Australian National Cinema

The scenes perspective and the Australian context

“…The development is usually thought of in terms of a preoccupation with Australian identity and is exemplified in films such as Breaker Morant (1980) and Gallipoli (1981). (On this history, see O'Regan (1996).) In the Introduction to Inventing Australia, published in 1981 and itself a part of this cultural turn, Richard White describes his book as being 'the history of a national obsession' (White 1981, viii).…”

Makeover on the move: Global television and programme formats

“…Lotman believes that, in this phase, 'translations, imitations and adaptations multiply' and 'the codes imported along with the texts become part of the meta lingual structure' of the importing culture (150). Commenting on this stage in terms of Australian cinema, O'Regan (1996) has claimed a particular synthesis between the local and the imported: 'This second stage gives rise to a relatively strict division …”

Transnational audiences: geocultural approaches

“…For audience research, those articulations are further aligned with an a priori social group whose collective subjectivity can be read off a sample of responses to media content (Athique 2008b). The central notion that the social is imagined into being through performance has also been amenable to theories of media effect, where media consumers are considered susceptible to nation-building messages encoded into media artefacts (see O'Regan 1996).…”