(Paperback, 2nd edition)

This fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's study looks at the career of Peter Weir, and illustrates how he brings a consistent vision to his films, no matter how disparate their subject matter - and how he uses his 'outsider' status in the American film industry.

(Hardback)

Undertakes a coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. This book focuses on the examination of the films which seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema.

(Paperback)

Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film and the evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia and the adaptation of traditional Hollywood forms.

(Hardback)

The Gothic has contributed a distinctive style and atmosphere to Australian cinema since the 1970s. This book traces the appearance and interprets the meaning of key Gothic aspects of setting, landscape, characterisation and history in varied examples of Australian horror.