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Carol Laseur, Terra Nullius: Invasion of the Land, Invasion of the Body
Tom O'Regan, Australian film in the 1950s
Tom O'Regan, Australian film in the 1970s: the ocker and the quality film
Tom O'Regan, Australian film in the 1980s
Tom O'Regan, Australian film in the 1990s
Tom O'Regan, Crocodile Dundee
Tom O'Regan, The Australian film and TV interface
Tom O'Regan, The Man from Snowy River
Tom O'Regan, The Last Tasmanian
Papers from the History and/on/in Film Conference
Stuart Cunningham, 'The Chauvel School of Scenario Writing'
Albert Moran, 'Documentary Consensus: The CFU 1954-1964'
Neil McDonald, 'The Making of "Assault on Salamaua'
Ina Bertrand, 'The Grand Theatre Company and the National Exhibition Chains'
Tom O'Regan, 'Rethinking the Revival'
Articles in the first number of Continuum
In 1987, Continuum devoted an entire issue to Australian Film in the 1950s.
Tom O'Regan,'Australian film in the 1950s'
Stuart Cunningham, 'Chauvel: the last decade'
Colin Johnson [Mudrooroo Nyoongar], 'Chauvel and the Aboriginal male in Australian film'
Albert Moran, 'Nation building: the post-war documentary in Australia'
Brian Shoesmith, Tom O'Regan, Ross Gibson, 'On the back of beyond': an interview with Ross Gibson
Stuart Cunningham,'Nascent innovation'
Albert Moran, Lee Robinson, 'The King of the Coral Sea': an interview with Lee Robinson'
John Richardson, 'Movies under the stars: drive-ins and modernity'
Tom O'Regan, 'The historical relations between theatre and film'
Sue Dermody, Liz Jacka, 'An Australian Film Reader in question'
Sam Rohdie, 'A review of National Fictions'
Other articles from Continuum
Stuart Cunningham,'To go back and beyond'
Vijay Mishra, 'Aboriginal representations in Australian texts'
Stephen Crofts, 'Cross-cultural reception studies: culturally variant readings of Crocodile Dundee'
Stephen Crofts, 'Re-imaging Australia: Crocodile Dundee overseas'
Geraldine Bloustien, 'Jane Campion: memory, motif and music'
Carol Laseur 'Australian exploitation film: the politics of bad taste'
Kate Gilroy, 'Essaying two lovers' discourses'
Gillian Leahy & Noel King, 'I'd thought for a long time that I'd make an experimental film about romantic love': an interview with Gillian Leahy about My Life Without Steve
Freda Freiberg, 'Lost in Oz? Jews in the Australian Cinema'
Toby Miller, 'When Australia became modern'
William D. Routt, 'Are you a fish? Are you a snake? an obvious lecture and some notes on The Last Wave'
Stephen Muecke 'Narrative and intervention in Aboriginal filmmaking and policy'
Mudrooroo Nyoongah, 'Passing for white passing for black: an ideological con-pro-testation' (written version)
Norm Leslie 'Desperate diversions: the snowy, the Gulf, and populism'

Article from Span

Carol Laseur, BeDevil: Colonial Images, Aboriginal Memories

Dissertations

Carol Laseur, The Field of Genre and Australian Filmic Texts: Transforming Cultural Narratives
Tom O'Regan, The politics of representation: an analysis of the Australian film revival
Rama Venkatasawmy, The Hybridity of Filmmaking in Australian National Cinema: Formulating a Cinematic Post-diaspora

Reviews

Catherine Simpson, Everynight ... Everynight

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