TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dixon, Robert
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Photography, early cinema, and colonial modernity: Frank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments
T3  - Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
CY  - London [u.a.]
KW  - Photographers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Photography
KW  - History
KW  - Cinematography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Civilization, Modern
AB  - "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.
SN  - 9780857287953
LA  - English
N1  - Robert Dixon
ID  - 667798722
ER  -