Australasian Cinema bibliography
Entries in bold are or include annotated filmographies.
Adams, Phillip 1995, 'Introduction', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: vii-xi.
Australian Film Commission 2002, Get the Picture, sixth edition, Australian Film Commission, Sydney.
Baxter, John 1970, The Australian Cinema, Pacific Books, Sydney.Beilby, Peter ed. 1980, Australian Motion Picture Yearbook, Cinema Papers, Melbourne, 1980.
Beilby, Peter & Ross Lansell eds 1982, Australian Motion Picture Yearbook 1983, Four Seasons, Melbourne.
Bell, Max D. 1986, Perth: A Cinema History, Book Guild, Lewes, Sussex.
Berry, Chris 1994, 'Denis O'Rourke's Original Sin: The Good Woman of Bangkok', in Chris Berry, A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire, EM Press, Sydney: 21-59.
Berryman, Ken 1980, The Australian Film Industry and Key Films of the 1970s: An Annotated Filmography of Film, Australian Film Institute, Melbourne.
Bertrand, Ina 1977, 'Australian Film Studies', Media Centre Papers, La Trobe University, 7.
Bertrand, Ina 1978, Film Censorship in Australia, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.
Bertrand, Ina & Diane Collins 1981, Government and Film in Australia, Currency Press/Australian Film Institute, Sydney.
Bertrand, Ina & William Routt 1989, 'The big bad combine: some aspects of national aspirations and international constraints in the Australian cinema, 1896-1929', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 23-7.
Bertrand, Ina 1995, 'What we are allowed to see: censorship in Australian cinema', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 64-83.
Bertrand, Ina ed. 1989, Cinema in Australia: A Documentary History, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington.
Bishop, Rod & Fiona Mackie 1980, 'Loneliness and isolation', in Scott Murray ed., The New Australian Cinema, Nelson/Cinema Papers, Melbourne: 153-165.
Blonski, Annette, Barbara Creed & Freda Freiberg eds 1987, Don't Shoot Darling!: Women's Independent Film-making in Australia, Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, Melbourne.
Blonski, Annette & Freda Freiberg 1989, 'Double trouble: women's films', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 191-215.
Boland, Michaela & Michael Bodey 2004, Aussiewood: Australia's Leading Actors and Directors Tell How They Conquered Hollywood, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Brand, Simon 1985, The Australian Film Book 1930-Today, Dreamweaver Books, Sydney.
Caputo, Raffaele & Geoff Burton eds 1999, Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Caputo, Raffaele & Geoff Burton eds 2002, Third Take: Australian Film-makers Talk, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Carlsson, Susanne Chauvel 1989, Charles and Elsa Chauvel: Movie Pioneers, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia; Foreword by Ken G. Hall, Introduction by Michael Pate.
Carroll John ed. 1979, Intruders in the Bush, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Chow, Victoria 2004, Nicole, Kandour, London.
Clancy, Jack 1979, 'Australian films and fantasies', Meanjin, 38, 2, July.
Clancy, Jack 1982, 'The renaissance of the seventies', in John Carroll ed., Intruders in the Bush, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Coleman, Peter 1992, Bruce Beresford: Instincts of the Heart, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Collins, Diane 1979, 'The movie octopus', in Peter Sperritt and David Walker eds, Australian Popular Culture, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Collins, Diane 1987, Hollywood Down Under: Australians at the Movies: 1886 to the Present Day, Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, Sydney.
Collins, Diane 1995, 'Shopfronts and picture showmen: film exhibition to the 1920s', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 26-43.
Collins, Felicity 1999, The Films of Gillian Armstrong, The Moving Image, 6, ATOM, Melbourne.
Collins, Felicity & Therese Davies 2004, Australian Cinema After Mabo, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Craven, Ian ed. 2001, Australian Cinema in the 1990s, Portland, London.
Connolly, Keith, 'Social realism' 1980, 'Social realism', in Scott Murray ed., The New Australian Cinema, Nelson/Cinema Papers, Melbourne: 27-43.
Craven, Ian 2001, Introduction: 'Australian Cinema Towards the Millennium', Australian Cinema in the 1990s, Portland, London.
Cunningham, Stuart & Graeme Turner eds 1993, The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences, second edition 1997, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, Sydney.
Cunningham, Stuart 1989, 'The decades of survival: Australian film 1930-1970', in Moran, Albert & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 53-74.
Cunningham, Stuart 1992, Framing Culture, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney.
Dermody, Susan 1981, 'Rugged individualists or neo-colonial boys? The early sound period in Australian films, 1931-32', New South Wales Institute of Technology Media Paper, 12.
Dermody, Susan 1981, 'Australianness and the film industry: between the rhetoric of business and national culture', New South Wales Institute of Technology Media Paper, 18.
Dermody, Susan & Elizabeth Jacka 1987, The Screening of Australia, Vol. 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry, Currency Press, Sydney.
Dermody, Susan & Elizabeth Jacka 1988, The Screening of Australia, vol. 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema, Currency Press, Sydney.
Dermody, Susan & Elizabeth Jacka eds 1988, The Imaginary Industry: Australian Film in the late '80s, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney.
Douglas, Ian 1988, Film and Meaning: An Integrative Theory, ed. Horst Ruthrof, Continuum Publications and the Film and Television Institute (WA).
Edmondson, Ray & Andrew Pike 1982, Australia's Lost Films, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Enker, Debi 1994, 'Australia and the Australians', in Scott Murray ed., Australian Cinema, Allen & Unwin, Sydney: 211-225.
Gibson, Ross 1992, 'The nature of a nation: landscape in Australian feature films', in Ross Gibson, South of the West, University of Indiana Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis: 63-81. 700.994 GIB 1992
Gillard, Garry 2008, Ten Types of Australian Film, second edition, Murdoch University.
Gillard, Garry 2002, 'Teesh and Trude: everyday life as heroic', Metro , 134: 20-23.
Gillard, Garry 2002, 'Quirkiness in Australian cinema', Australian Screen Education, no. 29: 30-35.
Gillard, Garry 2003, 'Strictly Ballroom: no fear!', Australian Screen Education, 33, Summer 2003: 143-146.
Gillard, Garry 2005, '"It's the way things are": Once Were Warriors', Screen Education, 39: 119-123.
Gillard, Garry 2006, 'Crocodile Dundee: "like a Tarzan comic"', Screen Education, 44: 125-128.
Gillard, Garry 2005, 'Signs, lines, tracks and trails: Rabbit-Proof Fence', Screen Education, 40: 119-122.
Gillard, Garry 2004, 'The Tracker: more than the sum of its types', Australian Screen Education, 34, 2004: 115-119.
Gillard, Garry 2003, 'Walkabout: simply a road movie?', Australian Screen Education, 32, Spring 2003: 96-99.
Gillard, Garry 2002, 'Perspectives on Radiance', Australian Screen Education, no. 29, 2002: 179-182.
Gillard, Garry & Lois Achimovich 2003, 'The representation of madness in Australian cinema', Journal of Critical Psychology Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3, 1, Spring: 9-19.
Gillard, Garry & Helena Sharp 2004, '"A path of great courage": The Piano', Australian Screen Education, 35, 2004: 109-112.
Gillard, Garry & Katherine Nash 2004, 'The Fellowship of the Ring: the smallest of things', Australian Screen Education, 34: 107-110.
Gillett, Sue 2004, Views from beyond the Mirror: The Films of Jane Campion, The Moving Image, 7, ATOM, Melbourne.
Hall, Ken G. 1980, Australian Film: The Inside Story, Summit, Sydney. Second edition; the first edition was Directed by Ken G. Hall, 1977.
Halliwell, William K. 1985, The Filmgoer's Guide to Australian Films, A & R, Sydney.
Hanrahan, John 1986, Mel Gibson, Little Hills, Sydney.
Harrison, Tony 1994, The Australian Film and Television Companion, Simon & Schuster, Sydney.
Herd, Nick 1983, 'Independent filmmaking in Australia' (1960- 1980), Australian Film and Television School, Sydney.
Hinde, John 1981, Other People's Pictures, ABC, Sydney.
Jennings, Karen 1993, Sites of Difference: Cinematic Representations of Aboriginality and Gender, Australian Film Institute, Melbourne.
Kemp, Peter 1995, 'Developing pictures: Australian cinema (1970-1995)', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 172-197.
Langton, Marcia 1993, 'Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television ... ' An Essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics and aesthetics of film-making by and about Aboriginal people and things, AFC, Sydney.
Lansell, Ross & Peter Beilby eds 1982, The Documentary Film in Australia, Nelson, Melbourne.
Laseur, Carol 1992, 'Australian exploitation: the politics of bad taste', Continuum, 5, 2, 366-77.
Laughren, Pat 1995, 'The beginnings of cinema in Australia', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 1-25.
Lawson, Sylvia 1969, 'Australian film 1969', Quadrant, December, repr. in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds 1985, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Melbourne: 175-183.
Linden, Richard 1996, Australia's Best Film Makers, Reed Library Cardigan Street, Melbourne.
Long, Joan & Martin Long 1982, The Pictures That Moved: A Picture of the Australian Cinema 1896-1929, Hutchinson, Melbourne.
Luck, Peter 1988, Captions Crook, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
McFarlane, Brian 1980, 'Horror and suspense', in Scott Murray ed., The New Australian Cinema, 61-77.
McFarlane, Brian 1983, Words and Images: Australian Novels into Films, Heinemann, Melbourne.
McFarlane, Brian 1987, Australian Cinema 1970-1985, William Heinemann Australia, Richmond, Melbourne.
McFarlane, Brian & Geoff Mayer 1992, New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne.
McFarlane, Brian, Geoff Mayer & Ina Bertrand 1999, The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
McFarlane, Peter ed. 1977, The Projected Muse: Extracts from Six Australian Film Scripts, Rigby, Adelaide. (Viz. Picnic, Caddie, Storm Boy, Fourth Wish, Devil, Cars.)
McKee, Alan 1997, 'White stories, black magic: Australian horror films of the Aboriginal', Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia, 28.
Malone, Peter, 1987, In Black and White and Colour: A Survey of Aborigines in Australian Feature Films, Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit, Jabiru, N.T. and Leura, NSW.
Malone, Peter 2001, Myth and Meaning: Australian Film Directors in Their Own Words, Currency, Sydney.
Martin, Adrian 1989, 'Indefinite objects: independent film and video', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Melbourne: 172-190.
Matthews, Sue 1984, 35mm Dreams [Conversations with five directors about the Australian film revival], Penguin, Melbourne.
Mills, Jane 2001, The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin and Censorship, Pluto, Sydney.
Moffat, Stuart 2002, 'From dark to light: an analysis of lighting and colour stylistics in Chopper', Australian Screen Education, 29, 2002: 20-23.
Moran, Albert 1991, Projecting Australia, Currency Press, Paddington.
Moran, Albert 1989, 'Constructing the nation: institutional documentary since 1945', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Melbourne: 149-171.
Moran, Albert 1995, 'Alternative exhibition: non-mainstream film venues in Australia', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 112-129.
Moran, Albert & Tom O'Regan eds 1985, An Australian Film Reader, Currency Press, Sydney.
Moran, Albert & Tom O'Regan eds 1989, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic.
Morris, Meaghan 1988, 'Tooth and claw', The Pirate's Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism, Verso, London & New York: 241-269.
Muecke, Stephen 2001, 'Backroads: from identity to interval,' Senses of Cinema, 17, Nov-Dec [online]; reprod. on the Backroads DVD.
Murray, Scott ed. 1980, The New Australian Cinema, Nelson/Cinema Papers, Melbourne.
Murray, Scott ed. 1988, Back of Beyond: Discovering Australian Film and Television, Australian Film Commission, Sydney.
Murray, Scott ed. 1994, Australian Cinema, Allen & Unwin/Australian Film Commission, St Leonards, Sydney.
Murray, Scott ed. 1994, 'Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s', in Australian Cinema, Allen & Unwin/Australian Film Commission, St Leonards, Sydney: 71-146.
Murray, Scott ed. 1994, 'Australian directors overseas 1970-1992', in Australian Cinema, Allen & Unwin/Australian Film Commission, St Leonards, Sydney: 149-177.
Murray, Scott ed. 1995, Australian Film 1978-1994: A Survey of Theatrical Features, editorial assistants Raffaele Caputo, Alissa Tanskaya, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Film Commission and Cinema Papers, Melbourne. Rev. and expanded edn of: Australian Film 1978-1992.
O'Regan, Tom & Brian Shoesmith 1985, The Moving Image: Film and Television in Western Australia 1896-1985, History and Film Association of Australia (WA).
O'Regan, Tom 1987, 'Towards a high communication policy: assessing recent changes within Australian broadcasting', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, 2, 1, Asian Cinema, eds Brian Shoesmith & Tom O'Regan: 111-124.
O'Regan, Tom 1988, 'Fair dinkum fillums', in Susan Dermody & Elizabeth Jacka eds, The Imaginary Industry: Australian Film in the Late '80s, AFTRS, Sydney.
O'Regan, Tom 1989, 'Cinema Oz: the ocker films', in Moran, Albert & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 75-98.
O'Regan, Tom 1989, 'Re-Imaging Australia: Crocodile Dundee overseas', Continuum 2, 2: 129-142.
O'Regan, Tom 1989, 'The enchantment with the cinema: film in the 1980s', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds., Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 118-145.
O'Regan, Tom 1994, 'King of the Coral Sea', Cinema Papers, 101, October: 14-16.
O'Regan, Tom 1995, 'Beyond "Australian Film?" Australian Cinema in the 90s', online
O'Regan, Tom 1996, Film in the 1970s, typescript, Murdoch University.
O'Regan, Tom 1996, Australian National Cinema, Routledge, London.
O'Regan, Tom, Australian cinema in the 1990s, in Peter Tapp (ed.) and James Sabine (associate ed.), Australian Feature Films, Informit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and The Australian Catalogue of New Films & Videos Ltd, Melbourne. CDROM and OzFilm Site.
O'Regan, Tom & Brian Shoesmith eds 1987, History on/and/in Film: Selected Papers from the Third Australian History and Film Conference, History and Film Association of Australia, Perth.
Palmer, Dave & Garry Gillard 2002, 'Aborigines, ambivalence and Australian film', Metro, 134: 128-134.
Palmer, Dave & Garry Gillard 2004, 'Indigenous youth and ambivalence in some Australian films' (second author, with Dave Palmer), JAS, 82: 75-84.
Perry Roland 1996, Mel Gibson: Actor Director Producer, Pan Macmillan, Sydney.
Petzke, Ingo 2004, Phillip Noyce: Backroads to Hollywood, Macmillan, Sydney.
Pike, Andrew & Ross Cooper 1998, Australian Film 1900-1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, revised edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Rattigan, Neil 1991, Images of Australia: 100 Films of the New Australian Cinema, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas.
Rayner, Jonathan 2000, Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Rayner, Jonathan 2000, 'Introduction', Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Rayner, Jonathan 2000, 'Australian road movies', Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction, Manchester University Press, Manchester: 149-153. ECMS
Reade, Eric 1970, Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1929, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne.
Reade, Eric 1972, The Talkies Era: A Pictorial History of Australian Sound Film Making 1930-1960, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne.
Reade, Eric 1975, The Australian Screen: A Pictorial History of Australian Film-making, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne.
Reade, Eric 1979, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978, Harper & Row, Sydney.
Reid, Mary Anne 1993, Long Shots to Favourites: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s, AFC, Sydney.
Reid, Mary Anne 1999, More Long Shots: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s, AFC, Sydney, AKCCMP, Brisbane.
Reid, Mary Anne 1999, 'Snapshot of the 90s', Chapter 1 of More Long Shots: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s, AFC, Sydney, AKCCMP, Brisbane.
Reis, Brian 1989, Select bibliography, in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 256-287.
Routt, William 1989, 'The fairest child of the Motherland: colonialism and family in Australian films of the 1920s and 1930s', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 28-52.
Routt, William D. 1995, 'Our reflections in a window: Australian silent cinema (c. 1896-1930)', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 44-63.
Routt, William D. 2002, 'More Australian than Aristotelian: The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904-1914', Senses of Cinema, 18, Jan-Feb.
Sabine, James ed. 1995, A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed, Port Melbourne, and the Australian Film Institute.
Schiach, Don 1993, The Films of Peter Weir: Visions of Alternative Realities, Letts, London.
Schou, Kirsten 1982, The Structure and Operation of the Film Industry in Australia, AFTS, Sydney.
Shirley, Graham & Brian Adams 1989, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, revised edition, Currency, Melbourne.
Simpson, Catherine 1999, Article on Radiance (28-31), and interview with director Rachel Perkins (32-34), Metro, no. 120.
Simpson, Catherine 2000, Imagined Geographies: Women's Negotiation of Space in Contemporary Australian Cinema, PhD dissertation, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
Spence, Nigel & Leah McGirr 2001, 'Unhappy endings: the heterosexual dynamic in Australian film', in Ian Craven ed., Australian Cinema in the 1990s, Portland, London: 37-56.
Stratton, David 1980, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Stratton, David 1990, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan Macmillan, Sydney.
Thomas, David & Garry Gillard, 'New Australian Gothic cinema', Metro, 136, 2003: 36-44.
Thoms, Albie 1978, Polemics For a New Cinema, Wild & Woolley, Sydney, 1978.
Thorne, Ross 1976, Picture Palace Architecture in Australia, Sun, Melbourne.
Tingwell, Charles 'Bud' & Peter Wilmoth 2004, Bud: A Life, Pan Macmillan, Sydney.
Treacey, Mia 2000, 'Bitumen, dirt tracks and lost highways: Australian road movies: a select bibliography and filmography', Metro Magazine Online; Issue 124/125; 2000; 144-151.
Tulloch, John 1981, Legends on the Screen: The Narrative Film in Australia 1919-1929, Currency Press/Australian Film Institute, Sydney, 1981.
Tulloch, John 1982, Australian Cinema: Industry, Narrative and Meaning, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Turner, Graeme 1986, 1993, National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Turner, Graeme 1987, Film as Social Practice, Routledge, London [1988?].
Turner, Graeme 1988, 'Breaking the frame: the representation of Aborigines in Australian film,' in Anna Rutherford ed., Aboriginal Culture Today, Dangaroo Press-Kunapipi, Sydney: 135-145.
Turner, Graeme 1989, 'Art directing history: the period film', in Albert Moran & Tom O'Regan eds, The Australian Screen, Penguin, Ringwood: 99-117.
Turner, Graeme 1993, National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative, second edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Turner, Graeme 1994, Making it National: Nationalism and Australian Popular Culture, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, Sydney.
Turner, Graeme 1995, 'Whatever happened to national identity?: film and the nation in the 1990s,' Metro 100.
Vanderbent, Saskia 2006, Australian Film, Pocket Essentials, Harpenden, Herts.
Venkatasawmy, Rama, The Hybridity of Filmmaking in Australian National Cinema: Formulating a Cinematic Post-diaspora, Honours dissertation, Murdoch University, Perth.
Venkatasawmy, Rama, Catherine Simpson & Tanja Visosevic 2001, 'From sand to bitumen, from bushrangers to "bogans" and "mongrels": the Australian road movie', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 70, 'Romancing the Nation', ed. Richard Nile.
Verhoeven, Deb 1995, 'The film I would like to make: in search of a cinema (1927-1970)', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 130-153.
Verhoeven, Deb, 1999, Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films, Damned Publishing, Melbourne.
Verhoeven, Deb, 'Bitter Springs', Senses of Cinema, online.
Ward, Diana 2004, 'Finding Foley,' Spinach 7, May [online: spinach7.com]; reprod. on the Backroads DVD.
Wark, McKenzie 1995, 'Cinema II: the next hundred years ', in James Sabine ed., A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin/Reed/AFI, Port Melbourne: 198-211.
Wasson, Mervyn 1964, The Beginnings of Australian Cinema, AFI, Melbourne.
Watts, Tony & Genevieve Picot eds 2000, John Hargreaves: A Celebration ... an actor's life as he saw it, Parrot.
Wright, Andree 1986, Brilliant Careers: Women in Australian Cinema, Sydney: Pan Books.
See also: Critics of Australian Film - a bibliography by Tom O'Regan and Rita Shanahan (1997).
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