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Article: White lubra/white savage: Pituri and colonialist fantasy in Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised (1936).
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- December 22, 2005
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And it came to her that there were two Australians even yet, the civilised and the uncivilised, the white and tire black, the modern and the pure Stone Age, and that in this northern land were not only the survivors of the dead past, but also the drifting flotsam and jetsam of white civilisation.
(Charles Chauvel. Uncivilised. NSW: Bookstore Co. Ltd., 1936)
Pituri is uncivilised. (Poster advertising Uncivilised.)
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A primitive paradise, a great white chief, drugs, dance, desire--Charles Chauvel's controversial film, Uncivilised was an immediate box office hit when it was released in Australia in 1936. The critical response in ...