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Nim, living on an island in the South Pacific with her marine biologist father, is left alone when her father heads off on a research trip. When tourists approach her island, Nim, mistaking them for pirates, enlists the aid of Alexandra Rover, writer of the Alex Rover adventure series, herself a timid agoraphobic who constantly sees the main character from her books.
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The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCYk5UCdfUc (Sighted: 1/8/2012)
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Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema : Poetics and Screen Geographies
London
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Anthem Press
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2016
11063066
2016
multi chapter work
criticism
'‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ comprises eight essays, an introduction and conclusion, and the analysis of poetics and cultural geographies is focused on landmark films and television. The first section of the book, ‘Backtracks: Landscape and Identity’, refers to films from and before the revival, beginning with the 1978 film 'The Irishman' as an example of heritage cinema in which performances of gender and race, like the setting, suggest a romanticised and uncritical image of colonial Australia. It is compared to Baz Luhrmann’s 'Australia' (2008) and several other films. In the second chapter, ‘Heritage Enigmatic’, 'The Irishman' is also drawn into comparison with Charles Chauvel’s ‘Jedda’ (1955), as films that incorporate Indigenous performances in this heritage discourse through the role of voice and sound. In Part 2, ‘Silences in Paradise’, the first essay, ‘Tropical Gothic’, focuses on Rachel Perkins’s 'Radiance' (1998) as a landmark post-colonial film that questions the connotations of icons of paradise in Queensland. The discussion leads to films, in the next chapter, ‘Island Girls Friday’, that figure women on Queensland islands, spanning the pre-revival and contemporary era: ‘Age of Consent’ (1969), ‘Nim’s Island’ (2008) and ‘Uninhabited’ (2010). Part 3, ‘Masculine Dramas of the Coast’ moves to the Gold Coast, in films dating from before and since the current spike in transnational production at the Warner Roadshow film studios there, namely, 'The Coolangatta Gold' (1984), 'Peter Pan' (2003), and 'Sanctum' (2011). The final section, ‘Regional Backtracks’, turns, first, to two television series, ‘Remote Area Nurse’ (2006), and ‘The Straits’ (2012), that share unique provenance of production in the Torres Strait and far north regions of Queensland, while, in the final chapter, the iconic outback districts of western Queensland figure the convergence of land, landscape and location in films with potent perspectives on Indigenous histories in ‘The Proposition’ (2005) and ‘Mystery Road’ (2013). ‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ presents the various regions as syncretic spaces subject to transitions of social and industry practices over time.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Classic Kids' Books Turned into Classic Cinema
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 14-16) In his memories 'From a Celluloid Inspired Childhood', Jorgensen discusses mainly books by American and English authors. -
The Girl with the Bush Knife : Women, Adventure and the Tropics in Age of Consent and Nim’s Island
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , no. 9 2010; 'Our paper broadly concerns the distinction of our cinematic heroines, Cora in Age of Consent (dir. Michael Powell 1969) and Nim of Nim's Island (d. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, 2008), from the more typical 'bush women' of Australian cinema and literature. The figure of our title, the 'girl with the bush knife', is a kind of marine creature, vividly captured in Age of Consent beneath tropical waters, mermaid-like but arguably a modified mermaid, while Nim of Nim's Island is an androgynous child adventurer descended from a swag of male mariners, whose several accessories include a bush knife. Their appearances in films 40 years apart are as much the object of inquiry in this paper as the femininities they perform, in that these films also represent minor milestones in Australian cinema at points at which the film industry has undergone change. The contexts of these changes are somehow signified, we suggest, by the use of tropical locations and settings, and we are therefore drawing attention to the way these female characters are accompanied by the spectacle of the tropical place in its difference from the more mythologised bush and desert landscapes of Australian mise-en-scene. Indeed, both Age of Consent and Nim's Island use locations in Queensland to fictionalize settings that are either in or towards Queensland, and both adapt the well established symbology of Eden, paradise and epic journey, that are defined in studies of Queensland in film and television by Bruce Molloy (1990) and Albert Moran (2001). But whereas Molloy and Moran largely concentrate on films produced by Australian interests within the ambit of a local film industry, our films are both instances of films made by international interests, with a degree of local involvement and capital, on visitations to 'locations less used', namely North and Far North Queensland.' (Author's abstract) -
Family Flick Helps Drama Queen Jodie See the Light
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian , 20 March 2010; (p. 3) -
Nature's Child
2008
single work
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— Appears in: Brisbane News , 26 March - 1 April no. 678 2008; (p. 25)
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Fantasy Island
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 April 2008; (p. 14)
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Seal of Childhood Approval
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 April 2008; (p. 23)
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Tropical Fun for Kids and Nostalgic Adults
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 April 2008; (p. 14)
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Fantasy Realised as Island Tale Becomes Hot Hollywood Property
2007
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— Appears in: The Age , 23 June 2007; (p. 13) -
How it Feels to Have a Book Turned Into a Film
2008
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: The Age , 8 January 2008; (p. 5) -
Nothing Silences This Feisty Lamb - Except Kids
2008
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 March 2008; (p. 3) -
Santa Monica and the LA Dream Factory
2007
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— Appears in: Australian Author , April vol. 39 no. 1 2007; (p. 34) -
From Story to Film
2008
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— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , June/July no. 179 2008; (p. 6-7)
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