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Author Couzens, Andrew James, author

Title A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017
Published [Place of publication not identified] : National Book Network International (NBNi) : Anthem Press, 2019

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Series Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture ; 1
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture.
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapters Intro. to Conclu.; Introduction: Defining the Bushranger Legend; Converging Legends; Nation, Cinema, Genre; Outline of Structure; Notes; Part 1 Establishing The Legend; Chapter 1 The First Bushranger Melodramas; Melodrama; Three Bushranger Melodramas; Notes; Chapter 2 Alfred Dampier and the Nationalist Melodrama; Notes; Chapter 3 Wild West Shows and Wild Australia; Wild West Shows: A Brief Overview; The Wild West Comes to Australia
Wild Australia and the Festival of EmpireNotes; Chapter 4 Hippodramas and Edward Irham Cole; Notes; Part 2 Developing the Legend; Chapter 5 The Bushranger Genre from Stage to Screen; Linking Stage and Screen; Specificities of the Cinema; Notes; Chapter 6 The Bushranger Ban; Notes; Chapter 7 British and American Interventions in the Bushranger Legend; Captain Fury and Hollywood in Australia; Captain Starlight and the British Empire in Australia; Notes; Chapter 8 Radical Nationalism and the Bushranger Legend; Folklore, nationalism, and Captain Thunderbolt; The Australian Film Revival
The policies of the Australian Film RevivalThe counterculture movement and Mad Dog Morgan; Not-so-radical nationalism in Robbery Under Arms; Notes; Part 3 Fragmenting the Legend; Chapter 9 Historical Revisionism and the Bushranger Legend; Parody; The Bushranger Legend in Revisionist Westerns; Reactionary Romanticization of the Bushranger Legend; Notes; Chapter 10 Diversification and Inclusiveness of the Bushranger Legend; Dismantling the Legend in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith; Reconciliation and the Bushranger Legend; Migrant Outlaws; Notes
Chapter 11 Globalization of the Bushranger Legend in Outlaw Road MoviesLeaving the Bushranger Legend in the Dust; The Bushranger Legend in the Global Apocalypse; Notes; Conclusion; Note; End Matter; Bibliography; Primary; Films; Plays; With published or archival playscripts; Without playscripts; Archival Collections; Secondary; Index
Summary 'Outlaw Nation' is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms through which bushrangers became an indelible part of the Australian cultural consciousness
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Subject Theater -- Australia -- History
Motion pictures -- Australia -- History
Bushrangers -- In motion pictures
Theater and society -- Australia
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Australia
Outlaws in popular culture -- Australia
Outlaws in popular culture.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Bushrangers in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Outlaws in popular culture
Theater
Theater and society
Australia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783088928
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9781783088935
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