Australian International Pictures (1946 - 75)

Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia

• Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evaluated Australian international pictures
• Develops an understanding of international film production in the years following WWII and before the Australian film revival of the 1970s
• Corrects the perception that there was no significant feature film production in Australia after the 1930s and before the revival
• Offers background and important precedents for the more recent practices of global co-productions and ‘Hollywood Down-under’

Australian International Pictures examines the concept and definition of Australian film in relation to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although international co-production is particularly acute in the present day, this book examines the porous nature of Australian International filmmaking, and the intriguing transnational and cross-cultural formations created by globally targeted but locally focussed films made in Australia in the period 1946–75.

Case Studies:

• The Overlanders (1946) and Ealing Down Under
• Kangaroo (1952)
• On the Beach (1959)
• The Sundowners (1960)
• The Drifting Avenger (1968)
• Age of Consent (1969)
• Color Me Dead (1970)
• Ned Kelly (1970)
• Walkabout (1971)
• Wake in Fright (1971)
The Man from Hong Kong (1975)