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Religion And The Anzac Legend On Screen, Daniel Reynaud
Religion And The Anzac Legend On Screen, Daniel Reynaud
Daniel Reynaud
This article explores the (non)relationship between religion and the Anzac story in Australian cinema and television dramas. It draws parallels between the absence of religious discussion in written literature and popular memory and the same absences in Anzac cinema. Anzac cinema has idealised and glorified the Anzac soldier, relocating spirituality from a religious force to a secular nationalism. The rare productions that show an engagement between religion and Anzac portray religion as a spent force in comparison to the new spirit of secular Anzac.
Spielberg- Is He Or Isn't He An Artist?, Daniel Reynaud
Spielberg- Is He Or Isn't He An Artist?, Daniel Reynaud
Daniel Reynaud
Spielberg has often been considered a master of popular cinema, but something of a lightweight in serious cinema. This article evaluates Spielberg’s achievements as a filmmaker, asking whether he deserves the accolade of an artist.
How To Choose What We Watch, Daniel Reynaud
How To Choose What We Watch, Daniel Reynaud
Daniel Reynaud
With multiple channels accessi- le at the press of a button and with videos and movies avail- able throughout day or night, the visual media poses a dilemma for Seventh-day Adventists.* Much of it appears funda- mentally at odds with our faith. Vio- lence, sex, destructive lifestyle, and ram- pant materialism characterize most of what passes for entertainment. Some Adventists respond to the problem by simply eliminating the visual media from their lives: no television, no vid- eos, and no movies. These are avoided as a major source of corruption. Yet it seems unrealistic to cut our- selves off entirely …
Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten Pioneer Australian Film Director, Stephen Vagg, Daniel Reynaud
Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten Pioneer Australian Film Director, Stephen Vagg, Daniel Reynaud
Daniel Reynaud
Alfred Rolfe was arguably the most prolific silent era Australian director, responsible for more than 25 feature films encompassing the bushranger genres, early Australian war cinema, and various melodramas. Many of his films were both critical and commercial successes. The only surviving footage are scenes from two of his 1915 war films. This important director has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, particularly Raymond Longford. This paper argues that Rolfe’s contribution to early Australian cinema was significant not just in volume, but in artistic terms, in subject matter, and in popular appeal. The centenary of Anzac is also the centenary of …
Convention And Contradiction: Representations Of Women In Australian War Films, 1914-1918, Daniel Reynaud
Convention And Contradiction: Representations Of Women In Australian War Films, 1914-1918, Daniel Reynaud
Daniel Reynaud
This paper examines the representation of women in Australian cinematic war dramas made between 1914 and 1918, showing how the representations were shaped by political, industrial and ideological influences, and identifying the range of representations present in the films. It observes that while there was considerable overlap with other media in the representation of women, there were images ignored by films, while others were unique to the cinema.