Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments

by Robert Dixon

Book Overview

Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This book is an account of his stage and screen practice in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

'Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857287958
• ISBN13: 9780857287953
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"