Writing Australian history on-screen : television and film period dramas "Down Under" / edited by Jo Parnell and Julie Anne Taddeo ; foreword by Michelle Arrow
- Bib ID:
- 10007487
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
- x, 206 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781666908688 (hardcover)
- 1666908681 (hardcover)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781666908695 (electronic book)
- Summary:
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"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"--
- Full contents:
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- Kings in Grass Castles: The Duracks and Screened Mythology / Andrew Howe
- "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
- Love, Lust, and Land Rights in The Naked Country (1985) / Chelsea Barnett
- 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
- "It's the War That Didn't Suit Me": Miss Fisher's Jack Robinson as Emblematic First World War Ex-Serviceman / Jessica Meyer
- Beyond Changi: Australians, Singapore and World War Two Films / Donna Brunero and Leong Yew
- Labor History in Australian Film and Television: Sunday Too Far Away (1975), and Bastard Boys (2007) / Grace Brooks
- "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
- Plus ça change...: Mainstream Representation of Post-war Migrants from They're a Weird Mob to Ladies in Black / Wenche Ommundsen
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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