Texts

y separately published work icon Being Australian : Narratives of National Identity Catriona Elder , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2007 Z1418401 2007 single work criticism (taught in 6 units)

Catriona Elder explores the origins, meanings and effects of the many stories we tell about ourselves, and how they have changed over time. She outlines some of the traditional stories and their role in Australian nationalism, and she shows how concepts of egalitarianism, peaceful settlement and sporting prowess have been used to create a national identity.
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y separately published work icon Diasporas of Australian Cinema Catherine Simpson (editor), Renata Murawska (editor), Anthony Lambert (editor), Bristol : Intellect , 2009 Z1762587 2009 anthology criticism (taught in 1 units) 'Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume of essays to focus on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian film-making over the past century. Topics include, post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, 'wogsploitation' comedy, and post-ethnic cinema. This collection also provides a comprehensive filmography making it a useful reference text for scholars of Australian film and cultural studies. The book is a vital contribution to the burgeoning international body of critical work on diasporic cinemas.' (Publisher's blurb)

Description

This unit introduces students to the disciplinary, historical and thematic features of the field known as Australian Cultural Studies. The unit takes as its focus constructions of Australianness drawn from Australian cultural texts, and publicly mediated Australian events and stories that both exemplify and influence understandings of nation, heritage, citizenship and the Australian social context. In studying the production of identity, Indigeneity, gender, sexuality, race, religion and politics from an Australian perspective, the unit utilises a number of Australian feature films, documentaries, television programs and items from both print an electronic media. These articulations of the Australian context are filtered though critical perspectives from across the broad range of cultural studies to interrogate how the term Australian is both used and made; how being Australian is performed as a complex and often contradictory phenomenon.

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Current Campus: North Ryde
Levels: Undergraduate
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