIES
Summary: Second part of Graham Barry's look at the emerging 'road movie' genre. Here he pays particular attention to EASY RIDER.

Author: O'Sullivan, Jane
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ROAD MOVIES; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; TRUE LOVE AND CHAOS (AT, Stavros Andonis Efthymiou, 1997); DOING TIME FOR PATSY CLINE (AT, Chris Kennedy, 1997); KISS OR KILL (AT, Bill Bennett, 1997); SPIDER & ROSE (AT, Bill Bennett, 1994); DRIVING MISS DAISY (US, Bruce Beresford, 1989)

Call No: 754.11 LAD
Author: Laderman, David
Source: US
Place: Austin, TX
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ROAD MOVIES
Summary: This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasising it as an “independent genre” that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels. David Laderman begins by identifying the road movie’s defining features and by establishing the literary, classical Hollywood, and 1950s highway culture antecedents that formatively influence it. He then traces the historical and aesthetic evolution of the road movie decade by decade through detailed and lively discussions of key films. Laderman concludes with a look at the European road movie, from the late 1950s auteurs through Godard and Wenders, and at compelling feminist road movies of the 1980s and 1990s. Taken form back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-302) and index
ISBN: 0292747322

Call No: 738.1 BRE
Author: Brerton, Pat
Source: UK
Place: Bristol, UK
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 270 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: NATURE IN FILMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN FILMS; WESTERNS; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS; ROAD MOVIES; CONSPIRACY FILMS; ANDROMEDA STRAIN, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1971); ALIEN RESURRECTION (US, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); DANCES WITH WOLVES (US, Kevin Costner, 1990); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper,1969); INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE (US, Jack Arnold, 1957); JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975); LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE (US, Michael Mann, 1992); MEN IN BLACK (US, Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997); SOYLENT GREEN (US, Richard Fleischer, 1973); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997); YEARLING, THE (US, Clarence Brown, 1947)
Summary: "Hollywood Utopia applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from 1950s to the present. Popular science fiction, westerns, nature and road movies are extensively analysed while privileging ecological moments of sublime expression often dramatized in the closing moments of these films. "
Notes: Bibliography: p. 241-267 Filmography: p. 9-10
ISBN: 1841501174
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2009

Call No: 754.11 SAR
Author: Sargeant, Jack; Watson, Stephanie
Place: London
Publisher: Creation
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Creation cinema collection ; 15
Subject: ROAD MOVIES; WESTERNS; MOTORCYCLE FILMS; HORROR FILMS; VAMPIRE FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; Wenders, Wim; LYNCH, DAVID; ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD [AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES] (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972); ALICE IN DEN STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1973); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); BUTTERFLY KISS (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 1995); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); CRASH (CN, David Cronenberg, 1996); DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); TOPO, EL (MX, Alexandro Jodorowsky, 1971); FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (US, Robert Rodriquez, 1996); GALLIVANT (UK, Andrew Kotting, 1996); GUN CRAZY (US, Joseph H. Lewis, 1949); I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949); KALIFORNIA (US, Dominic Sena, 1993); IM LAUF DER ZEIT (GW, Wim Wenders, 1976); KISS OR KILL (AT, Bill Bennett, 1997); HEAVEN'S BURNING (AT, Craig Lahiff, 1997); JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963); LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994); NEAR DARK (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987); NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955); F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949); TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (US, Beeban Kidron, 1995); TRUE ROMANCE (US, Tony Scott, 1993); TWO LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971); VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971); WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971); WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); WINGS OF DESIRE [HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER] (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987); WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939)
ISBN: 1871592682(pbk.) : ª14.95
LON: 20894332

Call No: 79 MAD MAR
Author: Martin, Adrian
Source: AT
Place: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.
Publisher: Currency Press; ScreenSound Australia
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Series: Australian Screen Classics
Subject: MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985); MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981); ROAD MOVIES. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Martin compares the three Mad Max movies, sharing his views on which works best and why. In a chapter dedicated to each film, he looks at their critical reception and their themes, examines Miller's shooting techniques and provides a shot-by-shot analysis of integral scenes.
Notes: Notes: p.74-78 Bibliography: p.79-81 Filmography: p.82-83 Credits: p.84-87
ISBN: 0868196703

Call No: 754.11 ROA
Author: Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: xv, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ROAD MOVIES; BUDDY FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; AIDS IN FILMS; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949); PARIS, TEXAS (GW/US, Wim Wenders, 1984); RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); BOYS ON THE SIDE (US, Herbert Ross, 1995); FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (US, Russ Meyer, 1966); LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992); MIDNIGHT RUN (US, Martin Brest, 1988); MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991); NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994); PERFECT WORLD, A (US, Clint Eastwood, 1993); SORPASSO, IL (IT, Dino Risi, 1962); THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991); TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (US, Beeban Kidron, 1995); WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1946); WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN: 0415149363 (hbk.); 0415149371 (pbk.)
LON: 97008924; 13107383

Call No: 754.11 WIL
Author: Williams, Mark
Place: New York
Publisher: Proteus Publishing Co.
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 127 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Subject: ROAD MOVIES; BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CAR, THE (US, Elliott Silverstein, 1977); CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974); DRIVER, THE (US, Walter Hill, 1978); DUEL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1972); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969); LAST AMERICAN HERO, THE (US, Lamont Johnson, 1973); MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85); ROAD MOVIE (US, Joseph Strick, 1973); SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974); SALAIRE DE LA PEUR, LE (FR/IT, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953); THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (US, Michael Cimino, 1974); TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971); VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971); WILD ANGELS, THE (US, Roger Corman, 1966)
ISBN: 0862760542
LON: abn89130147; 6396315

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ROAD MOVIES

Call No: 408.1 BEE
Author: Beeton, Sue
Edition: 2015
Place: Bristol
Publisher: Channel View Publications
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: xiv, 240 pages : illustrated ; 22 cm
Series: Tourism and cultural change
Subject: TOURISM AND THE CINEMA; TRAVEL IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; SPY FILMS; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; ROAD MOVIES
Summary: This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place that can affect our decision-making when we travel. It also analyses how our touristic experiences can inform our film-viewing. A range of genres and themes are studied including the significance of the western, espionage, road and gangster movies, along with further study of film studio theme parks and an introduction to the relationship between gaming and travel. This book will appeal to tourism scholars as well as film studies professionals, and is written in an accessible manner for a general audience. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781845415273