Australian Westerns in the fifties : Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on tour, and Whiplash / Derham Groves.
Groves, Derham, author.
2022
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Title Australian Westerns in the fifties : Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on tour, and Whiplash / Derham Groves.
Author Groves, Derham, author.
ISBN 9783031128837 (electronic bk.)
3031128834 (electronic bk.)
9783031128820
3031128826
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12883-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-12883-7 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.W4
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/65894
Summary Australian Western in the Fifties: Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on Tour, and Whiplash looks at Australian Westerns from three points of viewfilm, personal appearance, and television at the beginning, middle, and end of the 1950s, the American Westerns golden age. It looks at three significant but "forgotten" cases: (1) Kangaroo: The Australian Story, the first Technicolor film made in Australia, produced by the Hollywood movie studio 20th Century Fox, directed by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lewis Milestone, starring Maureen OHara, Peter Lawford, and Richard Boone. (2) The successful goodwill tour of Australia by the Hollywood actor William Boyd who played the film, radio, and television cowboy Hopalong Cassidy. (3) The British-American produced black-and-white TV series Whiplash, made in Australia and starring the Hollywood actor Peter Graves. The American filmmakers ignorance of Australia meant they learned the hard way there was more to Australian Westerns than simply replacing the prairie with the bush, bison with kangaroos, and Native Americans with Aboriginals. Indeed, the depiction of place and the presentation of Aboriginal culture are two of the most intriguing aspects of Australian Westerns. In retelling the filmmakers stories, a unique picture of the Australian film and television industry and everyday life during the 1950s is revealed. Derham Groves is a Senior Fellow in Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has written extensively on popular architecture and design, including about Anna May Wong, Arthur Purnell, Disney, feng-shui, letterboxes, Sherlock Holmes, television, and The Monkees.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed February 7, 2023).
Series Palgrave pivot.
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1. Introduction
2. Kangaroo
3. Hopalong Cassidy
4. Whiplash
5. Conclusion.

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