ABSTRACT

Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.
Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition of critical theory, and about the cultural specificity of theory itself.
A key theme is the place of the postcolonial nation within contemporary cultural theory - particularly those aspects of contemporary theory which see the category of contemporary theory which see the category of the nation as either outdated or suspect. The writers tackle subjects ranging from the televising of the Bicentennial to the role of policy in film, television and the heritage industry, from the use of video technologies with remote Aboriginal communities to the role of ethnography in cultural studies.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Moving the Margins: Theory, Practice and Australian Cultural Studies

part I|52 pages

Nation, Culture, Text

chapter Chapter 1|40 pages

Panorama

The Live, the Dead and the Living

chapter Chapter 2|8 pages

The Fire Ceremony

For a Cultural Future

part II|56 pages

Cultural Policy and National Culture

chapter Chapter 3|19 pages

The Shape of the Past

chapter Chapter 4|15 pages

The Rise and Fall of Entrepreneurial TV

Australian TV, 1986–90

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

Australian Cinema

An Anachronism in the 1980s?

part III|55 pages

Cultural Studies and the Analysis of Culture

part IV|78 pages

Popular Culture and the Media

chapter Chapter 10|12 pages

Business, Pleasure, Narrative

The Folktale in our Times

chapter Chapter 11|35 pages

Understanding TV Violence

A Multifaceted Cultural Analysis

chapter Chapter 12|11 pages

Reading the Romance