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‘They Don’t Tame, Only on the Surface’ : Masculinity, Race and the Project of Assimilation in Jedda (1955) single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 ‘They Don’t Tame, Only on the Surface’ : Masculinity, Race and the Project of Assimilation in Jedda (1955)
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'This article explores the representation of masculinity and race in the 1955 film Jedda. Popularly remembered as a ‘classic’ Australian film, Jedda is best known for its explicit critique of Indigenous affairs in the assimilation era. This article, however, contends that the film’s treatment of differing masculinities reveals its anti-assimilationist meanings, both through its affirmation of white, radical nationalist masculinity and its portrayal of Indigenous male sexuality as dangerous. Ultimately, Jedda concluded that assimilatory efforts were futile, and affirmed the cultural imagining of Australia as a white nation in which Indigenous people could make no claim for legitimacy.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 15 no. 1 2018 13381986 2018 periodical issue

    'Each year, History Australia offers a prize for the best article from the previous calendar year. The editors are delighted to announce that Ben Silverstein’s article, ‘“Possibly They Did Not Know Themselves”: The Ambivalent Government of Sex and Work in the Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance 1918’ from issue 14(3) won the prize for 2017. In crisp prose, Silverstein’s article wove a theoretically informed line of argument around new empirical material to explore the regulation of Indigenous life in the service of the health of the settler population. Demonstrating ‘the malleability of racial categorisations’, it is an innovative article that will push the field forward in coming years.' (Matthew P. Fitzpatrick , Catherine Kevin & Melanie Oppenheimer From the Editors introduction)

         2018     pg. 46-61
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  • Jedda Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , 1955 single work film/TV
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