This text provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. The development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes and styles and evolving genres, is traced through analysis of the most successful and best known feature films. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through ...
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This text provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. The development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes and styles and evolving genres, is traced through analysis of the most successful and best known feature films. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Clear and concise, it joins Contemporary French cinema and Contemporary Spanish cinema as an introductory textbook for students of film and those with an interest in cinema.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Excellent survey with useful filmography and bibliography to rear. All in fine, clean, crisp and bright internal order. Very light wear only to smart blue cloth with bright silver titling. 8vo. 203pp.
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Good. No Jacket. CB3-A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with a very, very light bump to the front bottom left board corner plus there is some light label staining on the back cover from library labels plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and mark on the front cover, the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. An analysis and discussion of the national cinema of Australia. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Filmography, bibliography, indexed, 203p.