Brigidine College

Library Pathfinder

 

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English

Year 11

Australian Film

 

 

Book Resources

 

                   Some good titles:

 

An Australian Identity

305.8AUS

Identity: Images of Australia

305.8KRU

Redefining Australians

323 JOR

 

National Identify and consciousness

994.03GIB

Australia’s National identity

994.06AUS

Australian cinema after Mabo

791.430994COL

Exploring Film as text

791.4GLA

Film as text

791.4MAY     

 

          Online Databases                                                                                                     

                                                         

Online databases for newspaper,
journal and encyclopaedias articles

 

 

World Wide Web Resources

 

 

 

                   National Identity

 

Exploring Australian’s identity

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/schools/specials/0,6960,schidy%5E%5ETEXT,00.html

 

National Identity
http://users.tpg.com.au/adslsrxj/federation/national_identity.htm

 

Imaging Australia 1914-1918

The 'digger' joined the 'bushman' as an image of what was best about Australia.
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/edu_ww1

Contemporary Australia. National Identity

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/australia/pdf/national_id.pdf

 

Film in Australia

 

Film in Australia
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/film

 

The world of film in Australia

http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/members/benefits.asp?s=gold_membership

 

Australian Cinema and National Identity
http://home.mira.net/~satadaca/australi.htm

Lost causes: the ideology of national identity in Australian cinema

http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000297

 

Fair Dinkum Fillums : the Crocodile Dundee Phenomenon

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/Croc.html

 

National Identity on the road : a review of Mad Max movies

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/03/28/mad_max_movies.html

Criticism Without Myth? Richard Smith reviews the first three titles in the Australian Screen Classics series from Currency Press.

"Our national cinema plays a vital role in our cultural heritage and in showing us what it is to be Australian"

 http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-2004/smithr.html

 

Australian Cinema: The Bank

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2002/bank/ACframe.html

 

Writings on Australian Film
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/post.html

 

Australian Centre for the moving image. Study guides
http://www.acmi.net.au/studyguides.htm

OZ Film Database
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/index.html

EXAMPLES

Mad Max a critical review
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2000/max.html

The Castle

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2000/Castle.html

Australian Film Commission

http://www.afc.gov.au

 

Film

Film. Wikipedia. About film and motion pictures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film

 

Film analysis

How to critique a movie
http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/gst364Win2005/howToCritiqueAMovie.pdf

A guide for analysing film

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~jacobshu/guide2filmanalysis.html

Film Analysis

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis

Film analysis essay guideline and Film Review Guidelines
http://www.studyguide.org/fillmterms.htm

 

A guide to narratological film analysis

http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppf.htm#F4.1

 

Reading films in the classroom

http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/Readingfilms.html

 

Reading a film sequence

http://web.uvic.ca/geru/439/seq.html

 

 

Film viewing: how to watch movies intelligently and critically

http://www.filmsite.org/filmview.html

Ways of watching film

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/rcc0001.html

Film Viewing guides
https://www.utdallas.edu/~kmarshal/courses/film/2332/guides.htm

Film Terms
Using these terms will help you to analyse and explain moving image sequences in film, television or advertising.
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/Filmterms.html

Film Concepts covers Audience, Genre, Ideology and language
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/index.html

Audience
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/Audience.html

 

Framing
http://www.mediaedwales.org.uk/publicity/pages/camera/framing/fram1.htm

Film Terms. An illustrated film-making glossary and dictionary terms
http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html


Film Genres

Film Genres

http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html

 

Film Genres. An assortment of articles on film genre
http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html

Film Reviews. ABC

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/film

 

Total Film. Cinema Reviews
http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews

All Movie Guide
http://www.allmovie.com

Just for fun! Movie clichés list
http://www.moviecliches.com