New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications) - Softcover

McFarlane, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052138768X ISBN 13: 9780521387682

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This book represents a body of thinking about Australian cinema that asks where the origins of films lie. The book begins by tracing the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood film-making, with its firm grasp of melodrama. It continues by comparing the problems faced by the 'high' British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s with those faced by Australia in the 1970s and 1980s in the attempts by both countries to establish national film industries. New Australian Cinema will increase the scope of the discussion about the revival of Australian cinema and help us to make cultural sense of the films themselves.

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Book Description:

This book traces the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood film-making, comparing the problems faced by the Australian cinema of the seventies and eighties with those encountered by British filmmakers of the forties and fifties.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 052138768X
• ISBN 13: 9780521387682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276