Helen Yeates

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Produktbeschreibung

War baby Helen Yeates was a latchkey kid from the working-class Brisbane suburb of Annerley, discovering an escape to paradise in a dark cinema. This memoir captures a significant social and cultural history of Brisbane, drawing on her love of film in a highly original, evocative way. She falls in love and marries in the late 1960s, on the cusp of a time of swinging sexual liberation and radical politics. Surviving a devastating car accident, an addiction to prescription drugs and a traumatic marriage, she becomes a passionate feminist and leftie, navigating her way through a confusing world of changing ideas and morals. This memoir reveals a colourful life across the decades, in relation to love, sex, amnesia, brain damage, loss, education, partying and politics, with films illuminating everything. As an Australian pioneer of secondary and tertiary film and media studies, she traces the highlights of a career nurturing young filmmakers and future educators. The book also reveals amusing encounters with international celebrities, a quick trip to Hollywood to hire a famous film director, and mis-steps with singer Bob Dylan and French actress, Isabelle Huppert.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Publicious Book Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780645501711
• Artikelnr.: 64127146

Autorenporträt

Born in 1945, Helen Yeates grew up in Brisbane, daughter of a secretary and an aviation weather forecaster. She taught at various secondary schools, and trained teachers at UQ and beyond. She became an award-winning film academic at the Queensland University of Technology, nurturing some of the brightest young filmmakers of the next generation. For the past ten years, she has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at QUT. Helen is also a filmmaker, a festival judge, who has tangled with celebrities, hosted legendary parties and elegant salons. She lives in New Farm, Binkenba, on the land of the Turbal people.