Making a meal of it : writing about film

Making a meal of it : writing about film / Brian McFarlane ; introduction by Ian Britain.

For more than forty years, readers of The Age newspaper have learned about the latest films through the interpretations and judgements of Brian McFarlane, now himself a Melbourne institution of sorts. Over that time McFarlane's reviews of and articles on film have also featured in Australian Bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McFarlane, Brian, 1934- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2018.
Edition:[CA & US version].
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > History.
Motion pictures > Criticism and interpretation.
Film criticism.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Biography.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Film criticism
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion pictures
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Front; Title Page; Imprint and Copyright Information; Dedication; Contents; Introduction, by Ian Britain; PART I: Starters; Film Reviews; 1. My Brilliant Career; 2. Nijinsky; 3. Gallipoli; 4. 84 Charing Cross Road; 5. Hope and Glory; 6. Comrades; 7. The Whales of August; 8. There's a Lot Going On in Australia: Baz Luhrmann's Claim to the Epic; 9. Shakespeare's Brave New World and Julie Taymor's Tempest; 10. The Odd Couple: Language and Life Lessons in The King's Speech; 11. Cloudstreet anew.
  • 12. The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes On Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm13. A Tale of Two Terences: The Deep Blue Sea; 14. Much Ado About Nothing: 'Oh, what a merry war'; 15. Shuttlecock: What Maisie Knew; 16. All That Glitters ... The Great Gatsby; 17. No Surrender: Suffragette; 18. Taking the Plunge: The Water Diviner; 19. Sunset Song; Book Reviews; 20. Ealing Studios; 21. Days of their Lives; 22. Some Kind of a Man. Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life; 23. Conjuring the Rebel without a Pause. The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean.
  • 24. A Cinema Torpid But Not Terminal. Icons in the Fire: The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody25. Flaunting Your Perfections. The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story; 26. Hepburn Springs Eternal. Kate; 27. A Poignant Tale Worth Playing Again. Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography; 28. Australian Screen Classics. Alvin Purple; 29. I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film; 30. The Spellbinder. God of Speed; 31. 'He really was a contender'. Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando.
  • 32. Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema33. 'Mommie dearest' Just One Role Among Many. Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford; 34. One Man in His Time. John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star; 35. Out of the Dark. I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile; 36. Routes of Passage. Stillways. The Long Road to Overnight Success; 37. John Wayne: The Life and Legend; 38. The Trouble with Ackroyd. Alfred Hitchcock; PART II: Mains; 39. The Biography Industry: Creatures Great and Mostly Small; 40. Local/Global: The Bank and Lantana.
  • 41. Mothers: Some Kids do 'ave 'em42. Portraits in Celluloid; 43. Shooting Minds; 44. Size Doesn't Matter: Big Stupid Films; 45. Country Towns in Australian Films: Trap or Comfort Zone?; 46. From Rock of Ages to Rock 'n' Roll; 47. Softly and Tenderly ... ; 48. Finding Ourselves in Australian Films; 49. A Curmudgeon's Canon: Random Thoughts on Summer Heights High, The Office and Other Nasty Pleasur; 50. How Weird Does this Mob Still Seem?; 51. Kath & Kimderella: From Box to Multiplex; 52. The Voice of a Generation; PART III: Afters
  • or Just Deserts.

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