Cirrus@Austlit

'This book explores Australia's cinematic engagement with the Torres Strait, Papua and New Guinea in the light of Australia's colonial project within these territories from 1925-1962. It is concerned with the part played by the cinema in imaging Australia's emerging colonial nationhood...as well as the ways in which colonial attitudes and anxieties played out in the regulation and censorship of cinema in the nation and its territories.' - from author's Preface (p. ix)