Australian Popular CultureIan Craven, Martin Gray, Geraldine Stoneham Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside of Australia. Australian Popular Culture is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life. The collection also explores the idea of popular culture at large. Leading authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest within the categories of 'the everyday', 'the mass media' and 'critical theory'. Chapters are devoted to the Aussie Back Yard; Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; The Lindy Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher; Domesticity, leisure and love and Postmodernism and Australian Culture. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
POPULAR CULTURE AS THE EVERYDAY | 15 |
The Australian Back Yard | 22 |
Stamp Duty | 36 |
Australian Football as a Secular Religion | 46 |
POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MASS MEDIA | 66 |
Crocodile Dundee and the Revival of American Virtue | 79 |
Television Coproduction in the 1990s | 87 |
National Fictions and The Spycatcher Trial | 123 |
Australian Crime News as Popular Culture | 135 |
POPULAR CULTURE AND CRITICAL THEORY | 149 |
An Australian Legend Abroad | 161 |
Social Analysis in the 1940s and 1950s | 173 |
Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism | 190 |
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Notes on Contributors | 227 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Allen & Unwin Alomes American appear argued audience Australia Post Australian crime Australian culture Australian Film Australian Football Australian popular culture Australian society Australian Studies Australian Television back yard Britain British bush celebration century Cinema co-production Collingwood comedy commercial construction contemporary context crime fiction Crocodile Dundee Cultural Studies detective dingo discourse drama Dulcie Deamer economic everyday Folklore football garden History ibid iconic industry intellectual Jean Devanny Journal Lindy Chamberlain London Marmite meaning Meanjin Media Information Australia Melbourne metanarratives Michael Mick modern multiculturalism myth narrative novel offer organisation outback outlaw hero tradition overseas particular Perth plain Australian police political popular culture post-war postmodern Press Sydney private eye production Queensland Radio religion representation role Screen International sense sexual social sport Spycatcher stamps Stephen Knight story suburban suggest Sydney Swans Turner Vegemite Wild Colonial Wild Colonial Boy women
References to this book
An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom Fay Anderson Limited preview - 2005 |