Australian Cinema After Mabo

by Felicity Collins , Therese Davis

• ISBN13: 9780521834803
• ISBN10: 0521834805
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Australian Cinema After Mabo is the first comprehensive study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the founding doctrine of terra nullius was overruled, has destabilised the way Australians relate to the land. It asks how we think about Australian cinema in the post Mabo era, and what part it plays in the national process of reviewing our colonial past and the ways in which settlers and indigenous cultures can co-exist. Including The Tracker, Kiss or Kill, The Castle, Love Serenade and Yolngu Boy among numerous others, this book highlights turning points in the shaping of the Australian cinema since Mabo. It is essential reading for anyone studying Australian cinema and for those interested in the ways in which land politics has impacted upon the way we imagine ourselves through cinema.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Part 1 Australian Cinema and the History Wars
Backtracking after Mabo	3	(19)
Home and Abroad in Moulin Rouge, The Dish and Lantana	22	(19)
Elites and Battlers in Australian Rules and Walking on Water	41	(18)
Mediating Memory in Mabo -- Life of an Island Man	59	(16)
Part 2 Landscape and Belonging after Mabo
Aftershock and the Desert Landscape in Heaven's Burning, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Holy Smoke, Serenades, Yolngu Boy, The Missing	75	(19)
Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree	94	(18)
Coming from the City in The Castle, Vacant Possession, Strange Planet and Radiance	112	(21)
Part 3 Trauma, Grief and Coming of Age
Lost, Stolen and Found in Rabbit-Proof Fence	133	(19)
Escaping History and Shame in Looking for Alibrandi, Head On and Beneath Clouds	152	(20)
Sustaining Grief in Japanese Story and Dreaming in Motion	172	(16)
Bibliography	188	(12)
Index	200