Welcome to the first issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema for 2019. This issue comprises two articles which deal with the paradoxical themes at work in politicised representations of gender and sexuality. In ‘Riding in cars as girls: discourses of victimhood, power and agency in Beneath Clouds and American Honey’, Samantha Cater places Australian film Beneath Clouds in a relationship with the US road movie American Honey. In doing so, the article foregrounds the overlapping themes of passivity, victimisation and objectification of young women on the one hand, and notions of resilience agency and selfdetermination on the other. Likewise, in charting the visibility of gay and lesbian representation/production in Australian film in the 1970s, Jessie Matheson’s ‘“about gays by gays”: The politics of representation in early Australian gay film culture, 1971–1982’, reveals the twin imperatives of developing queer film culture: challenging and subversive, on the one hand, but bound in many ways by aesthetic and industrial demands of acceptability and intelligibility. As always, please enjoy this issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema.

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欢迎阅读《 2019年澳大利亚电影研究》第一期。本期包括两篇文章，涉及政治和性别方面的矛盾性主题。萨曼莎·卡特（Samantha Cater）在“作为女孩骑着汽车：在《黑云之下》和美国蜂蜜中关于受害者，权力和代理的论述”中，萨曼莎·卡特将澳大利亚电影《黑云下》与美国公路电影《美国蜂蜜》联系起来。在此过程中，本文一方面突出了年轻女性的消极被动，受害和客观化的重叠主题，另一方面又提出了复原力和自决的概念。同样，在绘制1970年代澳大利亚电影中男同性恋和女同性恋代表性/制作的可见度时，杰西·马西森（Jessie Matheson）的“关于男同性恋者”。1971-1982年的澳大利亚早期同性恋电影文化中的代表性政治揭示了发展酷儿电影文化的双重要求：一方面具有挑战性和颠覆性，但在审美和工业上对可接受性和清晰度的要求在很多方面都受到限制。与往常一样，请欣赏本期《澳大利亚电影研究》。