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Record Nr.

UNINA9910745577503321

Autore

McWilliam Kelly

Titolo

Ana Kokkinos : An Oeuvre of Outsiders / / Kelly McWilliam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]

©2019

ISBN

1-4744-3109-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.) : 15 B/W illustrations

Collana

Visionaries: Thinking Through Female Filmmakers : VISI

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ana Kokkinos -- 1 Antamosi and Only the Brave: the early films -- 2 Head On: centring the other -- 3 The Book of Revelation: othering the centre With Sharon Bickle -- 4 Blessed: an ensemble of outsiders -- Conclusion: an oeuvre of outsiders – an Australian auteur? -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive study of Ana Kokkinos’ fictional oeuvre – one of Australia’s most distinctive and critically successful filmmakersContains critical readings of all of her fictional films, particularly in relation to ethnicity, sex and sexualityFocuses on the figure of the ‘outsider’ in Kokkinos’ filmsAvailable open access Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty years. Best known for her fictional films – Antamosi, Only the Brave, Head On, The Book of Revelation and Blessed – her work is often bold and confrontational in its exploration of the alienation, estrangement and visceral distresses of those outside the mainstream. In the first major study of the director, Ana Kokkinos: An Oeuvre of Outsiders offers new readings of and across her fictional oeuvre by broadly tracing the deployment of the outsider as an organising motif.