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Call No: 71-053.6 HER
Author: Herche, Victoria
Edition: 2021
Place: Heidelberg
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: 252 pages : illustrated; 26 cm
Series: Anglistische Forschungen; 465
Subject: YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA; TEEN FILMS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; TOOMELAH (AT, Ivan Sen, 2011); BENEATH CLOUDS (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001); STONE BROS. (AT, Richard Frankland, 2009); LUCKY MILES (AT, Michael James Rowland, 2007); MOTHER FISH (AT, Khoa Do, 2010); TWO HANDS (AT, Gregor Jordan, 1999); AUSTRALIAN RULES (AT, Paul Goldman, 2002); DROWN (AT, Dean Francis, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); SOMERSAULT (AT, Cate Shortland, 2004); ADORATION (AT/FR, Anne Fontaine, 2013); SAPPHIRES, THE (AT, Wayne Blair, 2012); BRAN NUE DAE (AT, Rachel Perkins 2009)
Summary: Deeply rooted in Australia’s construction as a young nation, ‘coming of age’ has been the defining narrative of Australia’s national cinema. This book provides the first study which systematically explores the ‘coming of age’ theme in Australian feature films produced since the turn of the millennium, foregrounding how films use a range of diverse (his)stories to respond to the centrality of this theme. Rather than focussing on ‘coming of age’ mainly in its portrayal of a (successful) maturation process, this study explores the possibilities inherent in what is conceived of as a ‘permanently’ transitional ‘coming of age’ process, providing a crucial starting point for the re-definition of national fictions. A range of cinematic genres, including the road movie, crime film, sport film, romance and musical, is used to challenge and (to varying degrees) destabilise the national myth of Australia as a youthful, egalitarian society with a chance and ‘fair go’ for everyone. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9783825369187

Call No: 409.1(94) GOT
Author: Gottschall, Kristina
Source: AT
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: xiv, 347 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "This thesis is part of a move to rethink the normalising subjectivating processes that constitute the 'youth' subject. Through a conceptualisation of popular film as pedagogy and feminist and post-structuralist theories on subjectivity, popular film culture is considered as being profoundly geared towards the practices of subject formation and (self-)governmentality. As a context where we learn about the self, our culture and our place within it, popular film is understood as a profoundly pedagogical space and complex set of relationships where subjectivities are made and remade. Far from a simple act of transmission, film's knowledges and forms of address meet its audience but 'misfire' due to the indeterminate and unpredictable encounters between film/makers, audiences and cultural politics. The study begins by returning to key work on pedagogy and popular culture, by engaging in key debates between cultural studies and education. Drawing attention to pedagogy as modes of production and conditions of learning, this thesis asks how film as pedagogy might work and how such learning might occur. Reconceptualising Henry Giroux's notion of film as teaching machine through a 'post-critical' sense of pedagogy as relational, contextual and indeterminate (after Elizabeth Ellsworth and others), the dissertation mobilises a more nuanced pedagogy than is usually found in public pedagogies' scholarship from a critical theory perspective. Further, the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are drawn on to argue that popular film is a technology of the self, geared towards subjectification." (ABSTRACT, p. xi)
Notes: "A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"; Thesis (PhD)--Charles Sturt University, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (p. 309 - 345)
Contents: --1. Introduction -- 2. Film as teaching machine?: pedagogy, popular film & subjectivity -- 3. Questions of method or confessions of a cultural studies junkie -- 4. Larrikin Pedagogue: Ben Mendeldohn and young Aussie manhood -- 5. 'Old enough to know better': learning to become men in Idiot Box -- 6. 'On the brink' : learning lessons about becoming a woman in Caterpillar Wish, Peaches & somersault -- 7. 'You can't get clean water from a dirty tank': the 'Bad girl' of Suburban Mayhem -- 8. 'May you live normally ever after': youth-hood, generation, and pedagogy -- 9. Conclusions and (re)visions --references -- filmography -- appendix 1 - Ben Mendelsohn filmography -- appendix II --

Author: Burton, Lee
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; STATISTICS. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Burton argues that young Australians are media literate, which makes them a discerning media audience. Recent statistical and qualitative studies are discussed.