Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema - Poetics and Screen Geographies

Informationen zum Autor Allison Craven Klappentext 'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel's 'Jedda' (1955), to the 'period' films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Regional Features; Part 1 Backtracks: Landscape and Identity; Chaper 1. Period Features, Heritage Cinema: Region, Gender and Race in The Irishman; Chaper 2. Heritage Enigmatic: The Silence of the Dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman; Part 2 Silences in Paradise; Chaper 3. Tropical Gothic and the Music of the Cane Fields in Radiance; Chaper 4. Island Girls Friday: Women, Adventure and the Tropics; Part 3 Masculine Dramas of the Coast; Chaper 5. The Sunshine Boys: Peter Pan and the Iron Man in the Coastal Cinema of Queensland; Chaper 6. A Pacific Parable: Cave and Coastal Masculinities in Sanctum; Part 4 Regional Backtracks; Chaper 7. Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait Television: RAN and The Straits; Chaper 8. Back to the Back: Genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton; Conclusion: On Location in Queensland; Notes; Filmography; Works Cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Craven, Craven Allison
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2016
• EAN: 9781783085491
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-549-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Australasian and Pacific history, Film history, theory or criticism, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa