{"product_id":"writing-australian-history-on-screen-television-and-film-period-dramas-down-under-9781666908688","title":"Writing Australian History On-screen: Television","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting Australian History on Screen reveals the depths in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Kings in Grass Castles: The Duracks and Screened Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Howe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Findlay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Love, Lust, and Land Rights in The Naked Country (1985)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChelsea Barnett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirk Gibb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. “It’s the War That Didn’t Suit Me”: Miss Fisher’s Jack Robinson as Emblematic First World War Ex-Serviceman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Meyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Beyond Changi: Australians, Singapore and World War Two Films\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonna Brunero and Leong Yew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapyer 7. Labor History in Australian Film and Television: Sunday Too Far Away (1975), and Bastard Boys (2007)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. “I belong to me and no one else”: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale (2018) Reimagines an Australian Frontier Myth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn M. Keeble and Emmett H. Redding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Plus ça change…: Mainstream Representation of Post-war Migrants from They’re a Weird Mob to Ladies in Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWenche Ommundsen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042004304215,"sku":"9781666908688","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666908688.jpg?v=1750952582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-australian-history-on-screen-television-and-film-period-dramas-down-under-9781666908688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}