Course overview
This course offers an historical overview of some of the most important trends and movements in Australian cinema, with a focus on post-WWII developments through the Renaissance of the 1970s; the commercial and international successes of the 1980s; the emergence and maturation of films about, and by, Indigenous Australians; important women filmmakers; auteurism; and the place of genre in national cinema. The course considers artistic practice in relation to political and economic developments, industrial constraints, and the double-optics of a settler-colonial national space imposed on an immemorial Dreaming.