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Book SynopsisThe 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
Table of ContentsAbout the Editors viii
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xvi
Tom O’Regan
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Australian Cinema Now 1
Felicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan Bye
Part I An Indigenous Screen Culture 29
1 You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time 31
Felicity Collins
2 Charlie’s Country, Gulpilil’s Body 54
Corinn Columpar
3 Ivan Sen’s Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place 68
Anne Rutherford
4 Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Spear 89
Felicity Ford
5 Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen 107
Odette Kelada and Maddee Clark
Part II An International Cinema 131
6 Another Green World: The Mad Max Series 133
Constantine Verevis
7 Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry 149
Ben Goldsmith
8 Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur 165
Lisa French
9 Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors’ Migration to Hollywood 184
P. David Marshall
Part III A Minor Transnational Imaginary 205
10 Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations 207
James Bennett
11 Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries 228
Helen Grace
12 The Rocket: Small, Foreign‐Language Cinema 248
Olivia Khoo
13 Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism 262
Audrey Yue
Part IV An Auteur‐Genre‐Landscape Cinema 285
14 An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur‐Producer 287
Susan Bye
15 Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine’s Journey in Four Films 313
Diana Sandars
16 Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema 336
Jane Stadler
17 Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook 355
Stephen Gaunson
Part V A Televisual Industry 371
18 Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence 373
Amanda Malel Trevisanut
19 Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident 391
Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon
20 The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model 416
Helen Goritsas and Ana Tiwary
21 Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories 442
Anthony Lambert
Part VI A Multiplatform Ecology 461
22 CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night 463
Ross Gibson
23 Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture 472
Stuart Cunningham and Adam Swift
24 Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks 493
Deane Williams
25 Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond 508
Belinda Smaill
26 Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius 525
Norie Neumark
Index 537
