Australia on film
Special Dossier: Tasmania and the Cinema
Introduction: Tasmania and the Cinema Tasmania’s intermittent relationship with the cinema dates back before the first feature film made on its rugged West Coast in 1925,
Seeing With Green Eyes: Tasmanian Landscape Cinema and the Ecological Gaze
As Tom O’ Regan states in his discussion of “Unities of Setting and Landscape” in Australian National Cinema, “It is a commonplace that landscape is
“What sort of spot is Port Arthur?”: For the Term of His Natural Life and the Tasmanian Gothic
… Tasmanian Gothic cinema… tends to be a response to its dark and wet landscapes, which register a paradoxical sense of beauty and menace. The
Eating and Othering in Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land
“If colonialism can be said to have its own origin myths, none is more powerful than the suppression of the threatening ‘other’ – the disavowed
A Culture Cleft in Two – The Documentaries of Scott Millwood
“I want to talk about epic poetry.” I still remember the shock when Scott Millwood opened a documentary masterclass in the bowels of the Bondi
Errol Flynn: A Life at Sea
“The only real wives I have ever had have been my sailing ships. Up front, on the prow of the Zaca, there was painted, appropriately,
The Corpse is in Australia, or The Cinematic Death of White Supremacy
In this new millennium, and with the first black President of the United States, it’s becoming acceptable to discuss “white people” as a distinct culture,
Down and Away to Botany Bay
Pomerance looks at one of Australian-born John Farrow’s least-known films, the 1953 Botany Bay, through the prism of Hollywood’s representation of the “land down-under”
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