Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Objective: To outline the strengths and limitations of longitudinal research designs in psychiatry, and to describe different types of longitudinal designs and methods for analyzing longitudinal data. Method: Key references on longitudinal methods were reviewed and examples drawn from literature in psychiatry and psychology. Results: Longitudinal studies provide important information regarding the incidence and developmental trajectories of mental disorders. They allow for identification of risk factors and developmental concomitants. Recent developments in statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data provide efficient estimates of change and predictors of change over time, identification and characteristics of distinct subgroups defined by change pattern, and improved methods for obtaining unbiased population estimates when data are incomplete. Conclusion: Longitudinal designs, methods and analysis can contribute to psychiatric studies on risk factors for common mental disorders, studies of early intervention and prevention and treatment outcomes.

By assessing the historical and contemporary relationships between American and Australian cinemas, this collection sets out to encourage future studies on a growing field of inquiry. Its concentration on the complex historical and contemporary relationships between these two cinemas taps directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Hollywood and  Australia.  To explore this idea, a range of chapters investigate the influence that Australia has had on US cinema through the exportation of its stars, directors and other production personnel to Hollywood; while many of the other chapters chart the sustained influence of US cinema on Australia over the last 100 years. The authors represented in this book re-examine the concept and definition of Australian cinema in regard to a range of local, international and global practices and trends that blur neat categorizations of Australian national cinema. Although this concentration on US production, or influence, is particularly acute in relation to such developments as the opening of international film studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast over the last 30 years, this book also examines a range of Hollywood financed and/or conceived films shot in Australia since the 1920s. Furthermore it surveys Hollywood models of production and genre, as well as American distribution and exhibition networks, that have altered the way Australians go to the cinema, the type of films they watch, and the kinds of movies they make. This book takes two key points in time - the 1920s and 1930s and the last 20 years - to chart the ongoing, shifting, resistant and dependent relationships between Australian and US cinema and how particular patterns of localism, nationalism, colonialism, transnationalism and globalization have shaped its course over the last century.

implemented the finite mixture model approach to clustering in a program called MULTIMIX. The program is designed to cluster multivariate data that have categorical and continuous variables and that possibly contain missing values. This paper describes the approach taken to design MULTIMIX and how some of the statistical problems were dealt with. As an example, the program is used to cluster a large medical dataset.

Shining A Light: 50 Years of the AFI traces the progress of the film and television industries as well as screen culture within Australia over the past half century, through the lens of one organisation, the Australian Film Institute (AFI | AACTA).
Since its establishment in 1958, the AFI has played a central role in nurturing and supporting both screen culture and production, from small beginnings to an internationally recognised billion dollar industry. Shining A Light maps out the history of the AFI | AACTA (henceforth referred to as the AFI) and the wider industry over the past fifty years and explores the relationship of screen culture to a successful production industry.
The book is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship on Australian cinema, being published at a critical time in Australian film history. The authors offer an insider’s perspective, having interviewed twenty-seven key players from the AFI’s history, and have sifted through volumes of documentary evidence in chronicling the history of the AFI, its successes and its role in Australian screen culture past, present and future.
The writers’ collective experience spans filmmaking, academic research and teaching, film journalism, employment and service in key screen culture organisations as well as an abiding passion for Australian cinema – bringing to the book both the filmmaker or industry perspective, and academic scholarship.

Despite more than three decades of research, there is a limited understanding of the transactional processes of appraisal, stress and coping. This has led to calls for more focused research on the entire process that underlies these variables. To date, there remains a paucity of such research. The present study examined transactional model of stress and coping. One hundred and twenty nine Australian participants with full time employment (i.e. nurses and administration employees) were recruited. There were 49 male (age mean = 34, SD = 10.51) and 80 female (age mean = 36, SD = 10.31) participants. The analysis of three path models indicated that in addition to the original paths, which were found in Lazarus and