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The tread of a white man's foot : Australian Pacific colonialism and the cinema, 1925-62
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Explores Australia's cinematic engagement with the Torres Strait, and Papua and New Guinea in the light of Australia's colonial project within theses territories from 1925 to 1962.
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- Creator
- Jane Landman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Canberra, A.C.T., Australia : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 268 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781740762061, 1740762061, 9781740762069, 9781741149319, 1741149312
- OCLC
- ocm83977616
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-262).
- Filmography: pages 262-268.
- The devil's playground? Race and the regulation of cinema in the interwar years -- 'Matters native people would be better for not seeing': government regulation of cinema exhibition and production in Papua and New Guinea, 1925-62 -- 'The keen blades of determined men': travel, melodrama and gender in Jungle woman -- 'A pearl of the islands whom all men yearned to possess': trajectories of imperial desire in Hound of the deep -- National resources and national resourcefulness: character, identity and the colonial other in Lovers and luggers -- 'All the way from the Arafura to the Coral Sea': mapping the space of adventure in the postwar Pacific, from Typhoon treasure to king of the Coral Sea -- On patrol with Chips Rafferty: the space of colonial partnership in Walk into paradise