Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Desley Deacon Provides the First Comprehensive Biography of a Pre-eminent Twentieth-century Australian Performer and Popular Cultural Icon
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'Today she haunts popular iconography on multiple digital and visual platforms. In Rebecca, the definitely monochrome film of 1940 directed by Alfred Hitchcock, she is gaunt, implacable, insidious: her black frock as dark as her intentions, luring her terrified victim towards self-annihilation among flickering firelight, transparent drapes, vertiginous cliffs and turbulent waves. In the cultural memory of the twenty-first century, Judith Anderson’s complex multi-media career has almost become subsumed into her portrayal of Mrs Danvers. Despite her eight decades of professional international performance as a tragedienne in stage, film, television, radio and recorded word, this major Australian cultural figure has hitherto received no comprehensive career biography.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 19 no. 2 2022 24775718 2022 periodical issue

    'In early 2022, we know that most readers yearn for a reprieve from living in ‘interesting times’. Under the cloud of a continuing pandemic, we have watched in horror as floods threaten so many fellow residents in Australia and as war wreaks havoc and worse in Ukraine. The editorial team as a whole extends its heartfelt sympathies to the current victims of climate change and of Vladimir Putin’s megalomania. On social media we have been at least gratified to share with followers the store of excellent articles we have published over 19 years on environmental disasters and the Ukrainian-Australian relationship.' (From the Editors : Introduction)

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