Reel Men
Australian Masculinity in the Movies 1949-1962
$73.50
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
19 February 2019
Summary
Set against the shifting social and political backdrop of a nation throwing off the shackles of one war yet faced with the instability of the new world order, Reel Men probes the concept of 1950s masculinity itself, asking what it meant to be an Australian man at this time. Offering a compelling exploration of the Australian fifties, the book challenges the common belief that the fifties was a ‘dead’ era for Australian filmmaking.Reel Men engages with fourteen Australian feature films made an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522872477 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522872476 |
| Author: | Chelsea Barnett |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 19 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 134mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Chelsea Barnett
Chelsea Barnett holds a PhD in modern history from Macquarie University. She is currently working on a cultural history of single men in twentieth-century Australia.
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