Photography, early cinema, and colonial modernity Frank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments /

"Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This book is an acc...

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Autor principal: Dixon, Robert, 1954-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2011.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Australia's Embrace of Colonial Modernity 1. 'The Home of the Blizzard': Douglas Mawson's Synchronized Lecture Entertainment 2. Guided Spectatorship: Exhibiting the Great War 3. Touring the Nation: Shackleton's 'Marvellous Moving Pictures' and the Australian season of 'In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice' 4. Entr'acte: 'Sir Ross Smith's Flight', Aerial Vision and Colonial Modernity 5. Colonial Modernity and its Others: 'Pearls and Savages' as a Multi-media Project Conclusion Bibliography Index.