The Australian Film Revival

1970s, 1980s, and Beyond

The Australian Film Revival
Susan Barber
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9 Feb 2023 US
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9781501390029
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The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces - artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological - that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study brings fresh perspectives, insights, and innovative approaches to a variety of films from a diversity of filmmakers. Areas of focus include the complex and contentious subjects of masculinity, femininity and feminism, the maternal, as well as the Indigenous road film and the protean Australian gothic. During the formative years of the revival, Australian filmsseemed to emerge from out of the blue in terms of global film history, with many features including Picnic at Hanging Rock (l975), Caddie (l976), The Last Wave (l977), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (l978), and My Brilliant Career (l979) receiving international distribution and enthusiastic critical acclaim with strong box office results. By the time the film revival was in full swing, not only did Australian audiences flock to theaters to see "homegrown" films, but the quantity of Australian films on overseas screens was so high that ardent critics declared this outpouring an Australian "New Wave. " The eyes of the world had turned to a compelling and largely unknown culture.
Susan Barber is an Emeritus Professor in the Film, Television, and Media Studies Department in the School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University, USA, and has taught film history at LMU for over 30 years. She also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, USA. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees from the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, USA.
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ISBN-13: 9781501390029
Published: 9 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 272

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