- Title
- No matter how far you run; Looking for Alibrandi and coming of age in Italo-Australian Cinema and girlhood
- Creator
- Speed, Lesley
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/63421
- Identifier
- vital:830
- Identifier
- ISSN:1328-9756
- Identifier
- https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/213013870.pdf
- Abstract
- Looking for Alibrandi (Australia, 2000) is significant not only because it is the financially most successful Australian teen film and winner of five AFI awards. This film has also played an important role in increasing the cinematic profile of Italo-Australians. It has attracted audiences that exceed the hitherto limited markets for most Italo-Australians films and expanded the source novel's predominantly teenage readership. Looking for Alibrandi can be linked to Italo-Australian cinema's shift away from social realism and towards market-driven entertainment. The film presents a utopian and revisionist view of Australian society, challenging monolithic characterisations of Australian society in terms of a patriarchal, Anglo-Celtic, middle-class mainstream. The dissolution of this monolithic mythology is implicit in Josie Alibrandi's dawning recognition that Australian society involves complex intersections of class, generation, gender, ethnicity and locality. The film thus alludes to a coming of age that is both social and subjective, encompassing the increased cinematic profile of Italo-Australians in general and Italo-Australian femininity in particular. Josie's social and subjective coming-of-age culminates in the question of reconciliation with Anglo-Australian masculinity.; C1
- Publisher
- Online LaTrobe University
- Relation
- Screening the Past Vol. 19, no. (2006), p. 1-15
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright LaTrobe University
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1905 Visual Arts and Crafts; Looking for Alibrandi; Femininity; Italo-Australians; Film
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