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Ian Craven Ian Craven i(A140209 works by) (a.k.a. Ian Peter Craven)
Gender: Male
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1 Avuncular Question Marks Ian Craven , 2013- single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2013;
— Review of The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , 2013 single work novel
1 A Man of Qualities Ian Craven , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 February 2013; (p. 4-5)
1 Dream Factory Seen through Australian Eyes Ian Craven , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 32-33)
— Review of The Shadowcatchers : A History of Cinematography in Australia Martha Ansara , 2012 single work criticism
1 By All Means Break All the Rules, but Let the Stars Come Out for the Play is Alawys the Thing Ian Craven , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 November 2011; (p. 15)
1 Southern Stars and Secret Lives : International Exchange in Australian Television Ian Craven , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 51-67) 'The Secret Life of Us is a 'high end' television drama series, defined by 'adult themes, sexual references and low-level coarse language', first screened in Australia and the United Kingdom in mid-2001, and surviving for four seasons until late 2005. Developed by Southern Star, with the Ten Network, and Optus Television (a US-based pay TV service), it was the first Australian drama series to be commissioned by the United Kingdom's Channel 4. Eighty-six episodes were screened prior to cancellation. At the peak of its popularity, the series had been sold into a dozen or so (mostly European) territories, and against the usual odds, secured airtime in the United States, where it was picked up by Trio, a small west-coast cable network. It gained positive critical recognition, and fared well at television markets worldwide. Back in Australia, commentators linked the show with the return of the Ten Network to 'credible' drama after a hiatus of two decades (Sams 2001, 37), and with the emergence of a 'sophisticated and quirky' youth sub-genre (Idato 2000, 2), before enthusiasm cooled around series two and three, and series four drew the by now largely neglected narrative to its almost unnoticed conclusion. The project offers a suggestive case study of momentary trends in domestic drama production, within material received as confidently articulating Australia's globalizing television culture at the millennium, inviting exploration of what John Hartley (1992, 102) has seen as the fundamental 'impurity' of national television, and the productivity of its identification as a 'fundamental criterion for cultural studies'.' (Author's introduction p. 51)
1 Historicizing Transition in Australian Cinema : The Moment of Emerald City Ian Craven , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 1 no. 1 2007; (p. 29-46) 'This article maps a series of connections between the feature film Emerald City (1988) and a range of contexts seen as informing its generation, operation and reception. Emphasis is placed upon the synchronicity of the movie's appearance with key shifts in government film policy, and the emergence of new critical paradigms within the academy, which reorganized dominant understandings of Australian cinema, and questioned the cultural value assigned to particular works and genres. Through this 'conjunctural' analysis, Emerald City is reread as not only a symptomatic work, marking transitions between "new wave" film-making and the 'post-national' cinema of the 1990s, but is re-evaluated as a significant film, provocative of fresh approaches to both the historiography and practical management of Australian cinema, detectable within more recent archaeologies of screen 'content' and the rhetorics of film policy formulated in its wake. Source: Studies in Australasian Cinema 1.1 (2007): 29. (Sighted 01/09/2009).
1 y separately published work icon Australian Studies vol. 16 no. 2 Winter Ian Craven (editor), 2001 Z1060596 2001 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Australian Studies vol. 14 no. 1-2 Summer/Winter Ian Craven (editor), 1999 London : Frank Cass Publishers , 2001 Z943338 1999 periodical issue A collection of critical articles and reviews which offer a "series of overlapping but distinct perspectives on Australian cinema" of the 1990s.
1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Studies no. 7 November Ian Craven (editor), 1993 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 Z154739 1993 periodical issue
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