Australian National Cinema (National Cinemas) Book

Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question "What is cinema?" and asks what the construct of a national cinema means: looking at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of art into the broader cultural world. 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. This book contains detailed critiques of the key films of this period and uses them to illustrate the recent theories on the international and Australian cinema industries. 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.Read More