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Old collection book		Australian feature (fiction) films written, directed and produced by women 1970-1995 / Lisa French 1995. Call No: 462-02 (94) FRE v.2 Author: French, Lisa Source: AT PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: p. 123-135. ; 30 cm Subject: FILM WORKERS AUSTRALIA; FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCERS. AUSTRALIA; SCRIPTWRITERS. AUSTRALIA; DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; AUSTRALIA. 1980's; AUSTRALIA. 1990's; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA Notes: 'This data base was prepared by Lisa French as an appendix to the thesis 'Do Contemporary Australian Women Filmmakers Share A Feminist Perspective In Their Work?' More info
book		Don't shoot darling! : women's independent filmmaking in Australia / edited by Annette Blonski, Barbara Creed, Freda Freiberg Richmond, Vic.: Greenhouse, 1987. Call No: 462-02(94) DON Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Blonski, Annette; Creed, Barbara; Freiberg, Freda Place: Richmond, Vic. Publisher: Greenhouse PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: 400 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 28 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ADDIS, ERIKA; ANSARA, MARTHA; ASH, EVE; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; FISKE, PAT; GIBSON, SARAH; GRACE, HELEN; LAMBERT, SUSAN; HARTMAN, RIVKA; HOASS, SOLRUN; KEARNEY, BRIANN; KELLY, GABRIELLE; ROLLE, DI; SCHWARZ, MONIQUE; THORNLEY, JENI; TILSON, ALISON; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; CAMPION, JANE; BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (AT, Sarah Gilbert & Susan Lambert, 1980); IN THIS LIFE'S BODY (AT, Corinne Cantrill, 1987); FOR LOVE OR MONEY (AT, Megan McMurchy & Jeni Thornley, 1983); MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE (AT, Gillian Leahy, 1986); WE AIM TO PLEASE (AT, Robin Laurie & Margot Nash, 1977); SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (AT, Helen Grace, 1983); SONG OF CEYLON, A (AT, Laleen S.B. Jayamanne, 1984) Summary: Don't shoot darling! affirms the significant role played by women filmmakers. Various contributors examine the institutions and organisation which provide support for women's films; the achievements and limitations of affirmative action training schemes for women; and the reception and coverage of women's independent films by the press. A number of particular films - among them, For love or mone, My life without Steve, Serious Undertakings and Behind closed doors - are analused from feminist critical perspectives, and the book includes a collection of statements by individual women filmmakers about their own experiences and attitudes. -- Back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes ISBN: 0864360584 : price unknown LON: anb86436058; 5042996 Contents: Preface -- Beginnings -- Big brother - women and the state -- Feminist initiatives -- Training and affirmative action -- Personal statements -- The press -- Textual analysis More info
newspaper article		Film gender gap slow to close in Sydney Morning Herald (8/08/2017) p.11 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; GENDER MATTERS Author: Quinn, Karl PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: GENDER MATTERS; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; SCREEN AUSTRALIA Summary: Reports on the gender balance of filmmaking in Australia and how recent measures put into place by Screen Australia have helped equalise opportunities for women and men filmmakers. However there is still some way to go before women have achieved equal opportunity More info
newspaper article		Gender agenda in Weekend Australian [Review] (16/01/2016) p.1 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA Author: Neill, Rosemary PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN Summary: Article about the lack of women filmmakers in Australia and in key roles in theatre. Quotes from Gillian Armstrong, Courtney Gibson, Fiona Cameron, Sue Maslin, Bruce Beresford, Kate Cherry, Lee Lewis, and WITS founders Maryann Wright and Lizze Schebesta More info
newspaper article		Getting equal in Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] (15/10/2016) p.14 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; GENDER MATTERS Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: GENDER MATTERS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the Gender Matters initiative by Screen Australia, which is looking to give women in Australian film and tv a fastrack to creating productions that feature womens stories and talent behind the scenes. Interviewed are Bruna Papandrea, Graeme Mason, Imogen Banks, and Sarah Snook More info
newspaper article		Give her some credits in The Australian (08/12/2015) p.14 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; SCREEN AUSTRALIA Author: Westwood, Matthew PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SCREEN AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the new Screen Australia program called Gender Matters, which looks to redress the gender imbalance of women making feature films in Australia. Details of the fund are listed in the article More info
book		The impact of new media technologies on women in film, TV, video and related media industries : a research report with policy recommendations / commissioned by WIFT Australia ; researched and produced by J.C. Wisdom-Hill [Canberra: Office for the Status of Women], 1995. Call No: 462-02(94) WIS Author: Wisdom-Hill, J. C. (Jan Claire) CorpAuthor: Australia. Office of the Status of Women; Women in Film and Television (Australia) Place: [Canberra Publisher: Office for the Status of Women] PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 66 p. ; 30 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION (WIFT); MULTIMEDIA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover title; Bibliography: p. 62-66 Order Received: 2000 Order Type: Donation LON: 12345061 More info
book		In production : conference papers / Women in Film & Television ; [editor/compiler Louise Melov] Surry Hills, NSW: Women in Film & Television, 1993. Call No: 462-02(94) INP Author: Melov, Louise CorpAuthor: Women in Film and Television (Australia) Place: Surry Hills, NSW Publisher: Women in Film & Television PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 68 p. : ill., ports. ; 1993 Subject: CONFERENCES. AUSTRALIA. WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA Notes: Papers given at a conference held at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney 26-27 September, 1992 ISBN: 0646130676 LON: 9721426 More info
book		Jane Campion : cinema, nation, identity / edited by Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irene Bessiere Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 2009. Call No: 81CAM JAN Author: Radner, Hilary; Fox, Alistair; Bessiere, Irene Place: Detroit, Mich Publisher: Wayne State University Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: xiv, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Series: Contemporary approaches to film and television Subject: CAMPION, JANE; DIRECTORS; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996) Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index ISBN: 9780814334324 Contents: Introduction: an antipodean filmmaker in an international context / Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner -- Subjectivities and the construction of identity in Jane Campion's films. "In extremis": Jane Campion and the woman's film / Hilary Radner -- Her-land: Jane Campion's cinema, or another poetic of the inner sense / Muriel Andrin -- The Campions indulge in the audition / Harriet Margolis -- Campion-Keitel Connections, a.k.a. "We are the piano" / Chris Holmlund -- Jane Campion and her sources. "I can really see myself in her story": Jane Campion's adaptation of Janet Frame's autobiography / Lawrence Jones -- Puritanism and the erotics of transgression: the New Zealand influence in Jane Campion's thematic imaginary / Alistair Fox -- Portraits of a woman: Jane Campion and Henry James / Irene Bessiere -- Jane Campion: adaptation, signature, autobiography / Kathleen A. McHugh -- Jane Campion's "Geographies". Jane Campion and the international theme: from The portrait of a lady to An angel at my table / Jean Bessiere -- The suburb in Jane Campion's films / Rochelle Simmons -- From antipodean cinema to international art cinema / Raphaelle Moine -- Viewers respond to Jane Campion. "Comme une invitation au voyage": French reception of Jane Campion, An angel at my table, and The piano / Simon Sigley -- "The piano is mine. It's mine." My (free association with) Jane Campion, or, the child in the spectator / Sue Gillett -- Jane Campion and the moral occult / Ann Hardy -- On viewing Jane Campion as an antipodean / Annabel Cooper More info
newspaper article		Lights, camera, women in action in Sunday Age (2/07/2017) p.10 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA Author: Quinn, Karl PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA; ELLIOT, BONNIE; KERRIGAN, JUSTINE; WALKER, MANDY; WEGNER, ARI Summary: Looking at women cinematographers in Australia. Quotes from Ari Wegner, Bonnie Elliot, Justine Kerrigan, Mandy Walker More info
book		Reel women : working in film and television / Julie James Bailey Sydney: Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 1999. Call No: 462-02(94) BAI Author: James Bailey, Julie Place: Sydney Publisher: Australian Film, Television and Radio School PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: xii, 408 p. : ports. ; 21 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; KENNY, JAN; THORNBURN, GRETCHEN; COCKSEDGE, ANNIE; BILCOCK, JILL; PRYOR, SALLY; DEVINE, KIT; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; MCKIMMIE, JACKIE; BROWNE, DINA; PHILLIPSON, MARGOT; MURPHY, BRONWYN; KERR, SUE; SHEEHAN, ANNABELLE; TYSON-CHEW, NERIDA; COOPER, DANY; SMITH, MANDY; GAYNOR, HELEN; REID, CAROLYN; WOOD, SUSAN; BENNETT, SARA; CARTWRIGHT, LYNNE; RUDD, CAMILLA; GIL, GLENYS Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-394) and index ISBN: 1876351047 LON: 20169058 More info
journal article		Reel women in If magazine (Feb-Mar 2000) iss.21 p.22 Author: Alexander, Katy PhysDes: Book review; Illustration(s) Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA More info
newspaper article		Reeltime : Directors Guild calls for female funding quota in The Australian [Arts & Entertainment] (28/10/2015) p.15 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA 2015 Author: Bodey, Michael PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION ARTS Summary: This article contains snippets on the following topics: The Australian Director's Guild has called for a quoto to increase the number of films directed by women; nominations for AACTA awards announced soon; Entries open for 63rd Sydney bFilm Festival; Sherpa has won the award for best documentary at BFI London film festival More info
newspaper article		Setting the scene for more women in The Age (07/12/2015) p.11 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; SCREEN AUSTRALIA Author: Quinn, Karl PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: SCREEN AUSTRALIA; WOMEN DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; DRESSMAKER, THE (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015) Summary: Report on the new Screen Australia initiative to encourage funding of films made by and for women. Quotes from the producer of the film THE DRESSMAKER, Sue Maslin, who talks of the difficulty to obtain funding for the film due to the large female presence and themes in the film More info
newspaper article		Short cuts : strong push for a female quota in Sydney Morning Herald (08/10/2015) p.20 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMEN DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: QUOTA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; SCREEN AUSTRALIA Summary: Snippet on the Australian Directors Guild's push to get Screen Australia to enforce a quota on film funding that makes it 50 percent for female and male filmmakers More info
book		Some significant women in Australian film : a celebration and a cautionary tale : Longford Lyell lecture 2002 / Jan Chapman Australia: Screen sound Australia, 2002. Call No: 721.02 (94) CHA Author: Chapman, Jan Edition: 1st ed. Source: Australia Place: Australia Publisher: Screen sound Australia PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 1 v ; 20.5 cm, b&w ill. Series: Longford Lyell lecture 2002, ScreenSound Australia Monograph no.3 Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS; WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; CHAPMAN, JAN; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; CAMPION, JANE; LYELL, LOTTIE; BARRETT, SHIRLEY; MILLIKEN, SUE; Lovell, Patricia; ROBB, JILL; SCOTT, JANE; LONG, JOAN; FINK, MARGARET; DAVIS, JUDY; LEVY, SANDRA; GRIFFITHS, RACHEL; BLANCHETT, CATE; KIDMAN, NICOLE; COLLETTE, TONI; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); WOMAN SUFFERS, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1918); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); SHOWTIME (AT, Jan Chapman, 1978); SWEET AND SOUR [TV] (AT, 1984); SINGER AND THE DANCER, THE (AT, Gillian Amrstrong, 1977); SMOKES AND LOLLIES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1976); BINGO BRIDESMAIDS AND BRACES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1988); MORE SMOKES, LESS LOLLIES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1981); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN (NZ, Jane Campion, 1990); PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996); WELL, THE (AT, Samantha Lang, 1997); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); TWO FRIENDS [TV] (AT, Jane Campion, 1986); LITTLE WOMEN (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1994); OSCAR AND LUCINDA (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1997); CHARLOTTE GRAY (G/UK/AT, Gillian Armstrong, 2001); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); GIRL'S OWN STORY, A (AT, Jane Campion, 1983) Summary: The ScreenSound Australia Annual Longford Lyell Lecture was established in 2001. It is named in honour of two significant pioneers of Australian cinema, Lottie Lyell and Raymond Longford, who were the foremost creative partnership in the pioneering years of Australian cinema. Jan Chapman is one of Australia’s most famous producers having been involved in the production of ‘Come in Spinner’, ‘Sweet and Sour’, ‘the Piano’ and ‘Lantana’ to name but a few. Chapman talks about the development of her career in relation to other Australian women involved in filmmaking such as Gillian Armstrong and New Zealand born Jane Campion ISBN: 0642365172 More info
book		Victoria, making Australian film and television exciting : film and video resource kit / edited and compiled by Sally Semmens [Melbourne]: Film Victoria, 1984. Call No: 036(945) SEM Author: Semmens, Sally CorpAuthor: Film Victoria Place: [Melbourne] Publisher: Film Victoria PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: 25 p. ; 30 cm Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S TELEVISION FOUNDATION; AUSTRALIAN FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; FILM VICTORIA; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA Summary: "This resource kit is designed to outline the breadth and scope of film activity in Victoria. The first section lists some of the production taking place in Victoria this year. The list is not meant to be comprehensive but gives a fair sample of the range of production. The films listed are funded by a variety of sources including the Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria, and private investors. The list does not include the huge number of commercials, documentaries nor trade and training films which will be produced in this State this year. THe second section includes profile information on film and video organisations in Victoria. These organisations form an important part in the dissemination of films and information and contribute to Victoria's diverse and expanding film culture." - INTERIOR BLURB More info
newspaper article		We need to see more women on film and behind the camera in Sydney Morning Herald (28/10/2015) p.16 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA Author: Maslin, Sue PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; MASLIN, SUE Summary: In this article, Sue Maslin describes the challenges faced by female filmmakers and the need for and benefits of increasing the number of women in leadership roles in the screen industry. More info
subject clippings file		WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA More info
book		Women in Australian film production / Penny Ryan, Margaret Eliot, Gil Appleton North Sydney: Women's Film Fund : Australian Film and Television School, 1983. Call No: 462-02(94) RYA Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Ryan, Penny; Eliot, Margaret; Appleton, Gil CorpAuthor: Australian Film Commission. Women's Film Fund; Australian Film and Television School Place: North Sydney Publisher: Women's Film Fund : Australian Film and Television School PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: viii, 43 p. ; 26 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA ISBN: 0642925496 : price unknown LON: abn83193885; 2987755 More info
book		Women in the arts : a study by the Research Advisory Group of the Women and Arts Project, Sydney, December 1982 / [edited by Gil Appleton] North Sydney, N.S.W.: Policy and Planning, Australia Council, 1983. Call No: 462-02(94) WOM Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Appleton, Gil CorpAuthor: Women and Arts Project (N.S.W.). Research Advisory Group; Australia Council. Policy and Planning Division Place: North Sydney, N.S.W. Publisher: Policy and Planning, Australia Council PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 122 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA Notes: Bibliography: p. [94]-106 ISBN: 0908024614 (pbk.) : $9.95 LON: abn83198737; 2998909 More info
book		Women in the arts : a strategy for action North Sydney: Australia Council, 1984]. Call No: 462-02(94) WOM CorpAuthor: Australia Council. Policy and Planning Division Place: North Sydney Publisher: Australia Council PubDate: 1984] PhysDes: 22, 5, 8 p. ; 25 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA Notes: Prepared by the Policy and Planning Division of the Council to follow up Women in the arts : report. North Sydney : Australia Council, 1983; Cover title; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0908024711 : price unknown LON: abn84141915; 3261356 More info
book		Women in the Victorian film, television and relation industries : research report / prepared by Associate Professor Lisa French 2012. Call No: 462-02(94) FRE Author: French, Lisa Source: AT PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: 62 p. ; 30 cm Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WORKING CONDITIONS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA : VICTORIA Summary: Report investigating the 'quality of the working lives of Victorian women in the film. television and related industries (including digital media and games).' Quote from report p.4 More info

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