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The Moogai, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

The Moogai, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Moogai (2024), directed by John Bell.


The New Boy, Sherry Coman Oct 2023

The New Boy, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The New Boy (2023), directed by Warwick Thornton.


Myth And Monstrosity: Teaching Indigenous Films, Ken Derry Dec 2018

Myth And Monstrosity: Teaching Indigenous Films, Ken Derry

Journal of Religion & Film

The past few times that I have taught my course on religion and film I have included a number of Indigenous movies. The response from students has been entirely positive, in part because most of them have rarely encountered Indigenous cultural products of any kind, especially contemporary ones. Students also respond well to the way in which many of these films use notions of the monstrous to explore, and explode, colonial myths. Goldstone, for example, by Kamilaroi filmmaker Ivan Sen, draws on noir tropes to peel back the smiling masks of the people responsible for the mining town’s success, …