Dave Hare
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Dave Hare
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University teacher - media and film studies. Australian.
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A short thread, sparked by this article, which contains lots of interesting stuff, but...

It's nuts to talk about cinema and cultural nationalism in places like Australia without even mentioning the nation's very foundations in settler colonialism, no?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Popular Modernism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Australian New Wave: The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and Gallipoli (1981)
Dominant narratives of the Australian New Wave tend to frame the efflorescence of national filmmaking in the 1970s through the lens of Gough Whitlam’s brand of cultural nationalism. The narrative u...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Adjusted meme.
December 12, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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The two Australian case studies in the Five Eyes release today about youth radicalisation are both white supremacist/far right radicalisation examples... The spy agencies tend to be a bit reluctant to call this out in isolation because of the politics around it. www.asio.gov.au/system/files...
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 PM