Celebrating the Nation: A Critical Study of Australia's Bicentenary

ISBN-13: 9780367717636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 250 str.

Tony Bennett

Opis

Sets the rhetoric and discourses of Australia's Bicentenary celebrations in an international and historical context.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: National Times - Tony Bennett

Part I A Time and a Place

1 State Festivals, Foundation Myths and Cultural Politics in Immigrant Nations - John Hutchinson

2 Regular Imaginings: the Newspaper and the Nation - Colin Mercer

3 Past History, Present Concerns: the Bicentenary of the French Revolution - Jane Crisp

Part II Representations and Lineages

4 Canons, Culture and Consensus: Australian Literature and the Bicentenary - Pat Buckridge

5 Manning Clark's Hat: Public and National Intellectuals - David Carter

6 The Unmarking of Soccer: Making a Brand New Subject - Toby Miller

Part III Exhibitions

7 The Shaping of Things to Come: Expo 88 - Tony Bennett

8 Expo 88: Fashions of Sight and Politics of Site - Jennifer Craik

9 Pioneering the Past: a Study of the Stockman's Hall of Fame - Robin Trotter

O autorze

Tony Bennett is presently Dean of the Division of Humanities at Griffith University.

Pat Buckridge teaches in the School of Australian and Comparative Studies at Griffith University.

David Carter teaches in the School of Australian and Comparative Studies at Griffith University.

Colin Mercer teaches in the School of Cultural and Historical Studies at Griffith University. He is the Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies.