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Informationen zum Autor Felicity Collins is Reader/Associate Professor in Screen Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The Films of Gillian Armstrong and Australian Cinema after Mabo. Jane Landman was Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema 1925-1962. Susan Bye is Education Programmer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely in the field of film, television and media history. Klappentext A Companion to Australian Cinema comprises twenty-six original essays on the contemporary state and future directions of a well-established national cinema. A timely collection that challenges and expands the idea of cinema, this book brings into sharp focus those facets of Australian screen production that have evolved and emerged in the twenty-first century. The essays assembled here address six thematically organized propositions - that Australian cinema is an Indigenous screen culture, an international cinema, a minor transnational imaginary, an auteur-genre-landscape cinema, 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 naturecam documentaries. New research on trends such as the Blak Wave, 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 transformed by new realities beyond both cinema and national borders. 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, evaluating 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 Introduces readers to founding texts in Australian screen studies A Companion to Australian Cinema is an ideal introductory text for teachers and students in film, media and cultural studies, Indigenous 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About 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...
