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Informationen zum Autor Brian McFarlane is an Adjunct Associate Professor attached to the English Department and was Visiting Professor at the University of Hull. Klappentext The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This book represents a body of thinking about Australian cinema that asks where the origins of films lie. The book begins by tracing the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood film-making, with its firm grasp of melodrama. It continues by comparing the problems faced by the 'high' British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s with those faced by Australia in the 1970s and 1980s in the attempts by both countries to establish national film industries. New Australian Cinema will increase the scope of the discussion about the revival of Australian cinema and help us to make cultural sense of the films themselves. Zusammenfassung This book traces the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood film-making! comparing the problems faced by the Australian cinema of the seventies and eighties with those encountered by British filmmakers of the forties and fifties. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I: 1. Introduction; Part II: 2. American Classical Cinema and the melodramatic tradition; 3. The melodrama of isolation and defeat: Australian cinema since Picnic at Hanging Rock; Part III: 4. Two booms: 'High' British cinema and new Australian cinema; 5. The films: Britain (1940?60) and Australia (1970?90); Part IV: 6. Observations and conclusions; Selected bibliography on Australian cinema; Index.
