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At home with our colonial work: ABC TV's New Look at New Guinea.

In 1958-1959 the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made a series of documentaries on Papua and New Guinea for ABC Television, for the most part compiled from re-purposed material shot for documentaries that the Unit was producing for the Department of Territories at the time. This article examines '...

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Publicado en:Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 357 - 370
Autor principal: Landman, Jane
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2010
Materias:
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
ABC Television Network
Civics education
Social development
Municipal services
Papua New Guinea
New Guinea (Island)
Australia
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Sumario:In 1958-1959 the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made a series of documentaries on Papua and New Guinea for ABC Television, for the most part compiled from re-purposed material shot for documentaries that the Unit was producing for the Department of Territories at the time. This article examines 'transcoding' and domestic address in the New Look at New Guinea documentary series. It focuses on the modes of civic address deployed in early public service television documentary in the context of civic education about Australia's colonial development of peoples in Papua and New Guinea.