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'In Australia (and globally), refugees and 'the environment' are major sources of
anxiety that define the experience of living in modern times. Contemporary social
policy is then a representational technology that speaks to environmental and crosscultural
transactions within 'modern' Australian cinematic texts. This article tracks
the conversational contours between policy on climate change and border control
in Australia and representations of self-other and self-environment relations in
Australian film produced in the latter period of the Howard era (1996-2007). Films
have frequently sought to mobilize a range of visions and understandings of both
security and sustainability, and of the associated productions of policy, identity and
space. Such exchanges necessitate critical scrutiny of the politicized cultural contexts
that produce them - and an awareness of the normative reassertions that accompany
these cinematic mediations of modern Australian experience.' (Author's abstract)
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'Modern' Cinematic Encounters : Border Crossing and Environmental Transformation in Some Recent Australian Films
Studies in Australasian Cinema
Subjects:
- Unfinished Sky 2007 single work film/TV
- They're a Weird Mob 1966 single work film/TV
- Lucky Miles 2007 single work film/TV
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