Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1 Once Upon a Time in Australia.- 2 Strictly Ballroom (1992).- 3 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996).- 4 Moulin Rouge! (2001).- 5 No. 5 The Film (2004) and Australia (2008).- 6 DVD, the Internet.- Notes.- Bibliography.- The Works.- Index.

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"Cook reveals Luhrmann as salutary model for a nationalist independent's survival in the global art/industry of movies... Recommended." - CHOICE

About the Author

PAM COOK is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. She is the editor of The Cinema Book Third Edition (2007) and Gainsborough Pictures (1997), and the author of Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema (1996), I Know Where I'm Going! (2002) and Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema (2005).

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