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100	1		_aDixon, Robert, _d1954-
245	1	0	_aPhotography, early cinema, and colonial modernity _h[electronic resource] : _bFrank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments / _cRobert Dixon.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bAnthem Press, _c2011.
300			_axxxi, 256 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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 account of his stage and screen practice in the context of early twentieth-century mass media. 'Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity' is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker in the early twentieth century: the negatives, photographic prints, lantern slides, stereographs, films, diaries and newspaper articles. His stage and screen practices offer an insight into Australia's engagement with the romance and wonder of international modernity in the early years of the twentieth century. The level of description at which this volume works is not that of personality or the originary events of Hurley's life - the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, and the First and Second World Wars - but the media events he worked so hard and so professionally to create. He called them his 'synchronized lecture entertainments'. [NP] These media events were at once national and international; they involved Hurley in an entire culture industry comprising many kinds of personnel, practices and texts that were constantly in movement along global lines of travel and communication, and in a variety of institutional locations around the world. This raises complex questions both about the authorship of Hurley's photographic and filmic texts - which were often produced and presented by other people - and about their ontology, since they were in a more or less constant state of re-assemblage in response to changing market opportunities. This unique study re-imagines, from inside the quiet and stillness of the archive, the prior social life of Hurley's creations as they were once accelerated through the complicated topography of the early twentieth century's rapidly internationalizing mass media landscape. As a way to conceive of that space and the social life of the people and things within it, this study uses the concept of 'colonial modernity'. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2011. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aHurley, Frank, _d1885-1962.
650		0	_aPhotographers _zAustralia _vBiography.
650		0	_aPhotography _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCinematography _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPhotography _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aCivilization, Modern.
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856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10539051 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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