The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 154
... cinema culture had extended into rural Australia that by 1912 even the remote Western Australian goldfields town of Murchison , more than 600 miles from Perth , possessed its own cinema.179 And finally , the innovations and changes that ...
... cinema culture had extended into rural Australia that by 1912 even the remote Western Australian goldfields town of Murchison , more than 600 miles from Perth , possessed its own cinema.179 And finally , the innovations and changes that ...
Page 249
... cinema - going , the morality of the movies themselves . Those who created disturbances in theatres were prosecuted . And when The Ten Commandments was released in 1925 , country cinema proprietors stressed its moral entertainment value ...
... cinema - going , the morality of the movies themselves . Those who created disturbances in theatres were prosecuted . And when The Ten Commandments was released in 1925 , country cinema proprietors stressed its moral entertainment value ...
Page 298
... Cinema Papers , November - December 1975 ; National Times , 20–25 October 1975 . 239 Sydney Morning Herald , 3 June 1975 . 240 Australasian Cinema , 18 August 1981 . 241 Jim Davidson , ' Locating Crocodile Dundee ' , 122–8 . 242 APR ...
... Cinema Papers , November - December 1975 ; National Times , 20–25 October 1975 . 239 Sydney Morning Herald , 3 June 1975 . 240 Australasian Cinema , 18 August 1981 . 241 Jim Davidson , ' Locating Crocodile Dundee ' , 122–8 . 242 APR ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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