Australia
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Colonial Military Corp
colonialism
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Irish settlers
Labor party
land rights
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World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781666908688
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 158 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Writing Australian History On-screen: Television and Film Period Dramas "Down Under" reveals the depths of 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.
Jo Parnell is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative industries, and Social Sciences, College of Human and Social Futures at University of Newcastle.
Julie Anne Taddeo is Research Professor in the Department of History at University of Maryland.
