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Call No: 81DEH FRE
Author: Freebury, Jane
Source: AT
Place: Straberry Hills, NSW
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 351 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Subject: DE HEER, ROLF; TAIL OF THE TIGER (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1984); INCIDENT AT RAVEN'S GATE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1988); DINGO (AT/FR, Rolf de Heer, 1991); BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); EPSILON (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1995); QUIET ROOM, THE (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1996); DANCE ME TO MY SONG (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1998); OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE STORIES (AT/SP/FR/NL, Rolf de Heer, 2000); TRACKER (AT, Tina Dalton & Gary Steer, 1996); ALEXANDRA'S PROJECT (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2003); TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006); [DOCTOR] DR PLONK (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2007); KING IS DEAD, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2012); CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2013)
Summary: Dancing to His Song, is the first comprehensive review of the work of Rolf de Heer, Australia's most prolific auteur, an idiosyncratic filmmaker famed for never repeating himself. Film by film, Jane Freebury searches for the sources of de Heer's inspiration and finds the secret to his success in an ethic of hard work, flexibility and self-reliance that meets challenges and obstacles with in genuity without ever losing sight of his vision. His remarkable career as an independent filmmaker has much to teach young producers and directors. [Taken from the back of the book]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-348)
ISBN: 9781925005585
Contents: Introducing Rolf de Heer -- Tail of a Tiger: under the radar -- Incident at Raven's Gate: encounters with critics -- Dingo: jamming in the wilderness -- Bad Boy Bubby: do or die -- Epsilon: African Queen with a cosmic lean? -- The Quiet Room -- through the eyes of a child -- Dance Me To My Song: taking it to the audience -- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: overseas partners -- The Tracker: how the West was lost -- Alexandra's Project: unhappily ever after -- Ten Canoes: the Ramo Mob, indigenous partners -- Dr. Plonk: seriously comedy -- The King is Dead! Ah'ma tha one! -- Charlie's Country: between two worlds -- The wrap

Call No: 81DEH STA
Author: Starrs, D. Bruno
Source: G
Place: Saarbrucken, Germany
Publisher: VDM, Verlag Dr Muller
PubDate: 2009
PhysDes: 105 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; DE HEER, ROLF; TAIL OF THE TIGER (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1984); INCIDENT AT RAVEN'S GATE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1988); DINGO (AT/FR, Rolf de Heer, 1991); BAD BOY BUBBY (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1993); EPSILON (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1995); QUIET ROOM, THE (AT/IT, Rolf de Heer, 1996); DANCE ME TO MY SONG (AT, Rolf de Heer, 1998); OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE STORIES (AT/SP/FR/NL, Rolf de Heer, 2000); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002); ALEXANDRA'S PROJECT (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2003); TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006); [DOCTOR] DR PLONK (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2007)
Summary: " 'Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: the Films of Rolf De Heer' is an auteur analysis of the twelve feature films directed (mostly written and produced) by Holland-born Australian Rolf De Heer. From the children's story about the restoration of a Tiger Moth biplane, "Tail of a Tiger "(1984), to his break-out cult sensation " Bad Boy Bubby" (1993) which "tore Venice apart," to the first Aboriginal Australian language film "Ten Canoes" (2006) which scooped the pool at the AFI awards and won the Special Jury prize at Cannes Film Festival, de Heer has been consistently unpredictable. However, Starr's close study of his work suggests that Australia's most innovative and respected Arthouse film-maker has a signature pre-occupation with giving a voice to marginalized, non-hyper-masculine protagonists. Demonstrating a propensity to write and direct in a European-like style, de Heer's "Dutch tilt" is very much non-mainstream Hollywood, but is nevertheless representative of a typically Australian world-view." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-104)
ISBN: 9783639168341

Author: Davis, Therese
PhysDes: Article
Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; GULPILIL, DAVID; DE HEER, ROLF; TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: In 2000, maverick Australian director Rolf de Heer began a collaboration with Australian Aboriginal screen legend David Gulpilil to make a film set in Gulpilil's traditional lands in North Eastern Arnhem Land. The result of the collaboration is the new feature Ten canoes (2006). For Culpilil the project represented an opportunity to launch careers in film for members of his community including his son Jamie Gulpilil (who plays the lead role). He has also stated that ' the film will allow people from the community and around the world to know how our ancestors lived and to understand them'. In order to try to achieve this, de Heer took on the challenging task he describes as 'fusing two very different storytelling traditions'. Drawing on the documentary Balanda and the bark canoes (2006) (also known as Making ten canoes) and other sources this article goes behind the scenes to examine processes of cross-cultural collaboration and intercultural fusion. It argues the film shows that while stories have different forms and functions in different societies, one story can be made to serve two different cultural requirements and, further, in doing so can expand possibilities for both cross-cultural recognition and cinema.-- Abstract

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit; Posters; Press kit
Subject: TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
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Call No: S TEN
Author: de Heer, Rolf
Place: AT
PubDate: [2006]
PhysDes: 89 leaves
Subject: TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Notes: Production script; Donated by the Australian Film Institute

Author: Greg Bork
PhysDes: Article
Subject: TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: Review of Ten Canoes

Call No: P TEN
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 95 X 69 cm.
Subject: TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: Has photo of Jamie Gulpilil on it. [Text:] 'One hundred and fifty spears, ten canoes, three wives...trouble'.
Notes: Two sided poster.; Few tear down on left hand side.

Author: Hamby, Louise
PhysDes: Article
Subject: TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006)
Summary: Ten canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006) is a collaboration between Rolf de Heer and members of the Ramingining community in eastern Arnhem Land. The film ostensibly has two time frames: a 'mythical past' which could be called 'the Dreaming' and the historical time in which the protagoist, Dayindi, lives, which is given as '1000 years ago' (Vertigo 2006:3). The development of Ten canoes drew upon the writings of Donald Thomson adn his collection of over 2500 ethnographic photographs, 1200 natural history photographs and 5500 objects from Arnhem Land, now held at Museum Victoria in Melbourne. One fourth of the material culture items consist of objects worn on the body, which I have termed 'bodywear' (Hamby 2006). In tracing community use of, and responses to the Thomson Collection, I argue that members of the Ramingining community understand one strand of the Ten canoes plot, Dayindi's story, to take place in the time of those relatives who had met and worked with Thomson: in both their production and reception of Dayindi's story, it takes place not 1000 years ago, but in 'Thomson times'. -- ABSTRACT

Call No: 634 WAL
Author: Walker, Elsie
Source: UK/US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: ix, 435 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject: SOUND; SOUND TRACKS; SOUNDTRACKS; THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENRES; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); DEAD MAN (US, Jim Jarmusch, 1995); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); TEN CANOES (AT, Rolf De Heer, 2006); TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); SHUTTER ISLAND (US, Martin Scorsese, 2010); REBECCA (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1940); HEAVENLY CREATURES (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1994); BIGGER THAN LIFE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1956)
Summary: "Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, and queer theory. The films come from disparate temporal and industrial contexts: from Classical Hollywood Gothic melodrama (Rebecca) to contemporary, critically-acclaimed science fiction (Gravity). Along with sound tracks from canonical American films including The Searchers and To Have and Have Not, Walker analyzes independent Australasian films: examples include Heavenly Creatures, a New Zealand film that uses music to empower its queer female protagonists; and Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature film with a script entirely in Aboriginal languages. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory thus not only calls new attention to the significance of sound tracks, but also focuses on the sonic power of characters representing those whose voices have all too often been drowned out. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory is both rigorous and accessible to all students and scholars with a grasp of cinematic and musical structures. Moreover, the book brings together film studies, musicology, history, politics, and culture and therefore resonates across the liberal arts." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references, filmography (page 419) and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9780199896325
Donation: Oxford University Press
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- general introduction -- pt. I GENRE STUDIES -- 1.Introduction: "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre" / Rick Altman -- 2.The Searchers -- 3.Dead Man -- pt. II POSTCOLONIALISM -- 4.Introduction: "Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction" / Robert Stam and Louise Spence -- 5.Rabbit-Proof Fence -- 6.Ten Canoes -- pt. III FEMINISM -- 7.Introduction: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" / Laura Mulvey -- 8.To Have and Have Not -- 9.The Piano -- pt. IV PSYCHOANALYSIS -- 10.Introduction: "Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and Its Vicissitudes" / Todd McGowan -- 11.Bigger Than Life -- 12.Shutter Island -- pt. V QUEER THEORY -- 13.Introduction: "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" / Judith Butler -- 14.Rebecca -- 15.Heavenly Creatures -- coda -- select filmography -- further perceiving -- select glossary index --