Australian Cinema After Mabo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521834803
Subjects: Films, cinema; Motion pictures; History; Social Science; Sociology; Performing Arts/Dance; Performing Arts; Film & Video - General; Mass Media - General; Media Studies; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Australia
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.