Wallflower Press
New Title
The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
Edited by Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie
Publication date: 11 March 2007<br><br> 288 pages
978-1-904764-96-0 £18.99 (pbk)
978-1-904764-97-7 £50.00 (hbk)
‘An involving and highly informative foray into both
the well-known and unsung triumphs of Australasian
cinema’
Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University
From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906
to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia
and New Zealand have made a unique impact on
international cinema. This book celebrates the
commercially successful narrative feature films
produced by these film cultures as well as key
documentaries, shorts and independent films. Much
more than a descriptive historical overview, this
collection of essays invokes issues involving national
identity, indigeneity, history and the ability of two
small film cultures to survive the economic and
cultural threat from Hollywood.
Chapters on well-known films, and directors, such as
The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter
Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion,
1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter
Jackson, 2001) and Rabbit Proof Fence
(Philip Noyce, 2002) are included with less
celebrated, but equally important, films and
filmmakers such as Jedda (Charles
Chauvel, 1955), They’re a Weird Mob
(Michael Powell, 1966), Vigil (Vincent
Ward, 1984) and The Goddess of 1967
(Clara Law, 2000). Through this broad and varied
selection, the book aims to reveal the diversity of
Australasian filmmaking from an aesthetic, authorial,
technical and cultural perspective.
Geoff Mayer is Reader and Associate
Professor in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University,
Melbourne, Australia. Publications include The
Oxford Companion to Australian Film (1999)
and The New Australian Cinema
(1992).
Keith Beattie teaches within the Faculty of
Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne. His
publications include The Scar that Binds
(1998) and Documentary Screens
(2003).
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