London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Call No: 49[930.2](93/94) MAK
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xxiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA; JEDDA (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1955); LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983); BUFFALO LEGENDS (AT, Desmond Kootji Raymond & Paul Roberts, 1997); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); BRA BOYS (AT, Sunny Abberton, 2007); AUSTRALIA (UK/AT/US, Baz Luhrmann, 2008); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); CAMERA NATURA (AT, Ross Gibson, 1986); CINEMA OF UNEASE: A PERSONAL JOURNEY BY SAM NEILL (NZ, Sam Neill & Judy Reimer, 1995); BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); COWRA BREAKOUT (AT, Chris Noonan & Phil Noyce, 1985); REVEALING GALLIPOLI (AT, Wain Fimeri, 2005); SMILEY (UK, Anthony Kimmins, 1956); DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1976); PUBERTY BLUES (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1981); WHALE RIDER (NZ/GG, Niki Caro, 2002); ONE SUMMER AGAIN [TV] (AT, Mark Callan, 1985); EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988); ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN (NZ, Jane Campion, 1990); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); HEAVENLY CREATURES (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1994); NED KELLY (AT/UK, Gregor Jordan, 2003); DAD AND DAVE COME TO TOWN (AT, Ken G. Hall, 1938); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); WITCHES AND FAGGOTS - DYKES AND POOFTERS (AT, 'One in Seven', 1980); LOVE THE BEAST (AT, Eric Bana, 2009); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT, Michael Powell, 1966); THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (AT/UK, Michael Powell, 1966); ILLUSTRIOUS ENERGY (NZ, Leon Narbey, 1987); SERENADES (AT, Mojgan Khadem, 2000); PACIFIC SOLUTION (AT/NZ, James Frankham, 2005); FORGOTTEN SILVER (NZ, Peter Jackson & Costa Botes, 1996); ROSIE'S SECRET (AT, Lisa Matthews, 1994); OUTBACK HOUSE [AT] (AT, 2005-); COLONY, THE [TV] (AT/UK, Malcolm McDonald, 2005); NGATI (NZ, Barry Barclay, 1987); UTU (NZ, Geoffrey Murphy, 1983); RIVER QUEEN (NZ/UK, Vincent Ward, 2005)
Summary: "Making Film and Television Histories: Australian and New Zealand considers film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical topics alive through their interplay between past and present" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVER
Contents: Section One Aboriginal Narratives -- Introduction / Suneeti Rekhari -- Jedda / Suneeti Rekhari -- The Making of Lousy Little Sixpence / Alec Morgan -- Buffalo Legends / Shane Motlap -- Rabbit Proof Fence / Kathy Butler -- Blood is Thicker than Water: Stains on the Land in Bra Boys / Henk Huijser -- Australia / Ann McGrath -- Section Two Maori Narratives -- Introduction / Jennifer Gauthier -- Milies in Maoriland: The Making of the First New Zealand Feature Films / Mark Derby -- Patu! / Geraldene Peters -- Ngati / Jennifer Gauthier -- Once Were Warriors / Stuart Murray -- Section Three The New Zealand Wars -- Introduction / Annabel Cooper -- `Magnificent Failure' or Subversive Triumph?: The Governor / Trisha Dunleavy -- Making Nation: Utu / Hester Joyce -- Nga Pakanga Nunui o Aotearoa/ The New Zealand Wars / Annabel Cooper -- Reconciling History in Vincent Ward's River Queen / Cherie Lacey -- Section Four Imaging the Nation -- Contents note continued: Introduction / Mark Derby -- Romantic New Zealand: 1920s and 1930s' NZ Government Publicity Office Travelogues / Alfio Leotta -- From Colony to Nation in One Hundred Crowded Years: A Narrative on Civilisation, Progress and Modernity / Lars Weckbecker -- Camera Natura / Deane Williams -- Cinema of Unease / Brenda Allen -- Seeing Bed in 1949 and 1995 / Alan Wright -- Section Five War and Society -- Introduction / Daniel Reynaud -- Breaker Morant / Craig Wilcox -- Gallipoli / Daniel Reynaud -- The Cowra Breakout / Belinda Smaill -- War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us / Gabrielle A. Fortune -- Revealing Revealing Gallipoli / Peter Stanley -- Section Six Stories of Adolescence -- Introduction / Emma Hamilton -- Smiley / Emma Hamilton -- The Devil's Playground: Coming-of-Age as National Cinema / Josephine May -- Sex and Subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues / Lisa Featherstone -- Whale Rider / Jennifer Gauthier -- Section Seven Icons, Crime and the Imagination -- Introduction / Michelle Arrow -- One Summer Again: The Dramatising of the Heidelberg School / Bill Garner -- Witnessing Innocence: Fred Schepisi's Evil Angels / Michelle Arrow -- An Angel at My Table / Fincina Hopgood -- The Piano / Harriet Margolis -- Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme Case / James E. Bennett -- Ned Kelly (2003) / Sarah Pinto -- Section Eight Explorations of Gender and Sexuality -- Introduction / Rebecca Beirne -- Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Entwhistle and Male Homosexuality / Yorick Smaal -- My Brilliant Career / Jill Roe -- Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters / Scott McKinnon -- Love the Beast / Kirsten Stevens -- Section Nine Immigrants, Refugees and Multicultural Narratives -- Introduction / Michelle Langford -- Who's the Weird Mob Anyway? Assimilation and Authenticity in They're A Weird Mob / Jessica Carniel -- Illustrious Energy / Brenda Allen -- Serenades / Michelle Langford -- Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa / Annie Goldson -- Section Ten Playing with the Past
Introduction / James E. Bennett -- Forgotten Silver / Craig Hight -- Rosie's Secret / Nancy Cushing -- Revisioning the Australian Outback House of 1861 / Anthony Corones -- Living History: The Colony / Claire Lowrie
