Format:
1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841502595
Content:
The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical documentaries. On one level, the book is a selective history of Australian documentary film in the immediate post-war years. It also charts the rise of a progressive film culture. As a whole it is a thorough study of the international flows of film culture. Williams illustrates these themes by critiquing the key films of the era, including the seminal The Back of Beyond, often cited as the greatest Australian film of all time. Australian Post-War Documentary Film retells film history by reading these documentaries as part of a nexus of international, and particularly Australian filmic, written and dramatic texts, with close attention to textual analysis. The book will appeal to anyone interested in international cinema, the way that it theorizes the period and offers a host of international comparisons, widening its ideas to the fabric of cultural production that surrounds all art works
Content:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Grierson Diminished -- Chapter 1: A Realist Film Unit and Association in Australia -- Chapter 2: Cecil Holmes's Folk Politics: The Intertextuality of Three in One -- Chapter 3: John Heyer's International Perspective: The Overlanders, The Valley is Ours, The Back of Beyond -- Chapter 4: The Neo-Realism of Mike and Stefani -- Chapter 5: Settler Journeys -- Filmography -- References -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841502106
Additional Edition:
Print version Williams, Deane Australian Post-war Documentary Film : An Arc of Mirrors Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2008 ISBN 9781841502106
Language:
English
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