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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 A Many-Sided Frontier : History and ‘Shades of Grey’ in Sweet Country
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'Sweet Country may be a film constructed with the conventions of a Western – the guns, horses, spirits, and vast frontier landscapes with law and justice as central themes – but it is also a film grounded in oral history and the written archive. This article considers Sweet Country as a historical account of colonialism, scripted, directed and produced by an Indigenous team. It explores how the frontier and race relations are constructed, and how history is merged with myth and narrative to create a potent period piece with the timelessness of an epic and the urgency of the present.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 50 no. 2 2019 16839290 2019 periodical issue

    'We are thrilled to present our second issue of Australian Historical Studies for 2019. Here we bring together a series of methodologically innovative and interdisciplinary pieces that explore seeing and hearing in history. The first article, by Andrew Hurley, explores the nexus between hearing and emotion in the history of Australian exploration. Where scholars have hitherto posited silence and emptiness as key parts of explorer narratives (parts that did clear colonial work), Hurley tells a more complicated story about one very keen listener’s multivalent engagement with the Australian outback. Ludwig Leichhardt’s detailed diaries suggest an only partly recorded, but very rich engagement with soundscapes in Australia.' (Lisa Ford and David A. Roberts, History in Sight and Sound, editorial introduction)

         2019     pg. 235-254
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Subjects:
  • Sweet Country Steven McGregor , David Tranter , 2017 single work film/TV
  • First Australians Rachel Perkins , Louis Nowra , Beck Cole , 2008 single work film/TV
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