Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Coming from the City in the Castle, Vacant Possession, Strange Planet and Radiance
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In this chapter, Collins and Davis analyse how emergent themes within contemporary Australian cultural studies, repudiate 'the 19th century bush as the template for a British-derived national identity, turning instead to the cosmopolitan city , the multi-cultural suburbs, and the hedonistic holiday coast as templates for the a dynamic, post-national, post-multi-cultural identity in the 21st century.' The authors argue that 'the problem of belonging and of being at home in Australia is evident in the afterwardness of the history wars that followed the Mabo decision.' 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. 112-130
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112-130 Coming from the City in the Castle, Vacant Possession, Strange Planet and Radiancesmall AustLit logo
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  • The Castle Rob Sitch , Santo Cilauro , Tom Gleisner , Jane Kennedy , 1997 single work film/TV
  • Vacant Possession Margot Nash , 1994 single work film/TV
  • Strange Planet Stavros Kazantzidis , Emma-Kate Croghan , 1999 single work film/TV
  • Radiance Louis Nowra , 1998 single work film/TV
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