The way we watch favours global cultural diversity over Australian content It would be a culturally ideal scenario if the way Australian’s watched favoured global cultural diversity including Australian content. However, this is not the case, with our viewing behaviors instead favouring Hollywood productions. When it comes to finding a movie to watch, be it… Continue reading Straight Out of Hollywood

Australian jobs are more important than Australian culture Cross national casting, transnational co productions, location incentives and runaway productions It is difficult to differentiate whether Australian jobs or Australian culture are more important. Ultimately Australian culture is more important overall, though this does not mean that Australian jobs are not important. Here we will see… Continue reading Are Australian co-productions the way forward?

Any attention is good attention When it comes to the Australian content industry is any attention good attention? Australian films have a longstanding history of featuring the Australian landscape, something that generally makes a film notably Australian and typically portrays a notion of ‘Australian identity’. The landscape of Australia is something unique to our country,… Continue reading Destination Australia

The problem isn’t Australian films, its Australian audiences. Australian audiences are often blamed for not valuing Australian cinema and heavily critiquing it. While this may be true, and clearly not all Australian cinema is ‘good’ cinema, there seems to be more to the story than just the audience themselves. When it comes to Australian films,… Continue reading It’s not Australian audiences, it’s marketing and distribution

What can the case of Ozploitation tell us about the Australian film industry? Ozploitation shows us the history of Australian cinema and gives us an insight into the Australian film industry and the way films used to be made and funded. It opens the question of whether or not we should continue to make these… Continue reading Ozploitation and the Australian Film Industry

What are the key assumptions surrounding the production of Australian content? Week one we began to think about the assumptions surrounding Australian content, focusing on Australian film. It’s not uncommon to hear Aussies bad-mouth their homegrown films, often deemed stereotypical, unsuccessful, culturally narrow-minded, and D-grade in comparison to Hollywood models. With many of our films… Continue reading Key Assumptions Surrounding Australian Content

Assessment 1 – What’s wrong with the Australian Film Industry – A history of market failure and the cultural significance Australian media content is largely centered around the Australian film industry. Beginning in the 1900’s with bush ranger films, the industry has continued to grow and change and be a source of entertainment for the domestic… Continue reading What’s wrong with the Australian film industry? – a short opinion piece

This two part case study will investigate the topic of fan activism as a component of global media and explore some of the inequalities fan activist initiatives are trying to address, as well as discussing how they are addressing them through global media interventions. PART ONE So what exactly is fan activism?  Henry Jenkins who is… Continue reading Fan Activism and the Harry Potter Alliance – a revised case study