Resource Key
LEVEL 1
brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)
LEVEL 2
provides additional background information and further reading. Introduces some subject-specific language.
LEVEL 3
lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)
Databases
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window This resource provides the largest collection of full text from leading regional and international newspapers and periodicals, full-text reference books, tens of thousands of full-text biographies, and a collection of images containing more than one million photos, maps, and flags.
- West Australian Digital Archive This link opens in a new window The West Australia Archive Digital Editions provides full text searching of past issues of the West Australian. Each issue is searchable the day after publication.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Scholarly resources on JSTOR include Archival and Current Journals, Books, and Primary Sources.
Style and Aesthetics
- Bohr, M. (2014, March 21). Exploring the visual style of the True Detective. Retrieved from http://visualcultureblog.com/2014/03/exploring-the-visual-style-of-true-detective/
In this post I want to address the highly mesmerizing as well as conceptually loaded cinematography in the popular TV show ‘True Detective’ directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. This post was provoked by an epic six-minute tracking shot – appearing at the end of episode four – which is already being celebrated as a significant landmark in the history of Television. Rather than focussing on technical details or specific narratives explored in the plot, this post seeks to establish that the cinematography in ‘True Detective’ actively borrows from other forms of visual media and thus feeds into a larger discourse of representation.
Introduction
This research guide has been created to support the Year 12 Media Production and Analysis students studying True Detective (2014).
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California. Colin Farrell is Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective in the all-industrial City of Vinci, LA County. Vince Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his life’s work, while his wife and closest ally (Kelly Reilly), struggles with his choices and her own. Rachel McAdams is Ani Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective often at odds with the system she serves, while Taylor Kitsch plays Paul Woodrugh, a war veteran and motorcycle cop for the California Highway Patrol who discovers a crime scene which triggers an investigation involving three law enforcement groups, multiple criminal collusions, and billions of dollars.
'True Detective' is written and created by Nic Pizzolatto. The first two of this season's eight episodes was be directed by Justin Lin.
True Detective Trailer
Pizzolatto, N. (Creator). Fukunaga, C. (Director) (2013, September 18). True Detective 2014 [Television Series]. HBO
Summary
- IMDb. (2014). True Detective (2014). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/?ref_=ttpl_pl_ttAn anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.
Nic Pizzolatto (Writer & Creater)
- IMDb. (2017). Nic Pizzolatto. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4446305/
An award-winning novelist and short-story writer, he is the author of the collection 'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' and the novel 'Galveston.' He is originally from Southwest Louisiana, and taught literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago, before going into screenwriting in 2010. - Romano, A. (2015, July 20). Inside the obsessive, strange mind of True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto. Retrieved from http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/04/inside-the-obsessive-strange-mind-of-true-detective-s-nic-pizzolatto.htmlIn this interview Andrew Romano gets inside the obsessive, strange mind of True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto.