Australian International Pictures (1946–75)

Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia
• Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evaluated Australian international pictures
• Develops an understanding of international film production in the years following WWII and before the Australian film revival of the 1970s
• Corrects the perception that there was no significant feature film production in Australia after the 1930s and before the revival
• Offers background and important precedents for the more recent practices of global co-productions and ‘Hollywood Down-under’

Australian International Pictures examines the concept and definition of Australian film in relation to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorisations of national cinema. Although international co-production is particularly acute in the present day, this book examines the porous nature of Australian International filmmaking, and the intriguing transnational and cross-cultural formations created by globally targeted but locally focussed films made in Australia in the period 1946–75.