The Adolescent Nation
Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film

Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- I ADOLESCENCE - NATION - FILM: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 1 Introduction - Adolescence and the Nation -- 1.1 The Adolescent Nation: National Fictions of Becoming -- 1.2 The Adolescent Nation: Coming of Age in Film -- 2 Young Australia and the Potential of Adolescence -- 2.1 Concepts of the 'Child' in a Colonial and Postcolonial Context -- 2.2 The History of Young Australia -- 2.3 Colonial Cartoon Images: The Little Boy from Manly -- 2.4 Constructions of the 'Poor Child' -- 2.5 Conceptualising the Liminal: Classical Theories of Coming of Age -- 2.6 Coming of Age in Australian Films -- 2.7 Coming of Age in ‚Toomelah' -- 3 The Coming of Age Narrative in Australian Film History -- 3.1 Australian National Cinema -- 3.2 Before the Australian New Wave -- 3.3 The 1970s: Australianness and History -- 3.3.1 The Period Films -- 3.3.2 The Ocker Films -- 3.4 The 1980s: Nationalism and Nostalgia -- 3.4.1 The Male Ensemble Film and its Other -- 3.4.2 The Nostalgic Teen Film -- 3.5 The 1990s: Eccentricity and Individuality -- 3.5.1 The "quota quirky" -- 3.5.2 Internationalising the Teen Film -- 3.5.3 The Multicultural Moment -- 3.6 The 2000s: Cinema after Mabo -- II COMING OF AGE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AUSTRALIA -- 1 A Journey In-Between: The Road Movie -- 1.1 The Road in Cinema -- 1.1.1 The Role of the Landscape -- 1.1.2 Children on the Road -- 1.2 The Indigenous 'No Road' Film -- 1.2.1 The Road to Sovereignty in ‚Beneath Clouds' -- 1.2.2 The Indigenous Buddy Road Comedy ‚Stone Bros.' -- 1.3 Stories of Migration in Asian Australian Film -- 1.3.1 The Role of Cars and Mobility in ‚Lucky Miles' -- 1.3.2 In-Between Lands: Boat People in ‚Mother Fish' -- 2 Disrupted Families and Delinquent Youth: Stories of Crime.