5AAEB035
Australian Literature and Film
2013-2014
5AAEB035 Australian Literature and Film, 2013-2014
Level/semester taught
2nd Year Module, band 2, taught semester 2
Credit value
15 credits
Teaching Arrangements
1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar plus film screenings
Timetable
Information below is for guidance only. Definitive
information can be found in the 2013-2014 timetable.
Lectures
Mondays 16.00-17.00 K-1.56
Screenings (Weeks 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11)
Mondays 17.00-18.45 K-1.56
Seminars
Wednesdays 09.00-10.00 S-1.08
Assessment
One essay of 4,000 words (100% of final mark)
Convenor
Dr Ian Henderson
ian.r.henderson@kcl.ac.uk
Office Hours
VWB6.15 (13 Jan-28 March except Reading Week)
Mondays 14.30-15.30
Fridays 15.30-16.30
Guest Lecturers
Dr Alison Clark
Ms. Helen Idle
Mr. Stephen Morgan
Seminar Leader
Mr. Stephen Morgan stephen.1.morgan@kcl.ac.uk
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Outline
The module introduces you to the stories, spaces, identities, conflicts and transformations
that energise contemporary Australia.
A range of cinematic and literary genres are surveyed to provide a loose history of life on a
continent where human cultures have flourished for over fifty thousand years. Hence the
module focuses on the ongoing entanglement of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultures in
Australia, considering also methodologies for approaching traditional and contemporary
Indigenous Knowledge from an ‘outside’ perspective.
In the course of the module we explore: a twenty-first century take on ‘pre-contact’
Aboriginal Australian lives (de Heer/Djiggir); representations of transportation and early
colonial contact between Aboriginal Australians and Europeans (Grenville); icons of
colonial and national Australian history such as convicts, bushrangers, and drovers
(Grenville, Carey, Watt); fictional and non-fictional accounts of the lives of Indigenous
Australians from the 1920s to the present (Garimara/Noyce, Chauvel, Morgan, Moffatt,
Wright, and Thornton); and Australian suburban life of the post-World-War-II period
(White, Hogan).
Lectures are arranged according to key themes: the ways in which writers and film-makers
contributed to the ‘History Wars’, a set of late-20th-century politicised debates about the
‘facts’ and meaning of Australia’s colonial past (Making History); representations of the
past and present lives of young Aboriginal Australians (Growing Up); the insights afforded
by literature and film into traditional Aboriginal Australian epistemologies (Approaching
Indigenous Knowledge); and the depiction and critique of that quintessential site of
contemporary Australian culture, suburbia (Being Neighbours).
Films viewed in class*
All films are also available for viewing at the Maughan Library
Harry Watt, Dir., The Overlanders (1946)
Charles Chauvel, Dir., Jedda (1955)
Tracey Moffat, Dir., Night Cries: a rural tragedy (1989)
Phillip Noyce, Dir., Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
Warwick Thornton, Dir., Samson and Delilah (2009)
Rolf de Heer and Peter Djiggir, Dirs., Ten Canoes (2006)
P.J. Hogan, Dir., Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
* If you are able to see the film in your own time shortly before the relevant seminar, you do
not have to attend screenings.
Online viewing (in own time)
Tracey Moffatt, Dir., Night Cries (1989)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1IN-i1t5Q
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdK7gryXp0
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Literature (in order of study)
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (2005)
 Available via major booksellers and online. Second-hand copies cans be
obtained at www.abebooks.co.uk or via other online second-hand outlets.
Kindle and other purchased e-book editions are acceptable.
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library.
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
 Available via major booksellers and online. Second-hand copies cans be
obtained at www.abebooks.co.uk or via other online second-hand outlets.
Kindle and other purchased e-book editions are acceptable.
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library.
Doris Pilkington Garimara, [Follow the] Rabbit Proof Fence (1996)
 Available via major booksellers and online. Second-hand copies cans be
obtained at www.abebooks.co.uk or via other online second-hand outlets.
Kindle and other purchased e-book editions are acceptable.
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library.
Sally Morgan, My Place (1987)
 Available via major booksellers and online. Second-hand copies cans be
obtained at www.abebooks.co.uk or via other online second-hand outlets.
Kindle and other purchased e-book editions are acceptable.
 Available free as an e-book via the Maughan Library Catalogue, though must be
read online.
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library.
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (2006)
 Available via major booksellers and online. Second-hand copies cans be
obtained at www.abebooks.co.uk or via other online second-hand outlets.
Kindle and other purchased e-book editions are acceptable.
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library.
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Patrick White, The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962)
 Limited hard copies available for loan at the Maughan Library. An update on
locating this text will be given in class.
Online reading
You are asked to familiarise yourself with the following government report, released in
1997, detailing the experiences of the ‘Stolen Generations’, Aboriginal Australian children
forcibly removed from their parents. The report is long, and you do not need to read every
word. The ‘Tracing the History’ section contains illuminating state-by-state histories of
Indigenous Australian peoples. Throughout the report, look out for testimonies from
Indigenous Australian men and women, which are printed in bold.
See Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them Home: The Report of
the National Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
from their Families (1997). Click on Read the Report online or download PDF.
You might also familiarise yourself with ‘Little Children are Sacred’: Report of the Northern
Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (2007), a report
that led to the Northern Territory ‘intervention’, discussed in week 8 of the module.
http://www.inquirysaac.nt.gov.au/pdf/bipacsa_final_report.pdf
Reading supplied via KEATS
Further critical reading is suggested each week on KEATS, some (but not all) of which is
provided in full text.
Useful background reading
Felicity Collins and Therese Davis, Australian Cinema After Mabo (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005)
Graeme Huggan, Australian Literature: postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism (Oxford:
OUP, 2007)
Jonathan Rayner, Contemporary Australian Cinema: an introduction (Manchester:
Manchester UP, 2000)
Peter Pierce, ed., The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009)
Studies in Australasian Cinema [e-journal available via KCL Library website]
Office hours: contacting staff
Effective communication between staff and students is a priority in the Department of
English: we are interested in your views, and keen to help you with your work.
The most effective way to communicate with a member of staff is in her/his office hours,
two weekly one-hour sessions when s/he has indicated availability for consultation. All
staff’s hours will be indicated here from the first week of term, and sometimes also on the
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individual staff member’s office door. You do not need to be in ‘crisis’ to make use of this
contact time, and staff members are always interested to discuss students’ plans and ideas.
It is best simply to show up at her/his office at the designated time. You are also welcome to
email staff directly. However, please bear in mind most academic staff receive around fifty
emails a day which require considered responses: your query will be answered, usually
within five working days, but it may be faster and more efficient to use the office hour and
speak to your lecturer/seminar leader in person.
You should address general inquiries about this module to the convenor, Dr Ian Henderson:
ian.r.henderson@kcl.ac.uk.
Ian’s Office Hours
VWB6.15 (13 Jan-28 March except Reading Week)
Mondays 14.30-15.30
Fridays 15.30-16.30
Learning format
This module is taught in a one-hour lecture, one-hour seminar format. Lectures will be
taken by Ian Henderson and guests; you will have the same seminar leader, Stephen
Morgan, throughout the module. You can also make use of meetings with Personal Tutors
to discuss matters relative to this module, and meet with your lecturers and seminar leader
during her/his Office Hours.
Assessment
You will be required to submit one 4000-word essay by 13.00 on 29 April 2014. As per
English Department policy, end-of-semester coursework questions will be released on 14
February 2014. Most questions will be answerable with reference to any two primary texts
studied on the module though, in consultation with the module convenor, you may also
elect to compare one text from the module and another appropriate Australian or nonAustralian text that has not been directly studied.
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Making History
This section explores the ways in which writers’ and film-makers’ contributed to the ‘History Wars’, a set
of late-20th-century politicised debates about the ‘facts’ and meaning of Australia’s colonial past.
Week 1 ‘Australia: Est. 1788’? Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2005)
Lecture (13 January): Dr Ian Henderson
Introduction to the module
A Potted History
The History Wars
Kate Grenville’s Historian Wars
Seminar (15 January)
 Before class, read (at least) the plot summary (KEATS), ‘Part 5: Drawing a Line’, ‘Part
6: The Secret River’ and ‘Thornhill’s Place’
 Before class, write down (off the top of your head) what, for you, are the three defining
characteristics of Australian culture. These will be collected in the first seminar to be
revealed and discussed in the final seminar. (Don’t put your name on your submission.)
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of Aboriginal Australians in the parts you have
read of The Secret River.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of violence in the parts you have read of The
Secret River.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of Thornhill’s and other white settlers’ sense of
ownership and/or belonging to the land in the parts you have read of The Secret River.
Week 2 Trans-portation/-formation: Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
Lecture (20 January) : Dr Ian Henderson
Peter Carey as surrealist
Peter Carey’s use of history
Carey’s Kelly as a future-oriented man of action
Forging authority, making the self
Seminar (22 January)
 Before class, read (at least) the plot summary (KEATS) and parcels 1, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13.
 Be prepared to compare Carey’s characterisations of Harry Powers and Ned Kelly.
 Be prepared to discuss Kelly’s attitude towards, and Carey’s representation of,
Aboriginal Australians in the parts you have read of True History of the Kelly Gang.
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 Be prepared to discuss the significance of Kelly’s armour in the parts you have read of
True History of the Kelly Gang.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of white settlers’ relationship to the land in in
the parts you have read of True History of the Kelly Gang.
Week 3 Britain, Australia, Land, Cinema: Harry Watt’s The Overlanders (1946)
Lecture (27 January) followed by screening: Mr. Stephen Morgan
Early to Mid-20th-Century Australian cinema
Ealing Studios
Harry Watt and The Overlanders
Seminar (29 January)
 Before class, view Harry Watt, Dir., The Overlanders (1946)
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of ‘community’ in The Overlanders.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of the relationship between humans and
animals in The Overlanders.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of the landscape in The Overlanders.
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Growing Up
This section focuses on representations of the past and present lives of young Aboriginal Australians.
Week 4 Mothers and Daughters: Chauvel’s Jedda (1955) and Moffatt’s Night Cries (1989)
Lecture (3 February) followed by screening: Ms. Helen Idle
Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations of Aboriginal Australians
The cinema of Charles and Elsa Chauvel
The art of Tracey Moffat
Seminar (5 February)
 Before class view Charles Chauvel, Dir., Jedda (1955) and Tracey Moffatt, Dir., Night
Cries (1989), the latter at least twice (it runs 18 minutes or so):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1IN-i1t5Q
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdK7gryXp0
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of mother-daughter relationships in Jedda and
Night Cries.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of masculinity in Jedda.
 Be prepared to compare what ‘Aboriginality’ might signify according to Jedda and Night
Cries (considered as texts separately and together).
Week 5 Stolen Generations and Rabbit-Proof Fences (1996/2002)
Lecture (10 February) followed by screening: Dr Ian Henderson
History of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal relations in Australia
Bringing Them Home (1996), Sorry Days, The Apology
Noyce’s film adaptation of Garimara’s book
Seminar (12 February)
 Before class, read Doris Pilkington Garimara, Rabbit Proof Fence (1996) and view Phillip
Noyce, Dir., Rabbit Proof Fence (2002).
 Before class, see Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them
Home: The Report of the National Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Children from their Families (1997). Click on Read the Report online or
download PDF. The report is long, and you do not need to read every word. The
‘Tracing the History’ section contains illuminating state-by-state histories of Indigenous
Australian peoples. Throughout the report, look out for testimonies from Indigenous
Australian men and women, which are printed in bold.
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 Be prepared to discuss differences and similarities between the book and the film, noting
particularly Garimara’s Chapters 1-4, and the scene where the girls are first removed
from their parents.
 Be prepared to discuss how the experiences recounted in Rabbit Proof Fence compare to
those described in the Bringing Them Home report?
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of Aboriginal ‘dreamtime’ knowledge in the
film.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of whiteness in the film.
Note: end-of-semester essay questions will be released on 14 February
Week 6 Reading Week (no classes, 17-21 Feb)
Make sure you have located and started reading Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (2006)
Week 7 Remembering Identity: Sally Morgan’s My Place (1987)
Lecture (24 February): Dr Ian Henderson
My Place, the Bicentenary, and settler-responses to Aboriginal History
‘Defining’ Aboriginality
Marcia Langton’s ‘Aboriginalities’
Jackie Huggins vs. Sally Morgan: the politics of identity
Seminar (26 February)
 Before class, read Sally Morgan, My Place.
 Before class, read the end-of-semester essay questions: these will be discussed at the
start of the seminar.
 Be prepared to discuss the different experiences of Daisy, Gladys, and Sally: how, if at
all, do these indicate shifting attitudes towards Aboriginal Australia in settler society?
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of war in My Place.
 Be prepared to compare the representation of growing up as a young Aboriginal
girl/woman in Jedda, Rabbit Proof Fence, My Place, and Night Cries.
Week 8 Post-Apology: Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009)
Lecture (3 March) followed by screening: Dr Alison Clark
‘Little Children are Sacred’: Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of
Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (2007)
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The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act (2007); the ‘Intervention’
Challenges for remote Australian communities
Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah
Seminar (5 March)
 Before class, view Warwick Thornton, Dir., Samson and Delilah (2009)
 Before class familiarise yourself with the Little Children Are Sacred report:
http://www.inquirysaac.nt.gov.au/pdf/bipacsa_final_report.pdf
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of the relationship between the old and the
young in Samson and Delilah.
 Be prepared to discuss the representation and significance of ‘altered’ states of mind in
Samson and Delilah.
 Be prepared to discuss relevance of Thornton’s representation of Aboriginal art practice
and of the Aboriginal art market to Samson and Delilah as a ‘work of Aboriginal art’.
 Be prepared to discuss the use of religious references and imagery in Samson and Delilah.
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Approaching Indigenous Knowledge
This week we consider the insights afforded by literature and film into traditional Aboriginal Australian
epistemologies.
Week 9 Approaching Indigenous Knowledge: Storytelling, Modernity, Silence
Lecture (10 March) followed by screening: Dr Ian Henderson
Approaching Indigenous Knowledge: kinship, land, storytelling, modernity, silence
Rolf de Heer and the Ramingining community of northern Arnhem land
The work of Alexis Wright
Seminar (12 March)
 Before class, read Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (2006) and view Rolf de Heer and Peter
Djiggir, Dirs., Ten Canoes (2006)
 Read the following consecutive sentences (from the second page of the novel) out loud
while breathing in the indicated manner:
Breathing in (one big breath): Imagine the serpent’s breathing rhythms as the tide flows
inland, edging towards the spring waters nestled deeply in the gorges of the ancient
limestone plateau covered with rattling grasses yellow from the prevailing winds.
Breathing out (one big breath): Then with the outward breath, the tide turns and the
serpent flows back to its own circulating mass of shallow waters in the giant water basin
in a crook of the mainland whose sides separate from the open sea.
Be prepared to discuss the effect this exercise has on your interpretation of the opening
chapter of Carpentaria (and of the novel as a whole)? How does this compare to the
experience of watching Ten Canoes?
 Be prepared to discuss the significance of the word ‘normal’ in the first two chapters of
Carpentaria?
 Be prepared to discuss who or what stops the mining in Carpentaria?
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of women in Ten Canoes.
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Being Neighbours
In this final section of the module we explore the depiction and critique of that quintessential site of
contemporary Australian culture, suburbia.
Week 10 ‘Where Food Means Cake and Steak’: Patrick White’s Sarsaparilla
Lecture (17 March): Dr Ian Henderson
Definition of suburbia
The history and critique of Australian suburbia, 1900-1970
Australian theatre
The work of Patrick White
Seminar (19 March)
 Before class, read Patrick White, The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962).
 Be prepared to read a part in a performed reading of part of the play (Australian accents
please). This performance may be filmed and uploaded to KEATS (visible only to other
classmates).
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of gender in The Season at Sarsaparilla.
 Be prepared to discuss the ‘cycle’ of birth, life, and death in The Season at Sarsaparilla.
Week 11 ‘You’re Terrible Muriel’: Performing Suburbia in Porpoise Spit
A doodle poll will be set up for this week to create individual appointments for essay
consultations with Ian and/or Stephen.
Lecture (24 March), screening and end-of-semester party: Dr Ian Henderson
Abjection and suburbia
Re-embracing suburbia, 1970-present?
Hogan’s Muriel’s Wedding and 1990s ‘quirky’ cinema
Seminar (26 March)
 Before class, view P. J. Hogan, Dir., Muriel’s Wedding (1994).
 Be prepared to discuss the representation of ‘mateship’ in Muriel’s Wedding.
 Be prepared to discuss the significance of ABBA’s songs in Muriel’s Wedding.
 Be prepared to discuss the aesthetics of Muriel’s Wedding.
 Your submissions from the Week One seminar will also be discussed.
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Key databases for Australian topics
Informit @ the British Library
The British Library is the only library in the UK to subscribe to ‘Informit’ an incomparable full text
database of many journals and monographs published in Australia (not only on Australian topics;
there is much relevant Pacific material here too). Unfortunately you can only access it in the St
Pancras Reading rooms and you cannot save or email articles to yourself. You can print them off but
it costs quite a lot. Reading and taking notes off the screen is free, so see this as a good excuse to get
to know the BL. You can also learn about informit (without actually accessing the full database) at
http://www.informit.com.au/. Details about how to join the BL can be found in the Department’s
Guide to Writing Essays.
AustLit @ the Maughan
You can do this in the Maughan or online at home.
From PAWS workstations
To access databases with bibliographic (and occasionally full-text) references to articles on
Australian topics:
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Go to the KCL website
Click on the Internal link
If necessary, log on using your normal email user name and password.
Click on Library then on Databases (right of screen)
The subsequent page reverts to the ‘Title’ field
Put in Austlit
Once in Austlit enter author or subject words in the search field.
If you find an author’s page (with biography) scroll down and click appropriate boxes in the
‘Works About’ column
For remote access (from home)
Go to the AustLit database list as per above:
 Before clicking on the AustLit link get a password by clicking on the 'Passwords' link top right
of the page
 Click on 'Enter Password Webpages'
 You will then be asked for your normal email user name and login
 Next a page will come up with links to each of the databases requiring special password
 Click on AustLit Gateway and it will give you the code [for Austlit the user name is kcoc and
the password is kings; but you should learn how to find it yourself so you can know how to
access other databases for other courses!].
 Return to the Australian Studies databases list and click on AustLit Gateway, entering the code
when required
The Australian Screen
Useful website with clips from all Australian films http://aso.gov.au/
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Oxford Companion to Australian History @ Maughan online catalogue
Note also the Maughan library has the full text of the Oxford Companion to Australian History
available online via its catalogue.
Australian Literary Studies @ Senate House online catalogue
The full text of articles in the leading Aus Lit journal Australian Literary Studies is available online
via the Senate House library website.
National Library of Australia
A number of relevant journals, notably JASAL are freely available via the NLA’s website.
http://www.nla.gov.au/
Informative Indigenous Australian websites
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/
ABC Indigenous (ABCTV): Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Online
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
http://www.koorimail.com/
Koori Mail ‘The Voice of Indigenous Australia’
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/indexb.html
‘The Koori History Website’ set up by activist Gary Foley
http://www.eniar.org/
European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights; political website with many linked resources.
http://www.ngapartji.org/
On a broad range of projects growing from performances devised by Trevor Jamieson.
Historically significant government reports
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/bth_report/report/index.html
Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Children from Their Families
http://www.inquirysaac.nt.gov.au/pdf/bipacsa_final_report.pdf
‘Little Children are Sacred’: Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection
of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse Controversial 2007 report
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/
Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody (1991)
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Australian Literature and Film Bibliography
Categories:
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Australian literature (general)
Australian film
Australian Studies
Australian Studies journals
Indigenous Australian writing
Indigenous Cinema and Aboriginal Studies
Postcolonialism
Australian literature (general)
Bennett, Bruce, and Jennifer Strauss, eds, The Oxford Literary History of Australia (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998)
M SH(ref)
Bird, Delys, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee, eds, Authority and Influence: Australian literary criticism
1950-2000 (St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2001) M
Birns, Nicholas and Rebecca McNeer, eds, A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1990 (New York:
Camden House, 2007)
Hergenhan, Laurie, eds, The Penguin New Literary History of Australia (Melbourne: Penguin, 1988) SH
Huggan, Graeme, Australian Literature: postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism (Oxford: OUP, 2007)
Jose, Nicholas (ed.), The Literature of Australia: an anthology (New York, Norton, 2009)
Lyons, John, and Martyn Lyons, eds, A History of the Book in Australia 1891-1945: a national culture in a
colonised market (St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2001) M SH
Nile, Richard, The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination (St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2002) M
Pierce, Peter, ed., The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (Cambridge: CUP, 2009)
Rutherford, Jennifer, The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan, and the white Australia fantasy (Melbourne:
MelbourneUP, 2000)
Webby, Elizabeth, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002)
SH(ref)
Whitlock, Gillian, The Intimate Empire: reading women’s autobiography (London: Cassell, 2000)
Wilde, William, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (Melbourne:
Oxford UP, 1994) ICS
Australian film
Australian Film, useful links
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/film/
Bertrand, Ina, Film Censorship in Australia (St Lucia: U of Queensland Press, 1978)
_____ (ed.), Cinema in Australia: a documentary history (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1989) BL
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———, ‘“National identity”/ “national history” / “national film”: the Australian experience’, Historical
Journal of film, radio, and television 4.2 (1984): 179-88
Collins, Felicity and Therese Davis, Australian Cinema After Mabo (Cambridge: CUP, 2005) SH M
Craven, Ian (ed.), Australian Cinema in the 1990s (London: Frank Cass, 2001) SH
Cunningham, Stuart, Framing culture: criticism and policy in Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992)
_____ and Graeme Turner (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin,
2002)
Dermody, Susan, and Elizabeth Jacka, The screening of Australia: volume 2, anatomy of a film industry
(Sydney: Currency, 1987) M
———, ———, volume 2, anatomy of a national cinema (Sydney: Currency, 1988) M SH
Duff, Alan, ‘L.A. down under’, Cinema Papers 136 (Dec/Jan 2000/2001): 26-27
Hall, Sandra, Critical Business: the new Australian cinema in review (Adelaide: Rigby, 1985) SH
Hamilton, Peter, and Sue Mathews, American Dreams: Australian Dreams (Sydney: Currency, 1986) SH
Hutton, Anne, ‘Nationalism in Australian Cinema’, Cinema Papers 26 (April/May 1980): 96-100; 152-53
Mayer, Geoff, and Keith Beattie, The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand (London: Wallflower Press, 2007)
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McFarlane, Brian, Australian Cinema, 1970-1985 (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1988) SH
______, Words and Images: Australian novels into film (Melbourne: Heinemann/Cinema Papers, 1983) SH
______, Novel to Film: an introduction to the theory of adaptation (Oxford: Claredon, 1996) M
———, and Geoff Mayer, New Australian Cinema: sources and parallels in Australian and British film
(Cambridge: CUP, 1992) SH
———, Geoff Mayer, and Ina Bertrand (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Film (Melbourne: OUP,
1999) SH(ref)
Moran, Albert, and Tom O’Regan, eds, An Australian Film Reader (Sydney: Currency, 1985) M SH
———, ———, The Australian Screen (Melbourne: Penguin, 1989) M
Murray, Scott, Australian Cinema (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994)
______ (ed.), The New Australian Cinema (Melbourne: Nelson, 1980) M SH
Myers, David, Bleeding Battlers from Ironbark: Australian myths in fiction and film, 1890s-1980s
(Rockhampton: Capricornia Institute, 1987; expanded rpt. U of Central Queensland P, 1992)
O’Regan, Tom, Australian National Cinema (London: Routledge, 1996) SH
Rayner, Jonathan, Contemporary Australian Cinema: an introduction (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000)
Reade, Eric, The Australian Screen: a pictorial history (Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1975) SH
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Sarwal, Amit, and Reema Sarwal (eds), Creative Nation: Australian cinema and cultural studies reader (New
Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009). M
Senses of Cinema http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/index.html
Shirley, Graham, and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: the first eighty years (Sydney: A&R and Currency,
1983) SH
Stratton, David, The Last New Wave: the Australian film revival (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1980) SH
Studies in Australasian Cinema (eds Ian Henderson and Deb Verhoeven) (Intellect Books) M
Tulloch, John, Australian Cinema: industry, narrative, and meaning (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1982) SH
———, Legends on the Screen: the narrative film in Australia, 1919-1929 (Sydney: Currency, 1981)
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