Robert Dixon

Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity

Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780857287953
• ISBN-10: 0857287958
• Artikelnr.: 33268916

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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