416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world. O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, 1 Introducing Australian national cinema, 2 Theorizing Australian cinema, Part I Making a national cinema, Part II Making a distinct cinema, Part III Problematizing Australian cinema, Notes, List of films cited, Bibliography, Subject Index, Name Index
Biography
Tom O'Regan
'Australian National Cinema can be seen as a comprehensive study of the Australian film industry and culture. It can also be seen, and will, most probably, be used as an information resource for further research.' - Peter Malone, Media Development
'This is by anyone's standards, a major contribution to film history: challenging, comprehensive ...' - Sight and Sound
'Tom O'Regan's book on Australian national cinema is challenging and densely articulated a major contribution to the study of the relation between the state, and national, contexts in which films are produced and consumed.' - Mike Walsh, Scope: online journal of film studies
