Australian National Cinema (National Cinemas) - Softcover

O'Regan, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415057310 ISBN 13: 9780415057318

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective, offering detailed critiques of key films from 1970 onwards, and using them to illustrate the recent theories on the cinema industries.

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Review:

"No doubt many cultural and media studies researchers will consider the general treatment and theorizing to be worthy of attention."
-Lyn Gorman, Charles Sturt University, Riverina

Synopsis:

This text 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 cultural perspective producing a useful insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies. Since 1970 Australian film has enjoyed a revival. This book contains detailed critiques of the key films of this period and uses them to illustrate the recent theories on the international and Australian cinema industries. its conclusions on the nature of the nation's cinema and the discourses within it are relevant within a far wider context; film as a global phenomenon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415057310
• ISBN 13: 9780415057318
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416