Transnational Australian Cinema

Olivia Khoo is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Monash University.Belinda Smaill is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at Monash University.Audrey Yue is associate professor in screen and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne.

• Chapter 1: Reframing Australian Cinema: Transnationalism, Ethics, and Asian Australian CinemaPart A. Reframing National Cinema HistoryChapter 2: Asian Stereotypes in 1920s Australian Cinema: The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and LoverChapter 3: Colombo Plan Documentary: Australia and Asia in the Postwar EraChapter 4: The Transnationalisation of the Australian Western: Japanese-Australian Productions in the Late 1960sPart B. Australia’s Film Renaissance and Beyond: Uneasy Cinematic Encounters Chapter 5: Romance, Entrepreneurialism and the Intercultural CoupleChapter 6: The Global Back of Beyond: Ethics and the Asian Australian Road Movie Chapter 7: Landscape Cinema: Asianness and Indigeneity Part C. Networks and Technologies: Contemporary Asian Australian Cinema Chapter 8: New Ethics in the Asian Australian Short Film Chapter 9: The Community Cultural Development of Action CinemaChapter 10: Co-productions and New Queer Paradigms for Mobilities and Migration

Far more than the first major study of a supposedly “minor” cinema too long unexplored, Transnational Australian Cinema is a thought adventure of exceptional brilliance and daring. The “strong transnationalism” of its field-expanding method not only brings us rich historical discoveries but also creates new ways of thinking representation together with policy, viewership with social governance, ethnic identities with resource allocation, and film forms with production ecologies. This book redefines the field of national cinema studies and in the process it expands the capacities of film history to illuminate the great debates of our time.