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Entries connected with this record have been sourced from on-going historical research into Australian-written music theatre and film being conducted by Dr Clay Djubal.
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Unfounded Attack on 'Dad and Dave' Comedies : Dad Rudd, M.P.
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2013; Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 57-63)'By the time Ken G. Hall filmed Dad Rudd M.P., his film-making had come to reflect international popular culture as well as Australian traditions, writes Julieanne Lamond'
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Larrikin Ockers and Decent Blokes : The National Type in Australian Film Comedy
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Creative Nation : Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader 2009; (p. 154-165) -
Representing Australian Space in The Overlanders
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 115-123) This paper will examine the influence of Watt's representation of Australian space in The Overlanders on other films made in Australia during the 1950s, including Charles Chauvel's Jedda (1955) and Jack Lee's Robbery Under Arms (1957)...(From author's abstract p. 115) -
The Ghost of Dad Rudd, on the Stump
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 6 no. 1 2007; (p. 19-32) 'This paper examines the cultural and political legacies of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who first appeared in short stories by 'Steele Rudd' (A. H. Davis) in the Bulletin in 1895 and has since appeared in popular fiction, theatre, film, television and radio adaptations throughout the twentieth century. It traces a set of national tropes - particularly that of the battler - through stump speeches made by Dad Rudd in On Our Selection! (1899), Dad in Politics (1908), the stage melodrama On Our Selection (1912), and Ken G. Hall's film Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940), and considers how they have continued to be used to create both political and cultural constituencies in Australia.' -
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Mavis Road Medley
Hunters Hill
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Margaret Hamilton Books
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1991
Z161654
1991
single work
novel
young adult
fantasy
'Didi (actually named Eurydice) is miserable and unsettled because her father's work has forced her to leave her friends and school in Sydney. Jamie, older sister Kate's boyfriend, is also unsettled because of his parents' divorce and his recent move to Melbourne. Kate resents Jamie's absorption in music and his need to earn money.
'While Didi and Jamie happen to be watching an old film, On our Selection, they are inexplicably transported back to 1933. Though initially terrified, Jamie and Didi are quickly befriended by the lively argumentative Sam and his fiancee Selma and taken into the Finkelsteins' welcoming boarding house.
'Once the shock of finding themselves in a totally strange environment wears off, Didi and Jamie decide to make the most of their unusual circumstances. They don't even like each other, and now they must learn to live together. Against a backdrop of Depression Melbourne, early European migration and the excitement of Wirth's Circus on the site of the present Victorian Arts Centre, they must find a way home or stay in 1933 forever.
'Why does all this happen? Important clues are the trunkful of old clothes Didi finds in the cellar and Jamie's harmonica'. Source: author's website.
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'Steele Rudd' : How He Got That Name
1932
single work
column
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 16 July 1932; (p. 12) -
'Dad' Arrives : Bert Bailey in Brisbane
1932
single work
column
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 21 July 1932; (p. 12) -
The Ghost of Dad Rudd, on the Stump
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 6 no. 1 2007; (p. 19-32) 'This paper examines the cultural and political legacies of Dad Rudd, a fictional character who first appeared in short stories by 'Steele Rudd' (A. H. Davis) in the Bulletin in 1895 and has since appeared in popular fiction, theatre, film, television and radio adaptations throughout the twentieth century. It traces a set of national tropes - particularly that of the battler - through stump speeches made by Dad Rudd in On Our Selection! (1899), Dad in Politics (1908), the stage melodrama On Our Selection (1912), and Ken G. Hall's film Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940), and considers how they have continued to be used to create both political and cultural constituencies in Australia.' -
Two Remakes : Ideologies of Film Production 1919-1932
1982
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends : Essays in Australian Cultural History 1982; (p. 33-59) -
Larrikin Ockers and Decent Blokes : The National Type in Australian Film Comedy
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Creative Nation : Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader 2009; (p. 154-165)
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