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. |
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... (Dermody and Jacka, 1988a: 48). Australian cinema's re-emergence has been dependent on a 'relatively sweet climate of government support' (Dermody and Jacka 1988a: 48). In 1995, David Stratton (98) claimed the 'support system for film ...
... Dermody and Jacka (1998a: 163) Gallipoli was 'a simple kind of Baden-Powell "proud" view of the Anzac legend, simplified family entertainment'. It conserved and updated 'myths of the people' and kept them to the narrow range of the ...
... Dermody and Jacka (1988a: 199) map the masculinism of Australian cinema of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, arguing that the 'Australianiza- tion' strategies of this feature film-making characteristically produced a ...
... (Dermody and Jacka 1988b: 4) reality provided by public reputation is crucial to continuing state and public support for the national cinema. It attracts an interest in it by audiences, distributors and investors inside and outside ...
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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 |