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Record Nr.

UNINA9910952293403321

Autore

Limbrick Peter <1967->

Titolo

Making Settler Cinemas : Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand / / by P. Limbrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612909863

9781282909861

128290986X

9780230107915

0230107915

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Motion pictures - History

Social history

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Communication

Cultural History

Film and TV History

Social History

Film and Television Studies

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252).

Nota di contenuto

Part one: Making a settler cinema in the United States -- Playing empire: settler masculinities, adventure, and The four feathers (1929) --  Imperial production, settler colonialism, and the Argosy Westerns --  Part two: Empire and settler cinema in Australia -- Ealing's Australian westerns -- Part three: Film history and settler cinema in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Hei Tiki (1935): film histories past and present  -- Unsettled histories: The seekers (1954).



Sommario/riassunto

Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse.