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Stephen Rowley’s Essay Bin: Australian Cinema and National Identity
http://home.mira.net/~satadaca/australi.htm
Stephen Rowley’s essay “Australian Cinema and National Identity” is concerned with one of the fundamental questions regarding the ‘Australianness’ of the national cinema: Can there be a distinctly Australian cinema, with the Australian market being so small, and regarding the sheer quantity of imported American productions? Rowley briefly outlines the historical development of the relationship between Hollywood and the Australian cinema (from the attempt to clone Hollywood movies to more local, specifically Australian movies), and discusses the most important movies in that context.
Though the essay is neither very long nor very detailed, it is a good starting point before reading more in-depth essays. Sometimes it is hard not to loose track of the overall picture and of what the research is actually about, thus, basic, short essays provide a good foundation for further research.
Cinephobia.com is Stephen Rowley’s own website, where he has collected his academic writing (in the Essay Bin section) as well as film reviews and less academic articles in the In Depth-section. His essay “Australian Cinema and National Identity” is found in the old Essay Bin of his former website before he moved it to cinephobia.com. The website also features a blog and links to several Australian-based movie sites.
