Robert Dixon

Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity

Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781783080632
• ISBN-10: 1783080639
• Artikelnr.: 39307659

Autorenporträt

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.

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