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Migration Documentary Films in Post-War Australia (Hardcover, New)
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Migration Documentary Films in Post-War Australia (Hardcover, New)
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Migration documentary films played an important role in promoting
Australian images to the outside world. Many films were made in
this period to fulfill the function of migrant-recruiting and
nation-building objectives. In these films, Australia was presented
as a progressive and liberal nation seeking to establish her
identities. The slogan "Australia for the White Man" prevailed over
the entire period from 1908 to 1961. It was not until 1972 that The
White Australia Policy was officially abolished. The historical
meanings of these transformations are definitely worth exploring.
The relationships among immigration policies, documentary films and
the construction of national identities become valuable subjects
for examination. This innovative book is the first in the field
that comes with a systematic and comprehensive study of migration
documentary films in post-war Australia. In the analysis of the
sixty-seven films, this book reveals that the project for
recruiting migrants to settle in Australia was not a simple matter
of overseas campaigns. The terrain for media publicity was never
just the emigrant countries and the target audience were both
foreigners and local Australians. These migration documentary films
are actually propaganda films in nature. However, visual images,
narratives, and myths represented in these films were important in
the self-depiction of Australian and in the formative discourse of
national identity. This book shows how absences and
under-representations of film images are important to examine in
order to fully understand the particular, utopian visions of the
post-war period. This book argues that open-door policies, coastal
images, and modernization narratives gradually became a new
"maritime myth" in the quest of a redefined Australian identity,
and "new Australians," the post-war immigrants, became battlers,
echoing the "bush legend" existing in the Australian narrative.
Themes of modernization, industrialization, Anglo-centric identity,
"the Australian way of life" itself, political freedom, and
democracy of the overall films were stressed.
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