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'When The Proposition ( a UK/Australia co-production, directed by John Hillcoat and scripted by Nick Cave) was released in 2005, film reviewers had no qualms about claiming this spectacular saga of colonial violence on the Queensland frontier as a 'history' film. A reviewer on BBC Radio 4 described The Proposition as 'a bushranger Western...set in violent 1880s Australian outback exposing the bitter racial tensions between English and Irish settlers. A Sunday Times review declared that 'Australia's brutal post-colonial history is stripped of all the lies in a bloody clash of cultures between the British police, the Irish bushrangers and the Aborigines.' Foregrounding the film's revisionist spectacle of colonial violence, an Australian reviewer predicted that, despite 'scenes of throat-cutting torture, rape and exploding heads...The Proposition could be the most accurate look at our national history yet'. (Author's introduction, 207)
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Reconciliation and the History Wars in Australian Cinema

Subjects:
- The Proposition 2005 single work film/TV
- Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 single work film/TV
- Oscar and Lucinda 1997 single work film/TV
- One Night the Moon 2001 single work film/TV
- The Tracker 2002 single work film/TV
- First Australians 2008 single work film/TV
- Ten Canoes 2006 single work film/TV
- Vacant Possession 1994 single work film/TV
- Australian Rules 2002 single work film/TV
- BeDevil 1993 single work film/TV
- Radiance 1998 single work film/TV
- Yolngu Boy 2000 single work film/TV
- Beneath Clouds 2001 single work film/TV
- Samson and Delilah 2009 single work film/TV
- Stone Bros 2009 single work film/TV
- Bran Nue Dae 2009 single work film/TV
- Call Me Mum 2006 single work film/TV
- Jindabyne 2006 single work film/TV
- Blessed 2009 single work film/TV
- Australia 2008 single work film/TV
- Luke's Kingdom 1976 series - publisher film/TV
- The Overlanders 1946 single work film/TV
- We of the Never Never 1982 single work film/TV
- Jedda 1955 single work film/TV
- The Back of Beyond 1954 single work film/TV biography
- Crocodile Dundee 1985 single work film/TV
- Black and White 2002 single work film/TV
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