American-Australian Cinema Transnational Connections /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Danks, Adrian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gaunson, Stephen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kunze, Peter C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Australasia.; Motion pictures-United States.; Culture.; Australasian Cinema and TV.; American Cinema and TV.; Global Cinema and TV.; Global/International Culture.; Australasian Culture.

This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Where I'm Calling From: An American-Australian Cinema?
• 2. Rudimentary Modernism: Ken G. Hall, Rear-Projection and 1930s Hollywood
• 3. Simulated Scenery: Travel Cinema, Special Effects and For the Term of His Natural Life
• 4. Representations and Hybridisations in First Nation Cinema: Change and Newness by Fusion
• 5. Of Mothers and Madwomen: Mining the Emotional Terrain of Toni Collette's Anti-Star Persona
• 6. Accented Relations: Mad Max on US Screens
• 7. Talking Trash with Tarantino: Auteurism, Aesthetics and Authority in Not Quite Hollywood
• 8. Australian Horror Movies and the American Market
• 9. The Female Gothic Meets the Terrible Terrace House : Transnational Exchanges and the Suburban Australian Horror of The Babadook
• 10. American Cartel: Block Bookings and the Paramount Plan
• 11. The Multiplex Era
• 12. "Zest to the Jaded Movie Palate": Wallace Worsley, Scott Dunlap and The Romance of Runnibede (1928)
• 13. Defining Neverland: P. J. Hogan, J. M. Barrie, and Peter Pan in Post-Mabo Australia
• 14. The Great Gatsby: Telling National Iconic Stories Through a Transnational Lens.