American–Australian Cinema

Adrian Danks is Deputy Dean, Media in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is the editor of A Companion to Robert Altman (2015).Stephen Gaunson is Senior Lecturer and teaches Cinema Studies in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is the author of The Ned Kelly (2013).Peter C. Kunze earned a PhD in English at Florida State University, USA and is currently pursuing a second PhD in Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the editor of The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon (Palgrave, 2014).

• 1. Where I’m Calling From: An American-Australian Cinema?.- 2. Rudimentary Modernism: Ken G. Hall, Rear-Projection and 1930s Hollywood.- 3. Simulated Scenery: Travel Cinema, Special Effects and For the Term of His Natural Life.- 4. Representations and Hybridisations in First Nation Cinema: Change and Newness by Fusion.- 5. Of Mothers and Madwomen: Mining the Emotional Terrain of Toni Collette’s Anti-Star Persona.- 6. Accented Relations: Mad Max on US Screens.- 7. Talking Trash with Tarantino: Auteurism, Aesthetics and Authority in Not Quite Hollywood.- 8. Australian Horror Movies and the American Market.- 9. The Female Gothic Meets the Terrible Terrace House: Transnational Exchanges and the Suburban Australian Horror of The Babadook.- 10. American Cartel: Block Bookings and the Paramount Plan.- 11. The Multiplex Era.- 12. “Zest to the Jaded Movie Palate”: Wallace Worsley, Scott Dunlap and The Romance of Runnibede (1928).- 13. Defining Neverland: P. J. Hogan, J. M. Barrie, and Peter Pan in Post-Mabo Australia.- 14. The Great Gatsby: Telling National Iconic Stories Through a Transnational Lens.