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The Australian Western, or A Settler Colonial Cinema par excellence
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 46, Number 4, Summer 2007
- pp. 68-95
- 10.1353/cj.2007.0043
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay considers the production history and reception of three of Ealing Studios' Australian films—The Overlanders, Eureka Stockade, and Bitter Springs—to better understand the films' imperial and colonial underpinnings and to position these "Australian westerns" as examples of a settler colonial mode of cinema.