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Cultivating the Audience : Adaptation as Technique in the Case of Wake in Fright for Australia’s Network 10
2023
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criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 37 no. 2 2023; (p. 279-295)'This article examines adaptation as an industrial strategy in the context of Australian commercial broadcast television. I analyse Kriv Stenders’s 2017 mini-series Wake in Fright—based on Kenneth Cook’s novel – for Network 10, Australia’s third commercial broadcaster. Wake in Fright imitates the features of ‘quality’ television, and I read the commission, development, and production of the property as a strategic technique to compete in a local industrial landscape that is under rapid (and global) transformation. I examine this production through the ‘adaptation industries’, a critical approach to adaptation that puts texts in their industrial context. I first historicize the mini-series as a distinct form of Australian television production, then I analyse the formal innovation and style of Wake in Fright and suggest that the mini-series failed to cultivate an audience due to the pressures of commercial television. Although this production may ultimately be (commercially) unsuccessful, this article suggests that it crystalizes anxieties about the future of local content on Australian television in an increasingly globalized marketplace. Approaching Australian television production through the ‘adaptation industries’ helps understand the importance of identifiably Australian content in the face of increasingly globalized streaming platforms and an internationalized broadcast sector.' (Publication abstract)
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AACTA Awards 2017 : Lion and Ali's Wedding Sweep Early Categories
2017
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essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 December 2017;'The internationally acclaimed film Lion has swept the early prizes of Australia’s biggest film and TV awards, winning seven of eight feature film categories at the industry luncheon on Monday, before the main award announcements on Wednesday.' (Introduction)
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Wake in Fright Review – TV Remake of Classic Outback Thriller Lacks Bite
2017
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essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 October 2017;'Ten’s contemporary adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s novel substitutes hard drugs for cold beer but loses its sunburnt sting.'
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Australian TV to Watch in 2017 : Big Names, New Talent and Classic Stories Revisited
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 December 2016;
— Review of Newton's Law 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Seven Types of Ambiguity 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; The Warriors 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Hoges 2016 series - publisher film/TV ; Blue Murder : Killer Cop 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Wake In Fright 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Picnic at Hanging Rock 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Olivia 2018 series - publisher film/TV -
The Problem with ... TV Reboots of Classic Films
2016
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column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 September 2016; (p. 2) The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 September 2016; (p. 4)
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Australian TV to Watch in 2017 : Big Names, New Talent and Classic Stories Revisited
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 December 2016;
— Review of Newton's Law 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Seven Types of Ambiguity 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; The Warriors 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Hoges 2016 series - publisher film/TV ; Blue Murder : Killer Cop 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Wake In Fright 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Picnic at Hanging Rock 2017 series - publisher film/TV ; Olivia 2018 series - publisher film/TV -
Wake in Fright to Get TV Treatment in Two-part Series for Network Ten
2016
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 September 2016; -
Wake in Fright Joins TV's New Wave of Literary Adaptations and Film Reboots
2016
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— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 8 September 2016; -
Outback Nightmare Returns to the Screen
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 September 2016; (p. 27) -
The Problem with ... TV Reboots of Classic Films
2016
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column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 September 2016; (p. 2) The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 September 2016; (p. 4) -
Wake in Fright Review – TV Remake of Classic Outback Thriller Lacks Bite
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 October 2017;'Ten’s contemporary adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s novel substitutes hard drugs for cold beer but loses its sunburnt sting.'