Photography, early cinema and colonial modernity : Frank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments /

"Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This book is a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Robert, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Anthem Press, ©2012.
Colección:Anthem Australian humanities research series.
Temas:
Hurley, Frank, > 1885-1962.
Hurley, Frank, > 1885-1962
1900-1999
Photographers > Australia > Biography.
Photography > History > 20th century.
Cinematography > History > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects.
Civilization, Modern.
Photographes > Australie > Biographies.
Photographie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cinéma > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photographie > Aspect social.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Monographs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Essays.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > General.
Cinematography.
Photographers.
Photography.
Australia.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Australia's Embrace of Colonial Modernity
  • 1. 'The Home of the Blizzard': Douglas Mawson's synchronized lecture entertainment
  • 2. Guided spectatorship: exhibiting the Great War
  • 3. Touring the nation: Shackleton's 'Marvellous Moving Pictures' and the Australian season of 'In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice'
  • 4. Entr'acte: 'Sir Ross Smith's Flight', aerial vision and colonial modernity
  • 5. Colonial modernity and its sthers: 'Pearls and Savages' as a multi-media project.

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