Depicting ned kellys life

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Read Sarah Pinto's short reflection on Ned Kelly the movie as well as the longer article by Pinto and Leigh Boucher (9 of the 29 pages are endnotes so it is still a short reading). Come to class having watched the film, and ready to discuss the following questions:

1. How accurate is the film in depicting Ned Kelly's life and the colony of Victoria?

2. How does the film represent race and masculinity?

3. To what extent does the film glorify violence?

4. To what extent do you think the Ned Kelly film is a 'great man' approach to history?

5. What can the film tell us (if anything) about Australian society in the early 2000s?

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