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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and has published widely on Australian literature, postcolonialism, Australian cultural studies, and aspects of Australian art history, photography and early cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Dixon
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781783080632
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-063-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Anthem Studies in Travel; Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series; Anthem Studies in Travel, New; Anthem Film and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, Individual photographers