Australian Genre Film

<p><em>Australian Genre Film</em> 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>