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Article: Desert training for whites: Australian road movies.(Cultural narratives)
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- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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My interest in Australian road movies is motivated primarily by the desire to work within recently emerging theories of anti-racist whiteness in Australia. My concern with Australian texts and contexts was fuelled by an assumption that Australian whiteness is produced and re-produced through locally specific racial regimes, at the same time that it is constitutive of and constituted by global elements of hegemonic whiteness. My writing on the road movie itself stemmed from its unique value as a site from which to unpack an anti-racist understanding of whiteness as a 'glocal' phenomenon, requiring both global and local readings, resistances and revisions. Its value derives ...
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Transcript: What Are the Best Road Movies?
Talk of the Nation (NPR);
August 24, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... Talk of the Nation (NPR) 08-24-2006 What Are the Best Road Movies? Host: NEAL CONAN Time: 15:00-16:00 PM NEAL CONAN ... Thelma and Louise youre really talking about one of the iconic road movies. CONAN: And Im glad you RACHEL: It is a classic road movie ...
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