Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 'A Realist Film Unit and Association in Australia' - Page 21 - Deane Williams Chapter 2: 'Cecil Holmes's Folk Politics: The Intertextuality of Three in One' - Page 51 - Deane Williams Chapter 3: 'John Heyer's Inernational Perspective: The Overlanders, The Valley is Ours, The Back of Beyond' - Page 83 - Deane Williams Chapter 4: 'The Neo-Realism of Mike and Stefani' - Page 113 - Deane Williams Chapter 5: 'Settler Journeys' - Page 141 - Deane Williams

About the Author

Deane Williams is Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published widely on realist film including Australian film history and documentary film history. He is the editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film.

Reviews

"In looking closely at a small and seemingly insignificant site of documentary production, Williams has also given us a much broader vision." - Ross Gibson, University of Technology, Sydney "Deane Williams re-evaluates Australian documentary film production after World War 2, positioning it as part of an international left culture, which can embrace producers as different as the Realist Film Unit, Cecil Holmes, John Heyer and Maslyn Williams. He invites readers on an always enlightening and often exciting journey, through a complex web of people and films and events, to view Australian culture through the documentary film "arc of mirrors". - Associate Professor Ina Bertrand, University of Melbourne "Australian Postwar Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors is a thoroughly and painstakingly researched study of its subject, which draws upon a wealth of new oral and other forms of historical resource related to the Australian labour movement and associated film-making." - Ian Aitken, De Montford University "With erudition and insight, Deane Williams in this book reconstructs a previously obscured era of documentary cinema in Australia, shedding light on the network of affiliations and associations that underlay the making of a cluster of compelling, politically charged documentary films in the postwar era [...] This is an immensely thoughtful and timely contribution to the growing literature on the history of documentary cinema." - Charles Wolfe, University of California, Santa Barbara "So readers are taken on an always enlightening and often exciting journey, through a complex web of people and films and events, to view Australian culture through the documentary film "arc of mirrors". - Screening the Past