Australian Screen in the 2000s [Hardcover]

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on particular genres (horror, blockbusters and comedy), Indigenous Australian film and television, womens filmmaking, queer cinema, representations of history, Australian characters in non-Australian films and films about Australians in Asia, as well as chapters on sound in Australian cinema and the distribution of screen content. The book is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader. It will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of Anglophone film and television, as well as to anyone with an interest in Australian culture and creativity.

1. Australian Screen in the 2000s: An Introduction

2. Picking up the Pieces: Contemporary Australian Cinema and the Representation of Australian Film History

Part I. AustralianInternational Screen

3. Australian Blockbuster Movies

4. UnAustralians: Australian Characters in Non-Australian Films

5. Abroad: Production Tracks and Narrative Trajectories in Films about Australians in Asia

6. Haunted Art House:?The?Babadook?and International Art Cinema Horror

7. Gender Matters: Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the MotherDaughter Narrative in Contemporary Australian Womens Filmmaking

8. The Laughter and the Tears: Comedy, Melodrama and the Shift towards Empathy for Mentall£"