Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Postcolonial Longing on the Australian Cinematic Frontier
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'The Tracker and Red Hill are cinematic re-interpretations of Australia’s colonial past, which they characterise by a sense of postcolonial longing and an expectation of intimacy. Both films are portals through which arguments about historical truth, subjective memory and contemporary realities are explored and tested. In this paper I argue that both these two films create the idea that the historical colonial space was a constant interplay of violence and beauty, and of hatred and friendship. As black and white characters negotiate their way in and around these seemingly polemical positions, viewers are also challenged to do the same.' (Publication abstract)

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https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2016v69n2p177/31869 Postcolonial Longing on the Australian Cinematic Frontiersmall AustLit logo Ilha Do Desterro : A Journal of English Language
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