The Adolescent Nation : Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herche, Victoria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
Colección:Anglistische Forschungen.
Temas:
Coming-of-age films > Australia.
Motion pictures > Australia > History and criticism.
Films de passage à l'âge adulte > Australie.
Cinéma > Australie > Histoire et critique.
Coming-of-age films.
Motion pictures.
Australia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Imprint
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • I ADOLESCENCE
  • NATION
  • FILM: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS
  • 1 Introduction
  • Adolescence and the Nation
  • 1.1 The Adolescent Nation: National Fictions of Becoming
  • 1.2 The Adolescent Nation: Coming of Age in Film
  • 2 Young Australia and the Potential of Adolescence
  • 2.1 Concepts of the 'Child' in a Colonial and Postcolonial Context
  • 2.2 The History of Young Australia
  • 2.3 Colonial Cartoon Images: The Little Boy from Manly
  • 2.4 Constructions of the 'Poor Child'
  • 2.5 Conceptualising the Liminal: Classical Theories of Coming of Age
  • 2.6 Coming of Age in Australian Films
  • 2.7 Coming of Age in 'Toomelah'
  • 3 The Coming of Age Narrative in Australian Film History
  • 3.1 Australian National Cinema
  • 3.2 Before the Australian New Wave
  • 3.3 The 1970s: Australianness and History
  • 3.3.1 The Period Films
  • 3.3.2 The Ocker Films
  • 3.4 The 1980s: Nationalism and Nostalgia
  • 3.4.1 The Male Ensemble Film and its Other
  • 3.4.2 The Nostalgic Teen Film
  • 3.5 The 1990s: Eccentricity and Individuality
  • 3.5.1 The "quota quirky."
  • 3.5.2 Internationalising the Teen Film
  • 3.5.3 The Multicultural Moment
  • 3.6 The 2000s: Cinema after Mabo
  • II COMING OF AGE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AUSTRALIA
  • 1 A Journey In-Between: The Road Movie
  • 1.1 The Road in Cinema
  • 1.1.1 The Role of the Landscape
  • 1.1.2 Children on the Road
  • 1.2 The Indigenous 'No Road' Film
  • 1.2.1 The Road to Sovereignty in 'Beneath Clouds'
  • 1.2.2 The Indigenous Buddy Road Comedy 'Stone Bros.'
  • 1.3 Stories of Migration in Asian Australian Film
  • 1.3.1 The Role of Cars and Mobility in 'Lucky Miles'
  • 1.3.2 In-Between Lands: Boat People in 'Mother Fish'
  • 2 Disrupted Families and Delinquent Youth: Stories of Crime
  • 2.1 Crime and Youth in Australian Cinema
  • 2.2 Larrikins and the City in 'Two Hands'
  • 2.3 The Criminal Family in 'Animal Kingdom'
  • 2.4 Suburban Nightmares in 'Snowtown'
  • 3 Rewriting National Icons: Sports in Film
  • 3.1 Sports and Australian National Identity
  • 3.2 Racism and the Football Ground: 'Australian Rules'
  • 3.3 Australian Beach Culture and Masculinity
  • 3.3.1 Sports and Masculinities
  • 3.3.2 The Beach in the Australian Imaginary
  • 3.3.3 Lifesavers and Homophobia in 'Drown'
  • 4 'Messed-up' Girls and Sexual Attraction: Romance
  • 4.1 Becoming Girl: Female Desire and 'Beautiful Kate'
  • 4.2 Performing the Girl: 'Somersault'
  • 4.3 'Adoration' and Becoming Woman: The May-December Romance
  • 5 Coming of Age and the 'Mainstream': The Musical Film
  • 5.1 Musicals and Indigenous Australian 'Mainstreaming'
  • 5.2 Transnational Cinema: 'The Sapphires'
  • 5.3 Towards Reconciliation: 'Bran Nue Dae'
  • 6 Instead of a Conclusion
  • III SOURCE MATERIAL
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Appendix: Film List
  • Coming of Age in Australian Cinema

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