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Australian screen, meaning Australian feature film (including documentary) and television, has experienced significant change since the turn of the century. In contrast to much scholarship before 2000, the contemporary critical project is rarely limited solely to evaluating the Australianness of Australian content within the national cinema paradigm. Approaches to Australian film and television are necessarily diverse, less concerned with totalising narratives around a national imaginary and with problematising national discourses than they are with responding to current trends and configurations in texts, production, distribution, exhibition and consumption. With a specific focus on the years from 2000 to 2015, this collection offers coverage of the diversity of Australian screen during this period.
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Ryan, M.D., Goldsmith, B. (2017). Australian Screen in the 2000s: An Introduction. In: Ryan, M., Goldsmith, B. (eds) Australian Screen in the 2000s. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48299-6_1
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