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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781042603321

Autore

Cunningham Stuart

Titolo

In the vernacular [[electronic resource] ] : a generation of Australian culture and controversy / / Stuart Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

St Lucia, Qld., : University of Queensland Press, 2008

ISBN

0-7022-4116-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

306.071094

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching - Australia

Social sciences - Study and teaching - Australia

Australia Social conditions 20th century

Australia Cultural policy

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

CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Sources; Screen title availability; Introduction; Part 1 Australian film; Chapter 1 The decades of survival:Australian cinema 1930-70; Chapter 2 Approaching Chauvel; Chapter 3 Apollonius and Dionysus in the Antipodes; Chapter 4 Hollywood genres, Australian movies; Part 2 Australian television; Chapter 5 Style, form and history in Australian mini-series; Chapter 6 Kennedy-Miller: 'House style'in Australian television; Chapter 7 (with Liz Jacka) Australian television in world markets; Part 3 Diasporas and media use

Chapter 8 Theorising the diasporic audienceChapter 9 (with Tina Nguyen) Actually existing hybridity: Vietnamese diasporic music video; Part 4 The cultural policy debate; Chapter 10 Cultural studies from the viewpointof cultural policy; Chapter 11 Re-framing culture; Part 5 Creative industries and beyond; Chapter 12 The creative industries after cultural policy; Chapter 13 What price a creative economy?; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"These essays, written over a twenty year period, bring together important works from one of Australias leading cultural studies thinkers. The selected papers map the trajectory of our changing culture and the way the field of cultural, media and communication



studies have adapted to accommodate these changes."--Provided by publisher.