Writing Australian history on-screen : television and film period dramas "down under" /
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 a...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2023].
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Table of 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