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This analysis of The Story of the Kelly Gang, Thunderbolt, and The Squatter's Daughter considers early Australian films in the light of American cowboy films, arguing that 'it is the contention of this paper that these relations are the result of certain cultural coincidences between Australia and the Western United States rather than the outcome of direct influence of the one upon the other. Viewed in this light, “the American cinema par excellence” can perhaps be more reasonably understood as the epitome of a global cinema – not an original myth of nationhood, but a story of no-place retold everywhere and at all times, even in terra nullius itself.'
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-103201-20090728-0108-archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/18/oz_western.html
More Australian than Aristotelian : The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904-1914
Senses of Cinema
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- Thunderbolt 1910 single work film/TV
- The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906 single work film/TV
- The Squatter's Daughter 1933 single work film/TV
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