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Full-Text Articles in Film and Media Studies
Musical Modernism In Brian May's Australian Film Scores, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan
Musical Modernism In Brian May's Australian Film Scores, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan
Dr Rebecca Coyle
No abstract provided.
Marking Time In The Barry Mckenzie Films' Music, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan
Marking Time In The Barry Mckenzie Films' Music, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan
Dr Rebecca Coyle
This article examines aspects of the music of the Barry McKenzie films directed by Bruce Beresford (The adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972, and Barry McKenzie holds his own, 1974), with particular regard to the ways in which the music places the films in a set of historical contexts. First, the music composed by former advertising songwriter Peter Best, reflects a particular approach to film music associated with the revival of the Australian film industry. Second, performance numbers in each film can be heard in the context of collections of sea shanties and bush ballads. The bawdy nature of the songs …
Bastardising The Waterfront Dispute: Production And Critical Reception Of The Bastard Boys Mini-Series, Lisa Milner, Rebecca Coyle
Bastardising The Waterfront Dispute: Production And Critical Reception Of The Bastard Boys Mini-Series, Lisa Milner, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
This article examines the production and reception of Bastard Boys, a television mini-series broadcast on ABC TV in May 2007 that depicted aspects of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. Our research concerns how the dramatisation of such a union dispute (and historical moment) informed the final outcome as a media product. Employing commonplace fictional devices as well as seemingly factual referents, the series offers a link to the original events via four 'personal' storylines. We scrutinise the critical reception of the series and argue that the supposed 'reality' and ethics of the dispute have been confused with those of the …
Thwack! Hearing The Motion In Animation, Rebecca Coyle
Thwack! Hearing The Motion In Animation, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
No abstract provided.
Orchestrating The Waterfront Dispute: Music And Discourse In Bastard Boys, Rebecca Coyle
Orchestrating The Waterfront Dispute: Music And Discourse In Bastard Boys, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
Bastard Boys is a historically-inspired mini-series broadcast on ABC TV in May 2007. It dramatizes a set of events that are commonly described as the Waterfront dispute, an industrial showdown between unions, the then-conservative Coalition government and corporate owners that occurred on the Australian docks in April 1998. The screenplay for Bastard Boys by Sue Smith and direction by Ray Quint interpret the dispute through a thematic framework of war. This approach is musically supported by Jan Preston’s score and the featured use of a rendition – by ex-Noiseworks singer Jon Stevens – of Edwin Starr’s 1970 hit song War. …
'Now You Blokes Own The Place': Representations Of Japanese Culture In Recent Australian Cinema, Rebecca Coyle
'Now You Blokes Own The Place': Representations Of Japanese Culture In Recent Australian Cinema, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
No abstract provided.
Hearing Screen Animation, Rebecca Coyle
Hearing Screen Animation, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
Animation has become a lucrative and contemporary screen medium. As a film form, animation increasingly engages with expressive tools and techniques, whether as two-dimensional drawn components or 3-D modelled or computer-generated imagery. The popular appreciation for animation is manifest in audience and critical reception to animation feature films. Today these products offer a major challenge to live-action in terms of box office performance and profits, especially in the powerful United States entertainment industry. In Japan, too, feature films are often produced after a television anime series has earned a strong following.
Spectacular Synchronisation: Songs, Animation And Happy Feet, Rebecca Coyle, Philip Hayward
Spectacular Synchronisation: Songs, Animation And Happy Feet, Rebecca Coyle, Philip Hayward
Dr Rebecca Coyle
No abstract provided.
Showing Some Fight: Kemira’S Challenge To Industrial Relations, Rebecca Coyle, Lisa Milner
Showing Some Fight: Kemira’S Challenge To Industrial Relations, Rebecca Coyle, Lisa Milner
Dr Rebecca Coyle
Inspired by the ‘Work Choices’ policies initiated by the Coalition-led Australian Federal Government in 2006, this paper offers a historical overview of Australian documentaries associated with industrial relations. Our paper will case study the 1984 film Kemira: Diary Of A Strike (dir. Tom Zubrycki) documenting the 1982 BHP sacking of 400 miners, and the 16-day occupation of the Kemira pit by 31 miners. As a government-funded, union-sanctioned and award-winning film, Kemira holds a particular place in Australian documentary genre. We will outline how the perspective of the film, which focused attention on the miners' families, was conveyed via the diegesis, …
Speaking Strine: Locating ‘Australia’ In Film Dialogue, Rebecca Coyle
Speaking Strine: Locating ‘Australia’ In Film Dialogue, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
No abstract provided.