What extent do you think the film glorifies violence

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Assignment:

Read pages 19-41 of the chapter from Sharon Crozier De Rosa and Vera Mackie's Remembering Women's Activism. As you are reading think about the questions below.

Why do you think the movie Suffragette divided opinion amongst feminists?
To what extent do you think the film glorifies violence?
To what extent do you think people are uncomfortable remembering violent women?
Do you agree that this film inverts the great man tradition of history by creating a great woman version? Why/ why not?
To what extent do you think film is a useful medium for recovering the forgotten history of women's activism?

Set Reading

Sharon Crozier De Rosa and Vera Mackie, 'Suffragists and Suffragettes' in their Remembering Women's Activism, Routledge, 2019, pp. 19-41 only.

Read Larissa Behrendt's reflection on documentary filmmaking and chapters of Rowena MacDonald's Between Two Worlds (they are very short chapters). Come to class ready to engage with the following questions:

How important are creative mediums such as film and documentary to telling Aboriginal histories of Australia? Why are such mediums important?
Why is it important that Aboriginal people produce their own accounts of the past?
What does a documentary of the stolen generations do that an academic history cannot?
Does emotion have a legitimate role to play in telling histories (on the screen and on the page)? Why / Why Not?
How do you think did the social and political context of 1980s Australia shaped the documentary Lousy Little Sixpence?
What techniques are used by documentary film makers such as Alec Morgan to portray their depictions of the past as truthful or accurate?

Set Readings:

Larissa Behrendt, 'A personal reflection on self-determining documentary filmmaking practice', Artlink, 39.2, June 2019, pp. 20-27.

Rowena MacDonald, Between Two Worlds: The Commonwealth Government and the Removal of Aboriginal Children of Part Descent in the Northern Territory, (Alice Springs: IAD Press, 1996).

Read Lauren Samuelsson's short review of Further Back In Time for Dinner and Michelle Arrow's longer piece on reality TV and history. Have a think about the following questions before class:

Can reality TV ever be intellectually stimulating and useful for understanding the past?
What problems and issues are associated with recreating or re-living the past through film and television?
How can the study of food help us to understand the history of Australia?
How have the eating habits of Australians changed over time?
What changes in eating habits do you think will emerge in the next 50 years?
How would you describe the relationship between histories of food and histories of gender?
What aspects of food history cannot be captured on screen?

Set Readings:

Lauren Samuelsson, '"Australia...on a plate"': Further Back in Time for Dinner', History Australia, vol 17, no. 4, 2020, pp. 764-765 Michelle Arrow, '"That history should never have been how it was": The Colony, Outback House and Australian History, Film and History, vol. 37, no. 1, 2007, pp. 54-66.

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