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Celluloid Heroes Down Under - by Theodore Sheckels (Hardcover)

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  • With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as it is today.
  • About the Author: THEODORE F. SHECKELS is Professor of English and Communication at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
  • 264 Pages
  • Performing Arts, Film

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With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as it is today. This new study argues that post-1970 Australian film is best described not as exhibiting phenomenal variety but as focused on a conception of heroism characterized by the love of freedom, the resentment of authority, and attachment to the land, along with anti-intellectualism, fatalism, and occasional sexism. Tracing these themes through one hundred films, Scheckels explores the ways in which they are reflected through depictions of men, women, aboriginals, and youth, with each demographic group posing its own unique generic and cultural questions.

Including films both elite and popular, excellent and flawed, Celluloid Heroes Down Under offers film-by-film discussions in seven chapters, making the volume both a highly readable study of a particular cinema and superb reference guide for its readers. Unlike previous studies of the nation's film output, Sheckels's work presents its subject not as a miscellaneous collection but as a focused endeavor, a cohesive and undervalued component of world cinema.



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With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as it is today. This new study argues that post-1970 Australian film is best described not as exhibiting phenomenal variety but as focused on a conception of heroism characterized by the love of freedom, the resentment of authority, and attachment to the land, along with anti-intellectualism, fatalism, and occasional sexism. Tracing these themes through one hundred films, Scheckels explores the ways in which they are reflected through depictions of men, women, aboriginals, and youth, with each demographic group posing its own unique generic and cultural questions.

Including films both elite and popular, excellent and flawed, Celluloid Heroes Down Under offers film-by-film discussions in seven chapters, making the volume both a highly readable study of a particular cinema and superb reference guide for its readers. Unlike previous studies of the nation's film output, Sheckels's work presents its subject not as a miscellaneous collection but as a focused endeavor, a cohesive and undervalued component of world cinema.



About the Author



THEODORE F. SHECKELS is Professor of English and Communication at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. He is the author of many books, including The Lion on the Freeway: A Thematic Introduction to Contemporary South African Literature in English (1996) and When Congress Debates: A Bakhtinian Paradigm (Praeger, 2000).
Dimensions (Overall): 10.34 Inches (H) x 5.6 Inches (W) x .97 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.28 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Film
Publisher: Praeger
Theme: History & Criticism
Format: Hardcover
Author: Theodore Sheckels
Language: English
Street Date: July 30, 2002
TCIN: 1006473818
UPC: 9780275976774
Item Number (DPCI): 247-20-9586
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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