George Miller's Mad Max (1979–2015) and Ryan Griffen's Cleverman (2016–2017) – Australian science fiction

Menadue, Christopher (2019) George Miller's Mad Max (1979–2015) and Ryan Griffen's Cleverman (2016–2017) – Australian science fiction. In: Fennell, Jack, (ed.) Sci-Fi: A Companion. Genre Fiction and Film Companions . Peter Lang, Oxford, UK, pp. 117-123.

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DOI: 10.3726/b13370

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Abstract

In his documentary White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema, also released as 40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (Miller 1997), Mad Max director George Miller presented Australian film culture as a modern-day ‘Dreamtime’ for the white Australian public (see Figure 28). Miller’s interpretation can be examined from the perspective of a colonial tradition that appropriates traditional indigenous culture, under the assumption that it has been expertly researched and understood by civilized, educated, white, authorities. This appears to be especially apt when applied to Miller’s use of the term ‘Dreaming’ – the white terminology and interpretation of which approximates an indigenous phenomenological experience, presented from the cultural perspective of white writers and academics.


Item ID:	60777
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Scholarly Work)
ISBN:	978-1-78874-351-8
Keywords:	Science Fiction; Colonialism; Aboriginal Culture; Film
Copyright Information:	Copyright © 2019. Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers. All rights reserved
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2020 06:04
FoR Codes:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies @ 70% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2001 Communication and Media Studies > 200104 Media Studies @ 30%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950503 Understanding Australias Past @ 40% 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture @ 30% 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9503 Heritage > 950302 Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage @ 30%
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