{"product_id":"a-companion-to-australian-cinema-9781118942529","title":"A Companion to Australian Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xvi\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom O’Regan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Australian Cinema Now 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFelicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan Bye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I An Indigenous Screen Culture 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFelicity Collins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eCharlie’s Country\u003c\/i\u003e, Gulpilil’s Body 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorinn Columpar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ivan Sen’s Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Rutherford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s \u003ci\u003eSpear \u003c\/i\u003e89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFelicity Ford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOdette Kelada and Maddee Clark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II An International Cinema 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Another Green World: The \u003ci\u003eMad Max \u003c\/i\u003eSeries 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstantine Verevis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Is Everything Awesome?: \u003ci\u003eThe LEGO Movie \u003c\/i\u003eand the Australian Film Industry 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Goldsmith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa French\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors’ Migration to Hollywood 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eP. David Marshall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III A Minor Transnational Imaginary 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Grace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 \u003ci\u003eThe Rocket\u003c\/i\u003e: Small, Foreign‐Language Cinema 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlivia Khoo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 \u003ci\u003eSerangoon Road\u003c\/i\u003e: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudrey Yue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV An Auteur‐Genre‐Landscape Cinema 285\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur‐Producer 287\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Bye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine’s Journey in Four Films 313\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiana Sandars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 \u003ci\u003eAtopian \u003c\/i\u003eLandscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Stadler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in \u003ci\u003eThe Babadook \u003c\/i\u003e355\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Gaunson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V A Televisual Industry 371\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence 373\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmanda Malel Trevisanut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Quality vs Value: The Case of \u003ci\u003eThe Kettering Incident \u003c\/i\u003e391\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Goritsas and Ana Tiwary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Lambert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI A Multiplatform Ecology 461\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night 463\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoss Gibson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStuart Cunningham and Adam Swift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks 493\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeane Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Ecological Relations: \u003ci\u003eFalconCam \u003c\/i\u003ein Conversation with \u003ci\u003eThe Back of Beyond \u003c\/i\u003e508\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBelinda Smaill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius 525\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorie Neumark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 537\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406952046935,"sku":"9781118942529","price":143.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118942529.jpg?v=1730497670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-australian-cinema-9781118942529","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}