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      Ben Goldsmith
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      Ben Goldsmith
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      Ben Goldsmith
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Author Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith is a Senior Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, based at Swinburne University of Technology. He is co-author (with Susan Ward and Tom O’Regan) of Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast.

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Baz Luhrmann by Pam Cook

Ben Goldsmith
October 2011
Book Reviews
Issue 60
Baz Luhrmann’s fifth feature film, an adaptation in 3D of The Great Gatsby, will begin production in Sydney this month. Although the story may be familiar from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, if past...
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Ghost Rider

Ben Goldsmith
June 2011
Melbourne on Film Dossier
Issue 59
Despite being set in an unnamed Texan city, Ghost Rider (Mark Steven Johnson, 2007) was a landmark film for Melbourne. It was the first international production to be made at the Central City (now Docklands)...
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Chasing the Runaways: Foreign Film Production and Film Studio Development in Australia 1988-2002 by Nick Herd

Ben Goldsmith
July 2005
Book Reviews
Issue 36
Is domestic production being “swamped” by international production? Where does creative control lie? Which sectors of the industry and the economy more broadly benefit from this production, and which are...
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Interrogating Identity: Tom White

Ben Goldsmith
February 2005
Australian Cinema
Issue 34
This recent Australian film rigorously examines masculine identity in crisis within the broader and neglected topic of homelessness.
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Metal Skin and the Cinema of Noise

Ben Goldsmith
September 2000
Contemporary Australian Cinema
Issue 9
An attempt to put a lid on the disturbing sounds and images of Geoffrey Wright's Metal Skin.

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