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The Kid Stakes and Those Terrible Twins The Kid Stakes and Those Terrible Twins
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Smiley and Smiley Gets a Gun Smiley and Smiley Gets a Gun
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Let the Balloon Go and the Australian Film Revival Let the Balloon Go and the Australian Film Revival
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Fatty Finn and Ginger Meggs Fatty Finn and Ginger Meggs
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20 Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children’s Cinema
Get accessAdrian Schober has a Ph.D. in English from Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film: Contrary States (Palgrave 2004) and co-editor (with Debbie Olson) of Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Lexington 2016) and Children, Youth, and American Television (Routledge 2018). He is currently writing the monograph The Omen for the Devil’s Advocates series (Auteur/Liverpool University Press, 2022) and is researching the relationship between Steven Spielberg and Romanticism at the University of Melbourne under an Australian Commonwealth Scholarship.
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Published:20 April 2022
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Abstract
This chapter on Australian children’s cinema takes as its starting point a certain anti-authoritarian streak in the national character that has helped define Australia’s identity: the larrikin streak. In analysing this streak across a range of films from the silent to the post-war eras to the Australian film revival of the 1970s and 1980s, the chapter argues that larrikinism—and a larrikin childhood in particular—speaks directly to questions of history, nation and identity. This throws into sharp relief so-called aspects of the Australian character, or mystique—what historian Russell Ward termed the Australian Legend. Combining film history with textual analysis and an analysis of critical and commercial reception, this chapter charts a course for the larrikin children’s film in Australia. The films discussed are The Kid Stakes, Those Terrible Twins, Smiley, Smiley Gets a Gun, Let the Balloon Go, Fatty Finn, and Ginger Meggs.
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