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Tom Murray Tom Murray i(A15334 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 Emotions, Activism and Documentary Storytelling : A Biographical Production-Based Case Study Tom Murray , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Emotions: History, Culture, Society , vol. 5 no. 1 2021; (p. 103–123) 'The biography of Douglas Grant (c.1885–1951) has been publicly and popularly told in media since 1916. Interestingly, Grant’s unusual life-story has consistently been deployed to serve various political agendas. This essay examines the role of popular media biographies of Douglas Grant and the emotions embedded in them, and utilises a documentary-film production as a case study to examine relations between these emotions, activist agendas and documentary-film storytelling. Additionally, given the consistent use of tragedy as a formal narrative structure employed in tellings of Douglas Grant’s story, this essay also describes how narrative structures are not culturally neutral, but are themselves emotionally suggestive cultural productions. Analysing a century of tellings of the Douglas Grant biography, this essay also offers insights into how conquest-colonial ideology is manifest in these often ‘tragic’ tales. As an attempt at decolonising scholarship, this essay also responds to insights by Indigenous commentators within the case-study text to reflect on Indigenous ontologies and the role of Country and Indigenous futurism as places/sites/histories of hope.' (Publication summary)
1 How We Tracked down the Only Known Sculpture of a WWI Indigenous Soldier Tom Murray , Hilary Howes , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 June 2019;

'Germany, 1918. Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, not far from Berlin. An Australian Indigenous POW, Douglas Grant, sits as a model for a portrait bust by a German Jewish sculptor, Rudolf Marcuse.' (Introduction)
1 Screen Rites : Getting Close to Death and Dying Tom Murray , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Humanities Australia , no. 6 2015; (p. 82-92)
1 Down by Law Tom Murray , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 62 no. 1 2003; (p. 69-78) Examines the significance of the Yolngu word djalkiri meaning literally 'footprints' or, the more usual English translation, 'foundation'.
1 Shifting Camp i "Dragging leaves for its nest", Tom Murray , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 9 no. 3 1990; (p. 67) The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1990; (p. 14-15) The Poetry Book Club of Australia , April vol. 1 no. 3 1996; (p. 6)
1 Song to Make Her Grow i "In the Burran style", Tom Murray , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1990; (p. 40-41)
1 Cutting a Track to Cardwell i "The track is cleared", Tom Murray , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1990; (p. 20-21)
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