Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Pantomime of Violence: Gender and Outrage in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch

Words Anthony Carew

Poetry in Action: Racism and Resistance in Partho Sen-Gupta’s Slam

Words Stephen A Russell

Oceans Within Us: Eight Perspectives on the Pacific in Vai

Words Amanda Barbour

Troubled Bubble: The Aspirational Milieu of Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach

Words Travis Johnson

Out of the Trenches: Kriv Stenders on Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan and Revisiting History

Words Oliver Pfeiffer

Hierarchies of Horror: The Violent Refrains of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale

Words Travis Johnson

Love Is in the Air: Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and the Rom-com’s New Direction

Words Jane Howard

Girls Behaving Badly: Love, Honour and Disobedience in Sophie Hyde’s Animals

Words Aimee Knight

Sin City: Diaspora, Displacement and Matthew Victor Pastor’s Melodrama / Random / Melbourne

Words Nicholas Godfrey

Arid Visions: Reflections in the Dust, Gendered Violence and Experimental Cinema

Words Dave Crewe

Kiss Me Deadly: Robbie Studsor on Blowing a Burning Kiss to Film Noir

Words Oliver Pfeiffer

Terror, Tragedy, Truth: Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai

Words Felicity Ford

Breaching Bounds: The Confronting Body in Miranda Nation’s Undertow

Words Elizabeth Flux

Bird’s-eye View: Childhood, Grief and Community in Emu Runner

Words Aimee Knight

Tearing Out a New Leaf: Book Week and the Unlikeable Protagonist

Words Mel Campbell

In the Crease: Self-referential Storytelling in Ted Wilson’s Under the Cover of Cloud

Words Leah Jing

The Pelican Brief: The Shallow Reflections of Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy

Words Jake Wilson

Dark Dresses, Problematic Pleasures: Mobility and Nostalgia in Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black

Words Mel Campbell

Paint and Suffering: The Delicate Art of Acute Misfortune

Words Elizabeth Flux

On Song: Navigating the Past in Ben Hackworth’s Celeste

Words Stephen A Russell

Redemption, Restoration, Reclamation: Benjamin Gilmour on Jirga

Words Sarah Ward

Different Ball Game: Damian Callinan on Sport, Community and The Merger

Words Kylie Maslen

A Neoliberal Spin: Management and Masculinity in Stephen Mccallum’s 1%

Words Kit MacFarlane

‘Permission to Operate Independently’: Upgrade and the Body-machines of Action Cinema

Words Mel Campbell

Fraternity Test: Watching Brothers’ Nest in the Shadow of Kenny

Words Dave Crewe

Landing Success: Luke Sparke and Carly and Carmel Imrie on Occupation

Words Oliver Pfeiffer

Getting a Second Opinion: Mairi Cameron on Truth and Trickery

Words Elizabeth Flux

Once upon a Time in the West: Suburbia and Identity in Jason Raftopoulos’ West of Sunshine

Words Glenn Dunks

Muddied Waters: Risk and Reflection in Simon Baker’s Breath

Words Dave Crewe

Heavy Here and Now: Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours

Words Adrian Martin

Burning Down the House: Winchester and the Truth About Ghosts

Words Elizabeth Flux

Rebel on the Screen: Mike Retter on Youth on the March

Words Anthony Nocera

Welcome to Ugly Country: Nostalgia and Nationalism in Stephan Elliott’s Swinging Safari

Words Dave Crewe

Musical Chairs: Perspective and ‘Heavy’ Humour in Ben Elton’s Three Summers

Words Elizabeth Flux

Ties That Bind: Kriv Stenders’ Australia Day and the Problems of Patriotism

Words Zoë Wallin

Sense and Serendipity: David Wenham’s Ellipsis

Words Tara Judah

Stealing Time: Fatherhood, the ‘Third Space’ and Sam Voutas’ King of Peking

Words Leah Jing

Bad Blood and Bitterness: Colonisation and the Western in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country

Words Nicholas Godfrey

Through the Window: The Trap of Curiosity in Rachel Perkins’ Jasper Jones

Words Ellen van Neerven

Dream Sequence: Rosemary Myers’ Girl Asleep and Cinematic Coming of Age

Words Elizabeth Flux