Metro Australia – July 2019

AUSTRALIAN AND

NEW ZEALAND CINEMA

6

Hierarchies of Horror:

The Violent Refrains

of Jennifer Kent’s The

Nightingale TRAVIS JOHNSON

12

Love Is in the Air: Wayne

Blair’s Top End Wedding

and the Rom-com’s New

Direction JANE HOWARD

18

Girls Behaving Badly:

Love, Honour and

Disobedience in Sophie

Hyde’s Animals AIMEE KNIGHT

24

Sin City: Diaspora,

Displacement and

Matthew Victor Pastor’s

Melodrama / Random /

Melbourne! NICHOLAS GODFREY

28

Arid Visions: Reflections

in the Dust, Gendered

Violence and Experimental

Cinema DAVE CREWE

34

Kiss Me Deadly: Robbie

Studsor on Blowing

a Burning Kiss to Film

Noir OLIVER PFEIFFER

AUSTRALIA ON

THE SMALL SCREEN

38

A School of Fishers:

Ms Fisher’s Modern

Murder Mysteries

and the Lineage of a

Franchise ELIZABETH FLUX

44

Working-class Heroes:

ABC’s The Heights and

Social Stratification

TRAVIS JOHNSON

FOCUS ON ASIA AND

THE MIDDLE EAST

50

Quiet Night Thoughts:

Warped Time in Three

Asian Arthouse Films

JESSICA KIANG

58

Art as Resistance: History

and the Individual in

Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces

DAVID HESLIN

64

Moving Forward in

Circles: Repetition and

Reflection in Hong

Sang-soo’s Grass

JAMES ROBERT DOUGLAS

70

Things to Come:

The Wandering Earth

and Chinese Cinema’s

Growing Predominance

MIKE WALSH

DOCUMENTARY

76

Seeds of Change:

Damon Gameau’s

2040 and Sustainable

Futures REBEKAH BRAMMER

82

Destructive Pasts,

Hopeful Possibilities:

The Simulated

Environment in

Awavena and Did You

Ask the River? KIM MUNRO

86

Dying a Woman with

Dignity: Becoming Colleen

and Late-life Gender

Transition CERISE HOWARD

90

Hitting the Right

Note: Janine Hosking’s

The Eulogy and the

Perils of Praise

KIT MACFARLANE

96

Setting the Record Straight:

Greg Carey and Wade

Jackson’s Waiting: The Van

Duren Story BARNABY SMITH

CRITICAL VIEWS

100

Aural Reflections: Music,

Self and Objectivity in

Now Sound: Melbourne’s

Listening and Her Sound,

Her Story ANTHONY CAREW

THE NFSA RESTORES

COLLECTION

108

Witches and Faggots, Dykes

and Poofters GABRIELLE O’BRIEN

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

118

A Dense Web of

Relationships: How Film

Culture Sustains the Screen

Industries ANNE RUTHERFORD

REGULAR FEATURES

126

Scope: Screen Industry

Views DAN GOLDING,

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AND LIZ GIUFFRE

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