| Description |
1 online resource (426 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Serious film studies and magpies; Part I: Brisbane; Chapter 1: "From 'pictures' to formats"; Chapter 2: "Everyone's got their favourite periods of Cunningham's career, and it's always something before the present!"; Chapter 3: "For a lot of people film became a bridge between literary studies and other kinds of cultural studies"; Chapter 4: "The circulation of ideas"; Chapter 5: "We just thought we were unstoppable." |
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Chapter 6: "I loved best when really practical solutions had to be found for artistic problems"PART II: Melbourne; Chapter 7: "Early on I'd been an inveterate attender of Saturday matinees"; Chapter 8: "Yes, but it never entered my head that it would ever become a field as such ... "; Chapter 9: "This is all part of the historical process"; Chapter 10: "Some things you never learn"; Chapter 11: "I've left a good life behind me in London and I'm going to be met by a phalanx of safari-suited men"; Chapter 12: "We might leave it there"; Chapter 13: "Trust your instincts." |
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PART III: Sydney and NewcastleChapter 14: "I don't want a straight world job but I do want access to spheres of possibility and avenues of influence"; Chapter 15: "Who's afraid of the 1980s?"; Chapter 16: "The sheer complexity of film"; PART IV: Adelaide and Perth; Chapter 17: "This was a certain, particular moment"; Chapter 18: "When I discovered Metz I was in seventh heaven"; Chapter 19: "Look, I'm really not a true believer like you people. I'm something else"; PART V: UK and USA; Chapter 20: "The double access, film culture and the ossification of film studies." |
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Chapter 21: "It's a small world"Chapter 22: "I'd like to just think back on what has been for me nearly forty years of involvement in developing this field"; Chapter 23: "It was a great relief that somebody was listening!"; Chapter 24: "You can't have an academic discipline unless there's something that can be represented as a proper body of knowledge"; Chapter 25: "I love films that are based on reality ... I love the dramatisation of reality, the narrativisation of reality"; Chapter 26: "My interest in American identity, ideology, history"; About the authors; Back Cover |
| Summary |
A multivolume project tracing key critical positions, people, and institutions in Australian film, 'Australian Film Theory and Criticism' interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. This second of three volumes gathers interviews with national and international film theorists and critics to chart the development of different discourses in Australian film studies through the decades. Seeking to examine the position of film theorists and their relationship to film industry practitioners and policy makers, this volume succeeds mightily in reasserting Australian film's place on the international scholarly agenda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Australia.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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ART / General
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Motion pictures
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Deane
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| ISBN |
9781783204687 |
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1783204680 |
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9781783204694 |
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1783204699 |
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