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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Remembering Masculinities in the Theatre of War
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Surveys post-war theatrical productions of plays which articulate men's experiences at war and back home. '...this article explores the propagation of gender anxieties in performance during the post-war period of suburban expansion. In contrast with more recent productions which have sought to celebrate the survival, ingenuity and achievements of Australian men at war, productions from the post-war period were less overtly nationalistic and less assertively masculinist. ... post-war productions celebrated less the heroism of men at war than the nostalgia of their returning home' (3).

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3-19 Remembering Masculinities in the Theatre of Warsmall AustLit logo Australasian Drama Studies
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  • ca. 1945-1965
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