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This book examines the intertwined histories of television and migration in Australia, told from the perspectives of migrants who worked in the screen industry and the many more who watched television.
List of contents
1. Migration, television and Australian stories 2. Watching Australian television: 'It's just a bunch of white people' 3. Representing diversity on Australian television 4. Migrants at work in Australian television 5. Writing migrant stories 6. Diverse identities on screen: Performers, actors and presenters 7. Migrants producing for diversity: From entrepreneurs to web producers 8. New ways of watching: Technology, screens and global media. Epilogue 'But wait, there's more!': Looking ahead
About the author
Kate Darian-Smith is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. A historian and interdisciplinary scholar, Kate has published widely on the histories of social and cultural change in Australia, including in the areas of migration, media, children, memory studies, oral history and cultural heritage.
Sue Turnbull is a Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. She has published extensively on media audiences and television and her most recent book with Marion McCutcheon is
Transnational TV Crime: From the Nordic to the Outback (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Sukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW. She is the external co-lead of the
Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging research theme at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Sukhmani has published extensively on media diversity, mediated emotions and refugee narratives.
Kyle Harvey is a historian based in Melbourne. His research explores culture, media and social change in Australia and the United States, and he has published widely on television history, migration, social movements and radical thought. Kyle is the author of
American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Summary
This book examines the intertwined histories of television and migration in Australia, told from the perspectives of migrants who worked in the screen industry and the many more who watched television.
