Sport in Australian Drama
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- Author: Richard Fotheringham
- Date Published: March 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521401562
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Nowadays sport is often seen as spontaneous, expressive and vital; theatre as artificial and predictable. It is only relatively recently however that they have bifurcated into two opposing forms of leisure. For years, the term sport and drama implied a natural affinity, with constant reference made to the clichéd 'World of Sport and Drama', creating an image of a fun-loving nation. This book, first published in 1992, looks not only at sport on the Australian stage and in Australian film since 1788, but also addresses the complex relationship between sport and drama and the way in which the re-enactment and celebration of sporting champions and events have contributed to myths of Australian nationhood, manliness and femininity, war and work. From the high days of sporting melodrama in the nineteenth century to contemporary films and plays such as Gallipoli, Coolangatta Gold and The Club by David Williamson, Sport in Australian Drama is a comprehensive and illuminating book which offers insights into our understanding of the development of Australia's leisure culture. It gives us an intelligent view of Australian society, both past and present, at play.
Read more- Considers the role of sport and sporting heroes both in Australian drama and in film
- Presents a cultural analysis of Australian nationhood
- Will interest theatre and cultural historians
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- Date Published: March 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521401562
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Sport and drama: the uneasy playmates
2. The sport and drama industry 1788–1930
3. The first sporting dramas 1866–80
4. The golden age of sporting melodrama 1880–1910
5. The Australian sporting play on the commercial stage
6. Sport in Australian film
7. Sport in literary drama 1909–89
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