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Outward-looking Australian cinema
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Outward-looking Australian cinema

Ben Goldsmith
Studies in Australasian Cinema, Vol.4(3), pp.199-214
2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/sac.4.3.199_1
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Film, Television and Digital Media Historical Studies Literary Studies Australian-international National cinema film production locations outward-lookingness screen policy
Over the last twenty years or so, Australian cinema's international relations in production and policy have expanded and become more complex, while those with Hollywood have been transformed. The boundaries of the national cinema stretch much further than the national territory. Australian production and postproduction companies work in Australia with international partners or on international projects. In this article I will trace some of the material and discursive entailments of this new international turn to explore how dynamic and shifting relations between the local/national and the international have transformed the ways in which we might think about what constitutes Australian cinema. I will also illustrate how relations of commonality and continuity with the international called up in the new arrangements challenge the dominant articulation in policy of difference from 'other kinds of film-making' as the basis of Australian cinema. I draw on Deb Verhoeven's work on simultaneously national and international films and film-makers, and adapt Doreen Massey's concept of 'outward-lookingness' to consider Australian cinema's international aspects.

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