[Commlist] New book - Outback: Westerns in Australian Cinema

Intellect is pleased to share that /Outback: Westerns in Australian 
Cinema/ <https://www.intellectbooks.com/outback>, by Brian McFarlane, is 
out in e-book and hardback.

A study of the role of the Western film genre in Australia’s changing 
political and cultural landscape. Focusing on the influence of the 
cinematic Western in Australian cinema history, /Outback /explores how 
the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social, 
political, and cultural contexts of their production, including the 
shifting emphases in the representation of the Indigenous population.

Brian McFarlane emphasizes the ways film can, without didacticism, 
provide evidence of changing politics and culture. McFarlane explores 
Australian history with the genre by analyzing such films as Charles 
Tait’s 1906 /The Story of the Kelly Gang/ and Justin Kurzel’s 2020 
adaptation of Peter Carey’s /The True History of the Kelly Gang/. He 
further explores other key matters, including the changing attitudes to 
and representation of Indigenous peoples and of women's roles in 
Australian Westerns.


*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgements*

*1.* Australian Westerns?
*2.* What Constitutes a ‘Western’?
*3. *Outlaws at Large: The Bushranging Phenomenon
*4.* Australians and Others Tackle the Genre: 1940s–1960s
*5. *The ‘Revival’: Snowy River and Others
*6. *The Western in the New Century

*Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/outback<http://www.intellectbooks.com/outback>

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