South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Structure of Australia (Arts & Politics of the Everyday) - Softcover

Gibson, Ross

9780253325822: South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Structure of Australia (Arts & Politics of the Everyday)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025332582X ISBN 13: 9780253325822

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1992

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Rese�a del editor:

"South of the West" is a study of Western aesthetics and the politics of everyday life. Cultural critic Ross Gibson examines an array of objects and attitudes encountered in his southern locale but best understood when considered in a global context. These different systems of representation construct 'Australia'. Gibson offers provocative analyses of 'national cinema' films of the 1970s, corporate-sponsored documentaries, explorer's narratives, cartographic history, ethnographic documents, archival photographs, postmodernist art, Edgar Allan Poe's "South Sea" tales, Thomas Watling's 'letters in exile', Chris Marker's 'exotic' cinematography, and Peter Fuller's musings about the 'antipodean aesthetic'. Nature, Gibson says, is the myth of an established Anglophone class. He suggests re-evaluation of our Western beliefs and aesthetics, and at the same time he presents a fresh interpretation of Australian culture and politics. The twelve chapters interweave to form an essay on the realignment of space, time, and meaning in contemporary Western societies.

Biograf�a del autor:

ROSS GIBSON, Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, is also a writer and filmmaker. His first book, The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia was published in 1984. In 1991 he wrote and directed his first feature film, Dead to the World, for Huzzah Productions in Sydney.

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