Australian Cinema After Mabo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521542562
Subjects: Films, cinema; Mass Media - General; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts; Sociology; Cinema/Film: Book; Media Studies; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Australia; History; Motion pictures
First sentence: The familiar yet estranged figure of the black tracker has enjoyed a certain longevity in Australian cultural traditions for it easily corresponds with the metaphor of exile and imprisonment in a purgatorial landscape, identified by Graeme Turner as one of the key tropes of Australian fiction.