Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction /: an introduction. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Rayner.
• Other Names: Rayner, Jonathan (Jonathan R.)
• Contents: 1. Introduction: -- The nationalities of the cinema -- The prehistory of Australian cinema -- Representing the nation -- The valuable territory -- The big country -- The Australian abroad -- Reading the national cinema -- -- 2. Australian Gothic: -- Origins -- The Gothic rural community -- The Mad Max trilogy -- The urban Gothic -- Conclusion -- -- 3. The period film: -- The AFC genre -- Picnic at Hanging Rock and the literary adaptation -- The period film cycle -- Fred Schepisi's period films -- Newsfront: the nation on record -- Sirens: the parody of the period film -- Conclusion -- -- 4. The male ensemble film: -- Australian-ness and masculinity -- The working environment -- Sexual politics -- The sporting life -- The personal factor: Between Wars -- Sons of Anzac: The Odd Angry Shot -- Parabolic history -- Landscape cinema -- Male drama and the mini-series -- Males and mateship in '90s cinema -- Conclusion -- -- 5. New glamour, new Gothic: Australian films in the 1990s: -- The quota quirky -- The Australian Film Finance Corporation -- New Gothic -- The rite of passage film -- Australian road movies -- Glamour, kitsch and camp -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/0994; Motion pictures -- Australia -- History; Cinéma -- Australie; Motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Australia -- History; Film; Australia -- In motion pictures; Australia; Australien; Einführung; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526125736; 1526125730
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