Imagining the secondary school : the 'pictorial turn' and representations of secondary schools in two Australian feature films of the 1970s

Title: Imagining the secondary school : the 'pictorial turn' and representations of secondary schools in two Australian feature films of the 1970s
Creator: May, Josephine
Relation: History of Education Review Vol. 35, Issue 1, p. 13-22
Relation: http://www.her-anzhes.co.nz/35_1.html
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2006
Description: This paper aims to engage with the cinematic history of Australian education by examining the historical representation of secondary schools in two Australian feature films of the 1970s: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) and The Getting of Wisdom (Beresford, 1977). By what narrative strategies, metaphors and understandings were Australian high schools encoded into images and how might these interpretations differ from written accounts of the secondary schools? The discussion focuses on the social and material worlds of the schools. It reflects on the types of education depicted and the characterisations of teachers and students, including consideration of gender, class, and sexualities. The paper asks: what was the historical understanding of secondary schools that made them so attractive for cinematic explorations of Australian national identity in the 1970s?
Subject: secondary schools; Australia; pictorial turn
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26695
Identifier: uon:1048
Identifier: ISSN:0311-3248
Language: eng
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