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Gillian Armstrong : popular, sensual and ethical cinema / Julia Erhart.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.A76 E7554 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erhart, Julia, author.
- Series:
- Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
- Visionaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armstrong, Gillian, 1950---Criticism and interpretation.
- Armstrong, Gillian.
- Armstrong, Gillian, 1950-.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Australia--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Always Armstrong: form and style
- At the Australian Film and Television School
- Satdee Night (1973)
- Gretel (1973)
- After AFTS
- Starting points
- Outlining of chapters
- 1. An authorial cinema
- A multidimensional career
- Perceptions of success: Armstrong's point of view
- Casting and crew
- Images of Armstrong
- Armstrong, feminism, and on being a `woman director'
- Present-day activisms: Gender Matters and Make It Australian
- Conclusion
- 2. A popular, commercial cinema: Mrs. Soffel, Little Women, Charlotte Gray, Death Defying Acts
- Mrs. Soffel: confinement and the power of silence
- Place and escape
- From Fires Within to Little Women
- Little Women
- Home: locus of resistance
- Armstrong in Europe: popular films after the year 2000
- 3. An Australian genre cinema: My Brilliant Career, Oscar and Lucinda, Starstruck
- Genre, globally
- Period film and the Australian industry
- My Brilliant Career
- Oscar and Lucinda
- The presence of the present
- The Australian musical: Starstruck
- 4. A sensual cinema: The Last Days of Chez Nous, Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst, Women He's Undressed
- Designing Armstrong
- The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
- Sound and taste
- House as character
- Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006)
- Women He's Undressed (2015)
- 5. An ethical cinema: High Tide and The Story of Kerry, Josie and Diana
- Towards a feminist cinematic ethics: beginning with Mulvey
- High Tide (1987)
- Opportunities for empathy
- Armstrong's documentary ethics
- Participant well-being
- Axiographics
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1474434320
- 9781474434324
- 9781474440516
- 1474440517
- OCLC:
- 1158476829
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