This article proposes that Tom O’Regan’s Australian National Cinema book is best understood among the contexts from which it emerged and, in this process, repositions the magnum opus of his scholarly career, as a post-national theorising of the national cinema formation in terms of ‘an unprincipled assemblage’ and a discursive multiplicity.
CroftsS (1993) Reconceptualising national cinema/s. Quarterly Review of Film and Video14(3): 49–67.
2.
CurthoysAMueckeS (1993) Australia, for example. In: HudsonWCarterD (eds) The Republicanism Debate. Sydney, NSW, Australia: New South Wales University Press, pp. 177–200.
3.
GibsonR (1984) The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson.
4.
HaywardS (1993) French National Cinema. London: Routledge.
5.
HigsonA (1989) The concept of national cinema. Screen30(4): 36–46.
6.
HigsonA (1995) Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
7.
HjortMMacKenzieS (eds) (2000) Cinema and Nation. London: Routledge.
8.
IversonGSoderbergh WiddingASoilaT (eds) (1998) Nordic National Cinema. London: Routledge.
9.
KingNVerevisCWilliamsD (2013) Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Vol. 1: Critical Positions. Bristol; Chicago, IL: Intellect.
10.
MoranA (1991) Projecting Australia: Government Film since 1945. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Currency.
11.
MoranAO’ReganT (1983) Two discourses of Australian cinema. Australian Journal of Screen Theory15–16: 163–173.
12.
MoranAO’ReganT (eds) (1985) An Australian Film Reader. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Currency.
13.
MoranAO’ReganT (eds) (1989) The Australian Screen. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Penguin.
14.
O’ReganT (1981) On screen. Intervention15: 44–62.
15.
O’ReganT (1982) Ride the high country: the Man from Snowy River and Australian popular culture. Filmnews, September, pp. 8–9.
16.
O’ReganT (1983) Australian film making: its public circulation. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media22–23: 31–36.
17.
O’ReganT (1993) Australian Television Culture. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
18.
O’ReganT (1996) Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge.
19.
RowseT (1978) Australian Liberalism and National Character. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Kibble Books.
20.
SorlinP (1996) Italian National Cinema 1896–1996. London: Routledge.
21.
SternL (1979–1980) Feminism and cinema-exchanges. Screen20: 90–105.
22.
StrattonJAngI (1994) Multicultural imagined communities: cultural difference and national identity in Australia and the USA. Critical Multiculturalism8(2): 124–158.
23.
StreetS (1997) British National Cinema. London: Routledge.
24.
ThompsonK (1996) Nation, national identity and the international cinema. Film History8(3): 259–260.
25.
TurnerG (1993) National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative. St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
26.
WhiteR (1981) Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688–1980. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin.
27.
WillemenP (1982) Remarks on screen: introductory notes for a history of Screen. Southern Review15(1): 80–91.
28.
WillemenP (1994) The national. In: WillemenP (ed.) Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory. London: B.F.I.; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 206–219.
