Before the interval : Australian mythology and feature films 1930-1960 /
by Molloy, Bruce [author].
Type:
BookSeries: UQP paperbacks.Description: xviii, 244 pages, [30] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0702222690.Subject(s): Chauvel, Charles, 1897-1959 | Smart, Ralph | Jedda (Motion Picture) | Bitter Springs (Motion Picture) | Jedda (Motion picture : 1955) | Bitter springs (Motion picture : 1950) | Motion pictures, Australian -- History | Land rights | Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping | Photography | National characteristics, Australian, in motion pictures | Motion pictures, Australian | Motion pictures -- Australia -- History | Australia | Family in films. Australia | Myth and the cinema | Cinesound Studios | Chauvel, Charles | Bitter Springs (AT, Ralph Smart, 1950) | Heritage (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1935) | On Our Selection (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1932) | Squatter's Daughter, The (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1933) | Dad Rudd M.P. (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1940) | Forty Thousand Horsemen (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1940) | It Isn't Done (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1937) | Jedda (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955) | Overlanders, The (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) | Rats of Tobruk, The (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1944) | Shiralee, The (AT, Leslie Norman, 1957) | Sons of Matthew (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1949) | Australia | National identity in films. Australia | National culture and the cinema. Australia | Australian Aborigines in film | Motion pictures Australia History | National characteristics, Australian, in motion pictures
Contents:
Summary: Includes discussion of the representation of Aborigines in feature films, 1930-1960; conflicting representation, problems of racial transpositioning and land rights analysed in Uncivilised, Jedda (Charles Chauvel, director) and Bitter Springs (Ralph Smart, director)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index.
Includes an appendix of selected Australian films, 1930-1960.
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Main library | Non-fiction | FA MOL 1990 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | Donated by Arts SA | 2014-2513 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index.
Includes an appendix of selected Australian films, 1930-1960.
Includes discussion of the representation of Aborigines in feature films, 1930-1960; conflicting representation, problems of racial transpositioning and land rights analysed in Uncivilised, Jedda (Charles Chauvel, director) and Bitter Springs (Ralph Smart, director)
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