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,
52&+(//(}6,(0,(12:,&=
AND LIZ GIUFFRE
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