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Australian national cinema [electronic resource] / Tom O'Regan.

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Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: O'Regan, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Series:National cinemas series.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Australia.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Australia.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Australia.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introducing Australian national cinema
  • 2. Theorizing Australian cinema
  • 3. A national cinema
  • 4. A medium-sized English-language cinema
  • 5. Formations of value
  • 6. Making meaning
  • 7. Diversity
  • 8. Unity
  • 9. Negotiating cultural transfers
  • 10. A distinct place in the cinema
  • 11. Problematizing the social
  • 12. Problematizing gender
  • 13. Problematizing nationhood
  • 14. Critical dispositions.

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