Description:
Australian International Pictures examines the concept and definition of Australian film in relation to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although international co-production is particularly acute in the present day, this book examines the porous nature of Australian International filmmaking, and the intriguing transnational and cross-cultural formations created by globally targeted but locally focussed films made in Australia in the period 1946-75.
Brief description: Adrian Danks is Associate Professor in Cinema Studies and Media at RMIT University. He is also the co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the author of many publications including the edited collections A Companion to Robert Altman (2015) and American-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections (with Stephen Gaunson and Peter Kunze, 2018).
Review Quotes:
Offering sharp and smart close-readings of films in Australia through the long post-war period, a moment often understudied and underappreciated (if not downright dismissed), the authors revise, yet also productively revive, conceptions of national cinema through a composite framework nicely attuned to scales of global and local and their necessary interaction.
--Dana Polan, New York University