This book is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of Australia's changing life. Authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest. Chapters are devoted to: Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules Football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; the Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher and Postmodernism and Australian Culture.

No national film industry on earth seems to have been subject to more constant surveillance, re-definition and re-direction than the Australian. This title reflects the remarkable diversity of Australia's feature film output since 1990 as it balances familiar box-office successes with many lesser-known movies. The book tracks some of the thematic shifts which have accompanied the re-definition of Australian filmmaking over several important issues, including gender and ethnic relations, the portrayal of masculinity, national identity, the landscape and environment used in films and the...

This study is a collection of critical and scholarly analyses of the organisation of the Australian Film Industry since 1990.

Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema offers a critical response to the still under-explored mode of amateur cinema, as a particular sphere of British film practice. Concentrating upon a roughly fifty-year period (1930-1980), during which such filmmaking grew rapidly as a significant leisure activity in Britain, the volume shows how popular 'cine' assumed distinctive institutional and ideological forms, and some remarkable aesthetic emphases, grounded in consistent technical and critical apparatuses. Although an outline history of such filmmaking is certainly implicit, the...