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form y separately published work icon Ned Kelly single work   film/TV   crime   historical fiction  
Note: Some sources suggest that playwright Alex Buso was an uncredited writer on the film.
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Ned Kelly
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A film based on the life and death of Ned Kelly, co-written by Australian script-writer Ian Jones and the British director, Tony Richardson. It was not successful on release, and has remained one of the less successful Kelly films.

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Works about this Work

Dead Heart : Australia’s Horror Cinema Geoff Stanton , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 31 October 2018;
Mick Jagger's Time in Rural NSW : An Exploding Gun, an Iconic Song and a Legend 50 Years Old Jordan Hayne , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2018;

'On one September night in 1969, the world's biggest rock star couldn't be found in London or New York, but in a rural New South Wales pub, drinking green ginger wine.'

y separately published work icon The Ned Kelly Films : A Cultural History of Kelly History Stephen Gaunson , Bristol Chicago : Intellect , 2013 7520597 2013 multi chapter work criticism

'One of Australia’s most notorious outlaws, Ned Kelly lived on the land from the time of his first arrest at age 14, until police captured him and his Kelly gang a decade later in 1880. Immortalized in a series of onscreen productions, he has since become one of the most resilient screen presences in the history of Australian cinema.

'Covering the nine feature films, three miniseries, and two TV movies that have been made about this controversial character, Stephen Gaunson illuminates a central irony: from novels to comics to the branding of the site where he was captured, most cultural representations of Kelly are decidedly lowbrow. But only the films have been condemned for not offering a more serious interpretation of this figure and his historical context. Asking what value we can place on such ‘bad’ historical cinema, Gaunson offers new insights about the textual characteristics of cinematic material and the conditions of film distribution, circulation, and reception.' (Publication summary)

Ned Kelly Resurrected in Song Lee-Von Kim , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 328-335)
Ned Kelly Myke Bartlett , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: World Film Locations : Melbourne 2012; (p. 22-23)
Ned Kelly Resurrected in Song Lee-Von Kim , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 328-335)
Ned Kelly Myke Bartlett , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: World Film Locations : Melbourne 2012; (p. 22-23)
y separately published work icon The Ned Kelly Films : A Cultural History of Kelly History Stephen Gaunson , Bristol Chicago : Intellect , 2013 7520597 2013 multi chapter work criticism

'One of Australia’s most notorious outlaws, Ned Kelly lived on the land from the time of his first arrest at age 14, until police captured him and his Kelly gang a decade later in 1880. Immortalized in a series of onscreen productions, he has since become one of the most resilient screen presences in the history of Australian cinema.

'Covering the nine feature films, three miniseries, and two TV movies that have been made about this controversial character, Stephen Gaunson illuminates a central irony: from novels to comics to the branding of the site where he was captured, most cultural representations of Kelly are decidedly lowbrow. But only the films have been condemned for not offering a more serious interpretation of this figure and his historical context. Asking what value we can place on such ‘bad’ historical cinema, Gaunson offers new insights about the textual characteristics of cinematic material and the conditions of film distribution, circulation, and reception.' (Publication summary)

'International Outlaws' : Tony Richardson, Mick Jagger and Ned Kelly Stephen Gaunson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 4 no. 3 2010; (p. 255-265)
Mick Jagger's Time in Rural NSW : An Exploding Gun, an Iconic Song and a Legend 50 Years Old Jordan Hayne , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2018;

'On one September night in 1969, the world's biggest rock star couldn't be found in London or New York, but in a rural New South Wales pub, drinking green ginger wine.'

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