Is There a Crisis in the Australian Film Industry?
Introduction
This essay explores the popularity of Australian film, both locally and internationally and asks the question: Is there a crisis in the Australian Film Industry? This essay will go through the current issues the Australian Film Industry and will demonstrate examples of those problems.
To understand why Australian movies are the way they are now, there must be a review of the history of the films produced in Australia, because through out time, the films have had successes as well as some failures.
The first one is the economical issue, reviewing the screen policy with a particular reference on the 10BA tax incentive. Then making a brief reference of the recent film Australia (Baz Luhrmann, 2008) and Red Dog (Kriv Stenders, 2011), an analysis will be conducted to understand how does the films promote a national culture and how does it help to construct an imagined community to help in the acknowledgement of a national identity. (Anderson, 1983)
The Australian Film Industry has had its successes, still the content of the films fail to represent the whole Australian culture, as well the subsidy made by the government has proved to be a bad investment due to the results of the box office on a local and international scale.
Australian film industry has come a long way, from the first full length feature film in 1906, “The Story of the Kelly Gang”, to more commercial productions such as “Mad Max” (1979), to what now a days is being watched in the local theaters such as “Red Dog” (2011) or the movie “Australia” (2008).While the beginnings of the Australian film industry were promising, for the quick development it had, it soon came to a halt because of the domination of the American and British film industries, making more difficult for local productions to get screenings (Winter, 2007).
By 1990 the Australian film industry came to rise once again, and brought with it experienced and talented filmmakers, such as George Miller, Baz Luhrmann,
This essay explores the popularity of Australian film, both locally and internationally and asks the question: Is there a crisis in the Australian Film Industry? This essay will go through the current issues the Australian Film Industry and will demonstrate examples of those problems.
To understand why Australian movies are the way they are now, there must be a review of the history of the films produced in Australia, because through out time, the films have had successes as well as some failures.
The first one is the economical issue, reviewing the screen policy with a particular reference on the 10BA tax incentive. Then making a brief reference of the recent film Australia (Baz Luhrmann, 2008) and Red Dog (Kriv Stenders, 2011), an analysis will be conducted to understand how does the films promote a national culture and how does it help to construct an imagined community to help in the acknowledgement of a national identity. (Anderson, 1983)
The Australian Film Industry has had its successes, still the content of the films fail to represent the whole Australian culture, as well the subsidy made by the government has proved to be a bad investment due to the results of the box office on a local and international scale.
Australian film industry has come a long way, from the first full length feature film in 1906, “The Story of the Kelly Gang”, to more commercial productions such as “Mad Max” (1979), to what now a days is being watched in the local theaters such as “Red Dog” (2011) or the movie “Australia” (2008).While the beginnings of the Australian film industry were promising, for the quick development it had, it soon came to a halt because of the domination of the American and British film industries, making more difficult for local productions to get screenings (Winter, 2007).
By 1990 the Australian film industry came to rise once again, and brought with it experienced and talented filmmakers, such as George Miller, Baz Luhrmann,