Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61327-9 - Film in Australia: An Introduction Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Index More information Index 13th Floor, The 112 Angel Baby 150, 154 27A: 150, 151–153, 154, 156 Animal Logic 135 806: The Beginning 134 Annie’s Coming Out 150 2084: 135 apocalypse 136–37 armed robbery, see crime A City’s Child 156 art films 29–43, 98–101 A Country Practice 143 arthouse films 29 A Fortunate Life 44 artistic tendencies, social realism 150–51 A Trip to the Moon 130 Attack Force Z 22 Abbott, Brendan 44 Australia ABC, TV dramas 45–46 adventure films 15–17 Abigail (actor) 68 Australian-ness of films 1–3 accident, see chance biographical films 44–46 action-adventure films 17–19 detective films 91–92 action melodrama 190 film comedy tradition 71–72 actors see also individual actors by name e.g. film genres 1–8, 12 Gibson, Mel musical films 117–18 in comedies 64–65 social changes in 155 in school-related dramas 176 women’s films 193–94 actuality 47 Australian Dream 151 adolescence, see teen films Australian Film Commission adventure films 13–28 AFC genre film 7–8 action-adventure films 17–19 funding 131–134 comedies as 58–59 on comedies 57–58 criminal capers 76–78 Australian Film Institute awards 145 Adventures of Barry McKenzie 20, Australian Rules 182 65 auteur theory 32–34 Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the authorial expressivity 32 Desert 122 autonomous genres 4–5 aesthetic adventure 34–35 avant-garde practice 30 AFC genre film see also funding 8 affective qualities 157 Backroads 148, 149, 153, 154 Affron, C. 191–193 backstage musicals 122–23 AFI awards 145 Bad Boy Bubby 118, 150, 153 Against the Wind 85 Bad Eggs 98 Alexandra’s Project 40 Bank, The 77, 163 Alison’s Birthday 107, 111 Barry McKenzie series 20, 65 All Men Are Liars 181 Basinger, J. 191–193 All That Heaven Allows 195 Big Hurt, The 92–94 Alvin Purple 61–64 Big Steal, The 153 Alvin Purple Rides Again 68 Billy’s Holiday 126–128 Amazing Colossal Man 104 biographical films 44–56, 120–21 213 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61327-9 - Film in Australia: An Introduction Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Index More information Blackfellas 149 slapstick 59 Blackrock 149 social 59 Index bloke films 92–94, see also males comic types 66–67 Blood Money 79 coming-of-age films 181–184 Blood Oath 22 complex genres 3–4 Bloodlust 113 conservatism of adventure films 28 Bloodmoon 108 Considine, D. 174 Blues Busters 127 Cool Change 19 Bootleg 100 corruption 82–84, 161, see also crime Bootmen 122, 181 Cosi 122, 124 Bordwell, David 89–90 Country Practice, A 143 Bourke, Terry 108, 109 crime 73–86, see also suspense boys, see father-son relationships; males; criminal biographies 53–55 teen films detective films 29–30, 87–101, 157–58 Boys, The 81, 148, 152, 154 gangster films 73, 157–58 brain films 112 murders in film 113–14, 160–61 Bran Nu Dae 119 organized crime 82–84 Breaker Morant 22, 85 police procedurals 90, 94–95 Brown, Bryan 84–86 professional killers 78–79 Buddies 20 robbery films 74–78 social order in 104–05 caper comedy 59–60 teen films 184–186 cars 148, 153, 185 victims of 159 Cars That Ate Paris, The 107, 138 Crocodile Dundee series 19–20, 58, 70–71, Castle, The 66–67, 69 170 Cathy’s Child 156 Cultural Studies 10 causation in art films 31 Cut 179 Chamberlain, Lindy and Michael 196– cyborgnetics 138 198 cycles of social realism 148 chance in adventure films 22–23 ‘Dad and Dave’ series 67 in comedies 69 Dallas Doll 58 in Lantana 39 dance in musical films 123–24 character, in social realism films 151–153 Dance Me to My Song 198–199 chases 80–81, 167–68 dangerous settings 169–70 Chauvel, Charles 15 Dark City 135, 139 childishness in comedy 66 Dark Room, The 160 Chopper 48, 53–55, 82 Dating the Enemy 69 Christian, Roger 135 daughter-father relationships 182–84 cinemas, teenage audience 173–74 Dawn! 51 City’s Child, A 156 de Heer, Rolf 134 City’s Edge 132 Dead Calm 160, 165–167 Clarke, John 65 Dead-End Drive-In 132, 140 classification 11–12 delinquents 184–186 coincidence, see chance Delinquents, The 185–186 Colour Me Dead 168 Derry, C. 90, 158, 159 Coma 94–97 detective films 87–94, 101, 157, see also Come Out Fighting 149 crime comedies 57–72 Devil in the Flesh 181 adventure films 19 diegetic sound 35 as an abstract genre 10 Dirty Deeds 84, 85 detectives in 97–98 disaster films 17 214 ‘ocker’ 204 disguise 162–64 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61327-9 - Film in Australia: An Introduction Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Index More information D.O.A. 168 for horror films 106–108 Index documentaries 150–51 for period films 36 dramatization 152 for science fiction 131–134 dystopias 137–40 gags in comedies 68–71 elementary genres 3–4 Gallipoli 22 Elsaesser, Thomas 188 gangster films 73, 157–58 Empty Beach, The 85, 92 Garage Days 122, 181 End Game 160 Gattaca 131 end of the world in science fiction Gehring, W. D. 9 136–37 gender reversal in adventure films 25 Epsilon 133, 137 generic difference 3–6 erotic films, see women’s films genre 203–205 Eureka Stockade 16 Australian film and 1–12 Euro-American art film 35–38 inquiry into 11–12 European art films 30–31 Gentle Strangers 156 evanescent genres 4–5 Gettin’ Square 77 Evil Angels 196–198 ghosts in horror films 113 Expressionism and horror films 105–6 Ghosts of the Civil Dead 150 Gibson, Mel 18 Fair Game 169 Ginnane, Anthony I. 133 fairy tale musicals 126 girls, see father-daughter relationships; teen fantastic, the 102–105, 130 films; women Far East 161 global consciousness 136–37 father-daughter relationships 182–84 Good Afternoon 119 father-son relationships 46–53 Goodbye Paradise 92–94, 161 female cinema 191–193, see also women’s government support, see funding films Grant, B. K. 9 feminism 149 grief, in women’s films 199–201 FFC 131–134 Grim Pickings 91 Fighting Back 150 groups, in adventure films 23–24 Film Finance Corporation 132–134 Hammers over the Anvil 181 film musicals, see musical films Hannay, David 109 film noir 87 hard-boiled detection 87 Final Cut 160 Hard Knocks 156 Fingleton, Tony 50–52 Hard Word, The 77 FJ Holden, The 148, 152, 153, 156 Hayseeds, The 67 Flirting 181, 182 Heartbreak Kid, The 177, 194 folk musicals 126 Heaven Tonight 122, 124 Fortress 135, 138 Heaven’s Burning 80 Fortunate Life, A 44 Helfgott, David 48, 49–53 Forty Thousand Horsemen 16 heroes and heroines, see protagonists Freedom 149 heroism 23, 52–53 Freedom Deep 134 hesitation 102–105 friendship 182 high life 82–84 Fringe Dwellers, The 149 High Rolling 20 fugitives 80–81, 167–68 historical genres 5 funding Hitchcock, Alfred 158–159 Australian Film Commission 131–134 Hogan, Paul 19, 64 effect on film types 7–8 Hollywood films, genre in 8–11 for adventure films 15–16 horror films 102–116, 178–181 for art films 34 Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story 164 215 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61327-9 - Film in Australia: An Introduction Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Index More information Howling III: The Marsupials 115 Look Both Ways 156 human form as location of effort 48 Looking for Alibrandi 184 Index humanness in science fiction 136 Lorca and the Outlaws 135 Humphries, Barry 65 Lost Things 179 hybridization of teen films 175 love 181–184, 194–196 identity, concealing 162–64 Mad Max trilogy 131–134 Idiot Box 149 as adventure film 18 illness, in social realism 150 dystopia in 137 impersonation in thrillers 162–64 magic In Search of Anna 32, 33 in musicals 126–128 Incident at Raven’s Gate 107, 113, 133, 134 magical realism 151 indigenous peoples 119, 149 Magician, The 79 Indonesia 161–62 maid versus monster 165–167 Inn of the Damned 109 major genres 3–4 innocents 67, 167–68 Malcolm 67–69 institutions, struggle with 48, 66–67 males ‘interior’ films 36 as biopic subjects 47 Intruder, The 111 investigating crime 92–94 investigations, see crime; detective films man of the people protagonists 20 It Came from Beneath the Sea 131 troubled guys 148–49 Man from Snowy River, The 19, 21 Jack and Jill: A Postscript 105 Mango Tree, The 181 Japanese Story 199–201 Marauders 114 Jarratt, John 110 marginal instances of genres 2, 119–121 Jedda 192 marginalized characters 153 jokes in comedies 68–71 Marking Time 182 Just Out of Reach 156 Marsupials: The Howling III 115 juvenating of television shows 173 masquerade 162–64 Master and Commander 16 Kellaway, Cecil 64 mateship 23 Kennedy, Graham 64 Matrix series 135 Kick 122, 123, 181 mediating tradition 124–126 King of the Coral Sea 16 medieval romance literature 13 King of the Two Day Wonder, The 98 melodrama, in women’s films 188–189 Kiss or Kill 80 men, see males Kitty and the Bagman 83 mental disturbance, in social realism 150 message films 143 landscape in film 37, 139–40 meta genres 10 Lantana 38, 98, 118 Metal Skin 149, 185 Last Wave, The 107, 111 Mike and Stefani 146–148, 154, 156 Le Voyage dans la Lune 130 modernism 30, 38–42 Les Patterson Saves the World 65 modes, adventure films 19 Life 150, 151–153 Molloy, Mick 65 Light in the Piazza 195 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien 48 Lighthorsemen, The 17, 22 Money Movers, The 75–76 Lightning Jack 19 Monkey Grip 118, 151–153 Listen to the Lion 156 Monkey’s Mask, The 96 literary figures, biopics of 47–48 ‘monsters’ in thrillers 165–167 Little Fish 156, 192 Mora, Philippe 110 living nightmares 164–65 Moulin Rouge 122 location 151–153, 169–70 Mouth to Mouth 152, 153, 154, 156 216 loners 78–79 Moving On 156 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61327-9 - Film in Australia: An Introduction Albert Moran and Errol Vieth Index More information Mulcahy, Russell 110 passion, melodrama of 190 Index Murder Call 91 Peaches 156, 192 murders, see also crime 113–14, 160–61, Pearce, Reg 146–148 165–167 Peoples, David 134, 135 music performers, see actors in adventure films 19 period films 35–38 Japanese Story 200 Phantom Stockman, The 16 ‘Rach Three’ 50 Phantom, The 21 musical films 117–129 Picnic at Hanging Rock 36, 107, 131–134, My Brilliant Career 37 156 Pirate Movie, The 120 narrative Pirie, D.