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Diasporas of Australian cinema / edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Australia.
- Motion pictures.
- Minorities in motion pictures.
- Multiculturalism in motion pictures.
- Australia--In motion pictures.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume to focus exclusively on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian film making over the past century.Topics include post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, ""wogsploitation"" comedy, and post-ethnic cinema. This collection also provides a useful reference text for scholars of Australian film and cultural studies, with material on contemporary film-making and pre-World War II cinema. Containing previously unpublished articles by some the most recognised experts on Australian cine
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Diasporas of Australian Cinema - A Provocation; Part One: Theories; Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Diasporas - Australian Cinema, History and Society; Chapter 2 Tinkering at the Borders: Lucky Miles and the Diasporic (no) Road Movie; Chapter 3 Ethics and Risk in Asian-Australian Cinema: The Last Chip; Chapter 4 'I'm Falling in Your Love': Cross-cultural Romance and the Refugee Film; Chapter 5 White Aborigines: Women, Space, Mimicry and Mobility; Part Two: Representations
- Chapter 6 Wogboy Comedies and the Australian National Type Chapter 7 Excess in Oz: The Crazy Russian and the Quiet Australian; Chapter 8 Anzac's 'Others': 'Cruel Huns' and 'Noble Turks'; Chapter 9 'Now You Blokes Own the Place': Representations of Japanese Culture in Recent Australian Cinema; Chapter 10 Other Shorelines, or the Greek-Australian Cinema; Part Three: Film-Makers; Chapter 11 'A European Heart': Exile, Isolation and Interiority in the Life and Films of Paul Cox; Chapter 12 Sophia Turkiewicz: Australianizing Poles, or 'Bloody Nuts and Balts' in Silver City (1984)
- Chapter 13 Lebanese Muslims Speak Back: Two Films by Tom Zubrycki Chapter 14 Sejong Park's Birthday Boy and Korean-Australian Encounters; Diasporic Filmography; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612312410
- 9781282312418
- 1282312413
- 9781841503363
- 1841503363
- OCLC:
- 646835665
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