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Imprint:	Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Motion pictures -- Australia. Minorities in motion pictures. Multiculturalism in motion pictures. Minorities in motion pictures. Motion pictures. Multiculturalism in motion pictures. Australia -- In motion pictures. Australia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219107

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Other authors / contributors:	Simpson, Catherine. Murawska, Renata. Lambert, Anthony.
ISBN:	9781841503363 1841503363 1841501972 9781841501970 1282312413 9781282312418 9786612312410 6612312416 9781841501970 1841501972
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume of essays to focus on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian film-making over the past century. Topics include, post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, 'wogsploitation' comedy, and post-ethnic cinema. This collection also provides a comprehensive filmography making it a useful reference text for scholars of Australian film and cultural studies. The book is a vital contribution to the burgeoning international body of critical work on diasporic cinemas --Cover.
Other form:	Print version: Diasporas of Australian cinema. Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009 9781841501970 1841501972
Standard no.:	9786612312410

Table of Contents:

Preface: Diasporas of Australian cinema
a provacation / Toby Miller
pt. 1. Theories. Introduction: rethinking diasporas
Australian cinema, history and society / Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert
Tinkering at the borders: Lucky Miles and the diasporic (no) road movie / Catherine Simpson
Ethics and risk in Asian-Australian cinema: The last chip / Audrey Yue
'I'm falling in your love': cross-cultural romance and the refugee film / Sonia Magdelena Tascón
White aborigines: women, space, mimicry and mobility / Anthony Lambert
pt. 2. Representations. Wogboy comedies and the Australian national type / Felicity Collins
Excess in Oz: the crazy Russian and the quiet Australian / Greg Dolgopolov
Anzac's 'Others': 'Cruel Huns' and 'Noble Turks' / Antje Gnida and Catherine Simpson
'Now you blokes own the place': representations of Japanese culture in recent Australian cinema / Rebecca Coyle
Other shorelines, or the Greek-Australian cinema / John Conomos
pt. 3. Film-makers. 'A European heart': exile, isolation and interiority in the life and films of Paul Cox / Marek Haltof
Sophia Turkiewicz: Australianizing Poles, or 'Bloody nuts and Balts' in Silver city (1984) / Renata Murawska
Lebanese Muslims speak back: two films by Tom Zubrycki / Susie Khamis
Sejong Park's Birthday boy and Korean-Australian encounters / Ben Goldsmith and Brian Yecies
Diasporic filmography / Garry Gillard and Anthony Lambert.

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