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A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017.
'Outlaw Nation' is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms through which bushrangers became an indelible part of the Australian cultural consciousness.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
National Book Network International (NBNi) : Anthem Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapters Intro. to Conclu.; Introduction: Defining the Bushranger Legend; Converging Legends; Nation, Cinema, Genre; Outline of Structure; Notes; Part 1 Establishing The Legend; Chapter 1 The First Bushranger Melodramas; Melodrama; Three Bushranger Melodramas; Notes; Chapter 2 Alfred Dampier and the Nationalist Melodrama; Notes; Chapter 3 Wild West Shows and Wild Australia; Wild West Shows: A Brief Overview; The Wild West Comes to Australia
- Wild Australia and the Festival of EmpireNotes; Chapter 4 Hippodramas and Edward Irham Cole; Notes; Part 2 Developing the Legend; Chapter 5 The Bushranger Genre from Stage to Screen; Linking Stage and Screen; Specificities of the Cinema; Notes; Chapter 6 The Bushranger Ban; Notes; Chapter 7 British and American Interventions in the Bushranger Legend; Captain Fury and Hollywood in Australia; Captain Starlight and the British Empire in Australia; Notes; Chapter 8 Radical Nationalism and the Bushranger Legend; Folklore, nationalism, and Captain Thunderbolt; The Australian Film Revival
- The policies of the Australian Film RevivalThe counterculture movement and Mad Dog Morgan; Not-so-radical nationalism in Robbery Under Arms; Notes; Part 3 Fragmenting the Legend; Chapter 9 Historical Revisionism and the Bushranger Legend; Parody; The Bushranger Legend in Revisionist Westerns; Reactionary Romanticization of the Bushranger Legend; Notes; Chapter 10 Diversification and Inclusiveness of the Bushranger Legend; Dismantling the Legend in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith; Reconciliation and the Bushranger Legend; Migrant Outlaws; Notes
- Chapter 11 Globalization of the Bushranger Legend in Outlaw Road MoviesLeaving the Bushranger Legend in the Dust; The Bushranger Legend in the Global Apocalypse; Notes; Conclusion; Note; End Matter; Bibliography; Primary; Films; Plays; With published or archival playscripts; Without playscripts; Archival Collections; Secondary; Index