A Companion To Australian Cinema Australian Cinema

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. Content: About the Editors viiiNotes on Contributors xForeword xviTom O'ReganAcknowledgments xxiiiIntroduction: Australian Cinema Now 1Felicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan ByePart I An Indigenous Screen Culture 291 You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time 31Felicity Collins2 Charlie's Country, Gulpilil's Body 54Corinn Columpar3 Ivan Sen's Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place 68Anne Rutherford4 Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre's Spear 89Felicity Ford5 Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen 107Odette Kelada and Maddee ClarkPart II An International Cinema 1316 Another Green World: The Mad Max Series 133Constantine Verevis7 Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry 149Ben Goldsmith8 Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur 165Lisa French9 Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors' Migration to Hollywood 184P. David MarshallPart III A Minor Transnational Imaginary 20510 Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations 207James Bennett11 Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries 228Helen Grace12 The Rocket: Small, Foreign?Language Cinema 248Olivia Khoo13 Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism 262Audrey YuePart IV An Auteur?Genre?Landscape Cinema 28514 An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur?Producer 287Susan Bye15 Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine's Journey in Four Films 313Diana Sandars16 Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema 336Jane Stadler17 Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook 355Stephen GaunsonPart V A Televisual Industry 37118 Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence 373Amanda Malel Trevisanut19 Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident 391Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon20 The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model 416Helen Goritsas and Ana Tiwary21 Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories 442Anthony LambertPart VI A Multiplatform Ecology 46122 CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night 463Ross Gibson23 Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture 472Stuart Cunningham and Adam Swift24 Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks 493Deane Williams25 Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond 508Belinda Smaill26 Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius 525Norie NeumarkIndex 537 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.