Metro Australia — January 2018

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

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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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64

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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