Australian National CinemaTom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world. O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies. |
From inside the book
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... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission BBC British Broadcasting Commission CDB Creative Development Branch (Australian Film Commission) EFF Experimental Film Fund ESB English speaking background FFC Australian Film Finance ...
... Aboriginal and settler society relations - whether it be to motivate characters and generate tension between them in fiction film-making, or treat them as subjects for documentary and experimental film-making. In Chapter 12 ...
... Aboriginal and Islander woman. The Australian Documentary Fellowship scheme which operated from 1983 to 1990 was dedicated to excellence and innovation in the documentary. The scheme provided recipients with the resources to make a ...
... Aboriginal] Inala next to [middle class] Indooroopilly, the decrepit next to the nubile' (O'Regan 1985a: 250). When local films circulate before domestic audiences they provide 'a de facto social map for native audiences to situate ...
... Aboriginal mate; and most importantly with his rival and subsequent mate, the working class Frank. It reconciled ... Aboriginal and Islander ownership. Heartland developed a pedagogic romance between a white woman and an Aboriginal man ...
Contents
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A national cinema | 45 |
A mediumsized Englishlanguage cinema | 77 |
Formations of value | 111 |
Making meaning | 145 |
Diversity | 167 |
Unity | 189 |
Negotiating cultural transfers | 213 |
Problematizing the social | 261 |
Problematizing gender | 288 |
Problematizing nationhood | 304 |
Critical dispositions | 333 |
Notes | 355 |
List of films cited | 365 |
Bibliography | 376 |
Subject Index | 392 |