Diasporas of Australian cinema [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert

• Pubblicazione: Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430994
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Australia; Minorities in motion pictures; Multiculturalism in motion pictures
• Soggetto geografico: Australia In motion pictures
• Altri autori: SimpsonCatherine MurawskaRenata LambertAnthony
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Diasporas of Australian Cinema - A Provocation; Part One: Theories; Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Diasporas - Australian Cinema, History and Society; Chapter 2 Tinkering at the Borders: Lucky Miles and the Diasporic (no) Road Movie; Chapter 3 Ethics and Risk in Asian-Australian Cinema: The Last Chip; Chapter 4 'I'm Falling in Your Love': Cross-cultural Romance and the Refugee Film; Chapter 5 White Aborigines: Women, Space, Mimicry and Mobility; Part Two: Representations ; Chapter 6 Wogboy Comedies and the Australian National Type Chapter 7 Excess in Oz: The Crazy Russian and the Quiet Australian; Chapter 8 Anzac's 'Others': 'Cruel Huns' and 'Noble Turks'; Chapter 9 'Now You Blokes Own the Place': Representations of Japanese Culture in Recent Australian Cinema; Chapter 10 Other Shorelines, or the Greek-Australian Cinema; Part Three: Film-Makers; Chapter 11 'A European Heart': Exile, Isolation and Interiority in the Life and Films of Paul Cox; Chapter 12 Sophia Turkiewicz: Australianizing Poles, or 'Bloody Nuts and Balts' in Silver City (1984) ; Chapter 13 Lebanese Muslims Speak Back: Two Films by Tom Zubrycki Chapter 14 Sejong Park's Birthday Boy and Korean-Australian Encounters; Diasporic Filmography; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume to focus exclusively on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian film making over the past century.Topics include post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, ""wogsploitation"" comedy, and post-ethnic cinema. This collection also provides a useful reference text for scholars of Australian film and cultural studies, with material on contemporary film-making and pre-World War II cinema. Containing previously unpublished articles by some the most recognised experts on Australian cine
• Titolo autorizzato: Diasporas of Australian cinema
• ISBN: 1-282-31241-3; 9786612312410; 1-84150-336-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778475403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II