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Writing Australian History On-screen reveals the depths in Australian history from convict times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of Australian history on screen taken from an Australian viewpoint in a way that offers insights and an understanding of the unique Australian history and sense of identity.
Sommario
Chapter 1. Kings in Grass Castles: The Duracks and Screened Mythology
Andrew Howe
Chapter 2. "It's a bastard of a place - takes a bastard to lick it": Violence, Victimhood, and Nationalism on the Frontier in Luke's Kingdom (1976), and Against the Wind (1978)
James Findlay
Chapter 3. Love, Lust, and Land Rights in The Naked Country (1985)
Chelsea Barnett
Chapter 4. Fisher Queens Versus the White Australia Policy: Challenging Orientalism in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, and Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries?
Dirk Gibb
Chapter 5. "It's the War That Didn't Suit Me": Miss Fisher's Jack Robinson as Emblematic First World War Ex-Serviceman
Jessica Meyer
Chapter 6. Beyond Changi: Australians, Singapore and World War Two Films
Donna Brunero and Leong Yew
Chapyer 7. Labor History in Australian Film and Television: Sunday Too Far Away (1975), and Bastard Boys (2007)
Grace Brooks
Chapter 8. "I belong to me and no one else": Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale (2018) Reimagines an Australian Frontier Myth
Kathryn M. Keeble and Emmett H. Redding
Chapter 9. Plus ça change...: Mainstream Representation of Post-war Migrants from They're a Weird Mob to Ladies in Black
Wenche Ommundsen
Info autore
Jo Parnell is honorary lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative industries, and Social Science, College of Human and Social Futures at University of Newcastle.
Julie Anne Taddeo is research professor in the Department of History at University of Maryland.
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Writing Australian History on Screen reveals the depths in Australian history from convict times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of Australian history on screen taken from an Australian viewpoint in a way that offers insights and an understanding of the unique Australian history and sense of identity.
