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Article: JANE CAMPION AND URBAN ANXIETY
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- Australian Screen Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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This is the sixth instalment in a series for Screen Education in which ANDREW ZIELINSKI outlines the work he developed for his Cinema Studies course on Australian National Cinema at Flinders University, South Australia. It is hoped that teachers will be able to extract valuable information and lesson ideas from this series, in order to introduce students to Australian cinema in the secondary classroom. This section focuses on the idea of urban anxiety in the work of Jane Campion.
It is quite ironic that even though it is one of the most urbanised societies in the Western world, Australia has mainly relied on an outback or rural mythology for a sense of identity. An overwhelming majority of ...