- Title
- The Devil's Playground: coming-of-age as national cinema
- Creator
- May, Josephine
- Relation
- Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand p. 158-163
- Relation
- http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Making%20Film%20and%20Television%20Histories%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand.aspx
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- After many years of sporadic production, the 1970s witnessed a revival in the Australian film industry. Renewed interest in the arts included greater financial support for cinema projects from government. There was also a strong desire to see 'Australian stories' on the big screen. At this time, a number of young film-makers, many of whom went on to successful international directorial careers, made ambitious films that addressed national concerns and reflected a new seriousness about film quality. Their films were recognised at the time and since as self-conscious attempts to forge a new 'national cinema'. National cinemas feed from, and into, trends in historical context in a discursive or intertextual loop. The 1970s was a time of burgeoning national consciousness epitomised by the election of the Whitlam Government with its explicit campaign to locate Australian nationalism in the Australian polity, rather than to share cultural ownership of the state with Great Britain. Feature film production reflected and fed into these heady days of nation-building as well as wider trends in the cultural landscape such as challenges to racism, sexism and conservative sexual mores that were also taking place in the community.
- Subject
- The Devil's Playground; national cinema; nation building; Australian cinema
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062098
- Identifier
- uon:17039
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781848859449
- Language
- eng
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