[Commlist] New book: Australian Genre Film

*Australian Genre Film*

Edited by Kelly McWilliam and Mark David Ryan

Australian Genre Film book cover/Australian Genre Film 
<https://www.routledge.com/Australian-Genre-Film/McWilliam-Ryan/p/book/9781138603141>/interrogates 
key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre 
cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on 
film genre in Australian cinema can develop.

The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in 
this new golden age, as contributors ask to what extent Australian genre 
film draws on widely understood (and largely Hollywood-based) 
conventions, as compared to culturally specific conventions of genre 
storytelling. As such, this book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date 
survey of Australian genre film, undertaken through original analyses of 
13 significant Australian genres: action, biopics, comedy, crime, 
horror, musical, road movie, romance, science fiction, teen, thriller, 
war, and the Western.

This book will be a cornerstone work for the burgeoning field of 
Australian film genre studies and a must-read for academics; 
researchers; undergraduate students; postgraduate students; and general 
readers interested in film studies, media studies, cultural studies, 
Australian studies, and sociology.

**

*Table of Contents*

1. Australian Film Genre Studies

/Mark David Ryan and Kelly McWilliam/

2. The Action Genre and the ‘International Turn’ in Australian Cinema

/Amanda Howell/

3. ‘Beethoven had his Critics, too…’: The Australian Biopic in the 
Twenty-First Century

/Adrian Danks/

4. A Seamless Wedding: Comedy, Diversity, and the International

/Lesley Speed/

5. New Australian Crime Drama

/Greg Dolgopolov/

6. A Monstrous Landscape Filled with Killer Animals and Madmen: Tropes 
of Contemporary Australian Horror Movies

/Mark David Ryan/

7. The Musical in Australia: Moving Minorities into the Mainstream

/Liz Giuffre/

8. Traversing Genre: The Australian Road Movie

/Deborah Thomas/

9. Courting the Romance

/Kelly McWilliam/

10. Looking to the Future: Three Tendencies in Australian Science 
Fiction Cinema since 2008

/Andrew James Couzens/

11. ‘Growing Up Was Never Easy’: Coming of Age in the Teen Film

/Kelly McWilliam/

12. Sun-lit Noir: Australian Thrillers

/Jonathan Rayner/

13. A Wider Angle: Australia’s War Films of the New Millenia

/Daniel Reynaud/

14. Questioning the Australian Western

/Grayson Cooke/

Book’s website: Australian Genre Film - 1st Edition - Kelly McWilliam - 
Mark David R (routledge.com) 
<https://www.routledge.com/Australian-Genre-Film/McWilliam-Ryan/p/book/9781138603141>

Editor biogrpahy’s


      *Biography*

*Kelly McWilliam* is an Associate Professor in Communication and Media 
Studies at the University of Southern Queensland and the Immediate Past 
President of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA).　

*Mark David Ryan *is an Associate Professor in Screen and Media Studies 
and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), 
Queensland University of Technology. He was the President of the Screen 
Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ) 
between 2015 and 2018.

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------