Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 More Australian than Aristotelian : The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904-1914
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This analysis of The Story of the Kelly Gang, Thunderbolt, and The Squatter's Daughter considers early Australian films in the light of American cowboy films, arguing that 'it is the contention of this paper that these relations are the result of certain cultural coincidences between Australia and the Western United States rather than the outcome of direct influence of the one upon the other. Viewed in this light, “the American cinema par excellence” can perhaps be more reasonably understood as the epitome of a global cinema – not an original myth of nationhood, but a story of no-place retold everywhere and at all times, even in terra nullius itself.'

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    y separately published work icon Senses of Cinema no. 18 January-February 2002 Z1853160 2002 periodical issue 2002
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