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Record Nr.

UNINA9910662212203321

Autore

Tink Andrew

Titolo

Air disaster Canberra [[electronic resource] ] : the plane crash that destroyed a government / / Andrew Tink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, NSW, Australia, : New South, c2013

ISBN

1-74224-142-5

1-74224-631-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Disciplina

320.994

994/.04/0924

Soggetti

Aircraft accidents - Australia - 1940 - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Australia Politics and government 1901-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; Prologue; Part I: The political rise of the Anzac generation; 1. Nose first; 2. Some had fought; 3. Others hadn't; 4. Anzac generation into Parliament; 5. Menzies backs Lyons; 6. Fairbairn, Menzies and Street enter Federal Parliament; 7. Fairbairn, Gullett and Street back Menzies; 8. Australia's leadership malaise; 9. Menzies' resignation; 10. Menzies trumps Page; 11. Menzies PM; 12. Menzies' right-hand men; 13. The war cabinet; 14. Cincinnatus; 15. France falls; 16. The flying MP

17. Minister for civil aviation18. Minister for air; 19. Flight Lieutenant R.E. (Bob) Hitchcock; Part II: The air disaster; 20. The Lockheed Hudson; 21. Laverton; 22. Laverton to Essendon; 23. Essendon; 24. Essendon to eternity; 25. A dreadful calamity; 26. The Canberra inquests; 27. The air force inquiries; 28. The judicial inquiry: The players; 29. The judicial inquiry: The hearing; 30. The judicial inquiry: The findings; Part III: A wartime government destroyed; 31. The political fallout; 32. A hung Parliament; 33. Menzies goes to London; 34. Menzies digs in overseas

35. The prime ministerial stand in36. Menzies returns; 37. A political lynching; 38. Coles brings down the government; Epilogue; Notes;



Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber - the A16-97 - carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had destabilized Robert Menzies' wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941. Controversially, t

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484324303321

Titolo

Female agencies and subjectivities in film and television / / Diğdem Sezen [and three others] (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-56100-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 300 p. 6 illus.)

Disciplina

791.43082

Soggetti

Feminism and motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Agnès Varda and the Singular Feminine -- 3. Female Agency in Pelin Esmer Films: The Play (2005) and Queen Lear (2019) -- 4. The Feminine Indistinction in Susanne Bier’s Cinema: The Brothers (2005), In a Better World (2010), Bird Box (2019) -- 5. Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Transcultural Expressionism -- 6. Claire Underwood: Feminist Warrior or Shakespearean Villain? Re-visiting Feminine Evil in House of Cards -- 7. The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics -- 8. ‘I will not be bullied into submission’: Discussing subjection and resistance in GLOW (2017) -- 9. Female Body Language: Cutting, Scarring, and Becoming in HBO’s Sharp Objects -- 10. The Strong Female Lead: Postfeminist Representation of Women and Femininity in Netflix Shows,



Derya Özkan, Deborah Hardt -- 11. The Technological Turn of the Femme Fatale: The Fembot and Alternative Fates -- 12. Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Persona and Happy Valley -- 13. Bridal anxieties: Politics of gender, neoconservatism and daytime TV in Turkey -- 14. International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels: “Women’s Cinema, Women’s Resistance, Cinema of Resistance."- 15. Machine gaze on women: How everyday machine-vision-technologies see women in films.

Sommario/riassunto

“This volume is an exuberant account of the ways in which female agencies and subjectivities in visual culture have expanded and multiplied through digital technology and globalization. It is an invaluable contribution to contemporary discussions in film and television studies, as well as feminist theory and practice.” -Süheyla Schroeder, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, Germany This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across genres and platforms. This collection derives from the editors’ multi-year experiences as scholars and practitioners in the field of film and television. It is an effort that aims to describe and understand female agencies and subjectivities across screen narratives, gather scholars from around the world to generate timely discussions, and inspire fellow researchers and practitioners of film and television. Diğdem Sezen is a lecturer at Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Communications, Media and Arts, UK. She holds a Ph.D. from Istanbul University, Turkey. Feride Çiçekoğlu holds a Ph.D. in architecture from University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her stint in prison during the military junta of 1980 in Turkey was the inspiration for her first novella, which she later adapted to screen and used as a springboard to build a second academic career in film. Aslı Tunç is a professor of media studies and communication in the Department of Media at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in media and communications from Temple University, USA. Ebru Thwaites Diken is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television at İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University, UK.