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Caught on Screen : Australia's Convict History in Film and Television.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Findlay, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Australia--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Television broadcasting--Australia.
- Television broadcasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- This book illuminates the pivotal role film and television played in shaping the popular memory of Australia's convict history, and consequently how enduring notions of colonialism and nationhood were established and challenged in a settler society.
- Contents:
- List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. How to Watch a Flogging 1. Framing the Innocent: The Silent Era 2. Us Colonials Through Their Eyes: Convict Cinema Goes Global 3. The Ghosts of Port Arthur: Travelogues and Dark Tourism 4. They Came in Chains to Build a Television Nation: Emancipation, Egalitarianism, and New Nationalism on the Small Screen 5. Bolters and Bushtopias: Narratives of Convict Escape 6. A New Stain: Screening Convict Violence on the Frontier Conclusion Bibliography Index
- ISBN:
- 9798765100547
- 9798765100554
- 9798765100530
- OCLC:
- 1528558297
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