Such is western: an overview of the Australian western via Ned Kelly films

Title: Such is western: an overview of the Australian western via Ned Kelly films
Creator: Hamilton, Emma
Relation: Studia Filmoznawcze Vol. 38, p. 31-43
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-116X.38.3
Publisher: Studia Filmoznawcze
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: The very existence of such athing as the “Australian Western” has been the subject of scholarly debate. This article utilizes the lens of Ned Kelly filmic representations to explore the development of the Western genre in Australia, and especially the ways in which historical consonances and dissonances, and processes of transatlantic cultural exchange have led to the development of films that can be reasonably recognized as both distinctly Western and distinctly Australian. Thus, this article gives consideration to the history, production and themes of Ned Kelly filmic representation in order to illuminate the development of the Western in Australia. Such consideration highlights the ways in which the Western genre functions as alanguage through which to explore the meaning of settlement in occupied spaces, but whose dialectic differences reflect particular national contexts and relationships to Hollywood soft power.
Subject: Australian western; cultural exchange; production and themes; western genre
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1473679
Identifier: uon:49085
Identifier: ISSN:0860-116X
Language: eng
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