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Author Limbrick, Peter, 1967-

Title Making settler cinemas : film and colonial encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand / Peter Limbrick
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents Making a settler cinema in the United States. Playing empire : settler masculinities, adventure, and The four feathers (1929) -- Imperial production, settler colonialism, and the Argosy Westerns -- Empire and settler cinema in Australia. Ealing's Australian Westerns -- Film history and settler cinema in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Hei Tiki (1935) : film histories past and present -- Unsettled histories : The seekers (1954)
Summary Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index
Notes English
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Subject Imperialism in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Australia
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- New Zealand
Films, cinema -- USA -- Australia -- New Zealand.
Colonialism & imperialism -- USA -- Australia -- New Zealand.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Performing Arts.
Culture in motion pictures
Imperialism in motion pictures
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
Art - Film - Film-makers
Australia
New Zealand
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009046031
ISBN 9780230107915
0230107915
9781349287031
1349287032
9786612909863
6612909862