Australian Movies and the American Dream: (Media and Society Series)
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"Based on a course on postwar Australian motion pictures taught by the author at University of Kansas in 1986, this book is thorough, well organized, and useful. It establishes background on the Australian understanding of the American dream, Australian photography, image, and subject matter, and American influence on Australian cinema. Brief chapters summarize film theory, applicable mass communication theory, and financial practices of the Australian motion picture industry. Most of the book narrates the history of Australian films, provides well-written and balanced summaries of recent Australian motion pictures, and puts them in the context of American movies of the same periods and in the social context of Australian viewer demand. The detached Australian style is aptly illustrated with discussions of American films made by Australians and by the establishment of Australian film's international reputation. Some trivial work is seriously considered, and the profound is not always differentiated from the merely successful, but the text is remarkably complete for its brevity. It demonstrates conclusively that Australian film existed before Crocodile Dundee, and that the acclaim of 1986 was built on earlier success."
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“Based on a course on postwar Australian motion pictures taught by the author at University of Kansas in 1986, this book is thorough, well organized, and useful. It establishes background on the Australian understanding of the American dream, Australian photography, image, and subject matter, and American influence on Australian cinema. Brief chapters summarize film theory, applicable mass communication theory, and financial practices of the Australian motion picture industry. Most of the book narrates the history of Australian films, provides well-written and balanced summaries of recent Australian motion pictures, and puts them in the context of American movies of the same periods and in the social context of Australian viewer demand. The detached Australian style is aptly illustrated with discussions of American films made by Australians and by the establishment of Australian film's international reputation. Some trivial work is seriously considered, and the profound is not always differentiated from the merely successful, but the text is remarkably complete for its brevity. It demonstrates conclusively that Australian film existed before Crocodile Dundee, and that the acclaim of 1986 was built on earlier success.”–
Australian Movies and the American Dream: (Media and Society Series)
Australian Movies and the American Dream: (Media and Society Series),Glen Lewis,Praeger Publishers,0275926753,Australia,Cinema/Film: Book,Communication,Language Arts & Disciplines,Motion Pictures (General),Motion picture industry,Motion pictures, Australian,National characteristics, Amer,National characteristics, American, in motion pictures,Technology & Industrial Arts,Telecommunications,United States,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
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