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'The story of journalists Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Philip Schuler, sent with the troops to Gallipoli in 1915, and how their quest for the truth helped change the war’s course – and its legend.' (Production summary)
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“They Said It'd Be an Adventure” : Masculinity, Nation, and Empire in Centennial Australian World War I Film and Television
2018
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— Appears in: Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 51 no. 6 2018; (p. 1356-1375)'The World War I Gallipoli campaign in modern Turkey in April 1915 was calamitous from the outset, with the amphibious assault by British and Allied forces landing well off course. Australia's first major military engagement since achieving nationhood in 1901, its chief success would become their stealth evacuation, which saw seventy thousand men covertly withdrawn over nine days and nights in December 1915. The campaign was ultimately futile and deemed immaterial to the outcome of the war. Such an ignominious defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire would seem an unlikely source for a national myth. It lacks, for example, “the psychic reassurance of triumph over the sources of threat” and the defeat of enemies that Graham Dawson identifies as a key psychic and social function of adventure narratives and soldier heroes (282). Yet, the ill‐fated Gallipoli campaign is popularly held in Australia's cultural imagination as the “birth of a nation” for a former colony then still under the yoke of the British Empire. In Australian politics and culture, the youthful nation's presumed character was forged in war and embodied in the deeds of its young men, in spite of ultimate defeat.' (Introduction)
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Out Girl Can So ACCTA
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 October 2015; (p. 24) -
Not Your Damsel in Distress
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 October 2015; (p. 32) -
Studios Put Us in the Picture
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 September 2015; (p. 29) -
Making Movies a New Star of State
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 May 2015; (p. 7)
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Fresh Angle Brings Folklore to Life
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 March 2015; (p. 0)
— Review of Deadline Gallipoli 2015 series - publisher film/TV 'The much anticipated Foxtel miniseries seamlessly weaves several well-known SA locations into the story of World War I journalists and photographers who fought to tell the world the story of the Gallipoli campaign...' -
Unflinching Tales from the Trenches
2015
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 April 2015; (p. 7) The Age , 16 April 2015; (p. 9)
— Review of Deadline Gallipoli 2015 series - publisher film/TV -
Deadline Gallipoli : Sam Worthington on Why His Anzac Drama Is Different
2015
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 April 2015;
— Review of Deadline Gallipoli 2015 series - publisher film/TV -
Stars Set to Go Into Battle
2014
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— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 15 June 2014; (p. 11) -
Maslins Gets Dressed Up For a Gallipoli War Epic
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 July 2014; (p. 3) -
Sam's Fresh Perspective on the Gallipoli Legend
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 July 2014; (p. 7) -
Take a Bow After Arts' Bumper Year
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 November 2014; (p. 37) -
Joel the New Boy From Oz
2015
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2015; (p. 24)
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
- 2016 shortlisted Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
- 2016 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting for episode 4: 'The Letter'
- 2015 winner AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
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Gallipoli,
cTurkey,cMiddle East, Asia,