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Levy Collection book		The Australians / compiled by Tony Stephens and Peter Luck Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1981. Call No: 79 AUS LUC Author: Luck, Peter Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Lansdowne Press PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: 144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subject: AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] (AT, 1981) Notes: Hard cover. -- Dust jacket. -- From scripts based on the tv series 'The Australians', by Curtis Levy, Bill Bennett, Kerry O'Brien, David Salter and Peter Luck. ISBN: 0701815515 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		First Australians / edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton Carlton, Vic.: The Miegunyah Press, 2010. Call No: 79FIR FIR Author: Atkinson, Wayne; Boyce, James; Kimber, RG; Kinnane, Steve; Langton, Marcia (ed.); Loos, Noel; Pascoe, Bruce; Perkins, Rachel (ed.) Source: AT Place: Carlton, Vic. Publisher: The Miegunyah Press PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: xxvi, 286p. : 24cm Subject: INDIGENOUS; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND TV; FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] (AT, Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins, 2008) Summary: "This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals-both black and white- caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the firendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. " -- BOOK BLURB Notes: "Based on the bestselling, award-winning SBS series"--Cover; Includes bibliographic references (p. 251-278) and index ISBN: 9780522857269 (pbk.) Contents: -- contents -- prologue: Marcia Langton -- Ngura Barbagai: country lost -- Towlangany: to tell lies -- Wurrbunj Narrap: lament for country -- Altyere: dreaming -- Marda-Marda: two bloods -- Ngariarty: speaking strong -- Kara Ged: homeland -- epilogue -- notes -- acknowledgments -- index -- More info
title clippings file		FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE : [TV] (AT, 1987) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity Subject: FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] (AT, Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins, 2008) More info
title clippings file		FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] : (AT, Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins, 2008) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] (AT, Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins, 2008) More info
book		Legacies of Indigenous resistance : Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous film, theatre and literature / Matteo Dutto Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. Call No: 737.66 (94) (=1-81) DUT Author: Dutto, Matteo Edition: 2019 Place: Oxford Publisher: Peter Lang PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: x, 244 pages : illustrated ; 23cm Series: Australian studies: interdisciplinary perspectives Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA; INDIGENOUS; FIRST AUSTRALIANS, THE [TV] (AT, Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins, 2008); PEMULWUY: A WAR OF TWO LAWS (AT, Grant Leigh Saunders, 2010); JANDAMARRA'S WAR (AT, Mitch Torres, 2011); KEEPERS OF THE STORY: JANDAMARRA (AT, Mitch Torres, 2010); CONFESSIONS OF A HEADHUNTER (AT, Sally Riley, 2000); YAGAN (AT, Kelrick Martin, 2013) Summary: This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present. It offers the first comprehensive and trans-disciplinary analysis of how the stories of Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan (Bidjigal, Bunuba and Noongar freedom fighters, respectively) have been retold in the past forty years across different media. Combining textual and historical analysis with original interviews with Indigenous cultural producers, it foregrounds the multimodal nature of Indigenous storytelling and the dynamic relationship of these stories to reclamations of sovereignty in the present. It adds a significant new chapter to the study of Indigenous history-making as political action, while modelling a new approach to stories of frontier resistance leaders and providing a greater understanding of how the decolonizing power of Indigenous screen, stage and text production connects past, present and future acts of resistance. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781788745413 Contents: Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Story One Pemulwuy -- Chapter 1 Pemulwuy as a pan-Aboriginal hero -- Chapter 2 Legacies of resistance in Rachel Perkins’ First Australians and Grant Leigh Saunders’ Pemulwuy: A War of Two Laws Story Two Jandamarra -- Chapter 3 The three lives of Jandamarra: Archivists, copycats and custodians -- Chapter 4 Performing resistance -- Chapter 5 “Keeping story alive”: Screening the voice of Bunuba Country in Mitch Torres’ Jandamarra’s War and Keepers of the Story Story Three Yagan -- Chapter 6 Defacing colonial sovereignty in Sally Riley’s Confessions of a Headhunter -- Chapter 7 Breaching into the settler colonial city: Re-enacting crosshatch history in Kelrick Martin’s Yagan -- Conclusion Reflections from Yagan Square -- Bibliography -- Index More info

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