| journal - 'R' is for Road Sight and Sound 11 V7. pp.22 - 28 |
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Leslie Dick
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Leslie Dick begins his article by recounting the history of the Road Movie, stating that "the social fragmentation that resulted" from World War 2 with, ".....[full record]
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| newspaper - A New Star Waits to be Born The Daily Telegraph. 06-10-1976. p.42 |
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Peter Grimshaw
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A brief article, detailing that M & L Casting is "searching for a young man to make into an overnight star"(42)
The representative for the casting agency s...[full record]
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| journal - A Picture Worth a Thousand Boring Statistical Surveys The National Times. p.50 |
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Of central protagonists Anne and Kevin's relationship in the 'F.J. Holden', P. P. McGuinness states; "...The very sparseness of the detail of that relations...[full record]
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| journal - At Last, The 1976 Suburbia Show. The Bulletin V98. p.54 |
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Sandra Hall
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On the set of 'The F.J. Holden' Sandra Hall interviews director Michael Thornhill.
Thornhill comments that, at the time, there had not been a suburban Au...[full record]
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| book - Australian Cinema : Chapter 8: Australia and the Australians. . 00-00-1994 |
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Philip Adams,
Scott Murray,
Scott editor
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| The book features a general overview of Australian film culture, including essays, stills and lists of directors.[full record]
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| journal - Contrasts in 'style' and content - and possibly in aim... Theatre Australia. 01-07-1977. p.72 |
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Elizabeth Riddell
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In her article, Riddle critiques that "..there is not much of 'The F.J. Holden' that is boring, but a good deal of it is repetitive, scenes go on too long a...[full record]
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| book - Critical Business, The New Australian Cinema in Review . 00-00-1985 |
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Sandra Hall
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| How Between Wars serve to remind Australians about their place in history and how The F.J. Holden represents the life-styles of some kids living in Sydney's ...[full record]
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| journal - Crossing the Frontiers Sight and Sound 1 V4. pp.14 - 17 |
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Michael Atkinson
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| Atkinson provides a concisive overview to the genre of the Road Movie, stating that cinematically, it is "...the Last Chance Gas Station on the movie map, re...[full record]
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| journal - Defining a New Genre/Part 1: The Road Movie Lumiere. pp.22 - 25 |
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Graham Barry
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As the title suggests, Barry attempts to provide a definition for what he considers the 'new' genre of the Road Movie, exasperating that genres "...have thi...[full record]
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| journal - Defining a New Genre/Part 2: The Expanding Influence of the Road Movie. Lumiere. pp.24 - 27 |
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Graham Barry
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| In the beginning of this article, Barry poses the question "..So what is genre for anyway"(p. 27), answering "...Genre is... a frame for reference for a seri...[full record]
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| journal - Detours: Delusion, a new road movie, prompts reflections on noir. Film Comment V27. pp.2 - 4 |
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Donald Lyons
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Lyons begins the article with the statement "..Roads. Not so much cars, but roads. Highways. They are a terrain, subject, metaphor - a subtext that devours ...[full record]
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| newspaper - F.J. Bankstown Nation Review. pp.6 - 7 |
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Bob Ellis
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While commending the film, Ellis ponders who its potential audience will be, as, he assumes, its social realism will be too confronting for most audiences. ...[full record]
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| journal - F.J. Holden Filmnews 3 V7. p.10 |
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Barbara Alysen,
Tina Liber
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Alysen and Liber talk to Thornhill about the technicalities of making a feature with a then contemporary theme - youth in the Western suburbs - non-professi...[full record]
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| journal - Good Work Lacking in Direction The Bulletin V99. p.65 |
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Sandra Hall
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| Sandra Hall opens the article with the statement that "...when Michael Thornhill was writing film reviews for The Australian he seemed most to enjoy mauling ...[full record]
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| journal - Hot Car Films and Cool Individualism, or 'What We Have Here is a Lack of Respect For the Law' Cineaste 4 V8. pp.12 - 15 |
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Andrew Horton
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In his article, Horton appropriates his own moniker for Road Movies, 'Hot Car Films', as being a more succinct way of describing car culture in films, as th...[full record]
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| journal - Letters - The F.J. Holden Filmnews V7. p.2 |
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Helen Hooper
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A scathing response to both 'The F.J. Holden' and Meg Stewart's review of the film published in Filmnews a month previous. Some of the highlights are;
"I...[full record]
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| journal - Letters - The F.J. Holden Lives On Filmnews 6 V7. p.2 |
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Meg Stewart
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Here, Meg Stewart responds to a letter which was responding to her review of 'The F.J Holden'
Yes, things have become quite confusing!
To Helen Hooper, t...[full record]
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| newspaper - Mike's Golden Holden The Australian. 11-03-1977 |
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Maria Prerauer
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| Maria talks to Thornhill about his second feature film, the F.J. Holden.
[full record]
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| book - New Australian Cinema . 00-00-1992 |
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Brian McFarlane,
Geoff Mayer
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| Explains Thornhill's views about cinema in Australian context and his partnership with Moorehouse on The Everlasting Secret Family. Thornhill's role in the T...[full record]
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| newspaper - New Rating Sought For 'Holden' The Age. 06-05-1977. p.51 |
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Author Unknown
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The article cites the controversy surrounding 'The F.J. Holden' when it was released. While the film was originally classified with an 'R' rating by the Co...[full record]
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| journal - Reviews - The F.J. Holden Filmnews 4 V7. p.8 |
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Meg Stewart
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In her review, Stewart rebukes the claims that were circulating at the time that 'The F.J. Holden' was Australia's 'American Grafitti', stating that "...if ...[full record]
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| journal - Ridley Scott's Road Work Sight and Sound 3 V1. pp.18 - 19 |
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Amy Taubin
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| Amy Taubin interviews director of Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott. Throughout the article, both interviewer and interviewee argue about the end of 'Thelma a...[full record]
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| book - Road Movies: The Complete Guide to Cinema on Wheels. . 00-00-1982 |
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Mark Williams
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While Williams' text is primarily a catalogue of Road Movies, in the fourteen page introduction he helpfully delineates a number of ways in which one can po...[full record]
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| journal - Roads to Freedom Sight and Sound 3 V1. pp.14 - 17 |
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Manhola Dargis
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Throughout her article, Dargis investigates the notion of the Road Movie being primarily driven by the male individual whereby the genre "..makes literal th...[full record]
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| journal - Smash! Bang! Crash! - Car Culture in Film. American Film - Journal of the Film and Television Arts. 2 V2. pp.24 - 30 |
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Julian Smith
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Smith goes to New World Pictures, the corporate projection of the legendary Roger Corman, "..America's foremost purveyor of primarily nonpornographic exploi...[full record]
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| book - The Australian Film Book, 1930-Today . 00-00-1985 |
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Simon Brand
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| Nothing interestingly enough to be documented.[full record]
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| journal - The F.J. Holden Variety 13 V286. p.23 |
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Mike Harris
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Of Thornhills microcosm for the youth of contemporary society, Harris sadly states that "...these are the next generation of the (not-so-much silent as) ina...[full record]
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| journal - The F.J. Holden - Film Reviews Cinema Papers. 01-07-1977. pp.77 - 78 |
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Susan Dermody
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In this article Dermody praises director Michael Thornhill's handling of social realism in The F.J. Holden, stating that "..the best thing about [the film] ...[full record]
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| journal - The Genres are American: Australian Narrative, Australian Film and the Problems of Genre Film Literature Quarterly 2 V21. pp.102 - 112 |
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Graeme Turner
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In his article, Turner states that "..Cultures define themselves in opposition to other cultures, by establishing what they are not. In most cultural arena...[full record]
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| chapter - The Last New Wave, The Australian Film Revival : Will The Real Filmmaker Please Stand Up . 00-00-1980. pp.83-95 |
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David Stratton
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| [full record]
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| book - The Road Movie Book . 00-00-1997 |
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Steven Cohan,
Delia Falconer,
Shari Roberts
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The numerous essays within this text account for wartime Road Movies in "Mapping Boundaries, Hitler Can't Keep 'Em That Long: The Road, The People", to femi...[full record]
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| chapter - The Saga of Australian Film 1896 - 1978. : Ch 6: Ups and Downs . 00-00-1979. pp.241 - 347 |
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Eric Reade
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| Evidently not understanding the conventions of either a musical nor a road movie, Eric Reade states; "..one of the main faults with Oz is that bursts of dial...[full record]
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| book - The Screening of Australia, Anatomy of a National Cinema (Volume 2) . 00-00-1988 |
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Susan Dermody,
Elizabeth Jacka
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| Is a extensive look at Australian film culture and the history of Australian Cinema. This volume discusses the anatomy of Australian films since the 1970s re...[full record]
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| chapter - The Screening of Australia: Anatomy of a National Cinema Vol. 2. : The Second Phase (1976 - 1980) Seeming Respectability. . 00-00-1986. pp.110 - 151 |
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Susan Dermody,
Elizabeth Jacka
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Dermody and Jacka make interesting observations into the miens of the Road Movie genre observed by 'Oz' whereby "..maleness is both a threat and the lure in...[full record]
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| journal - What a Trip: The Road Film and American Culture. Journal of Film and Video 1. pp.41 - 57 |
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David Laderman
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Laderman discusses that the cultural roots of the road film are returning to a literary tradition "focused on voyaging which in turn reflects an ideology of...[full record]
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| journal - What Mad Pursuit: Car Culture in Film American Film: Journal of the Film and Television Arts. 10 V1. pp.49 - 53 |
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Julian Smith
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In this article, Smith poses the question "...what is car culture in the movies?"(49), he then goes on to answer his question stating "...the tip of this me...[full record]
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