Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity - Frank Hurley''s Synchronized Lecture Entertainments

Informationen zum Autor Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney. He is a general editor in Sydney University Press' Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series. Klappentext This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Australia's Embrace of Colonial Modernity; 1. 'The Home of the Blizzard': Douglas Mawson's Synchronized Lecture Entertainment; 2. Guided Spectatorship: Exhibiting the Great War; 3. Touring the Nation: Shackleton's 'Marvellous Moving Pictures' and the Australian Season of 'In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice'; 4. Entr'acte: 'Sir Ross Smith's Flight', Aerial Vision and Colonial Modernity; 5. Colonial Modernity and Its Others: 'Pearls and Savages' as a Multi-media Project; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Dixon
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780857287953
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-795-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Anthem Studies in Travel; Anthem Studies in Travel; New Perspectives on World Cinema; Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series; Anthem Studies in Travel, New; Anthem Film and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, Individual photographers