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- catalog abstract "This introduction to the new Australian film industry explores prominent directors and stars, themes, styles, and evolving genres in an analysis of key films. The evolution of genres peculiar to Australia and adaptations of conventional Hollywood forms such as the musical and the road movie are examined through readings of landmark films, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mad Max trilogy, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival--the definition, representation, and propagation of a national image--is woven through the analysis.".
- catalog contributor b12028648.
- catalog coverage "Australia In motion pictures.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: -- The nationalities of the cinema -- The prehistory of Australian cinema -- Representing the nation -- The valuable territory -- The big country -- The Australian abroad -- Reading the national cinema -- -- 2. Australian Gothic: -- Origins -- The Gothic rural community -- The Mad Max trilogy -- The urban Gothic -- Conclusion -- -- 3. The period film: -- The AFC genre -- Picnic at Hanging Rock and the literary adaptation -- The period film cycle -- Fred Schepisi's period films -- Newsfront: the nation on record -- Sirens: the parody of the period film -- Conclusion -- -- 4. The male ensemble film: -- Australian-ness and masculinity -- The working environment -- Sexual politics -- The sporting life -- The personal factor: Between Wars -- Sons of Anzac: The Odd Angry Shot -- Parabolic history -- Landscape cinema -- Male drama and the mini-series -- Males and mateship in '90s cinema -- Conclusion -- -- 5. New glamour, new Gothic: Australian films in the 1990s: -- The quota quirky -- The Australian Film Finance Corporation -- New Gothic -- The rite of passage film -- Australian road movies -- Glamour, kitsch and camp -- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This introduction to the new Australian film industry explores prominent directors and stars, themes, styles, and evolving genres in an analysis of key films. The evolution of genres peculiar to Australia and adaptations of conventional Hollywood forms such as the musical and the road movie are examined through readings of landmark films, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mad Max trilogy, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival--the definition, representation, and propagation of a national image--is woven through the analysis.".
- catalog extent "vi, 203 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Contemporary Australian cinema.".
- catalog identifier "0719053269".
- catalog identifier "0719053277 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Contemporary Australian cinema.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "Contemporary Australian cinema.".
- catalog spatial "Australia In motion pictures.".
- catalog spatial "Australia".
- catalog spatial "Australia.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures Australia History.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures Australia.".
- catalog subject "PN1993.5.A8 R37 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: -- The nationalities of the cinema -- The prehistory of Australian cinema -- Representing the nation -- The valuable territory -- The big country -- The Australian abroad -- Reading the national cinema -- -- 2. Australian Gothic: -- Origins -- The Gothic rural community -- The Mad Max trilogy -- The urban Gothic -- Conclusion -- -- 3. The period film: -- The AFC genre -- Picnic at Hanging Rock and the literary adaptation -- The period film cycle -- Fred Schepisi's period films -- Newsfront: the nation on record -- Sirens: the parody of the period film -- Conclusion -- -- 4. The male ensemble film: -- Australian-ness and masculinity -- The working environment -- Sexual politics -- The sporting life -- The personal factor: Between Wars -- Sons of Anzac: The Odd Angry Shot -- Parabolic history -- Landscape cinema -- Male drama and the mini-series -- Males and mateship in '90s cinema -- Conclusion -- -- 5. New glamour, new Gothic: Australian films in the 1990s: -- The quota quirky -- The Australian Film Finance Corporation -- New Gothic -- The rite of passage film -- Australian road movies -- Glamour, kitsch and camp -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Contemporary Australian cinema : an introduction / Jonathan Rayner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".