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Australian popular culture

Title
Australian popular culture / edited by Ian Craven with Martin Gray and Geraldine Stoneham.
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Craven, Ian.
  • Gray, Martin, 1945-
  • Stoneham, Geraldine.
  • British Australian Studies Association.
Description
228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Australian studies ; no. 7
Uniform Title
Australian studies ; no. 7.
Subjects
Note
  • "Published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association" - t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
  • Introduction / Ian Craven -- A Brief Cultural History of Vegemite / Robert White -- The Australian Back Yard / George Seddon -- Stamp Duty / Xavier Pons -- Australian Football as Secular Religion / Stephen Alomes -- Controlling the Technology of Popular Culture and the Introduction of Television to Australia / James Walter -- Crocodile Dundee and the Revival of American Virtue / Ruth Brown -- The Boys from the Bush: Television Co-production in the 1990s / Ian Craven -- Patterns of Control in Australian Crime Fiction / Stephen Knight -- National Fictions and the Spycatcher Trail / Kevin Foster -- Naturalising 'Horror' Stories: Australian Crime News as Popular Culture / Christine Higgins -- How to be a Singer though Married: Domesticity, Leisure and Modern Love / Kay Ferres -- The Wild Colonial Boy Rides Again and Again: An Australian Legend Abroad / Grahame Seal -- Shaping the Plain Australian: Social Analysis in the 1940s and 1950s / Nicholas Brown.
  • On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism / Andrew Milner.
ISBN
0521466679 (pbk)
LCCN
gb 94019198
OCLC
ocm30072680
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries