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American–Australian Cinema
Transnational Connections
Edited by Adrian Danks, Stephen Gaunson and Peter C. Kunze
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This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. To explore this idea, the book investigates the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood, while also charting the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last hundred years. It takes two key points in time―the 1920s and 1930s and the last twenty years―to explore how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalisation have shaped its course overthe last century. The contributors re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to developments such as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last thirty years, the book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s.
About the authors:
Adrian Danks is Deputy Dean, Media in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is the editor of A Companion to Robert Altman (2015).Stephen Gaunson is Senior Lecturer and teaches Cinema Studies in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is the author of The Ned Kelly (2013).Peter C. Kunze earned a PhD in English at Florida State University, USA and is currently pursuing a second PhD in Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the editor of The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon (Palgrave, 2014).
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
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