Australian Popular Culture [Paperback]

An exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life.Bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of Australia's changing life, this exciting collection of essays covers a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields for exploring subjects of wide interest, ranging from postage stamps to Crocodile Dundee.Bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of Australia's changing life, this exciting collection of essays covers a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields for exploring subjects of wide interest, ranging from postage stamps to Crocodile Dundee.This book is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of Australia's changing life. Authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest. Chapters are devoted to: Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules Football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; the Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher and Postmodernism and Australian Culture.Introduction; Part I. Popular Culture as the Everyday: 1. A brief cultural history of vegemite Robert White; 2. The Australian back yard George Seddon; 3. Stamp duty Xavier Pons; 4. Australian football as secular religion Stephen Alomes; Part II. Popular Culture and the 'Mass' Media: 5. Controlling the technology of popular culture and the introduction of television to Australia James Walter; 6. 'Crocodile Dundee': the revival of American virtue Ruth Brown; 7. The Boys from the Bush: television coproduction in the 1990s Ian Craven; 8. Patterns of control in Australian crime fiction Stephen Knight; 9. National fictions and the 'Spycatcher' trial Kevin Foster; 10. Naturalising 'horror stories': Australian crime news as popular culture Christine Higgins; Part III. Popular Culture and Critical Theory: 11. How to be a singer though married: domesticity, leisure and modern love Kay Ferres; 12lƒ%