Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree
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'The foucs of this chapter is on the ways that the films Heartland, Cunamulla and Message from Moree send a message to the viewer about what's going on in the country. The asssunption that life in the the country is shaped by what happened after the frontier wars is axiomatic for these programs. In the 1990s, reconciliation policies at the national level have influenced film narratives about the survival of Aboriginal communities and the various ways that settler and Indigenous Australians have intermingled in the country.' The authors argue that 'these narratives have found their way through the public film-funding bodies to ABC Television and can thus be construed as contributing to the national interest rather than to the sphere of entertainment.' Source : Australian Cinema after Mabo (2004).

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    y separately published work icon Australian Cinema after Mabo Felicity Collins , Therese Davis , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2004 Z1207285 2004 single work criticism (taught in 1 units) This book is a study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Felicity Collins and Therese Davis explore the role of Australian cinema in reviewing and reproducing the colonial past in relation to the 1992 Mabo decision which overturned the national founding myth of terra nullius and 'changed the meaning of landscape and identity in Australian films'. Source : Australian Cinema After Mabo (2004). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2004 pg. 94-111
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  • Heartland Ro Hume , Susan MacGillicuddy , John Cundill , Kristen Dunphy , Andrew Kelly , Ernie Dingo , Bob Maza , Nicholas Parsons , 1994 series - publisher film/TV
  • Message from Moree 2003 single work film/TV
  • Cunnamulla Dennis Patrick O'Rourke , 2000 single work film/TV
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