Gendered and racialised discourses of national identity in Baz Luhrmann's Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID12645893
AuthorsJackie Hogan (Bradley University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume34
Issue1
Pages63-77
Publication date2010-02-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Australian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1444-3058 • E-ISSN: 1835-6419
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14443050903522069
OpenAlexW2106969630
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Nations are more than geopolitical bodies. They are, to quote Benedict Anderson, ‘imagined communities,’ constituted in part by cultural representations of national belonging, or discourses of national identity. These are the stories that all nations tell themselves: stories about the nation's origins, its character, its values. Such stories are found in a wide range of cultural texts, from parades to t-shirts to popular music and film, and they often carry meanings about gender and race. This article examines Baz Luhrmann's 2008 film Australia for gendered and racialised discourses of Australian national identity. It argues that such discourses are underpinned by material relations and potentially have material consequences for the nation

Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Geopolitics · Identity (music · Media studies · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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