A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828-2017. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Couzens, Andrew James
• 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : National Book Network International (NBNi) Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.0869270994; 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; Cinéma -- Australie -- Histoire; Bandits et brigands réfugiés dans la brousse -- Au cinéma; Théâtre et société -- Australie; Cinéma -- Aspect social -- Australie; Hors-la-loi dans la culture populaire; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; Bushrangers in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Outlaws in popular culture; Theater; Theater and society; Australia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783088928; 1783088923; 9781783088935; 1783088931
• Related ISBNs: 9781783088911; 1783088915
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