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Artículos sobre Australian cinema
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For its many strengths, the film may divide audiences with its chaotic, surreal final act.
From Dance Academy to Wentworth, Australian TV experienced a boom of queer representation over the 2000s and 2010s.
New Australian film The Rooster is a small character study of two fragile men, and a powerful examination of isolation and moving on.
While there is nothing particularly surprising in Five Blind Dates, it is nevertheless a really refreshing film.
Alvin Purple is a bawdy sex comedy about an unprepossessing young man who was irresistible to women – probably not what politicians had in mind when they supported a local film industry.
There is a long history of musicals in Australia, popular with audiences since the 1930s.
Shayda is a powerful debut feature for Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari.
The new sincerity of horror has been sapping the genre of its fun. Netflix’s newest Australian offering is just the latest victim.
The documentary Kickin’ Down the Door offers something far more nuanced than the well-thumbed tale of these national music icons.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
This year’s program balanced big films like My Policeman, TÁR and Banshees of Inisherin with smaller, edgier films. Here’s the best of the best.
Ningla-A’Na has now been restored and is being re-released in Australian cinemas.
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Shirley Barrett burst onto the international scene when her debut film, Love Serenade won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
A reworking of the 1892 Henry Lawson short story, this film is a subversive survival story.
This gem of a documentary explores the life — and furniture — of a Melbourne icon.
Chopper, with Eric Bana in the title role, detonated on our screens 20 years ago. The film is aggressively self-aware in its provocations but its depiction of domestic violence has not aged well.
The problem isn’t the film’s adherence to a tried and true formula, or its absolutely rudimentary narrative, but the flat and careless execution of it all.
From The Drover’s Wife to a new Wes Anderson to the long-awaited Dune, it will be good to be back in cinemas again.
Principales colaboradores
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Lecturer, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Lecturer, Media, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Executive Director, Compton School
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PhD Candidate, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology
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Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Sex & Sexuality, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Head Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
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Maître de conférences en ethnologie, Université de Bretagne occidentale
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
