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 144
... theatre remained a far less commercialised cultural institution , less influenced by late - nineteenth - century technology than its city counterpart . Such an observer might also infer that theatre companies specialising in particular ...
... theatre remained a far less commercialised cultural institution , less influenced by late - nineteenth - century technology than its city counterpart . Such an observer might also infer that theatre companies specialising in particular ...
Page 153
... theatre but rather as a novelty providing a cheap supplement to variety programs . Short films were first shown at Harry Rickards ' Tivoli theatres in Sydney and Melbourne , and within a year they were also featuring on the variety ...
... theatre but rather as a novelty providing a cheap supplement to variety programs . Short films were first shown at Harry Rickards ' Tivoli theatres in Sydney and Melbourne , and within a year they were also featuring on the variety ...
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... theatres in Sydney and the other capitals . 177 Again following live - theatre precedent , rural cinema circuits emerged along the railroad lines , some of them owned and managed by the same men who operated the city theatres , others ...
... theatres in Sydney and the other capitals . 177 Again following live - theatre precedent , rural cinema circuits emerged along the railroad lines , some of them owned and managed by the same men who operated the city theatres , others ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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