Sex, art and sophistication: the meanings of 'Continental' cinema.
From the late 1930s until the early 1970s, foreign language films were commonly categorised by Australian film exhibitors and distributors as 'Continental'. Continental films were earmarked for exhibition to audiences described as 'discerning' and 'sophisticated', epithets which distinguished their...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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