Table of Contents
About the Editors viii
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xviTom O’Regan
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Australian Cinema Now 1Felicity Collins, Jane Landman, and Susan Bye
Part I An Indigenous Screen Culture 29
1 You Are Here: Living Maps of Deep Time, Clock Time 31Felicity Collins
2 Charlie’s Country, Gulpilil’s Body 54Corinn Columpar
3 Ivan Sen’s Cinematic Imaginary: Restraint, Complexity, and a Politics of Place 68Anne Rutherford
4 Shadowing and Disruptive Temporality in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Spear 89Felicity Ford
5 Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness: The Blak Wave of Indigenous Women Shaping Race on Screen 107Odette Kelada and Maddee Clark
Part II An International Cinema 131
6 Another Green World: The Mad Max Series 133Constantine Verevis
7 Is Everything Awesome?: The LEGO Movie and the Australian Film Industry 149Ben Goldsmith
8 Jane Campion: Girlshine and the International Auteur 165Lisa French
9 Constructing Persona: Mediatisation, Performativity, Quality, and Branding in Australian Film Actors’ Migration to Hollywood 184P. David Marshall
Part III A Minor Transnational Imaginary 205
10 Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations 207James Bennett
11 Unsettling the Suburban: Space, Sentiment, and Migration in National Cinematic Imaginaries 228Helen Grace
12 The Rocket: Small, Foreign‐Language Cinema 248Olivia Khoo
13 Serangoon Road: The Convergent Culture of Minor Transnationalism 262Audrey Yue
Part IV An Auteur‐Genre‐Landscape Cinema 285
14 An Independent Spirit: Robert Connolly as Auteur‐Producer 287Susan Bye
15 Disruptive Daughters: The Heroine’s Journey in Four Films 313Diana Sandars
16 Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Cinema 336Jane Stadler
17 Spirits Do Come Back: Bunyips and the European Gothic in The Babadook 355Stephen Gaunson
Part V A Televisual Industry 371
18 Between Public and Private: How Screen Australia, the ABC and SBS have shaped Film and Television Convergence 373Amanda Malel Trevisanut
19 Quality vs Value: The Case of The Kettering Incident 391Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon
20 The Evolution of Matchbox Pictures: A New Business Model 416Helen Goritsas and Ana Tiwary
21 Schapellevision: Screen Aesthetics and Asian Drug Stories 442Anthony Lambert
Part VI A Multiplatform Ecology 461
22 CHURN: Cinema Made Sometime Last Night 463Ross Gibson
23 Over the Horizon: YouTube Culture Meets Australian Screen Culture 472Stuart Cunningham and Adam Swift
24 Digital Transmedia Forms and Transnational Documentary Networks 493Deane Williams
25 Ecological Relations: FalconCam in Conversation with The Back of Beyond 508Belinda Smaill
26 Where Am I?: The Terror of Terra Nullius 525Norie Neumark
Index 537