Australian popular culture / edited by Ian Craven with Martin Gray and Geraldine Stoneham
Published
Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association, 1994
Introduction / Ian Craven -- A Brief Cultural History of Vegemite / Robert White -- The Australian Back Yard / George Seddon -- Stamp Duty / Xavier Pons --Australian Football as Secular Religion / Stephen Alomes -- Controlling the Technology of Popular Culture and the Introduction of Television to Australia / James Walter -- Crocodile Dundee and the Revival of American Virtue / Ruth Brown -- The Boys from the Bush: Television Co-production in the 1990s /Ian Craven -- Patterns of Control in Australian Crime Fiction / Stephen Knight -- National Fictions and the Spycatcher Trail / Kevin Foster -- Naturalising 'Horror' Stories: Australian Crime News as Popular Culture / Christine Higgins -- How to be a Singer though Married: Domesticity, Leisure and Modern Love /Kay Ferres -- The Wild Colonial Boy Rides Again and Again: An Australian Legend Abroad / Grahame Seal --Shaping the Plain Australian: Social Analysis in the 1940s and 1950s / Nicholas Brown
On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism / Andrew Milner
Analysis
Australia
Popular culture
Notes
"Published in association with Australian studies and the British Australian Studies Association."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226)
