Australian National Cinema

Tom ORegans book is the first of its kind on Australian postwar cinema. Ittakes as its starting point Bazins question What is cinema?and asks what theconstruct ... » 

Tom ORegans book is the first of its kind on Australian postwar cinema. Ittakes as its starting point Bazins question What is cinema?and asks what theconstruct of a national cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from adifferent angle taking film beyond the confines of art into the broadercultural world. ORegans analysis situates Australian cinema in its historicaland cultural perspective producing a valuable insight into the issues that havebeen raised by film policy the cinema market place and public discourse onfilm production strategies.Since 1970 Australian film has enjoyed a revival. This book contains detailedcritiques of the key films of this period and uses them to illustrate therecent theories on the international and Australian cinema industries. Itsconclusions on the nature of the nations cinema and the discourses within itare relevant within a far wider context film as a global phenomenon. «