South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia"... some of the finest of Ross Gibson's essays across ten years of thinking about Australia... " —Media Information Australia In this study of Western aesthetics and the politics of everyday life, Ross Gibson offers provocative analyses of Australia's films and examines an array of objects and attitudes encountered in his southern locale. His twelve chapters interweave to form an essay on the realignment of space, time, and meaning in contemporary Western societies. Gibson demonstrates how these different systems of representation construct "Australia." |
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Aboriginal aesthetic archive artists attempt attitude audience Austra Australian culture Australian Scapegoat baroque become camera celebrated Charles Sturt Chris Marker cinema colonial complex concerned contemporary context continent critical Crocodile Dundee crucial defined definition described discourse environment essay European example exile existence film filmmaking Fuller Henry human idea interpretation John Oxley Juan Davila knowledge landscape Letter from Siberia Letters looking Mad Max Marker Max's meaning melodramatic memory ment mentality metaphor metonymic mnemonic modern mythology myths narrative narrator nation nature object paintings Papunya Tula photograph picture Poe's Port Jackson postmodernism present quest question redefined reference region render Rikky and Pete seems sense significant social society South Land South Wales space story storytelling Sturt subjective Sydney Thomas Mitchell Thunderdome tion Track tradition tralia truth understand utopian Venezuela viewer visual Watling Watling's Western white Australia words writing
References to this book
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |
Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930's Stuart Murray Limited preview - 1998 |