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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... Lotman, I develop a typology of cultural transfers in Australian cinema in Chapter 9. Lotman' s five stages of cultural transfer enable me to theorize the international circulation of concepts, Introducing Australian national cinema 7 ...
... Lotman to reconsider Meaghan Morris's (1988) discussion of the unoriginality of Australian cinema and to position its specificity in the style and character of its negotiation of cultural transfers. In the last of this section, Chapter ...
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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 |