Writing Australian History On-screen

Television and Film Period Dramas "Down Under"
Herausgeber: Parnell, Jo; Taddeo, Julie Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781666908688
• ISBN-10: 1666908681
• Artikelnr.: 66113755

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jo Parnell and Julie Anne Taddeo - Foreword by Michelle Arrow - Contributions by Chelsea Barnett; Grace Brooks; Donna Brunero; James Findlay; Dirk Gibb; Andrew Howe; Kathryn M. Keeble; Jessica Meyer; Wenche Ommundsen; Emmett H. Redding and Leong

Inhaltsangabe

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