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Accentuate the 'Negative': Reality and Race in Australian Film Reviewing
McKee, Alan (1999-01-01) Accentuate the 'Negative': Reality and Race in Australian Film Reviewing. Australian Studies in Journalism, 8: 139-157.
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| Author(s) |
McKee, Alan
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| Title |
Accentuate the 'Negative': Reality and Race in Australian Film Reviewing
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| Journal name |
Australian Studies in Journalism
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| Publication date |
1999-01-01
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| Issue number |
8
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| Start page |
139
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157
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| Editor(s) |
Henningham, John
Kirkpatrick, Rod
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| Subject |
410302 Cinema Studies
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| Abstract |
This article examines the ways in which Australian newspaper film reviewers interpret cinematic representations of Aboriginality. It points out that reviewers use the language of
'realism' in order to insist that the reality of indigenous life in Australia is one of suffering and disempowerment, refusing alternative understandings of indigenous culture and survival.
Alternative representations of indigenous 'reality' are cinsidered, and the importance of this question for indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia is considered.
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| Keyword(s) |
Film reviews
Aboriginality
Representation of Aboriginality
Film portrayals
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