Second Take: Australian Film-Makers Talk - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864487658 ISBN 13: 9781864487657

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2000

Synopsis

Australian cinema has taken the international film world by storm in recent years, winning awards and garnering attention. The faces and talents behind these films have been brought together to discuss the popularity of Australian film in these thought-provoking essays. Heartfelt, eclectic, and imaginative, these essays allow the filmmakers to become active participants in the discussions of an Australian aesthetic usually reserved for journalists and critics. Contributions include an...

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Raffaele Caputo has written for Cinema Papers, Filmnews, Metro, Filmviews, and The Age and is associate editor for Metro. Geoff Burton has been director of photography for the films The Year My Voice Broke, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Sum of Us.

From Library Journal

It can be argued that, given the transnational careers of native sons and daughters like Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Jane Campion (The Piano), and Peter Weir (The Truman Show), Australian cinema forms a diaspora. Usefully supplementing such books as The Oxford Companion to Australian Film (Oxford Univ., 2000) and Tom O'Regan's Australian National Cinema (Routledge, 1996), this volume assembles primarily Australian perspectives in the form of essays...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1864487658
• ISBN 13: 9781864487657
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Caputo Raffaele, Burton Geoff