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  Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction (Paperback) By (author) Jonathan Rayner

  

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  Short Description for Contemporary Australian CinemaThis text provides an introduction to the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes and styles and evolving genres. This growth is traced through analysis of the most successful and best known feature films from the gothic to the camp.
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  • Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 07 April 2001
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism | Cinema Industry
  • ISBN 13: 9780719053276 ISBN 10: 0719053277
  • Sales rank: 269,088

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Full description for Contemporary Australian Cinema

• Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Films and trends discussed include: the period film and Picnic at Hanging Rock; the Gothic film and the Mad Max trilogy; camp and kitsch comedy and the Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival (the definition, representation and propagation of a national image) is woven through analysis of the new Australian cinema.