Contemporary Australian Cinema
An Introduction
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2017
224 pages
978-1-5261-2573-6 (ISBN)
Description
Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Films and trends discussed include: the period film and Picnic at Hanging Rock; the Gothic film and the Mad Max trilogy; camp and kitsch comedy and the Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival (the definition, representation and propagation of a national image) is woven through analysis of the new Australian cinema. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2573-6 (9781526125736)
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Person
Jonathan Rayner is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University
Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Australian Gothic
- The period film
- The male ensemble film
- New glamour, new Gothic: Australian films in the 1990s
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
