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Call No: 81 TRE TRE
Author: Trenchard-Smith, Brian
Edition: 2020
Place: [USA]
PhysDes: 580 pages : illustrated ; 26 cm
Subject: TRENCHARD-SMITH, BRIAN; PAGE, GRANT; LEE, BRUCE; MAN FROM HONG KONG, THE (AT/HK, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1975); DEATHCHEATERS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1976); STUNT ROCK (NE, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978); BMX BANDITS (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983); FROG DREAMING (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1985); DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986); TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1981)
Summary: Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," "Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings", "Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his "favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era. -- book blurb
ISBN: 9798985674705

Call No: 71(93) DIR
Author: Goldsmith, Ben (ed.); Lealand, Geoff (ed.)
Place: Bristol, UK
Publisher: Intellect
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 339 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Series: Directory of world cinema ; v. 3
Subject: AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD CINEMA; HOLMES, CECIL; Powell, Michael; WEIR, PETER; LUHRMANN, BAZ; HORROCKS, SHIRLEY; KOTHARI, SHUICHI; WARD, VINCENT; WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); WOLF CREEK (AT, Greg McLean, 2005)
Summary: "This edition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand. This ambitious volume offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections, thier film industries remain distinct, marked by differences of scale, level of government involvement and funding, and relations with other countries and national cinemas. Through essays about prominent genres and themes, profiles of directors, and comprehensive reviews of significant titles, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films from Australia and New Zealand from Whale Rider to The Piano to Wolf Creek.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 9781841503684
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction : Australian cinema -- Directors -- Cecil Holmes (1921-1994) -- Michael Powell (1905-1990) -- Peter Weir (1944-) -- Baz Luhrmann (1962-) -- Disability in the Australian cinema -- Short films -- Bushranger -- War cinema -- Crime -- Prison -- Period -- Comedy -- Coming of age -- Horror -- Road movies -- Science fiction and fantasy -- Ozploitation -- New Zealand: Introduction : New Zealand film in 2009: Geoff Lealand -- Experimental film: Martin Rumsby -- Directors -- Shirley Horrocks -- Shuichi Kothari -- Vincent Ward -- Genre and themes -- recommended reading -- Australia & New Zealand cinema online -- notes on contributors --
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Call No: 722.81 GRI
Author: Fisher, Austin (ed.); Walker, Johnny (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 266 pages ; 25 cm
Series: Global exploitation cinemas
Subject: EXPLOITATION FILMS; BLAXPLOITATION FILMS; HORROR FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; EROTIC FILMS; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM
Summary: "The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres. The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already understood." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781628927498
Contents: -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond -- Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker -- Chapter 1 -- Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory / Glenn Ward -- Chapter 2 -- Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses / Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia / Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 / Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film / Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies / Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story / Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western / Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle / David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper / Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- index --

Call No: 722.81(94) HAR
Author: Harris, Paul
Edition: 2008
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd.
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 82 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; BLUNDELL, GRAEME; BOURKE, TERRY; BURSTALL, TIM; FRANKLIN, RICHARD; GINNANE, TONY; LAMOND, JOHN; PAGE, GRANT; WARD, ROGER
Summary: Not Quite Hollywood is the story of Ozploitation. More explicit, violent and energetic than anything out of Hollywood, Aussie genre movies such as Alvin Purple, The Man From Hong Kong, Patrick, Mad Max and Turkey Shoot presented a unique take on established cinematic conventions. In England, Italy and the grindhouses and Drive-ins of North America, audiences applauded our homegrown marauding revheads with their brutish cars; our sprnky well-stacked heroines and our stunts - unparalleled in their quality and extreme danger! Busting with outrageous anecdotes, trivia and graphic poster art - and including isights from key cast, crew and fans - including Quentin Tarantino - this is the wild, untold story of an era when Aussie cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of boobs, pubes, tubes...and even a little kung fu! -- publisher's web site
Notes: released to promote the feature film Not Quite Hollywood; signed and deicated to AFI RC by Mark Hartley
ISBN: 9780980549607

Call No: P NOT
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 101 X 70 cm.
Subject: NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008)
Summary: Text: "The wild, untold story of OZploitation!/Finally an Aussie film packed full of boobs, pubes, tubes...and a bit of kung fu." Image: Caricature images from various Australian movies including Alvin Purple, Barry McKenzie. Wide cream toned border.
Notes: We have two copies.

Author: Johinke, Rebecca
PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DEAD END DRIVE-IN (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)
Summary: This article suggests that Dead End Drive-In (1986), Brian Trenchard-Smith's little-known Ozploitation film, deserves reconsideration from Australasian film scholars because it offers a valuable contribution to discussions about Australian masculinity, car culture, phobic narratives and the White Australia Policy. It is argued that the drive-in as detention centre foreshadows later Australian anxieties about immigration and border protection. Clearly a phobic narrative full of white panic (Morris, 1989, 1998), it exhibits many of the anxieties about Australians and auto-immobility that Catherine Simpson (2006) discusses, and fits neatly into Tranter's (2003) discussion of cars and governance and Bode's (2006a) arguments about whiteness and Australian masculinity in crisis. -- Abstract

Author: Martin, Adrian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GENRES. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (AT, Mark Hartley, 2008)
Summary: Discussion of critical attention given to 'Ozploitation' films particularly after 'Not Quite Hollywood'. Martin argues suggests current focus on this repressed strain of national cinema excludes many genres and therefore provides limited insight into Australian cinema.
Notes: Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s has swiftly become a fashionable topic for analysis, rehabilitation and celebration, especially in the wake of the popular documentary Not Quite Hollywood featuring Quentin Tarantino. Is this Australian cinema's ‘return of the repressed’, at last, in the form of tough, vulgar, anarchic genre pictures – and does this show the way forward for our national cinema? This essay questions many aspects of the ‘Ozploitation’ craze, including its exclusion of art, intellectual or experimental cinema, and its peculiar streamlining of an extremely variegated and still obfuscated national film history. In particular, I argue for a comparative approach to national film cultures – which, in this case, would compel us to ask other, more stringent questions about the ultimate value of the currently baptized Ozploitation ‘classics’. -- ABSTRACT

Call No: D OZploitation
Source: AT
Place: [Northcote, Vic]
Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 6 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 654 min) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Subject: CHAIN REACTION, THE (AT, Ian Barry, 1980); FANTASM (AT, Richard Franklin, 1976); FANTASM COMES AGAIN (AT, Colin Eggleston, 1978); LONG WEEKEND, THE (AT, Colin Eggleston, 1979); RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984); STONE (AT, Sandy Harbutt, 1974); TRUE STORY OF ESKIMO NELL, THE (AT, Richard Franklin, 1974)
Summary: "With the relaxing of censorship laws in the early 1970s, a feast of B-films exploded onto Australian screens as maverick filmmakers served up a diet of murder, mayhem and full frontal nudity in exploitation classics such as Stork, Alvin Purple and Stone. Celebrated in the hit documentary Not Quite Hollywood, six of these 'Ozploitation' genre films are presented here in one post-apocalyptic mash-up of sex, violence and foor-to-the-floor action!" DVD BACK COVER
Notes: "DAVID1435"; Includes special features.; Censorship classification: R 18+; In English. No subtitles.
Technical Details: PAL ; All regions
Also Titled: -- Long Weekend -- Razorback -- Fantasm -- Fantasm comes again -- The Chain Reaction -- The true story of Eskimo Nell -- Stone --
Standard Number: 3000000070178

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Jon Hewitt, 2014)
Author: Wilson, Jake
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Jon Hewitt, 2014)
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

Call No: D OZploitation volume 1
Source: AT
Place: [Australia]
Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 6 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 701 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, THE (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1972); TURKEY SHOOT (AT, Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1981); HARLEQUIN (AT, Simon Wincer, 1980); NAKED BUNYIP, THE (AT, John B. Murray, 1970); ROADGAMES, (AT, Richard Franklin, 1981); NIGHT OF FEAR (AT, Terry Bourke, 1973); INN OF THE DAMNED (AT, Terry Bourke, 1974)
Summary: Includes seven films from the Australian genre cinema of the '70s and early '80s.
Notes: DAVID1434. Rated M.
Contents: The adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972); Roadgames (1981); Turkey shoot (1981); Harlequin (1980); The naked bunyip (1970); Night of fear (1973); Inn of the damned (1974)
Technical Details: PAL ; All regions.
Credits: Directors, Bruce Beresford, Richard Franklin, Simon Wincer, John B. Murray, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Terry Bourke.
Also Titled: The adventures of Barry McKenzie.; Roadgames.; Harlequin.; The naked bunyip.; Turkey shoot.; Inn of the damned.; Night of fear.
Standard Number: 3000000070161
Performer: The adventures of Barry McKenzie: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries ; Roadgames: Stacy Keach, Jamie-Lee Curtis ; Harlequin: Robert Powell, David Hemmings ; The naked bunyip: Graeme Blundell, Gordon Rumph ; Turkey shoot: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey ; Night of fear: Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen ; Inn of the damned: Judith Anderson, Alex Cord.