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Film in Australia : an introduction / Albert Moran and Errol Vieth.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A8 M64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moran, Albert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Australia--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Australia.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Film in Australia: An Introduction is a groundbreaking book that systematically addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films. Adopting a genre approach, it gives a different take on Australian films made since 1970, bypassing the standard run of historical texts and actor - or character - driven studies of Australian film. Comedy, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime, art films and other types are analyzed with clarity and insight so the reader can recognize and understand all kinds of Australian films, whether they are contemporary or older features, obscure gems or classic blockbusters.
- Film in Australia explains how particular types of films work, identifies sub-types, and surveys the work of local film makers in the different genres. Authoritatively argued for film studies courses, and based on the authors' deep and extensive knowledge of Australian film, it is also enjoyable and accessible for the general reader. A must-read for all students of Australian film.
- Contents:
- 1 Genre and Australian Film 1
- Why Genre? 1
- Generic Difference 3
- Identifying Australian Film Types 6
- Genre in Hollywood 8
- Undertaking Genre Inquiry 11
- 2 The Adventure Film 13
- Poetics of Adventure 13
- A Local Tradition 15
- Defining Action-Adventure 17
- Other Modes and Figures 19
- Survival - Four Australian War Films 22
- Women Heroes 25
- Finally 27
- 3 Art Film 29
- Boundaries 29
- Identifying Art Cinema 30
- Auteur, Auteurism and Art Cinema 32
- Aesthetic Adventure on the Side 34
- The Period Art Film 35
- Modernist Interiority and Art Cinema 38
- 4 The Biopic 44
- Aussie Lives 44
- Defining the Type 46
- Sons and Fathers 49
- The Criminal Biopic 53
- 5 Comedy 57
- Comedy and the Comic 57
- Narrative and Subgenres 58
- A Comic Tale 60
- Performers and Performance 64
- Comic Types 66
- Comic Surprise and Suspense 67
- Gags and Jokes 69
- Towards an Australian Film Comedy Tradition 71
- 6 Crime 73
- Poe's Triangle 73
- Theft as Business 74
- Robbery as Fun 76
- Loners 78
- Fugitives 80
- Street Life 81
- High Life 82
- The Rake's Progress - An Endnote on Bryan Brown 84
- 7 The Detective Film 87
- Types of Detective Story 87
- Watching the Detectives 88
- An Australian Tradition 91
- Blokes 92
- The Woman Investigator 94
- Comic Sleuths 97
- Art and Investigation 98
- Post Mortem 101
- 8 Horror 102
- Introduction: The Fantastic 102
- Themes and Other Discussion 111
- The Supernatural 113
- 9 The Musical 117
- Musicalizing Australia 117
- Defining the Musical 118
- Musicals on the Margin 119
- The New Musical 121
- Mediating Tradition 124
- Musical Magic 126
- Encore 128
- 10 Science Fiction 130
- Australian Science Fiction Film 131
- Themes and Other Discussion 136
- 11 Social Realism 142
- The Label 142
- Mike and Stefani 146
- Types and Cycles 148
- Character and Location 151
- Narrative Structures 153
- Themes 155
- 12 Suspense Thriller 157
- Neither Detective nor Gangster 157
- Surprise, Suspense and Thriller 158
- Derry's Typology 159
- Sex and Murder 160
- Political Intrigue and Danger 161
- Dangerous Masquerade 162
- The Living Nightmare 164
- Maid versus Monster 165
- Innocents on the Run 167
- Desperate Hours 168
- In a Dangerous Place 169
- Post Mortem 170
- 13 The Teenpic 172
- Youth in the Cinema 172
- Critical Perspectives 174
- Four Types 174
- School and Schoolies 175
- Teen Horror 178
- Coming of Age 181
- Rebels and Delinquents 184
- Roll Call 186
- 14 Women's Film 188
- Melodrama - The Standard Account 188
- Other Accounts 189
- Female Cinema 191
- Towards an Australian Tradition 193
- Love 194
- Suffering 196
- Romance 198
- Grief 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521613272
- 9780521613279
- OCLC:
- 63808037
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521613279
- Online:
- Publisher description
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