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1 Untitled Belinda Smaill , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 25 no. 1 2011; (p. 132 - 134)
— Review of Diasporas of Australian Cinema 2009 anthology criticism
1 Asian Australian Intercultural Domesticity in Aya and The Home Song Stories Belinda Smaill , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , March vol. 35 no. 1 2011; (p. 19-32) 'Interracial couples at home, within the bounds of domesticity and the nation, offer difficult or somehow troubled subject matter that is seldom confronted on screen in Australian cinema. This essay explores the representation of intercultural domesticity in Aya and The Home Song Stories. It draws on theorisations of melodrama and national cinema in order to examine the figure of the first generation Asian Australian woman. I argue that while focused on the domestic realm, the inter-personal relationships and character construction in the two examples formulate an historicised politics of disappointment that not only explores the position of migrant women in interracial marriages in the 1960s and 1970s, when the films were set, but also suggest a critique of the politics of ethnicity that were prevalent at the time of the production of the films.' Source: The author.
1 The Cowra Breakout Belinda Smaill , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Making Film and Television Histories : Australia and New Zealand 2011; (p. 133-137)
1 y separately published work icon Studies in Australasian Cinema Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, Part 1 vol. 2 no. 2 Olivia Khoo (editor), Belinda Smaill (editor), Audrey Yue (editor), 2008 Z1753400 2008 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Studies in Australasian Cinema Transnational Asian Australian Cinema, Part 2 vol. 2 no. 3 Olivia Khoo (editor), Belinda Smaill (editor), Audrey Yue (editor), 2008 11378520 2008 periodical issue
1 Disorientations : Sadness, Mourning and the Unhomely Belinda Smaill , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 161-169; notes 241)

Focuses on the way the narratives relating to family and history in Yang's Sadness provide an avenue for the re-articulation of discourses of nationhood in an Australian historical context.
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