New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film
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This book represents a new way of thinking about Australian cinema by asking where the origins of the new film lie. It begins by tracing the indebtedness of Australian cinema to the classical narrative style of Hollywood filmmaking, with its firm grasp of melodrama. Several films are studied in detail within this framework, including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Blood Oath, The Empty Beach, and Shame. The book continues by comparing the problems faced by high British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s with those faced by Australian cinema of the 1970s and the 1980s in the attempts by both countries to establish national film industries. Many parallels are drawn between the responses of British and Australian cinema to the overall dominance of Hollywood, despite the thirty-year gap between these two periods of filmmaking.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052138768X
ISBN13:9780521387682
Release Date:June 1992
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:276 Pages
Weight:1.03 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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