Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Rehtoric and Nationality; Chapter 1 -- Afterthoughts on 'Australianism'; Chapter 2 -- Panorama: the Live, the Dead and the Living; Chapter 3 -- White Panic or Mad Max and the Sublime; Chapter 4 -- Beyond Assimiliation: Aboriginality, Media History and Public Memory; Part II: Translation in Cultural Theory; Chapter 5 -- The Man in the Mirror: David Harvey's 'Condition' of Postmodernity; Chapter 6 -- A Way of Inhabiting a Culture: Paul Willeman's Looks and Frictions.
Summary
Ranging across many fields, including film and media, gender, nationality, globalization and popular culture, this text explores what culture is and how it works in the modern world.