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Author Felicity Collins

Felicity Collins

Felicity Collins teaches in Media: Screen + Sound in the School of Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University. She is the author of The Films of Gillian Armstrong and Australian Cinema After Mabo (with Therese Davis) and has published widely on history, memory and the politics of reconciliation in Australian cinema. She was chief investigator on the ARC Discovery project, Screen Comedy and the National, with Sue Turnbull and Susan Bye, and has recently edited a themed issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema on Decolonising Screens, with Jane Landman.

Native Peoples, Global Films: the Maoriland Film Festival

Felicity Collins
June 2014
Festival Reports
In the Maoriland Film Festival program notes, the mihi or welcome dedicated the inaugural festival to the memory of Aunty Borgia, a formidable figure in the local Maori community who appeared onscreen in one of...

Rachel Perkins: Creating Change Through Blackfella Films

Felicity Collins
December 2013
Contemporary Australian Filmmakers
Since her traineeship with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in 1988, Rachel Perkins has become an iconic figure of Australian Indigenous film and television. This article examines Perkins’ us...
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The Hedonistic Modernity of Sydney in They’re a Weird Mob

Felicity Collins
July 2006
Sydney on Film
Michael Powell’s 1966 satire on Australian life-style made extensive use of Sydney locations. Collins discusses a range of cultural discourses that frame conceptions of the city, both real and imaginary.
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Japanese Story: A Shift of Heart

Felicity Collins
December 2003
Australian Contemporary Cinema
This recent, multi-award winning Australian film marks a quantum leap for the Oz landscape genre film and hints at a shift in national consciousness.
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Dreaming in Motion: Five Films from Five New Filmmakers

Felicity Collins
July 2003
Australian Film Culture
Following on from Shifting Sands: From Sand to Celluloid is Dreaming in Motion, a new series of indigenous shorts. Collins takes a closer look at their thematic and formal qualities.
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Brazen Brides, Grotesque Daughters, Treacherous Mothers: Women’s Funny Business in Australian cinema from Sweetie to Holy Smoke

Felicity Collins
December 2002
Feature Articles
Contemporary Australian women filmmakers rework the romantic comedy genre to incorporate women and their experiences.
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Heaven’s Burning

Felicity Collins
September 2000
Contemporary Australian Cinema
Redefining the outback and the Oz road movie: Felicity Collins untangles what implicates her to this film.

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