Re-examining the Australian Anxiety of the Lost Child in Contemporary Literature and Film
Title | Re-examining the Australian Anxiety of the Lost Child in Contemporary Literature and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Bridget Louise Eltham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2013 |
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The Country of Lost Children
Title | The Country of Lost Children PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Pierce |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1999-06-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521594400 |
The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, The Country of Lost Children analyzes the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in Australian history and illuminates a crucial aspect of our present condition. At its core are confronting, often troubling, questions about childhood itself.
The Country of Lost Children
Title | The Country of Lost Children PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Pierce |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1999-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521594998 |
This book traces the figure of the lost child in Australia's history and imagination.
Australian Cinema After Mabo
Title | Australian Cinema After Mabo PDF eBook |
Author | Felicity Collins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2004-10-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780521834803 |
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The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film
Title | The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film PDF eBook |
Author | Terrie Waddell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2019-03-27 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1317380207 |
The mythologising of lost and abandoned children significantly influences Australian storytelling. In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film, Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the ‘lost child’ from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach, she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history, literature, and the creative arts, as the nucleus of a cultural complex – a group obsession that as Jung argued of all complexes, has us. Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations, as an element of the individual and collective psyche, historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war, and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies, or actual cases of displaced children, to focus on vulnerable children rendered lost through government and institutional practices, and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency, and films such as The Babadook, Lion, and Predestination, this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself, about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates, can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, cultural studies, screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics.
Young and Free
Title | Young and Free PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Faulkner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783483083 |
Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argues that by interpreting these anxieties in their relation to settler-colonial Australia’s unresolved conflict with Aboriginal people, new ways of conceiving of Australian community may be opened. The book engages with philosophical and literary characterizations of childhood, from Locke and Rousseau, to Freud, Bergson, Benjamin Agamben, Lacan, Rancière and Halbwachs. The author’s psychoanalytic approach is supplemented by an engagement with contemporary political philosophy that informs Faulkner’s critique of the concepts of the subject, sovereignty and knowledge, resulting in a speculative postcolonial model of the subject. Cover artist credit: Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane Artwork title: Ahakeye (Bush Plum)
Gothic and Theory
Title | Gothic and Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2019-03-14 |
Genre | Gothic fiction (Literary genre) |
ISBN | 1474427790 |
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.