The Lingering Melodies of Trauma: Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones
Words Hanna Schenkel
Australian and New Zealand Cinema
256 articles
The Lingering Melodies of Trauma: Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones
The Price of Fish: Slavery and Social Responsibility in Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy
Words Stephen A Russell
Hell Hath No Fury: Tony D’Aquino, Andrew Marriott and Lisa Shaunessy on The Furies
Words Oliver Pfeiffer
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