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'This paper attempts to advance new understandings of female cinematic agency by interrogating its connection to patterns of cultural colonialism in Australian film. The visual presence of female Aboriginality in contemporary Australian film undermines, in subtle and explicit ways, the possibility of a truly secure white identity tied to the Australian environment. It does so through the introduction of the complexities of Aboriginal difference, through the subversion of white cinematic narratives and mythologies, and through physical agency and action. In this way, the anti-colonial impulse in the cinema emerges, in films which effectively 'unearth' the continuing cinematic metaphors of colonial power. -- From the journal.
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“[P]eople Often Judged by What They Feared or Knew Existed in Themselves” : A Postcolonial Critique of Disability in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well
2010
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— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 203-218)
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“[P]eople Often Judged by What They Feared or Knew Existed in Themselves” : A Postcolonial Critique of Disability in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 203-218)
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http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/view/358/125
Arresting Metaphors : Anti-Colonial Females in Australian Cinema
Postcolonial Text
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- Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 single work film/TV
- Night Cries : A Rural Tragedy 1989 single work film/TV
- Jedda 1955 single work film/TV
- Radiance 1998 single work film/TV
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