Australian Cinema After Mabo [Hardcover]

Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s.Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how Mabo has destabilised the way Australians relate to the land and highlights turning points in the shaping of the Australian cinema.Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how Mabo has destabilised the way Australians relate to the land and highlights turning points in the shaping of the Australian cinema.Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the founding doctrine of terra nullius was overruled, has destabilised the way Australians relate to the land. It asks how we think about Australian cinema in the post Mabo era, and what part it plays in the national process of reviewing our colonial past and the ways in which settlers and indigenous cultures can co-exist. Including The Tracker, Kiss or Kill, The Castle, Love Serenade and Yolngu Boy among numerous others, this book highlights turning points in the shaping of the Australian cinema since Mabo. It is essential reading for anyone studying Australian cinema and for those interested in the ways in which land politics has impacted upon the way we imagine ourselves through cinema.Part I. Australian Cinema and the History Wars: 1. Backtracking after Mabo; 2. Home and abroad in Moulin Rouge, The Dish and Lantana; 3. Elites and battlers in Australian Rules and Walking on Water; 4. Mediating memory in Mabo - life of an Island Man; Part II. Landscape and belonging after Mabo: 5. Aftershock and the desert landscape in Heaven's Burning, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Holy Smoke, Serenadesl£>