Australian National CinemaTom 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 cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies. |
Contents
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A national cinema | 45 |
A mediumsized Englishlanguage cinema | 77 |
Formations of value | 111 |
Making meaning | 145 |
Diversity | 167 |
Unity | 189 |
Negotiating cultural transfers | 213 |
Problematizing the social | 261 |
Problematizing gender | 288 |
Problematizing nationhood | 304 |
Critical dispositions | 333 |
Notes | 355 |
List of films cited | 365 |
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