In the Vernacular : a generation of Australian culture and controversy / Stuart Cunningham

By:

Cunningham, Stuart

Publication details: St. Lucia, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxix, 294 pISBN:

9780702236709

Summary: n the Vernacular brings together important works, written over a twenty-year period, from one of Australia’s leading scholars of media, culture and policy. Tracking across Australia’s still-neglected film heritage, and reflecting on the achievements of Australian television in the 1980s and 1990s, the book exemplifies the strengths of close attention to both history and industry context and the attractions of popular aesthetics. It engages with the global debate on multi-ethnic societies by focusing on extraordinary, yet barely visible, creativity ‘at the margins’. It argues that industrial and social trends in media, communications and culture are outstripping the academic frameworks that were erected to deal with them, and provides a way forward that connects the discipline to the career outlooks and prospects of students – the future of the field. (Font: Editor)

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Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01329	1	Available		1900147987

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Screen title availability -- Introduction -- Part 1: Australian film.: 1. The decades of survival: australian cinema 1930-70 ; 2. Approaching Chauvel ; 3. Apollonius and Dionysus in the Antipodes ; 4. Hollywood genres, Australian movies -- Part 2. Australian television: 5. Style, form and and history in Australian mini-series ; 6. Kennedy-Miller: "House style" in Australian television ; 7. Australian television in world markets / with Liz Jacka -- Part 3. Diasporas and media use: 8. Theorising the diasporic audience ; 9. Actually existing hybridity: vietnamese diasporic music video / with Tina Nguyen -- Part 4. The cultural policy debate: 10. Cultural studies from the viewpoint of cultural policy ; 11. Re-framing culture -- Part 5. Creative industries and beyond: 12. The creative industries after cultural policy ; 13. What price a creative economy? -- Notes -- Index

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