Olivia Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University.
Chapter 1: Reframing Australian Cinema: Transnationalism, Ethics, and Asian Australian Cinema
Part A. Reframing National Cinema History
Chapter 2: Asian Stereotypes in 1920s Australian Cinema: The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Lover
Chapter 3: Colombo Plan Documentary: Australia and Asia in the Postwar Era
Chapter 4: The Transnationalisation of the Australian Western: Japanese-Australian Productions in the Late 1960s
Part B. Australia's Film Renaissance and Beyond: Uneasy Cinematic Encounters
Chapter 5: Romance, Entrepreneurialism and the Intercultural Couple
Chapter 6: The Global Back of Beyond: Ethics and the Asian Australian Road Movie
Chapter 7: Landscape Cinema: Asianness and Indigeneity
Part C. Networks and Technologies: Contemporary Asian Australian Cinema
Chapter 8: New Ethics in the Asian Australian Short Film
Chapter 9: The Community Cultural Development of Action Cinema
Chapter 10: Co-productions and New Queer Paradigms for Mobilities and Migration
This book provides the first in-depth study of a history of Asian Australian cinema. Structured through case studies that progress chronologically, the book examines Australian cinema's transnationality through its under-examined cinematic encounters with Asia.