Australian Screen in the 2000s

Description

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films’ preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on particular genres (horror, blockbusters and comedy), Indigenous Australian film and television, women’s filmmaking, queer cinema, representations of history, Australian characters in non-Australian films and films about Australians in Asia, as well as chapters on sound in Australian cinema and the distribution of screen content. The book is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader. It will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of Anglophone film and television, as well as to anyone with an interest in Australian culture and creativity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Australian Screen in the 2000s: An Introduction (Mark David Ryan, Ben Goldsmith)....Pages 1-21 Picking Up the Pieces: Contemporary Australian Cinema and the Representation of Australian Film History (Adrian Danks)....Pages 23-47 Front Matter ....Pages 49-49 Australian Blockbuster Movies (Mark David Ryan)....Pages 51-76 UnAustralians: Australian Characters in Non-Australian Films (Ben Goldsmith)....Pages 77-98 Abroad: Production Tracks and Narrative Trajectories in Films About Australians in Asia (Allison Craven)....Pages 99-117 Haunted Art House: The Babadook and International Art Cinema Horror (Amanda Howell)....Pages 119-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Gender Matters: Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the Mother–Daughter Narrative in Contemporary Australian Women’s Filmmaking (Jodi Brooks)....Pages 143-164 The Laughter and the Tears: Comedy, Melodrama and the Shift Towards Empathy for Mental Illness on Screen (Fincina Hopgood)....Pages 165-189 ‘It Was the Summer When Everything Changed …’: Coming of Age Queer in Australian Cinema (Kelly McWilliam)....Pages 191-206 Administering Sonic Shock in Samson and Delilah (Anne Barnes)....Pages 207-228 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Australian Indigenous Screen in the 2000s: Crossing into the Mainstream (Therese Davis)....Pages 231-259 Carving Out an Australian Sensory Cinema (Claire Henry)....Pages 261-283 White Male History: The Genre and Gender of The Proposition (Stephen Gaunson)....Pages 285-299 Rake: Australianising HBO-Style Television? (Matthew Campora)....Pages 301-318 Front Matter ....Pages 319-319 Eulogies for the Video Store: Remembering the Practices and Objects of the Rental Era (Kathleen Williams)....Pages 321-340 Feature Film Diversity on Australian Cinema Screens: Implications for Cultural Diversity Studies Using Big Data (Bronwyn Coate, Deb Verhoeven, Colin Arrowsmith, Vejune Zemaityte)....Pages 341-360 Back Matter ....Pages 361-370