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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452475103321

Autore

Khoo Olivia

Titolo

Transnational Australian cinema [[electronic resource] ] : ethics in the Asian diasporas / / Olivia Khoo, Belinda Smaill, and Audrey Yue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md, : Lexington Books, [2013]

ISBN

1-299-35657-5

0-7391-7325-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmaillBelinda

YueAudrey

Disciplina

791.430994

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Australia - History and criticism

Asians - Australia

Motion pictures - Australia - Foreign influences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Reframing Australian Cinema; 2 Asian Stereotypes in 1920s Australian Cinema; 3 Colombo Plan Documentary; 4 The Transnationalization of the Australian Western; 5 Romance, Entrepreneurialism, and the Intercultural Couple; 6 The Global Back of Beyond; 7 Landscape Cinema; 8 New Ethics in the Asian Australian Short Film; 9 The Community Cultural Development of Action Cinema; 10 Co-productions and New Queer Paradigms for Mobilities and Migration; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema's transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia.