Andrew James Couzens

A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The bushranger legend is an important component of Australia's cultural history, with names like Ned Kelly and Ben Hall still provoking strong, if ambivalent, responses. Storytellers mobilize this legend in unique and exciting ways that reflect upon both the cultural and actual history of bushrangers, as well as speaking to contemporary concerns and driving debate on the national character. 'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017' is a multidisciplinary investigation into the history of cultural representations of the bushranger legend on the stage and screen, charting that history from its origins in colonial theatre works performed while bushrangers still roamed Australia's bush to contemporary Australian cinema. It considers the influences of industrial, political and social disruptions on these representations as well as their contributions to those disruptions.

'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017' is a comprehensive cultural history of representations of bushrangers in cinema and colonial theatre. Beginning with the bushranger legend's establishment, it explores the formative years of the representational tradition, identifying the origins of characteristics and the social and industrial mechanisms through which they passed from history to popular theatre. Tracing the legend's development, the book interrogates the promotion of these characteristics from a contested popular history to an officially sanctioned national outlook in the cinema. Finally, it analyzes the contemporary fragmentation of the bushranger legend, attending to the dissatisfactions and challenges that arose in response to political and social debates galvanized by the 1988 bicentenary.

The cultural history recounted in 'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017' provides not only an into the role of popular narrative representations of bushrangers in the development and reflection of Australian character, but also a detailed case study of the specific mechanisms at work in the symbiosis between a nation's values and its creative production. Bushrangers have had a heightened though unstable significance in Australia due to the nation's diverse population and historical insecurities and conflicts over colonial identity, land rights and settlement. Community often defined the bushrangers in their stage and screen appearances, and the challenges that these marginalized communities faced were absorbed into the political and social mainstream. 'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017' is an insight into the process through which the bushranger legend earned its cultural resonance in Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783088935
• Artikelnr.: 56801859

Autorenporträt

By Andrew James Couzens

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Defining the Bushranger Legend
Part 1: Establishing the Legend
1. The First Bushranger Melodrama
2. Alfred Dampier and the Nationalistic Melodrama
3. Wild West Shows and Wild Australia
4. Hippodramas and Edward Irham Cole
Part 2: Developing the Legend
5. The Bushranger Genre from Stage to Screen
6. The Bushranger Ban
7. British and American Interventions in the Bushranger Legend
8. Radical Nationalism and the Bushranger Legend
Part 3: Fragmenting the Legend
9. Historical Revisionism and the Bushranger Legend
10. Diversification and Inclusiveness of the Bushranger Legend
11. Globalization of the Bushranger Legend in Outlaw Road Movies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.