Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies

by Allison Craven

Overview

‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian state of Queensland. Drawing on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography, the essays in the book investigate poetics and production histories from the 'period' films of the Australian cinema revival of the 1970s to contemporary 'Queensland-genre' films, highlighting the resonances of regional locations amid the energetic growth of the film industry, and promotion of Queensland as a production destination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785271885
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	09/25/2019
Series:	Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture , #1
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Allison Craven is a Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies in the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Regional Features; Part 1 Backtracks: Landscape and Identity; Chaper 1. Period Features, Heritage Cinema: Region, Gender and Race in The Irishman; Chaper 2. Heritage Enigmatic: The Silence of the Dubbed in Jedda and The Irishman; Part 2 Silences in Paradise; Chaper 3. Tropical Gothic and the Music of the Cane Fields in Radiance; Chaper 4. Island Girls Friday: Women, Adventure and the Tropics; Part 3 Masculine Dramas of the Coast; Chaper 5. The Sunshine Boys: Peter Pan and the Iron Man in the Coastal Cinema of Queensland; Chaper 6. A Pacific Parable: Cave and Coastal Masculinities in Sanctum; Part 4 Regional Backtracks; Chaper 7. Unknown Queensland in Torres Strait Television: RAN and The Straits; Chaper 8. Back to the Back: Genre Queensland and Westerns in Winton; Conclusion: On Location in Queensland; Notes; Filmography; Works Cited; Index.

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"Finding Queensland is an eclectic and innovative study of regional Queensland through an examination of specific film texts and the varied cinematic identities they construct of the region as well as the nation. Analysis considers the region as a geographical construct from diverse perspectives including landscapes, history, Indigeneity, Australian-international film, film genre, and gender. The book is a welcome addition to Australian cinema studies for academics, researchers and postgraduate students researching and teaching landscape, cultural identity or gender in film studies, cultural studies and Australian studies." —Dr Mark David Ryan, Queensland University of Technology

"Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema makes an important contribution not only to Queensland's role and status within national film-making histories, but more broadly to the fields of Australian spatial inquiry and the 'regional turn' therein. Craven's analysis of Queensland as a series of regional spaces will be of interest not just to those working in the area of cinema studies, but also to those interested in analysis of Australian cultural geographies more broadly writ." —Dr Stephen Carleton, University of Queensland

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