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	Cinema of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cinema of Australia has a long history—in fact, it is possible that the first feature-length narrative film was the Australian production, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906).
		Australia's film history has been characterised as 'boom and bust', because of the unstable and cyclical nature of the industry, with deep troughs when few films were made for decades and high peaks when a glut of films reached the market.
		After beginning slowly in the years from 1900, 1910 saw 4 narrative films released, then 51 in 1911, 30 in 1912, and 17 in 1913, and back to 4 in 1914, which was the beginning of World War I. Australia was one of the most prolific film-producing countries at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_Australia (631 words)

	Australian National Cinema and its Value
		Australian filmmakers possess a tendency to construct the police, government and the wealthy and powerful as almost imbeciles, while the lovable, lawbending underdog cleverly prevails.
		Australian audiences seem conditioned by the media to prefer American filmmaking to their own cultural texts.
		In general though Australian cinema is more highly regarded internationally and this is where it profits commercially due to added appeal and higher populations.
	amy1997cascadefilms.tripod.com /amy1998/id9.html (1628 words)

	Hutch
		Firstly, the traditional forum of the cinema; secondly, the television set where the phenomena of the made for TV movie is not as predominant and is therefore replaced with US film; and finally, the video format which has in the last fifteen years allowed a greater access to Hollywood cinema.
		Australian audiences were finally being allowed to readily identify with characters that appeared on the screen, instead of attempting to identify with mythological war heroes from the Outback.
		Australians were finally moving away from the stereotypes and landscape images that they had of themselves and moving towards an identity that they could adopt easily.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/cas/anzsana/papers/hutcheson1996.html (3873 words)

	Australian Film Annotated Bibliography
		Inspired by the high profile of Australian cinema in the USA in the early to mid 1980s, this book is a series of interviews with a variety of key industry personnel from both sides of the Pacific in a bid to account for, or at least describe, this success.
		Another notable essay by Morris on Australian cinema is her 1993 essay 'Fear and the Family Sedan' in The Politics of Everyday Fear, Brian Massumi (ed) Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota P. which offers a discussion of space, mobility and anxiety in Australian cinema.
		This volume considers the industrial context of Australian cinema from the 1970s revival to the mid 1980s, tracing the forces that motivated the revival, the government policies instituted, the bureaucratic structures and union policies in relation to the revived industry.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/Annot.htm (3645 words)

	Australian national cinema
		Rather he intends to describe a cinema which may be economically strong and popular but is critically devalued (142 - 3) and of primarily local interest, seen as being without grounds (formal, political) for claiming international attention, in contrast to the "prestige" national cinemas of, for examples, France or China.
		The recurring ugliness in Australian national cinema, its fondness for "freaks" such as Barry McKenzie, is linked to its rendering of the ordinary as well as to the function of demarcating difference in traditions of storytelling which draw on both the "tall tale" and social (stereo) types.
		O'Regan's interest in discourses about Australian cinema concentrates on critical (academic) positions and he is concerned to demonstrate the gaps between these and popular responses (for example in his discussion of The man from Snowy River 1982) and to highlight the reductive tendency of certain stakeholders in their commitment to their particular position.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/oregan.html (1847 words)

	Australian Cinema and National Identity
		Australian cinema has traditionally charted something of a middle course, avoiding the extremes of arthouse cinema (Picnic at Hanging Rock notwithstanding) yet not quite embracing the full Hollywood paradigm.
		Miller is clearly interested in filmmaking for the world, and his disparaging reference to Australianness as if it were an obstacle that he needs to "get around," hints he has little interest in films as a way of promoting their country of origin abroad.
		If Australian films, then, were continuing their subliminal advertising of our country, it is somehow appropriate that one of the other Australian films to gain major commercial success abroad featured Paul Hogan, Australia's tourism representative.
	home.mira.net /~satadaca/australi.htm (2347 words)

	Century of Changes in the Australian Cinema - Festival News 1st March, 2002
		The first decades of the 20th century were a golden age for the Australian film industry.
		The symbiosis of the immigrants and the harsh nature created a romantic ideal of pioneers, ruddy men who were most at home in the bush and cared more about their mates' friendship than about a la-di-da lifestyle.
		Australian film is also characterised by breathtaking landscapes, state-of -the-art techniques and uncluttered narration.
	www.uta.fi /festnews/fn2002/eng/01032002/australiancinemaeng.html (470 words)

	Killing the Gatekeeper: Autonomy, Globality and Reclaiming Australian Cinema
		Australians needed to be resituated within their own culture and history with new and more relevant symbols than that of the Australian legend, mateship [and] the Aussie battler.” (2) The question of national identity – who or what an “Australian” was (an unanswerable question, but there it is) – was once again up for grabs.
		As Peter Sainsbury argued in his address to the 2002 Australian Screen Directors Association, “films emerging from a given funding system largely reflect the values and processes at the heart of their funding organisations, whatever they may be” (4), a notion that – in Australia, at least – is really a kind of death knell.
		The gatekeeper of Australian cinema is the government and its funding bodies – restrictive, oppressive and overly conservative – and the “saving grace” for both the Australian industry and its cinema as an art form is not a disappointing prestige picture once or twice a year.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/killing_the_gatekeeper.html (2117 words)

	Australian Humanities Review : Simpson
		One of the strengths of Australian Cinema After Mabo is that it brings together a set of what would be considered disparate film texts, on first inspection, in their subject matter and style.
		I suspect it will become the definitive text on Australian cinema courses around the country for the next few years, which means that it may also set a new agenda for the way Australian cinema is taught.
		Her primary research is on gender and geography in Australian cinema, and she is currently collaborating with Fiona Probyn on a study of Australian road movies.
	www.lib.latrobe.edu.au /AHR/archive/Issue-Jan-2005/simpson.html (1708 words)

	Amazon.com: Australian National Cinema (National Cinemas Series): Books: Tom O'Regan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective, producing a valuable insight into the issues that have been raised by film policy, the cinema market place and public discourse on film production strategies.
		O'Regan's conclusions on the nature of the nation's cinema and the discourses within it are relevant within a far wider context--film as a global phenomenon.
		Australian National Cinema reinterprets Andre Bazin's original question- 'What is cinema?' in terms of Australian cinema.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415057310?v=glance (597 words)

	1990s
		In the 1970s and 1980s Australian cinema was mostly Australian produced and financed, and centred Australian locations.
		The Australian connection is solely that the AFC provided Campion with script development money and that Campion is Sydney-based, was trained at the AFTRS, and has used Australian film subsidy and production regimes to develop her talent and film properties.
		The importance of the festivals and with it a foregronded relation between Australian cinema and the international art cinema, Australian cinema increasingly resembled the filmmaking between 1974 and 1980 when there was a similar turn towards Europe and attention paid to gaining recognition in the international European and North American festivals.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/1990s.html (8624 words)

	Moviehole.net - Movie and Entertainment News
		"Trust me John, if someone wanted to use a cinema excursion to get off: they’d either roll their Levi’s off in the car-park or merely take their ten bucks, hand it to the sleazy guy behind the counter, and with...
		"It’s probably the best Australian drama since Lantana, but best of all, an indication that our local industry might soon be climbing out of the messy borough" - Clint Morris...
		This site is in no way connected to an official film studio.
	www.moviehole.net /auscinema (952 words)

	Australian Film Critics
		Australian Council of Government Film Libraries in association with the National Film and Sound Archive.
		'On the Expression of Colonialism in Early Australian Films--Charles Chauvel and Naive Cinema'.
		Australian Cinema in the 1990s." Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/critics.htm (1488 words)

	Undergraduate Modules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The study of a national cinema's circumstances of production, in relation to global trends in distribution and exhibition, will enable students to reflect upon the status and condition of other national film industries competing with Hollywood.
		Conceptualisations of national cinema will be relevant to film cultures in Europe and elsewhere, and encourage students to reflect upon the functions, aspirations and limitations of a national film industry.
		The development and significance of Australian cinema has been documented in some detail since the 1970s, and several important works have also appeared in the last ten years.
	www.shef.ac.uk /literature/ugmodules/lit6900.html (597 words)

	RMIT - Australian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This course is designed to complement others in the cinema studies stream and continues work on film form, style, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, narrative, thematic content, authorship and genre developed elsewhere in the major, and concentrates upon the close readings of set films in relation to broader questions of national cinemas and identities.
		They should also develop a greater understanding of a varied Australian cinema through watching, talking and writing about films, and be encouraged to think about this cinema in relation to the broader concerns of the cinema studies stream.
		Thus, key objectives of this course are to introduce students to dominant theories and conceptions of Australian cinema, histories of Australian cinema, the variety and range of Australian filmmaking practice and film culture, the relationship between Australian and international cinema, novel readings of Australian cinema, and specific films within it.
	www.rmit.edu.au /browse?SIMID=COMM1033 (4066 words)

	Australian Cinema
		To demonstrate familiarity with the development of Australian cinema from its beginning in the silent era through to contemporary examples.
		Students will explore Australian film as a vehicle of culture and ideologies within an Australian context, understanding the relationship between the screen to personal and collective identities.
		Students are assessed on their application of critical knowledge related to the study of Australian cinema and an understanding of the theoretical concepts in each assignment.
	www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au /07021/aims.htm (463 words)

	Relationship to Australian National Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Australian cinema is a medium sized, English language cinema.
		Australian films, consequently, are the end result of a myriad of discourses that surround its production, distribution and audience uptake.
		Advocating the need to produce a national cinema that 'represented' Australia for Australians, the Federal Government of the time (1969) finally introduced a film policy which supported" the production of low budget, 'frankly commercial films'" (O'Regan, 1998:7) in an attempt to re-establish the Australian national cinema.
	members.iinet.net.au /~lynleyk/relate.html (376 words)

	Australian and international film resources
		The Australian Film Commission, established in 1975, is a statutory authority within the federal Communications and the Arts Portfolio which encourages the making, promotion, distribution and broadcasting of Australian programs.It is the primary development agency for the film, television and creative multimedia industries in Australia and a major supporter of screen culture.
		The Australian Centre for the Moving Image - ACMI - is a world first, state-of-the-art facility for the exhibition, promotion and preservation of Victorian, Australian and international screen content, located at Federation Square, Melbourne.
		Founded in 1959, the Society for Cinema Studies is a professional organization composed of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others concerned with the study of the moving image.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /guide/hum/english/E_ozfilm.html (3658 words)

	Australian Cinema Research Essay: My Brilliant Career, Strictly Ballroom & Muriel's Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This transformation happens either to enable the character to realise her identity or as an integral part of the process of self discovery.
		Between 1980 and 1990, of the 300 Australian feature films made, only 49 had women in the lead roles, and many of these were shared with a leading man. (Maslin, Metro 91:30).
		This is amplified when it is viewed in the context of 1970¹s Australian cinema.
	communication.students.rmit.edu.au /media/kaarin/cinema1.html (2899 words)

	TWF: searching: film
		A history of the relationship 'between the Australian government and filmmakers, from the recognition of a distinct Australian cinema in the 1920s up to tile funding of films in the 1970s.
		The pictures that moved: a picture history of the Australian cinema 1896-1929, with scripts of the films The pictures that moved and The passionate industry.
		A thematic survey of the Australian film renaissance in the 1970s, when over 150 feature films were made.
	www.twf.org.au /search/filmpubs.html (720 words)

	UKAAS -- Australian and New Zealand Cinema
		Their site includes information on how to get funding from them, details on awards and festivals, past issues of the newsletter (devoted to events in and information about Australian film), and a gallery of AFC funded works (currently limited to interactive media).
		This resource aims to be the center of information about Australian cinema.
		They also offer their "Australian A List" of the top people in the Australian Film Industry.
	metalab.unc.edu /erika/ukaas (475 words)

	Australian Horror Films: Appendix
		After 1912 there was a severe decline in the number of Australian films being made, mainly because an exhibition and distribution combine called Australasian Films/Union Theatres established a monopoly and its management displayed little interest in local production.
		Collaborative efforts between Australian filmmakers and American interests occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, but none of the films produced were horror films and there weren't many anyway.
		An Australian Film and Television School was created under the subsequent Whitlam government.
	www.tabula-rasa.info /AusHorror/OzHorrorFilms4.html (740 words)

	Australian Film and History
		This module deals with the development of the Australian national cinema, paying particular attention to the period from its revival in the 1970s to the present.
		We will also be considering the complex involvement of government in the development of Australian cinema.
		Useful introductions to the subject include Tom O'Regan, Australian National Cinema (1996); Scott Murray, Australian Film, 1978-1994 (1995), which is lavishly illustrated; and Ina Bertrand, Brian McFarlane and others, The Oxford Companion to Australian Film (1999), which is in the NUS Library Reserve Books/Readings Collection.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /courses/lindley1.html (331 words)

	History of Australian Cinema 1896 to 1940 - The Memorable TV DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A trio of hour long documentaries covering the pioneering years of Australian Cinema from its earliest experiments in the 1890's upto the start of World War II.
		Beginning with footage of the 1896 Melbourne Cup and closing with the coming of World War II these three documentaries (made over the course of 12 years between 1967 and 1979) are essential to anyone the slightest bit interested in Australian cinema history.
		Of enormous interest A History of Australian Cinema proves that Australian cinema didn't start in the 1970's as many would have us believe, we had a thriving industry right from the beginning and a for a time in the very earliest days actually led the world in feature making.
	www.memorabletv.com /dvdreviews042/historyofaustraliancinema.htm (310 words)

	Australian Cinema and Theatre Society
		Art, through all its expressions, whether we are talking about painting or cinema can offer you that elevating state of mind and soul, transporting your spirit beyond the limits of reality.
		It is a exquisite situation that those who beautify the mind are challenging our immagination and our wits with their undying creations.
		So, if you want to feel fulfiled come and contact the creators and enjoy their works at Australian Cinema and Theatre Society.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Movies_festivals/Australian_film_groups/index5/AustraG20046.htm (224 words)

	UniMelb UGHB96 : 111-362 Australian Cinema
		As this is also offered at 4th year level, numbers permitting, students will be divided into separate third and fourth year seminars.
		A study of the Australian cinema from the silent period to the present.
		Topics covered will include: early film history; conditions of production; the 70s renaissance; the role of the Australian government in film production; Australian genres; the Australian avant-garde; the Women's Film Fund; Australian film in the 90s; Post colonial theory and film.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/1996/Arts/111/111-362.html (423 words)

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