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Australian cinema’s relationship with the United States has remained intricate, multifaceted and complicated. While film production and policy have expanded and become more complex, Australian cinema has remained an important exhibition and production network for the United States for over a hundred years. In the Introduction, we trace some of the material and expansive histories of this relationship by exploring the dynamic and shifting interactions between the two cinemas over time. As we argue, Australian cinema, largely through the practices of feature film production, distribution, exhibition and reception, has continued to be indebted and attached to US cinema as well as to a more broadly defined Hollywood style of filmmaking. This Introduction is informed by the notion that Australian cinema has a deep, rich and complicated set of historical, economic and cultural relationships with the US that requires further acknowledgement and more detailed interrogation and discussion.
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Danks, A., Gaunson, S., Kunze, P.C. (2018). Where I’m Calling From: An American–Australian Cinema?. In: Danks, A., Gaunson, S., Kunze, P. (eds) American–Australian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66676-1_1
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