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Bye, Susan

A Companion to Australian Cinema

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The first comprehensive volume of original essays on Australian screen culture in the twenty-first century.

A Companion to Australian Cinema is an anthology of original essays by new and established authors on the contemporary state and future directions of a well-established national cinema. A timely intervention that challenges and expands the idea of cinema, this book brings into sharp focus those facets of Australian cinema that have endured, evolved and emerged in the twenty-first century.

The essays address six thematically-organized propositions – that Australian cinema is an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an enduring auteur-genre-landscape tradition, a televisual industry and a multiplatform ecology. Offering fresh critical perspectives and extending previous scholarship, case studies range from The Lego Movie, Mad Max, and Australian stars in Hollywood, to transnational co-productions, YouTube channels, transmedia and nature-cam documentaries. New research on trends – such as the convergence of television and film, digital transformations of screen production and the shifting roles of women on and off-screen – highlight how established precedents have been influenced by new realities beyond both cinema and the national.

  • Written in an accessible style that does not require knowledge of cinema studies or Australian studies
  • Presents original research on Australian actors, such as Cate Blanchett and Chris Hemsworth, their training, branding, and path from Australia to Hollywood
  • Explores the films and filmmakers of the Blak Wave and their challenge to Australian settler-colonial history and white identity
  • Expands the critical definition of cinema to include YouTube channels, transmedia documentaries, multiplatform changescapes and cinematic remix
  • Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies

A Companion to Australian Cinema is an ideal introductory text for teachers and students in areas including film and media studies, cultural and gender studies, and Australian history and politics, as well as a valuable resource for educators and other professionals in the humanities and creative arts.

Keywords:

Australian cinema essays; Australian cinema studies; Australian cinema history; Australian cinema introduction; Australian cinema research; Australian cinema scholarship; Australian cinema readings; Australian cinema textbook; Australian cinema anthology; Australian cinema compendium; Australian cinema criticism; Australian cinema culture; Australian films; Australian film industry; Australian film production; Australian motion picture production; Australian motion picture industry; Australian film essays; Australian film studies; Australian motion picture studies; Australian film textbook; Australian motion pictures textbook;  Australian international cinema; Australian televisual industry; Australian national cinema; Australian Indigenous cinema; Australian Blak Wave cinema; Australian cinema writings; Australian screen culture; Australian transnational cinema; A Companion to Australian Cinema; Felicity Collins; Jane Landman; Susan Bye

Editor
 
 
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2019
Language
en
Edition
1
Series
Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
Page amount
608 pages
Category
Art, Art History
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118942550
Printed ISBN
9781118942529

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