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Special features: Q & A at Melbourne International Film Festival with Clara Law, Julian Burnside (QC, Refugee rights advocate), Ian MacPhee (Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs 1979-82), Trish Kerbi, and James Hewison; additional scenes and extended interviews, including the Malcolm Fraser interview; the newspaper article that inspired the film; where is Ali now?; resource web links.
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Works about this Work
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Filming One's Way Home : Clara Law's Letters to Oz
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Chinese Women's Cinema : Transnational Contexts 2011; (p. 347-367) -
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Witnessing Australian Stories : History, Testimony and Memory in Contemporary Culture
Melbourne
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2010
6037495
2010
single work
thesis
'This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians–politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.
'Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.
'When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transactions critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Travelling towards Ourselves : Rights and Recognition in Clara Law's 'Letters to Ali'
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 137-151) Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 3 no. 1 2009; (p. 15-28) -
Unsettling Whiteness : The Slippage of Race and Nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 2 no. 2 2008; (p. 103-119) -
Hong Kong-Australian Imaginaries : Three Australian Films by Clara Law
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hong Kong Film, Hollywood, and the New Global Cinema : No Film Is an Island 2007; (p. 91-106)
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Travelling towards Ourselves : Rights and Recognition in Clara Law's 'Letters to Ali'
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 137-151) Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 3 no. 1 2009; (p. 15-28) -
y
Witnessing Australian Stories : History, Testimony and Memory in Contemporary Culture
Melbourne
:
2010
6037495
2010
single work
thesis
'This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians–politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.
'Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.
'When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transactions critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Unsettling Whiteness : The Slippage of Race and Nation in Clara Law's Letters to Ali
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 2 no. 2 2008; (p. 103-119) -
Hong Kong-Australian Imaginaries : Three Australian Films by Clara Law
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hong Kong Film, Hollywood, and the New Global Cinema : No Film Is an Island 2007; (p. 91-106) -
Filming One's Way Home : Clara Law's Letters to Oz
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Chinese Women's Cinema : Transnational Contexts 2011; (p. 347-367)
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