This article reads Fred Schepisi’s 1978 film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith through its engagement with violence, proposing that previous accounts of the film that rely on a historicist approach fail to adequately theorize the radicality of the violent act. Against such readings, this article proposes that Schepisi’s film should not solely be taken as a document of history but, rather, following a psychoanalytic approach to film, as an instance of social dreamwork, reflecting the desires and anxieties of Australian settler colonial society. With an acceptance of this stance, as well as the film’s shortcomings, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith can be read as a refined critique of social order it depicts, through its exploration of the futility...
This comparative study of postcolonial representations of indigeneity in five New Zealand and Austra...
This article argues that despite the genre status of the Mad Max films as post-apocalyptic sf, the d...
Since the origins of Australian cinema, filmmakers have told stories about convicts: those men, wome...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) broke ground in its native country fordealing bluntly with one...
Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial...
This paper interrogates the adaptation of two literary bushranger narratives to film during the Aust...
This paper interrogates the adaptation of two literary bushranger narratives to film during the Aust...
The past several years have seen the emergence of Indigenous film and music production among more ma...
Indigenous participation in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century exhibitions and fairs has...
Australian films have gained an international reputation for their whimsical look at everyday life. ...
This article explores how Sami Blood (2016), as an Indigenous film, addresses colonialism and its co...
This article examines how meaning is always articulated in the ideological and political struct...
Jindabyne (a movie directed by Ray Lawrence, 2006) begins with the murder of a young aboriginal woma...
This article explores the cultural logic of the late-evolving colonial frontier of Central Australia...
This article explores the changing nature of representations of the landscape in Australian film. It...
This comparative study of postcolonial representations of indigeneity in five New Zealand and Austra...
This article argues that despite the genre status of the Mad Max films as post-apocalyptic sf, the d...
Since the origins of Australian cinema, filmmakers have told stories about convicts: those men, wome...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) broke ground in its native country fordealing bluntly with one...
Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), a story of horrific violence caused by racial...
This paper interrogates the adaptation of two literary bushranger narratives to film during the Aust...
This paper interrogates the adaptation of two literary bushranger narratives to film during the Aust...
The past several years have seen the emergence of Indigenous film and music production among more ma...
Indigenous participation in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century exhibitions and fairs has...
Australian films have gained an international reputation for their whimsical look at everyday life. ...
This article explores how Sami Blood (2016), as an Indigenous film, addresses colonialism and its co...
This article examines how meaning is always articulated in the ideological and political struct...
Jindabyne (a movie directed by Ray Lawrence, 2006) begins with the murder of a young aboriginal woma...
This article explores the cultural logic of the late-evolving colonial frontier of Central Australia...
This article explores the changing nature of representations of the landscape in Australian film. It...
This comparative study of postcolonial representations of indigeneity in five New Zealand and Austra...
This article argues that despite the genre status of the Mad Max films as post-apocalyptic sf, the d...
Since the origins of Australian cinema, filmmakers have told stories about convicts: those men, wome...