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Australian cultural identity
Compare and contrast two Australian films and show how they engage with questions of Australian cultural identity
This is asking you to explore what it means to be ‘an Australian’.
The concept of what it means to be Australian will come from the first few sources I’ve listed below in the source list. Unfortunately, I do not have the pdf for “Australian Legend”, Russel Ward 1958. The best I could find is a webpage link to view the book, but it requires a sign up (It’s free and no need to confirm email) https://archive.org/details/australianlegend0000ward_o1p5/page/n9/mode/2up
When you are preparing your thesis, you should focus on how these two films reinforce and/or rework the traditional concept of the Australian legend, which I believe to be described as white, male and working class. So you will need to firmly define this.
Depending on the angle you wish to take, you might argue that whereas The Man from Snowy River reinforces some of the elements of the Australian legend, Leah Purcell’s film adaptation of The Drover’s Wife rewrites this legend through the character of Molly Johnson who is an Indigenous Australian woman. Remember to refer to the representation of the original drover’s wife in the short story by Henry Lawson. She also fell outside of the paradigm of the Australian legend.
As you are working with the concept of the Australian legend, keep in mind that it is not reality, but a MYTH. Consider the cultural power of myths and their ability to influence the way a society sees itself and organises and experiences cultural life.
How the films reinforce and challenge the MYTH of the Australian legend will be the basis of your thesis and your analysis in the essay. Work closely with key scenes from the films to develop your argument about how this is achieved.
Please use Chicago-Author date referencing and 12pt.
Please use at least 6 sources.
These are the 2 links to the 2 films that will be used as the basis to answering this question.
Leah Purcell’s Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021)
Link here: https://youtu.be/qoMnC-y_vO4
The Man From Snowy River 1982
https://archive.org/details/TheManFromSnowyRiver_201708
They are films so they have length, but I hope you enjoy them 😊 Sorry for the inconvenience.
Sources are all provided as a pdf unless mentioned otherwise. Here are the citations, but I’m not sure if they are formatted correctly.
Richard Waterhouse (2000) Australian Legends: Representations of the Bush, 1813–1913 , Australian Historical Studies, 31:115, 201-221, DOI: 10.1080/10314610008596127
Graeme Davison (2012) Rethinking the Australian Legend, Australian Historical Studies, 43:3, 429-451, DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2012.706625
Linzi Murrie (1998) The Australian legend: Writing Australian masculinity/writing ‘Australian’ masculine, Journal of Australian Studies, 22:56, 68-77, DOI: 10.1080/14443059809387361
Kapferer, Judith. 1996. Being all Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice. Oxford;Washington, D.C., USA;: Berg.
Feik, Chris, and Manne, Robert, eds. 2014. The Words That Made Australia : How a Nation Came to Know Itself. Melbourne: Black Inc.. Accessed November 12, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central. – there are 2 pdfs for different sections since I couldn’t get the whole pdf.
Basics Film-Making 04: The Language of Film 2010 –. Robert Edgar (Author), John Marland (Author), Steven Rawle (Author)
There is no citation for this but the pdf is provided. I advise you to talk about film codes and conventions to explain how the movie does stuff, so I thought this book would be nice. It is very clear.
Eggert, Paul. “D. H. Lawrence, Henry Lawson and single-author criticism.” D.H. Lawrence Review 36, no. 2 (2011): 2+. Gale Academic OneFile – pdf provided
Moorhouse, Frank. “Effeminacy, Mateship, Love: Lawson as the Drover’s Wife.” Other Journal Article, JOUR. Griffith REVIEW, no. 58 (2017): 216–239. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.328715636972627.
Morrison, Fiona. “‘The Antiphonal Time of Violence in Leah Purcell’s’ the Drover’s Wife.” Other Journal Article, JOUR. Southerly 78, no. 3 (2018): 173–191. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.422638758895079.
“Reimagining The Drover’s Wife: Leah Purcell weaves Indigenous Australia into classic tale; The Aboriginal actor and writer radically retools Henry Lawson’s short story into a bush thriller with elements of her own family history.” Guardian [London, England], September 12, 2016. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed November 11, 2022). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A463212428/AONE?u=murdoch&sid=summon&xid=df8283f3.
{Title of work:
The drover’s wife; and other stories (1974)
Section:
The drover’s wife pp. 8–16
Author/editor of work:
Lawson, Henry; Brissenden, Alan.
Author of section:
Henry Lawson
Name of Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton (Australia)}
< I don’t have a citation for this one, but this has the original story of the Drover’s Wife, pdf is naturally provided.
https://journals.openedition.org/ces/4898 – “The Drover’s Wife”: Celebrating or Demystifying Bush Mythology? No pdf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCePC8-G6_8 – The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson – Behind the Scenes No pdf this a short video clip.
https://www-austlit-edu-au.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/austlit/page/12025004 = a webpage but seems very useful.
Johnson, Travis. “Memory, Myth Representation: LEAH PURCELL ON THE DROVER’S WIFE THE LEGEND OF MOLLY JOHNSON.” Metro Magazine, no. 212 (2022): 10+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed November 11, 2022). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A713751106/AONE?u=murdoch&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=80f3bb92.
The story Leah Purcell never grew tired of.” Australian [National, Australia], May 2, 2022, NA. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed November 11, 2022). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A702282467/AONE?u=murdoch&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=ee65744a.
Davis, Fiona. “Making the Most of a Myth: National Identity and the Plight of Victoria’s Mountain Cattlemen.” Other Journal Article, JOUR. The Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 29 (2007): 50–55. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.106345034774702.
White, Leanne. 2009. “The Man from Snowy River: Australia’s Bush Legend and Commercial Nationalism.” Tourism Review International 13 (2): 139-146.
Waling, Andrea. 2020. “Defining “masculinity”.” In White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia. 1st ed., 110-133: Routledge.
Golding, Dan. “The Man from Snowy River.” Metro Magazine, no. 194 (2017): 114+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed November 11, 2022). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A514057121/AONE?u=murdoch&sid=summon&xid=a4334321.
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