National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780367718787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 184 str.

Graeme Turner

Opis

National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture; as narratives with similar structures, functions, forms and meanings. It covers a range of texts, offering both close analysis and an account of their place within the syste

Spis treści

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface to the second edition

Introduction

1 National fictions: film, fiction and national culture

2 The Australian context: nature and society

3 The self in context

4 Characterisation and individualism

5 Representing the nation

6 Complications and conclusions

Afterword

References

Index

O autorze

GRAEME TURNER is Associate Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Queensland and is one of the founders of Australian cultural studies. His publications include Myths of Oz (co-authored with John Fiske and Bob Hodge), Australian Television (co-edited with John Tulloch) and The Media in Australia (co-edited with Stuart Cunningham).