Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Call No: 71(94) COL
Author: Collins, F.; Davis, T.
Place: Port Melbourne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: vii, 204 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MABO: LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN (AT, Trevor Graham, 1997); MOULIN ROUGE (AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2001); DISH, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 2000); LANTANA (AT, Ray Lawrence, 2001); AUSTRALIAN RULES (AT, Paul Goldman, 2002); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN FILMS; WALKING ON WATER (AT, Tony Ayres, 2001); HEAVEN'S BURNING (AT, Craig Lahiff, 1997); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); HOLY SMOKE (US, Jane Campion, 1999); SERENADES (AT, Mojgan Khadem, 2000); YOLNGU BOY (AT, Stephen Johnson, 2001); MISSING, THE (AT, Manuela Alberti, 1999); HEARTLAND [TV] (AT, 1994); ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; CUNNAMULLA (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 2000); MESSAGE FROM MOREE (AT, Judy Rymer, 2003); CASTLE, THE (AT, Rob Sitch, 1997); VACANT POSSESSION (AT, Margot Nash, 1995); STRANGE PLANET (AT, Emma-Kate Croghan, 1999); RADIANCE (AT, Rachel Perkins, 1998); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI (AT, Kate Woods, 2000); HEAD ON (AT, Ana Kokkinos, 1998); BENEATH CLOUDS (AT, Ivan Sen, 2001); JAPANESE STORY (AT, Sue Brooks, 2003); TRACKER, THE (AT, Rolf de Heer, 2002)
Summary: “Drawing on concepts of shock, memory and national maturity, ‘Australian Cinema after Mabo’ asks what part Australian cinema plays in reviewing our colonial past. It looks at how the 1992 Mabo decision, which overruled the nation’s founding myth of terra nullius, has changed the meaning of landscape and identity in Australian films, including The Tracker, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Moulin Rouge, The Castle, Cunnamulla, Looking for Alibrandi and Japanese Story amongst many others.” (back cover)
Notes: Index: p.200-204; Bibliography
ISBN: 0521834805 :
0521542561 (pbk.)
Contents: Part 1: Australian Cinema and the History Wars -- Backtracking after Mabo -- Homeand Abroad in Moulin Rouge, The Dish and Lantana -- Elites and Battlers in Australian Rules and Walking on Water -- Mediating Memory in Mabo Life as an Island Man --; Part 2: Landscape and Belonging after Mabo -- Aftershock and the Desert Landscape in Heavens Burning, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Holy Smoke, Serenades, Yolngu Boy, The Missing -- Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree -- Coming from the City in The Castle, Vacant Possession, Strange Planet and Radiance; Part 3: Grief, Trauma and Coming of Age -- Lost, Stolen and Found in Rabbit-Proof Fence -- Escaping History and Shame in Looking for Alibrandi, Head On and Beneath Clouds -- Sustaining Grief in Japanese Story and Dreaming in Motion.
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