| Description |
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Setting the Scene -- On Their Own Merits: Women and the Moving Image in Australia / Lisa French -- Our Founding Mothers: Looking Back and Looking Back Further Still / Ina Bertrand -- Grounded and Gendered: Aboriginal Women in Australian Cinema / Marcia Langton -- Pt. 2. Working in the Industry -- When Girls Grow Up to be Cameramen / Jane Castle -- When Worlds Collide: Working Mothers in the Post-Production Industry / Virginia Murray -- Affirmative Action: Getting Women Behind the Television Camera; Women in Television from 1990-1999 / Julie James Bailey -- Pt. 3. Film Forms -- From Choreographer to Film-Maker / Dianne Reid -- Short Circuit: Shorts and Australian Women Film-Makers / Lisa French -- Drawing Time: Some Threads in Animated Films Made by Australian Women / Ann Shenfield -- Fuck the Mainstream, Let's Make Art / Janet Merewether -- The Cybernetic Women: Impossible Perfection / Fiona Kerr -- Pt. 4. Gender, Character and Identity -- Performing the Feminine Self: Women and Independent Documentary Film-Making in Australia / Meredith Seaman -- Brazen Brides, Grotesque daughters, Treacherous Mothers: Women's Funny Business in Australian Cinema from Sweetie to Holy Smoke / Felicity Collins -- Scrubbers: 'The Great Unwashed' of Australian Cinema / Terrie Waddell -- Volatile Vehicles: When Women Take the Wheel, Domestic Journeying and Vehicular Movements in Contemporary Australian Cinema / Catherine Simpson -- Engendering the Greek: The Shifting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema 1970-2000 / Freda Freiberg and Joy Damousi -- Through A Glass Darkly: Meditations on Cinema, Psychoanalysis and Feminism / Jeni Thornley -- Female Trouble: Wayward Girls and Unruly Women in the Cinema of Monica Pellizzari / Rose Capp -- Framing Strategies: Clara Law and the Limits of 'Australian Cinema' / Rai Jones -- Moving Images - The films of Tracey Moffatt - so far / Catherine Summerhayes -- Feminist Allegory and Queer Australian Cinema: Interviews with Ann Turner / Sally Hussey -- Shared Visions and Creative Partnerships: A Team Approach; Sue Brooks, Sue Maslin and Alison Tilson / Lisa French -- Postmodern feminism in Jane Campion's The Piano / Mary Alemany-Galway |
| Summary |
Intellectually stimulating and a pleasure to read, these essays offer new insights and are essential reading for those who wish to understand fully our national cinema |
| Notes |
Published by Australian Catalogue Company Ltd (trading as Damned Publishing)--T.p. verso |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Australia.
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Women in motion pictures -- Australia.
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Feminism and motion pictures -- Australia.
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Women in the motion picture industry -- Australia.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Author |
French, Lisa, 1961-
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| LC no. |
2004381815 |
| ISBN |
1876310014 paperback |
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