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Writing Australian history on-screen : television and film period dramas "Down Under"
- Title
- Writing Australian history on-screen : television and film period dramas "Down Under" / edited by Jo Parnell and Julie Anne Taddeo ; foreword by Michelle Arrow.
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 206 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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
- Call Number
- MFL 23-3824
- ISBN
- 9781666908688
- 1666908681
- LCCN
- 2022046118
- OCLC
- 1349651733
- Title
- Writing Australian history on-screen : television and film period dramas "Down Under" / edited by Jo Parnell and Julie Anne Taddeo ; foreword by Michelle Arrow.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Parnell, Jo, 1940- editor.Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.Arrow, Michelle, writer of forward.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Writing Australian history on screen Lanham : Lexington Books, 2023 9781666908695 (DLC) 2022046119
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-3824