SPOTLIGHT ON
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6
Bad Blood and Bitterness:
Colonisation and the
Western in Warwick
Thornton’s Sweet Country
NICHOLAS GODFREY
12
What Will You Do
with Your OtherLife?:
Sci-fi, Subjectivity and
Technology MEL CAMPBELL
18
Outback Outbreak:
Yolanda Ramke and
Ben Howling on Cargo
and the Zombie Film
BRIONY KIDD
24
Blood Feuds and
Bloodlands: Steven
Kastrissios’ Albanian
Horror-Fantasy
ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS
28
Boys Will Be Boys: Horror
Tropes and Male Privilege
in Chris Peckover’s Better
Watch Out KATE ROBERTSON
34
Seeing Double: Cinematic
Twins in Rabbit and That’s
Not Me GABRIELLE O’BRIEN
38
Sci-fi on a Shoestring:
Ché Baker and Sarah
Mason on Blue World
Order OLIVER PFEIFFER
42
Into the Light: Alex
Proyas’ Dark City Tw o
Decades On JOHN CATANIA
46
Lost in the Woods:
Greg McLean’s Jungle
GLENN DUNKS
AUSTRALIA ON
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52
Swapping Goats for
Snakes: Australian Survivor,
Narrative Complexity and
Audience Expectations
STUART RICHARDS
60
Scars of Empathy:
The ABC’s Pulse and the
Medical Drama KYLIE MASLEN
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Making Peace: Resignation,
the Road Movie and Kirsten
Ta n’s Pop Aye DAVID CREWE
68
Inside and Out: Afghan
Life in Shahrbanoo
Sadat’s Wolf and Sheep
SARAH WARD
74
Flight of Fancy: Falconry,
Affluence and Yuri
Ancarani’s The Challenge
ANTHONY CAREW
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78
Songlines on Screen:
Naina Sen’s The Song
Keepers and Aboriginal
Histories FELICITY FORD
86
A Story of Man and
Country: Sera Davies’
Namatjira Project
THOMAS REDWOOD
92
Ghost House: Rewriting
the ‘Haunted’ Narrative
in Florian Habicht’s
Spookers STEPHEN A RUSSELL
98
Life Laid Bare: Sascha
Ettinger Epstein’s
The Pink House and
the Sex Industry
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
102
Band Apart: Music,
Memory and Kriv Stenders’
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
JASMINE CRITTENDEN
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106
The Picture Show Man
ADRIAN DANKS
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116
The Streaming Arms
Race: Original VOD
Programming in Australia
CAMERON WILLIAMS
120
Picture Partnership:
Co-productions
and the Australian
Screen Industries
TIM BOSANQUET
5(*8/$5)($785(
124
Scope: Screen Industry
Views ROCHELLE SIEMIENOWICZ,
TARA JUDAH, LIZ GIUFFRE AND
DAN GOLDING
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