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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ABUSE OF WEAKNESS [ABUS DE FAIBLESSE] (FR/GG/BE, Catherine Breillat, 2013)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: ABUSE (US, Arthur Bressan Jr., 1983)

Call No: 11378
Author: Waddell, Terrie
Edition: 2019
Place: Abingdon, Oxon : New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: vii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); CHILD ABUSE; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; FRAN (AT, Glenda Hambly, 1985); LION (AT, Garth Davis, 2016); MANGANINNIE (AT, John Honey, 1980); ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (UK/AT, Jim Loach, 2011); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ROMULUS, MY FATHER (AT, Richard Roxburgh, 2007); SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE (AT, Richard Flanagan, 1998); WINFREY, OPRAH
Summary: Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations, as an element of the individual and collective psyche, historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war, and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies, or actual cases of displaced children, to focus on vulnerable children renderedlost through government and institutional practices, and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency, and films such as The Babadook, Lion, and Predestination, this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself, about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates, can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, cultural studies, screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138939691

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SECRET: CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, THE (AT, SAFC, 1988)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: YOUTH EXPRESS: ABUSE [TV] (AT, Fiona Cochrane, 1992)

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 5 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
Subject: YOUTH EXPRESS: ABUSE [TV] (AT, Fiona Cochrane, 1992)
Summary: Photographs are relating to the film Youth express abuse