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9781848859449

Making Film and Television Histories Australia and New Zealand

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    9781848859449

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    1848859449

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-11-15
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Summary

Making Film and Television Hstories approaches film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical topics alive through their interplay between past and present. It is a major text, the first to situate in a clear historical context selected New Zealand and Australian films and television programs ranging from highly successful films such as Gallipoli, The Piano, Australia, Once Were Warriors and Heavenly Creatures to less well-known texts that form the basis for intriguing examinations of history, representation and identity. This book is designed for all those with an interest in Australian or New Zealand history, film or television, and is written by leading scholars in these interdisciplinary fields, as well as filmmakers involved in the production of some of the films and TV shows discussed. With ten thematically structured sections and covering over 40 film and tv texts in clear and focused chapters, Making Film and Television Histories will be of particular value to teachers and trainee teachers wishing to inspire students to engage with history by putting to use audiovisual media in the classroom.

Author Biography

Both James E. Bennett and Rebecca Beirne teach at the University of Newcastle, Australia, respectively in History, and Film, Media and Cultural Studies. James E. Bennett is the author of 'Rats and Revolutionaries': The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1940 and book chapters and journal articles in the areas of history, film and sexuality, as well as transnational and labour history. Rebecca Beirne is the author of Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium and the editor of Televising Queer Women; A Reader. She is also the author of book chapters and journal articles on the subject of sexuality and gender in popular culture.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributorsp. viii
Acknowledgmentsp. xv
Introductionp. xvii
Aboriginal Narrativesp. 1
Introductionp. 3
Jeddap. 5
The Making of Lousy Little Sixpencep. 11
Buffalo Legendsp. 17
Rabbit Proof Fencep. 22
Blood is Thicker than Water: Stains on the Land in Bra Boysp. 26
Australiap. 31
Maori Narrativesp. 37
Introductionp. 39
Méliès in Maoriland: The Making of the First New Zealand Feature Filmsp. 41
Patu!p. 46
Ngatip. 52
Once Were Warriorsp. 58
The New Zealand Warsp. 63
Introductionp. 65
'Magnificent Failure' or Subversive Triumph?: The Governorp. 67
Making Nation: Utup. 73
Nga Pakanga Nunui o Aotearoa/The New Zealand Warsp. 79
Reconciling History in Vincent Ward's River Queenp. 85
Imaging the Nationp. 91
Introductionp. 93
Romantic New Zealand: 1920s and 1930s' NZ Government Publicity Office Traveloguesp. 95
From Colony to Nation in One Hundred Crowded Years: A Narrative on Civilisation, Progress and Modernityp. 100
Camera Naturap. 105
Cinema of Uneasep. 109
Seeing Red in 1949 and 1995p. 113
War and Societyp. 119
Introduction by Daniel Reynaudp. 121
Breaker Morantp. 123
Gallipolip. 128
The Cowra Breakoutp. 133
War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Usp. 138
Revealing Revealing Gallipolip. 143
Stories of Adolescencep. 149
Introductionp. 151
Smileyp. 153
The Devil's Playground: Coming-of-Age as National Cinemap. 158
Sex and Subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Bluesp. 164
Whale Riderp. 169
Icons, Crime and the Imaginationp. 175
Introductionp. 177
One Summer Again: The Dramatising of the Heidelberg Schoolp. 179
Witnessing Innocence: Fred Schepisi's Evil Angelsp. 184
An Angel at My Tablep. 189
The Pianop. 194
Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme Casep. 199
Ned Kelly (2003)p. 205
Explorations of Gender and Sexualityp. 211
Introduction by Rebecca Beirnep. 213
Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Entwhistle and Male Homosexualityp. 215
My Brilliant Careerp. 220
Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Pooftersp. 225
Love the Beastp. 231
Immigrants, Refugees and Multicultural Narrativesp. 237
Introductionp. 239
Who's the Weird Mob Anyway? Assimilation and Authenticity in They're A Weird Mobp. 241
Illustrious Energyp. 246
Serenadesp. 252
Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoap. 257
Playing with the Pastp. 265
Introductionp. 267
Forgotten Silverp. 269
Rosie's Secretp. 275
Revisioning the Australian Outback House of 1861p. 280
Living History: The Colonyp. 285
Indexp. 291
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