Jonathan Rayner

Contemporary Australian cinema (eBook, PDF)

An introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125736
• Artikelnr.: 60364858

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Rayner is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface I INTRODUCTION 1. The nationalities of the cinema 2. The prehistory
of Australian cinema 3. Representing the nation 4. The valuable territory
5. The big country 6. The Australian abroad 7. Reading the national cinema
II AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC 8. Origins 9. The gothic rural community 10. The Mad
Max trilogy 11. The urban gothic 12. Conclusion III THE PERIOD FILM 13. The
AFC genre 14. Picnic at Hanging Rock and the literary adaptation 15. The
period film cycle 16. Fred Schepisi's period films 17. Newsfront: the
nation on record 18. Sirens: the parody of the period film 19. Conclusion
IV THE MALE ENSEMBLE FILM 20. Australian-ness and masculinity 21. The
working environment 22. Sexual politics 23. The sporting life 24. The
personal factor: between wars 25. Sons of Anzac: The Odd Angry Shot 26.
Parabolic history 27. Landscape cinema 28. Male drama and the mini-series
29. Males and mateship in 90's cinema 30. Conclusion V NEW GLAMOUR, NEW
GOTHIC: AUSTRALIAN FILMS IN THE 1990S 31. The quota quirky 32. The
Australian film finance corporation 33. New gothic 34. The rite of passage
film 35. Australian road movies 36. Glamour, kitsch and camp 37. Conclusion
CONCLUSION Filmography Bibliography