Seeing With Green Eyes: Tasmanian Landscape Cinema and the Ecological Gaze Jane Stadler November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema As Tom O’ Regan states in his discussion of “Unities of Setting and Landscape” in Australian National Cinema, “It is a commonplace that landscape is central to Australian culture” (1). In order to explore the f...
Van Diemen’s Land Jonathan auf der Heide November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema I first heard the story of escaped convict Alexander Pearce when I was a teenager on the tour boat to Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour. I’d been working with a theatre company in Strahan as an actor and it was...
Eating and Othering in Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land Guinevere Narraway November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema “If colonialism can be said to have its own origin myths, none is more powerful than the suppression of the threatening ‘other’ – the disavowed animal rival, the cannibal gnawing at the human heart.” (1) ...
