Australian cinema: an anachronism in the 1980s?

Abstract

The author has set out to build on the analysis established in the first two volumes, but to break the time barrier, to make this a fairly complete summation of the state of the industry in the late '80s, and at the true end of the 'epoch' of 10BA funding. To this end, the two lengthy four-chapter studies by Elizabeth Jacka serve to update, the analysis from previous publications of the nature of the financial and institutional constraints and desires of the film industry since 1984/85, and also studies of the pattern of cinema that corresponds and contributes to them.