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The representation of the colonial past in French and Australian cinema, from 1970 to 2000 / by John James Emerson

Includes filmography: leaves 252-256. Bibliography: leaves 241-251. This thesis compares the representation of colonial history in the cinema of France and Australia since 1970. Films examined all had historical colonial settings, a narrative focus principally on aspects of the colonisation process and a director who was descended from former colonisers. It concludes that there are few sustained attempts to confront and resolve the problematic aspects of colonialism's legacy. The tendency to contain the representation of the colonial past within a fictional framework has the inevitable consequence of masking history and avoiding the necessity for dealing with it.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/122606
Date January 2002
CreatorsEmerson, John James.
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RelationSUA

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