Description: Situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective, offering detailed critiques of key films from 1970 onwards, and using them to illustrate the recent theories on the cinema industries.
Review Quotes:
'Australian National Cinema can be seen as a comprehensive study of the Australian film industry and culture. It can also be seen, and will, most probably, be used as an information resource for further research.' - Peter Malone, Media Development
'This is by anyone's standards, a major contribution to film history: challenging, comprehensive ...' - Sight and Sound 'Tom O'Regan's book on Australian national cinema is challenging and densely articulated a major contribution to the study of the relation between the state, and national, contexts in which films are produced and consumed.' - Mike Walsh, Scope: online journal of film studies