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This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time—the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years—to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course over the last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s.
Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Culture. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- Global/International Culture. --- Australasian Culture. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Motion pictures—United States.
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This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter looks at the role that multiculturalism has played and the impact of neoliberal ideas in the formation of the Australian state. The second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the 1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism, with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim experience. Subsequent chapters discuss the exclusionary experience of various groups identified as non-white through the lens of films, popular music and television programs. Jon Stratton is an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia. He is attached to the UniSA Creative unit. Jon has published widely in Cultural Studies, Australian Studies, Popular Music Studies, Jewish Studies and on race and multiculturalism. Jon’s most recent book related to the present topic is Uncertain Lives: Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia (2011).
Multiculturalism --- Ethnicity in mass media --- Mass media --- Australia --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations. --- Culture. --- Australasia. --- Ethnicity. --- Motion pictures. --- Australasian Culture. --- Ethnicity Studies. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Global/International Culture. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Performing arts --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- History and criticism --- Social aspects
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Although it has only been in the last decade that the planet’s population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban. Within audience studies, however, an increasing number of scholars are turning their attention away from the bright lights of the urban, and towards the less well-lit and infinitely more variegated history of rural cinema-going. Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in A Global Context is the first volume to consider rural cinema-going from a global perspective. It aims to provide a rich and wide-ranging introduction to this growing field, and to further develop some of its key questions. It brings together eighteen international scholars or teams, all representatives of a dynamic, new field. Moving beyond a Western focus is essential for thinking through questions of rural exhibition, distribution and cinema experience, since over the relatively short history of cinema it is the rural that has dominated cinema-goers’ lives in much of the developing world. To this end, the volume also innovates by bringing discussions of North American and European ruralities into dialogue with contributions on Kenya, Brazil, China, Thailand, South Africa and Australia.
Motion pictures --- History. --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures-European influen. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Africa. --- Australasia. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- European Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- African Cinema and TV. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Motion pictures—European influences. --- Motion pictures—United States.
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This book provides the most comprehensive history and analysis of Australian animation published to date. Spanning from the 1910s to the present day, it explores a wide range both of independent animation, and of large-scale commercial productions. Presented within a uniquely international context, it details the frequent links between Australian animation and overseas productions. New perspectives and original information are offered on a variety of international subjects such as: Felix the Cat, the Australian Hanna-Barbera studios, and the Australian Walt Disney studios. Drawing on both extensive archival research and original interviews, this book illuminates, for the first time, the breadth and richness of Australia's animation history--back cover.
Animation (Cinematography) --- Animated films --- Cinematography --- Animated television programs --- Technique --- Animated films. --- Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Animation. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Motion pictures --- Abstract films --- Animation cels --- History and criticism --- Animators --- 799.91 --- animatiefilm --- animators --- geschiedenis --- Australië --- Felix de kat --- Hanna-Barbera --- Cartoon makers --- History --- animatiefilm, geschiedenis
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This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven spectacles throughout Australia, while never developing the same industry and market foci of their international fellows. Drawing on over sixty-years of archival records, festival commentary, interviews with festival insiders and ephemera, this book opens up a largely uncharted history of film culture activity in Australia. .
History --- Sociology of culture --- cultuur --- Film --- geschiedenis --- Didactics of the arts --- niet-westerse cultuur --- film --- communicatie --- filmgeschiedenis --- Mass communications --- Oceania with Australia --- Asia --- Film festivals. --- Film and video festivals --- Motion picture festivals --- Moving-picture festivals --- Video and film festivals --- Performing arts festivals --- Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Culture. --- Motion pictures-History. --- Communication. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Australasian Culture. --- Film History. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures—History.
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“The Mad Max films have been understood from numerous perspectives, from auteurism to national cinema to action adventure to gender to science fiction to dystopia. Mick Broderick and Katie Ellis have surpassed that literature with this exciting and profound work. Trauma and Disability is more than a new optic through which to view a storied series; it is a challenge to film studies and cultural analysis more broadly to wake up, smell the burning guzzoline, and rethink normativity.” — Professor Toby Miller, Loughborough University London, UK “Mad Max is more relevant today than ever, with climate change destroying the Earth and many despot leaders worldwide. Broderick and Ellis critique the imagery of trauma within the films and focus attention on the many narratives involving disabled characters. Their explication of representations of bodies, disabled and nondisabled, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of multiple Mad Max films, specifically, and popular culture, generally.” — Professor Beth Haller, Towson University, USA This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015). George Miller’s long-running series is replete with narratives and imagery of trauma, both physical and emotional, along with major and minor characters who are prominently disabled. The Mad Max movies foreground representations of the body – in devastating injury and its lasting effects – and in the broader social and historical contexts of trauma, disability, gender and myth. Over the franchise’s four-decade span significant social and cultural change has occurred globally. Many of the images of disability and trauma central to Max’s post-apocalyptic wasteland can be seen to represent these societal shifts, incorporating both decline and rejuvenation. These shifts include concerns with social, economic and political disintegration under late capitalism, projections of survival after nuclear war, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on screen production processes, textual analysis and reception studies this book interrogates the role of these representations of disability, trauma, gender and myth to offer an in-depth cultural analysis of the social critiques evident within the fantasies of Mad Max. Mick Broderick is Associate Professor of Media Analysis at Murdoch University, Australia. Katie Ellis is Associate Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Australia. .
Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Popular Culture. --- People with disabilities. --- Communication. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Popular Culture . --- Disability Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Popular culture.
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Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.
Punk culture. --- Subculture --- Cyberpunk culture --- Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Human geography. --- Music. --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Human Geography. --- Youth Culture. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism
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This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner–theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making. The chapters explore how documentary theory and practice is influenced by digitisation, mobile phones, and new internet platforms. The contributors highlight the questions raised for documentary makers and scholars as new production methods, narrative forms, and participation practices emerge. The book presents an introduction to documentary techniques shaped by new digital technologies, and will appeal to documentary scholars, students, and film-makers alike.
Motion picture authorship. --- Film authorship --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Film scriptwriting --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture scriptwriting --- Motion picture writing --- Motion pictures --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Moving-picture authorship --- Screen writing --- Screenplay writing --- Screenwriting --- Scriptwriting, Film --- Scriptwriting, Motion picture --- Authorship --- Play-writing --- Documentary films. --- Digital media. --- Motion pictures. --- Australasia. --- Culture. --- Technology. --- Social media. --- Documentary. --- Digital/New Media. --- Australasian Cinema and TV. --- Culture and Technology. --- Social Media. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Documentaries, Motion picture --- Documentary videos --- Factual films --- Motion picture documentaries --- Moving-pictures, Documentary --- Documentary mass media --- Nonfiction films --- Actualities (Motion pictures) --- Social aspects --- History and criticism
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