Writing Australian History On-screen
Writing Australian History On-screen
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Writing Australian History On-screen: Television and Film Period Dramas "Down Under" reveals the depths of Australian history from convict times to the present day. The essays in this book are thematically driven and take a rounded historical-cultural-sociological-psychological approach in analyzing the various selected productions. In their analyses and interpretations of the topic, the contributors interrogate the intricacies in Australian history as represented in Australian filmic period drama, taken from an Australian perspective. Individually, and together as a body of authors, they highlight past issues that, despite the society’s changing attitudes over time, still have relevance for the Australia of today. In speaking to the subject, the contributing writers show a keen awareness that addressing new areas arising from the humanities is key to learning; and hence to developing an understanding of the Australian culture, the society, and sense of the ever-unfurling flag of an Australian something that is not yet a national identity.
About the Author
About the Author
<p>Jo Parnell is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative industries, and Social Sciences, College of Human and Social Futures at University of Newcastle.</p><br><br><p>Julie Anne Taddeo is Research Professor in the Department of History at University of Maryland.</p><br>
Table of Content
Table of Content
<p>Chapter 1. Kings in Grass Castles: The Duracks and Screened Mythology</p><br><br><p>Andrew Howe</p><br><br><p>Chapter 2. “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)</p><br><br><p>James Findlay</p><br><br><p>Chapter 3. Love, Lust, and Land Rights in The Naked Country (1985)</p><br><br><p>Chelsea Barnett</p><br><br><p>Chapter 4. Fisher Queens Versus the White Australia Policy: Challenging Orientalism in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries?</p><br><br><p>Dirk Gibb</p><br><br><p>Chapter 5. “It’s the War That Didn’t Suit Me”: Miss Fisher’s Jack Robinson as Emblematic First World War Ex-Serviceman</p><br><br><p>Jessica Meyer</p><br><br><p>Chapter 6. Beyond Changi: Australians, Singapore and World War Two Films</p><br><br><p>Donna Brunero and Leong Yew</p><br><br><p>Chapyer 7. Labor History in Australian Film and Television: Sunday Too Far Away (1975), and Bastard Boys (2007)</p><br><br><p>Grace Brooks</p><br><br><p>Chapter 8. “I belong to me and no one else”: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale (2018) Reimagines an Australian Frontier Myth</p><br><br><p>Kathryn M. Keeble and Emmett H. Redding</p><br><br><p>Chapter 9. Plus ça change…: Mainstream Representation of Post-war Migrants from They’re a Weird Mob to Ladies in Black</p><br><br><p>Wenche Ommundsen</p><br>
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