Australian National Cinema

Tom O''Regan''s book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin''s question ''What is cinema?''and asks what the construct of a ''national'' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of ''art'' into the broader cultural world. O''Regan''s analysis situates Australian cinema in its historic...