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31 produkter
Shortest History of Australia
From First Nations Origins to Thriving, Multicultural Nation-State - A Continent of Epic Beauty's Singular Past
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2026
129 kr
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As a land associated with extremes—from remote desert terrain to some of the world’s deadliest creatures—few countries feel as geographically and culturally independent as Australia. Professor Mark McKenna, one of Australia’s leading historians, digs deeper into this singular, often misunderstood …
Big Wednesday
Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2024
817 kr
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This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has …
Horror Franchise Cinema
Av Mark McKenna, William Proctor
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses …
Horror Franchise Cinema
Av William Proctor, Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses …
Horror Franchise Cinema
Av William Proctor, Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2021
746 kr
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This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses …
Big Wednesday
Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood
Av Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2024
433 kr
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This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood. Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has …
Big Wednesday
Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood
Av Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2024
433 kr
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This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood. Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has …
The Captive Republic
A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 1996
683 kr
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The idea of an Australian republic has existed from the moment the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour. This book is a comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia and traces republican debate in Australia from 1788. It explains the pivotal role played by republican …
Return to Uluru
The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia's Killing Times
Av Mark Mckenna
Inbunden, 2022
275 kr
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"THIS WEEK'S HOTTEST NEW RELEASES: Murder befouls the outback... [A] gr ipping work of true crime." — USA TODAY Return to Uluru explores a cold case that strikes at the heart of white supremacy—the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the …
Return to Uluru
The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2026
235 kr
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Horror Franchise Cinema
Av Mark McKenna, William Proctor
Häftad, 2023
651 kr
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This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses …
Screening Controversial Cinema
Häftad, 2027
714 kr
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This collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of controversial cinema across film history, examining how and why certain films become flashpoints for public debate, regulation, and cultural conflict.Bringing together over fifty case studies from different periods, national contexts, and genres, …
Screening Controversial Cinema
Inbunden, 2027
2489 kr
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This collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of controversial cinema across film history, examining how and why certain films become flashpoints for public debate, regulation, and cultural conflict.Bringing together over fifty case studies from different periods, national contexts, and genres, …
Big Wednesday
Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2026
373 kr
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This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has …
Levelling Up the Screen Industries?
Film and Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2025
1002 kr
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This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this study shifts focus to three underrepresented …
Levelling Up the Screen Industries?
Film and Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind
Av Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2025
450 kr
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This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this study shifts focus to three underrepresented …
Levelling Up the Screen Industries?
Film and Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind
Av Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2025
460 kr
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This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this study shifts focus to three underrepresented …
Nasty Business
The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2020
2095 kr
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The history of the ‘video nasties’ has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined. However, the industry that gave rise to the category has received scant little attention. Earlier histories have tended to foreground issues of …
Nasty Business
The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2022
548 kr
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The history of the ‘video nasties’ has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined. However, the industry that gave rise to the category has received scant little attention. Earlier histories have tended to foreground issues of …
Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth
History and Australia's Future
Av Mark McKenna
E-bok, 2018
158 kr
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Quarterly Essay 69 by Mark McKenna will be released in March 2018.
Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future; Quarterly Essay 69
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2018
235 kr
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Snuff
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2023
1478 kr
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Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the ‘snuff’ movie. By blending cinema verité styling with a media moral panic, savvy producer Allan Shackleton’s blending of a long-forgotten exploitation film with a …
Snuff
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the ‘snuff’ movie. By blending cinema verité styling with a media moral panic, savvy producer Allan Shackleton’s blending of a long-forgotten exploitation film with a …
Short History of Australia
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2027
184 kr
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In A Short History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of Australia’s national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by …
Australian Republicanism
A Reader
Av Mark McKenna, Wayne Hudson m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
345 kr
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This collection of readings is designed to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. This collection of readings is designed to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. The editors, Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson, have harvested a wealth of previously neglected …
Eye for Eternity
The Life of Manning Clark
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2020
470 kr
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Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries - many that have never been read before.An Eye for Eternity paints a …
Eye for Eternity
The Life of Manning Clark
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2020
470 kr
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Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries—many that have never been read before. An Eye for Eternity paints a …
This Country
A Reconciled Republic?
Av Mark McKenna
Häftad, 2004
251 kr
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Presents an argument for imagining the republic anew. Mark McKenna writes passionately, explaining why the two great symbolic issues of Australian politics in the 1990s - the republic and reconciliation - are linked intimately to one another. The only way forward is a reconciled republic, a …
